Rock stars have reacted to final evening’s tried assassination of former President Donald Trump with a mix of shock, disappointment and anger.
Trump was shot within the ear whereas delivering a speech at a marketing campaign occasion in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old kitchen employee from close by Bethel Park, is alleged to have opened hearth on the previous President from a close-by roof. Crooks killed one different particular person and wounded two others earlier than Secret Service brokers returned hearth and killed him.
Trump was swarmed by Secret Service brokers and escorted to security. Shortly after the assault the previous President posted that he was secure and vowed to return to the marketing campaign path.
“The capturing of former President Trump is an terrible instance of the state of our nation,” Kiss frontman Paul Stanley posted on X (previously referred to as Twitter). “NOBODY has the precise to make use of violence to additional their beliefs. Democracy depends upon elections to find out the desire of the individuals. Wishing him a speedy restoration & a prayer for the lives misplaced.”
“Unacceptable on so many ranges!,” added Twisted Sister star Dee Snider. “It’s simply effing terrible what occurred yesterday. Disagree with the opposite social gathering as a lot as you need. NEVER elevate a hand towards them. Respect their proper to consider one thing totally different than you do!”
Longtime Trump supporter Ted Nugent declared that his “patriotic blood boils like by no means earlier than in help of this nice man to make America nice once more!” Child Rock issued a blunt “You fuck with Trump, you fuck with me” video, then shared a hyperlink to a fundraising marketing campaign for different victims of the capturing. You may see different rock star reactions to the tried assassination of former President Donald Trump under.
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