Ivanka Trump is staying by her father’s aspect after a would-be assassin focused the previous president throughout a Saturday marketing campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
The former first daughter acquired former President Donald Trump Saturday evening at his Bedminster, NJ property, the place he spent the evening after his accidents have been examined at a Butler, Pa., hospital instantly after the taking pictures.
“He’s her dad and this was terrifying,” mentioned a household supply.
Ivanka, 42, beforehand spoke to her father on the cellphone whereas he was nonetheless within the hospital, a number of sources informed The Put up.
She is expected to join the presumptive Republican nominee for president in Milwaukee on Thursday when Trump formally accepts the occasion’s nomination.
The 78-year-old former president will head to conference metropolis on Sunday afternoon regardless of being grazed by a bullet the earlier evening.
“Primarily based on yesterday’s horrible occasions, I used to be going to delay my journey to Wisconsin, and The Republican Nationwide Conference, by two days, however have simply determined that I can’t permit a ‘shooter,’ or potential murderer, to power change to scheduling, or the rest,” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “Due to this fact, I will probably be leaving for Milwaukee, as scheduled, at 3:30 P.M. TODAY.”
Ivanka mentioned in a social media publish Sunday that she attributes her father’s survival of the assassination try to her mother, the late Ivana Trump, whom the previous first daughter mentioned was “watching over Dad.”
“Two years in the past as we speak, my mother handed away. I imagine she was watching over Dad final evening throughout the try on his life,” Ivanka wrote on X.
The gunman, recognized as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot and killed moments after wounding the previous president, killing a rally-goer and critically injuring no less than two others throughout his brief rampage, in keeping with authorities.
“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from taking place,” the previous president mentioned of the try on his life.
