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Donald Trump also reflected on the attempted assassination of him, which the BBC journalist Gary O’Donoghue witnessed at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.

Speaking to BBC News, he said:

We had 55,000 people, and it was dead silence. And so, you know, I assumed that they expected the worst.

And so I had to let them know I was OK, which is what I did. That’s why I tried to get up as quick as possible. They had a stretcher ready to go. I said: ‘No, thank you.’

I like to think about it as little as possible.

I don’t like dwelling on it, because if I did, it might be life changing. I don’t want it to be that.

I think they would be, I don’t think a lot of the other countries would be.

It’s a special relationship. Look, that’s why I made a deal with them … for the most part in terms of your competitors and in terms of the European Union, I haven’t made a deal.

No, I think, I think it’s been on the sloppy side, but I think it’s getting straightened out. I really like the prime minister a lot even though he’s a liberal, I think he’s, you know, he did a good trade deal with us.