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the right to reference the chart again, and the gunman opens fire. What happens next has been


viewed millions and millions of times on social media. Shots ring out and Trump grabs his right ear. As more shots are fired, an


agent rushes toward Trump, yelling, “Get down, get down, get down, get down!” Trump dives to the ground to take cover and is quickly buried beneath a scrum of agents who fearlessly use their bodies to shield him. After eight shots, the barrage


stops.


“Shooter’s down!” agents an- nounce on the stage. “We’re good to go!” A bloodied Trump then gets


up and issues his iconic “Fight! Fight! Fight!” battle cry. He’s hus- tled off stage and into a waiting black Suburban that rushes him to the nearest hospital, where he soon learns the assassin’s bullet came only about 2 centimeters away from killing him. A distance the width of two


AAA batteries set side by side was all that separated America from an unprecedented politi- cal crisis. Bob Brooks, host of Newsmax


TV’s American Agenda, grew up in the Butler area and was cov- ering the event from a media riser about 40 yards from Trump when the shooting broke out. Like many others, when he


heard the first shot, he thought someone had lit off fireworks. But when the shooting con-


tinued, he dove behind some camera equipment for cover. He felt sure there had just been too many shots fired for Trump to possibly survive. “I thought, oh my God, I can’t


believe he’s dead,” Brooks recalled. “They got him. He’s dead, Donald Trump is dead. Oh my God. Now what’s going to happen?”


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For a few seconds, no one in


the crowd knew Trump’s fate. “And then he stands up and he does the ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ And I must have leaped two or three feet in the air.” Sen. Dave McCormick, then


the GOP candidate seeking to oust Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey, was on stage shortly before Trump, and tells Newsmax: “Had the president moved his head an inch, we would have lost a former president to assassina- tion. Whether you’re a supporter of President Trump or not, that would have been catastrophic for the country. “That’s like a banana repub- lic kind of stuff.”


‘SELFLESS DEVOTION’ Crooks’ gunfire tragically claimed the life of volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore, a


veteran who died using his own body as a shield to protect his wife and two daughters. Two oth- er men were critically wounded. “Corey was taken from us


much too soon,” Trump told a joint session of Congress. “But his destiny was to leave us with a shining example of the self- less devotion of a true American patriot. “It was love like Corey’s that


built our country. And it’s love like Corey’s that is going to make our country more majestic than ever before.”


‘OUTRAGEOUS FALSEHOOD’ One year later, security experts and members of Congress are still using terms like “inexpli- cable” and “inconceivable” to describe the chain of communi- cation failures, technical snafus,


so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a roof.” — Kimberly Cheatle, former Secret Service director


[The AGR] building, in particular, has a sloped roof at its highest point. And


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