'The chart that saved my life': Trump puts Ron Johnson's immigration chart on center stage during RNC acceptance

Hope Karnopp and Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
·2 min read
A chart titled “Illegal immigration into the U.S.” is played on screen as Donald Trump delivers his nomination acceptance speech during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum. The final day of the RNC featured a keynote address by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

In his acceptance speech Thursday night, former President Donald Trump detailed what happened during the assassination attempt on Saturday.

"I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border," Trump said. "Behind me, and to the right, was a large screen that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership. The numbers were so amazing. In order to see the chart, I started to like this turn to my right. And was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which I'm very lucky I didn't do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard, on my right ear. I said to myself wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet.

"The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved in my head at that very last instance, the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark," Trump continued.

In an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said he initially showed a chart on illegal immigration to Trump on a plane ride to a rally in Green Bay.

Johnson said that Trump liked the chart, and his team took it, tweaked it and used it at the Saturday rally.

Later in his speech, Trump brought the chart itself on the screen behind him as he talked about immigration.

"Last time I put up that chart, I never really got to look at it," Trump said of the chart, to laughter.

"I never got to see it that day. But I'm seeing it now and I was very proud," he added. "If you look at the arrow at the bottom, that's the lowest level one of the bottom heavy red arrow. That's the lowest level of illegal immigrants ever to come into our country. You can see on the chart that saved my life. That was the chart that saved my life."

He continued: "Without that chart, I would not be here today"

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Trump credits Ron Johnson's immigration chart for saving his life

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