Speaker Johnson says Trump like bulletproof George Washington after second failed assassination attempt

House Speaker Mike Johnson likened former President Donald Trump to “bulletproof George Washington” Monday, while insisting that the Republican nominee’s survival of multiple assassination attempts was “not luck.”Johnson, 52, and his wife Kelly met with Trump, 78, at Mar-a-Lago shortly after a Secret Service agent opened fire on alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, near the 6th hole of the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach on Sunday.“It is something that no one can deny, God has spared his life twice now,” Johnson (R-La.) reflected on “Fox & Friends.”“I told him that it reminded me of the bulletproof George Washington, our first president, who evaded being shot when he was an army colonel — the famous incident in the French and American Indian War, where they all took shots at him and bullet holes went through his jacket and didn’t take him down.”The House speaker was referencing the Battle of the Monongahela during the French and Indian War, when Washington — then a colonel in the British-allied colonial Virginia Militia — had two horses shot out from under him while four bullets whizzed through his coat on July 9, 1755.In a letter to his brother John written nine days after the battle, Washington attributed his survival to “the all-powerful dispensations of Providence,” which he said had “protected [him] beyond all human probability and expectation … altho’ death was levelling my companions on every side.”Johnson noted that the Battle of Monongahela took place near present-day Braddock, Pa., “less than 50 miles” from where Trump was shot and wounded by a would-be assassin during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa.July 13.“These things are not accidents.

It’s not luck.I believe it’s Providence and we talked about that.

It’s a remarkable thing.It would move any man’s heart,” Johnson told Fox News Monday.“It’s just something he’s processing right now.”The top House Republican...