A new video shows the moment former President Donald Trump arrived at the Butler Memorial Hospital after being shot in his right ear in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
Investigative journalist Laura Loomer shared a video on Wednesday of the former president arriving at a hospital shortly after the assassination attempt at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.
In a statement accompanying the video, Loomer tweeted, “An ER Patient at the hospital in Butler, Pennsylvania captured the moment President Trump arrived to hospital. You can hear how shook up the people in the ER waiting room were over hearing Donald Trump had been shot, and how happy they were to see that he was walking.”
Toward the end of the video, as Trump was entering the hospital, multiple patients can be heard shouting, “There he is!” After one patient commented, “Oh thank God, he’s walking,” another patient immediately expressed relief, exclaiming, “He’s walking! He’s walking!”
According to EMS1.com, Butler Memorial Hospital officials confirmed that the former president was treated at the hospital after he was injured in Saturday’s assassination attempt. EMS1.com reported that Karen Allen, the president of Butler Memorial and Clarion hospitals, said the hospital went into a three-hour lockdown, preventing individuals from entering or leaving the facility.
Allen noted that the U.S. Secret Service had previously worked with Butler Memorial Hospital to create a potential emergency response plan when Trump held a campaign rally at the Pittsburgh-Butler Regional Airport during the 2020 presidential election.
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“The Secret Service actually came to the hospital and developed the plan should something of this nature happen,” Allen said. “We were to follow the same plan that was developed when he was here for the airport rally.”
Allen added, “I think we hoped that it would never happen, but we knew that it was a possibility.”
Highlighting the effort of the hospital’s administration and staff, Allen said that everyone did “what they needed to do” during Saturday’s unexpected emergency to provide care both for the “VIP patient” and for the hospital’s other patients.
Butler Memorial Hospital’s Dr. Dave Rottinghaus explained, “It’s in the back of everybody’s mind who this person is. But they do what they do best, and that’s to focus on the patient right in front of them.”
