While Trump supporters and international media spread the dramatic images of the bleeding former US president, Donald Trump himself fuels the miracle of Butler, where he narrowly escaped death during a campaign speech on Saturday. Only God could have been involved, or good luck, Trump said in his first interview after the attack.
The 78-year-old has described the gun attack on him as a “very surreal experience.” “I shouldn’t be here, I should be dead,” Trump said in an interview published Monday by the New York Post, conducted during his flight to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was attending a rally this week at the Republican Party convention to formally nominate him as a candidate for the November presidential election.
“Many say it is thanks to God that I am still here”
If he hadn’t turned his head slightly to the right during his speech to read out the immigration statistics, the bullet would have killed him, the Republican said. That he only got a graze in his right ear was due to “luck or God.” “A lot of people say it’s thanks to God that I’m still here,” Trump said.
Incumbent Joe Biden’s challenger also said he wanted to continue speaking after the attack. But Secret Service officials told him he wasn’t safe and that they had to take him to the hospital. There, the doctor told him he’d never seen anything like it, “he called it a miracle.” The doctor said he’d never seen anyone survive a gunshot wound from an AR-15 rifle.
Praise for secret service: ‘Shot right between the eyes’
The former president praised Secret Service agents for quickly shooting the suspected assailant. “They took him out with a shot right between the eyes,” he said. “They did a fantastic job.”
Now Trump wants to revise his speech to the party convention. Originally he prepared “an extremely tough speech” about the “terrible administration” of President Biden. But he threw this text away and now wants to give a speech “that unites our country”. However, he does not know if this is possible. People are “very divided”.
Source: Krone
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