January 10, 2025

Donald Trump reportedly does not plan to mention President Joe Biden’s name during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Trump plans to avoid mentioning Democratic incumbent president by name Fox News Reportwhich would be a departure from the former president’s long-standing practice of attacking political enemies — Democrats and Republicans alike — by name with insulting language and epithets.

But the plan underscores the uncertainty that Biden will become the Democratic presidential nominee to challenge Trump in November.

Biden, who is expected to win the nomination, faces growing pressure from top Democrats to drop out of the race over concerns that if he remains in the lead, he will lose to Trump and undermine the party’s chances of winning majorities in both houses of Congress. Opportunity.

Fox reported that Trump, who left the White House in January 2021, planned to mention the “current government” or “current leadership” in his speech that lasted more than an hour.

Five days before Trump spoke, a 20-year-old gunman named Thomas Crooks opened fire on Republicans and spectators at a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania, nearly killing him. One man was killed in the attack and two others were seriously injured.

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Trump said he was hit in the ear by one of the bullets. Trump has spent the past three nights at the Republican National Committee speaking to an audience with a large white bandage wrapped around his right ear.

A source told NBC News that Trump was restrained as he walked through the chamber on Wednesday, saying he was apparently contemplating an assassination attempt.

As Trump walked to the podium where he was about to deliver his speech, he looked around the hall and said it was much safer inside. The shooting occurred outdoors in Butler, Pa., when Crooks fired from the roof of a building overlooking the rally site.

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced in New York state court on September 18. He was found guilty in March of 34 felonies related to his then-lawyer’s accusations that he sold porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election. About paying hush money.

Trump was charged in federal court in Washington, D.C., and in Georgia state court with crimes related to his attempts to overturn his loss to Biden in the 2020 election.

A federal judge in Florida on Monday dismissed four criminal cases against Trump, who was accused of withholding classified documents after leaving office in 2021 and trying to hide them from government officials seeking their return.

The prosecutor in the case, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, is appealing the dismissal.

This is developing news. Please check back for updates.

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