Journalist who witnessed Trump shooting in Butler shares story in new book

Salina Zito, veteran political correspondence with more than 20 years of the experience of telling stories, tells her own story in her book, “Batr: an indescribable story about the near assassination of Donald Trump and fighting for the heart of America.”

Zito’s novel, which was released on Tuesday, is repeated to the readers of July 13, 2024, when the young shooter opened fire at the crowd at President Donald Trump in Battler, Pennsylvania.

“I told Zito News Digitter in an exclusive interview before the release: “There was no this inner voice that told me,” You had a job to do this, “

When Thomas Matthew Crocs, 20, began shooting at Trump, Zito found herself in the vicinity of the secure secret service, directly on the stage where Yarkab was his statements.

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“The time has these layers that happen,” Zito said. “He does not remember them. He suffers from it. This is an interesting thing happens. I see a sea of ​​sea blue suits surrounding him immediately. Then I hear the second four shots. I still haven’t shot down.”

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As the owner of the gun, Zito realized the sound of the shots immediately. But as a journalist, she quickly started committing the historical moment of memory because it was revealing.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Zito described the scene that you saw directly, was arrested on the video by a camera that brings together and watched it around the world.

A little more than eight minutes of Trump’s speech, Zito was standing in the “temporary store” with her daughter, son -in -law, and Trump campaign assistant, Michelle Picard. It was Picard who brought Zito to the ground.

Zito explained: “Michelle Picard takes me down and falls above me and covers me.” “This young man did not have to do this. He would always be a hero in my heart. He lies at the top of my daughter. He really took my daughter’s son -in -law.”

A shoe was left on stage after assisting President Donald Trump at the time during a campaign march at Butler Farm Show Inc. On Saturday, July 13, 2024 in Bater, Pennsylvania. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Zito said, even from this distinguished point, she can still see the situation and hear the situation reveal while Trump was screaming for his shoes, and he called someone to the doctor and cried a woman.

“I had a recorder on my phone because I thought I would register the gathering, his speech. I wanted to make sure that I got the differences. I always do it. I could see, and I could hear everything that happens.”

She said Trump was saying, “The United States of America”, from Earth when the crowd started chanting. When the secret service helped Trump on his feet, he cried, “Fight! Fight!” Zito said that she saw a different aspect of Trump, who was revealed in her book.

The journalist, a political reporter for Washington’s examiner, a special shareholder in the Washington Post and was a column writer for the New York Post, that Trump should have contacted her seven times in 24 hours after the shooting.

The crowd members were assisted under the chairs after the head of the Foundation at the time, Donald Trump, was assisted abroad during a campaign march at Bater Farm Show, on Saturday, July 13, 2024 in Battler, Pennsylvania. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Zito Trump was scheduled to meet before he gathered in Bater, but this is the case with the presidential campaign schedules, the time of the interview continued to slip. Zito was planning to fly with Trump to Bedminster, New Jersey, to meet him after the gathering.

Trump recovered from his near assassination with more than a bullet to the ear, thanks to the migration scheme, which was running his head to his face. One of the attendees, the firefighter, was killed, and two others were seriously wounded by Bruks.

Comparatore protected his wife and daughters from bullets, and saved his family. Trump honored his family when he returned to Brtler to end the gathering later that year.

“This book is for everyone,” Zito told Fox News Digital. “First of all, it was a witness to history. It is very listened to it in a very real and authentic way. I tell the story exactly the way it happened.”

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“But it is also a book on understanding the cause of the place and root [are] Very important in American policy. There were very few Republicans or Democrats who understood it. It is part of America’s experience, regardless of what happens after that, that there is a bright light, so that you better understand people. “