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By Giulia Carbonaro
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Ivanka Trump has said she learned of the July 2024 assassination attempt on her father "almost immediately" while at a pool with her children in Bedminster, New Jersey.
"There was a lot of commotion, and the televisions were on. So I saw it almost immediately," she told Steven Bartlett on his podcast, The Diary of a CEO, this week.
"It was almost real time. It was before he had stood back up that I had seen what was transpiring. Two of my children were there, so my first reaction was to turn them away," she said, adding that she was "horrified" and "scared."
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The president's daughter also said she knew "in that moment that he was fine," and that "it wasn't his time."
‘Not His Time’—Not Then, Nor Later
President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt while speaking at an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. Trump's upper right ear was grazed by a bullet fired by an AR-15-style rifle from a nearby building's roof.
Moments after being shot at, Trump defiantly bounced back with his fist up, a moment that became immortalized in a photo that appeared again and again during the rest of his presidential campaign.
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The suspect in the shooting was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who fired several rounds that day and killed an audience member, 50-year-old Corey Comperatore. Crooks, a registered Republican, was fatally shot by law enforcement.
In September 2024, 59-year-old Ryan Routh tried to kill Trump at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Routh was arrested after a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel poking out the bushes near the property. Earlier this year, he was sentenced to life in prison.
More security incidents involving the president followed Trump's return to the White House, the most recent and significant of which was the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old from Cameron, North Carolina, who had carried a shotgun and gas canister onto the grounds of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Law enforcement shot and killed Austin Tucker Martin after breaching the property's north gate on February 22. Trump was in Washington, D.C., at the time.
What Ivanka Trump Said About the Incident
Ivanka Trump told Bartlett that during the July 2024 assassination attempt, she "didn't believe the worst possible outcome had transpired," adding: "Thank God. And thank God it hadn't."
She said she and her husband, Jared Kushner, stayed up until 2 a.m. to see her father after he left the hospital. "We met his car as he was pulling in. I just feel incredibly lucky that he was protected on that day," she said.
"You can't take things for granted in life, and I've learned that in numerous ways, that being one of them. When my mom passed prematurely, when my husband had a scare with cancer," she added.
Ivanka Trump continued, "We were so lucky that this was a failed attempt to take his life and not a realized one."
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