Donald Trump has revealed in a newly aired interview what President Biden told him shortly after the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania campaign rally.
US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has given her opening statement as the House Oversight Committee holds a hearing into the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Ms Cheatle conceded in her opening statement the shooting at Mr Trump’s Pennsylvania rally is “the most significant operational failure” of the Secret Service in decades. “The Secret Service’s … mission is to protect our nation’s leaders – on July 13th, we failed,” she told the committee.
Donald Trump revealed in a newly aired interview what President Biden told him shortly after the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania campaign rally.
“He said, ‘You’re lucky you turned to the right,’” Trump, 78, told Fox News host Jesse Watters of his phone call with the 81-year-old president.
Trump narrowly escaped death on July 13 when he turned his head to look at a chart put up on a screen just as 20-year-old Thomas Crooks opened fire during the rally in Butler, Pa.
Top Democrats threatened to remove Joe Biden by force if he did not abandon the election, according to New York Post sources. According to the Post sources, the “palace coup” was set up to prevent the US President from seeking re-election. The 81-year-old, however, fought back against the Democratic operative’s attempts, a source close to the Biden family said.
The family insider revealed the Democratic party’s attempts caused Biden to appear angry, paranoid and frustrated as pressure piled on. According to the Post, part of the “elaborate” strategy involved the 81-year-old debating former US president Donald Trump last month. Biden’s disastrous debate performance significantly turned the tide against him as calls for him to step down grew. “That debate was a set-up to convince Democrats that he couldn’t run for president,” said the Post’s source.
The former president characterized his chat with Biden as a ”nice conversation.”
In the interview, which was taped Saturday but aired Monday, Trump also revealed that he refused orders to be carried off stage on a stretcher after the sniper’s bullet grazed his ear.
“They wanted to put me on a stretcher,” Trump said. “They had a stretcher, and they wanted to put me on a stretcher. And I said, ‘I’m not going on a stretcher.’”
The Secret Service agents who piled on top of him moments after the shots rang out initially believed he was hit in the abdomen, Trump said.
“I just felt it was the ear,” the 45th president said of his refusal to be placed on a stretcher, but he acknowledged “there was a lot of blood” that may have alarmed the agents.
Trump said his refusal led to a “little argument” while the agents were “lying on top of me.”
Donald Trump has revealed in a newly aired interview what President Biden told him shortly after the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania campaign rally. Picture: Getty
“I said, ‘I’m telling you, I’m OK. I’m fine. I’m going to get up. I want to get up. I’m not going to be taken out on a stretcher,’” he said.
As for his current condition, the GOP nominee said his right ear “good” and “getting much better”
“We’re getting down to the small bandages, but it was a nasty one,” Trump said of his wound.
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has hit out at Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle over the “unacceptable” timeline of the investigation into Donald Trump’s assassination attempt. Ms Cheatle confirmed during a House Oversight Committee meeting a report into the incident would be completed within 60 days. “The notion of a report coming out in 60 days when the threat environment is so high in the United States, irrespective of party, is not acceptable,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez said.
During his sitdown with Watters, Trump also suggested that an investigation should be launched to determine whether the White House tried to cover-up Biden’s physical and mental decline.
“I think somebody has to look at it,” Trump argued. “Look, you had people that lied to the American public. And I tell you what, you ought to take a look at his doctors, because his doctors keep giving him this wonderful report.”
“I’m not a doctor, but I saw [Biden] the other day,” the former president added. “He was unable to get up the children stairs going into Air Force One.”
US Congressman Gary Palmer has ripped into Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle over her failure regarding the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. “I don’t understand how you can continue to stay in the position you are in when this was a failure of historic magnitude,” Mr Palmer said during a committee hearing. “43 years without anything like this happening, and you failed in this case in a spectacular way.”
“His doctor says – I know all about his doctor, by the way – his doctor says he’s in good health. He’s not in good health. I don’t think he’s in good health,” Trump added, apparently referring to WHite House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
The White House hopeful also revealed that he met with embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle in the wake of the assassination attempt.
“She came to see me, actually,” Trump said.
“She was very nice, I thought. But, you know, somebody should have made sure there was nobody on that roof,” the former president added.
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GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance, seated next to Trump during the interview, told Watters that he was playing mini-golf with his children and hoping to get a call from the former president about the VP slot when he heard about the rally shooting.
“I told my kids, I said, ‘We gotta get out of here. The president’s been shot.’” And of course, we didn’t know if the president was OK or not at that point, and my son said, ‘Daddy, is it the president who’s your friend or the president you don’t like?’ And I said, ‘It’s the president who’s my friend.’ And he said, ‘OK, I’m sorry about that.’ And it was a very sweet moment,” Vance said.
“We were all just so grateful the president was OK,” the GOP senator from Ohio added, noting that it is a “testament to the movement how calmly” rally-goers reacted to the shooting and refrained from stampeding during the chaotic moment.
