Fist Pump Saved Lives


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nlookers continue to marvel one year later that the


attendees at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, didn’t panic and stampede as seen at so many other mass gatherings when shots ring out.


The 911 calls that flooded local


responders’ phone lines reflected the throng’s understanding of the life-and-death urgency. “We’re at the Trump rally,”


shouts one woman above the chaotic noise. “There are gunshots. You better get over here quick.” “I have a woman on the line,”


stated an Allegheny County dispatcher in her message to EMS. “Her husband was shot at the Trump rally.” Yet somehow the horde


avoided the headlong rush for the exits that so often tramples innocent bystanders. When the former and soon to


be 47th president rose to his feet, shook his fist, and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!,” however, it seemed to propel the collective emotion in a totally different direction. Sen. Dave McCormick, who


was there that day as a candidate and spoke shortly before Trump took the stage, tells Newsmax: “I thought the fact that the crowd showed such composure was interesting, and it was probably due in part to how the president responded in the moment.” Trump himself recognized the


bravery that day of Sean Curran, the leader of his Secret Service protective detail. Curran, wearing sunglasses, rushed to shield him from the bullets. Two days after taking ofice in January, the president summoned him to the White House and appointed him director of the Secret Service. “He proved his fearless


courage when he risked his own life to help save mine from an assassin’s bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania,” said Trump. — D.P.


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