'He Will Unify Our Country': Wesley Hunt Reacts To Trump Shooting, Praises Nikki Haley's RNC Speech

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Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) joins Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" from the Republican National Convention to discuss the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and the unification of the Republican party.

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00:00I'm Brittany Lewis with Forbes breaking news. Joining me now is Congressman Wesley Hunt.

00:04Congressman, thank you so much for joining me.

00:07Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be here.

00:09You are joining me from Milwaukee at the RNC. And I do want to get into that. But before we do,

00:15over the weekend, we saw a tragic event take place.

00:19Former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt against him at a

00:23political rally. When you saw the news, when you saw the video, what was your reaction?

00:28Yeah, I'm a combat guy. I'm an Apache pilot. I know what it feels like and what it means to be

00:34shot at. Fortunately, I've never been hit like he was. But we're trained to have resolve and

00:38we are trained to continue to get in the fight and to strive and courage under fire.

00:43What I saw from the 45th and what will be the 47th president is courage under fire personified.

00:50This man got shot inside of his head. And the first thing that he does is put his shoes back on

00:58and then turn to the crowd and say the three words, fight, fight, fight.

01:02I've never seen any leadership like that in my entire life. It is iconic. And so while it could

01:08have gone completely in a different direction, which would have been a dastardly place for this

01:14country to be, it didn't. And now he is here now, strong, coalescing around our party, bringing in

01:21Rhonda Santos last night, bringing in Nikki Haley last night. And this whole thing, the whole

01:26attitude around that around this convention has been unity. And he is the one unifying our party

01:31and he will unify our country. What does that mean to see someone like Ambassador Nikki Haley

01:38speaking at this convention? Because I don't think she was slated to speech. She was running

01:42against Donald Trump. They sparred during the primary, as we all know. So what was that like

01:48seeing her speak last night? Well, I think it was it was an outstanding move by President Trump to

01:53extend the invitation. And she was very gracious to accept and give a very good speech. And if you

01:59listen to the speech, it was a unifying speech. President Trump was paying attention to every word

02:04that she was saying. I was sitting next to him, actually, at the time of her speech. And I got

02:09to tell you, it was electric and it was electric to see the love being poured out toward the 47th

02:14president of this country. And again, I can't talk to you enough about how unifying this whole

02:19event was. That was a very special moment, not just for the party, but for the entire country.

02:24You actually posted a photo on X of you and the former president at the RNC.

02:29Can you talk to us about that moment, about speaking with him just days after he was shot?

02:36Well, it's something that is a moment that I will never forget. And I will be sharing with

02:40my grandchildren and my great, great grandchildren. I can assure you that. And he's in good spirits.

02:45He is in a very genuine place. And I feel like he now has a reinvigorated,

02:50a renewed spirit of life, even at 78 years old. And now he knows what his marching orders are.

02:57God spared him for a reason. God is going to spare this country for a reason. And he is,

03:02God has not done with he or this country yet. And I think President Trump

03:05is well aware of that after that near death experience.

'He Will Unify Our Country': Wesley Hunt Reacts To Trump Shooting, Praises Nikki Haley's RNC Speech

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