The SWAT team leader who fired on President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin at last year’s campaign rally in Butler has spoken for the first time about the moment he took the “ninth shot” that slowed the gunman.
Aaron Zaliponi, an Army combat veteran turned sniper, recalled thinking: “I just got you,” as he struck Thomas Matthew Crooks with a bullet, slowing his salvo of gunshots that struck the president and killed one person in the crowd on July 13 last year at the Pennsylvania rally.
