Former President Donald Trump revealed to the New York Post that he lost part of his right ear during a recent assassination attempt.
During the interview with the Post, he had his head wrapped in a large, loose white bandage. Photographs were prohibited during the interview.
Trump was on his way to Milwaukee for the GOP National Convention aboard his private plane when he recounted the harrowing details of the assassination attempt that nearly took his life.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” Trump said.
“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” he added.
The attempt on his life occurred while he was glancing at a chart on illegal immigration. This slight movement meant that what he called a “kill shot” only grazed him, tearing off a small piece of his right ear and causing blood to splatter across his forehead and cheek.
More from the New York Post:
[Trump] said he would be if he had not turned his head slightly to the right to read a chart on illegal immigrants. At that instant, what would have been a kill shot tore off a small piece of his ear and splattered blood on his forehead and cheek.
Trump said that as Secret Service agents led him off stage, he still wanted to continue speaking to supporters, but the agents told him it wasn’t safe and they had to get him to a hospital.
He marveled at how the agents came flying in like “linebackers” as soon as the shooting started, and he unbuttoned his long-sleeve white shirt to show a large bruise on his right forearm.
He also cleared up a mystery about his shoes. On the video of the shooting and aftermath, as the burly agents tried to rush him off the stage for safety, he can be heard saying, “Wait, I want to get my shoes.”
As he explained in the interview, “The agents hit me so hard that my shoes fell off, and my shoes are tight,” he said with a smile.
He commended the Secret Service personnel for their heroic actions and praised them for gunning down the shooter, who was perched on a roof about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking.
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