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While lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are attempting to calm the waters and put to rest concerns after former president Donald Trump was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has gone on a tear on X, formerly known as Twitter, with accusations, finger-pointing and hints of war.

After the incident in Butler, Pennsylvania was reported, Taylor Greene lashed out on her social media platform with: "Democrats wanted this to happen. They’ve wanted Trump gone for years and they’re prepared to do anything to make that happen. "

The United States' already-intense 2024 presidential race grew even more intense on Saturday afternoon, July 13 when presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh.

President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and many other Democrats were quick to express their horror, emphasizing that violence of this kind has no place in U.S. politics.

The FBI said early Sunday it had identified the man who shot former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler on Saturday as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park.

The U.S. Secret Service said Saturday night that the shooter “fired multiple shots toward the stage from an elevated position outside of the rally venue,” adding Secret Service personnel “neutralized the shooter, who is now deceased.”

On Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after a Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, CNN host Kasie Hunt had to calm her panel down after a conservative guest tried to blame President Joe Biden for the shooting.

A very emotional Bryan Lanza, an advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, was deploring the state of affairs that he believes led to the shooting, when he started to suggest Democrats are to blame for increased tensions.

"Listen, it's all sides. I mean, just a couple of days ago, we heard President Biden in a conference call with his donors saying we need to put a target on President Trump, or that he was going to put the target on president Trump," Lanza stated. "Listen, Sarah Palin was wrong when Gabby Giffords was, an assassination attempt on her by putting the target on her and a bunch of other Democrats on the list and that sort of triggered somebody. President Biden was wrong talking about that language. The Washington Post is wrong, we're all guilty of this language. I'm guilty of that myself. I'm ashamed of it. You know, I'm shaking, I had to explain to my six-year-old son what an assassination attempt is."

"I had to explain that there are some people who use language and there are some people who are triggered whether it's the far-right or the progressive left that think the violence is the answer to where we are at this particular state," he continued. "Violence isn't the answer. I mean, I come from a rough neighborhood — violence only escalates. Like we need an off-ramp for this. Hopefully last night was the off-ramp. So we'll see what the convention brings up, but I think you're going to see a very, very defiant convention."

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"The guy, [Trump] was just, you know, he's been targeted," he added. "We've been talking about this, the leftists fantasizing assassinations. You've got a major donor from the Democratic Party, if not the largest donor to the Democratic Party saying, he'd proudly be a martyr taking out Donald Trump."

That led former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Karen Finney to interrupt with, "Let's be very fair about that."

"The language was very, very — listen, there was an assassination attempt," Lanza shot back.

At that point, CNN host Hunt put up her hands and cautioned, " I would like to keep this as non-partisan as possible, okay? So we are going to stay in the realm of deploring the violence as you have."

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Members of Congress rejected political violence Saturday after a shooting at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania left at least one rallygoer dead and forced the Secret Service to rush the former president off stage.

Local authorities confirmed the shooter was killed, according to The Associated Press.

One election law expert warned this week that the right-wing Heritage Foundation is already baselessly claiming that President Joe Biden is likely to respond to the voting results as his predecessor, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, did in 2020: by refusing to accept the will of American voters.

"This is gaslighting and it is dangerous in fanning flames that could lead to potential violence," Rick Hasen, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, told HuffPost Friday.

Among political leaders who have reacted to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the MAGA hopeful's Butler, Pennsylvania rally Saturday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed sympathy and relief — surprising some experts.

Taking to social media, Pelosi wrote via X (formerly Twitter): "As one whose family has been the victim of political violence, I know firsthand that political violence of any kind has no place in our society. I thank God that former President Trump is safe."

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Amarillo, said Saturday night that his nephew’s neck was grazed by a bullet during a shooting at former President Donald Trump’s campaign event in Pennsylvania.

The congressman, who was not himself at the event, appeared on Fox News and Newsmax after the rally, describing how the events unfolded. Jackson, a former Trump White House physician, said his nephew was seated in a “friends and family” section behind Trump when shots were fired. He was later treated at a triage tent.

“He was grazed in the neck, a bullet crossed his neck, cut his neck and he was bleeding,” Jackson told Sean Hannity on Fox.

The Associated Press reported that one attendee as well as the suspected shooter were killed, and two other people were critically injured. It was not clear whether Jackson’s nephew was one of those critically injured. Jackson said his sister-in-law was also at the event.

The shooting is being investigated as an assassination attempt, the AP reported.