Former President Donald Trump said a hospital doctor who examined him after Saturday’s assassination attempt called it a “miracle” that he survived, with Trump describing the experience as “surreal,” adding: “I was supposed to be dead.”
“The doctors at the hospital said they’d never seen anything like this, it was a miracle,” Trump said. New York Postwhich talked The letter was addressed to President Trump on the Sunday following the assassination attempt and the day before the Republican National Convention began.
“I shouldn’t have been here, I should have been dead. I should have been dead,” Trump stressed, explaining that if he hadn’t turned his head slightly at the last moment to look at a graph of numbers on illegal immigration, the bullet would have gone through his head instead of hitting his ear. In any case, he was startled by the bullet as he felt his ear, leaned over and realized something was terribly wrong. After the Secret Service intervened, Trump rose to his feet, blood dripping from his face, looked at the crowd, raised his fist and yelled, “Fight!” The moment became perhaps one of the most iconic moments and photographs in modern American history.
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“Many people are saying this is the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen,” Trump said. post“They were right, I’m not dead. Usually you have to die to get an iconic photo.”
“I just wanted to keep talking and I got shot,” he added, praising the Secret Service for “doing a fantastic job” in responding and killing the gunman “with one shot between the eyes.”
“He was amazed at how agents came flying at him like ‘linebackers’ as soon as the shooting began, and he unbuttoned his long-sleeved white shirt to reveal a large bruise on his right arm.” post report.
Three other people were shot at the rally, one of them fatally. post President Trump said he was actually considering attending the funeral of Cory Comperatore, who died while trying to shield his family from a gunshot wound.
“They will not tell you how quickly he threw me and my mother to the ground. They will not tell you how he shielded me from the bullets that were coming at us,” his daughter wrote. “He loved his family. He loved us so much that he would have taken an actual bullet for us.”
Trump told his staff he also wanted phone numbers for the families of the deceased.
“A lot of people have said it’s either luck or God that I’m still here,” he said, having already said in a Truth Social post that it’s “thanks to God” that he survived.
Trump was already in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the party convention, and after considering postponing his trip, he concluded that he “cannot allow a ‘shooter’ or potential assassin to force schedule or other changes.”
Trump also changed his convention speech. Washington Examiner “It will be a very different speech” because of the events of the weekend, he said.
“The speech I was supposed to give on Thursday was going to be incredible. If this hadn’t happened, it would have been one of the most amazing speeches ever,” he said later. to add“This is an opportunity to bring the whole country, and even the whole world, together. The speech will be completely different from what it was two days ago.”
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