Jim Hulings is chairman of the Butler County Republican Party. He had only recently been selected to volunteer, and on Saturday he found himself in the VIP area of a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as gunfire rang out during the nation’s latest presidential assassination.
“The thought of President Trump coming here, coming to Butler, and being killed in front of us, that was the worst moment of my life. I couldn’t believe it.
Then Trump showed up, bloody but victorious, and told us to fight, and that was probably the greatest moment ever! Witnessing this is the best feeling Thank god they didn’t kill our presidentHulins said.
“we didn’t runthey had to tell us to leave,” he added.
“When they opened (security) at 1:00 p.m., they let the general admissions staff go. We had to go through the checkpoint, we had to go through the magnetometer, we had to hand over things that weren’t on the list. Umbrellas, chairs. General admission . . .. I don’t think there is any safety there … we pass one at a time and they go down 30-40 at a time … I’m thinking … this seems like it to me Not very safe because they didn’t check those people.
Hulins said he found the event’s security “weird” because it carefully searched and screened some people in the crowd but let others in without any security.
Hulins said he saw no normal sniper units throughout the rally.
“However, the safety of the event is Letting people into the event without any checks, I know this is a major security flaw. Someone could easily enter an event with a gun.
What Hulins described is that Trump rallies usually have two entrances: General admission and expedited entrygenerally applies to elected officials and others.
Both groups were subject to the same security checks, including metal detectors and pat-downs to ensure nothing was brought that could pose a danger to the president or attendees. But Hulins explained that Penn State Butler’s security situation let…in At least Hundreds of General Enrollment Participants No filtering.
“They found a wallet in my pocket that I didn’t even know I had,” Hulins said. But then I saw people in the general admission line being admitted without any screening. We were at the front of the Express Entry queue and by the time we got through security there were hundreds of people coming down the General Admission lane. They just let them all in.
The U.S. Secret Service has been criticized by the public for its handling of security at Butler. Critics accuse the Secret Service of allowing a situation to develop where a would-be gunman was capable of shooting the president. But what Hulins and others told Gateway Pundit is that the security failure was not just a systemic failure of the Secret Service.
Watch TGP’s interview with JIM Hulings below:
These statements from Hulings dovetail with Lori Levi’s observation of separate but similar security lapses that allowed Trump in Butler to gain impermissible “sights” unlike any other Trump rally. This “line of sight” provides the sniper with a complete firing line. Levy told Gateway Pundit that at past rallies, barriers were always placed within sight to prevent the ability of long-range assassins to shoot.
Hulins said he was interviewed almost non-stop about Trump’s assassination and received requests from the media after the incident before he even got into his car.
“As I left the rally and walked to my car, I had already received calls from the New York Times, the New York Post and even People magazine. I then received multiple calls from CNN, but I was very clear I literally told them that I would never talk to them because they were fake news, but I’m glad they kept calling so I could keep telling them this.
Hulins claimed he heard three gunshots, while other sources claim eight to 10 gunshots were heard.
