Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin said Congress has a responsibility to investigate how the shooting happened, and the security lapses around the event that allowed a would-be assassin to get within sight of Trump.
Politics continues in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, with both sides in Illinois taking stock of the temperature of the rhetoric this election cycle.
In Pennsylvania on Saturday, a Trump rally attendee was shot and killed and Trump was injured when a would-be assassin opened fire minutes into the former president’s speech to a crowd in an open field. The assailant was shot and killed by law enforcement.
At an unrelated event in Springfield, US Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said it was a miracle that Trump survived.
“If that bullet would have been one inch in another direction, I’m afraid he would have given his life to this assassination attempt,” Durbin said.
