Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Monday condemned the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.
Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Powell said the attack on Trump at a campaign rally in the Pittsburgh area represented a "very sad day for our country."
"Political violence has no place in our society, and I condemn it in the strongest terms that I know we all do," he said. "A man died at a political rally, two other people were critically injured. It's just a sad day. And I'll say that I'm grateful that the injuries to the former president were not more serious."
A bullet grazed Trump's ear during the shooting, but his campaign said the former president was "fine" after being checked out at a local medical facility.
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The shooting killed a 50-year-old father of two and left two other men critically wounded. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
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Trump is set to formally accept the Republican nomination for president at the convention in Milwaukee this week.
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