Here's Why Trump Raised His Fist After the Shooting: 'The World Was Watching'

During the interview, conducted as Trump was about to board a plane to Milwaukee to attend the Republican National Convention, he said he wanted to use the historic event to try to create unity in the United States.

According to Trump, his life was saved when he turned his head away from the audience to look at a screen displaying the data he was using in his speech.

– Reality sinks in. I rarely look away from the audience. If I hadn't done that in that moment, wouldn't we be talking today?

Trump also paid tribute to retired firefighter Cory Comperatore, who was shot and killed during the rally. Two other Trump supporters who attended, David Deutsch and James Copenhaver, were also seriously injured. They are now hospitalized and in stable condition.

After the shooting, a photo of Trump raising his fist as he was bleeding from the scene by the Secret Service circulated. According to the former president, he decided to make the gesture to show the public that he was okay.

“It’s hard to describe the feeling, but I knew the world was watching,” Trump said. “I knew it was going to be historic and I had to show them we were OK.”

For the Washington Examiner The former president says he has completely rewritten the speech he will deliver on Thursday at the convention. The speech will now be about the fact that the election campaign has changed dramatically, the former president says.

– It's an opportunity to unite the whole country, the whole world. The speech will be completely different than it was two days ago, He tells the newspaper.