US Elections | Donald Trump returned to the place where he was assassinated

Republicans presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to campaign in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was the target of an assassination attempt in July. At the event, Trump spoke behind a bulletproof shield.

“As I was about to say…”, Trump joked as he took the stage and pretended to continue a speech that was cut short by a shooting at an earlier event.

“He didn’t stop our movement, he didn’t break our spirit,” Trump said, referring to the assassination attempt to Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Trump also called Crooks a “cold-blooded assassin” who tried to silence him.

According to the Reuters news agency, a moment of silence was held at the event at 6:11 p.m., which is the same time Trump was shot at on July 13. At the event, the bell was also rung four times, symbolizing the four victims of the assassination attempt.

At the campaign event in July, one man in the audience was killed by a sniper’s bullet, and in addition to Trump, two others were wounded.

Also billionaire Elon Musk arrived on stage with Trump. It was the first time Musk came to support a candidate at a campaign event.

“The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your right to vote effectively,” Musk argued on stage, referring to Democrats, The Washington Post (WP) news.

Wearing a black cap bearing the slogan Make America Great Again, Musk said that Trump must win the election for the sake of preserving the Constitution and democracy.

Trump’s vice presidential candidate was also there JD Vancewho, according to WP, went on to suggest that the Democrats’ rhetoric led to violence against Trump.

the BBC by the wife, daughters and sister of the man who died in the assassination attempt were also present at the campaign event.