Ivanka Trump says she’s praying for the country after former President Trump said he was shot in the ear during a rally in Butler, Pa.
“Thank you for your love and prayers for my father and for the other victims of today’s senseless violence,” Trump’s 42-year-old daughter said in a statement posted on social media platform X Saturday.
The Secret Service said in a statement that a “suspected shooter fired multiple shots from the stage from an elevated position outside of the rally venue” while Trump was delivering remarks at the campaign event. The former president was “safe and being evaluated.”
One spectator was killed and two people were injured, according to authorities, and the incident is reportedly being investigated as an assassination attempt.
Ivanka Trump expressed gratitude to authorities, writing, “I am grateful to the Secret Service and all the other law enforcement officers for their quick and decisive actions today.”
“I continue to pray for our country,” Trump, who was a senior adviser in her father’s administration, wrote.
“I love you Dad, today and always,” she added.
On the same night in 2022 that her father announced he would run for president in the 2024 White House race, Ivanka Trump said she didn’t “plan to be involved in politics.”
The mom of three said in an interview earlier this month, that she wouldn’t hit the campaign trail with her father because she was opting to spend time raising her young children. There is “a lot of darkness” in politics, Trump said.