Assassination bid on Trump, bullet pierced upper part of right ear.

Former US President Donald Trump has survived an assassination bid. Trump was seen with blood on his ear but is reportedly fine. He was evacuated from a rally in Pennsylvania after gunshots were heard. The incident resulted in the deaths of two- the shooter and an audience member.  The shooter’s motives and causes of the security breach are yet to be known. US President Joe Biden has said Trump was doing well and he would speak to him. The US media is reporting that the gunman involved in the bid may not have been inside the rally. The rally, not so huge, was held in Butler, Pennsylvania. Conspiracy theories, unverified claims and misleading social media posts have wacked up millions of views on X in the immediate aftermath. It became one of the most quickly emerging stories. But unsupported narratives are making the headlines. On X, the word “staged” became the second-highest trending topic immediately after “Trump”, with over 228,000 posts on the platform using the term. In just an hour, numerous posts on X claiming the apparent shooting were viewed several millions of times. Associated phrases like “BB gun” also made it into X’s trending tab, with some people claiming without evidence that the weapon used in the incident was a BB gun or a weaker class of firearm. Major accounts on X also quickly began circulating the photo of an Italian soccer commentator, claiming that he was the shooter.