J.D. Vance reveals he was supposed to be on stage with Trump when he was shot... and how he reacted as terror unfolded

Sen. JD Vance revealed Thursday he could person been astatine nan rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania erstwhile erstwhile President Donald Trump was changeable and shared his guidance erstwhile he saw nan video of nan assassination attempt.

The Ohio legislator said astir nan specifications surrounding his gathering pinch nan erstwhile president astatine Mar-a-Lago astir choosing him arsenic his moving mate during a podcast question and reply pinch Joe Rogan.

'He's like, actually, wouldn't it really group nan world ablaze if we conscionable made nan determination today?' Vance recalled. 'And truthful why don't you travel up pinch maine and we'll conscionable do nan announcement successful Butler, Pennsylvania.'

Trump yet decided against nan idea, Vance said, citing nan request to make much preparations earlier nan announcement.

Had he not changed his mind, Vance and his family would person been successful danger.

Vance said he went backmost to Ohio and took his kids retired mini-golfing, earlier he heard nan news astir nan assassination attempt.

'I really thought they had killed him because erstwhile you first spot nan video, he grabs his receptor and past he goes down,' he recalled.

Watching nan video connected his phone, Vance, a erstwhile Marine, said he rushed his kids to his location and went into 'fight aliases flight' mode.

'I grabbed my kids up propulsion them successful nan car spell location and load each my guns and fundamentally guidelines for illustration a sentry successful our beforehand door,' he said.

Vance was vague astir nan specifications surrounding nan shooter but expressed his amazement that nan shooter, Matthew Crooks, was capable to get truthful adjacent to nan president without being spotted by Secret Service. 

'How do you get that close?' he asked. 'I'm a beautiful bully shot. I served successful nan Marine Corps for 4 years. An AR-15 from 140 yards distant is simply a cookware shot.'

 Vance expressed his amazement that Trump was not killed. 

'It is shocking that he's alive,' he said.  

Vance besides questioned nan nonaccomplishment of rule enforcement to find a motive for nan shooter, citing that deficiency of immoderate benignant of manifesto.  

'We cognize thing astir nan motive here, which I deliberation is nan craziest thing. You know, I'm evidently he's motivated because he hates Donald Trump, but you don't cognize thing astir nan secondary motive,' he concluded. 'Man, it is weird.'