A content creator specializing in weapons has reproduced the conditions of that day to show a simulation of the attack on the young American.
Butler, Pennsylvania, was the site of the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump .
The situation arose when He was at a rally with his supporters as part of his campaign to return to the White House for a second term.
But on the afternoon of this Saturday, July 13, a 20-year-old man named Thomas Matthew Crooks He positioned himself on the roof of a nearby building and shot Trump with a semi-automatic rifle. AR-15 .
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The distance between the platform where the presidential candidate stood and the position where Crooks stood was between 120 and 150 meters, approximately .
The episode left two people injured and two dead, including the attacker who was killed by secret service agents.
For its part, The former president was injured in the right ear. more precisely at the top.
“If Donald Trump had turned to the audience instead of the screen to his right, “He would most likely be dead,” says Jorge Rojas, director of Armapedia. a YouTube channel with nearly 4 million subscribers.
Rojas is an analyst and firearms specialist. After what happened in Butler, He wanted to recreate with a mannequin – human-sized and human-shaped – what the assassination attempt looked like. that Crooks did.

The video that recreates the assassination attempt on Donald Trump
for the video had the support of Ángel Banderas, firearms expert and instructor at Valhalla Security Solutions a company specialized in this field based in Guadalajara, Mexico.
“We first tried to reproduce the weapons he used. We don’t know the exact model, but this is the closest we can get, an AR-15 type. Rojas said in the video.
Also They used .223 Remington and 5.56 NATO cartridges about which he said that “the ballistics of the two are very similar, almost the same, there are only some minimal differences.”
Furthermore, They tried two different guns .
The distance between where they placed the mannequin and where they stood was 135 meters and the shots were fired in a prone position (face down) just like Crooks.
According to them, Wind conditions during the test were “very similar to what existed” that afternoon in Butler, “which is to say a light wind.” ” said Rojas.
“Take all these factors into account, This is the closest thing to it. “.
Under these conditions, both They had to pull the trigger several times before hitting the dummy .
They succeeded in two attempts: One shot hit near the side of the doll’s right eye and another hit the lower right side of the neck. .
The recorded test video over 159,000 views in one day since it was posted on YouTube on Sunday, July 21.
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