The following is an excerpt from the newly published book “The Trump Assassination Plots: What the Investigations Missed, and Why it Matters.” The book, which can be foundhere, attempts to provide the most complete account to date of the attempts on Donald Trump’s life (emphasis ours),
Three shots rang throughout the Butler Farm Show- causing Trump to grab his ear and fall on the ground, his security detail piling on top of him moments later. Numerous rallygoers later said that they thought they were hearing fireworks at first, but there was a shooter on the AGR rooftop. His first three shots were aimed at Trump, but then he started spraying seemingly indiscriminately.
*CRACK* *CRACK* *CRACK* *CRACK* *CRACK*
As Crooks fired, Butler ESU operator Aaron Zaliponi, who was on the ground, could see his head peeking over the rooftop.Zaliponi had been one of the Butler ESU operators deployed seconds before Crooks started firing. When the shooting began, he was between Trump’s podium and the AGR building - by the fence that separated the Farm Show from the company’s property.
Keeping calm despite the bullets whizzing by, Zaliponi focused on Crooks through the EOTECH red-dot sight on his M4 AR platform SWAT rifle.
Zaliponi returned fire with a single 5.56mm NATO 62 grain TAP Barrier projectile.
For the next 10 seconds, the crowd seemed to be under a spell. Some in the stands ducked down, some turned toward the AGR building, and some looked with concern at Trump.
“What are we doing? What are we doing?” one of Trump’s security agents could be heard saying frantically.
At the bottom of a body-bunker of agents who piled onto Trump, the second-in-command of his detail could see that he was bleeding.
“Sir, are you okay?” said Nick Menster, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC).
Source: ZeroHedge News
