White House doctor describes aftermath of Trump shooting
"I’m not taking a lot of calls, but this is my doctor. I’m taking this one," Donald Trump said as he picked up the phone.
On the other end was Dr. Ronny Jackson, a Republican congressman from Texas and Donald Trump's former White House doctor.
Just a short time earlier, Trump had been speaking on stage while conducting a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. During the rally, shots rang out.
A few minutes later, two people were dead, and a bloodied Trump was being rushed away from the scene with a bullet wound on his head.
Ronny Jackson felt an obligation to help the president any way he could.
Jackson told Trump as much, so the former president requested Jackson's presence.
"'I would prefer to have you here,'" Jackson claimed Trump said. "And I said, ‘OK, enough said.’"
Jackson made it to Donald Trump by 4:30 in the morning the next day.
Donald Trump is going to be okay, and maybe Ronny Jackson getting to him so quickly played a part in that.
Jackson said that he had a nephew who was wounded at the rally, recalling:
"They heard the shots, and everybody dropped to the ground. And I don’t know if you guys have the picture or not, but he was grazed in the neck. A bullet crossed his neck, cut his neck, and he was bleeding.