Donald J. Trump was pointing at an immigration chart when shots rang out on Saturday at his rally in Butler, Pa.Credit…Eric Lee/The New York Times
By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
- July 14, 2024, 3:47 p.m. ET
Donald J. Trump marveled to his former White House doctor about his good fortune hours after he was injured during a shooting on Saturday.
“That chart that I was going over saved my life,” Mr. Trump, the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee, told the doctor, Representative Ronny Jackson of Texas, by phone a few hours after an assassination attempt.
Mr. Trump was referring to a chart featuring immigration statistics on a screen to his right at his rally in a field in Butler County, Pa. He had turned to point to it and describe what was on the screen when shots rang out.
“He goes, ‘The border patrol saved my life,’” Dr. Jackson recounted in an interview on Sunday. “‘I was going over that border patrol chart.’ He said, ‘If I hadn’t pointed at that chart and turned my head to look at it, that bullet would have hit me right in the head.’”
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