Did God spare Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania?
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
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On July 13, 2024, twenty-year-old sniper Thomas Crooks fired an AR-15-style rifle from the roof of a building around four hundred feet from the stage where Donald Trump was holding a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The day after the shooting, Mr. Trump told journalist Salena Zito, “It was the hand of God. He was there.” A month after returning to the White House, he said, “I feel, I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel much more strongly about it.” Yesterday’s anniversary of the shooting raises again the question: Did God save Mr. Trump's life?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, July the 14th, 2025, and this is Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.4 | On July 13th, 2024, a 20-year-old sniper named Thomas Crooks fired an AR-15-style rifle from the roof of a building around 400 feet from the stage where Donald Trump was holding a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:33.5 | He killed a 50-year-old fireman named Corey Comparatore, who died shielding his family and critically injured two others. |
| 0:42.8 | The moment crooks fired, Mr. Trump turned his head to the right to point to a chart showing illegal border crossings. |
| 0:50.0 | This caused a bullet to skim his right ear rather than hitting his head and killing him. |
| 0:55.3 | Secret service agents tackle Trump to protect him, but when he stood to his feet again, |
| 1:00.3 | he pumped his fist in the air. With blood running down his face, he shouted, fight, fight, fight. |
| 1:07.0 | Two days later, Mr. Trump made a triumphal entry at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. |
| 1:13.0 | The day after the shooting, Mr. Trump told journalist Selena Zito, quote, |
| 1:18.0 | It was the hand of God. He was there. A month after returning to the White House, he stated, |
| 1:23.7 | I feel, I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel much more strongly about it, end quote. |
| 1:31.2 | Yesterday's anniversary of the shooting raises again the question, did God save Mr. Trump's life? |
| 1:37.3 | Let's begin with the biblical fact that he clearly could have. |
| 1:40.7 | The Bible proclaims in Psalm 22, verse 28, kingship belongs to the Lord, and he |
| 1:46.7 | rules over the nations. Even a sparrow does not fall to the ground apart from his |
| 1:52.3 | providential knowledge, according to Matthew 10, verse 29. In Acts 5, verses 17 through 21, he sent an |
| 2:00.1 | angel to free the apostles from prison, and from |
| 2:03.3 | Acts 12 versus 6 through 11, he spared Peter from Herod's execution. |
| 2:08.4 | The list of U.S. presidents who survived assassination attempts is long. |
| 2:12.8 | Among the most notable is a lone rifle shot fired in August 1864 by an unknown sniper that |
| 2:20.6 | passed through Abraham Lincoln's hat as he rode in the late evening, missing his head by inches. |
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