In an interview that aired on Sunday’s episode of Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, talked about how the failed assassination attempt in July affected his faith in God.
Trump implied that divine intervention allowed him to “straighten out our country.”
Partial transcript follows:
LEVIN: You’ve been a man of faith. You go to church. You believe in God.
Has this further your belief — your commitment and obviously, God, in addition to that chart —
TRUMP: Yeah.
LEVIN: — saved your life, he has a purpose for you. Do you think about these things?
TRUMP: Well, I think you believe more because when you speak to experts, like my sons who are shooting experts, but when you speak to experts, they said there was no chance that he could have missed from that distance.
I think he was hurried. I think he was rushed because people were starting to say, like, you know, there’s a guy up there with a gun. And I think he was probably rushed.
LEVIN: This is what drives people crazy.
TRUMP: Yeah, I know.
LEVIN: Right now, me, too. There’s a guy up there with a gun.
TRUMP: I know.
LEVIN: The hell, there’s a guy up there —
TRUMP: Well —
LEVIN: — with a gun.
TRUMP: By the time they started saying it, it was a little bit on the late side and luckily, he was taken out quickly.
But I’ll tell you, if he wasn’t, it would have been like in Las Vegas, that horrible attack in Las Vegas with the crazy men up in the building shooting down into the crowds. And that’s what you would have had here. These crowds were bigger. And you would have had a lot of people and a lot.
It was bad having three and especially losing one but — no, I think you think, like, if you believe in God, you believe in God more. And somebody said like, why — and I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country.
Our country is so sick and it’s so broken. Our country is just broken. And maybe that was the reason — I don’t know, I don’t know. A lot of people have said that.
