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A year after Trump’s near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man
AP News ^ | July 12, 2025 | Jill Colvin

Posted on 07/12/2025 8:52:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

One year after coming millimeters from a very different outcome, Trump, according to friends and aides, is still the same Trump. But they see signs, beyond being on higher alert on stage, that his brush with death did change him in some ways…

Roger Stone, a longtime friend and informal adviser, noted that Trump has had other brushes with death, including a last-minute decision not to board a helicopter to Atlantic City that crashed in 1989 and another near-assassination two months after Butler when U.S. Secret Service agents spotted a man pointing a rifle through the fence near where Trump was golfing.

Stone said he’s found the president “to be more serene and more determined after the attempt on his life” in Butler.

“He told me directly that he believed he was spared by God for the purpose of restoring the nation to greatness, and that he believes deeply that he is protected now by the Lord,” he said.

Ralph Reed, chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, agreed.

“I think for people who know the president, it is commonly believed that it changed him. I mean, how could it not? Imagine if you were who he was and if you don’t turn your head at that instant,” he said. “He knew he was lucky to be alive.”

Given how close Trump came to a very different outcome, Reed said, “it’s hard not to feel on some level that the hand of providence protected him for some greater purpose. And there are people that I’ve talked to who said they were confident that he would win for that reason. That there must have been a reason.”

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: anniversary; butler; maga; trump

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1 posted on 07/12/2025 8:52:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I agree he was changed then, 100%, now I am not so sure.


2 posted on 07/12/2025 8:56:56 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: dpetty121263

This is not a thread for stuff like that. President Trump was saved by GOD, because GOD is using him to renew America.


3 posted on 07/12/2025 9:09:15 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

May God continue to bless and protect Donald Trump and his family. I will continue to say with the prophet Isaiah: “Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall...No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.”


4 posted on 07/12/2025 9:22:48 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: cowboyusa

I truly believe God saved Trump in Butler so he could save the country.


5 posted on 07/12/2025 9:37:57 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“I truly believe God saved Trump in Butler so he could save the country.”
No doubt in my mind.


6 posted on 07/12/2025 10:22:25 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: dpetty121263

That just means you have come to disagree with his policies.

If you want to understand things, the passage of the big beautiful bill this month called off the recession later this year and gave rise to the golden cross in the stock market.

That means the economy will be booming next year at levels never seen before in recent memory. What’s more the federal deficit will have shrunk to nearly zero. It will be gone by 2027—but maybe sooner.


7 posted on 07/12/2025 11:04:34 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Best pres since George Washington

But this week has been disastrous and then some

The scales are off the eyes of his base and strongest media supporters

It sucks

But he may have had no choice literally

Like they say president ain’t king


8 posted on 07/12/2025 11:08:04 PM PDT by wardaddy ( The Blob must be bled dry but don’t hold your breath )
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To: dpetty121263

You seem to be contradicting yourself.


9 posted on 07/13/2025 5:18:49 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

My sister-in-law who lives in San Antonio, has a friend who drives charter busses. She writes:

“A friend of mine drives charter busses and was part of the Trump motorcade yesterday. She was very moved by how shaken Trump was by what he saw.”


10 posted on 07/13/2025 5:34:36 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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