MELANIA Trump has broken her silence on the attempted assassination of her husband Donald on Saturday night to brand his would-be killer a “monster.”
The former First Lady revealed the horror of watching the bullet graze her husband on stage and said she felt “on the brink of devastating change” in the aftermath of the shooting that killed one supporter.
Melania Trump spoke out after the shooting on Saturday morningAP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez
She also slammed the shooter, now named as 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, for treating her husband as an “inhuman political machine” and begged for unity across political parties.
Melania accused Crooks of trying to “ring out Donald’s passion.”
“Donald, the generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times,” she wrote in a statement posted to X.
She then delved into how differing opinions and politics are “inferior to love.”
What we know so far:
A shooter opened fire at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, killing one, critically injuring two others, and wounding the former President
Dramatic footage showed the moment Trump dived behind his podium as Secret Service agents closed in
The FBI confirmed it was an assassination attempt, but said there was no prior threat
Trump broke his silence with a statement describing the shooting – after a bullet struck his ear and left blood pouring down the side of his face
A hot microphone captured the moment Secret Service agents screamed “Get down!”
The shooter – identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks – was shot dead by Secret Service agents at the scene
A witness claims he warned police about a man with a rifle on a nearby roof minutes before the attack
President Joe Biden dubbed the shooting “sick,” and has suspended campaigning for the next two days
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