“I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God,” Donald Trump the former President of USA said, adding that many have described the moment as “divine intervention”.
Trump said the bullet missed him as he leaned forward, seconds before the assassin fired the shot, to look at a screen displaying immigration data. “In order to see the chart and I started to turned to my right. I began to turn a little bit further which I am very lucky I did not do,” he said.
“If I had not moved my head at the very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be with you tonight.”
The bullet that missed him by a few inches, grazed his ear as the 78-year-old Republican nominee hid behind the podium and was quickly whisked off the stage by Secret Service agents.
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Trump said he heard “a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me very, very hard on my right ear”.
