Lucky donald trump has admitted he is “supposed to be dead” in his first interview since surviving a botched assassination attempt.
RadarOnline.com former president can reveal: shot in the ear by a crazy math geek Thomas Crooks during his campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, he talked about dodging death by inches as he flew to Milwaukee on Sunday to attend this week's Republican National Convention.
He told reporters: “I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be dead.”
On Saturday, Trump, 78, became the first candidate for the presidency targeted in an assassination attempt from President Ronald Reagan in March 1981, with a photo capturing a bullet passing inches past his head, a nanosecond after he made a U-turn that saved him from being hit in the brain.
Trump said: “The doctor at the hospital said he had never seen anything like this, he called it a miracle.”
Crooks was “neutralized” by Secret Service agents after him fired nine bullets toward Trump's head: Killed one rally attendee and seriously injured two others.
a bullet grazing the former president's right ear, with Trump saying he heard the bullets “whistling” in his side and his flesh tearing.
Trump praised his Secret Service protection, saying, “They took him out with a shot right between the eyes. They did a fantastic job.”
He added: “It's surreal for all of us.”
Trump also spoke of the alreadyiconic photo of him rising from behind his podium with a defiant fist in the air immediately after Saturday's carnage.
The 2024 presidential candidate, who will be officially named the Republican Party's nominee in Milwaukee this week, added: “A lot of people say it's the most iconic photo they've ever seen.
“They're right and I didn't die. Usually, you have to die to have an iconic image.
“By luck or by God, a lot of people say it's by God, I'm still here.”
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Former First Lady Melania Trump She has since also broken her silence on Saturday's failed assassination attempt on her ex-presidential husband.
In a statement Sunday morning, he proclaimed that “the winds of change have arrived” and thanked the Secret Service for his protection.
She added: “When I saw the violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized that my life and Barron's were on the brink of a devastating change.
“This morning, rise above the hatred, vitriol and simple ideas that ignite violence.
“The winds of change have arrived.”
president Joe Biden addressed the nation from the White House on Sunday night to call for unity after Saturday's stunning developments.
The 81-year-old president, who faces growing calls to withdraw from the 2024 race for the White House amid concerns about his age and mental acuity, he insisted that politics “should never be a literal battlefield.”
He said: “Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy. It's part of human nature. But politics should never be a literal battlefield, or God forbid, a killing field.”
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