The Miracles: Three Hair-widths and a Head Turn from Assassination

Much has been reported about how close former President Trump came to being assassinated Saturday, July 13. However, a further look shows jaw-dropping calculations indicating his survival was nothing short of miraculous. Let’s look at some astronomical scientific odds that should convince the most dubious skeptic of God’s hand in the preservation of this man’s life.

That bullet fired at 6:11 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday pierced Trump’s upper ear called the helix, actually excising a small piece of flesh. Had the bullet been just an inch to the right at impact, it would have penetrated his brain virtually assuring death. It is mind-boggling how little rifle barrel movement would have been required for the shot to have been fatal. There is a mathmatical calculation to bring this into even better perspective.

In the realm of firearms, there is a term called Minute of Angle, or MOA. Simplified, it is a formula for determining the adjustment a shooter must make to ensure the desired point of impact. I did a quick study and some number crunching to determine how much the rifle used by the wannabe assassin would have had to moved to have accomplished his objective.

The most exact distance I was able to find from the shooter’s rooftop position to Trump’s stage position was 127 yards. At that range, the shooter would have needed to move the muzzle of his AR-15-like rifle a microscopic 0.01 inch to the right to have vectored the bullet into the former president’s brain. That is the width of three average human hairs. All other factors being the same, if the end of the rifle barrel had been three hair-widths to the right when the trigger was squeezed, the result would have been an assassination rather than a flesh wound. The non-lethal shot was not a coincidence. it was a supernatural act of God and His angels!

And, there was another miracle. One second before the bullet was photographed in a still shot splitting the air, Trump’s head was turned toward the audience behind him. As the weapon was fired, he turned toward the jumbotron screen just in time to align his head with the bullet’s trajectory. If he had looked at the backdrop crowd one second longer or had turned back to face the main audience instead of the screen, the bullet would have entered the left or right side of his skull respectively. Instead, he faced the parallel path of the bullet which missed his head by a half-inch and his brain by an inch. That, too, was not a coincidence but rather God’s merciful protection.

Both the shooter’s three-hair-widths-off marksmanship AND the former president’s “random” head movements were essential to preventing an assassination. It is not often that the whole nation gets to witness miracles like these. Now, God’s purpose in the miracles may be unfolding before our eyes. It is refreshing to be experiencing God’s positive intervention in the life of America. Can we keep it from being just a temporary experience?