NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was onstage at a rally on Long Island last month, talking about taxes, when he appeared momentarily spooked by something he'd spotted over his shoulder.
Associated PressNEW YORK — Donald Trump was onstage at a rally on Long Island last month, talking about taxes, when he appeared momentarily spooked by something he'd spotted over his shoulder.
It was a fleeting moment passed off as a joke. But as he returns to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday for a rally at the site where a gunman opened fire in July, grazing his ear with a bullet, the scare underscores the lasting fallout for the candidate and his campaign even as much of the national attention has shifted to other crises.
"When you almost lose your life, it stays with you. It stays with him," said Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, a close Trump ally."But that doesn't change his resolve. His resolve is just as strong as it ever has been."Trump staffers are on edge. There have been death threats directed at his aides, and his team isn't as able to quickly organize the mass rallies that have always been the signature of his campaigns.
"They couldn't give me any help. And I'm so angry about it because what they're doing is interfering in the election," he said in a recent Fox News interview. Trump's campaign last week was briefed on continued threats from Iran in presumed retaliation for his administration's killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, an act that prompted Iran's leaders to vow revenge. In August, a Pakistani man alleged to have links to Iran was charged in a plot to carry out political assassinations on U.S. soil. Law enforcement did not name the targets of the alleged plot, but legal filings suggest Trump was a potential target.
"I think that from our perspective, just from the campaign standpoint, operationally, if there's one group of people that can handle something like this thrown in their lap, it's the team that Donald Trump assembled to run this campaign, just based on everything we've had to deal with, whether it's lawsuits to keep him off the ballot, to indictments, to assassination attempts," Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita said.
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