Saturday evening, the entire country watched on bated breath as former President Donald Trump was whisked off the stage with blood on his face by multiple Secret Service agents at his Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally after several loud pops rang out through the crowd in what has now been dubbed an assassination attempt on a former United States POTUS.
Reports quickly confirmed that Donald Trump was grazed in his right ear by a bullet.
Multiple sources, including the Trump Campaign, the US Secret Service, and the ex-president himself have all confirmed that Donald Trump was shaken, but unharmed.
Butler County District Attorney Richard A Goldinger has also confirmed that the shooter, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was “neutralized” on the scene, and one rally attendee lost their life.
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In the aftermath of the violent attack, the former president has spoken out in an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner and confessed that he is making a big change, after experiencing such a close brush with death.
Over the weekend, Trump sat for an interview with a Washington Examiner reporter who was actually just a few feet away from the ex-president when he was shot at on the stage of his PA rally Saturday night.
In his new interview, the ex-president dropped one hell of a bombshell about his upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) speech.
“Former President Donald Trump has completely rewritten his convention speech in light of the assassination attempt against him on Saturday and will call on Thursday for a new effort at national unity,” the new report reads. “In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner a day after being hit by a sniper’s bullet, Trump said he wanted to take advantage of a historic moment and draw the country together.”
The Conservative outlet quotes Donald Trump saying, “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger … Had this not happened, this would’ve been one of the most incredible speeches,” that would have targeted sitting President Joe Biden, according to the publication.
“Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now,” Trump reportedly told the interviewer.
“He has switched, he said, from planning to excite his voter base to one that demonstrates his belief that the attack on him at a rally in Pennsylvania had changed the election campaign entirely,” the Washington Examiner goes on to report.
“Both Republicans and Democrats have acknowledged this in the aftermath of Saturday’s shocking incident,” the outlet adds. “Trump said people all across the country from different walks of life and different political views have called him, and he noted that he was saved from death because he turned from the crowd to look at a screen showing data he was using in his speech.”
You can read the full interview and report from the Washington Examiner here.
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