The shooting on Saturday shocked a nation gearing up for a contentious November election.
The leaders of Wall Street's most powerful firms are speaking out to condemn the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon addressed the matter at the start of an earnings call Monday morning, calling the attempted assassination a"horrible act of violence."told employees Sunday that he and his management team were"deeply saddened by the political violence" and attempt on Trump's life. The shooting killed one bystander and injured two more.
Wall Street firms don't officially endorse political candidates since they have to deal with both Republican and Democrat officials, though their executives and employees BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, said Sunday in an email that it ran an advertisement in 2022 in which the accused shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, appears briefly in the background along with other students of Bethel Park High School.
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