President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he believes divine intervention spared his life “for a righteous purpose” during the July 2024 assassination attempt at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as the nation marked one year after the harrowing attack.
Reflecting on the shooting, Trump recalled that just eight minutes after taking the stage on the grounds of Butler Farms, a bullet “came within a quarter inch” of taking his life. One of the bullets grazed his right ear before Secret Service agents rushed him to safety.
“It remains my firm conviction that God alone saved me that day for a righteous purpose: to restore our beloved Republic to greatness and to rescue our Nation from those who seek its ruin,” he said in a statement released by the White House....
