After the shooting, they wanted to take him away on a stretcher, but he refused. This is the story that Trump gave in an interview with Fox News when the journalist asked him about the state of his ear after the shooting. assassination attempt which he suffered while giving a rally in the state of Pennsylvania during the Republican ConventionHe did so, despite having previously stated that he would not speak much about the subject.

The Republican candidate and former US president claims to remember how he walked off the stage as bullets flew over his head: “When I came down, the bullets were flying by and you could hear them. It was like ‘zip, zip, zip’“. However, the tycoon’s story presents some inaccuracy since there were no shots fired while the secret service members were removing him. It should also be noted that the shooters had already shot down the attacker one minute before the evacuation of the Republican.

On the other hand, Trump claims that he wanted to leave on foot despite the insistence of his security team: “They wanted to put me on a stretcher and I told them, I’m not going to go on a stretcher.” But of course, everything points to the fact that the only thing he said when security was taking him off the stage was “Where are my shoes?”.

Despite the praise for the security forces, the former president does not hesitate to question the security measures deployed. “How can someone be there?” he asked, while maintaining that the attacker “was there for a long time because he is recorded moving around everywhere.” In fact, he insists that “They see him, and they don’t report that he is there”.

For the Republican candidate, the device deployed was insufficient, for which he directly blames the until now democratic candidate and still president, Joe Biden. “There is something wrong with our government that we have to worry about” because according to “someone said (…) a lot of people were involved in the team [Joe] Biden”.

“The problem is that Biden doesn’t attract anyone, he attracts flies,” he said, adding that “30 people go to the Democrat’s rallies,” while “55,000 to 60,000 people go to the Republican’s.” A comment that earned the knowing laugh of his number two, JD Vance. Although the interview was recorded just one day before Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race, Vance said that if Biden was not fit to be a candidate, he should not be fit to remain in the White House either.