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A time aft being grazed by a slug successful an attempted assassination, erstwhile president Donald Trump said helium plans to instrumentality vantage of the infinitesimal and present a connection of unity to conscionable the moment.
"The code I was going to springiness connected Thursday was going to beryllium a humdinger," Trump said arsenic helium boarded his formation en way to the Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee. "Honestly, it's going to beryllium a full antithetic code now."
"It is simply a accidental to bring the state together. I was fixed that chance," Trump added.
A presumption of the normal level earlier the 2024 Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum connected July 14, 2024 successful Milwaukee.
He said that galore radical from the governmental spectrum person called him implicit the past 24 hours and described the infinitesimal helium turned his caput connected signifier to look astatine the screen, which yet could person saved his life.
"That world is conscionable mounting in," Trump said. "I seldom look distant from the crowd. Had I not done that successful that moment, well, we would not beryllium talking today, would we?"
The satellite has present seen the representation of the erstwhile president raising his fist with humor connected his ear, and Trump said helium did that due to the fact that helium wanted the state to cognize helium was going to beryllium OK. He wanted the Pennsylvania assemblage to cognize that "America goes on, we spell forward, that we are strong."
Trump recalled, "The vigor coming from the radical determination successful that moment, they conscionable stood there; it's hard to picture what that felt like, but I knew the satellite was looking. I knew that past would justice this, and I knew I had to fto them cognize we are OK."
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh
