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Footage of the BBC News interviewing a Trump supporter outside his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, after a gunman attempted to assassinate the 45th president has raised serious questions.
TV News Now shared the interview where a concerned eyewitness detailed how he attended a party to listen to Trump speak just outside the event.
He stated that a few minutes into Trump speaking, “We noticed a guy crawling, army, you know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us.” He noted that this was about 50 feet away from them.
The witness noted that he and others were shouting to police and the Secret Service that someone was crawling up the roof and “He had a rifle.”
He noted that instead of immediately responding, the police seemed as if “they didn’t know what was going on.”
“I’m like, I’m thinking to myself, I’m like, why is Trump still speaking?” He added, questioning, “Why have they not pulled him off the stage?”
He stated that a few minutes passed with no action and then, “Next thing you know, five shots ring out.”
The man went on to state that he was “a hundred percent” certain that this man was the shooter.
He noted that the shooter was probably hidden by the slope of the roof, but that none of the security detail checked to see what they were warning of.
When asked about the shooter, the witness stated, “He was in muted colors. Tan type clothing. We saw the rifle flinging around as he was trying to crawl.”
“We saw the rifle, hundred percent,” he added.
He noted that the group saw the shooter get shot and questioned why the shooter was able to crawl up the roof in the first place.
“There’s only a few buildings around here. Why is Secret Service not on every building?”
RSBN was live at the event when the attempt took place. Various reports have surfaced and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has called for an investigation into how this could happen, via RSBN.
