News/Commentary

Trump tells Dr. Phil why God may have spared his life – says Biden, Dem ‘rhetoric’ were factors

August 28, 2024 | | Print Article

Former President Donald Trump recently spoke to Dr. Phil, saying that he believes God spared his life and pointed his finger at who he thinks is at least partially to blame for his attempted assassination.

The topic of the interview turned to the failed assassination attempt that nearly ended his life, where the former president claimed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were at fault “to an extent.”

Watch:

“I’ve always been sort of angry,” Trump said. “You know, we talk about Secret Service, [Biden] always made it very tough for us to have the proper number of Secret Service people. And I don’t know whose fault it is, but I will tell you, I’d have these massive rallies with 50-60,000 people or more, and our people were always fighting to get more security, more Secret Service.”

“And he knew that we didn’t have enough,” the former president continued. “And he’d have a rally of three or four people, I mean nobody would go. If he had a rally, if he got twenty people, it was a lot. Nobody would go. They’d stand on a road and they’d look for people to try and be there like he had somebody behind him, and yet he had a massive contingent of Secret Service. And I know that they wanted to have his people come over to these big rallies that I was having. And I know that it was a very tough situation.”

He didn’t hesitate to ascribe blame to Biden and Harris, pointing to the “weaponizing” of government agencies against him.

“When this happened, people would ask, ‘Whose fault is it?’ I think to a certain extent it’s Biden’s fault and Harris’s fault, and I’m the opponent,” he explained. “Look, they were weaponizing the government against me. They brought in the whole DOJ to try and get me. They weren’t too interested in my health and safety. I would be if I were in their position, but they weren’t very interested. But they were always making it, from what I understood, and I could feel it, they were making it very difficult to have proper staffing, in terms of Secret Service.”

Probing a little deeper into the subject, Dr. Phil asked Trump a pointed question.

“I’m not saying that they wanted you to get shot but do you think, it was okay with them if you did?”

“I don’t know. I mean, I don’t know. There’s a lot of hatred,” he responded. “I don’t know why. I had a great presidency.”

Discussing the moment that he turned his head, a small move that likely saved his life, Trump said that he believes “God’s hand” was involved.

“How can you say it’s luck when it’s, you know, 20 million to one?” he asked. “It’s just not possible that I was in that position, you know? That’s the only position where that bullet could have missed.”

“And you believe in God?” Dr. Phil asked.

“I do, I do,” the former president responded.

“You believe God’s hand was in this, that day?”

“I believe so, yeah. I do,” Trump agreed.

“And you talk about the country, you believe you have more to do. You weren’t done, you were spared for a reason?” Dr. Phil wondered.

“Well God believes that, I guess. We’ll have to see,” Trump said. “Number one, I’m in an election with a very vicious group of people, I won the election against Biden, I was up seventeen, eighteen points after the debate, and they said ‘You know what, he’s gonna lose.’ They went and told him he’s gonna lose and we’re gonna change you out. And he said no I’m not gonna do it, in fact, he said only God’s gonna change me but, so who knows what happened there? But he said ‘I’m not leaving’, you know he got 14 million votes and Kamala got none. Zero. She ran against him, she got zero. She never made it to Iowa which is the first state. And here she is, she’s on the other side.”

Later in the clip, Trump mused that perhaps God saved his life so he could, in turn, save America or even the world.

“If I win that [election against a fresh opponent], that would really serve to say that there’s some incredible power up there that wanted me to be involved in saving- and maybe it’s more than saving the nation, maybe it’s saving the world.”

The pair also took a look at the rhetoric from the left that Trump believes may have played a part in the assassination attempt.

“They’re saying I’m a threat to democracy. No, they’re a threat, they’ve weaponized government, they’re a threat. But that turned out to be like one of their lines you know, that Trump is a threat … That was a standard line, just keep saying it. And you know that can get assassins or potential assassins going, that’s a terrible thing,” he said. “And you fight it but everybody, it was a standard line.”

“I’m the one that fixed our military, I’m the one that knocked out ISIS, I’m the one that did so much. I also took a bullet,” Trump added. “But maybe that bullet is because of their rhetoric. It’s really nasty rhetoric. You know, at the democrat convention, my name was mentioned hundreds of times. The border was mentioned like once. Inflation wasn’t mentioned at all. They barely talked about the economy, they didn’t talk about crime at all. They didn’t talk about the invasion of our country.”

The full interview can be watched below:

Sierra Marlee
Latest posts by Sierra Marlee (see all)

Comment

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

Latest Articles