President Donald Trump has paid special tribute to the person who produced the chart that caused him to turn his head away from a would-be assassin’s bullet.
During his rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this week, Trump called the unnamed woman a “computer genius” and invited her on stage, the New York Post reported.
It was the first time Trump had held a rally in Pennsylvania since the failed assassination attempt last month.
During a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired shots that were likely aimed at the 45th president’s head.
However, a split-second change in the position of his head to review the chart saved Trump’s life.
“I love that chart,” Trump quipped at Wednesday’s rally.
“I’m going to sleep with that chart for the rest of my life”
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Trump began speaking about illegal immigration and asked for the same chart showing the numbers that became his saving grace earlier this month.
“You know, this chart saved my life,” Trump said as the crowd cheered.
“Where is that chart? I love that chart,” he added.
“I’m going to sleep with that chart for the rest of my life.
“That chart … you know the amazing thing?
“You know, the people that operate the computers and all the brilliant equipment we have backstage,” Trump said.
He then invited the young woman, who he credits for the chart, to come up on stage.
“She’s never done this before. She saved my life in a sense,” Trump said.
“I said you saved my life. Here she is. Wow.”
It appeared Trump asked her if she wanted to say anything to the crowd.
She shook her head but then Trump whispered into her ear.
The woman then approached the microphone and said, “Hi.”
“She’s a computer genius. She saved my life,” Trump said.
It’s amazing what a difference a split-second movement made for Trump.
Instead of taking a kill shot to the head, Trump’s ear was clipped by Crooks’ bullet.
Trump appeared to turn his to look at the chart at the same moment Crooks pulled the trigger.
Aaron Cohen, veteran of the Israeli Special Operations, later explained to Fox News’ Trace Gallagher exactly how close to death Trump was that day.
“God must have been watching down on the president,” Cohen said.
“Snipers are typically trained to shoot into the cerebral cortex of the cerebellum at the top of the brain stem.
“It incapacitates you, it keeps your hands from moving,” Cohen explained.
Crooks had an easy and direct shot, which Cohen called “a putt,” but he missed it.
“It’s very clear to me that had the president’s head been straight, and if that round had gone into the ear, it would have been lights out,” Cohen added.
“The fact that he just happened to be turned this way with that shot coming in is what saved his life.”
It was a miracle that Trump’s life was spared that day.
Despite all of the security failures and the determination of one dangerous young man, Trump lived to tell the tale because he turned his head just in time.
Had he not moved his head at that pivotal moment, we would be living in a very different world today.
