WASHINGTON—Saying it was solely by divine intervention that he was nonetheless standing, President Donald Trump said throughout a press briefing Thursday that God had spared his life throughout final night time’s midair collision of an Military helicopter and a passenger jet over the Potomac River. “With out the gorgeous hand of God guiding that airplane away from the White Home, I’d have died in that horrible crash,” mentioned Trump, who when knowledgeable by a reporter that the jetliner was on its method to a runway at Reagan Nationwide Airport and never heading towards the Govt Residence interrupted to level out that the investigation was ongoing. “It’s very unhappy, what occurred. Very unhappy. However it additionally may have been Air Power One in that crash, you realize? God will need to have saved me alive for a cause, as a result of it may simply have been me.” The president concluded his remarks by pumping his fist and chanting the phrase “Battle!” to himself as aides ushered him away from the rostrum.
