Former President Donald Trump vowed Monday that he will continue to hold outdoor rallies despite the recent assassination attempt against him, which he revealed his wife, Melania, was “watching live.”
Former President Donald Trump vowed Monday that he will continue to hold outdoor rallies despite the recent assassination attempt against him, which he revealed his wife, Melania, was “watching live.”
“Yeah, I’m going to do rallies [outside],” Trump, 78, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham when asked if he would be holding future outdoor events in light of the July 13 shooting at his Butler, Pa., campaign rally.
The Secret Service has reportedly encouraged the former president’s campaign to no longer host outdoor events over security concerns. All of Trump’s campaign events since the assassination attempt have been held indoors.
“I think it’s important symbolically,” the Republican nominee for president said of his upcoming return to the town where the assassination attempt took place.
“I don’t think we should be stopped by somebody that has severe mental problems or whatever his problem was,” Trump added.
Trump, who was grazed in the ear at the Butler rally by a bullet fired by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, noted that the former first lady was watching the event on television as the horrifying shooting unfolded and thought “the worst had happened.
