Doug Mills, the veteran New York Times photojournalist who took the now-iconic image of a bullet whizzing past Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, said the former president was “just so angry” as he pumped his fist.
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“The next thing you know, it was like the blood just drained from his face… he was blue and you could see blood on the side of his face,” Mills told The New York Times.
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“I went over to the side of the stage where Secret Service agents were taking him away. There was a lot of pushing, shoving, screaming. I just ignored it all and tried to capture a historic moment. That’s my job, that’s what we do … all the cameramen that were in the pool that day,” Mills added.
Who is NYT photographer Doug Mills?
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(1.) Doug Mills was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 and has worked for The New York Times since 2002. He has covered every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan.
(2) Before joining The New York Times, he was chief photographer for 15 years with The Associated Press in Washington. Before joining AP, he worked for United Press International for four years.
(3.) Mills has won two Pulitzer Prizes (both for the Associated Press), first in 1993 for his team’s coverage of the Bill Clinton/Al Gore campaign and later for his team’s investigative reporting of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair.
(4) In 2020 and 2023, he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Reporting from the White House Correspondents’ Association. He has also received numerous awards from the White House Press Photographers’ Association.
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(5.) Mills has covered 16 Olympic Games, the Super Bowl, the World Series and other events and attended North Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two daughters.
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