Trump set to speak at event
Former President Donald Trump will speak at the conservative event known as CPAC on Feb. 28, his first public appearance and lengthy address since he left the White House last month.
A senior aide to Mr. Trump confirmed that he would attend the Conservative Public Action Conference, which is being held in Orlando, Fla., this year, and that he planned to talk about the future of the Republican Party and President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, which so far have been aimed at undoing Mr. Trump’s.
What Mr. Trump plans to talk about and what he ultimately says once he is onstage often diverge when he discards the scripts that aides prepare for him. But it will still be the first time that he has spoken in public since the rally that preceded the deadly Jan. 6 riot by his supporters at the Capitol.
The former president — who was permanently banned from Twitter and is facing investigations into his businesses and his potential culpability for the Capitol assault — has generally kept a low profile, except for giving a small round of interviews to sympathetic conservative news outlets about the death of radio host Rush Limbaugh last week. Even though the interviews were supposed to be about Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Trump still strayed into repeating his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Lebanon County officer charged in Capitol riot
A Lebanon County police officer is facing federal charges stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol assault by supporters of former President Donald Trump over the results of the 2020 election.
North Cornwall Township Officer Joseph Fischer, listed as a patrolman on the department’s site, is charged with obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, entering a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and obstruction of justice.
Authorities say Officer Fischer posted a Facebook video showing him entering the building and getting into a “physical encounter” with at least one police officer. They say Officer Fischer was captured on body camera footage by a police officer who was among those trying to push demonstrators out of the Capitol building.
Sheriff: 3 killed in La. gun store shooting
A person went into a gun store and shooting range in a New Orleans suburb and fatally shot two people Saturday, causing customers and staff to open fire on the shooter, who died, a sheriff said.
The shooting happened at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in the suburb of Metairie at about 2:50 p.m., according to a release from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said the shooter initially hit two people inside, and then several other people opened fire on the shooter, both inside and outside of the building.
Guns and ammunition are sold in the front of the outlet that faces a main thoroughfare through Jefferson Parish. Customers who want to frequent the gun range generally go around to the side entrance of the building. Staff who work there often wear a sidearm.
Sheriff Lopinto said two other people were also hit by gunfire and were hospitalized in stable condition.