An ardent Donald Trump supporter who witnessed the assassination attempt this past Saturday in Pennsylvania responded by getting in her car and making the 500 mile trip west to Milwaukee to be at the Republican National Convention.
Renee White stood out, standing behind the GOP nominee, clad in a Tiffany blue Trump t-shirt and baseball cap. White told NBC Miami this week that she’d driven to Butler for the rally from her home in North Carolina just to see Trump.
‘I love Trump,’ White told the station through tears, wearing the same clothes that she was wearing on Saturday as Trump grabbed his ear and ducked from the gunfire.
‘I think I was in shock and just very tired and was just like: “What the heck?,” White said.
Trump was shot on July 13 by crazed gunman Thomas Crooks during a speech in rural Pennsylvania
Renee White of North Carolina can be seen just behind Donald Trump as the shots rang out on July 13
In her interview, White said that she is merely praying for unity in the wake of the shooting of Trump
When asked what she hoped the long term outcome of the shooting would be, White had an answer.
‘Unity and I’m hoping that the shot that was heard round the world, you know like when John F. Kennedy was shot, like when 9/11 happened, I’m hoping that it will bring that unity,’ White said through tears.
The Trump booster said that she didn’t pack many clothes with her for her trip and was forced to shower at a gas station. She’s remains hopeful of getting into the Fiserv Forum this week in order to experience the RNC.
White into more detail about her experience in a separate interview with WBAY in Wisconsin.
‘I’m looking at the jumbotron and all of sudden I hear the first shot, and like I immediately, and I told everybody I don’t know whether I saw it or it’s just I followed the sound I don’t know, but it came from there and I immediately went to Trump,’ she said.
‘I’m sitting there, and people are dropping off this side, and people are dropping off that side and I’m like this is crazy, they’re trying to get between the seats and benches and I’m just standing there and I’m looking around, and I’m like what the heck is going on. I’m like this is nuts. It’s like an out-of-body experience.’
In that interview, White said that she is planning to continue wearing her noticeable Trump attire until election day in November.
A passionate fan of the Republican nominee, White said she’s been to 32 rallies since 2016.
White repeated her call for unity in that interview too, saying that she would feel just as bad if an attempt had been made on President Joe Biden’s life.
‘I think when moments like that happen, I think it brings unity. I’m hoping and praying it doesn’t bring division. I would have felt the same way if something were to happen to Biden like that, I would have felt the same way, it’s not that it was Donald Trump versus Joe Biden it was the fact that somebody shot at somebody and it didn’t need to happen, right?’