Joe Biden to speak on failed Trump assassination attempt after Situation Room briefing

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to speak astatine 1:30 p.m. ET astir nan failed assassination attempt connected erstwhile president Donald Trump successful Butler, Pa. connected Saturday.

Biden will speak from The Roosevelt Room astatine nan White House.

Biden said Saturday that “everybody must condemn” nan grounded assassination effort connected erstwhile President Donald Trump.

Addressing nan federation astir 2 hours aft nan shooting, Biden said he was relieved that Trump is reportedly “doing well.” He said he had been incapable to scope Trump earlier his remarks, but nan White House said he did speak to Trump respective hours later.

“We cannot let this to beryllium happening,” Biden said. “The thought that there’s unit successful America for illustration this is conscionable unheard of.”

Biden, speaking without a teleprompter, said he was waiting for further accusation earlier formally calling nan onslaught an attempted assassination connected nan erstwhile president.

“I person an opinion, but I don’t person immoderate facts,” he told reporters, pledging to supply updates arsenic he learns more.

After midnight, he returned to nan White House, cutting short a play enactment successful Delaware. The White House said he and Vice President Kamala Harris will person an updated briefing from homeland information and rule enforcement officials Sunday morning.

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The president delivered remarks from nan White House’s emergency briefing room successful Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is group up whenever nan president travels to let him to present remarks to nan state successful a matter of minutes. He was spending nan play astatine his formation location and was astatine a adjacent religion for wide erstwhile nan shooting occurred.

As he near nan church, reporters asked if nan president had been briefed astir nan shooting. Biden turned toward reporters pinch a superior look connected his look but replied simply, “no,” earlier stepping into his motorcade.

Biden received an “initial briefing” from aides moments later past convened information officials for a much in-depth update from Kimberly Cheatle, nan head of nan United States Secret Service, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House homeland information advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall.

Many Republicans quickly blamed nan unit connected Biden and his allies, arguing that sustained attacks connected Trump arsenic a threat to populist person created a toxic environment. They pointed successful peculiar to a remark Biden made to donors connected July 8, saying “it’s clip to put Trump successful nan bullseye.”