Trump reveals he is going back to Butler, Pennsylvania, for rally after assassination attempt

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Donald Trump announced on Friday he will return to Butler, Pa., for another political rally where he will honor Corey Comperatore, who was killed in the assassination attempt two weeks ago.

The former president said, along with the late firefighter, he will honor those injured at his rally.

He did not give a date for the event but said 'stay tuned for details.'

I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, FOR A BIG AND BEAUTIFUL RALLY, HONORING THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED FIREFIGHTING HERO, COREY, AND THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS INJURED TWO WEEKS AGO. WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE — FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS.

A new poll out of Michigan shows Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tied in the all-important battleground state with just over 100 days to go before Election Day.

According to the Detroit News-WDIV-TV poll conducted after Biden dropped out of the presidential race and Harris jumped in, Harris and Trump are tied at 41 percent each among likely general election voters.

The poll also found third party candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. who is running in the state as the 'Natural Law Party' nominee has the support of 10 percent of likely voters. Another 6 percent of voters are undecided.

Zoom in a little further and Harris is slightly ahead of Trump by a third of a percentage point but that is well within the margin of error.

The new poll suggests the state of the race in Michigan, which is viewed as essential for Democrats to win in November, has seen a dramatic shift from when Biden was still running.

Jill Biden drowned her sorrows in a glass of champagne and a night of partying with Serena Williams, Charlize Theron, Mick Jagger, and Zendaya after husband Joe Biden exited the presidential race.

The first lady, who is leading the U.S. delegation for the opening ceremony of the Olympics Games, joined the A-list stars at the Prelude to the 2024 Olympic Games party on Thursday night.

She was spotted in a white pantsuit chatting with guests at the event. Biden is on the cover of the August edition of Vogue.

The FBI is planning to interview Donald Trump after his assassination attempt to get a victim statement, reports claim.

The bureau is still investigating the shooting at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13 and collecting evidence, CNN reported

Director Christopher Wray sparked a firestorm on Wednesday when he told Congress they are still analyzing whether Trump’s ear was hit by a bullet or piece of shrapnel.

In a furious post on Truth Social, Trump blasted Wray's suggestion and took aim at his judgment on other topical issues - including Biden's mental state.

'FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!),' he fumed.

'But he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively “uneventful” - Wrong! That’s why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels.

'His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in D.C. burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments - with zero retribution.

'No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel.’

The victim interview is standard procedure during an FBI investigation.

Anti-Israel protestors and Hamas sympathizers who desecrated Washington, D.C.'s Union Station have learned their fates.

A minimum of eight people who participated in the anti-Israel protest during Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech Wednesday are now facing federal criminal charges after defacing federal property and fighting police.

Some protestors, however, have had their charges dropped by more lenient Washington, D.C. prosecutors.

Frederick Coates, Crow Momamome and Antonio Somerville have all been charged with attempting to carry a dangerous weapon, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C.

Nathaniel Lawrence, Sonia Krishan and Roger Miller have been charged with attempted theft. Zachary Kam has been charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer. And Essa Ejelat has been charged with making threats.

Hunter Biden joined President Joe Biden and his sister Valerie for a weekend away at Camp David.

The president sported a Team USA jacket and mouthed 'go team USA,' as he walked onto the South Lawn with his sister and son Friday evening.

The Paris Olympics kicked off Friday with first lady Jill Biden leading the White House's delegation.

The White House will be lit up in red, white and blue Friday night to mark the beginning of the Olympic Games.

Jill Biden, who sat in the Oval Office on Wednesday night as her husband passed the torch to Kamala Harris, cheered Team USA as the torch was lit at the Opening Ceremony of the Summer Olympics on Friday.

The rain didn't put a damper on the spirits as she stood and cheered in the stands.

The first joined other world leaders - including French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte - watching the athletes arrive in the stadium under the Eiffel Tower.

Biden, like many others, snapped photos with her iphone. She sat with U.S. Ambassador to France Denise Campbell Bauer.

Team USA has 592 athletes competing in the 2024 Summer games.

The FBI put out a statement Friday confirming that former President Donald Trump was hit by an assassin's bullet:

What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle

The statement came after FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress this week and said it was still unclear what hit Trump to cause his ear bleed.

In turn, the Republican nominee attacked Wray.

'FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn't sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!) ..,' Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday.

The former president announced Friday he would hold another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the July 13 assassination attempt.

Republican vice presidential hopeful, Sen. J.D. Vance, said Friday that his 'childless cat lady' comment was 'sarcastic' but doubled down on Democrats having 'anti-family' and 'anti-child' stances.

'Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I've got nothing against cats, I've got nothing against dogs, I've got one dog at home and I love him,' the Ohio Republican said. 'But look, people are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.'

Vance taped an episode of The Megyn Kelly Show amid the fallout over the resurfaced quip that angered a number of women including actress Jennifer Aniston and legions of Taylor Swift fans.

The VP nominee claimed that both liberal and conservative women responded to the cat comments by saying they were 'glad' Vance pointed out there's 'something profoundly anti-family in our public policy.'

Kamala Harris was all smiles when she arrived at Joe Biden's former Delaware campaign headquarters on Monday.

She was there to lift the spirits of blindsided staffers, who after 15 months of toiling to re-elect the president, suddenly found themselves working for her.

'It is my great honor to have Joe's endorsement in this race,' she boasted to cheers from a crowd who were now on her payroll.

But as the assembled readily applauded, some must have harbored private concerns.

For, behind the recent public self-branding of Harris as a kindly, jovial 'Momala', she has earned a nasty reputation as an alleged 'soul-destroying' workplace 'bully'.

Only four of the initial 71 staffers hired by Harris during her first year in office still remain in a job. The rest either quit or were fired, according to analysis by non-partisan watchdog Open The Books.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a staunch ally of Donald Trump, asked FBI Director Christopher Wray to recant his testimony before Congress in which he questioned if the former president was grazed by a bullet or shrapnel during the assassination attempt.

“It is clear to everyone that President Trump survived an assassination attempt by millimeters, as the attempted assassin’s bullet ripped the upper part of his ear. This was made clear in briefings my office received and should not be a point of contention. Therefore, I urge you to immediately correct your statement and acknowledge that President Trump was hit by a bullet rather than glass or shrapnel,” Graham wrote to Wray in a letter on Friday.

Graham is the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Trump said he was hit with a bullet. Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, who was the White House physician when Trump was president, wrote a letter on Friday saying the former president was hit by a bullet.

Most Americans were glad that Donald Trump dodged a bullet at the fateful rally in Pennsylvania.

But not everyone was pleased that 20-year-old assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was such a bad shot.

Until now, many assumed that only a few bad apples wanted the Republican candidate to take a round to the head.

Not so, says alarming new research from a UK-based academic.

Eric Kaufmann says a shocking third of Democratic voters wished Trump had left his July 13 campaign event in a body bag.

Donald Trump has appeared without a bandage on his ear for the first time since he was shot in an assassination attempt - as his doctor released an update on his recovery and responded to doubts he was hit by a bullet.

The shocking new images show that the 45th president's right ear seems to have made a remarkably quick recovery in less than two weeks since a gunman opened fire on him.

Would-be assassin Thomas Crooks, 20, fired eight rounds from his AR-15 at the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, including one that ripped through the president's ear.

Blood covered his face as he was frantically pulled off the stage by Secret Service in what was a huge security failure by the agency meant to protect him.

The snaps were taken as the former president welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida for a meeting.

The pair discussed the war in Gaza, less than 24 hours Netanyahu held talks with Kamala Harris at the White House and was 'irked' by her comments on a ceasefire deal.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired back at allegations he is preparing to drop out and endorse Donald Trump.

Polls show he could be crucial in deciding a winner in the general election this November.

But speculation has grown about his future after he called off a string campaign appearances.

He has now doubled down, said he is 'in it to win it' and is hoping to get on the debate stage.

A new poll out of Michigan shows Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tied in the all-important battleground state with just over 100 days to go before Election Day.

According to the Detroit News-WDIV-TV poll conducted after Biden dropped out of the presidential race and Harris jumped in, Harris and Trump are tied at 41 percent each among likely general election voters.

The poll also found third party candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. who is running in the state as the 'Natural Law Party' nominee has the support of 10 percent of likely voters. Another 6 percent of voters are undecided.

Vice President Kamala Harris' husband first Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff was one of the millions of Americans caught of guard by President Biden's decision to withdraw from the presidential race.

On a call with Black Gay and Queer Men for Harris, Emhoff revealed where he was when the news dropped, Politico reports.

He had actually just finished a SoulCycle class with a 'gay couple friend' in West Hollywood and was enjoying a coffee in the park when the news dropped,

Soon after the news broke on Sunday, Emhoff's wife Harris announced she's running for president. If elected, Emhoff would become the first First Gentleman.

Donald Trump has backed out of debating Kamala Harris citing Democratic party 'chaos' - after promising to the showdown 'anytime, anyplace.'

The former president had initially said on Tuesday he would 'absolutely' debate Harris after Joe Biden dropped out of the race - as his vice president, Harris, was likely to replace him.

But on Thursday night Trump backed away from the September 10 faceoff which he already had scheduled with Biden, or organizing a new one - at least until Harris is confirmed as the Democratic nominee.

'What happened to "any time, any place"?' Harris wrote on Twitter immediately after Trump backed out.

Steven Cheung, the campaign's communications director, claimed Democrats were in too much 'chaos' since Biden abandoned his reelection bid.

Amber Rose, the model and actress who was likely the Republican National Convention's most unconventional speaker, explained who gave her the push to out herself as a Donald Trump fan.

Rose sat down for a taping of conservative commentator Candace Owens' YouTube show, which will be released in full on Friday.

In clips obtained by DailyMail.com, Rose said it was ex-husband, rapper Wiz Khalifa, who pushed her to publicly show her support for Trump.

She did so on social media in May, writing 'Trump 2024' as a caption of a photo of the model with the former president and first lady, all in formalwear.

'My ex-husband actually told me to do it, Wiz,' Rose told Owens.

President Joe Biden has responded to the arrest of two of the world's most notorious drug traffickers in Texas on Thursday night.

Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo's son 'lured' cartel boss Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada into boarding a plane to the US after 'blaming him for the capture of his father', as both men were arrested.

Zambada, 76, founded the Sinaloa Cartel along with now-jailed drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, and faces a litany of indictments for crimes relating to drug trafficking and organized crime in the US.

According to the Wall Street Journal, he was tricked by El Chapo's son Joaquín Guzman Lopez into boarding a private plane to inspect airfields for drug planes following a months-long operation by Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI.

Biden said:

Yesterday, the Department of Justice arrested Ismael Zambada Garcia (AKA 'El Mayo') and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, two of the most notorious leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the deadliest enterprises in the world.

They are being charged for leading the Cartel’s deadly drug manufacturing and trafficking networks.

I commend the work of our law enforcement officials, who made this arrest, for their ongoing work to bring Sinaloa Cartel leaders to justice.

Too many of our citizens have lost their lives to the scourge of fentanyl. Too many families have been broken and are suffering because of this destructive drug. My Administration will continue doing everything we can to hold deadly drug traffickers to account and to save American lives.

Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly upset when he saw Kamala Harris' public statement after their meeting on Thursday.

The Israeli Prime Minister was 'irked' by the Vice President's tone which his officials said was more critical of than she had been in private, Axios reported.

It followed a 40-minute private meeting.

That was Harris' first meeting with a foreign leader since launching her presidential campaign.