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 this, turn to my right, and was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which I’m lucky I didn’t do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard, on my right ear.
“I said to myself, ‘Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet,’ and moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down. My hand was covered with blood. Just absolutely blood all over the place.
I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack, and in one movement proceeded to drop to the ground ...
There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way I felt very safe, because I had God on my side. I felt that. I felt that.
“The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would be here tonight. We would not be together.” Elsewhere in his interview with Watters , which was taped before Biden exited the U.
S. presidential race, Trump said that there should be an investigation into whether the White House has covered up issues surrounding the Democrat’s leader’s health. “I think somebody has to look at it,” Trump said.
“Look, you had people that lied to the American public. And I tell you what, you ought to take a look at his doctors, because his doctors keep giving him this wonderful report.” Trump acknowledged he isn’t a doctor, but asserted that Biden has shown in numerous instances, including during his disastrous debate performance last month, that he’s on the decline.
“He was unable to get up the children stairs going into Air Force One,” Trump swiped. “His doctor says — I know all about his doctor, by the way — his doctor says he’s in good health. He’s not in good health.
I don’t think he’s in good health.” Trump said that Biden “should never have been there in the first place.” “He should have stayed in his basement,” he continued.
After Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday, Trump slammed his opponent in an interview with NBC News . “There has never been a president who has done such damage to our country, from energy independence to letting in millions and millions of illegal immigrants,” Trump told the outlet. In an interview with CNN just minutes after Biden announced he was withdrawing from the presidential race, Trump called him “the worst president in the history of our country.
” “He goes down as the single worst president by far in the history of our country,” he said. In a Truth Social post , Trump vowed his campaign would continue to hammer the Biden administration’s record, and that “we will remedy the damage he has done very quickly.” But prior to Biden’s departure, Trump criticized Democrats for trying to get the 81-year-old career politician to abandon his bid for re-election.
“They keep saying, ’(I’m) a threat to democracy...
’ Last week I took a bullet for democracy,” Trump said during a rally on Saturday . With Trump now likely facing Kamala Harris, various political insiders have told PEOPLE that the Republican nominee is worried about the Democrat Party’s potential chosen candidate. “He says he can topple Kamala Harris as easily as he could topple Biden, but down deep he is scared of her youth,” a source in Florida told the outlet.
“Of course she may not be the candidate, but if she is, he is also aware of her political and legal brilliance and deep understanding of the issues facing the American people.” “He really wanted to run against Biden as he saw it an easy glide to win in November. He will continue with that same attitude, but knows things are different now,” another insider added, “Trump is worried and has been worried and his allies have been worried, but Trump knows how to fake confidence,” a third person close to the Republican Party said.
Meanwhile, Harris said she promised to “ do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party” ahead of next month’s Democratic convention. “I am honoured to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination,” Harris said in a statement. “We have 107 days until Election Day.
Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.” In the wake of the attempt on Trump’s life, Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service, resigned from her post.
“I take full responsibility for the security lapse,” she said in an email to staff obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday. “In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director.” mdaniell@postmedia.
com.
