New York Times photographer Doug Mills stunned Americans with the iconic image he captured of a bullet whizzing past former President Trump after grazing his ear at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend.The moment remains a focal point as the Republican National Convention kicks off Monday, where Mills sat down with Fox News to share his firsthand account of the shocking ordeal. « I just happened to be down, shooting with a wide angle lens just below the president when he was speaking. There was a huge flag waving right above his head, and I just happened to be taking pictures at the same time, » he told « America’s Newsroom » in Milwaukee.RALLYGOERS DOUBLE DOWN ON TRUMP SUPPORT AFTER WITNESSING HARROWING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: ‘WE FIGHT HARDER’ »Then, when I heard the pops, I guess I kept hitting on the shutter, and then I saw him reach for his [ear]. He grimaced and grabbed his hand and looked. It was blood, and then he went down, and I thought, ‘Dear God, he’s been shot,' » he continued.Mills, like many others present, failed to initially realize the sounds were gunshots. He recalled watching as Secret Service swarmed the former president in a few « split seconds, » obstructing his view of Trump. »All I could see was them, and [they’re] holding their guns and guns are out everywhere and everybody’s yelling, ‘Get down, get down, get down! Active shooter, active shooter!’ » he recalled. »I probably did not do the smartest thing by running right at it, but that’s what [photojournalists do.]. »SPLIT-SECOND TURN COULD HAVE SAVED TRUMP’S LIFE, EXPERTS SAYS: ‘GOD MUST HAVE BEEN WATCHING DOWN ON’ HIMMills said the moment he discovered he had captured an image of the bullet whizzing past Trump was a « surprise » to him.It happened after he was ushered into a tent and began sending photos of the former president’s now widely-circulating defiant fist pump to an editor. »I was like, ‘Oh, hell. I remember taking pictures of him when this happened. Let me go back and look.’ I started looking at it. I started sending them right away, and I called one of the editors and said, ‘Please look at these really closely. This might have been near the moment where he was shot,’ » he said. « She called me back like five minutes later and said, ‘You won’t believe this.’ She goes, ‘We actually see a bullet flying behind his head, and I was like, ’Oh my gosh.' »Mills said he captured the rally images with a Sony a1 camera.
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