Butler, Pennsylvania
The crowd had waited for hours in the heat for Trump to show up. When he did arrive, they cheered when he asked if they minded if he went off the teleprompter. He had just been turning his head to point to a graph showing how many fewer illegal deportations there were when he was in office.
Many of them stood up, apparently fearlessly, and cheered as the president was ushered off stage
Then there were some popping sounds that, from where I was far in the back, close to the exit, sounded like fireworks. A pause followed and Trump disappeared from view. The people around me were confused, then there was screaming up front. I ran to the road in the back and heard a woman saying, ‘Is he OK? No! I miss him!’ Someone also said, ‘They don’t let you have alcohol in here but that guy gets away with this?’
People were holding hands and I heard some praying.
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