Months after his near-death experience, former President Donald Trump revealed new details about the “craziest day. It was a crazy time.”
(Video Credit: Fox News)
Between corporate media photographers, videographers, and the thousands of rallygoers in attendance on July 13 when a would-be assassin opened fire on the GOP leader, the tragic scene in Butler, Pennsylvania was well-documented. However, during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham set to premiere Monday, the president revealed a detail left unwitnessed as he described his youngest son’s reaction.
In a preview clip for the interview filmed in front of a live audience, Trump explained, “Barron was playing tennis with his friends, and somebody walked over and — ran over — and said, ‘Your father’s been shot. He’s been shot.”
“And Barron really likes his father a lot… and he came in, ‘Mom, mom, mom, what happened?'” he said, “And then they saw me get up, and then they saw the fist pump… it’s very interesting. When I got up, people thought maybe he’s dead.”
Saturday, the president made his return to the very spot where 12 weeks earlier he and three supporters were shot, including the fatal wounds to father and firefighter Corey Comperatore.
Adding to his recount of those “16 harrowing seconds” and memorializing the “folk hero” who lost his life that day, Trump told Ingraham about his interaction with the U.S. Secret Service who had rushed to shield him on the stage.
“I convinced them I thought I was only hit in the ear. It’s very interesting. But they got me up and I watched and it was dead silent, even though I was standing up and in vision because people didn’t know I was alive or not,” recalled the president, “and then when I did the first pump, everybody realized and they’re screaming, ‘USA, USA.’ It was the craziest day. It was a crazy time.”
Trump also detailed the medical response on the day of the rally and said, “The hospital was great, and I didn’t realize this — when a president goes to an area, they close the hospital in its entirety, it’s ready for exactly this.”
“I didn’t know they did,” he said. ” I got there, doctors and nurses were outside, and no people. They literally close it, almost like they expect this.”
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The entire interview was scheduled to air Monday at 7:00 p.m. during the broadcast of “The Ingraham Angle” the same evening that Vice President Kamala Harris’ week of interviews included the premiere of her sit down for CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
As was reported, even teed-up for softball interviews found the Democratic Party nominee swinging and missing when correspondent Bill Whitaker called her out over a non-answer.
“My plan is about saying that when you invest in small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America’s economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone of America’s economy,” she said leading him to interject, “Pardon me, Madame Vice President, the question was how are you going to pay for it?”
Asserting that she’d make the wealthy pay “their fair share” he fired back, “But we’re dealing with the real world here.” Her non-answers persisted.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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