President Donald Trump met with Marc Fogel’s mom on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, and vowed to convey her son residence if elected, simply earlier than an assassination try almost took his life.
Rep. Mark Kelly, R-Pa., was there for the assembly between Trump and Malphine Fogel earlier than the president took the stage.
“The president survived the assassination try on July 13 in Butler, and he fulfilled his dedication to Mrs. Fogel that he would get her son residence,” Kelly advised Fox Information Digital. “It’s an unbelievable, providential story.”
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President Donald Trump met with Marc Fogel’s mom on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and vowed to convey her son residence if elected, simply earlier than an murderer tried to take his life. (Evan Vucci/The Related Press)
Throughout the rally, after his assembly with Fogel’s mom, Trump was exhibiting off a chart highlighting how unlawful immigration skyrocketed below the Biden-Harris administration. As he turned towards the chart, he was hit by a bullet that pierced the higher a part of his proper ear by the now-deceased would-be-assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Trump credit the chart for saving his life.
Kelly likened the scenario to the traditional film “It’s a Fantastic Life.”
“The theme of the film was that George Bailey was very pissed off, however he was given a glimpse of life and what would have occurred if he hadn’t been there – if he hadn’t been born,” Kelly recalled. “And if I’m going again to July 13, that is all providential.”
President Donald Trump welcomes Marc Fogel again to america on Feb. 11, 2025, after Fogel was launched from Russian custody. (Win McNamee/Getty Photos)
“Mrs. Fogel has an opportunity to speak to the president, and he or she talks about what is occurring to Marc. The president vows to get him residence,” Kelly continued. “It’s a take-off of ‘It’s a Fantastic Life’ and the chance, or the dilemma, that if you happen to have been by no means born, what would the results have been?”
“If President Trump didn’t survive the assassination try on July 13, Marc Fogel wouldn’t be residence at this time,” Kelly mentioned.
Fogel, an American instructor from Western Pennsylvania, returned to america late Tuesday, after Trump secured his launch. Fogel was arrested in 2021 at an airport in Russia for possession of medical marijuana and was sentenced to 14 years in a Russian jail.
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Kelly advised Fox Information Digital that “it’s all about religion.”
Marc Fogel, 63 years previous, taught at AAS Moscow, previously generally known as the Anglo-American College of Moscow. (Ellen Keelan and Lisa Hyland)
“Having been there and witnessed it, I believe to myself, ‘Oh my goodness, that tiny fraction of an inch, or no matter it was, is the distinction between Marc Fogel being residence and Marc Fogel not being residence,’” he mentioned. “Between making a promise to his mom and with the ability to hold it, versus making a promise and by no means getting an opportunity to meet it.”
Malphine Fogel recalled the Butler assembly with Trump on Fox Information Channel’s “America Newsroom.”
“I met with President Trump, and he was simply as cordial as he might be,” she mentioned. “He advised me three completely different instances, ‘If I get in,’ he mentioned, ‘I will get him out’ and I actually assume he is been instrumental.”
Malphine Fogel advised Fox Information that “it was a complete shock” when she heard from her son from the Moscow airport.
“So, that meant that (they) had taken him out of the jail to Moscow…. The final week or so, for some loopy cause, I had a greater feeling about issues, however I hadn’t heard from him in per week, so I assumed that was odd and when he referred to as… it was only a whole shock,” she mentioned.
In the meantime, Kelly advised Fox Information Digital, “There’s a sure time in folks’s lives the place you understand you don’t have endlessly, you have got proper now, and that you must get it executed.”
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“Politically, there isn’t any one on both facet of the aisle that would have a look at what occurred with Marc Fogel and never in some way say, that is actually providential – this isn’t a political transfer,” Kelly mentioned. “This doesn’t do something for the president. He is already elected. He did this to maintain a promise to a mom in her mid 90s – the one factor she wished to see earlier than she died was her son yet one more time.”
Kelly added: “It is a promise made. Promise stored. It’s actually providential. It’s. It’s a great life.”
