Several Trump supporters claim that they suffered a mysterious eye injury while sitting behind the former president during his rally in Arizona and were forced to seek medical help due to the unbearable pain.
Mayra Rodriguez was one of Trump’s most loyal supporters, sitting in a restricted section to the right of the stage behind the former president at Tucson’s Ronstadt Music Hall on Sept. 12. KVOA Report.
Rodriguez claimed her eyes began to burn as she left the venue following the roughly 80-minute speech.
“As soon as we got out there and walked out, my eyes started burning,” Rodriguez, a former Planned Parenthood director/whistleblower and outspoken figure in the Republican Party, told the outlet.
Thinking it was just her allergies, Rodriguez got into her car and began the 90-minute trip to her home in Phoenix.
However, while returning home the irritation in her eyes got so severe that she ended up in the emergency room.
The woman, a former Hillary Clinton voter turned Trump supporter, said that when she arrived at the hospital, the “PA (physician assistant) triage nurse” started asking her if she had been “sprayed with anything.”
“'Are you sure you weren't sprayed with something? Your symptoms sound like you were sprayed with something,'” he said the ER staff asked.
The next day his symptoms got worse.
“When I try to open my eyes I can't see anything. All I see is a bright light,” Rodriguez said. “It hurts to open my eyes, it hurts a lot. I have a cold cloth that I'm constantly putting on and taking off. It's horrible.”
Medical personnel were unable to determine the actual cause of his eye injuries.
However, Rodriguez pointed out News 12 The doctor said that he did not suffer any injuries due to the lighting of the venue.
She was “almost blind” when spoken to Friday after the rally, KVOA reported.
Fortunately, his vision improved on Tuesday, according to KVOA.
A brother and sister, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they sat next to Rodriguez and made similar claims.
“It just kept getting worse,” the sister told KVOA about the symptoms she experienced after leaving Trump's rally.
“My eyes were watering a lot, my nose started running, then I felt my face turn red and my neck felt like it was on fire and it just kept getting worse from there.”
As for her brother, he described a similar increase in pain, which he described as “unbearable.”
“It was all focused on my eyes, my eyes were red as hell, you know, it's unbearable. I couldn't handle it,” he told the outlet.
The Secret Service said it was not aware of the incident involving rally attendees but claimed there was no threat to Trump at the Arizona rally, where more than 2,000 of his supporters turned out to hear him speak again about the November election, the organization told the outlet.
As for Rodriguez, he told News 12 he's curious as to why only members of a group seated to the right of the stage were affected.
He questioned, “Why only the group that includes Trump?”
The bizarre incident comes just days before the killing of an alleged gunman, who authorities say Attempt made to assassinate former President Trump Sunday afternoon at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Suspicious, Ryan Wesley RouthAuthorities say he got within 300 to 500 yards of Trump near a chain-link fence along the golf course, armed with an AK-style assault rifle, but was spotted by a Secret Service agent, who opened fire on him.
