From Assassination Attempt to the RNC: Trump Re-Takes America
thegavoice.comThe campaign rally for Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh began as all his rallies do: Music, Trump leaning into the mic starting to tell a story but then—shots rang out and everything changed.
Within minutes, Trump had been carried off-stage by a group of Secret Service agents, but not without pumping his fist in the air, and yelling “fight” repeatedly as blood streamed down his face from where a bullet had grazed his ear.
The now-iconic image taken by New York Times photographer Doug Mills, who also captured a shot of the bullet whizzing toward Trump’s head, was already on T-shirts within 12 hours of the mass shooting.
The shooter was killed by snipers, but not before shooting three other people in addition to Trump. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, has been determined to be a registered Republican, a loner, bullied in high school and with no known domestic terrorism links.
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