Acting Secret Service Director Details Timeline Of Assassination Attempt Against Trump

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On Friday, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe held a press conference about the assassination attempt against former President Trump.

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00:00I'll now provide a timeline of the visit to Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:10On July 8th, personnel assigned to the agency's Pittsburgh field office conducted planning

00:14meetings and a site walkthrough with law enforcement partners and campaign staff.

00:20On July 10th, Secret Service counter-sniper and technical security personnel arrived in

00:25Pittsburgh and began advanced planning for their teams.

00:29July 12th, the buildout of the campaign rally site began and continued through the early

00:34morning hours of July 13th.

00:37In the morning of July 13th, a site briefing was conducted with Secret Service personnel

00:43and law enforcement partners supporting the event.

00:47Secret Service personnel took their posts and a technical security sweep of the protective

00:51site commenced prior to the site's opening to event staff, vendors, and to the public.

00:57At 1230 p.m., the Secret Service opened the protective site to event staff and vendors,

01:03and then at 1 o'clock, magnetometer screening of the estimated 15,000 people attending the

01:08campaign rally event staff and vendors began.

01:13At 530 p.m., former President Trump arrived at the campaign rally via Secret Service motorcade,

01:19and at that time, he met with supporters in a secure backstage area within the protective

01:23site.

01:25At 545 p.m., a local Butler County Emergency Services Unit counter-sniper team member texted

01:31the Secret Service counter-sniper team leader about a suspicious person and sent two photos

01:36of the individual, later identified as the assailant.

01:40At 553 p.m., the Secret Service counter-sniper team leader texted the Secret Service counter-sniper

01:46teams that local law enforcement was looking for a suspicious individual outside of the

01:51perimeter lurking around the AGR building.

01:55At this time, Secret Service personnel were operating with the knowledge that local law

01:59enforcement was working on an issue of a suspicious individual.

02:05The concept of local law enforcement working on such issues is common at sites, and on

02:10July 13th, there were over 100 calls for support.

02:15At 6 p.m., former President Trump took the stage to begin remarks, and based on what

02:20I know right now, neither the Secret Service counter-sniper teams nor members of the former

02:26president's security detail had any knowledge that there was a man on the roof of the AGR

02:30building with a firearm.

02:32It is my understanding that personnel were not aware the assailant had a firearm until

02:37they heard gunshots.

02:40At 611 p.m., a member of the former President Trump's protective detail contacted their

02:45Pittsburgh field office counterpart to inquire about the radio update that there was an issue

02:50local law enforcement was looking into near the perimeter.

02:54At 611 p.m., the assailant's first volley of three shots was fired, and within three

02:59seconds, the former president's detail rushed the stage and covered former President Trump,

03:05shielding him with their own bodies.

03:08The four-through-eight shots took place over the next several seconds.

03:11Fifteen and a half seconds after the assailant's first shot, a Secret Service counter-sniper

03:16fired a single round that neutralized the assailant.

03:22That concludes a quick, brief summary of the timeline.

Acting Secret Service Director Details Timeline Of Assassination Attempt Against Trump

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