A year after Trump’s near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man

Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump dead On stage In the beginning of this month, Iowa started the country at the State Fairground 250th anniversary When the celebration hears what looks like a fireworks remotely.

Did I hear I think I heard it? Donald Trump, thick, bullet -proof glass wall, he said. “Don’t worry, just fireworks.

“You should always think positively,” he continued. “I didn’t like this sound either.”

Comments, only days before the first anniversary To the waters close to Trump Butler served as a precise reminder in Pennsylvania, a permanent impact of the day, where an armed man opened fire at a campaign rally, grazed Trump’s ear and killed one of his supporters in his crowd.

Attack Significantly increased the 2024 campaign and a 10 -day stretch, including Trump. victorious arrival President Joe Biden’s in the Republican National Convention with a Bandy Ear Decision to give up the selection offer again and the rise of Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor.

A year after a millimeter has reached a very different result, Trump is still the same Trump, according to friends and assistants. However, beyond being a higher vigilant on stage, they see signs that death and brush have changed it in some ways: and they are more careful and grateful about how he believes that he was saved by God to save the country and serve a second period.

“I think it’s always behind his mind,” he said, Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, a long friend and ally, who has been closely in contact with Trump after being treated in a Pennsylvania hospital after being treated at a Pennsylvania hospital. “He is still a rude and washed man, you know. Zen could not be Buddhist. But I think, I will say that, more appreciated. More careful to his friends,” he said.

Graham added: “This is just a miracle that he did not die. He was definitely a man who believed it was a second rent in life.”

Continuous reminders

While many people who survived traumatic events are trying to prevent them from memory, Trump, instead of one of the darkest parts of modern political history, besieged by the souvenir. Decorated the White House and Golf Clubs With artworks The moment after shooting When he stood up, he pushed his fist dramatically into the air and said, “Fight, fight!”

A Picture of the Stage Now the White House is clearly hanging in the foyer of the state floor near the ladder To the president’s residence. It started early this year Tan On the table in the oval office, on a side table next to the resolte table.

And he He said in his speech at the Republic Convention He often shares the story of how to talk about what happened once, and how the southern border crossings turn his head at the right moment to show the “favorite graph of all time in history. He gives credit for saving his life.

Last month at a press conference in the White House briefing room, he accepted the physical effects of the shooting.

Orum I get a feeling of jumping once in a while, ”he said, pointing to his ear. “But you know, it’s okay. It’s a dangerous job. What I’m doing is a dangerous job.”

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CREDITING DIVINE INTERVATION

Trump’s Chief of General Staff, Susie Wiles, said rallyide as the chief of the campaign. A podcast interview published last week Trump moved away from the fire, believing that he had survived for a reason.

“I think I think you believe it is saved. I do. And never – even if he never thought before, I don’t think he will accept it. And now he will do it,” he said, “Pod Force One.”

He also loan the divine intervention. In the graph, “It was the last graphic on the way. And it was always on the other side. So it caused him to look in a different direction and lift his head a little to the opposite side in eight minutes. And it was just higher.

As a result, Trump says, “When he says things that are perfect – every president says, ‘Bless God’ – now he is deeper and more personal with him.

It also provided the attack to help Trump’s perceptions of public opinion during the campaign.

“The fact that the American people saw a person who was a warrior like that day, I think it turned out to be as terrible and tragic as possible, something that shows people’s character. And this is useful,” he said.

“You know, I have an obligation to do a good job, I feel, because I’m really saved,” Trump said in a statement on Friday. “I owe it a lot. And I think – I hope – the reason I was saved was to save our country.”

Roger Stone, a long -term friend and informal consultant, said Trump had other brushes, including death, including the decision of not taking a helicopter to Atlantic City. Collapsed in 1989 And when the US detects a man of secret service agents, two months after the Butler another asidist Pointing a rifle through the fence Trump is close to his golf.

Stone, the President’s Butler “after the attempt to life is more calm and more determined,” he said.

“He told me that he believed that he had survived by God in order to return to the greatness of the nation, and that he deeply believed that the Lord has been protected,” he said.

Ralph Reed, President of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

“For people who know the president, it is believed to have changed it. So how could he be? Imagine who you were and did not turn your head at that moment,” he said. “He knew he was lucky to be alive.”

Given how much Trump approaches a very different result, Reed said, “It is hard to feel that his hand protects him for a greater purpose. And there are people I talked about, so they said that they said they were sure they will win. A reason should be a reason.”

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Associated Press writer Nicole Winfield contributed to this report of Rome.