Overview

• An excerpt from 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America describes profuse bleeding that led aides to fear he had been hit multiple times
• Trump refused a stretcher, walked into the hospital still in his suit and soon reassured staff by cracking jokes
• Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla’s Elon Musk publicly praised his resilience and offered endorsements after the attack
• The president characterized a brief, cordial phone call with President Biden as “very nice,” highlighting an unexpected gesture of bipartisanship
• The full book is set for release on July 8, renewing focus on the personal and political fallout of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting