() – Former President Donald Trump publicly detailed for the first time his experience of the apparent assassination attempt on him Sunday, praising the U.S. Secret Service, other law enforcement agencies and the witness who took a photo of the suspect’s car that helped lead to his arrest.
“I was playing golf with some of my friends, it was a Sunday morning and it was very quiet, very beautiful weather, everything was beautiful, it’s a nice place to be. And all of a sudden we heard shots in the air, I guess probably four or five, and they sounded like bullets. But what do I know about that? But the Secret Service knew immediately that they were bullets and they grabbed me, and I think probably Steve, one of the people who was with me. Steve Witkoff, a great friend of mine,” Trump said Monday during a talk at X Spaces where he was expected to pitch a new cryptocurrency business.
Trump continued: “So we were in a group and we all just got in the cars and went way, way out. I was with an agent and the agent did a fantastic job. There was no question that we were off course. I would have loved to have made that last putt, but we decided to get out of there.”
Trump recounted how the agent saw the barrel of the gun through the bushes.
“He started shooting at the cannon, he started shooting in the bushes. You could only see the cannon. How good do you have to be at that? Right? You could only see the cannon. Based on that, he started shooting and he ran towards the target and he was shooting a lot; I mean, those were the shots that we heard. The other one (the attacker) never got a shot off,” Trump said.
Trump then described how law enforcement managed to stop the attacker with the help of a witness who saw the suspect running out of the bushes and took a photograph of his car.
Trump praised the witness, saying, “That civilian did a phenomenal job. A woman. I mean, who knew, how many people would have the intellectual capacity to follow him and take pictures of the back of his truck to end up doing it. And the key was the license plate. So they got the license plate, and after they got it, you know, there’s all kinds of technology that they can literally track where that truck is. I didn’t know that existed. And they tracked it down on the highway.”
Trump said: “It was a big deal, but it all went well and the Secret Service did an excellent job, and they have the man behind bars, and hopefully he will be there for a long time. Dangerous person, very, very dangerous person.”
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