Donald Trump has given his first in-depth interview after miraculously surviving an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally Saturday, insisting ‘I’m supposed to be dead’.
Trump revealed how turning his head away from the crowd to look at a video screen may have saved his life at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally and how he wanted to keep talking after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks struck him in the right ear.
He said Sunday: ‘I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?’
Trump mentioned that he had swung slightly to the right to study an immigrant chart.
‘The most incredible thing was that I happened to not only turn but to turn at the exact right time and in just the right amount,’ he added, saying he survived ‘by luck or by God’.
‘If I only half-turn, it hits the back of the brain. The other way goes right through [my skull]. And because the sign was high, I’m looking up. The chances of my making a perfect turn are probably one tenth of one percent, so I’m not supposed to be here.’
‘I’m not supposed to be here; I’m supposed to be dead,’ Trump told the New York Post. ‘I’m supposed to be dead.’
‘Because the thing was an eighth of an inch away. That I would turn exactly at that second, where he [the gunman] wouldn’t stop the shot, is pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. I’m really not supposed to be here.’
At the last second, Trump turned his head and wound up with a bloodied ear. He gave his followers a clenched fist salute before being hurried off stage by his Secret Service detail.
The former president addressed the now-iconic moment where he raised his fist and mouthed ‘fight’ to the stunned audience.
‘A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen,’ Trump said. ‘They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually, you have to die to have an iconic picture.’
He said he wanted his fans to know he was alright ‘and that America goes on, we go forward, that we are strong.’
‘The energy coming from the people there in that moment, they just stood there; it’s hard to describe what that felt like, but I knew the world was looking. I knew that history would judge this, and I knew I had to let them know we are OK,’ Trump added.
It’s hard to believe that anyone could have gained access to that rooftop so easily. Why wasn’t the roof secured? Deterring anyone from attempting to reach that position in the first place.
How did the shooter manage to get a rifle past security and then get into the building, which had no security service personnel anywhere? It makes no sense.
This kind of thing was sure to happen eventually, what with all the outside gatherings. It is best to have rallies indoors, where you can handle security better and feel less exposed. Less commotion would result from fans succumbing to heat exhaustion, which is a major security distraction.
There are only two possible explanations for this: either the Secret Service was completely incompetent, or it was planned.
Unfortunately, this is obvious to anyone observing American politics from a distance. The Democratic Party’s animosity and discourse towards Donald Trump throughout the years have been absurd.
Because of all this animosity, America is falling apart, and they are all causing violence and instigating violence to maintain their hold on power.
Is Donald Trump advocating for America to be strong again, or is he inciting violence? One thing is for sure he can’t be bought and he can’t be bullied.
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