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In perhaps the most emotional speech he has ever given, President Trump recalled the response from the crowd after he was shot during his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on Saturday.
He told the Republican National Convention attendees, “They didn’t want to leave me, they knew I was in trouble, they didn’t want to leave me, and you can see that love written all over their faces.”
He continued telling his story, stating, “Bullets were flying over us, yet I felt serene. But now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril, they were in very dangerous territory, bullets were flying right over them, missing them by a very small amount of inches. And then it all stopped. Our Secret Service sniper from a much greater distance and with only one bullet used, took the assassin’s life, took him out.”
The audience responded with thunderous applause, quieting only to hear what he had to say next.
“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump said, to which the audience began chanting, “YES YOU ARE, YES YOU ARE, YES YOU ARE!”
As the chants faded away, the 45th president said, “Thank you. But I’m not. And I’ll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God.”