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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Trump was so bloody after attempted assassination that staff thought he had been shot multiple times, book claims

Now-President Donald Trump said that he was bleeding so much on the hospital bed after the assassination attempt on his life in July last year that top aides thought he had been shot “four or five” times, according to a new book.

An excerpt from 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, published in The Washington Post, has revealed new details from the attack in Butler, Pennsylvania, almost a year later.

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