CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer got called out by a colleague on the network for talking about how “both sides” should cool their political rhetoric in the immediate aftermath of a shooting at Saturday’s Trump rally in Pennsylvania.
Footage of the incident showed former President Donald Trump ducking behind his podium before being escorted away by Secret Service with blood on his ear. He raised his fist in the air several times as he left.
The Trump campaign released a statement shortly after the shooting saying the former president was “fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility.” Trump himself later released a statement saying he was shot in the ear.
A suspected shooter was “neutralized” by U.S. Secret Service personnel, according to the Secret Service. The Secret Service added that one spectator was killed and two others were “critically injured.”
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