A reporter asked Donald Trump how he felt about God supposedly intervening to save his life from an assassin’s bullet while leaving another man to die.
Trump, at first, dodged, according to the account from New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi, and then he bragged about giving firefighter Corey Comperatore’s widow a check for a million dollars, money being his way of deflecting.
The kicker: it wasn’t even Trump’s money.
“He talked about how a friend of his had given a million dollars to Corey’s wife, and how they had set up a fundraiser for the families, and how they had raised $5 million or $6 million,” Nuzzi wrote in her article.
“He kept talking and talking about the money. ‘I already gave the wife a million dollars, and she was great. I mean, look, she couldn’t believe it, but she would rather have her husband.’”
It’s fair to speculate here that Trump didn’t write the check himself because he’s on the hook for more than $500 million in civil judgments after juries in New York ruled against him in a defamation case and a business-fraud case.
Or, it could just be that Trump isn’t as flush as he has always claimed, you know, given the multiple bankruptcy filings – the guy couldn’t make money running a casino – and his comically failing social-media venture.
There’s a reason he’s selling Trump Bibles, gawdy sneakers, bobbleheads – he’s running as much to raise cash as he is to actually win the election.
One other point to make here: a million dollars seems like a lowball, considering the possible legal exposure for the Trump campaign, with the well-documented issues with security at the Butler, Pa., event.
You have to wonder here: did Trump make the widow sign an NDA in exchange for the check from the friend?
That’s me digressing there.
Back to the part about God, and what Trump thinks of it being he who was spared, and not the firefighter and father of two.
The answer: no, he doesn’t think about it.
From Nuzzi’s story, in which she documented her second effort at getting Trump to answer her question:
“No, I haven’t wondered why. I should wonder why,” he said. He looked off and he seemed to really be thinking. “I’ve been so, I’ve been working very hard on the campaign, and I also run a business during the time that I’m here, you know, with my family. It’s a great business. It’s an incredible business. But I am involved in running that, but mostly it’s the campaign because, you know, you have to do that. That’s got to be the focus. And my children run the business now and do a good job. Eric runs it, and Don helps him and runs it, also different aspects of it.” He was still looking off. “But no, I’ve never asked myself that. I’ve never thought of it. I don’t like thinking about it too much, because it’s almost like, you have to get on with your life. So, I don’t really like thinking about that too much.”
So, the first time Nuzzi asked, Trump bragged about giving the widow money, somebody else’s money, a lowball, given the circumstances.
And the second time, he says he’s too focused on his campaign, his business – which is, at this point, his campaign, and the Bibles, the shoes, the bobbleheads, the rest.
And then, no, he hasn’t thought of Corey Comperatore, not once.
Checks out.
Video: Donald Trump doesn’t think about the dead firefighter
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Chris Graham
