[The following post is an update of my post on September 4, 2024, entitled, “Did God Protect Trump from that Assassin’s Bullet?”]
Donald Trump was almost killed on July 13, 2024, at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Twenty-year old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, PA, shot eight bullets in six seconds from his AR-15 rifle from atop a building 130 yards away from the stage where Trump was speaking at just after 6 PM. A transcript of the Secret Service audio reveals that when Trump was struck in the right ear, it literally knocked him out of his shoes.
At 6:11 PM and 33 seconds (18:11:33) ET, Trump was shot in the upper part of his right ear. Much blood immediately began protruding from the wound. Secret Service agents pounced on Trump, pushing him down to the floor of the stage and covering him with their bodies to protect him from any other possible shots. Agents eventually lifted The Donald to his feet to remove him from the stage. But right then, at 18:12:33, Trump blurted out to the agents, “Let me get my shoes, let me get my shoes.” And he said it again, three seconds later. An agent then said, “Hold on, your head is bloody.” Six seconds later, Trump was still saying, “Let me get my shoes.”
At 18:12:47, Trump—never one to miss a great media opportunity—blurted out, “Wait, wait, wait!” Now standing up, with a very bloody right side of his head, and blood streaming down the right side of his face, Trump raised his right arm as if in triumph that he had survived the assassin’s bullet. He pointed that arm in the direction of his audience. Then, making a fist with his hand and pumping his arm, Donald Trump shouted, “Fight, fight, fight!” The crowd cheered.
What an amazing photo-op! Hollywood couldn’t have created a more theatrical scene. And the national television cameras got all of it in live action that all Americans could see on their TV screens. It had quite an emotional impact on Trump’s live crowd and the television audience. How much it may have contributed toward Americans voting Donald Trump back into the White House nearly four months later we’ll very likely never know. But it seems to have influenced the world’s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, to soon become a Trump voter and contribute $300 million to his political campaign and publicly support him. Analysts say that had a huge impact.
Trump was speaking to his audience from behind a podium on the stage, looking straight ahead. The assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was crouched on top of a building at about a 90 degree angle on Trump’s right. So, just as Crooks was pulling the trigger on his AR-15, Trump turned his head to the right just enough for that one bullet to graze his ear and miss his skull.
Five days after the assassination attempt, on July 18, Trump held a political rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he spoke publicly for the first time about his near-death experience. He had a large, white, square-shaped bandage covering his injured right ear. He revealed, “The assassin’s bullet came with a quarter of an inch of taking my life.”
He soon explained, “I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border. We were very proud of it. Behind me and to the right was a large screen that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership. The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart, I started to, like this, turn to my right, and was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which I’m lucky I didn’t do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard, on my right ear.”
Trump further revealed, “There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way I felt very safe, because I had God on my side. I felt that. I felt that. The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight.” He later added, “I’m not supposed to be here tonight. I’m not supposed to be here. I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God.”
Well, if God protected Trump from that assassin’s bullet, he did not protect fire fighter chief Corey Comperatore and others from the assassin’s other bullets. Corey was sitting in the left bleachers in line with the shooter and Trump. One of the bullets struck Corey’s head, and he fell to the ground instantly dead. He reportedly had five relatives there with him, and two became “hysterical.” Two other spectators, David Dutch and James Copenhaver, were struck by the assassin’s bullets as well. They were critically injured, but they have survived.
I have always been a mathematically inclined person. All through school until my last semester of high school, I got straight As in math. I think the mathematical chances are so remote of Donald Trump turning his head at just the right angle for the bullet to miss killing him, and then striking his ear to make it and his head very bloody looking for a tremendous photo-op, that this incident cannot be attributed to mere coincidence or luck. Indeed, even Trump believes it could not have been luck. On September 3, 2024, he appeared on the “Dr. Phil” television show and said of the incident. “How can you say it’s luck when it’s, you know, 20 million to one?”
I believe there had to be a spiritual force that caused this assassination attempt on Donald Trump to happen as it did. But if it was God who was that spiritual force, protecting Trump in that process, how do you explain why God did not protect Mr. Corey Comperatore, a brave fire fighter? I don’t think God would do that. So, I stand by the conclusion in my previous post on this subject about what spiritual forces were involved that made this assassination attempt happen in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.