Speaking during an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” that aired on Sunday, September 1, former President Donald Trump again discussed the failed assassination attempt on him that occurred in July, noting that it heavily impacted his faith in God. In fact, he said that it renewed his faith and that he thinks God intervened to let Trump “straighten out our country.”
Levin broached the subject, asking him, “You’ve been a man of faith. You go to church. You believe in God. Has this furthered your belief, your commitment [to God].” Trump told him, “Yeah” as Levin noted that God “saved your life, he has a purpose for you.” Levin then asked the former president, “Do you think about these things?”
Trump told him, “Well, I think you believe more because when you speak to experts, like my sons who are shooting experts, but when you speak to experts, they said there was no chance that he could have missed from that distance. I think he was hurried. I think he was rushed because people were starting to say, like, you know, there’s a guy up there with a gun. And I think he was probably rushed.”
Then, after Levin noted how crazy and infuriating it was that the shooter was able to get on the roof and take a shot at the former president, Trump told him, “By the time they started saying it, it was a little bit on the late side and luckily, he was taken out quickly. But I’ll tell you, if he wasn’t, it would have been like in Las Vegas, that horrible attack in Las Vegas with the crazy men up in the building shooting down into the crowds. And that’s what you would have had here. These crowds were bigger. And you would have had a lot of people and a lot.”
Continuing, Trump told him that his faith in God was strengthened, as he thinks anyone’s would be, by the failed assassination attempt, saying that though it is sad people died, the bullets missing him made him believe yet more in God. He said, “It was bad having three and especially losing one but — no, I think you think, like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more.”
Concluding, he told Levin that he thinks God spared him to help him fix America’s issues, saying, “And somebody said like, why — and I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country. Our country is so sick and it’s so broken. Our country is just broken. And maybe that was the reason — I don’t know, I don’t know. A lot of people have said that.”
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Trump has made a similar argument previously, saying that it was “incredible” that the shooter missed him and that the miss makes it look like God intervened. He said, “The first one was not a good situation, not a good situation. That was really something incredible. That was from God. That was from God. Because the chances….that was from God. For all of you non-believers, that one was from God, right?”
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