Assassination attempt: Trump leaves hospital after death scare

The attack on Donald Trump at his campaign rally is widely seen as a departure from the norm in the political history of the United States.

US House Speaker, Mike Johnson has said there will be an investigation of the incident.

“The American people deserve to know the truth. We will have Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other appropriate officials from DHS and the FBI appear for a hearing before our committees ASAP,” he said in a post on X.

At a news conference, the FBI field officer, Kevin Rojek confirmed that the incident was being treated as an assassination attempt.

“This evening we had what we’re calling an assassination attempt on our former president Donald J Trump,” he said at the conference in the evening of Saturday not long after the shooting.

“It’s still an active crime scene,” he added, pointing out that they had a number of agents on the scene investigating the incident.

During the news conference, the FBI confirmed it was not known that there was a person on the roof of a building near Donald Trump’s rally ground until shots were fired.

This was after a witness spoke of seeing the man lurking on the said roof.