Donald Trump has declared his travel schedule will not change as he recovers from an assassination attempt at the weekend.
Trump was hit in the ear when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire as Trump addressed a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon, just a few days before the beginning of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: US correspondent David Woiwod delivers update following Trump assassination attempt.
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Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday night (local time), declaring he would not be changing his campaign schedule.
“Based on yesterday’s terrible events, I was going to delay my trip to Wisconsin, and The Republican National Convention, by two days, but have just decided that I cannot allow a ‘shooter.’ or potential assassin, to force change to scheduling, or anything else. Therefore, I will be leaving for Milwaukee, as scheduled, at 3:30 P.M. TODAY. Thank you! DJT”
On Monday, 7NEWS US correspondent David Woiwod gave an update to Sunrise hosts Michael Usher and Nat Barr from Milwaukee, ahead of the beginning of the Republican convention.
“We just had these images come in to the newsroom in the past hour or so. They were posted online by the Republican Senator Mike Lee,” Woiwod said.
“He is a big Trump supporter and (they) appear to show the former president out on his Bedminster golf course this morning, having a bit of a swing.
“They were accompanied with the caption, ‘Get shot one day, plays golf the next’. If this, indeed, is the case, Donald Trump is there attempting to show his supporters that he is A-OK after that assassination attempt on his life yesterday.
“We’re learning more details too about that conversation between Donald Trump and the US President Joe Biden in the hours after this attack. It was described as brief, but respectful.
“Joe Biden has made an additional comment today as well, and he again has condemned this act of violence in the strongest possible terms, offering his political rival and the Republican Party every support they need.”
On Monday, Sunrise reporter Ash Mullany spoke to Trump supporters in the US following the assassination attempt.
“He stands-up bleeding from a bullet, and he said, ‘fight.’ That’s what we’re doing here. We’re gonna fight for our president. It’s all about our democracy because they are trying to take it away from us,” one voter said.
Another enthusiastic voter said: “Everything he has sacrificed, he’s an amazing, absolute man. He’s history in the making. That’s what I thought. History in the making.”
President Joe Biden called for calm and unity following the attack.
He has directed the investigation into the Trump attack to be “thorough and swift,” and asked the public not to “make assumptions” about the gunman’s motive.
“There is no place in America for this kind of violence, or any violence for that matter. An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for … as a nation — everything,” he said.
