Patients and their loved ones in the ER waiting room saw Trump arrive at the hospital after the assassination attempt. They then gathered in prayer.
With temperatures in the 90s, an ambulance was making round trips between the July 13 Pennsylvania Trump rally and the Butler Memorial Hospital. That is according to Karen Foerster, 53, who was among those overcome by the heat.
She and her husband Rick Foerster, 56, attend most Trump rallies within a 100-mile radius from their Beaver County, Pennsylvania, home. This time they had front row seats.
They arrived at 9 a.m. and gates opened at 1 p.m., but just as the first speakers started, Ms. Foerster was feeling sick from the heat. Her husband had gone to get some drinks in the car. She recalled seeing a shade tree when she entered through the event gate, so she decided to seek shade there. On her way, she ran into her husband with the drinks. He immediately recognized she was sick. He called for help and soon, a golf cart came along and whisked her to the medical tent. Before long, she was in an ambulance on her way to the hospital.
Medics told her there was also a car show at the airport and the hospital was very busy with many heat-related calls from both events. When they arrived, she said the waiting room was crowded.
Ms. Foerster went into a room with a nurse and noticed the nurse was watching the Trump rally on her computer. The nurse took her for a test and on their way back, the husband came running up to them with the news.
“I ran down the hallway toward the bathroom and I went, ‘Karen! Karen! Trump was just shot in the head,” Mr. Foerster told The Epoch Times. He had been near another rally attendee who received a phone call from someone still at the rally who reported what had happened.
The nurse and Ms. Foerster were in disbelief. A woman they met in the waiting room fell against the wall and immediately started crying.
They worried about their friends still at the rally: Were they in danger? And what did they see?
“What a horrible, horrible thing to witness,” Ms. Foerster told The Epoch Times.
By Beth Brelje
