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In the latest fallout from the attempted assassination of Trump, the Secret Service has now urged the Trump campaign to go for indoor rallies rather than large outdoor events, WaPo’s Josh Dawsey reports. As a result, the Trump team is eyeing venues like arenas and hasn’t put any outdoor rallies on the schedule.
And while Secret Service Director KIMBERLY CHEATLE announced her resignation yesterday, Pennsylvania State Police head CHRISTOPHER PARIS provided some new information about the Butler shooting in congressional testimony, AP’s Alanna Durkin Richer, Claudia Lauer and Michael Kunzelman report: Two officers left their post to search for THOMAS MATTHEW CROOKS before it began.
Though we still don’t have clear answers about Crooks’ motives, the threat of political violence continues to hang over American politics. Over the weekend in northern Michigan, a man attacked and then critically injured a senior citizen who was putting up Trump signs, before he confessed and killed himself, per The Detroit News’ Julia Cardi.
And The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance writes that experts have been expecting paroxysms of political violence for years. “Once political violence becomes endemic in society, as it has in ours, it is terribly difficult to dissolve. … Periods of political violence do end. But often not without shocking retrenchments of people’s freedoms or catastrophic events coming first.” …”