ABC News’ Jonathan Karl dove into the details he found in a “treasure trove of information” around the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year.
The journalist told hosts of “The View” on Tuesday that raw evidence and sworn interviews with Secret Service agents included in a report released by Congress allowed him to reconstruct “minute by minute what was going on” July 13, 2024.
“When he gets to the hospital, I found out, when he gets to the hospital, his aides, he comes out, the aides are in other cars, as he comes in ... the handful of aides are there and he says, ‘How is it playing? How does it look on TV?’ That was his first thought,” Karl said as he promoted his new book, “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America.”
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, struck Trump in the ear and wounded three attendees — one fatally. Crooks was shot and killed by a Secret Service agent.
Karl described the moments immediately after the shooting, as agents were trying to get the president to safety inside an armored SUV. Trump “fights them, and he gets out” to do the photographed fist pump and shouts “fight,” he said.
