‘A Scary Moment in American History’: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Reports On Trump Rally Shooting

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer reacted to the news of former President Donald Trump being shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday by noting it’s “a scary moment in American history.”

The presumptive GOP nominee was speaking to supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania when shots rang out in the background. Trump then gripped his ear before falling to the ground as Secret Service surrounded him.

All three major networks covered the aftermath of event as it played out with cameras showing Trump being taken away to a black SUVs. The Secret Service later released a statement noting that the former president is safe and that the shooter had been killed.

Blitzer reacted to the news of Trump’s shooting during a discussion with former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe by noting it was a “really scary moment in American history.”

BLITZER: You know, it’s really, really a scary, scary moment in American history as we watch all of this unfold. And Andrew McCabe, is with us, former deputy director of the FBI. Andrew, I assume as a result of this incident. Security at all these presidential rallies, whether at the convention in Milwaukee this coming week or at the Democratic convention in Chicago in August, a few weeks down the road and all these other political rallies, security is going to be heightened dramatically out of an extensive abundance of caution as we watch what’s going on. But I’m anxious to get your thought.

MCCABE: No question about it. Security, which is already very high for any sort of event involving a president or a former president, they will elevate that bar even higher now. And a lot of how they think about securing the next round of rallies and gatherings will be informed by what they learn from this, from the investigation that will now take place about this attack. So let’s talk about that really quickly. Jonathan was absolutely right that the Secret Service will hold this crime scene, and then the FBI will come in and conduct that investigation. I can tell you, from my experience running the counterterrorism division, probably the entirety of the Pittsburgh field office is on their way back into the office right now to start that work, as well as the counterterrorism division, here at FBI headquarters. And they will start by coursing over that scene, with incredible detail, to retrieve every single piece of evidence they possibly can find, whether that’s fragments of projectiles or, blood spatter.

They’ll look for things that people may have left behind. They’ll try to recreate that entire, event forensically, which they will do with the assistance of the evidence response team from the so from the Pittsburgh office and then other assets they’ll send in from the region. This will be investigated, I’m sure, as a potential act of terrorism, anytime there is a, act of violence directed at a political figure and certainly, you know, former presidents is about as high on that list as you can get. That’s going to be treated as an act of, potential act of terrorism, act of domestic terrorism as it should be.

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