Washington (AP). President Donald Trump earlier this month was on stage at the Ajova State Fair, launching the 250th anniversary celebration when he heard what sounded like fireworks in the distance.
“Have I heard what I think I heard?” Donald Trump noticed when he spoke from a thick, bulletproof glass wall. “Don’t worry, it’s just fireworks. Hope. Loud last words,” he whispered, laughing and happy with drawing.
“You always have to think positively,” he continued. “I didn’t like that sound either.”
The comments, a few days before Trump’s almost association in Bhtoler, Pennsylvania, was a prime reminder of the constant effect of the day when the gunman opened a fire at the campaign rally, grazing a short ear and killing one of his supporters in the crowd.
The attack was dramatically replaced by 2024. And launched a crazy 10 -day stretch of triumphant arrival of Trump to the Republican National Convention with a tied ear, President Joe Biden’s decision to abandon the re -election proposal and Vice President Kamala Harris.
One year after the coming millimeters on a very different result, short, according to friends and helpers, is still the same short. However, they see signs that not only in the taller, on the alert scene, that his brush with death has changed it in a sense: they are more attentive and more grateful, they say, and speak openly about how God saved God to save the country and serve the second term.
“I think it’s always in his mind,” said the elder Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, a longtime friend and ally, who was closely related to a short after shooting and joined him that night in New Jersey after he was treated at Pennsylvania Hospital. “He’s still a rough and gloomy guy, you know. He’s not becoming Zen Buddhist. But I think he’s, I’ll say, more appreciated. He’s more attention to his friends,” he said, stating that he would send him a message this week.
Graham added: “It’s just a miracle that he’s not dead. He was really a man who believed he had a second lease of life.”
Continuous reminders
While many who have survived traumatic events try to block them from memory, short instead surrounded memory of one of the darkest episodes in modern political history. He decorated the White House and his golf clubs with artwork depicting a moment after shooting when he stood up, dramatically thrown your fist into the air and sang, “Fight, fight, fight!”
The stage painting now hangs well with the White House State floor lobby near the stairs to the presidential residence. Earlier this year, he started showing a bronze sculpture of the table at the oval office on the side table next to a decisive table.
And while in his speech at the Republican Congress, he said he would only talk about what happened once, he often shares the story of how he turned his head at the right moment to show his “all -time favorite chart of history”, which he appreciates for saving his life.
At a press conference last month, he acknowledged that the physical impact of the shooting remains.
“I feel that every time I feel,” he said, gesting to my ear. “But you know what it is good. It’s a dangerous business. I’m doing a dangerous business.”
The Trump will spend Sunday’s anniversary participating in the FIFA World Cup Football Finals in Eastern Rutherford, New Jersey.
Divine intervention credits
Trump’s headquarters Susie Wiles, who, as his then campaign leader, was with him at the rally, during Podcast, last week, he said the Trump had left the shooting, believing he had not spared the cause.
“I would say, I think he believes he was saved. I do it. And he will never do it – even if he thought it before, I don’t think he would have recognized it. And he’s now,” she said Pod Force One.
She is too credited with divine intervention. The chart noted: “There was always the last rotation chart. And it was always on the other side. So if he asked for that chart for eight minutes, and to make it the opposite, forced him to look at the other direction and lift his head slightly.
As a result, when Trump says, Trump says things that are flawless – every president says “God bless America” – well, he is now deeper and is more personal. “
She also acknowledged the attack on helping a public perception of brief during the campaign.
“In order for American society to see the fighter as it was that day, I think, no matter how scary and tragic, what it could have been, what showed people his character. And it is useful,” she said.
“You know, I have a duty to do a good job, I feel because I was really saved,” Trump told Fox News on Friday. “I owe a lot. And I think – I hope – the reason I was saved was to save our country.”
Roger Stone, a longtime friend and informal adviser, noted that Trump had other brushes with death, including a last minute decision not to climb the helicopter to the Atlantic city that crashed in 1989.
Stone said he had found the president “as calmer and more determined after an attempt to live in Butler.”
“He told me directly that he believes that God did not spare God in order to restore the nation to greatness, and that he deeply believes that he is now protected by the Lord,” he said.
Faith and Chairman of the Freedom Coalition Ralph Reed agreed.
“I think people who know the president are usually thought to have changed him. I mean as he couldn’t imagine?” He knew he was lucky to be alive. “
Given how close Trump achieved a very different result, Reed said: “It’s hard to do at some level not to feel that the Providence’s hand protected it for a certain purpose. And there are people with whom I talked to who said they were convinced that he would win for this reason.”
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Associated Press writer Nicole Winfield contributed to this Roman report.