An assassin attempted to murder Donald Trump.
The horrible act of madness was caught on camera.
And one picture from the assassination attempt against Trump will put your jaw on the ground.
As 2024 Battleground reports:
The picture that immediately went viral in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump’s was a photo by Evan Vucci of the Associated Press.
Vucci snapped a picture of a bloody Trump pumping his fist in the air with the American flag flying overhead in defiance of both the gunman who tried to kill him and the Secret Service agents who sought to whisk him off the stage before Trump could assure his supporters he was ok.
It was a powerful image.
“It’s the Iowa Jima of politics,” conservative pundit Erick Erickson wrote on X.
But it wasn’t the most jaw-dropping photo of the attempted assassination.
Doug Mills captured the picture showing the bullet that tore through Donald Trump’s ear whizzing through the air.
In his statement, Trump described realizing he had been shot and then hearing the bullet flying through the air.
“I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
That makes sense as most bullets travel faster than the speed of sound so Trump would have felt the impact of the bullet before hearing it.
In the aftermath of the attempted assassination on Trump, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle came under fire.
Cheatle’s goal had been to diversify the Secret Service by hiring 30 percent female agents by 2030.
Her qualifications and performance drew scrutiny in the wake of Trump coming within one inch of his life – literally – and the assassin succeeding in his mission.
The gunman fired from a rooftop a few hundred feet from the rally site that had not been secured.
An eyewitness said he tried to alert police and the Secret Service but they didn’t react until the assassin already started firing.
The agents on Trump’s detail acted bravely and brilliantly, selflessly throwing their bodies on top of Trump’s to protect him from any further harm at the risk of their own lives.
But Republicans believe their superiors have much to answer for.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-OH) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) immediately announced an investigation into the failure to secure Trump’s rally.