A week ago, Donald Trump was shot in the ear less than 10 minutes into his speech, forcing him to be escorted off the stage.
Days after surviving an assassination attempt, former US President Donald Trump claimed that the Secret Service did not warn him about gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks before the assassination attempt. He claimed that agents had been watching the attacker hours before the attack but did not mention him. “Nobody mentioned him,” Trump told Jesse Watters on an upcoming episode of the Fox News host’s primetime show.
Trump was shot in the ear less than 10 minutes into his speech, forcing him to be escorted off the stage. One aide and the shooter were killed during the attack, while two others were injured. “They could have said, ‘Let’s wait 15, 20 minutes, 5 minutes.’ Nobody said that… I think that was a mistake,” he added.
NEW Donald Trump raises suspicions about the July 13 attack in which he almost lost his life, saying that no one warned him of the threat.
Infuriating.
“Nobody told me there was a problem. And I would have waited 15 or 20 minutes.”
“I think it was a mistake. How could anyone… image.twitter.com/vIW2OjqwrX
—Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 21, 2024
Trump has also dismissed concerns raised by critics that he is a threat to democracy, telling a large crowd in Michigan that he “took a bullet for democracy.” At the Michigan rally on Saturday, Trump, who is the Republican presidential nominee for the Nov. 5 election, was joined by his running mate J.D. Vance.
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Trump also claimed that the rival Democratic Party is trying to overturn the results of their primaries to remove incumbent President Joe Biden from the ballot. “It couldn’t happen to anybody better. As you’re seeing, the Democratic Party is not the party of democracy. In fact, they are the enemies of democracy,” he said.
(With contributions from PTI)
