"The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle. I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead," Trump said in an interview with the New York Post, TASS reported.
According to Trump, the doctor told him that he had never seen anyone survive getting hit by an AR-15-style rifle. "I just wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot," he noted.
According to the politician, the assassination attempt would have been successful had he not "turned his head slightly to the right to read a chart on illegal immigrants."
An attempt on Trump’s life took place on July 13 at an election rally in Pennsylvania. The former president was wounded but his life is not in danger: the bullet tore off a small piece of his ear. One of his supporters was killed in the shooting. The attacker was killed by the Secret Service personnel.