Updated at 9:18 p.m.
President Joe Biden on Sunday condemned the attempted assassination of his predecessor, Donald Trump, as “contrary to everything we stand for as a nation” and said he was ordering an independent security review of how such an attack could have happened.
Biden delivered short afternoon remarks from the White House after receiving a briefing on the investigation in the Situation Room. He called for the country to “unite as one nation” and a “thorough and swift” review and asked the public not to “make assumptions” about the shooter’s motives or affiliations.
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