"President Donald Trump experienced his third assassination attempt on April 25 during his appearance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, an annual event sponsored by the White House Correspondents' Association. The suspect in that shooting, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, is alleged to have wanted to assassinate Trump, along with senior members of his cabinet. He is currently awaiting trial."
"The first assassination attempt on Trump was perpetrated by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks during Trump's campaign speech at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024. Crooks wounded Trump in the upper portion of his right ear and killed one rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former volunteer fire chief and project engineer from Sarver, PA, who shielded his family from gunfire during the event. A Secret Service officer killed the suspected shooter near the scene of the attack."
"The second attempt on Trump's life occurred in September 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida, when Secret Service agents spotted Ryan Wesley Routh hiding in the bushes at Trump International Golf Club, where Trump, who at the time was the former president and the current Republican Party presidential candidate, was playing a round of golf. Routh, 58, a former Trump supporter, was seen pointing an AK-17-style rifle at Trump, which led a Secret Service agent to fire at him. At trial, Routh was sentenced to life in federal prison plus 84 months for the attempted assassination of Trump."
Donald Trump experienced a third alleged assassination attempt on April 25 during his appearance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, is alleged to have wanted to assassinate Trump and senior members of his cabinet and is awaiting trial. The first attempt occurred in July 2024 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when Thomas Matthew Crooks wounded Trump’s right ear and killed rallygoer Corey Comperatore, who shielded his family from gunfire. A Secret Service officer killed Crooks near the scene. The second attempt happened in September 2024 at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, when Ryan Wesley Routh was spotted with an AK-17-style rifle and was shot by a Secret Service agent. Routh was later sentenced to life in federal prison plus 84 months. Other lower-visibility incidents included a 2016 attempt involving Michael Steven Sandford and a 2017 incident involving Gregory Lee Leingang.
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