Evangelist Franklin Graham is set to offer a prayer at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee on Thursday evening. On Wednesday, Graham spoke with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren about his hope for Donald Trump’s faith following a failed assassination attempt against the former president.
Graham, the 72-year-old son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and president and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, is a longtime supporter of Trump.
On Saturday (July 13), Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt while at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman took aim at him from a nearby roof, striking the upper part of his right ear.
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Trump was quickly rushed to safety by Secret Service officers, and the would-be assailant was shot dead. One rally attender, Corey D. Comperatore, was killed during the attack, and two other bystanders were injured.
“This is such an important issue,” Graham said in reference to his upcoming prayer at the RNC. “Last week, the president had a near death experience. You know, and near death experiences sometimes change people.”
“When I say change,” Graham continued, “we begin to look at our lives and kind of measure our lives and realize, you know, time may be short. And sometimes people change…their priorities and those types of things.”
“And I would just hope that the president every morning, or President Trump, when he gets up, would just kneel beside his bed and just say, ‘God, thank you for giving me another day,’” Graham added. “Because he came that close, Greta, to having his brains [blown out].”
Commenting on how he believes Trump’s faith has deepened over the years, Graham said, “He said that it was God and God alone that saved his life.”
“And I believe that. When you look at the pictures of how close that bullet came to his head—and I mean actually cutting his scalp and his ear,” Graham said. “It’s just God. It was a God thing.”
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When Van Susteren asked Graham if he was ready for his appearance on the stage at the RNC, Graham chuckled and said, “I hope.”
This evening I’m in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I’ve been asked to speak and to pray at the @GOPconvention tomorrow night before President @realDonaldTrump speaks. @Greta Van Susteren invited me to be a guest on her program and we spoke about Donald Trump’s near-death experience… pic.twitter.com/IpBRqzK837
— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) July 18, 2024
 in Milwaukee on Thursday evening. On Wednesday, Graham spoke with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren about his hope for Donald Trump’s faith following a failed assassination attempt against the former president. ){kind=link}