On the evening of the 13th local time, Trump encountered an assassination attempt while delivering a speech at an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He posted on "Truth Social" that "it felt like a bullet pierced the upper part of my right ear."
"I immediately knew something was wrong because I heard the whoosh of a gunshot and immediately felt the bullet penetrate my skin. I was bleeding a lot, so I realized what was happening right then and there," the post read. road.
A witness at the scene whose pseudonym was Joseph said that he heard loud gunshots at the scene. The loudness indicated that the shooting location was very close to the gathering place. At first, people thought it was fireworks, but they realized the seriousness of the problem after seeing Secret Service personnel jumping on stage to protect Trump.
He said that he heard a total of 7 gunshots, and there were men and women who fell in the audience. Not far from him, a male spectator was shot in the back of the head and fell to the ground. He "appeared to have died on the spot." Officials at the scene covered the man's head with a white cloth and carried him offsite, Joseph said. "He (the man who was shot) looked like he was in the crossfire, and I realized he was right between Trump and the shooter."
Another unnamed senior official said that Trump was "very close to being hit in the face by a bullet." At around 6:10 that night, Trump began to mention the issue of illegal immigration in his speech. He took out a statistical chart to tell the audience that the number of illegal immigrants had increased rapidly under Biden's leadership.
live video showed that when the bullet was fired, Trump was saying, "Look what happened." While he was talking, his head was slightly tilted to the side, and he seemed to be looking at a chart. Many analysts believe that Trump's action may have saved his life.
Red Star News reporter Zheng Zhi Comprehensive CCTV News editor
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