Journalist and Commentator Brad Polumbo has hit out at left-wing activists over claims the failed assassination attempt on the life of former US president Donald Trump was staged. "There was nothing fake about this it was a grotesque and irresponsible conspiracy theory with no basis in reality, no evidence behind it," Mr Polumbo said. "It's total brain rot, it's total madness, it's total lunacy. "People with a platform to do this kind of thing in the aftermath of a national tragedy it's just beyond disgraceful."

Sky News host Danica De Giorgio has reacted to lefties having a meltdown on social media following a failed assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump during a rally in Butler Pennsylvania. “Lefties seem to be having a complete meltdown about the fact that Donald Trump has indeed survived,” Ms De Giorgio said. “Seriously these people are absolutely insane.”

Sky News host James Macpherson has called out actor Amanda Seales over her comments on the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump. The actress posted a video on social media claiming that the assassination attempt on the former president was ‘staged’. “These people are so consumed with hate they’ve lost all contact with reality,” Mr Macpherson said.

Sky News host Chris Kenny has urged the media to “own up to its share” in the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump. “Absolute extreme hatred from the left that is not chastised by the media that is not chastised by the Democratic political leadership it actually amplified and spread by the media and the Democrats," Mr Kenny said. “You’ve got the president of the country Joe Biden telling people that his opponent is a threat to the very existence of his own country. “This stuff is inflammatory is divisive and it has consequences and the media has own up to its share of the problem here.”

Former US president Donald Trump discussed the expected event of his assassination with Australia’s Former US ambassador Joe Hockey. “I have spoken with him about this sort of event possibly occurring … the first time I played golf with him … all the security around him as president,” Mr Hockey said. “I think he thought this was a very real risk for him, his reaction was these buggers are not going to get me down and they are not going to get you down and this is the moment where we stand up, where we fight, we fight for what we believe.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond says the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump makes “perfect sense” considering the “character assassination” media has tried to do. “I was having a bit of a sleep in this morning, and I woke up and looked at my phone and saw a text message saying someone had tried to shoot Donald Trump,” he said. “My first thought was surely not this cannot be real, but I stopped to think about it again and I thought, no, no, no, this makes perfect sense.”

Following the attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump the election has been “thrown into chaos”, Sky News host Danica De Giorgio says. “The US election has been thrown into chaos after Donald Trump was shot in an attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania,” Ms De Giorgio said. Ms De Giorgio discussed the assassination attempt with Sky News host James Macpherson and the potential flaws in the Secret Service.

Commentator Alex Stein has blasted US media and in particular CNN over its initial reporting following an assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania. “When you saw CNN report on this they reported on it as Trump falling down after hearing loud noises,” Mr Stein said. “The media here in America is the biggest fraud of any corporation of anybody that exists because they will literally look us in the face and lie and try to misconstrue what actually happened. “It’s very sad I just can’t believe that the media would say that Trump fell down.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond says former US president Donald Trump asking the crowd to ‘fight, fight, fight’ is him showing the public his “leadership”. “The Secret Service clearly wanted to get him the hell out of there, and he was like, no, no hang on a minute, I have got a crowd here in front of me that is hanging on what I am about to do,” Mr Bond said. “They are rattled, and I am here asking them to make me their leader and I need to show them some leadership.”

Sky News host Caleb Bond discusses how many attendees at the former US president Donald Trump’s assassination attempt would be going home “rattled to the core”. “So many people would have gone home from that rally completely rattled to the core,” Mr Bond said. Donald Trump touched down in New Jersey hours after being shot in the ear in an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday local time.

Former US president Donald Trump is still expected to attend this week’s Republican National Convention despite surviving an assassination attempt, according to reports from Fox News. Reportedly, Mr Trump is set to be officially announced as the Republican contender for president during the convention and it is there where he will pick his next vice-president. The news comes after the former president was discharged from hospital and returned home to New Jersey.

Former US president Donald Trump has landed in New Jersey several hours after a failed assassination attempt on him during a rally in Pennsylvania. The former president was evacuated from the site by Secret Service following the gunshots. It is believed the former US president is on his way to his home in Bedminster, New Jersey to spend the night.

Sky News host Gabriella Power has slammed CNN for its initial coverage of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump. Ms Power said: “If you were following media outlets like CNN today, you would have thought Donald Trump had a fall”. A breaking CNN article included a headline which read: “Secret Service rushed Trump off stage after he falls at rally”. “Falls? It was an assassination attempt. He’s not Joe Biden,” Ms Power said. Ms Power said it was a “devastating day for America” and claimed there was likely to be growing support for the former president, following the attack.

The image of former US president Donald Trump pumping his fist in the air after surviving an assassination attempt is “just extraordinary”, says Sky News Australia host James Morrow. “He’s framed by the American flag, Secret Service agents and his fist is in the air to show he’s ok,” Mr Morrow said. “He’s continuing to fight.”

The FBI has officially confirmed the identity of the shooter who attempted to assassinate former US president Donald Trump as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Mr Trump survived the attempt but a bullet pierced the upper part of his right ear. The former president was evacuated from the site by Secret Service following the gunshots.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called for people to “lower the temperature” on the rhetoric in political debates. Mr Albanese’s remarks come after Mr Trump was injured at his rally in Pennsylvania in an assassination attempt. “We should be able to have to have political discussion and disagreement, do it respectfully, and that is really important,” Mr Albanese said during a media conference on Sunday.

Curtin University’s Dean of Global Futures Professor Joe Siracusa has slammed the media following a shooting at former US president Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Mr Trump was injured in the incident and evacuated from the site by Secret Service. An attendee and the suspected shooter were reportedly killed. “It took them two hours to get the word ‘assassination’ out of their throats,” Professor Siracusa told Sky News Australia.

Various leaders in the United States have responded on social media and elsewhere in regard to the shooting at former US President Donald Trump’s rally. Former speaker of the house Mitch McConnell posted, “violence has no place in our politics. We appreciate the swift work of the Secret Service and other law enforcement". “Political violence is absolutely unacceptable. I wish Donald Trump and anyone else who may have been hurt a speedy recovery,” Mr Sanders said.

Donald Trump Jr has spoken out about the failed assassination attempt on his father’s life. Former US president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt during his Pennsylvania rally. “He’ll never stop fighting to save America,” Mr Trump’s son said.

The daughter of former US president Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, has reacted to the failed assassination attempt on her father’s life. “Thank you for your love and prayers for my father and for the other victims of today’s senseless violence in Butler, Pennsylvania,” Ivanka Trump said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “I am grateful to the Secret Service and all the other law enforcement officers for their quick and decisive actions today. “I continue to pray for our country. I love you Dad, today and always.”