Donald Trump has said he is lucky to be alive after being targeted by a shooter during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The suspected assailant, 20-year-old local Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired at least five rounds from an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in the direction of the former US president, with one bullet grazing his right ear. A Trump supporter was killed and two others severely wounded in the attack, and Crooks was shot dead on site by Secret Service officers.
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“I am not supposed to be here, I am supposed to be dead,” Trump said in an interview with the New York Post on Sunday. The 78-year-old spoke to reporters on board his private jet, heading to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, where he is expected to be selected as the party’s presidential nominee for November 5 election.
The tycoon-turned-politician said a doctor told him it was a “miracle” that he survived. “By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God I’m still here,” he added.
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Gunshots were fired during a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The former president was rushed off stage by security staff, with images showing blood stains on his right ear.