“Twelve weeks ago, right here, an assassin tried to silence me and our movement. This vicious monster (…) was close to achieving it but the hand of Providence prevented him,” declared Donald Trump, in front of an enthusiastic crowd. But the ex-president assures him, “I will never give up, never bend, never break.”
The Republican candidate and former president of the United States addressed several thousand people gathered in the town of Butler, in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, one month to the day before the presidential election on November 5 in which he will face Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the process, the Republican candidate marked a minute of silence, at the precise time when the shots rang out on July 13, with a strong tribute to the only victim, Corey Comperatore, before resuming his speech at the place exactly where it was then interrupted.
He also denounced those he called “the enemies from within, much more dangerous than those from without.” “For the past eight years, those who want to stop us have slandered me, tried to impeach me, sued me, tried to take away my ballots and, who knows, maybe even tried to kill me. But I have never stopped fighting for you and I will never stop,” the former president assured his supporters.
The gathering took place under very high security, with snipers installed on the roofs of several surrounding buildings and a drone flying over the crowd, an AFP journalist noted.
There were many more people who came to listen to Donald Trump than during the previous meeting in Butler, many dressed in a t-shirt bearing the image of the former president just after the assassination attempt, others with ear covered, reminiscent of the bandage he had worn in the following days.
Before entering the stage, Donald Trump was preceded by his running mate JD Vance, under the eyes of the richest man in the world Elon Musk, relatives of victims of the shootings and the police who protected him.
Invited to come and speak by Donald Trump, the billionaire presented the American election as “a fight that must not be lost”, fearing that it would, otherwise, be “the last election , that’s my prediction.” “President Trump must win, to preserve the Constitution and democracy,” insisted Elon Musk.
