Former President Donald Trump picked up right where he left off in his return trip to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday for a campaign rally. The return to Butler was much anticipated and marked the first time Trump had visited since the July 13 assassination attempt. indicated as many as 60,000 supporters of the president had flooded the town — which has a population of roughly 13,500 people — to join the rally.
began the rally in the usual Trump fashion with a witty one-liner referencing a well-known graph. For those unfamiliar, at the time of the July 13 shooting, Trump had just slightly moved his head to look at a graph showing illegal immigration statistics when one of the would-be assassin’s bullets whizzed by his head, striking Trump through the ear. on X showed that had Trump not moved his head to look at the graph, the bullet may have hit the center of his head, likely killing the Republican nominee.
NEW: New visualization shows just how close Donald Trump was from losing his life during the Pennsylvania rally. Trump says he turned his head at the last moment to look at the illegal immigration statistics that were on the big screen. “That chart that I was going over saved.
.. — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) On Saturday, Trump chose to pick up exactly where he had left off on July 13, bringing the graph back to do so, before delivering a clever line.
Breaking — President Trump returns to Butler, PA. Begins rally where he left off before he was shot, “So, as I.