Former President recounted the Sunday afternoon assassination attempt that was thwarted by the Secret Service.
“It was quite something, but it worked out well, and Secret Service did an excellent job, and they have the man behind bars, and hopefully he’s going to be there for a long time. Dangerous person, very, very dangerous person,” Trump said.
“So I was playing golf with some of my friends on Sunday morning – very peaceful, very beautiful weather. Everything was beautiful, nice place to be, and all of a sudden we heard shots being fired … I guess probably four or five.
“Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets, and they grabbed me.”
“We got into the carts, and we moved along pretty, pretty good. I was with an agent, and the agent did a fantastic job,” the former president continued. “There was no question that we were getting off that course. I would have loved to have sank that last putt, but we decided, let’s get out of here.”
Trump added, “and what the gunfire was, actually, interestingly, was a Secret Service agent had seen a barrel of an AK 47, which is a very powerful rifle, and he started shooting at the barrel.
“How good is that, right? Could only see the barrel. Based on that, he started shooting and ran toward the target.”
The would-be assassin “ran across the street and grabbed his car, hopped into his truck or car, and amazingly, a civilian in that area saw something, and it looked very suspicious, and in the car, drove their car to the back of his truck of some kind, and took pictures of the license plate, gave it to the sheriff’s office,” Trump said.
Here’s the latest on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump:
- Would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks visited gun range dozens of times — including Christmas — for ‘intense preparation’
- Newly surfaced texts show Trump rally gunman was on authorities’ radar more than 90 minutes before shooting: report
- FBI to conduct victim interview with Donald Trump after assassination attempt
- Ex-Trump doc says FBI’s Wray is ‘wrong’ to doubt ex-prez was struck by bullet: ‘Absolutely no evidence’
- Trump defends female Secret Service agent who was criticized after assassination attempt: ‘So brave’
When asked what he makes of two assassination attempts in two months: “Well, there’s a lot of rhetoric going on right now.
“A lot of people think that the Democrats, when they talk about threat to democracy and all of this. And it seems that both of these people were radical left.”
“The first one they should learn more about. They have apps that they haven’t opened yet, which is pretty strange. And the father went out and got the biggest lawyer in the state of Pennsylvania, which is pretty strange,” Trump said, referring to Butler shooter.