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Today’s cover: Grateful, defiant Trump recounts surviving ‘surreal’ assassination attempt at rally: ‘I’m supposed to be dead’ https://t.co/mpGueO3E7G pic.twitter.com/gz0lV7tlY8
— New York Post (@nypost) July 15, 2024
In an interview with the New York Post, Trump recounts the terrifying moments just minutes into his speech, saying he shouldn’t be alive.
“I should not be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” he said in the interview.
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Trump explained how he narrowly escaped, turning his head to read a chart about illegal immigrants at the start of his speech. According to him, that’s why the bullet missed.
In fact, the bullet only grazed his ear. He claimed that he should have died then, but that either by luck or divine intervention he was still alive: “By luck or by God, a lot of people say it’s by God, I’m still here.”
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