Biden speaks about Trump shooting in Rehoboth Beach
President Joe Biden delivered a Saturday night address to the nation from the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center, reacting to the shooting of former President Donald Trump.
Biden called the shooting “sick” and condemned political violence.
Trump was shot in the ear Saturday afternoon, July 13, during a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania.
The president’s motorcade arrived at the convention center from his home in North Shores just before 8 p.m.
Secret Service had set up a security perimeter around city hall and the convention center. Pedestrians were kept from walking in front of the building and through the parking lot in the rear while the president was inside.
The president left through the police department’s portal around 8:20 p.m. The motorcade departed west on Rehoboth Avenue.
In video sent to the Cape Gazette, first lady Jill Biden could be seen in the back seat of one of the SUVs.
A spectator said they saw the president wave as the vehicles drove away.
A least one of the television networks had set up a broadcast location on the balcony of the Rehoboth Beach Library, across from city hall.
Bill Shull has been covering Lewes for the Cape Gazette since 2023. He comes to the world of print journalism after 40 years in TV news. Bill has worked in his hometown of Philadelphia, as well as Atlanta and Washington, D.C. He came to Lewes in 2014 to help launch WRDE-TV. Bill served as WRDE’s news director for more than eight years, working in Lewes and Milton. He is a 1986 graduate of Penn State University. Bill is an avid aviation and wildlife photographer, and a big Penn State football, Phillies and PGA Tour golf fan. Bill, his wife Jill and their rescue cat, Lucky, live in Rehoboth Beach.
