“I should be dead”. Grateful, defiant and somewhat incredulous to have saved his life by such a narrow margin. This is how he has shown himself Donald Trump in his first media interview after dodge the bullet by millimeters that went straight to his head, after that Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him during a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday.

A assassination attempt which has shaken up the electoral campaign in the United States and which the former Republican president is still assimilating, according to the ‘New York Post’ and the ‘Washington Examiner’. A “surreal experience”, in statements made by Trump himself to both media during his flight to Milwaukee, where this Monday the Republican National Convention begins that will confirm him as presidential candidate.

“I shouldn’t be here, I should be dead”the former president has asserted, highlighting how He turned his head just the right amount and at the right moment and angle. to prevent the bullet from passing through his brain as soon as it touched him, barely hurting his ear right. “Because of luck or because of God, many people are saying that it is because of God that I am still here,” he said.

“The doctor at the hospital said he had never seen anything like it, he called it a miracle“Trump said, after escaping death in an attack that ended with one fatalityand two injured among the attendees.

The tycoon He also defended the actions of the Secret Service. -whose protection he is entitled to as a former president- despite criticism that the attacker was able to shoot him from a nearby rooftop, less than 150 metres away and with a clear line of fire. He said that when the officers took him off the stage he wanted to continue addressing the audience: “I wanted to keep talking, but they had just shot me”he ironized.

Trump has also indicated that He wanted to leave on his own two feet and commented on the moment when he asked the Secret Service get your shoes backwhich he said fell from his grasp because of the force with which the agents tackled him to protect him. He also praised the way the Secret Service shot down the shooter Moments after the attack “with a shot between the eyes”: “They did a fantastic job, it’s surreal for all of us.”