Did a poster about migration save Trump’s life? The former president sees this as a possibility. A doctor is said to have even spoken of a “miracle” after the assassination attempt.
Former US President Donald Trump has expressed his gratitude after a relatively mild assassination attempt on him. In an interview with the tabloid newspaper “New York Post” he said: “By luck or by God – and many people say it was God’s work – I’m still here.” Referring to Saturday’s assassination attempt, in which he was injured in the ear, he told the newspaper: “I shouldn’t be here. I should be dead. I should be dead.”
As Trump described in the joint interview with the “Washington Examiner,” a small gesture during the campaign event may have saved his life. At the very moment of the attack, he pointed to a poster on the subject of migration and therefore turned his head slightly away. “I’m only slowly realizing that. I rarely look away from the crowd. If I hadn’t done it at that moment, well, then we wouldn’t be talking to each other today, would we?”
Photos taken immediately before the attack show Trump turning slightly to the right and pointing his hand toward the poster. The gunman then reportedly shot him in the right ear.
“The doctor at the hospital said he had never seen anything like it, he called it a miracle,” the New York Post quoted Trump as saying. The Republican wore a white bandage over his right ear during the interview, but his staff did not allow any photos to be taken, the newspaper reported.
Source: Stern
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