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Associated Press is reporting police in the United States say they're treating a shooting at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania as an attempted assassination.
Just a few minutes after Mr Trump started addressing the rally in Butler, shots were fired.
Donald Trump: "Take a look at what happened" What sounds like three shots are fired. Screams. Then another four or five shots. Another shot at 17 secs in. Screams. Secret Service staff surround Trump."
After the first few shots, footage shows Mr Trump reaching for his right ear before Secret Service agents rush to the podium and then more shots are heard.
The agents surround the former president and start dragging him off the stage with a momentary pause as Donald Trump asks them to wait as he waves his fist in the air.
Secret service agent "I got you, sir, I got you.
Trump: "Let me get my shoes."
Secret service agent: "Hold onto your head. Sir, we've got to move too close. Watch out."
The video footage shows the former president with blood on his right ear and face.
A man who attended the rally, going only by the name of Greg, told the BBC he saw the gunman.
"We noticed a guy crawling, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, fifty feet away from us. So, we're standing there, you know we're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. Reporter: "And he had a gun, right?" Greg: "He had a rifle. We could clearly see him with a rifle, absolutely. We're pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground and we're like 'Hey man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle."
The shooter was located outside the cordoned-off rally area and was standing on an elevated structure.
The Secret Service has confirmed it shot and killed the suspected shooter.
Donald Trump is in a stable condition with a grazed ear from the gunfire.
President Joe Biden says there is no place in America for this kind of violence.
"The bottom line is that the Trump rally is a rally that he should have been able to be conducted peacefully without any problem but the idea, the idea that there's political violence or violence like this in America like this is just unheard of, it's just not appropriate and everybody, everybody must condemn it, everybody."
President Biden elected to offer a guarded response when asked to comment on how the the shooting has been characterised.
Reporter: Do you think this was an assassination attempt? President Biden: "I don't know enough. I have an opinion but I don't have any facts, so I want to make sure I have all the facts before I made some comment. Anymore comments. Thank you."
Retired New York Police Department inspector Paul Mauro has told Fox News he's seen some disturbing online commentary about Donald Trump.
"Yeah sure, you can secure the site and Secret Service people are great, they'll thrown themselves, anybody who has ever seen the Ronald Reagan, the footage of Reagan getting shot, know how quickly they react and know how selfless they can be. But really I hope that these things are investigated intelligence wise, on social media and elsewhere and I hope there's a real effort on that. It just should not happened and I hope that they're keeping an eye on it because, you know, frankly I have said to people I know that I hope he's been careful because there's a lot of rhetoric around him and a lot of it is very, very unfortunate."
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the shooting is "an inexcusable attack under the democratic values that Australians and Americans share".
Mr Albanese says the essence of democracy is respectful political debate - and violence has no place in that.
"There is a lot shouting going on. You know, a point is not made more significant by it being done in capital letters. Social media is clearly having an impact as well. There is still much that we don't know about the incident, can I say this. There is nothing to be gained from speculating, we don't know motives, all of these issues."
