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Jul 13, 2024 #Trump #US #BBCNews

Former US President Donald Trump was rushed off stage after gunshots erupted at a rally in Pennsylvania in an apparent assassination attempt. The suspect was shot dead at the scene by US Secret Service agents, the service's spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said. He added that one bystander was killed in the shooting and two others were critically injured. Law enforcement sources told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the male attacker had been armed with a rifle and had fired from an elevated structure a few hundred metres away outside the venue. They added that the attack was being treated as an assassination attempt.

well the latest we've got is a a full

0:02

statement now from the Secret Service

0:05

and that has confirmed a number of the

0:07

details we've been reporting on BBC news

0:09

for the last couple of hours they say

0:12

the shooter there was a shooter who was

0:14

on an elevated position outside the uh

0:17

the farm show ground where the rally was

0:20

taking place that tallies with what our

0:22

eyewitnesses have been telling us they

0:23

say that um that two people uh are dead

0:28

one is the shooter one is someone who

0:30

was inside the crowd and two other

0:32

people are now critically injured and

0:35

presumably in hospital uh president

0:37

Trump has also said that uh he was hit

0:40

by a bullet he says it tore through the

0:43

skin of his the upper part of his right

0:46

ear and if you just think about that for

0:48

a moment that means it is inches I mean

0:52

an inch away from going in his head so

0:55

that is how close the former president

0:57

came this evening to getting a bullet in

0:59

the head

1:00

so this is incredibly shocking

1:03

developments incredibly shocking news

1:05

here on the ground president Trump was

1:07

also extended his condolences to those

1:10

people who have have been injured and

1:12

and died uh he's also thanked law

1:16

enforcement uh for their rapid action

1:18

and you can see from the video that they

1:21

they order him to the ground as soon as

1:23

the shooting starts and then they pile

1:25

on top which is what they're trained and

1:26

paid to do to put their bodies between

1:29

him and the bullets that's what they do

1:31

uh and then they took him away uh we're

1:33

hearing from his campaign of course that

1:35

he's fine uh his sons have been uh on

1:40

social media as well saying Donald Trump

1:42

Jr has spoken to his father says he's

1:44

fine Eric Trump has talked on social

1:47

media as well I have to say to you that

1:50

uh about half an hour ago just uh on the

1:53

perimeter here there was a uh an

1:55

electronic billboard on the back of a

1:57

truck that had been parked and it had a

1:59

picture of Donald Trump's face on it

2:02

with a Target and it said in terms

2:06

Democrats assassinating Donald Trump

2:08

trying to assassinate Donald Trump uh so

2:11

that's a pretty shocking development and

2:13

it's an indication perhaps of of what

2:15

may be to come in terms of the divisions

2:18

this may deepen in this country there is

2:20

a chance of course that this is the the

2:23

kind of thing that will make people stop

2:25

and think about the political atmosphere

2:28

and the dialogue in in America America

2:30

but there's a chance that it can make it

2:31

a whole lot worse well it's been a

2:33

Charged atmosphere for many months and

2:35

years really hasn't it Gary of course

2:37

you covered the events of January 6th

2:39

and this is uh something that that may

2:40

have been bubbling under the surface for

2:42

for a long time just speaking of those

2:44

kinds of of tensions that you've been

2:46

mentioning I just want to flash back

2:48

though because you were there outside

2:51

the the events when you heard those

2:53

shots you you spoke to people that were

2:55

obviously inside can you just walk us

2:58

through and kind of help us understand

2:59

understand what those moments were

3:05

like well we were standing just a few

3:08

feet from where I am now and we were uh

3:10

talking to our colleagues on the BBC

3:12

World Service and suddenly we heard this

3:15

volley of gunfire and it was immediately

3:18

obvious that that's what it was that it

3:19

was gunfire it wasn't a car backfiring

3:22

or a motorcycle or anything like that uh

3:25

and we got down on the ground as we had

3:27

no idea where these bullets were going

3:29

where they were coming from or who was

3:31

being shot at uh there was there's no

3:34

cover here it's just like Fields there's

3:36

nowhere to go really so we're flat on

3:39

the flat on the dirt and then people

3:41

started streaming out of there you heard

3:42

screaming happening and we started to

3:44

speak to people as they came out and we

3:46

spoke to spoke to a number of people

3:48

some were very emotional some were very

3:50

angry one guy in fact here on BBC News

3:53

tried to stop us telling you what was

3:56

happening telling the world what was

3:58

happening and we had to try and explain

4:00

to him live on air that this is this is

4:02

what we do this is what we try and do we

4:04

try and explain the world to people in

4:06

the best way we possibly can we had

4:09

another eyewitness who said that he had

4:10

been just outside the

4:12

perimeter um and he'd come down after a

4:15

party with some friends to listen to the

4:17

rally they didn't have tickets or

4:18

anything and he'd seen a guy climbing

4:21

onto this single story building which is

4:24

to the right of the stage as Donald

4:26

Trump was on it it has a white roof and

4:29

he said he saw this guy climb onto this

4:31

roof with a rifle and tried to point out

4:35

point this out to the security services

4:37

Secret Service the police uh he said he

4:40

was doing this for a couple of minutes

4:41

or so he wasn't absolutely sure about

4:43

timings but he thought this was

4:45

happening about five or seven minutes

4:46

into the speech and then a few minutes

4:49

later the shooting started and in very

4:52

graphic terms he told us about how he'd

4:55

seen um the man on the roof with the

4:58

rifle how he'd seen him

5:00

shot or neutralized as the security

5:02

service like to call it here um so it

5:05

all happened incredibly quickly and you

5:07

can hear on that video you can hear

5:09

there are kind of two bursts of gunfire

5:11

in fact and you know there's clearly an

5:14

initial burst and probably an exchange

5:16

of fire there and certainly another one

5:17

of the eyewitnesses we spoke to young

5:20

teenage boy Colby he was here with his

5:22

dad they own a farm just down the road 2

5:25

miles down the road from here and he

5:27

said he'd seen the the flare from the

5:29

muzzle of the the rifles of the Secret

5:32

Service people on the roofs around when

5:33

they'd taken the gunman down uh and they

5:37

had also seen a couple of people put on

5:39

stretchers and taken away in in

5:41

ambulances as well so incredibly

5:44

shocking moments that was their first

5:46

rally that's their first political rally

5:48

this teenage boy coming to his first

5:50

political rally and he gets this um and

5:53

his father was shocked and and I have to

5:55

tell you this is Trump country uh in

5:58

this part of Pennsylvania but County

6:00

very firmly trumped country country

6:02

people told us afterwards they have you

6:05

know they support gun ownership they

6:07

support gun rights but at least two or

6:08

three of them said we got to think about

6:11

what do we do about this about people

6:12

having guns and doing

6:14

this Gary odonahue our senior North

6:17

America correspondent thank you again

6:19

for all of your reporting I just want to

6:21

bring in some new lines we're getting

6:24

here um from our sources now AFP the

6:27

news agency reporting that one person

6:30

has been killed two people critically

6:32

injured in that shooting we're also

6:34

hearing from Reuters that the New York

6:36

Police Department is increasing security

6:39

at the Trump Tower that is uh Donald

6:41

Trump's main uh building there in New

6:45

York City we're also getting this

6:47

Reuters and this is coming from a

6:48

statement posted to X formerly Twitter

6:51

by the uh Secret Service saying this

6:54

that the uh secret service has

6:57

neutralized the shooter who is now

6:59

ceased a suspected shooter fired

7:02

multiple shots that of course confirms

7:04

with what we've been hearing from our

7:06

those eyewitnesses on the ground

7:07

multiple shots towards the stage from an

7:09

elevated position outside of the rally

7:12

Us Secret Service quickly responded with

7:14

protective measures and the former

7:16

president is safe and being evaluated

7:20

that is coming from the chief of

7:21

communications for the Secret Service we

7:25

are also getting that confirmation there

7:26

one spectator killed two Spectators in

7:29

in critical condition the incident

7:32

currently being under uh investigation

7:35

by the Secret Service it is also now

7:37

formally notified the Federal Bureau of

7:41

Investigation let's go now to Tom bman

7:43

uh he's been standing by with us all

7:45

night our state department correspondent

7:46

uh Tom what's the latest that you're

7:48

hearing obviously so many reactions

7:50

coming in from from politicians here in

7:52

the US yeah of course an absolute flood

7:55

of shock of condemnation of appeals

7:58

really for or calm uh and to state that

8:02

you know there is no place for this kind

8:03

of violence um in the United States many

8:07

many politicians from across the

8:09

political divide saying that there's no

8:11

place for political violence we've had

8:13

sort of in the last 90 minutes Al so

8:15

three former uh presidents themselves um

8:20

putting out statements about this Barack

8:21

Obama saying absolutely no place for

8:24

political violence in our democracy he

8:26

said although we don't yet know exactly

8:28

what happened we should all be released

8:30

that former president Trump wasn't

8:32

seriously hurt and he appealed he said

8:34

we should use this moment to recommit

8:36

ourselves to Civility and respect in our

8:39

politics uh former President George W

8:42

bush um talking about the Cowardly

8:44

attack on the life uh of uh president

8:47

Trump he says uh we commend the men and

8:50

women of the Secret Service for their

8:51

Speedy response of course George W bush

8:54

himself uh whilst president targeted by

8:57

an attacker who tossed a grenade that

8:59

did didn't explode while he was in toi

9:01

in Georgia back in 2005 Bill Clinton

9:05

also another former president who also

9:07

during his time in office um subjected

9:10

to violence that was when somebody shot

9:12

at the White House in 1994 saying that

9:15

violence has no place in America

9:17

especially in our political process

9:19

Hillary and I are thankful that

9:20

President Trump is safe say saying that

9:23

they're heartbroken for all those

9:24

affected by the attack at today's rally

9:26

in

9:27

Pennsylvania Tom B thank thank you so

9:29

much for uh bringing us all of those

9:32

reactions I want to come now back to the

9:33

studio Christine rafini is uh here with

9:35

us she's been doing reporting even from

9:38

the studio just want to talk a bit about

9:42

the the Secret Service response here we

9:44

we've heard from a former secret service

9:46

agent we just heard that statement there

9:48

uh what do you make of the way they're

9:50

going about this now and and what might

9:51

come next in terms of any kind of

9:53

investigation and whether or not you

9:56

know we we've heard the word you know

9:58

assassination thrown around and that's

9:59

not something we can confirm but it's

10:01

going to be kind of an important word to

10:03

parse isn't it because that takes on

10:05

just a whole different meeting once were

10:07

able to determine what was behind this

10:10

and who was behind this apparent attack

10:12

I don't think that's something you're

10:13

going to hear from the Secret Service I

10:15

think they're going to wait for another

10:16

agency maybe the FBI maybe even the

10:18

White House to make that determination

10:20

there's a couple things in the statement

10:21

that stand out to me the first of all is

10:24

the way they phrased it they said

10:25

multiple shots fired towards the stage

10:28

from an elevated position

10:29

they didn't say assassination attemp

10:31

they're just going to give you the facts

10:32

of what happened right because at this

10:34

point the shoter is dead they're going

10:35

to have questions about motive that's

10:37

not something they're going to be able

10:38

to find out right now the other thing is

10:40

it says that the shots were fired from a

10:42

location outside the venue that's not

10:46

necessarily outside the perimeter and

10:48

that's a question that I have whether or

10:50

not what's the difference then between

10:51

the perimeter and the venue so the venue

10:53

itself is the arena the stadium the

10:56

field the you know I've been to a trump

10:58

rally and what was an aluminum Warehouse

11:00

that's the venue but the perimeter the

11:03

security perimeter extends much further

11:05

than that and usually includes any High

11:07

position that could potentially be at

11:09

risk for someone taking this kind of

11:11

shot for this very reason so I would be

11:13

curious to know if this place where this

11:15

man allegedly fired this shot from was

11:17

swept was a place the Secret Service had

11:19

looked over and was allegedly secured

11:22

within the venue perimeter with not just

11:25

the actual you know stage and area where

11:27

it's taking place the other thing have

11:29

to think about um and that's something

11:30

we're going to be learning in the days

11:32

and months to come as we learn the

11:34

identities of these other victims is

11:36

when you take a shot at a president who

11:38

is standing in front of a crowd of

11:40

supporters you're not just firing a shot

11:42

at that President there is no way even

11:44

the best shooter is going to fire at

11:46

that distance and not potentially hit

11:48

someone and you we we've seen the images

11:50

haven't we it was a packed area

11:53

thousands maybe even tens of thousands

11:54

of people there there was a potential

11:56

and we've heard that there have been

11:58

people seriously injured and there's

11:59

historical precedent for this you know

12:01

the president is not always the one who

12:03

gets the most injured in these

12:04

assassination attempts just down the

12:06

street here when um hinley tried to

12:07

shoot Reagan at the Hilton literally

12:10

down the hill from where we're sitting

12:12

it was his press secretary who was

12:13

catastrophically permanently injured

12:16

from that shooting whereas Reagan

12:17

recovered fairly quickly so that's the

12:19

other part of malice when any of these

12:22

kinds of incidents is someone is not

12:24

only going after a political figure but

12:27

they're going at it with complete dis

12:29

regard for look at this picture of all

12:31

those people who are standing around him

12:33

at that venue and it sounds like people

12:34

were very very hurt in this incident

12:36

Christina it's also I think worth noting

12:39

in that statement that we heard from

12:41

Donald Trump on his TR Social account he

12:44

personally said that he was struck by a

12:47

bullet that he said he he felt that

12:49

bullet go through his ear he did and

12:51

that's you know that's something as I

12:53

was texting with sources today you know

12:55

it's always unfolding you never know

12:57

exactly until the FBI gets in there what

12:59

exactly happened there were concerns at

13:01

one point it could have been glass it

13:03

could have hit one of the teleprompters

13:04

and that could have been what hit him he

13:06

himself says he was hit by a bullet and

13:08

you know we'll we'll see what the what

13:10

the specifics of that were as as this

13:13

comes out in the next few days all right

13:15

Christina rafini former White House

13:17

correspondent uh here with me in the

13:19

studio I just want to play for you now

13:21

and this is a statement that was was

13:25

given to Gary odonahue our senior North

13:27

America correspondent who who

13:30

was there on the ground and this is a a

13:34

course a witness telling Gary the moment

13:37

that he believes the Secret Service took

13:40

down the alleged

13:42

shooter so so we had a party here all

13:44

day at the you can see behind us at the

13:47

at the brinkles farm and Greenhouse here

13:48

we had a party um and we all decided hey

13:52

you know when when we hear Trump up

13:54

there we're going to walk up through the

13:56

field stand by the trees up there under

13:58

the shade

13:59

and watch and listen to the rally right

14:01

we couldn't see him but we could hear

14:04

him so we walked up and probably five to

14:08

seven minutes of trump speaking I'm

14:11

estimating here I have no idea you know

14:13

but

14:14

um we noticed a guy

14:17

crawling Army you know bear crawling up

14:20

the roof of the building beside us 50 50

14:24

ft away from us so we're standing there

14:27

you know we're pointing we're pointing

14:29

at the guy cro up the roof and he had a

14:31

gun right he had a rifle we could

14:33

clearly see him with a rifle absolutely

14:36

um we're pointing at them the police are

14:39

down there running around on the ground

14:41

we're like hey man there's guy on the

14:43

roof with a rifle and the police were

14:45

like huh what you know like like they

14:47

didn't know what was going on you know

14:49

we're like hey right here on the roof we

14:50

can see him from right here we see him

14:52

you know he's he's

14:54

crawling and next thing you know I'm

14:57

like I'm thinking to myself I'm like why

14:59

is Trump still speaking why have they

15:01

not pulled him off the stage I'm

15:02

standing there pointing at him for you

15:05

know two three minutes Secret Service is

15:07

looking at us from the top of the barn

15:09

I'm pointing at that roof just standing

15:12

there like this and next thing you know

15:15

five shots ring out so you're you're

15:17

certain that the shots came from that

15:19

guy on the roof 100% 100% And he he was

15:23

up there for a couple of minutes you saw

15:25

him up there for a couple of minutes

15:26

absolutely at least three to four

15:28

minutes and you were telling

15:29

police in the Secret Service we were

15:30

telling the police we were pointing at

15:32

him for the Secret Service who were

15:33

looking at us from the top of the barn

15:36

they were looking at us the whole time

15:37

and we were standing by that tree could

15:38

they see binoculars could they see him

15:41

probably not because the roof the way

15:43

the the slope went he was behind where

15:45

they could see but but why is there not

15:47

Secret Service on all of these roofs

15:49

here I mean this is not a big place