MILWAUKEE—Former President Donald Trump called Sen. Tommy Tuberville at 7 a.m. Monday, briefing the Alabama Republican about the aftermath of the assassination attempt Saturday evening and his selection of Sen. JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate.
“I talked to him this morning, he called me about 7 o’clock, and he said, ‘Well, how are you? I lost part of my ear,’” Tuberville told The Daily Signal in an interview Monday at the Republican National Convention.
Trump noted that the shooter managed only to hit his right ear and “said it was divine intervention,” Tuberville recalled.
“He never looks around hard right, he never looks at his signs, at the graphs,” the Alabama senator said. “He never does that, and for some reason he did that, and he got his head just right to where [the bullet] did nothing but catch part of his ear.”
“We talked a…
