Whistleblowers tell that most of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel to Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri.
President Trump spent a the first part of his keynote acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention’s final night by acknowledging how lucky he was to survive an assassination attempt last weekend during a rally in Pennsylvania.
“So many people have asked me what happened, and therefore, I’ll tell you what happened,” Trump said Thursday night in Milwaukee. “And you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s too painful to tell.”
Trump recounted the events from Butler, Pennsylvania last Saturday when a gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire. Crooks’ shot pierced the former president’s upper right ear while he was turning to look at one of his immigration charts displayed on a screen at the event.
“In order to see the chart, I started to turn to my right, and was ready to begin a further turn, which I’m lucky I didn’t, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me, really hard, on my right ear,” Trump said. “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, and my hand was covered with blood, just 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,” Trump continued. “The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at the very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be with you tonight.”
“But that isn’t the reason they didn’t move—the reason is that they knew I was in serious trouble, they saw all of the blood, and thought I was dead, and they just didn’t want to leave me, and you can see that love written all over their faces,” he said.
“I am not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump said, before the crowd at Fiserv Forum chanted, “Yes you are.”
“I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God,” Trump said. “In watching the reports over the last few days, many people say it was a providential moment.”
“The crowd was confused because they thought I was dead,” Trump said. “And there was great great sorrow. I could see that on their faces as I looked up. They didn’t know I was looking out they thought it was over. When I could see it I wanted to do something to let them know I was okay. I raised my right arm looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting and started shouting, ‘fight, fight, fight.'”
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