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This is the most important election in the history of our country. I'm not a threat to democracy at all. It's been 7 or 8 weeks since a would-be assassin fired 8 rounds. How can you say it's luck when it's 20 million to 1? Or that bullet could have missed. Has it changed you? Being president is a dangerous job. I never realized how dangerous. R.F.K. Jr. Has offered his support to you and your campaign. Will he have a role in your administration?
You are catching up with me in Las Vegas, Nevada, where I am catching up with former president Donald Trump
and Republican nominee for president
10 weeks
from the actual election.
We're going to sit down and talk about a lot of things as we close in
on the day.
We're gonna talk about
where he stands
after having an attempt on his life in Butler,
Pennsylvania. We're going to talk about how he feels
about now Democratic
nominee Kamala Harris. We're gonna talk about what he thinks the challenges are leading into this election,
and what has to happen to get independence
to hear his message and come down on his side of the fence. We're gonna ask him some hard questions and get some clear answers.
Today,
10 weeks from the election.
President, thank you for sitting down with me again. Thank you. Very proud to be talking to you. You've been really busy And I have to ask you, it's been 7 or 8 weeks
since
would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks
climbed on top of a roof on a shockingly
close building
right in front of you and fired 8 rounds
from an AR-style
assault rifle,
shooting you in the ear.
Take a look at what happened. Go.
Experts said, frankly, you shouldn't be here right now. Experts said a kill shot was almost a certainty.
But
yet,
here
you
sit.
You had to have asked yourself,
you had to have reflected on this, how am I here
and why am I here?
How do you answer that question?
It's a very hard 1 to answer.
When it happened,
it was a whack.
I mean, I said something's going on there. It was a real whack to the year.
But
you're not thinking about that.
And I was lucky I went down quickly because if I didn't go down quickly, bullets were coming right over my head when I was down. I heard them. They were moving along.
They moved pretty fast. I said, how fast does a bullet go? They said about 3, 000 miles an hour. That's a lot. They gave it to me in feet, and then they gave it to me. I said, no, no, I want it on miles per hour.
And it's more than 3, 000 miles an hour. And you hear it. You hear the whipping sound. So I was lucky in that regard. But the big luck was
because that's something you can control. You go down quickly. If you don't go down quickly, you have a problem.
But the big thing was the turn. And it wasn't only the turn. It had to be a perfect 90 degree turn, or
I wouldn't be with you today.
And I had to be looking at something to the right. And the people, we had massive crowds, and they were in front. So there was no reason to be looking to the right. You had no people right or left.
And
you know the graph, my all-time favorite graph, showing my great numbers on immigration, stopping immigration
virtually
at the border, which is a big subject. And I was very proud of that, Gret, but I only use it about 20 percent of the time. It's always on my left and it's always at the end
of my speeches.
Always. And this was the very beginning of the speech.
I mean, like the very beginning, it was on my right.
So if you add it all up, it's like
millions
to 1. Millions, the odds.
But I made that perfect turn. I just see it on television again. It's
today, just before I came in. It's up big on the screen again today.
And
in finding out, I have the endorsement of the NRA, but I don't know.
I
have no knowledge of guns. Like as an example, I have 2 sons that have extreme knowledge, they're great shooters.
And Don and Eric both told me separately
that
that's a guaranteed shot for a bad shooter
from that distance. 130 yards sounded like
a long way away.
As a shooter, that's a very close target.
They said to relate it to me, they said it would be like sinking a 1 foot putt.
I said, that's not good.
So why were you spared? You've had to reflect on this alone in the middle of the night, in the golf cart, riding down the way, thinking about it.
How do you answer that? Why were you spared?
So there
had to be some great power,
because you just can't say millions to 1, millions to 1. I used to say a million to 1 it's much more than that because
again
you have to pull down the sign you have to it has to be a reason to go right and I never go right there's no reason.
And not only go right it's for about
an 8th of a second.
It's not just right. It's out of all the time that we're on this planet, it's 1 eighth of a second, right?
So I shouldn't be with you.
So... Is there a purpose?
Well... Is there a reason you think you were spared? I mean, the only thing I can think
is that God loves our country and he thinks we're going to bring our country back. He wants to bring it back. It's so bad right now what's happening when you look at the crime,
the horrible things that are happening inside our country. And it can be solved. It can be solved fairly quickly.
It has to be God.
It has to be the hand of God. How can you say it's luck when
it's 20
million
to 1? Okay, I mean, it's just not possible that I was in that position. It's the only position
where that bullet could have missed. And you believe in God? I do, I do. You believe God's hand was in this that day? I believe so, yeah, I do. And
you talk about the country,
you believe you have more to do. You weren't done. You were spared for a reason.
Well, God believes that,
I guess.
We'll have to see. Number 1, I'm in an election with a very vicious group of people. I won the election
against Biden. I was up by 17 or 18 points after the debate.
And they said, you know what? He's going to lose. They went and told him he's going to lose and we're going to change you out. And he said, no, I'm not going to do it. In fact, he said only God will change me. But
so who knows what happened there. But he said, I'm not leaving. He got 14 million votes
and
Kamala got none. 0.
She ran against him. She got 0. She never made it to Iowa, which is the first state.
And here she is. She's on the other side. But you know it's like nobody ever had this before. You have an opponent
in politics. You have an opponent and you win or you lose. But you don't have an opponent and then you're doing well against the opponent. They take them out. They give you a new opponent. They give you a nice, fresh opponent.
And so I have to win that.
And if I win that, 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. You know, I get along with all those tough guys.
And Russia wouldn't have gone into Ukraine. You'd have a million people living right now. You'd have cities all over Ukraine. I mean, these magnificent cities with the domes and the golden domes and towers, they'd all be up there right now. Demolish so many those cities that the country has just demolished.
Israel wouldn't have happened. October 7th would have never happened. Iran was broke
with me.
And I don't want them to be broke,
but I don't want them to have a nuclear weapon. So you think you're meant to take those challenges on. You're meant to serve in that way. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. In thinking about it, It's
beyond any of us, I guess, to really know that. But I can say that
for
that bullet to have gone along this
path right here
and
for that bullet to have gone along that path
and hit
the top of my ear
as opposed to any other place would have been no good.
And it traveled that path for a long way, relatively speaking. That path was traveled
for a long way.
It killed a man behind you. It did, it killed a man. Coricum peritore and it critically injured 2 others.
Who thought they weren't gonna make it? You know, the
Doctors said they will not make it and they did.
The doctors were incredible.
You've been very,
tend to be involved with those families
and I understand
a lot of support and help for those families
has taken place.
Well we gave a friend of mine who's a
pretty rich guy,
was very moved by what happened.
And he said, do you mind if I give?
Corey, he called him Corey. Everyone calls him Corey now. Firefighter, great
firefighter, fire chief
of a small town. Volunteer, right? Volunteer.
No substantial money, obviously. You know,
they live comfortably.
They love each other. They have a great family. Beautiful family, actually, but Not money.
And I said, good. What do you want to give? He said, a million dollars. He wrote out a check right in front of me for a million dollars and we presented it to the wife. That's more money than they
have ever even thought about.
But on top of that, we raised close to $6 million
in GoFundMe.
And that's going to be split
up. We're doing
it
now. Obviously with Corey's family getting
more, the other 2 made it. And they're going to be in good shape. I can't stress how good those doctors were. It was gonna be 3 dead,
and it turned out to be 1,
but they were hit hard. Well, it was terrible. I mean, they just made it. They were very close also.
And
So they're gonna be getting
probably close to a million and a half dollars each. How'd you feel about the Secret Service
and the job they did?
Look, they were very brave because when those bullets were
coming at me and you saw it.
I was down because I went down quickly, fortunately, otherwise because the bullets were going right over my head.
So that was another thing. But see, I don't talk about that as if that was a question of going down.
The other was a question of you had to be in an exact perfect position and it's almost impossible to achieve that position.
You have to be right, you have to have used the graph.
The whole thing is just so crazy.
You never use it at the beginning of the speech, never. I've never used it at the beginning, just said pull down the graph and I look over at the graph and I get whacked.
Sort of like a bolting deer, Don, my son Don said it's like a bolting deer, great shots can miss
a bolting deer. They shoot simultaneously
with the deer bolting and it bolts for some reason.
I guess that was my bolt.
But
it was absolutely amazing. But the Secret Service,
obviously somebody should have been on the roof.
The roof was empty.
And there was a lack of communication
between
local
law enforcement
and Secret Service. It seems to be coming out.
So they're going to have to work that out. I can say this. On stage, we had
great bravery
because bullets were coming at me
and they were coming right on top of me. And within about 3 or 4 seconds, I was covered with bodies.
Had the sniper,
the Secret Service sniper,
and it may have been somebody else in addition, it may have been a local police
shot also,
I don't know.
But had that shot not been made from a long distance, much longer,
and hit its target, 1 bullet,
then
they would have been dead probably because there would have been a pile and he would have been shooting into the pile.
And in addition, you would have had a lot of people killed. This could have been like that Las Vegas disaster where
that
horrible
human being killed a lot of people at a concert.
Has this changed you? Has it changed your appreciation for life? Has it changed
anything about you? Did you hug your kids extra hard? I mean, has it changed you? You know, a lot of people ask me and a lot of people say like,
have you developed any fear of, you know,
doing this like
because you're.. Look, being president is a dangerous job.
It's much more dangerous than a race car driver or than anything.
It's probably the most dangerous profession if you think about it. Just go up and down the list.
So
you have 46 and
numerous
left early
or got hit.
It's a very dangerous job.
I never realized how dangerous. But I was at the border yesterday, and
they were
a dangerous place. He allowed it.
He and her allowed it to become dangerous.
It's a very, very dangerous place.
I was doing an interview in Secret Service. I said, sir, please,
no more standing up.
They don't want me to stand up. You know, people,
Especially with the kind of weapons they have today. People have shots.
But it is, it's an interesting,
it's a great job, it's an interesting job. You can do so much good. But it's a dangerous job.
Where are you?