A Leader Throughout It All

After the assassination attempt, and everything he went through in the hours thereafter, he lifted the morale and spirits of everyone around him at the hospital, and on the plane ride back to New Jersey. He wanted to make sure his team was ok—a LEADER throughout it all. Truly… https://t.co/kxxJETbxPl

— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) July 15, 2024

… remarkable, there is literally nobody like him…and there never will be again. Let’s get him back in the White House America!!!

NY Post

“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” said Trump, who was sporting a large, loose white bandage that covered his right ear. His staff insisted that no photos be taken.

“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Trump said. “I’m supposed to be dead.”

He said he would be if he had not turned his head slightly to the right to read a chart on illegal immigrants. At that instant, what would have been a kill shot tore off a small piece of his ear and splattered blood on his forehead and cheek.

Trump said that as Secret Service agents led him off stage, he still wanted to continue speaking to supporters, but the agents told him it wasn’t safe and they had to get him to a hospital.

He marveled at how the agents came flying in like “linebackers” as soon as the shooting started, and he unbuttoned his long-sleeve white shirt to show a large bruise on his right forearm.

He also cleared up a mystery about his shoes. On the video of the shooting and aftermath, as the burly agents tried to rush him off the stage for safety, he can be heard saying, “Wait, I want to get my shoes.”

As he explained in the interview, “The agents hit me so hard that my shoes fell off, and my shoes are tight,” he said with a smile.

He commended the Secret Service personnel for their heroic actions and praised them for gunning down the shooter, who was perched on a roof about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking.

“They took him out with one shot right between the eyes,” the former president said as he pointed to the bridge of his nose.

“They did a fantastic job,” he added. “It’s surreal for all of us.”

Trump also addressed the incredible photo of him raising his fist and saying “Fight” three times as the agents tried to get him off stage and into an armored SUV.

“A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen,” Trump said. “They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture.”

He added, “I just wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot.”

The doctor at the local hospital, which has a trauma center, told him he’s never seen anyone survive getting hit by an AR-15, Trump recalled.

Asked if he had given any thought to attending the funeral of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who died shielding his family from the killer’s gunfire, Trump said yes.

Then, turning to aides standing behind him, he said, “Get the numbers, I want to go to the hospital and call all the families.”

Trump also praised the crowd at the rally, which he put at 55,000 people, for remaining calm.

“A lot of places, especially soccer games, you hear a single shot, everybody runs. Here there were many shots and they stayed.”

He added: “I love them. They are such great people.”