Oz Pearlman: Pres. Trump Came Down Right Next to Me, ‘We Were Face to Face’ ... ‘Has He Been Hit?’

EXCERPT:

PEARLMAN: “I don’t know why, but I thought the room was about to explode. One person next to me went down. They had not yet said, 'Drop,' I dropped.I dropped down, you can kind of see it in the video. I got on all fours and in some weird twist, I’m tilted the other way so I’m looking at the president’s feet. They pick him up, he starts to go down. In the movies, it always looks different. In real life, he literally just got bam. I mean, they brought him down. They are — they do their job. They’re not taking chances and he came down pretty hard. and he came down right next to me. So in an ultimate surreal moment, I’m here on the floor. I turn and me and the president are face to face. Like, I can’t quite explain the distance, but we’re looking at each other for approximately two seconds, staring at each other eye to eye. It’s just unbelievably surreal that this is happening. And my first thought is just truly like, 'Oh, no, I hope we’re not about to die.' Because I just still thought there’s about to be an explosion. Right around that moment, within those two seconds, if you can listen to the video, is when we heard the shots. So then I heard shots, and then I did not know at that point, because when I looked at the president, there was not an exchange, I did not know if he had been shot. I could not see the First Lady. And so the next thought in my mind was, has he been hit? Because I couldn’t really tell in his face what his his body language or what his reaction was.”