Eric Trump tells Florida GOP when he knew Donald Trump was ‘back’ after assassination attempt

A boxing joke from the former President told Eric Trump that his father Donald Trump was going to be all right after a shot from a sniper grazed his ear at a rally.

“He was just about to go in for a CT scan and he kind of cracked a joke,” Eric Trump told a gathering of Florida Republicans while discussing a call from a medical center in Pennsylvania.

“It involved Evander Holyfield,” Eric Trump said, referring to the boxer who infamously saw his ear bitten by an opponent in a boxing match decades ago.

“You know, you weren’t Mike Tyson, you were definitely Holyfield in that one,” Eric Trump quipped. “And I knew Donald Trump was back.”

Eric Trump’s remarks included a number of meditations on the attack on the former President, and the “divine intervention” that saved his life.

“Somebody was looking down,” he related.

“I was talking to an emergency room doctor and they said, ‘Listen, I’ve treated thousands of gunshot wounds in my life and I’ve never seen a bullet graze somebody like that. It just doesn’t (happen). Statistically, like, you either get hit or you don’t.”

The religious meditation continued, with Eric Trump describing a “flag that curled up … hanging between the two cranes” that “looked like a perfect angel.”

He continued to tell the story that something bigger was in play with Trump’s remarkable recovery.

“The bullet rips out and you have that incredible low. And then all of a sudden you just see these victories start coming. I mean, the first victory is, was, you know, ‘fight, fight, fight,'” Eric Trump said, referring to Donald Trump’s defiant fist-pumping as he was being led off the stage by Secret Service agents.

Eric Trump then recounted his father’s “next victory” being “when he walked out last night and you could almost see a humbleness in him … just a changed persona realizing how close that ultimately was.”

The speaker also suggested that the attempt on his father’s life has brought a “new momentum” and “new level of positivity in the air” akin to the unity after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“Right after 9/11, the day after every American was flying an American flag on their home. America came together in a massive way and I certainly hope (that) as horrible and as close as this was, I certainly hope that could be one of these kind of benchmarks in life where that can happen.”

Eric Trump added that his father will ultimately “go down” in history with Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson and “some of the greats.”