Ivanka explained she and husband Jared Kushner stayed up and met the former president when he returned to Bedminster hours after being treated at a hospital for an ear wound where the bullet struck. The would-be shooter, identified as Thomas Crooks, reportedly fired several rounds and was neutralized by a Secret Service counter-sniper.
The episode led Ivanka to reflect on life’s fragility, referencing her mother Ivana’s 2022 accidental death and a past cancer scare in her family, and to express gratitude that the attack did not become fatal.