The warnings were screamed out before the shots rang out.
This from westernjournal.com.
New video making the rounds on social media depicts the moments just before a would-be assassin fired Saturday on a rally for President Donald J. Trump.
Chaos and terror surrounding the shooting that tragically killed one man, wounded two, and almost left the 45th president dead are quite evident.
In the clip posted by social media commentator Colin Rugg, witnesses can be heard screaming about an armed man.
A man’s voice cries out:
He’s got a gun!
BREAKING: New footage shows Trump rally attendees desperately shouting to law enforcement that there was someone with a gun on top of a structure.
How the hell did rally attendees see the suspect before Secret Service and police??
"He's got a gun! He's got a gun!" they… pic.twitter.com/VaiNDp3ZH9
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 14, 2024
Newsweek reported:
A member of the audience was killed and two were critically injured.
The would-be assassin was killed by the Secret Service.
The video appears to back up a story recounted by a man at the rally who was interviewed by a BBC reporter.
The man said he saw another man “bear-crawling” on a roof near where Trump was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Identified by Newsweek as Greg Smith, the witness told the BBC reporter he tried to warn Secret Service agents.
The man recounted:
I’m standing there pointing at him for two to three minutes. Secret Service is looking at us.
Next thing you know, five shots rang out.
Another man interviewed at the scene by CBS said he’d seen the gunman “on top of one of the buildings” and informed police officers present.
JUST IN: Eyewitness says he saw the suspect at Trump's rally go "in between one building to the next" when he alerted the police.
"I noticed two officers that were looking for something or somebody."
pic.twitter.com/tC13o9dutg— Match Point (@MatchPoiint) July 14, 2024
The videos are likely to be grist for an investigation already announced by House Republicans on Saturday into the circumstances surrounding the assassination attempt.
THE HOUSE WILL CONDUCT A FULL INVESTIGATION OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS TODAY.
The American people deserve to know the truth. We will have Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other appropriate officials from DHS and the FBI appear for a hearing before our committees ASAP.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 14, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote in a post on X:
THE HOUSE WILL CONDUCT A FULL INVESTIGATION OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF TODAY.
The American people deserve to know the truth.
We will have Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other appropriate officials from DHS and the FBI appear for a hearing before our committees ASAP.
Final thoughts: Deserving to know the truth and being told the truth are far apart. Getting to the bottom of something that is bottomless will prove to be impossible, and this will not be accomplished in our lifetime. Hell, JFK’s assassination sixty years after the fact is still a lot of speculation and loosely connected dribbles.
