Former President Donald Trump's airplane was forced to make an emergency landing due to a mechanical failure on Friday afternoon, the National Pulse reported. The GOP presidential candidate was on his way to a rally that evening in Bozeman, Montana.
The Trump family got another scare weeks after an assassination attempt on Trump as the former president's private jet made an emergency landing in Billings, Montana. Trump released a video statement after the landing but didn't mention the mechanical issue.
"I just landed in a really beautiful place: Montana. So beautiful, flying over, and you just look down and that's the way it's supposed to be. I'm here to do some fundraisers and most important to support Tim Sheehy who's running for the U.S. Senate, and we think he's going to do really well. We're going to have a rally. And it'll be a lot of fun," Trump said on a video shared on X, formerly Twitter.
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Despite the emergency landing, Trump would go on to his scheduled rally 120 miles from Billings in Bozeman, Montana, on Friday evening According to Montana Right Now's report, supporters from all over the country showed up at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse.
Trump spoke to an eager crowd along with Tim Sheehy, the state's GOP candidate for U.S. Senate. One of the attendees told the news outlet that it was a great turnout for Trump in the Treasure State.
When asked about anything "surprising" at the rally, another attendee said that it was "just how supportive Montana is," the unnamed person told Montana Right Now. "I was not expecting everyone to show up this big. Everyone was sitting out here for a long time like it was just such a great showup."
While spectators celebrated the substance of the rally, Trump is lucky to be alive after a safe emergency landing that came weeks after an assassination attempt. According to CBS News, Trump's grown son, Eric Trump, was "infuriated" in the aftermath of the shooting on July 13 because failures in security allowed it to happen in the first place.
However, he also was thankful that his father lived through it. "I'm not an overly mushy person ... but, you know, somebody was watching down on him because it could have gone very, very differently," Eric Trump said in the days following the shooting.
It seems Trump is no stranger to these kinds of harrowing situations. The New York Post reported that Donald Trump coincidentally shared the story of another emergency landing he lived through at a speech on Thursday.
He said he was in a helicopter with Willie Brown, Kamala Harris' ex-lover when they were forced to make a quick landing. The story came up when speaking about Brown, who was the San Francisco mayor at the time.
"I know Willie Brown very well. In fact, I went down in a helicopter with him. We thought, maybe this is the end. We were in a helicopter going to a certain location together, and there was an emergency landing," Donald Trump said.
"This was not a pleasant landing, and Willie was – he was a little concerned," the former president added. There are accounts that Brown did indeed survive a crash landing at a school playground in September 2004, though it's unclear if that's the incident involving Trump.
Trump is tough as nails and certainly a survivor. Thankfully, his plane landed without incident, but like the assassination attempt, it leaves many uneasy thinking about the "what ifs" had things gone differently.
