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President Donald Trump met with Marc Fogel’s parent connected July 13, 2024, successful Butler, Pennsylvania, and vowed to bring her lad location if elected, conscionable earlier an assassination effort astir took his life.
Rep. Mark Kelly, R-Pa., was determination for the gathering betwixt Trump and Malphine Fogel before the president took the stage.
"The president survived the assassination effort connected July 13 successful Butler, and helium fulfilled his committedness to Mrs. Fogel that helium would get her lad home," Kelly told Fox News Digital. "It is an incredible, providential story."
MOTHER OF FREED AMERICAN HOSTAGE MARC FOGEL THANKS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: 'HE KEPT HIS PROMISE'
During the rally, aft his gathering with Fogel's mother, Trump was showing disconnected a illustration highlighting however amerciable migration skyrocketed nether the Biden-Harris administration. As helium turned toward the chart, helium was deed by a slug that pierced the precocious portion of his close receptor by the now-deceased would-be-assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Trump credits the illustration for redeeming his life.
Kelly likened the concern to the classical movie "It’s a Wonderful Life."
"The taxable of the movie was that George Bailey was precise frustrated, but helium was fixed a glimpse of beingness and what would person happened if helium hadn’t been determination – if helium hadn’t been born," Kelly recalled. "And if I spell backmost to July 13, this is each providential."
"Mrs. Fogel has a accidental to speech to the president, and she talks astir what is happening to Marc. The president vows to get him home," Kelly continued. "It is simply a take-off of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and the opportunity, oregon the dilemma, that if you were ne'er born, what would the consequences person been?"
"If President Trump did not past the assassination effort connected July 13, Marc Fogel wouldn’t beryllium location today," Kelly said.
Fogel, an American teacher from Western Pennsylvania, returned to the United States precocious Tuesday, aft Trump secured his release. Fogel was arrested successful 2021 astatine an airdrome successful Russia for possession of aesculapian marijuana and was sentenced to 14 years successful a Russian prison.
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Kelly told Fox News Digital that "it is each astir faith."
"Having been determination and witnessed it, I deliberation to myself, ‘Oh my goodness, that tiny fraction of an inch, oregon immoderate it was, is the quality betwixt Marc Fogel being location and Marc Fogel not being home,’" helium said. "Between making a committedness to his parent and being capable to support it, arsenic opposed to making a committedness and ne'er getting a accidental to fulfill it."
Malphine Fogel recalled the Butler gathering with Trump connected Fox News Channel's "America Newsroom."
"I met with President Trump, and helium was conscionable arsenic cordial arsenic helium could be," she said. "He told maine 3 antithetic times, 'If I get in,' helium said, 'I'll get him out' and I truly deliberation he's been instrumental."
Malphine Fogel told Fox News that "it was a full surprise" erstwhile she heard from her lad from the Moscow airport.
"So, that meant that (they) had taken him retired of the situation to Moscow.... The past week oregon so, for immoderate brainsick reason, I had a amended feeling astir things, but I hadn't heard from him successful a week, truthful I thought that was unusual and erstwhile helium called… it was conscionable a full shock," she said.
Meanwhile, Kelly told Fox News Digital, "There is simply a definite clip successful people’s lives wherever you recognize you don’t person forever, you person close now, and you request to get it done."
"Politically, determination is nary 1 connected either broadside of the aisle that could look astatine what happened with Marc Fogel and not someway say, this is genuinely providential – this is not a governmental move," Kelly said. "This doesn’t bash thing for the president. He's already elected. He did this to support a committedness to a parent successful her mid 90s – the lone happening she wanted to spot earlier she died was her lad 1 much time."
Kelly added: "This is simply a committedness made. Promise kept. It is genuinely providential. It is. It is simply a fantastic life."
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