Donald Trump has revealed what President Joe Biden said to him after the Republican presidential nominee narrowly escaped death during an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania campaign rally earlier this month. “He said, ‘You’re lucky you turned to the right,’” Trump, 78, told Fox News host Jesse Watters in a new interview (per The New York Post ), adding that the pair had a ”nice conversation.” Trump also said that he refused calls for him to be wheeled out of the event on a stretcher.
“I said, ‘I’m telling you, I’m OK. I’m fine. I’m going to get up.
I want to get up. I’m not going to be taken out on a stretcher,’” he said. At the Republican convention last Thursday night, Trump, wearing a bandage over his injured right ear, described what happened when he was shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
“It was a warm, beautiful day in the early evening in Butler Township in the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Music was loudly playing, and the campaign was doing really well. I went to the stage, and the crowd was cheering wildly.
Everybody was happy. I began speaking very strongly, powerfully and happily, because I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border. We were very proud of it,” he said.
“Behind me and to the right was a large screen was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership. The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart, I started to, like thi.