Several Trump supporters claim they suffered mysterious eye injuries and were forced to seek medical attention due to “excruciating” pain after sitting behind the former president at a rally in Arizona.
Mayra Rodriguez was one of Trump's staunchest supporters, sitting in a confined area to the right of the stage behind the former president at Ronstadt Music Hall in Tucson on September 12. South Korea Reported.
Rodriguez claimed he began to experience eye irritation as he left the venue after delivering the roughly 80-minute speech.
“As soon as we left and walked outside, my eyes started to burn,” Rodriguez, a former Planned Parenthood president, whistleblower and Republican leader, told the outlet.
Thinking that her allergies were just flare-ups, Rodriguez got in her car and began the 90-minute drive to her home in Phoenix.
But on the way home, her eye became so inflamed that she had to go to the emergency room.
When she arrived at the hospital, “the triage nurse told the P.A. [Physicians Assistant]The woman, a former Hillary Clinton supporter and current Trump supporter, said the officer began asking if “something had been sprayed on her.”
“'Didn't they spray you with something? Your symptoms make it look like you were sprayed with something,'” she recalled the emergency room staff asking.
Her symptoms continued to worsen the next day.
“I open my eyes and I can't see anything. I just see bright lights,” Rodriguez said. “It hurts. It hurts so much to open my eyes. I'm constantly putting cold cloths on and taking them off. It's awful.”
Medical personnel were unable to accurately diagnose the cause of her eye injury.
But Rodriguez News 12 Doctors said the venue's lighting was not the cause of her injuries.
KVOA reported that when they spoke with her on Friday after the rally, she was “almost blind.”
Fortunately, her vision improved on Tuesday, according to KVOA.
A sibling, who asked not to be named, said they sat next to Rodriguez and made eerily similar allegations.
“It just got worse and worse,” her sister told KVOA about the symptoms she experienced after leaving the Trump rally.
“My eyes started to water a lot, my nose started to run, my face got really red and my neck felt like it was on fire and it just got worse from there.”
Meanwhile, her brother's pain had also increased and become “unbearable,” she said.
“Everything was focused in my eyes, they were red and it was unbearable. I couldn't stand it,” he told media.
The Secret Service said it was unaware of any incidents with rally attendees but insisted there were no threats against Trump at the Arizona rally, which drew more than 2,000 supporters who wanted to hear Trump speak again about the November presidential election, the Secret Service told the outlet.
Meanwhile, Rodriguez told News 12 he wonders why only members of the group who were sitting to the right of the stage were affected.
“Why only the group that Trump is in?” she asked.
The bizarre incident came just days after authorities said a gunman plotted to assassinate former President Trump on a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon.
Authorities said the suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, was carrying an AK-style assault rifle and came within 300 to 500 yards of Trump at a chain-link fence at the edge of the golf course when he was spotted by a Secret Service agent and shot.
