King Charles sends personal letter to Donald Trump after ‘surreal’ assassination attempt
King Charles III contacted Donald Trump after the assassination attempt on the former president’s life over the weekend.
The 75-year-old monarch wrote a personal letter to Trump, 78, which was delivered Sunday through the U.K. embassy in Washington, D.C., Buckingham Palace confirmed to the Post.
The palace did not provide details about the content of the message.
Sources told The Daily Beast that Charles’ letter was “consistent” with sentiments expressed by Britain’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer.
He responded to the shooting at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally on Saturday by posting: “I am shocked by the tragic scene at President Trump’s rally and we send our condolences to him and his family.”
“Political violence in any form has no place in our society and my thoughts are with all the victims of this attack,” Starmer, 61, added.
Trump was shot in the ear while speaking on stage at the Butler Farm Show Grounds.
The gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was sitting on a rooftop about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking.
Crooks was shot and killed by the Secret Service, sources told the Post.
Another rally attendee was killed by Crooks, 50-year-old former firefighter Corey Comparatore. Two others, David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, were injured.
Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview that he would have been killed if he hadn’t moved his head slightly when Crooks shot him with an AR-15. Instead, the bullet tore off a small piece of Trump’s ear and spattered blood on his forehead and cheek.
“The doctor at the hospital said he had never seen anything like it, he called it a miracle,” Trump said.
“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” he added. “I’m supposed to be dead.”
Trump is running against Joe Biden in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
He has made many promises in the event he is elected – possibly including the deportation of Charles’ youngest son, Prince Harry, who moved to California with his wife Meghan Markle in 2020.
In March, Trump was asked by GB News presenter Nigel Farage about the legal battle against Harry, 39, who admitted taking illegal drugs (cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms) in his memoir “Spare”. Trump said the Duke of Sussex should not have “special privileges” if it is discovered that Harry lied on his application for a US visa.
“We have to see if they know anything about drugs, and if he’s lying, they have to take appropriate action,” Trump said.
When pressed on whether “appropriate action” could mean deportation, Trump responded: “Oh, I don’t know. You’ve got to tell me. You’ve just got to tell me. You’d think they’d know that a long time ago.”
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland in February, Trump criticized the Biden administration for being “too kind” to the Sussexes since Harry and Markle fled to the US.
“I will not protect him. He betrayed the queen. It is unforgivable. If it was up to me, he would be on his own,” the 45th president told the Daily Express newspaper.
Charles, who is estranged from Harry, has not commented on Trump possibly deporting his son.
Trump and King have spent time together over the years. In 2019, Charles hosted then-President and his wife Melania Trump for tea at Clarence House. The same year, the late Queen Elizabeth II hosted a state dinner for Trump while he was in the UK.
Trump called the late queen a “beautiful woman” after she died in September 2022, aged 96.
“Queen Elizabeth’s historic and extraordinary reign has left a remarkable legacy of peace and prosperity for Great Britain. His leadership and steadfast diplomacy have strengthened and strengthened alliances with the United States and countries around the world,” he said in a statement at the time. “Melania and I will always cherish our time together with the Queen and will never forget Her Majesty’s generous friendship, great wisdom and wonderful sense of humor. No. What a wonderful and beautiful woman she was – there was no one like her!