Video footage from a private fundraising event held this week during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee shows Donald Trump talking publicly for the first time about the assassination attempt against him Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally. It’s unclear exactly where the event took place and at what time.
Although the video begins mid-remark, it sounds as if he was talking about how his campaign was going well, but then came the shocking moment that almost cost him his life.
[Inaudible]… this has been our best campaign—AND THEN I GOT SHOT.
He then asked the question that’s been on everyone’s minds since Saturday’s shooting:
How does that happen?
How indeed. At this point, the crowd starts chanting, “Fight! Fight!” the word he appeared to yell repeatedly after the bullet narrowly missed his head.
He believes God had a hand in his survival.
You say, how did that happen? But I got lucky—God was with me, I tell you that.
That’s why they call it a close call. That was an amazing, horrible thing, amazing thing, and in many ways it changes your attitude, your viewpoint on life.
And I think honestly, I think you appreciate God even more. I really do. Because something happened, something happened… Not that it was pleasant. It wasn’t like it was a complete miss, but… It was pretty terrible that that can happen.
It was the shot heard ’round the world
Here is another angle of his remarks; this clip is slightly longer and shows him saying at the end, “It was pretty terrible that that can happen. And it happens too often. We have things going on, just crime in our country is so bad, things are going on in our country—we’re going to fix it.”
The former president will make his acceptance speech Thursday night, and it will be interesting to see if discusses the horrible shooting further. It’s amazing that he’s able to joke about it when he came so close to death.
Many people have remarked that it was nothing short of a miracle that he survived the attempt. Judging by these remarks, Trump thinks so too.
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