King Charles III reached out to Donald Trump after the assassination attempt on the previous president’s life over the weekend.
The monarch, 75, wrote a non-public letter to Trump, 78, that was delivered Sunday through the UK’s embassy in Washington, DC, Buckingham Palace confirmed to The Submit.
The palace didn’t present particulars in regards to the contents of the message.
Sources advised the Daily Beast that Charles’ letter was “in protecting” with the feelings expressed by Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
He reacted to the capturing on the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on Saturday by posting: “I’m appalled by the stunning scenes at President Trump’s rally and we ship him and his household our greatest needs.”
“Political violence in any kind has no place in our societies and my ideas are with all of the victims of this assault,” Starmer, 61, added.
Trump was shot in the ear whereas he was talking onstage on the Butler Farm Present grounds.
The shooter, recognized as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was perched on a roof about 130 yards from the stage.
Crooks was shot and killed by Secret Service, sources advised The Submit.
One other rally-goer, 50-year-old former firefighter Corey Comperatore, was killed by Crooks. Two others, David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, had been wounded.
Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview that had he not barely moved his head when Crooks fired at him with an AR-style gun, he would’ve been killed. As a substitute, the shot tore off a small piece of Trump’s ear and splattered blood on his brow and cheek.
“The physician on the hospital mentioned he by no means noticed something like this, he known as it a miracle,” mentioned Trump.
“I’m not alleged to be right here. I’m alleged to be useless,” he added. “I’m alleged to be useless.”
Trump is working in opposition to President Joe Biden within the upcoming presidential election.
The previous president has made many guarantees ought to he get elected — including possibly deporting Charles’ youngest son, Prince Harry, who moved to California together with his spouse, Meghan Markle, in 2020.
In March, Trump was requested by GB Information presenter Nigel Farage in regards to the legal battle over Harry, 39, who admitted he took illegal drugs (cocaine, hashish and psychedelic mushrooms) in his memoir, “Spare.” Trump mentioned the Duke of Sussex shouldn’t have “particular privileges” if it’s found he lied on his software for a US visa.
“We’ll must see in the event that they know one thing in regards to the medication, and if he lied, they’ll must take applicable motion,” Trump mentioned.
When pressed on whether or not “applicable motion” may imply deportation, Trump responded: “Oh, I don’t know. You’ll have to inform me. You simply have to inform me. You’ll have thought they’d have identified this a very long time in the past.”
Talking on the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland in February, Trump criticized the Biden administration for being “too gracious” to the Sussexes ever since Harry and Markle fled to the US.
“I wouldn’t defend him. He betrayed the queen. That’s unforgivable. He can be on his personal if it was right down to me,” the forty fifth president advised the Every day Categorical newspaper of Harry.
Charles, who is estranged from Harry, has not commented on Trump presumably deporting his son.
Trump and the monarch have frolicked collectively over time. In 2019, Charles hosted the then-president and his spouse, Melania Trump, for tea at Clarence Home. Then the late Queen Elizabeth II hosted a state banquet for Trump when he was within the UK on the time.
In September 2022, Trump known as the late queen a “stunning woman” after she died at age 96.
“Queen Elizabeth’s historic and memorable reign left an amazing legacy of peace and prosperity for Nice Britain. Her management and enduring diplomacy secured and superior alliances with america and nations world wide,” Trump mentioned in an announcement on the time. “Melania and I’ll all the time cherish our time along with the Queen, and always remember Her Majesty’s beneficiant friendship, nice knowledge, and fantastic humorousness. What a grand and exquisite woman she was — there was no one like her!”
