A newly released video from James Copenhaver, one of the victims critically wounded during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, has contradicted the testimony from acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe.
During his Tuesday testimony before the Senate, the acting Secret Service director displayed photos of his agents reenacting what Secret Service counter-snipers saw during the assassination attempt. Those photos depict agents lying in a prone position to portray the shooter, but the new video of the incident clearly shows the shooter walking upright across the roof of the building — suggesting that the team who reported seeing the shooter crawling were not telling the truth.
The public is realizing the Secret Service is another once respected institution that cannot be trusted
Today's testimony by acting director Rowe did nothing to ease fear that btw the USSS and FBI, Americans will never get the truth about what happened before and on July 13
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 30, 2024
Copenhaver, the 74-year-old Trump supporter who was shot twice during the assassination attempt, was filming a video on his cellphone in the stands behind Trump a few minutes before the shooting. That video, taken at 6:08 p.m. and first obtained by Fox News, shows a person appear on the roof where the shots were later fired from and walking across the roof. The person, presumably the shooter, can be seen walking on the roof in the video from the 1:00 second mark to the 2:50 mark. The attempted assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, began shooting three minutes later at roughly 6:11 p.m.
Clips of the footage have gone viral on social media, with many people questioning how the Secret Service was not aware of the shooter considering the fact that he was clearly walking upright in full view of the crowd.
BREAKING: Video filmed by a Trump PA rally victim shows a person running on top of the roof where Thomas Crooks shot from just moments before Trump was shot in the face.
Holy sh*t.
The video was obtained by Fox News and filmed by James Copenhaver, who was shot twice.
The… pic.twitter.com/2HGOeBsMvi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 31, 2024
According to Joseph Feldman, the lawyer representing Copenhaver, his client stopped filming the video as soon as the crowd turned to look at the chart displayed on Trump’s projector screen.
Copenhaver was shot twice during the assassination attempt, with one bullet striking him in the arm and another in his abdomen.
“He had almost seen or heard something whiz past him, which we’re assuming was a bullet. He felt it on his arm, and he looked down at his arm… and felt pain initially, but he hadn’t even realized he had been shot a second time at that point. It could have been shock,” Feldman said.
