Former President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he believes God saved him from death when an assassin tried to shoot him on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The president spoke at the 79th Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City, a charity dinner where presidential candidates poke fun at one another. Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris skipped the event, making her the first presidential nominee to skip the dinner in decades.
As Trump spoke, he referenced the July 13 attempt on his life, when a would-be assassin shot him in the ear, narrowly missing his head, and killing a father seated behind Trump named Corey Comperatore.
“Is that luck, or was that God that did that?” he asked the assembled guests. “And I think it was God that did that, I do.”
“I have a very fresh appreciation for how blessed we are by God’s providence and his divine mercy,” he continued. “I was not supposed to be here tonight, that I can tell you. So with God’s…