“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Donald Trump said one day after an attempted assassination on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania,.
I’m supposed to be dead.” Detailing the experience of being shot in the ear while on stage at a battleground campaign stop on Saturday, the bandaged former president and presumptive GOP nominee sat down with reporters from the Washington Examiner and the New York Post on his way to the GOP convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
No pictures were allowed of Trump, but The FBI have said that Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter at the rally was killed and two people critically injured when the shooter opened fire on the rally.
The now dead shooter has been revealed to be 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, PA. After getting on an overlooking building near the rally, which there is still an investigation going on how the Secret Service and local police even allowed Cook to get some close “I wanted to keep speaking — I wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot,” Trump told the Washington Examiner in the same dual sit-down on plane from the Keystone State to Wisconsin. “It’s a very surreal experience, and you never know what you’re going to do until a thing like that happens.” In that context, Trump told the Examiner and the Rupert Murdoch-own Post that the shooting probably hasn’t truly mellowed him.
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