House Task Force on Trump’s 1st Assassination Attempt Likely to Probe 2nd: Chairman

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said that the bipartisan task force is likely to merge the incidents, ‘one being a very public event,’ and the other ’very private.’

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), chairman of the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, speaks to the press after touring the July 13 shooting site at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Butler, Pa., on Aug. 26, 2024. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump said his group will likely investigate the second such attempt.

Trump, a former U.S. president and the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election, had been playing golf at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sept. 15 when the incident occurred.