BUTLER, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump returned to the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, for a rally marked by enhanced security measures around the fairground as supporters call Saturday’s rally a healing moment.
“As I was saying…” Trump kicked off his speech with the immigration chart he was looking at when gunshots rang out in July appeared on the Jumbotron.
The former president thanked the first responders and the community that rallied behind him in the wake of the assassination attempt, using the event as a mobilizing force for his supporters with a month until Election Day.
“Exactly 12 weeks ago, this evening, on this very ground, a cold-blooded assassin aimed to silence me and to silence the greatest movement, MAGA, in the history of our country,” Trump said, recounting the moment a gunman targeted his life back in July.
“For 16 harrowing seconds during the gunfire, time …