A miracle saved Trump’s life

Alexey Filatov, a retired colonel of the Federal Security Service of Russia and an anti-terrorism expert, says that while Trump’s security at the election event where he was speaking was provided by three groups (his bodyguards, the local police and the secret service), it seems It turns out that there was no proper communication between them.

According to Sputnik, Filatov, who previously interacted with the personnel of the American security services, noted that the criminal was able to get on the roof, which was 137 meters away from Trump. According to him, it is very easy to target a person’s head from this distance and it does not require a sniper rifle, but you can only shoot a person’s head from this distance with a normal automatic rifle. “It’s safe to say that the security team acted very poorly and didn’t bother to secure all the nearby rooftops,” says Filatov. 

This former Russian security official pointed out at the end that it can even be said that the assassination attempt was successful and in fact Donald Trump’s life was miraculously saved and not his security team.

The former US president was shot and wounded in the ear during an election speech in Pennsylvania a few days before he was officially announced as the Republican candidate. His campaign stated that he is doing well and appears to be unharmed except for a wound on the top of his right ear. The media say that one of the people present in the gathering was killed and two other spectators were seriously injured.

While mass shootings are a regular feature of American life, this was the first shooting of a president or major party candidate since the assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

Translator: Zahra Najafi