Trump: ‘I'd like to think that God thinks that I'm going to straighten out our country’
Former President Trump said in a new interview that he thinks God believes he will “straighten out” the country after he survived an assassination attempt in July.
Fox News host Mark Levin asked the former president whether he believes in God more following the attempted assassination of him during a Pennsylvania rally on July 13. A shooter opened fire at Trump during his rally on July 13, grazing the former president in the ear, killing one attendee and injuring two others.
"I think you think like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more. And somebody said like, why? And I'd like to think that God thinks that I'm going to straighten out our country,” he said in the interview that aired on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin.”
“Our country is so sick and it's so broken. Our country is just broken. And maybe that was the reason, I don't know. I don't know, a lot of people have said that,” he added.
The former president has previously suggested that it was because of God that he survived the incident. He said in the new interview that the gunman was “rushed” when he took a shot at the former president.
“I think you believe more, because when you speak to experts, like my sons who are shooting experts. But when you speak to experts, they said there was no chance that he could have missed from that distance,” he said.
“I think he was hurried. I think he was rushed because people were starting to say, like, you know, there's a guy up there with a gun. And I think he was probably rushed,” he continued.
He also praised the Secret Service agents who moved to protect him that day, saying that they were “very brave” and jumped on him within “seconds.” He said that the sniper who took down the gunman was “amazing,” but acknowledged that someone should have been on the rooftop where the shooter was located.
"Now, obviously, somebody should have been on top of that roof. And there was some problems. But I have to tell you—Secret Service. They were on top of me and they were bullets were flying over us—and there wasn't one of them that said, ‘Oh gee, I'm not doing that,’” Trump said.
The Secret Service has faced scrutiny in the months since the assassination attempt as questions swirl over how the shooter was able to take a shot at the former president. Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her post as Secret Service director after numerous people called for her to step down.
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