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Three of Donald Trump’s children are at the Republican National Convention to support their father just days after he survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr stood together as their father received enough votes to become the GOP nominee on Monday afternoon. Eric, Trump’s second-oldest son, awarded his father the delegates from Florida during the ceremony.
The show of support comes two days after Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally. Trump was struck in the ear, while one attendee was killed and another two were injured.
“I mean, obviously it was a pretty somber moment,” Donald Trump Jr. told CNN moments after his father received the nomination. “I was with my kids on a Saturday evening, and I get this news that he’s been shot, but I couldn’t get ahold of anyone. He was in lockdown at the hospital, took about 90 minutes.”
“I told him, ‘You’re the biggest bad a** I know,’” the former president’s oldest son continued.
Eric Trump also told CNN his father had “half his ear” blown off in the shooting.
“I’m really proud of him,” Eric Trump said. “I’ve never been more proud as a child, as a son — he’s a remarkable human being.”
Melania Trump, despite her notable absence from the campaign trail, is also set to make an appearance at the convention this week.
