In a fiery speech Tuesday night on Day Two of the GOP convention, Lara Trump—RNC Co-chair and husband to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s son Eric—described the awful moment her family witnessed the attempted assassination of her father-in-law on live TV.
There is nothing to prepare you for such a moment, she said:
“There’s no doubt that Saturday was one of the most frightening moments of my father-in-law’s life. Millimeters separated him from life and certain death,” she said. “And yet, it was in the midst of it all, as he was jostled off-stage by Secret Service that he knew how defining that moment would be for our country and he foisted his fist in the air.”
But it was watching the nightmare unfold with her two children that really brought it home for her:
Lara, the wife of Donald’s son Eric Trump, said despite numerous threats made against the family in the past,…