Former President Donald Trump said during a Monday interview that former first lady Melania Trump had been watching on television when he ...
Former President Donald Trump said during a Monday interview that former first lady Melania Trump had been watching on television when he was shot during his July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — and that she was still traumatized from the moment she saw him drop to the ground.
Trump made the comments while speaking with Fox News host Laura Ingraham just over two weeks after the would-be assassin had shot him, killed firefighter Corey Comperatore, and gravely injured two other rally attendees.
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“What was Melania’s reaction, if you don’t mind my asking,” Ingraham asked the former president. “I know this is very personal — when she learned about what happened on that field in Butler.”
“She was watching. She was watching live,” Trump replied. “It was all over the place, it was on television, it was on your network, it was all over the place and she was watching. I asked her that — I mean, I wasn’t there, I was on the ground.”
“I said, ‘So what was your feeling?’ and she was — she can’t really even talk about it,” Trump continued.
“Traumatized,” Ingraham interjected.
“Which is okay, because that means she likes me, well, she loves me,” Trump quipped, repeating that several times before returning to a more serious tone. “I will say this — look, when I went down, she thought the worst had happened because I went down. And I grabbed my ear, and my head was loaded up with blood …”
Trump concluded by remembering the hero firefighter, Comperatore, who had died that day shielding his family from the bullets.
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