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NBA star Steph Curry and his Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr both expressed sadness over the attempted killing of former President Donald Trump but also called for stricter gun control.Following the shooting of Trump, members of the Team USA Olympic basketball team were asked by reporters for their reactions to the horrific events.Kerr, who is both the coach of the NBA's Warriors and Team USA, said his team would be paying special attention to how they conduct themselves on behalf of the country:"This is a time where we feel very proud to represent our country wearing USA on our chest, competing in the Olympics," Kerr told reporters while in Abu Dhabi, UAE. "We've talked to the players about how important it is to show the best version of us as human beings to represent our country in a respectful, dignified manner. It makes you want to do that even more so, because this is really shameful for us to sit here and think about what happened and what's going on in our country."ESPN noted that Kerr's father was assassinated in 1984 in Beirut, Lebanon, after being targeted by a militant group called Islamic Jihad. Malcolm Kerr served as the president of the American University of Beirut."It's such a demoralizing day for our country, and it's yet another example of not only our political division but also gun culture," Kerr continued, then describing the shooter. "A 20-year-old with an AR-15 trying to shoot the former president. It's hard to process everything, and it's scary to think about where this goes because of the issues that already exist in the country. So this is a terrible day.""Thank God Trump wasn't hit, but it's just so demoralizing in every which way," he added.'Obviously, gun control first and foremost.'However, the attempted assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, has been widely reported to have taken his father's legally purchased rifle to commit his crimes. The gun was purchased in 2013, ABC News reported.Curry, an NBA champion and Team USA star, also weighed in from Abu Dhabi. Curry echoed sentiments of sadness but also called for further restrictions on firearms."It's obviously a very sad time in general," Curry said. "All the conversations around the election and the state of politics in our country, and then you have a situation like this, which just [evokes] a lot of emotions around things that we need to correct as a people," he said in front of a Team USA backdrop."Obviously, gun control first and foremost, because the fact that that's even possible for somebody to have an attack like that. But just more so you want to [see] positivity and hope. It sounds cheesy, but it's real. That's when our country's at its best, and it just adds another blemish to what's going on. So sad is just the word," he concluded.Curry and Kerr were both guests at the White House in early 2023 to present basketball jerseys to the president. At the same time, Kerr and some of his players participated in a round table on the matter of gun control.Kerr's anti-gun activism goes back many years, having even made statements blaming Republicans for shootings.They "refuse to do anything about the violence, the school shootings, the supermarket shootings," Kerr said in 2022. They put their "desire for power ahead of the lives of our children, our elderly, and our churchgoers," he added.Curry has more broadly spoken out against gun violence but is generally less vehement than Kerr in his calls for stricter laws.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Bill Maher called former President Donald Trump "the luckiest motherf***er" after Trump survived Saturday's assassination attempt — and the comedian also "unequivocally" denounced the shooting, which took place during Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and said he's "glad" Trump is "OK."Maher — host of HBO's "Real Time" — made his statements from a comedy show concert stage just hours after the assassination attempt.'When I saw that photo today of him with the blood streaming down his face — I don’t wanna say the election’s over, but ...'You can view video of Maher's commentary here; he was scheduled Saturday night for a show in Minneapolis, the Hollywood Reporter said."I’m sure that there will be jokes that people will make because they hate him so much that they wished it went the other way," Maher told the crowd. "Not for me.”In fact, Maher lamented that "whoever was the shooter has done so much damage to the left. Lost a lot of moral high ground in the ‘you’re the violent people.' ... Liberals don't shoot people. Liberals don't solve it that way."Turning again to Trump, Maher noted, "I gotta say this: The luckiest motherf***er that has ever walked the face of the earth," after which the crowd erupted in laughter.Maher noted again that he's "happy [Trump is] OK"; then he pointed out Trump's good fortune in winning the 2016 election, even though "he lost the popular vote by a lot," because he "pulled an inside straight" in the Electoral College. Maher added that Trump's luck also showed itself with the "Democratic turmoil" and concern over President Joe Biden's candidacy. "Always lucky, lucky, lucky," Maher said of Trump.“When I saw that photo today of him with the blood streaming down his face — I don’t wanna say the election’s over, but ..." Maher said before pausing and chuckling with the crowd. He added, "Yes, MAGA nation finally has its full martyr. They loved it when he went to jail. The mug shot. I gotta say, he is insane, and he is a criminal. But that mug shot? F***ing nailed it. Perfect."Maher also said Trump reacted to the shooting "like he rehearsed it," putting up a fist like the former president did. Maher also acknowledged the "idiot conspiracy theorists ... who will say, ‘Oh, they planned it.’""[Trump] gets grazed, and the other guy gets shot — it's so Trump," Maher also said. "But you know, it’s gonna work for him. I can see the memes now: 'The man the libtards couldn’t kill.' 'Biden can’t get through a debate and a bullet can’t stop Donald Trump.' It almost doesn’t matter who the Democrats put up now.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump named Sen. James David Vance (R-Ohio) Monday as his vice presidential pick. Trump said in a statement Monday afternoon that after "lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio." Vance is former Marine who was born in Middleton, Ohio; served with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing in the Iraq War; graduated from Yale Law School; served as a corporate lawyer; worked as a venture capitalist; penned the best-selling book "Hillbilly Elegy"; and then became a U.S. senator. Vance was initially a fierce critic of Trump, telling NPR in 2016 that he couldn't stomach the then-Republican presidential candidate. While insisting in a 2016 New York Times op-ed that Trump was "unfit for our nation's highest office," Vance nevertheless understood the real estate magnate's appeal, noting: To those humiliated by defeat, he promises we'll win again. To those discouraged by a government unable to care for the people it sent to war, he promises to take care of our veterans. To those voters furious at politicians who sent their children to fight and bleed and die in Iraq, he tells them what no major Republican politician in a decade has said — that the war was a terrible mistake imposed on the country by an incompetent president. Having seen over time that Trump was not only willing but able to make good on many of his promises — including driving up wages, securing the border, and refraining from partaking in his predecessors' custom of starting at least one new war — Vance quickly came over to Trump's side. Vance apologized to Trump on cable news in 2021, stating, "I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016 because I've been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think that he was a good president. I think that he made a lot of good decisions for people, and I think he took a lot of flak." Vance also came to understand that Trump's America First agenda was not devoted to the protection of America as an idea but rather to the prioritization of the concrete realities that make up America, specifically its citizens and physical homeland. In his recent speech at the National Conservatism conference in Washington, D.C., Vance said, "I'm most optimistic about the future of this movement and the future of our country ... because for the first time in a very long time, it is clear that the leader of the Republican Party is not some donor who's desperate for cheap labor, and it's not some random person who claims to speak for this or that constituency. The leader of the Republican Party is a guy who actually plans to put American citizens first — and that is Donald Trump." In an interview last week with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Vance provided additional insights into his political conversion, noting, "Like a lot of other elite conservatives and elite liberals, I allowed myself to focus so much on the stylistic element of Trump that I completely ignored the way in which he substantively was offering something very different on foreign policy, on trade, on immigration." Trump clearly did not hold a grudge about Vance's earlier comments and misgivings, having endorsed him when he ran for the U.S. Senate in Ohio. 'He will not let you down. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!' "Like some others, J.D. Vance may have said some not so great things about me in the past, but he gets it now, and I have seen that in spades," Trump said in his endorsement statement. "He's strong on the Border, tough on Crime, understands how to use Taxes and Tariffs to hold China accountable, will fight to break up Big Tech, and has been a warrior on the Rigged and Stolen Presidential Election. J.D. is a Marine who served in the Iraq War, a graduate of The Ohio State University, and earned a Law Degree from Yale — a great student." "He will put America first," added Trump. "J.D. Vance has my Complete and Total Endorsement. He will not let you down. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Concerning the recent efforts by the media to dig up Vance's old critiques of Trump, Donald Trump Jr. said to CNN, "We're 100% confident that JD is America First to the core." "No one in the Senate has been a stronger supporter of my father," added Trump Jr. Outside the Trump family, Vance has also secured the confidence of other big names on the populist right. Tucker Carlson told Politico earlier this year, "I feel like I've got a really good sense of senators, and he's by far the smartest and the deepest of any I've ever met." "He's the one public intellectual that we have who’s in office, and it's incredibly powerful," said Steve Bannon. "This movement has needed someone like J.D.." While there may have been numerous reasons behind Trump's decision to pick Vance as his running mate — including Vance's staunch pro-worker populism and the fact he does not hail from the same state — the former president's contrarian reflex may have been a factor. After all, leftists, liberals, and even some nominal Republicans have urged Trump not to pick Vance. 'Picking Vance would allow the Biden campaign to sell the message that this is truly a MAGA ticket that needs to be defeated.' USA Today columnist Dace Potas suggested Saturday that Trump should choose "a more traditional" and "boring" candidate — certainly not Vance. "A radical VP choice, such as 39-year-old Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, could shift some of the heat away from Biden and refocus media and voter attention back onto Trump's MAGA message and the extreme politics that come with it," warned Potas. "First, Vance is off-putting to principled GOP voters. I know because I am one, but the stats agree," said the self-described Republican columnist. "Second, picking Vance would allow the Biden campaign to sell the message that this is truly a MAGA ticket that needs to be defeated. Sure, Democrats will try this tactic anyway, but a more unity-focused Republican ticket with a traditional conservative would make this angle look even more preposterous to the right-leaning swing voters that Trump needs to win." Instead of Vance, Potas recommended former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley as the ideal running mate. Former Obama adviser and Democratic strategist David Axelrod suggested Vance should be disqualified for suggesting that Biden's inflammatory rhetoric set the stage for the attempted assassination on Trump. After the shooting at the Trump rally Saturday, Vance wrote, "The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination." Axelrod wrote, "If @JDVance1 is on the short list for VP, this Tweet, sent an hour after the assassination attempt in PA, ought to disqualify him in the eyes of the Trump campaign. Wrong vibe in that moment." "Trump probably doesn't want a shoot-from-the-hip VP," added Axelrod. Trump evidently had no problems proving Axelrod wrong again or disappointing the likes of Potas. Trump noted further in his announcement of Vance as his VP, "J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.’s book, 'Hillbilly Elegy,' became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country. J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond." Like Blaze News? 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The gunman responsible for shooting former President Donald Trump may have been neutralized, but there are still dozens of questions regarding the assassination attempt. And Glenn Beck wants answers. First, the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was somehow mysteriously able to access a secured area without tipping off the Secret Service — while supporters in the crowd were pointing him out before the shooting began. “How does someone sneak a rifle onto the grounds? How does someone even know that building is there? How is [it] that he was acting so weird and pacing in front of the metal detectors? They tried to follow him, but oops, he got away,” Glenn says, conspiratorially. “How could the kid possibly even think that the highest ground at the venue wouldn’t even be watched?” He adds, “and a handy ladder just happened to be there.” “And nobody in the Secret Service, none of the drones, none of the things that we pay millions of dollars for, none of that caught him,” he says, noting that it’s not like they didn’t have help from the crowd, who were yelling that a man with a rifle was climbing up a ladder onto a roof before Crooks got his first shot off. “Why did the sniper have him in his sights for over a minute before he took a shot? Why did a cop climb up the ladder to look around? When the guy pointed a gun at him he then ducked down and came down off the ladder,” Glenn says, adding, “Did he call anyone to warn?” Not only are the circumstances surrounding the shooter himself interesting, but the Secret Service agents did not look like they were in charge of the situation. “How is it the secret service has a bodyguard,” Glenn begins, “who is a woman that doesn’t even reach Trump’s nipples? How is she going to guard the president’s body with hers? How is it another female secret agent pulled her gun out a good four minutes too late, then looks around not knowing what to do, and then couldn’t get it back into the holster because she’s a Melissa McCarthy body double?” Meanwhile, our country is almost $40 trillion in debt. “You can’t hire a few guys to make sure our candidates are safe?” Glenn asks, bewildered. “Now, Joe Biden is also saying that we shouldn’t make assumptions about the motive of the shooter. Well, I think we can assume one thing: He wanted to kill the Republican candidate for president. Can we agree on that?” He adds. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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