Former United States of America President Donald Trump has described his experience during his attempted assassination as “very Surreal Experience”.
Trump who was shot in the left side of his ear region during a rally at Pennsylvania claimed he was supposed to be dead.
Speaking to the Press after the attempt, Trump said “I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Trump told the press 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.
It was a “very surreal experience” he said with a white bandage covering his right ear, the paper said.
A gunman hit him on Saturday in a chaotic and shocking incident set to supercharge political tensions ahead of the polarising US presidential election.
Hours after the incident, the Republican candidate said he felt the bullet rip through his skin.
“It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country,” Trump said on his Truth Social network hours later, in remarks sure to stoke the political hostility already engulfing the United States.
“I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.”
He later could be seen walking unaided from his plane, though his wounded ear was not facing the camera in video footage posted by his deputy communications director. Reports said that he was staying the night in New Jersey.
Police confirmed that a spectator was killed and two critically injured in the shooting, all of them male adults.
The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood streaked across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the shooter and a bystander were killed and two spectators severely injured.
