DONALD Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, believed that her father had a special guardian angel looking over him as a bullet nearly fatally hit him on Saturday night. On Saturday evening, the former president was the target of an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump described the bullet which “whizzed” by his ear, leaving him wounded, one victim dead, and two others critically injured.

“I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” the former president wrote in a statement. “Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.

” Former president Donald Trump provided an update on Truth Social after the shooting that took place at his Pennsylvania rally on July 13. "I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. "Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured.

"It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. "I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.

I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing.