Former President Donald Trump held a news conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday (Aug. 15) where he answered questions from reporters. One reporter asked why Trump believes God saved his life from an assassination attempt.
On July 13, Trump was holding a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a shooter armed with an AR-style rifle climbed onto the rooftop of a nearby building, approximately 150 yards from Trump, and shot at the former president several times.
One of the shots intended for Trump’s head hit him in the ear, as Trump turned his head right as the shooter fired.
Another bullet fatally struck a rally-goer, Corey Comperatore, who was a firefighter and beloved husband and father. Two other bullets critically injured 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver before the shooter was fatally neutralized by a Secret Service sniper.
Following the assassination attempt, Trump has praised God for saving his life, repeatedly saying that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.”
One reporter asked Trump on Thursday if he has “put much thought into why God saved your life? As in, for what purpose has he been shielding and protecting you?”
Trump replied, “Something happened, because that was a miracle. I never looked that way. The audience was massive, and it was in front of me.”
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The former president explained that he was looking at a graph, something he rarely uses.
“It was one that I use less than 20% of the time. It’s always at the end of the speech, not at the beginning of the speech, and it’s always on the left side, not the right side,” he said.