Meet Doug Mills - Man Who Captured the Iconic Shot of a Bullet Near Trump's Ear

New Delhi: A day after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Doug Mills, a seasoned photojournalist with The New York Times (NYT), revealed how he managed to capture the iconic image of a bullet narrowly missing the former president at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I got over to the side of the stage where they (Secret Service agents) were walking him off. There was a lot of pushing, a lot of jostling, a lot of yelling. I just tuned it all out and tried to capture the moments in history. That's what I do; that's what we do…all the photographers in the pool that day,” Mills told NYT.  

"The former president was  ‘just very mad’ while giving that fist pump. In the next moment, his face turned pale, and you could see blood on the side of his face", Mills apprised the portal further. 

All You Need to Know About NYT Photographer Doug Mills

• Born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, Doug Mills, has been a photographer for The New York Times since 2002 and has covered every US President since Ronald Reagan.
• Before joining The New York Times, Mills spent 15 years as chief photographer at The Associated Press in Washington, DC, following four years with United Press International.
• Mills is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, receiving the award in 1993 for his work on the Bill Clinton/Al Gore campaign and again for investigative coverage of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair.
• He was honored by the White House Correspondents' Association with the Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage in 2020 and 2023, and has received numerous awards from the White House News Photographers Association.
• In addition to covering 16 Olympics, the Super Bowl, and the World Series, Mills studied at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia, and resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two daughters.                                                                                                                     
   

Trump Assassination Bid

Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday that set off panic as a bloodied Trump was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried into his vehicle. Thomas Matthew Crooks, armed with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, fired at the former president during his speech in Butler, resulting in one audience member being killed and two others injured.  

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Trump said that when he looked up and saw that the crowd hadn't left, he felt he needed to offer assurance and project strength. “The energy coming from the people there in that moment, they just stood there. It's hard to describe what that felt like, but I knew the world was looking, I knew that history would judge this and I knew I had to let them know we are OK,” he said.