President Donald Trump reflected on the one-year anniversary of his near assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, saying “God alone” spared his life that day.
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Trump issued a press release late Sunday evening recalling the tragedy last July.
The President was the target at the Butler campaign rally where he was shot and wounded. The assassin’s bullet would strike Trump’s ear, leaving him bloodied.
Corey Comperatore, a retired volunteer fire chief, was killed in the assassination attempt as he protected his wife and daughter, and two other men were seriously injured.
Trump lauded Comperatore as a “devoted husband and father” in the press release, then reflected a bit on his own mortality, stating that a higher being saved him for a higher purpose.
“It remains my firm conviction that God alone saved me that day for a righteous purpose: to restore our beloved Republic to greatness and to rescue our