Scalise On Recovering From Shooting: It Was Like ‘Rebuilding Humpty Dumpty’

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and his wife during an interview with 60 Minutes after he recovered from being shot in June 2017.
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In his first interview since being shot  during a GOP Congressional baseball practice in June, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said he didn’t realize until “later” how much damage had been done “internally.”

“I mean, my femur was shattered. The hip and pelvis had serious damage where the bullet went through and, you know, did some damage to areas that had to be shored up with steel plates,” he said, during a segment of his interview with 60 Minutes that was released Thursday.

After the shooting, Scalise spent four days unconscious in the hospital. He praised the doctors who did so much to repair all of the “damage.”

“They did a phenomenal job of rebuilding, you know, kind of the, rebuilding Humpty Dumpty. I mean, there were, there was a lot of damage inside that had to get fixed,” he said. “They put me back together again.”

The rest of the interview will air on 60 Minutes on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. EST.

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  1. OK, Steve, what have you learned from this?

  2. Beat me to it. Was just going to put $10 down that no epiphany occurred.

  3. Let’s take a moment away from the snark to be thankful that he survived.

  4. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Mr. Scalise -

    Does what happened - specifically you failing in your Rambo moment, the moment for which you’ve hoped, and prayed and postured for your whole life - does that make you a failure as a man, a Republican, an American, or all three?

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