As inquiring minds sought to know, former President Donald Trump spoke about the matter of invisible injuries following his brush with death.
“A couple of people have asked me that…”
In one of the many contrasts between the GOP leader’s forthright campaign and the basement efforts of his Democratic rival, Trump conducted a bevy of sit-down interviews within the same week that Vice President Kamala Harris had finally committed herself to one softball, tag-team endeavor.
During one such forthright exchange, the president sat down with the Daily Mail’s chief U.S. political correspondent Rob Crilly wherein he contended he suffered no residual mental health concerns after being shot at by a would-be assassin.
“A couple of people have asked me that, and I have had no impact. It’s just amazing,” Trump said Wednesday from his Palm Beach, Florida resort home at Mar-a-Lago.
Indicating that he felt no need for counseling as the tragedy had passed without recurring dreams, flashbacks, or symptoms associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the Republican nominee disclosed, “But I have not had any, I must tell you, I don’t think about it a lot.”
“I don’t want to think about it a lot, but I’ve had…no it’s had no impact. It healed up,” he added.
During a separate interview with Fox News and syndicated radio host Mark Levin, Trump was asked about how the near-death experience on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania had impacted his faith. He was asked, “Has this furthered your belief, your commitment? And obviously, God in addition to that chart, saved your life. He has a purpose for you. Do you think about these things?”
“I think you think like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more,” Trump responded before going on to add, “And I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country.”
Trump: ‘I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country’ https://t.co/0jOMEBV4x2
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) September 2, 2024
The president touched on that during his interview with Crilly as well and said, “And you know what I’d love to think, I would love to think it’s God and it’s God doing it because he wants me to save America.”
“He sees what’s happening. God sees what’s happening in America,” said Trump as the correspondent detailed how the onetime commander-in-chief “could not shrug off the idea that something divine happened when he turned his head to look at a chart of border data just at the right moment to all but avoid a shooter’s bullet.”
“We’re going bad as a country. Even with religion, we’re going bad,” added Trump who’d recently voiced his opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment in Florida to bypass the state’s six-week abortion ban. “You look at the charts, and I would like to say that it is God that saved me. It wasn’t…just luck, but the reason would be that he saved me, because I can save this country. I hope that’s right.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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