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Former President Donald J. Trump declared his crusade “good,” and the shooter was killed by Secret Service snipers. The explosion of political violence has further inflamed the crusade for the White House.
By Peter Baker, Simon J. Levien, and Michael Gold
Peter Baker reported from Washington and Simon J. Levien reported from Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Michael Gold reported from Pittsburgh.
The shots were fired at around 6:10 p. m. Former President Donald J. Trump squeezed his right ear as blood gushed out, then hid to hide as his supporters screamed and Secret Service agents rushed around him.
Moments later, they shouted “shooter down” and the officers, agitated but under control, began to carry Trump off the level to safety. “Wait, wait, wait, wait,” he shouted, then strained to shake his fist at the crowd and seemed to shout defiantly, “Fight!” Fight!” The crowd roared and responded by chanting “USA! UNITED STATES!”
For the first time in more than four decades, a man elected president of the United States was wounded in an assassination attempt when a gunman who appeared to have crawled to a nearby roof opened fire on Trump at a rally in Butler. Pennsylvania, Saturday night. The outbreak of political violence came at a particularly volatile time in American history and further inflamed an already heated campaign for the White House.
After Secret Service snipers killed the gunman, the former president and presumptive Republican presidential candidate was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and declared “doing well” during his campaign. But one male spectator at the demonstration was killed and two others were seriously injured, the government said. The motives for the attack were still under investigation.
“I immediately knew something was happening when I heard a hissing sound, gunshots and immediately felt the bullet tear at my skin,” M wrote. Trump later on his social media site. “There was a lot of bleeding, so I found out what was going on. “Trump said he was “hit by a bullet that went through the top of my right ear. “
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