Ivanka Trump recalls watching Trump assassination attempt in real time
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In a candid conversation on “Diary of a CEO,” Ivanka Trump recalled the moment her father was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the profound impact it had on her.” podcast released on Wednesday.
Podcast host Steven Bartlett asked Ivanka Where was he when he learned that there had been an assassination attempt on his father?
He shared that he was in Bedminster, NJ and heard “a lot of commotion.”
The first girl recalled seeing it “almost immediately” on the poolside TV.
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She said she saw this almost in real time and her first reaction was to turn her children away at a moment she described as “incredibly difficult.”
He shared that he knew his father was okay as he walked off stage with the Secret Service.
“I knew that, like it wasn’t his time,” he said. “I was terrified and scared. I was protecting my children, but at the same time I didn’t believe the worst possible outcome would happen. Thank God.”
He explained that he saw his father that evening when he returned to Bedminister from the hospital.
Ivanka paused and reflected on the profound realization of this experience: “You can’t take anything for granted in life.”
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In addition to the assassination attempt, Ivanka noted that her mother Ivana passed away “early” and that her husband Jared Kushner had a cancer scare. He said all these moments remind him of how precious life is.
“All these difficulties that remind you how limited and precious every moment of this life we live is, make you realize that you cannot accept anything as it is,” Ivanka said. he said. “As you move through them and with God’s permission, you can do that and we were so lucky that day, it was a failed attempt to take his life, it didn’t happen, you’re committed again to love and connection and realizing how short our time on this Earth is and how you have to value it.”
Bartlett noted that Ivanka’s experience is largely irrelevant because most people cannot understand what it is like for others to want a parent dead.
“I wonder how that doesn’t make you negative towards the world?” he asked.
“Because I don’t allow it,” he replied.
“Even for the person who shot at your father?” followed.
“There’s a lot of sickness out there, and I think it’s a hard thing to forgive in that respect,” he said.
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Ivanka added: “It was a blessing that he was alive, so I could look at what happened and I could rightfully be traumatized by that experience and no one could really argue with that, but you have to get through it and on the other side is the fact that he’s not dead, he’s with us today. It’s an extraordinary blessing for my father to be alive and for me as his daughter. You have a choice in life, only in how you respond.”
Ivanka said she chose gratitude because her father survived. But Ivanka admitted that seeing that moment repeated on the news “wasn’t the easiest thing.”
He said it was a “miracle” and a “blessing” that his father survived the attempt and that he chose to focus on that.
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