{"id":2294992,"date":"2024-07-14T23:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-im-not-supposed-to-be-here-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T23:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:12:23","slug":"trump-im-not-supposed-to-be-here-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-im-not-supposed-to-be-here-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP: \u2018I\u2019M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-im-not-supposed-to-be-here-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2294992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article is about former President Donald Trump surviving an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amnesty-international-strips-aleksei-navalny-of-prisoner-of-conscience-status-for-decades-old-comments-on-immigration\/\" title=\"Amnesty International Strips Aleksei Navalny Of \u2018Prisoner Of Conscience\u2019 Status For Decades-Old Comments On Immigration\">assassination attempt<\/a> during a speech in Pennsylvania. Trump narrowly avoided being shot when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seven-shot-three-fatally-monday-in-mayor-lightfoots-chicago\/\" title=\"Seven Shot, Three Fatally Monday in Mayor Lightfoot&#039;s Chicago\">gunman fired<\/a> at him, grazing his ear but causing no serious injury. Trump described the \u200cexperience as\u200d miraculous, as he turned his head at just \u2062the right\u2062 moment\u200b to avoid the bullet. Despite \u2064the \u2064ordeal, Trump praised the Secret Service agents who\u2063 protected him and expressed\u200b a desire to continue \u200bspeaking after the\u200d incident. He mentioned altering his planned speech\u200c for\u200d the Republican National Convention to focus on unity\u2062 rather than aggression. The article highlights Trump&#8217;s reflections on the event\u200c and its impact on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-the-left-fears-cats-quizzer-more-than-mein-kampf\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: The Left Fears \u201cCat\u2019s Quizzer\u201d More Than \u201cMein Kampf\u201d\">political strategy<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">TRUMP: \u2018I\u2019M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE\u2019<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/conrad-hoyt\/\">Conrad Hoyt<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-14T22:50:38-04:00\">July 14, 2024 10:50 pm<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>TRUMP: \u2018I\u2019M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE<\/strong>\u2018: Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>President Donald Trump<\/a> can\u2019t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, pulled the trigger during the former president\u2019s speech in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/?utm_source=google&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=WE_Search_Brand-June&#038;gad_source=1&#038;gclid=CjwKCAjw7s20BhBFEiwABVIMrV4c2J_gSWIgvEHFCWpubb8nztRJ0ORkORFRXrLpHU74e9E9ABWOBRoC0PoQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Pennsylvania<\/a> Saturday evening. Trump was standing at the podium and began to refer to a large screen, hanging to his right, that showed statistics about immigration. To better see the screen, Trump turned his head to the right and a little up, and at the millisecond in which his head was at just the right angle for the bullet to graze his ear but not enter his skull \u2014 at that moment, the bullet whizzed by. Trump suffered a bloody wound to his ear, but no other injuries. It seemed like a miracle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe most incredible thing<\/strong> was that I happened to not only turn but to turn at the exact right time and in just the right amount,\u201d Trump said Sunday afternoon in a talk aboard his 757 as he flew to Milwaukee for the start of the Republican National Convention. \u201cIf I only half-turn, it hits the back of the brain. The other way goes right through [the skull]. And because the sign was high, I\u2019m looking up. The chances of my making a perfect turn are probably one tenth of one percent, so I\u2019m not supposed to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI had to be at the exact right angle,\u201d<\/strong> Trump said at another point in the conversation, which included the <em>New York Post\u2019s<\/em> Michael Goodwin. \u201cBecause the thing was an eighth of an inch away. That I would turn exactly at that second, where he [the gunman] wouldn\u2019t stop the shot is pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. I\u2019m really not supposed to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dressed in a dark suit<\/strong> with no tie and a gauze bandage taped to his ear, Trump spoke highly of the Secret Service agents who covered him while he was down on the stage. At one point, he rolled up his right sleeve and showed a deep red and black bruise where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-agents-rescue-toddlers-dropped-from-14-foot-barrier-at-border-into-u-s\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Agents Rescue Toddlers Dropped From 14-Foot Barrier At Border Into U.S.\">agents made<\/a> sure he stayed down. \u201cThat\u2019s just from a guy grabbing me,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know how strong you have to be to do that?\u201d Trump also said he insisted on getting up and walking off the stage under his own power. \u201cI said, I\u2019ve got to walk out, I have to walk out,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cI did not want to be carried out. I\u2019ve seen people being carried out, and it\u2019s not good. And I had no problem with walking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>I said that watching the video,<\/strong> it appeared that after being shot, surrounded by agents shielding him from any further threat, Trump actually wanted to return to the microphone to continue speaking. Indeed he did. \u201cI wanted to keep speaking \u2014 I wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot,\u201d Trump said with a little laugh. \u201cIt\u2019s a very surreal experience, and you never know what you\u2019re going to do until a thing like that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was obvious<\/strong> that Trump was still processing what had happened. Who wouldn\u2019t be? It is something that will stay with him for the rest of his life. At the moment, he is grappling with the feeling that something very big has changed in his life and in the presidential race. When I asked him, \u201cDoes this change your campaign?\u201d he immediately answered, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump explained that before Saturday night,<\/strong> he had finished the speech he planned to give later this week at the Republican convention. \u201cI basically had a speech that was an unbelievable rip-roarer,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was brutal \u2014 really good, really tough. [Last night] I threw it out. I think it would be very bad if I got up and started going wild about how horrible everybody is, and how corrupt and crooked, even if it\u2019s true. Had this not happened, we had a speech that was pretty well set that was extremely tough. Now, we have a speech that is more unifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump did not mean that a new speech<\/strong> has been fully written, but parts of it have already been drafted, starting in the hours after the assassination attempt. The idea is to reframe the intense conflicts Trump has engaged in during his years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-short-history-of-how-anthony-fauci-has-kept-failing-up-since-1984\/\" title=\"A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984\">national politics<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been fighting a group of people that I considered very bad people for a long time, and they\u2019ve been fighting me, and we\u2019ve put up a very good fight,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe had a very tough speech, and I threw it out last night, I said I can\u2019t say these things after what I\u2019ve been through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the people Trump talks to<\/strong> around the world of politics and business have suggested to him that he could use the assassination attempt as a starting point to try to be a more unifying candidate. Given the history of the last eight years, it\u2019s an idea that seems wildly improbable. But an assassination attempt is a very big thing. There hasn\u2019t been one of a president in more than 40 years, and there hasn\u2019t been one of a leading presidential candidate in longer. It is hard to predict what effect it will have. But Trump suspects the chances of fundamental political change coming from the Pennsylvania attack are probably not great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019d love to achieve unity<\/strong> if you could achieve unity, if that\u2019s possible,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere are many good people on the other side\u2026But there are also people who are very divided. Some people actually want open borders and some people don\u2019t want open borders. The question is can those two sides get together? Can sides where you have people who want to see men play in women\u2019s sports, and you have a side that doesn\u2019t understand even the concept of allowing that to happen [get together]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump knows it\u2019s a long shot.<\/strong> \u201cIt has an impact,\u201d he said of the assassination attempt. \u201cNow, maybe the impact will wear off if the other side gets nasty.\u201d It seems quite likely that that is exactly what will happen and the fighting will resume, even though both Trump and President Joe Biden are talking about unity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But even if it does not bring lasting political change,<\/strong> a brush with death has had an obvious effect on Donald Trump. He survived \u201cby luck or by God,\u201d he said. Once the trigger was pulled, the chances of Trump avoiding a fatal injury seemed infinitesimally small. And yet that is what happened. \u201cI\u2019m not supposed to be here,\u201d Trump said yet again. \u201cIt did have a lot of impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump reflected on the assassination attempt he survived during a speech in Pennsylvania, emphasizing the miraculous timing of his head movement that prevented a fatal injury. Trump expressed gratitude for the Secret Service agents who protected him and discussed how the experience has led him to reconsider the tone of his upcoming speeches. Despite the potential for unity in the aftermath of the attack, Trump acknowledges the challenges of bridging political divides. He recognizes the impact of the assassination attempt on his life and political career, emphasizing that he feels fortunate to have survived<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2734,"featured_media":2294993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24196753715814-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3728,5894,3669,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2294992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24196753715814-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}