Donald Trump believes he is alive by a miracle and has lived a surreal experience

Former US President Donald Trump He believes he has experienced a miracle following the attempt to kill him at a rally last Saturday in Pennsylvania, where he was left wounded in the ear.

“The doctor at the hospital said he’d never seen anything like it, he called it a miracle,” Trump, with part of his head still bandaged from the wounds he received following the attack, told The New York Post.

A “grateful and at times defiant” Donald Trump told the paper he was “supposed to be dead” as he recalled the moment his attacker shot him at a Republican campaign rally.

The New York newspaper shared the “very surreal experience” that almost ended his life during an interview aboard his private plane on the way to Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention that will confirm him as the presidential candidate begins on Monday.

“He’s not supposed to be here, he’s supposed to be dead,” Trump told the Post reporter.

Attack on Donald Trump

Trump was holding a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when he was hit by a bullet in the right ear. One person was killed, two were injured and the attacker, who fired from outside the venue, was shot dead by police.

The FBI confirmed that the perpetrator of the attack, Thomas Crooks, 20, acted alone and shot the former president from a rooftop using an AR-15 rifle that had been legally purchased by his father.

Crooks, who was shot dead by Secret Service agents just seconds following opening fire on Trump, was a registered Republican voter.

However, election records show that someone with his name and address made a $15 donation in 2021 to the Progressive Participation Project, a Democratic organization.

EFE