Former President Donald Trump said Sunday after an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania that he believes he narrowly avoided his own death. interview With the New York Post.
“I shouldn’t be here, I should be dead,” Trump told the Post on Sunday.
Trump spoke to the Post on his way to Milwaukee this week for the Republican National Convention; the former president is said to have a large white bandage on his right ear from a gunshot wound.
Trump recalled turning his head slightly to the right during the rally to read a chart about undocumented immigrants — a split-second movement he said allowed him to dodge a shot that would have killed him.
The suspected shooter was killed by the Secret Service shortly before their agents whisked Trump to safety.
Jason Miller, a top adviser to Trump’s campaign, said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” on Monday that he “feels very lucky” that Trump is alive.
“And as he said, it’s only by the grace of God that he’s still with us. It’s a miracle that President Trump turned his head that little bit at the right time to dodge a bullet,” Miller said. “President Trump’s message from here is very simple: We must unite America. We must unite the country.”
In an interview with The Post, Trump said he originally drafted an “extremely tough” RNC speech about the “corrupt, terrible” Biden administration, but “dropped” it after the assassination attempt.
The former president said he was instead working on a new speech because “I want to try to unite our country,” he said, adding “but I don’t know if that’s possible. People are so divided.”
When asked by “Today” host Savannah Guthrie if she expected a different tone from Trump going forward, Miller said Trump post He said on his social media site Truth Social on Sunday that we need to be “firm in our faith and submissive in the face of evil.”
“This is a point in our country’s history where we’re at a fork in the road,” Miller said. “There is so much political division”
“The division and unrest at the national level is simply not good for the country,” he said. “This can’t go on. We need to come together now.”