On Saturday, a suspected gunman opened fire at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving attendees in horror and shock after a bullet grazed the Republican leader’s ear. Spectators who witnessed the attack are now doubling down on their support for the former president.
“We’re fighting harder than ever,” Trump supporter Renee White told Fox News’ Lawrence Jones.
“I fully support Trump, and I’ve supported him ever since he came down that escalator. The fact that they would try to do this, that someone would try to do this with bad intentions… it’s just painful that someone would do that to someone, especially someone who’s fighting for us.”
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She ended her remarks in tears.
Rally attendees Rene White and Ron Julista were interviewed by Lawrence Jones on Sunday. (Fox & Friends Weekend)
Jones visited the scene early Sunday and spoke with White and Ron Julista, who were at the rally and witnessed the incident, during “Fox & Friends Weekend” and described rally attendees as shocked and horrified.
“fear [went through my mind]”My first thought was of my family, my wife, my son and my daughter,” Julista told Jones, “and we all ducked down among the auditorium. We heard gunshots ring out above our heads. They rang out across the stage, they rang out to the president, and people behind us were screaming because the person who’d been shot was behind us. I think there was probably more than one.”
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Republican presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump suffered a bullet wound during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, and was hurriedly escorted off the stage by U.S. Secret Service agents. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“[It’s] “It’s just surreal,” White said when asked how she felt at the time.
“It was kind of crazy. It was just insanity that everything happened. I think it was because I hadn’t slept for 14 hours,” he said. [I felt] “There was a little bit of shock that maybe I didn’t understand it all yet, but even as it was happening, I was just looking around and taking it all in,” she added.
“There were four young girls next to me. They collapsed. They were all crying and shaking. Some people were standing next to me. There was a guy standing next to me and we were talking the whole time. Next thing I knew, I looked at him and he was under the bleachers and I was sitting there. I think he was in shock.”
Authorities have identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Pennsylvania. The incident remains under investigation.
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