A failed attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday sent shockwaves through a presidential contest that, until last month, appeared to be little more than a rerun of what the country experienced in 2020. 

Trump was rushed off the stage at a Pennsylvania rally with a bloodied ear and a charge to his supporters to continue fighting. The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the would-be assassin who climbed to the top of a building hundreds of feet away from Trump’s rally and opened fire, wounding the former president and killing a bystander before he was killed by Secret Service agents. 

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