Vietnam veteran says he’s ‘honored’ to give Trump his Purple Heart after assassination attempt: ‘a small token’

Former President Trump met Friday with a Vietnam veteran who came up with the idea to give Trump his Purple Heart after an assassination attempt on Trump.

“I couldn’t think of anyone more deserving of a Purple Heart,” the man, identified only as Dwight, told Trump on stage at a campaign event at the Fayetteville, North Carolina, town hall.

“You took it. You laid there. You came back. And the first words out of your mouth were ‘Fight, fight, fight,'” Dwight said of the moment Trump was shot in Butler , in Pennsylvania, in July by a 20-year-old man. year-old assassination attempt.

“You didn’t even have anything to shoot him with. You had guts. It was a minor wound, but it was almost terrible.”

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Trump responded that he was “very lucky, and maybe it wasn’t so much luck. Maybe it’s something else, right? Maybe there’s something else up there.”

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Earlier at the town hall, the moderator, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., read the letter the veteran sent to Trump after Trump’s assassination attempt in July.

“Dear President Trump, as I watched you during the Butler rally and as you stood up, my wife and I breathed a sigh of relief as well as a few tears,” Dwight’s letter said. “I would be honored if you would accept this small token I received as a young Marine in Vietnam.

“My wife and I both thought it was appropriate. God bless you, your family, and the United States of America. Sincerely, Dwight.”

“I was very lucky,” Trump responded. “And maybe it wasn’t really luck. Maybe it’s something else, right? Maybe there’s something else up there.”

The moment came a day before Trump returns to Butler to hold a massive rally for the first time in the outdoor space where he was shot.

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“As I was saying,” Trump began Saturday’s rally to cheers.

A Purple Heart is awarded to service members who have been injured or killed in combat.