Donald Trump sent an email to his supporters after being injured in an attack at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last night. “This is a message from Donald Trump: I will never give up!”we read in the short message that bears his signature and his portrait, as reported by the American media.
The former US president was meanwhile seen getting off his plane unaided, just hours after surviving an attack on his lifein a video posted by his deputy communications director on social media early this morning. In the video, posted by Margo Martin on X, Trump, in a dark blue suit and white shirt without a tie, is seen walking down the steps of his plane as an armed agent escorts him. His right ear, injured in the attack, is not visible. The New York Times reported that he is in New Jersey, where he will spend the American night.
The reconstruction
Trump was wounded by gunfire during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The former President of the United States was immediately surrounded by Secret Service agents and stood up, he was conscious but wounded in the right ear. Trump was taken away by security agents who removed from the stage while raising his fist. The attacker, who was wearing camouflage less than 150 meters from the stage, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
But there is at least one more victimaccording to the Associated Press. “They shot me with a bullet that pierced the top of my right ear. It’s unbelievable that something like this would happen in the United States,” Donald Trump said on his social media account Trutch after the attack. Nearly $200,000 has been raised online as a donation for the victims. The GoFundMe page was organized by Meredith O’Rourkethe former president’s campaign finance director. “President Donald Trump has authorized this account for donations to supporters injured or killed and their families in today’s brutal and horrific assassination attempt,” the page description reads. “All donations will go to these proud Americans as they grieve and recover. May God bless and unite our nation.”
The secret services present at the campaign rally ordered the press to leave the place that was declared a “crime scene”. The “New York Times” reports. Trump was escorted off the stage after gunshots were heard in the crowd. “We fight, we fight, we fight” he reportedly said as he stepped off the stage. The images of the moments immediately after the gunshots show the former president bleeding from one ear and raising his fist toward the crowd. Donald Trump He was taken to a hospital in the Butler, Pennsylvania area for a check-up but is “doing well.”. Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung reports.
About ten shots were heard. The shooter, who was killed, had crawled onto a roof, armed with a rifle. The first images released on social media show him in a shooting position. A witness, a Donald Trump supporter, told the BBC that he immediately reported the presence of a gunman to the Secret Service, but no one intervened. “They looked like they were saying, ‘What’s going on?’ Trump had been talking for six or seven minutes when the shots went off.” Butler County Attorney Richard Goldinger said that “a rifle was needed to carry out the attack because he was several hundred meters away,” the prosecutor said.
Biden: “I pray for Trump; nation united against violence”
“I have been informed of the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.” Thus begins the message of the President of the United States Joe Biden and issued by the White House. “I am grateful,” he continued, “to hear that he is safe and well. I pray for him and his family and all those who were at the rally as we await further information.”
“Jill and I,” he added, “are grateful to the Secret Service for keeping him safe. This kind of violence has no place in America. We must unite as a nation to condemn it.” The president hears the tycoon and immediately returns to the White House. “I spoke to my father on the phone and he is in great spirits,” says Trump Jr. Sen. Vance blames “Biden’s rhetoric.” “Solidarity and best wishes for a speedy recovery” from Prime Minister Meloni.