Jesse Watters, a Fox News correspondent, recently sat down with Trump and his running mate JD Vance to talk about the assassination that happened last week.
The assassination attempt came during a campaign event at Butler, Pennsylvania when Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump from the rooftop despite the fact that he injured only his left ear.
Trump revealed during the interview that he was not warned about Crooks by the U.S. Secret Service.
“Mistakes were made,” Watters told Trump. “They were monitoring this guy for an hour beforehand. No one told you not to take the stage?”
“Nobody mentioned it,” the former president replied. “Nobody said it was a problem.”
“[They] could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15, 20 minutes, 5 minutes.’ Nobody said…I think that was a mistake,” he added.
Trump was upset and dumbfounded at how Crooks ended up on the roof.
“How did somebody get on that roof?” Trump questioned. “And why wasn’t he reported, because people saw he was on that roof.”
“When you have Trumpers screaming, the woman in the red shirt, ‘There’s a man on the roof,’ and other people, ‘There’s a man on the roof and who’s got a gun,’…that was quite a bit before I walked on the stage. And I would’ve thought someone would’ve done something about it,” Trump said.
Trump is said to be recovering well despite the injury and was spotted at the Republican National Convention with a large bandage on his ear. President Trump’s former physician, Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson has also provided a comprehensive report on his health.
“He will have further evaluations, including a comprehensive hearing exam, as needed. He will follow up with his primary care physician, as directed by the doctors that initially evaluated him,” he continued. “In summary, former President Trump is doing well, and he is recovering as expected from the gunshot wound sustained last Saturday afternoon.”
“I am extremely thankful his life was spared. It is an absolute miracle he wasn’t killed,” Jackson added.
