Former President Donald Trump was injured in a shooting during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Saturday evening, in what the FBI says was an assassination attempt. One rally attendee was killed, and two others were seriously injured.
The rally marked Trump’s last public appearance before the scheduled start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where the Republican Party is set to formally select him as its presidential nominee.
The International Cable Network News (CNN) in a report on its official website has pieced videos, photos and maps together detailing what occurred on Saturday, 13 July 2024 from the start of the rally to the chaotic moments when gunshots erupted to, ultimately, when Trump landed in Newark, New Jersey, early Sunday, 14 July morning.
HERE IS A TIMELINE OF HOW EVENTS UNFOLDED ON 13 JULY 2024. –
6:05:12 p.m. ET
Trump starts addressing his supporters and speaks for roughly six minutes before the scene erupts into chaos.
Trump is in the middle of speaking when someone in the crowd is heard saying, “He’s got a gun.” As the video captures someone in the crowd repeating, “On the roof. He’s got a gun,” three shots ring out. A pause and five more shots in rapid succession are heard. “Stay under here,” an attendee says in the video.
6:11:33 p.m.
Trump pauses mid-sentence as shots ring out.
6:11:34 p.m.
Trump touches the right side of his face.
6:11:35 p.m.
Trump takes cover as US Secret Service agents rush to the podium to surround him. “Get down, get down, get down,” one says.
While the gunman is positioned outside the rally venue, the distance between him and where Trump is speaking is only approximately 400 to 500 feet.
Trump remains low to the ground surrounded by agents, who can be heard on the rally microphone discussing which vehicle would be used to move the former president away from the scene. Seconds later, multiple agents say, “Shooter’s down.” Law enforcement in tactical gear and rifles are now on the stage. A woman’s screams are heard following the sound of another shot.
6:11:41 p.m.
Female agent: “What’re we doing? What’re we doing? …Where are we going…” Man indistinctly yelling.
6:11:50 p.m.
Gunshot, and then the woman screams.
6:11:58 p.m.
Male agent 2: “Go around to the spare. Go around to the spare.”
(“Spare” refers to a spare limousine.)
6:12:00 p.m.
Male agent 3 appears to say something like: “Move to the spare, hold, hold, when you’re ready, on you.”
6:12:01 p.m.
Male agent 2: “Ready.”
6:12:02 p.m.
Male agent 3: “Move!”
6:12:03 p.m.
Male agent 2: “Up!”
6:12:03 p.m.
Male agent 3: “Move!”
6:12:04 p.m.
Male agent 4: “Go, go, go.”
6:12:06 p.m.
Male agent 2: “Hawkeye’s here.”
(“Hawkeye” is the code name for the counter-assault team.)
6:12:06 p.m.
Female agent 1: “Hawkeye’s here, moving to the spare.”
6:12:09 p.m.
Male agent 4: “Spare get ready, spare get ready.”
6:12:10 p.m.
Male agent 2: “You ready?”
6:12:16-21 p.m.
Agents: “Shooter’s down. Shooter’s down. Are we good to move?”
6:12:21 p.m.
Male agent: “Shooter’s down. We’re good to move.”
6:12:22 p.m.
Female agent: “Are we clear?”
6:12:23 p.m.
Agents: “We’re clear. We’re clear. We’re clear.”
6:12:23 p.m.
Male agent: “Let’s move. Let’s move.”
The suspected shooter fired from a building rooftop before he was killed by Secret Service personnel, the agency said.
6:12:25 p.m.
The agents prepare to move Trump offstage, but he tells them to wait. With blood dripping from his ear over a portion of his face, Trump lifts his fist in the air — prompting a loud cheer from the rally crowd — and mouths the word “fight” three times while pumping his fist.
Here’s more of the transcript from the same audio with Trump and Secret Service members, after agents start to stand, lifting Trump.
6:12:33 p.m.
Trump: “Let me get my shoes. Let me get my shoes.”
6:12:35 p.m.
Male agent 2: “I got you sir. I got you sir.”
6:12:36 p.m.
Trump: “Let me get my shoes on.”
6:12:37 p.m.
Another male agent: “Hold on, your head is bloody.”
6:12:39 p.m.
Male agent 2: “Sir, we’ve got to move to the car, sir.”
6:12:42 p.m.
Trump: “Let me get my shoes.”
6:12:43 p.m.
Female agent: “OK, [inaudible].”
6:12:47 p.m.
Trump: “Wait, wait, wait.” He then fist-pumps to crowd. He mouths “fight” three times — a move met with cheers by the crowd.
6:12:54 p.m.
Agent: “We got to move. We got to move.”
6:51 p.m.
Trump’s spokesperson says the former president “is fine” and being evaluated at a “medical facility,” in a statement released approximately 40 minutes after the shooting.
8:42 p.m.
Roughly two and a half hours after he was taken off the rally stage, Trump says in a Truth Social statement, “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin.”
8:53 p.m.
Trump’s motorcade departs Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was medically evaluated after the shooting.
AFTERMATH
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said late Saturday night that Trump had left the Butler, Pennsylvania, area following the rally shooting. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Trump flies back to Newark, New Jersey.
Trump campaign deputy communications director Margo Martin posts a video of Trump disembarking from a plane in Newark, writing on X: “Strong and resilient. He will never stop fighting for America.”
SOURCE: CNN
