Mumbai, July 15: Former US President Donald Trump was shot during his presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, July 13. Donald Trump, who is the presumptive Republican nominee for the US Presidential Elections, was immediately evacuated to a safer place. He survived the assassination attempt, but sustained injury to his right ear. A last-minute head tilt by Trump actually saved his life. So what did make Trump tilt his head and dodge the bullet at last minutes?

While the investigation is going on, it is clear that Trump escaped death as the bullet touched his ears and did not hit his head. Just before the shot, Donald Trump's slight tilt of the head prevented the bullet from doing much damage to him. Donald Trump Assassination Bid: Netizens Make Sexist Comments Against ‘Inefficient’ Female Agents, Say Women Should Not Be in Secret Service.

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What Made Donald Trump Tilt His Head?

The bullet was fired right when Trump was talking about President Joe Biden's policies on immigration. The chart depicted an increase in the number of unauthorised immigrants entering the US from 2012 to 2024. Trump tilted his head while pointing at the chart which eventually made him dodge the bullet and saved his life. 'Political Violence is Never Acceptable': World Leaders Condemn Shooting at Donald Trump's Rally in Pennsylvania.

While speaking to the New York Times, Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician representative, revealed that Trump told him that the chart he was going over saved his life. Trump indicated that the chart he reviewed prompted him to tilt his head. He tilted his head to address it, which represented President Biden's policies on immigration. 

"'I was going over that border patrol chart.' He said, 'If I hadn't pointed at that chart and turned my head to look at it, that bullet would have hit me right in the head'," Trump reportedly to Ronny Jackson.

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