President Donald Trump told “Fox and Friends” on Monday that he believed God was with him exactly two years ago when a gunman attempted to assassinate him at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I mean, I got lucky. God was watching,” he said, later adding, “You know, God was with me.”
At a 2024 campaign event ahead of the November general election, Trump was delivering remarks to supporters outdoors.
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Twenty-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks fired eight rounds from a nearby rooftop, killing Corey Comperatore and wounding two other attendees.
Trump’s right ear was grazed by a bullet. He raised his arm to his ear before Secret Service acted quickly to get him to the ground and eventually off the stage.
As the president, surrounded by Secret Service, was ushered off the stage, with blood dripping down his face, he raised a fist in the air in what has now become an iconic image of the president that was met with “USA” cheers from the crowd.
Crooks was shot and killed by a Secret Service countersniper shortly after he fired shots at Trump with an AR-15-style rifle.
Trump on Monday both praised and criticized Secret Service’s actions that day. He said they “blew it” by not having the location manned and also praised the sniper who killed Crooks and those who jumped into action to cover him on stage.
“They should have had somebody ... standing on that building or at that building or watching that building,” he said. “But with that being said, after that, I mean, I got lucky.”
He said Crooks was a smart person but also was “very tormented.”
Shortly after the Butler assassination attempt, another man tried to kill Trump at his golf course in Florida that September. Another man was arrested with firearms near Trump’s October 2024 rally in California.
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