The first words of Donald Trump on his assassination attempt. The former US president stressed in a telephone conversation with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that: “Something shook me. It looked like the biggest mosquito in the world.” A conversation for which there is also graphic evidence, recorded by a hidden camera and which Kennedy himself distributed, although he deleted it shortly afterwards.

In that call, The former president also reveals to the independent candidate details of his conversation with Biden, who asked him “How did you move to the right?”

The former president was wounded in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, by a 20-year-old man who was shot dead shortly after by security forces manning the perimeter. The shot was fired from outside the venue, causing not only the wound to the Republican candidate, but also wounding two other people and killing a third who were in the audience at the event.. The former president was able to save his life, thanks to the fact that he turned his head moments before the projectile passed, while showing a graph to the public

The aggressor, Matthew Crookswas a 20-year-old white man, originally from Pennsylvania, whose motivations are still unknown, since he appears in the records as a Republican voter, but he also helped raise funds for Democrats. The weapon he used was a AR-15 assault rifle“A big, powerful weapon,” Trump told Kennedy Jr., in a conversation in which the Republican was trying to enlist the support of the independent candidate: “It would be such a great and good thing for you. We’re going to win. “We’re way ahead of the guy,” he said, referring to the current occupant of the White House, Joe Biden.

According to the latest polls conducted by the website FiveThirtyEight, Trump leads voting intentions with 42.2%, 2.2 points more than the DemocratTrump also received approval for his presidential candidacy at the convention his party is holding from Tuesday to Thursday in Milwaukee, in the key state of Wisconsin, where he has named his “number two,” Ohio Senator JD Vance.

Kennedy Jr. apologized on Tuesday with a message posted on his social media profile X: “When he called me I was recording at home with a cameraman. I should have ordered him to stop recording immediately. I am ashamed that it was published. I apologize.”