WWE legend Hulk Hogan says Trump assassination attempt forced him to speak up: 'This has to stop'

Pro wrestling fable Hulk Hogan was a salient fig astatine nan Republican National Convention (RNC) complete nan summertime erstwhile he expressed his support for erstwhile President Donald Trump successful his bid for re-election against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Hogan, whose existent sanction is Terry Bollea, appeared successful an question and reply Wednesday connected nan "PBD Podcast" and said he decided to make his support for Trump nationalist aft nan Republican statesmanlike campaigner was astir assassinated astatine a rally successful Pennsylvania successful July.

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Hulk Hogan tears his garment unfastened arsenic he speaks connected Day 4 of nan Republican National Convention astatine nan Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee connected July 18, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

Hogan said he recalled his feelings erstwhile President John F. Kennedy was assassinated successful 1963 and said nan assassination effort connected Trump hit location for him.

"When they tried to termination Trump, personification that I knew personally, it affected maine worse," he said. "I sat up disconnected nan sofa and I said, ‘that’s it, this has to stop.’ I don’t want to divided my assemblage arsenic a businessman but now I don’t care. This is overmuch much important than business. This is simply a belief gyration now.

"This feline is coming retired trying to thief people. He wants to thief millions of people. He wants to thief America. Have God successful our country, successful our homes, successful our schools, and I said, ‘I can’t grip it.’"

It was astatine that time, he said, he wanted to do more, and it was what drove him to speak astatine nan RNC.

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Former President Donald Trump looks connected during a run arena astatine Trump National Doral Golf Club successful Miami connected Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"I retrieve nan logic I did it was because there’s nary spot successful this world for worldly for illustration this. I was acting for illustration a man," Hogan said. "I was astatine location going, ‘Well, if China invades aliases if this happens, they’ll travel to my doorway and I sewage guns …’ I was talking for illustration a man but I wasn’t being one. I didn’t guidelines up for illustration a should’ve. That Republican normal was my first clip to really guidelines up a beryllium a man. Not conscionable talk for illustration one, but really beryllium one. I felt truthful beardown astir it – that’s why I did it.

"And past they tried to sprout him again a mates weeks later. This has to stop. There’s nary spot for thing for illustration this successful our society. It was nan logic I did it and I didn’t attraction what group thought astatine this point. I conscionable knew it was incorrect and this is astir what’s correct and what’s incorrect and I could show nan difference. I cognize that much. It’s sewage a batch to do pinch communal consciousness and that is wrong."

Hogan added that he was "praying" for nan United States to get backmost "on track."

Hulk Hogan waves a U.S. emblem arsenic he takes nan shape connected Day 4 of nan Republican National Convention astatine nan Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee connected July 18, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

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"Where we tin each beryllium safe and financially lead a bully life wherever we don’t person to grovel and take betwixt medicine aliases not feeing ourselves truthful we tin provender our kids. It shouldn’t beryllium that way," he said.

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