He’s healed: Donald Trump sheds his bandage for Turning Point USA faithful
Donald Trump. Image via AP.

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'I don't know why I did it for this group, but that's it.'

The Republican presidential nominee was back in Florida, rallying the faithful at a Turning Point USA confab in West Palm Beach Friday.

And he revealed he too was healed.

Literally.

On a night when fresh Fox News and Wall Street Journal polls showed Donald Trump and the Vice President essentially tied in the race for President, Trump riffed about religion: “faith and family, God and country,” and the “prayers and support” that sustained him during his recovery from a wound during a mass shooting at his last outdoor rally in Butler, PA.

“I stand before you tonight thanks to the power of prayer and the grace of almighty God. As I think you can see, I’ve recovered well. I just took off the last bandage off of my ear. I just took it off. I took it off for this group. I don’t know why I did it for this group, but that’s it. I think that’s it. I hope that’s it,” Trump said.

The former President went on to announce his new coalition, “Believers for Trump.”

Trump appeared at the Republican National Convention with a large white bandage covering his afflicted ear, though recent days have seen more of a Band Aid style covering. TMZ was the first to report that the former President was seen without a covering for his wound earlier Friday.

Trump also said, regarding the FBI that they apologized and he “accepted their apology,” which clarified the law enforcement’s official position on whether he was in fact shot.

He went on to mock the pronunciation of Kamala Harris’ name, before saying that she was a Marxist who wanted to “pack” the Supreme Court, and casting other aspersions besides.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


21 comments

  • ScienceBLVR

    July 26, 2024 at 9:07 pm

    You can go to church and sing a hymn
    Judge me by the color of my skin
    You can live a lie until you die
    One thing you can’t hide
    Is when you’re crippled inside ….

  • PeterH

    July 27, 2024 at 12:40 am

    Let’s turn the page on Turning Oink 🐖 🐷

    • Elvis [FKA Earl] Pitts American

      July 27, 2024 at 6:38 am

      Who do you think will get the votes?
      1.) SUPERMAN (THE DONALD)
      OR
      2.) SOME RANDO DEFECTIVE DOOK 4 BRAINS LEFTY (kamalla)
      Thank you for agreeing to particapate in this all critical survay.
      ELVIS

      • Frankie M.

        July 27, 2024 at 9:46 am

        The latter…ur welcome

        • Elvis [FKA Earl] Pitts American

          July 27, 2024 at 11:01 am

          WRONG Frankie,
          But please dont take offense in the face of my overwhelming Truth and Wisdom. Because you, Frankie, are one of my Beloved Besty Leftys.
          So in order to avoid feeling defeated, inadaquate, and unable to “Get Wood” for the entire 4 year Trump term ….. here, beloved Frankie, is what you have been given my permission to do.
          STAND BY FOR WISDOM:
          Frankie, at the General Election, you will be able to either vote for 1.) The Good Guys ….. Trump.
          OR:
          2.) The Bad Guys ….. Not Trump.
          Frankie, your Dook 4 Brains Lefty friends will not need to kmow.
          Thank you Frankie,
          We are counting on you doing the right thing …. again, Frankie … its just between us Bestest Friends I’l never “Squee on you and you will have done the right thing.
          ELVIS

      • Darla

        July 30, 2024 at 2:28 pm

        Kamala

  • Ninety Three

    July 27, 2024 at 6:58 am

    Will the real Kam Harris please stand up. Please stand up.

    • 86-45

      July 27, 2024 at 7:37 am

      What’s the matter there little fella? Losing confidence in your boy? Old trumplestiltskin doesn’t seem so good at spinning straw into silk these days does he? I guess his shtick has passed it’s use by date.

  • Just Me

    July 27, 2024 at 11:28 am

    Where is the scar? Is he using make up to cover it? I’m amazed the wound healed so quickly. I’m not discounting the “assignation’s attempt”, but I am questioning how fast he healed from such attack. DJT is almost 20 years older than I am and I’ve NEVER healed that fast. He could be a quick healer or there’s another reason other than the miraculous.

    • PeterH

      July 27, 2024 at 11:36 am

      According to discredited Ronnie Jackson the miraculous heal was a 2cm bullet wound.

      • Ninety Three

        July 27, 2024 at 11:59 am

        Next thing you know zombie Peter and the rest will tell us Kammy had no role in the Southern Border debacle. Oh wait a minute. That’s been erased now we have to erase the fracking / energy policy, free medical for everyone, eliminating health insurance companies, defund the police, reimagining ICE. Oh there is plenty more

        • Bill

          July 27, 2024 at 12:20 pm

          What border debacle? Has something changed since trump sabotaged congress for his own political ambitions?

          • Ninety Three

            July 27, 2024 at 12:38 pm

            So we are going to forget about the Executive Orders on day one. We are going to forget that the Demos had the legislative branch and did nothing about the border for two years while they had it. The Demos are
            Masters
            Of spin and deception.

  • Michael K

    July 27, 2024 at 12:19 pm

    Has he claimed a stigmata and started selling shreds of his oversized bandage as attempted assassination souvenirs for $39.99?

    Pathetic how he craves attention, hates women, etc. We’ve seen this act before, YAWN, and this time around, just ignore. His lies and bullying and puerile vitriol is all he is, all he’s got. Best not to stoop to his gutter level.

  • Hans Neuhart

    July 27, 2024 at 3:02 pm

    Nobody heals that fast…nobody. Not even the Orange Jesus !

  • Michael K

    July 27, 2024 at 3:14 pm

    A convicted felon in the state of Florida couldn’t get a job at McDonalds. Yet here we are again. Insults, mockery, dog whistles, misogyny and lies. That’s all he’s got. And it’s old. Very old. Just like he is.

  • Tjb

    July 27, 2024 at 7:11 pm

    Satan (aka trump) addressing a Christian audience is interesting. I wonder how many members of the audience will sell their soul to Satan.

  • Tom

    July 28, 2024 at 8:21 am

    “So we are going to forget about the Executive Orders on day one. We are going to forget that the Demos had the legislative branch and did nothing about the border for two years while they had it. The Demos are
    Masters
    Of spin and deception.”

    We’re expected to forget that big, beautiful wall that Mexico was going to pay for, infrastructure week, a replacement for Healthcare.gov etc. etc. – now there is some world class spin and deception for you.

  • Cindy

    July 28, 2024 at 5:51 pm

    37 million with kidney disease and the campaign is drill drill drill
    And no compensation for the bio losses and no entitlement. But tax breaks to all

    • MH/Duuuval

      July 28, 2024 at 10:26 pm

      You and I get a microscopic tax break. By comparison, the ultra rich and corporations get a tax break the size of the Grand Canyon.

  • Bettypoop

    July 30, 2024 at 10:47 pm

    Watch out for those ballot dumps. They removed Biden because they saw how low the polls were. Now these powerful rich are getting their buddies in media to pretend Kamala is soaring in the polls, so that when they ballot dump, using brainwashed single low income women to do their ballot drops and scanning multiple ballots again, they will say, well Kamala was up in the polls, at least that is their plan, but it won’t work. GOD SEES what they did and what they are planning again. Only so much evil can prosper before it’s crushed.

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