Former President Donald Trump released a new statement on Sunday morning, confirming that he will attend the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin this week, coming hours after he survived what officials described as an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally.
As the former president thanked people for their “thoughts and prayers,” he added that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.”
The attack was the first shooting of a U.S. president or major presidential party candidate since the 1981 attempted assassination of Republican President Ronald Reagan.
One person who attended the rally was killed and two other spectators were critically wounded, the U.S. Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies said….