Trump assassination attempt: Biden to address the country

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(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden is expected to address the country after a Situation Room briefing regarding the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, which is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee.

Biden quickly denounced the shooting and talked to Trump in its aftermath. His campaign team, meanwhile, is grappling with how to manage the political implications of an attack on the man Biden hopes to defeat in the November election.

Early Sunday morning, the FBI identified the attempted assassin as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, some 200 miles east of the rally. He was shot and killed by the Secret Service moments after shots first rang out.

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