Former President Donald Trump said he believes God shielded him from assassination during a rally in Pennsylvania, in a sentiment echoed by several prominent Republicans.
“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” the former president wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness.”
Later in the post, former President Trump expressed love for the families of the other shooting victims, including a firefighter who died and two others who were injured.
“In this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand United, and show our True Character as Americans, remaining Strong and Determined, and not allowing Evil to Win,” he wrote in his post.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a top potential vice presidential pick for former President Trump, wrote on X that “God protected President Trump,” including an image of the former president with blood streaked across his face and his fist in the air.
Rep. Carlos Antonio Gimenez (R-Fla.) agreed with the sentiment, telling Fox News that the former president wasn’t gravely wounded or killed by “the grace of God,” while Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) said “divine intervention” and God’s “protective hand” foiled the assassination attempt.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrote that it was God who “protected President Trump yesterday,” while he also told NBC News that he hopes politicians can tone down the political rhetoric following the assassination attempt.
“Yesterday there were miracles, and I think the hand of God was there too,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told Fox News on Sunday, noting that he himself was shot and wounded during a congressional baseball team event in 2017. “You can just see one centimeter over and we’re having a very different conversation,” he wrote.
Video of the incident shows the former president speaking at the rally and then turning his head slightly before he was struck in the right ear. Some Republicans, including Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, noted that the slight turning of his head may have saved his life and suggested divine intervention is at play.
“By the slightest turn of your head in a mere microsecond or the shield of a teleprompter,” Mr. Patrick wrote, speaking to the former president in a social media post, “your life was spared by the Grace of a Merciful and Holy God.”
The shooting suspect has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from the village of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, about an hour from the rally, the FBI said Sunday. No motive has been revealed.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Sunday identified the slain victim as 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, who “dove on” his wife and daughters as the gunman opened fire at the rally.
A statement issued later by Pennsylvania State Police officials identified the injured victims as 57-year-old David Dutch, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania; and 74-year-old James Copenhaver, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Both are in stable condition.
“These victims and their families are certainly in our thoughts today,” Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Colonel Christopher Paris said in a statement. “The Pennsylvania State Police continue to work tirelessly alongside our federal, state and local partners as this investigation continues.”
Saturday’s incident marks the first assassination shooting attempt on a current or former president in several decades, the last time occurring in 1981 when then-President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, D.C., by a lone gunman. The incident likely will roil the current 2024 presidential race, while many top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, condemned the violence.
“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” the former president wrote
The good Lord saved our president and our country.
There is no doubt in my heart that the Lord God Almighty was in control of this event.
But for 10 righteous men God would have saved Sodom and Gomorrah, ,,and but for the more than 10 righteous men still left in the Democrat side of Congress, he has not totally destroyed the Democrat party,,,,but each day for the past several decades the good men of this party are dwindling in number, and are approaching the 2 digit range where their party will soon become just another power grab organization of rebels, that ends in the dustbin of history. This is why they so fear Trump who exposes they and their lies that enslave, with the ugly but reality truths that set men free, and the reason God let that cup of hate pass Trump along with their present day Angels of death, now confined to just killing our American life force, one corrupt tax, sending, policy or monetary inflation at a time.
“Yet still the ancient foe,
doth seek to work us woe,
his craft and power are great,
And armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal,”,,,,
Except his minions who take over a once great American democratic Party,,, plot, lie, steal, in order to destroy God’s chosen, and pervert God’s planned grace and justice for America, every which way but loose, but eventually in the end are doomed to fail when those who love him get in harms way and God steps in to cover his eagles with his own wings of safety, love and protection. It is becoming exceptionally clear to WE THE PEOPLE that in God’s eyes and judgement,,,Trump must have done something really good, or is destined to in the future.
I am a firm believer that the Democrat Party is a cult of Satan.
Almost everything God has declared a Sin or an Abomination in his Holy Bible, the Democrats support, encourage and support.
John 8:42-47 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! 46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Psalms 37 excerpts Trump Vs Biden
Evil men borrow and “cannot pay it back, But the good man returns what he owes with some extra besides.
I have been young and now I am old. And in all my years I have never seen the Lord forsake a man who loves him; nor have I seen the children of the godly go hungry.
For the Lord loves justice and fairness; he will never abandon his people. They will be kept safe forever; but all who love wickedness shall perish.
Evil men spy on the godly, waiting for an excuse to accuse them and then demanding their death.(Trump) But the Lord will not let these evil men succeed, nor let the godly be condemned when they are brought before the judge.
Be not impatient for the Lord to act!,,and in due season he will honor you with every blessing, and you will see the wicked destroyed. I myself have seen a proud and evil man, towering like a cedar of Lebanon, but when I looked again, he was gone! (Biden) But the good blameless man, the upright, the man of peace—he has a wonderful future ahead of him. But evil men shall be destroyed, and their posterity shall be cut off. (Two Biden Kids paid the price).The Lord saves the godly! He is their salvation and their refuge when trouble comes. and delivers them from the plots of evil men.