“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Donald Trump said one day after an attempted assassination on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania,.
I’m supposed to be dead.”
Detailing the experience of being shot in the ear while on stage at a battleground campaign stop on Saturday, the bandaged former president and presumptive GOP nominee sat down with reporters from the Washington Examiner and the New York Post on his way to the GOP convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
No pictures were allowed of Trump, but
The FBI have said that Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter at the rally was killed and two people critically injured when the shooter opened fire on the rally. The now dead shooter has been revealed to be 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, PA. After getting on an overlooking building near the rally, which there is still an investigation going on how the Secret Service and local police even allowed Cook to get some close
“I wanted to keep speaking — I wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot,” Trump told the Washington Examiner in the same dual sit-down on plane from the Keystone State to Wisconsin. “It’s a very surreal experience, and you never know what you’re going to do until a thing like that happens.”
In that context, Trump told the Examiner and the Rupert Murdoch-own Post that the shooting probably hasn’t truly mellowed him. However, It has also forced him and his inner circle to shift tactics. “Had this not happened, we had a speech that was pretty well set that was extremely tough,” Trump said from his customized 737 to the convention “Now, we have a speech that is more unifying.”
“I want to try to unite our country, but I don’t know if that’s possible.Trump told the tabloid Post. “People are very divided.”
That sentiment is pretty much in line with statements Trump out out earlier though a bit more pessimistic :However, at the actual shooting Trump was much more adamant. Trump yelled out “Fight, Fight Fight” with one arm in the air as the agents tried to hustle the candidate off stage and into a waiting car.
Earlier Sunday, after freezing his campaign due to shooting of Trump, Joe Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office. Besieged by members of his own party iver his debate debace with decrying the shooting of Trump, mourning the losses and declared, “there is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any kind of violence, ever, period.”
The Republican National Convention runs from July 15 – July 18, with Trump officially expected the delegates on Thursday evening. Thought the Democrats are playing nice right now, their convention is set to run in Chicago from August 19 – 22, 2024.
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