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 the Republican National Convention (RNC) implicit the summertime erstwhile helium expressed his enactment 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 interrogation Wednesday connected the "PBD Podcast" and said helium decided to marque his enactment for Trump nationalist aft the Republican statesmanlike campaigner was astir assassinated astatine a rally successful Pennsylvania successful July.

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

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

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

"This feline is coming retired trying to assistance people. He wants to assistance millions of people. He wants to assistance 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, helium said, helium wanted to bash more, and it was what drove him to talk astatine the RNC.

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

"I retrieve the crushed I did it was due to the fact that there’s nary spot successful this satellite for worldly similar this. I was acting similar a man," Hogan said. "I was astatine location going, ‘Well, if China invades oregon if this happens, they’ll travel to my doorway and I got guns …’ I was talking similar a antheral but I wasn’t being one. I didn’t basal up similar a should’ve. That Republican normal was my archetypal clip to really basal up a beryllium a man. Not conscionable speech similar one, but really beryllium one. I felt truthful beardown astir it – that’s wherefore 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 similar this successful our society. It was the crushed I did it and I didn’t attraction what radical thought astatine this point. I conscionable knew it was incorrect and this is astir what’s close and what’s incorrect and I could archer the difference. I cognize that much. It’s got a batch to bash with communal consciousness and that is wrong."

Hogan added that helium was "praying" for the United States to get backmost "on track."

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

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"Where we tin each beryllium harmless and financially pb a bully beingness wherever we don’t person to grovel and take betwixt medicine oregon not feeing ourselves truthful we tin provender our kids. It shouldn’t beryllium that way," helium said.

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