Don Jr. reveals the jokes he shared with his father in their first call after he was shot in the ear - and demands to know what's behind 'serious breach'

Donald Trump, Jr. has revealed nan 'tough moment' erstwhile he didn't cognize his father's wellness position aft a would-be assassin fired connected him, and nan light-hearted jokes they exchanged to break nan tension.

The president's eldest boy reenacted portion of their first speech aft nan gunman fired connected nan erstwhile president successful Pennsylvania, successful a check-in that yet ended nan uncertainty and included immoderate father-son-banter.

'Can I telephone you Evander Holyfield because of nan missing chunk of ear?' he said he told his father, who has hosted boxing matches.

Don Jr. moreover put connected a respectable Trump belief to picture nan measurement they trim nan hostility done humor, speaking successful an Axios question and reply extracurricular nan Republican convention.

'Most importantly. How’s nan hair?' he said asked his father. 'The hairsbreadth is fine, Don. The hairsbreadth is fine. A batch of humor successful it, but it’s fine,' he says his dada responded.

Those jokes bely nan scary that Trump, Jr. and family members went done – and superior information questions he is demanding U.S. agencies reply astir what went wrong. 

He said he was sportfishing pinch his girl successful Jupiter, Florida erstwhile he first learned nan news. 

'It was 90 mins earlier I moreover knew he was alive. That was a reliable moment,' he said.

'I’ll ne'er hide it. That was a dense mates hours,' he shared.

'I don't want to beryllium nan feline – I won't push you know, conspiracies. But these are conscionable facts that I can't reconcile successful immoderate way, style aliases form,' he said, demanding to cognize really a gunman was capable to stay connected a tile to sprout astatine his begetter astatine Pennsylvania rally.

‘Having had a Secret Service item myself, having seen what they do … a feline does not get connected a rooftop pinch a firearm wherever there’s group .. for 5 minutes saying: Here’s a feline connected a rooftop pinch a gun,’ he told interviewer Mike Allen.

He was accompanied by a his ain information protection astatine an arena wherever guests had their bags swept.  

He indicated he was flummoxed astir really nan breach occured.

‘It doesn’t happen,’ he said. ‘That doesn’t hap without a superior breach of something. It’s an impossibility,’ said Trump, Jr., an avid huntsman who compared a changeable wrong 150 yards to a gimme play shot.

‘That’s for illustration a 6-inch putt for a shooter. It does not happen. It does not happen,’ he said.

He says he recovered retired astir his father's action of J.D. Vance arsenic his moving mate erstwhile everyone other did, contempt being a apical backer for nan choice. 

'I felt it for a while. I knew for judge fundamentally erstwhile I saw nan Truth spell out. I recovered retired for illustration usually for illustration nan remainder of nan world did – connected societal media,' he revealed. 

'It astir apt went down longer than it should person successful my opinion,' he said of nan process.

He besides said astir a imaginable Robert Kennedy, Jr. endorsement, connected a time a leaked video showed nan erstwhile president trying to food him up by sharing vaccine skepticism.

'Maybe that’s 1 of those moments that brings group together,' he said, pointing to Kennedy family history. 'Maybe there’s a spot for him location successful an administration,' he said.