Former President Donald Trump expressed concern for the safety of his family after surviving two recent assassination attempts.
In an interview with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, Trump recounted being shot in the head during a Pennsylvania rally in July and narrowly escaping another attempt last weekend.
“I don’t talk about it, but I do. I have to worry about my family. I have to worry about everybody,” the former president told Kilmeade.
The latest incident involved a Democrat donor hiding on Trump’s golf course with a rifle, heightening concerns over ongoing threats against the former president and those close to him.
Earlier this week, Trump praised a “very sharp agent” who spotted the barrel of an AK-47-style rifle protruding from a fence approximately 400 yards away.
“In this particular case, you had a very sharp agent, as good as you could find, and did a fantastic job, but somebody could have missed the barrel of that rifle,” Trump said during an interview with Fox News. “Somebody of lesser talents or somebody that was distracted could have missed or could have been shot, I mean, frankly, could have also been shot.”
“But in this case, it worked out very well,” he added. “Butler is a very different story. Somebody should have been on that building, and that’s a different story.”
On July 13, Trump was shot in the right ear in Butler after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to secure a rooftop position 130 yards away. Crooks fired eight shots, killing rallygoer Corey Comperatore and wounding two other attendees.
