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President Biden praised law enforcement for helping keep former President Trump safe during a shooting incident that investigators said “appears to be an attempted assassination” of the Republican presidential nominee on Sunday, Axios reports. Said Biden: “I commend the work of the Secret Service and their law enforcement partners for their vigilance and their efforts to keep the former President and those around him safe.” Juliette Kayyem: A horrifying new attempt on Trump’s life.

“Donald Trump was said to be shocked at what the FBI described as the second attempt on his life in two months, but he was already cracking jokes about it on Sunday afternoon in phone calls with advisers and allies,” the New York Times reports. Associated Press: 5 things to know about the apparent assassination attempt on Trump at one of his golf courses.

The FBI is investigating what officials believe is another attempted assassination of former President Trump, and a “potential suspect” is in custody. Shots were fired near Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the president was golfing, at about 1:30 p.m. The Trump campaign’s communications director, Steven Cheung, said in a statement Sunday afternoon that Trump “is safe following gunshots in his vicinity.” Secret Service personnel who were walking ahead of Trump on the golf course opened fire after seeing a rifle barrel sticking out of a fence, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw told reporters Sunday afternoon.

JD Vance loves a Sunday morning media blitz. In his latest round of television interviews, it appears he will not be swayed by the mounting evidence that the racist lies he amplified about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pets—which former President Trump repeated on the debate stage this week to 67 million viewers—are demonstrably false.

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG, ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was the target Sunday of “what appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the FBI said, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life.

One of the things that leftist city dwellers who live far from nature don’t realize is that nature is not pretty and cuddly but red of tooth and claw (and beak).