7. The Alabama delegation to the Republican National Convention may have one less member after State Sen. April Weaver (R-Alabaster) was hit by a car in a crosswalk at a grocery store in Alabaster. She was taken to Shelby Baptist Medical Center with non-major injuries and released. Weaver expressed gratitude for the quick response of emergency services but it is uncertain if the incident will affect her attendance at the Republican National Convention.
6. Auburn men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl responded to former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination in Pennsylvania on Saturday on social media, expressing relief for Trump’s survival and criticizing political violence. Pearl also condemned comparisons between Trump and Hitler in regular political discourse including a recent magazine cover and while Pearl did not mention it, The New York Times ran a story yesterday about how Trump “betrayed America.”
5. The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump seems to have galvanized some Republicans, this includes former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who said she would not be speaking at the Republican National Convention. However, Haley decided to attend the convention following the shooting incident at a the Trump rally in Pennsylvania. Additionally, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced he would be fully endorsing Donald Trump (after saying he would not) and donated an undisclosed amount of money to a Trump Super PAC.
4. U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) will speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, joining other notable GOP figures such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and senators and potential vice presidential candidates Tim Scott (R-S.C.), JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). The convention will host over 50,000 attendees, including 2,500 delegates, to formally nominate the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates.
3. The 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was kicked off his school’s rifle team, was noticed acting strangely before the attack at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Crooks, who had bomb-making materials in his car, fired from a rooftop, hitting Trump and killing a spectator before being shot dead by Secret Service. His status as a registered Republican is confusing the media but the FBI is investigating the incident as potential domestic terrorism. But the FBI said they can not declare a motive yet nor can they declare he worked alone, they are also investigating the Secret Service’s actions (which clearly were inadequate).
2. The media and their Democrats are trying their best to “both sides” an assassination by victim-blaming and even suggesting former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric caused this. Few were noting how absurd the rhetoric from the Left has been, claiming the Right is using the assassination attempt for their political gain and blaming Republicans despite their own harsh rhetoric toward Trump. Headlines from CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today downplayed the violence with some journalists even questioning Trump’s defiant “Fight, fight, fight” response, arguing it could incite further violence from the Right.
1. President Joe Biden could not get enough of the camera this weekend but he somehow failed to say anything of note to the people who tuned in, instead delivering a lecture about political rhetoric with no ownership of his own words and warning that we “must not go down this road.” Recently, Biden said Trump was a “threat to the nation,” “a threat to democracy,” “threat to our freedom,” “a dictator,” and that Trump would take power “over [Biden’s] dead body.”
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