Donald Trump says “we hear” Joe Biden’s Justice Department plans to abandon its campaign to imprison him. This follow’s Trump’s shooting by a would-be assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
Trump told the press Biden was “very nice” to him in a phone call following the shooting, which left Trump supporter Corey Comperatore dead and two others critically injured. He has changed his planned speech attacking Biden’s “corrupt, horrible administration” at the Republican National Convention because he “want[s] to try to unite our country.”
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this; he called it a miracle,” Trump said, adding: “I’m not supposed to be here; I’m supposed to be dead. I’m supposed to be dead.”
He was full of praise for the Secret Service—which has been criticized for allowing the attack to happen in the first place—and his supporters at the rally: “A lot of places, especially soccer games, you hear a single shot, everybody runs. Here there were many shots and they stayed,” he said of the rallygoers. “I love them. They are such great people.”
He also signaled his intention to attend Comperatore’s funeral, and visit the other victims in hospital.
Federal prosecutions of Trump by special counsel Jack Smith are currently stalled due to issues with the cases against the former president. A prosecution mounted by state-level Democrats in Georgia is also stalled.
A dubious state-level conviction of the America First leader still stands in Manhattan, New York, but it subject to appeal, and a sentence has not been handed down.
