Trump leaves hospital after assassination attempt

*Photo: Donald Trump *

Donald Trump has returned to his home in New Jersey after he was injured in an attempted assassination at a rally on Saturday

Shots rang out as he was speaking at the event in Pennsylvania, sparking panic in the crowd as Secret Service agents swarmed the former president

Trump, who emerged with a bloodied face, says he was shot in the ear, describing a “whizzing sound” and feeling a “bullet ripping through skin”

The FBI has identified the gunman as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks – he was shot and killed by the Secret Service

One spectator was killed at the rally and two others were critically injured

A witness told the BBC they saw a man with a rifle crawling on a roof before shots rang out

President Joe Biden has condemned the assassination attempt, calling on all Americans to denounce such “sick” violence

Video shows Trump, the leading Republican presidential contender, dropping to the ground before standing up again and raising his fist to the crowd

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