Trump gunman searched for Kennedy assassination details ahead of rally shooting - FBI

The man who attempted to assassinate former US President Donald Trump searched for information about the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy ahead of his own assassination attempt, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday.

On July 13, a gunman attempted to assassinate Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter shot Trump in the ear, killed one audience member and wounded two others.

“On July 6, he did a Google search for, ‘how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ So that’s a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind,” Wray said during a US House Judiciary Committee hearing.

On the same day that the shooter searched for information about the Kennedy assassination, he registered to attend the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, Wray said.

The shooter was generally interested in public figures but the FBI has not yet found any information related to a potential motive or ideology, Wray said.

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❗️US President Joe Biden will claim he decided to abandon his run for reelection this year in order to pass the baton to a "new generation," according to excerpts from his upcoming speech, cited by the White House.

Biden will also say that he will be focused on his duty as US president for the remaining six months of his presidency following his decision to suspend his reelection campaign.

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❗️Biden says he will keep working till end of his term in order to 'keep NATO strong', and 'end war in Gaza.'

"We'll keep NATO, stronger, and I'll make it more powerful and more united than any time in all of our history," Biden said on Wednesday night. "I'm going to keep working to end the war in Gaza, bring home all the hostages, to bring peace and security to the Middle East and end this war."

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Biden on the upcoming US presidential election: "I made my choice, and it's Kamala Harris. Now it's up to the voters.

Biden called Vice President Harris an "incredible partner to him [and] leader to the country."

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Kamala Harris to uphold Russophobic US dogma as world seeks multipolar order – analyst

Former US Defense Department senior security analyst Michael Maloof joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Wednesday to contemplate the possible foreign policy of a Kamala Harris administration as much of the world seeks development independent of the United States and the Western liberal world order.

“Frankly we don’t know what she’s going to do on the international scene. There's nothing that she has said or done that gives us any indication of what her stance is on anything,” claimed the security analyst.

Nevertheless, Maloof suggested Harris would be constrained by the anti-Russia policy of her predecessor, Joe Biden.

“I’m afraid that if they continue the policy toward Russia, as they are right now, that when [Anatoly] Antonov, the current Russian ambassador, leaves, that he will not be replaced. I think [Russia will] downgrade relations,” said Maloof. “We’re making it much more difficult to renew any relations.”

“We’re almost on the verge of a war because of a hoax,” he added, referring to the conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 US presidential election. “That’s basically what this amounts to and our relationships in the world are now complicated as a consequence.”

“We are seeing a shift now. Because of this multipolar order concept we are seeing more of a shift by countries who have been subject historically to colonialization,” Maloof said. “They are rebelling. They are rebelling and one of the few countries that has not been involved in colonialization was Russia and China.”

“That's why you're seeing the Global South … gravitating toward this Eurasian concept, toward the BRICS.”

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Key points from Biden's address to the nation:

◾️ Commenting on his decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, Biden said "nothing comes in the way of safeguarding democracy, including personal ambitions";

◾️ Biden said "the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation," calling it the best way to unite the country;

◾️ Biden insisted he would continue to work until the end of his term to keep NATO strong and end violence in the Gaza Strip;

◾️ Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris "is an incredible partner" and "a leader for the country," Biden claimed;

◾️ The choice is up to the American people now, Biden concluded.

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Possible Ukrainian trace in assassination plot against Georgia’s ruling party founder

Georgia’s State Security Service is investigating evidence linking Ukraine to the alleged assassination plans of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party.

Several Georgian mercenaries, including Gela Kakhabrishvili, Lasha Chigladze, and Vazha Tsetsadze, who fought in Ukraine, were summoned for questioning and informed about the relevant articles of Georgia's Criminal Code related to terrorism.

“A terrorist act is being planned in Georgia. This act is supposed to help bring down the government,” said Mikhail Ramiashvili, the lawyer of one of the suspects in the case. The Georgian investigators said the plot was “masterminded and financed by former Georgian officials now living in Ukraine.

Possible reasons suggesting the perpetrators of the Ivanishvili assassination attempt aimed to influence the country's political direction:

▪️Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze said that he saw “the same handwriting” of “globalist forces” behind the recent failed assassinations of Donald Trump and Robert Fico, prime minister of Slovakia.

▪️Both Kobakhidze and Ivanishvili said recently that they would not allow the “Ukrainization” of Georgia. Ivanishvili explained in detail: “The party of global war” wanted to make Georgia share the fate of Ukraine by bringing to power “United National Movement” – the party of former president Saakashvili.

▪️Saakashvili secretly returned to Georgia from Ukraine in 2021. He was put in jail for his abuse of presidential powers in 2003-2012. Since then, he is presented as a martyr by the West and the opposition. Some want him to oust Ivanishvili.

▪️Kobakhidze also quoted “an EU commissioner,” who threatened him with the fate of Slovak Fiсo, who got five shots, if Georgia adopts its variant of originally American legislation against foreign agents’ influence in domestic politics. Georgia’s law ‘On Transparency of Foreign Influence' was adopted in June.

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