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US! President Biden calls for calm,unity after Donald Trump's rally shooting

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US! President Biden calls for calm,unity after Donald Trump's rally shooting
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US President Joe Biden has addressed the nation, after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, urging Americans to “lower the temperature” and to resolve differences at the ballot box and not through bullets. “We cannot allow this violence to be normalised,” "There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can't allow this violence to be normalized,he said at the Oval office,on Sunday.

Biden and Trump spoke to each other on Saturday night after the shooting. First Lady Jill Biden also spoke with former First Lady Melania Trump on Sunday afternoon, said a White House official.The FBI said the motive of the suspected gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park,Pennsylvania, remains unclear and that it is investigating the shooting as “potential domestic terrorism”.

FBI officials said on Sunday that the shooter acted alone. The agency said it had yet to identify an ideology linked to the suspect or any indications of mental health issues or found any threatening language on the suspect's social media accounts.
Crooks was a registered Republican, according to state voter records, and donated $15 to a Democratic political action committee when he was 17.
At the time of the shooting he was employed as a dietary aide at a nursing home. The Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center said Crooks "performed his job without concern and his background check was clean."
The gun - an AR-style-5.56 caliber rifle - had been legally bought, FBI officials said, adding they believed it had been purchased by the suspect's father. The officials said "a suspicious device" was found in the suspect's vehicle, which was inspected by bomb technicians and rendered safe.Trump and Biden are locked in a close election rematch, according to most opinion polls including by Reuters/Ipsos. The shooting on Saturday whipsawed discussion around the presidential campaign, which had been focused on if Biden, 81, should drop out following a halting June 27 debate performance.
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