WASHINGTON — Former US president Donald Trump on Sunday told the New York Post he was 'supposed to be dead' after surviving an assassination attempt, which he described as a 'very surreal experience.'
'I'm not supposed to be here; I'm supposed to be dead,' Trump told the Post in an interview aboard his plane en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, where he is set to be confirmed as the party's presidential candidate.
Supporters of former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participate in the In Trump we Trust caravan near his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 14, one day after an apparent attempt to assassinate him at a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump was hit in the ear in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in a chaotic and shocking incident that will fuel fears of instability ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood smeared across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the gunman and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured. Giorgio VIERA / AFP
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