New Interview With Donald Trump Sheds Light On Assassination Attempt And Secret Service Failure

Daily Report July 23,2024

Newly broadcast interview reveals what President Biden said to Donald Trump moments after the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination at his Pennsylvania campaign rally.

“He said, ‘You’re lucky you turned to the right,’” Trump, 78, told Fox News host Jesse Watters of his phone call with the 81-year-old president.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire during a Trump rally in Butler last weekend.

Speaking in an interview, Trump also said he turned down orders to be stretchered offstage after the sniper bullet barely missed hitting him in his ear.

“They wanted to put me on a stretcher,” Trump said. “They had a stretcher, and they wanted to put me on a stretcher. And I said, ‘I’m not going on a stretcher.’”

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Trump said that the Secret Service agents who rushed to cover him moments after shots rang out believed he was struck in the abdomen.

“I just felt it was the ear,” the 45th president said of his refusal to be placed on a stretcher, but he acknowledged “there was a lot of blood” that may have alarmed the agents.

“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,’” Trump recalled of the moment.

On the wound, Trump said, “We’re getting down to the small bandages, but it was a nasty one.”

Trump also indicated during the interview that there should be a probe to see if the White House attempted to hide Biden’s dual physical and mental erosion.

“I think somebody has to look at it,” Trump argued. “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.”

“I’m not a doctor, but I saw [Biden] the other day,” the former president added. “He was unable to get up the children stairs going into Air Force One.”

The White House hopeful also revealed that he sat down with the embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after the assassination attempt.

“She came to see me, actually. She was very nice, I thought. But, you know, somebody should have made sure there was nobody on that roof, Trump said.

During the same segment, GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance said he was playing putt-putt with his kids and waiting for that call about becoming president ‘s number two when they found out.

“I told my kids, I said, ‘We gotta get out of here. The president’s been shot.’” And of course, we didn’t know if the president was OK or not at that point, and my son said, ‘Daddy, is it the president who’s your friend or the president you don’t like?’ And I said, ‘It’s the president who’s my friend.’ And he said, ‘OK, I’m sorry about that.’ And it was a very sweet moment,” Vance said.

“We were all just so grateful the president was OK,” Vance added, noting that it is a “testament to the movement how calmly” rally-goers reacted to the violence and chaos.