"In her fascinating insider’s account, Salena Zito talks about still much more: the Milwaukee convention, Thomas Matthew Crooks and his family, Corey Comperatore and his family, and, yes, the epic failure of the Secret Service to protect Donald Trump."
. . . "Of course, we knew right away that Trump was not killed. I still marvel at turning to my wife amid the trauma and saying, “Wow, Trump just shook his fist in the air and said, ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’” We weren’t really worried about the former president. Our concern was for our son, his friends, and the tens of thousands of others. Those bullets fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks had to hit flesh somewhere. A fatal victim was a firefighter from Buffalo Township, Corey Comperatore. My son was fine. But Corey — someone else’s son, husband, father — was not.
"I figured that my longtime friend Salena Zito — also a longtime friend of The American Spectator — was there. A fellow Pittsburgh-born, lifelong native of western Pennsylvania, who I first met when we both wrote for the late Dick Scaife’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Salena has distinguished herself as one of America’s best on-the-ground reporters with her “The Middle of Somewhere” dispatches. And no journalist knows or has covered Donald Trump like Zito. She was the one who in a September 2016 interview with Trump for the Atlantic coined the brilliant formulation: “Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally, whereas his critics take him literally but not seriously.” She predicted a Trump victory that November, claiming he would win our home state of Pennsylvania.
"Zito certainly would not have missed Trump’s Butler appearance on July 13, 2024. She attended with the intention of doing a scheduled interview after his speech. She experienced much more than an interview. She saw everything, heard everything, and then repeatedly heard from Donald Trump over the next 24 hours in an intimate way no one else did. What she experienced was so remarkable that she has written a book titled, Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.
"The book is riveting. This review cannot do it justice. I’ll underscore some highlights, but I strongly advise getting the book for yourself and for friends." . . . More...
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