Kathie Lee Gifford is talking out about how President Donald Trump stored her and her new child daughter from a deadly stalker.
Throughout a up to date interview on “The Sage Steele Show,” the 71-year-old TV character turned into emotional as she recalled the incident 31 years in the past. Gifford mentioned she and her child daughter Cassidy have been on their method to Atlantic Town, the place Gifford was once to host the “Miss America” festival, when her overdue husband, Frank Gifford, was once notified she had gained a demise warning.
“The FBI called my husband, and they said, ‘Mr. Gifford, we have a problem. There’s this guy. This is a very, very bad human being. [He] was a psychopathic murderer — a rapist and murderer. And he’s coming to get your wife,” she shared.
Kathie Lee Gifford recalled how President Donald Trump stored her and her new child daughter nearest she gained a demise warning. (Getty)
The previous “Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee” host informed Steele she had simply given start to Cassidy six weeks previous. Gifford, at the side of her child daughter and a carer, have been about to release in a van to force 3 hours to Atlantic Town when Frank gained the decision from the FBI. She recounted how the FBI requested Frank for the folk to exit with their fresh plans in order that they wouldn’t tip off the suspect.
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“They said, ‘We would like you, Mr. Gifford, to just keep your schedule and have your wife keep her schedule, because this guy, we don’t want him to know that we’re on to him,'” Gifford mentioned.
Gifford mentioned the FBI knowledgeable Frank the person had “raped and tortured” his personal aunt. She defined that the person’s aunt had controlled to departure lengthy plenty to name the police.
“This is why I will love this man for my whole life.”
“I never heard it until just the other day. Somebody told me how she finally got away from [him],” Gifford mentioned. “He left. He stole her keys and told her, ‘Now I’m going to go after Kathie Lee.'”
The Sunlight hours Emmy Award winner recalled that Frank informed the FBI he would no longer comply with its request that he and Gifford retain their common schedules till he made one name.
“And he called Donald,” she mentioned.
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Gifford defined that she at all times stayed on the Trump Plaza and On line casino when she was once in Atlantic Town, which made it simple for the person to grasp her location.
“Frank called Donald and said, “Donald, we’ve were given this condition,'” Gifford recalled.
“And that is why I can love this guy for my complete while,” she said of Trump as she teared up. “He mentioned, ‘Frank, don’t you fear about it. I’ve were given your women. I’ve were given your women. And don’t you fear.’
“And so Frank called back the FBI and said, ‘I called Donald Trump. He says he’s going to take care of my wife and my daughter.'”
The FBI referred to as Gifford’s overdue husband, Frank Gifford, to warn him in regards to the demise warning. (Getty Photographs)
Gifford mentioned, on the moment, she “didn’t know anything” in regards to the warning and was once stunned when she gained a decision from Trump, who informed her that he was once sending his helicopter to whisk her to his lodge.
She upcoming discovered the true property multi-millionaire was once protective her by way of having her importance a distinct and more secure form of transportation to her vacation spot. Gifford was once additionally puzzled since Trump had get a hold of a shield tale to provide an explanation for why he was once making the formality.
“I mentioned, ‘Donald, why? He said, “Because you’ve had a toddler.’ I mentioned, ‘Donald, girls have young children each and every life. It’s negative fat trade in. Thanks. But it surely’s negative fat trade in.’ And he is going, ‘No, congratulations. So happy for you … [I’m] sending my helicopter for you and your child and your carer,'” she recalled.
Gifford recalled that she tried to talk him out of it, but Trump was adamant. “The upcoming life, he despatched his helicopter.”
In addition to sending his helicopter, Gifford said, she was greeted by four members of Trump’s security team when she arrived in Atlantic City.
“I ruthless, those guys are main, main, they usually’re like, ‘Mrs. Gifford, Mr. Trump needs you to grasp that we’re right here for you,'” Gifford said. “I didn’t know what they have been speaking about.”
Gifford said that since she had just given birth and had “a wide variety of stuff happening,” she didn’t inquire further about why Trump had sent his security to protect her.
Trump had Gifford flown to his hotel in a helicopter, and he had a security team guard her all week long. (Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images)
The “Next Got here You” actress said she thanked the security guards and “by no means idea the rest about it.” However, she recalled that they protected her all week leading up to the pageant, and additional members joined her security detail daily.
On the day of the pageant, Gifford had some free time, so she headed down to the lobby. She recalled being bewildered why a security guard had been stationed outside her hotel room all week.
“I simply by no means considered it, you recognize?” she said. “I simply … silly. However he by no means mentioned a commitment. No one mentioned a commitment to me.”
After she arrived at the lobby, Gifford was stunned when she saw a newspaper with a headline about her death threat. She contacted the organizers of the pageant, who asked her if she had reconsidered hosting and performing at the event due to the threat.
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“I mentioned, ‘Hell, no,’” she recalled. “No one’s getting to manufacture me afraid.
“And then I understood everything,” she mentioned. “I understood what Donald had done. I understood what Frank had done to try to say, you know, not be afraid and all of that.”
Gifford hosted the 1994 festival with Regis Philbin in spite of the warning. (Joe Sohm/Perceptible of The usa/Common Photographs Staff by way of Getty Photographs)
Gifford mentioned she was at the festival and after was once taken house by way of a distinct path. She upcoming discovered that an FBI officer were guarding her son Cody, who was once 3 years timeless, at her house in Connecticut. Gifford mentioned please see life, she and Cody was at a film theater, the place she was once knowledgeable by way of the FBI, that have been guarding her, that the person were stuck.
“In the middle of the movie, one of the FBI guys comes over and goes, ‘Mrs. Gifford, we got this son of a b—-,'” she recalled, “I said, ‘Thank you so much.’”
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Firstly of the episode, Gifford defined she had up to now infrequently shared the tale of the way Trump helped her for the reason that overdue Rev. Billy Graham had warned her way back to stick out of politics.
“He mentioned, ‘Just tell people that God loves them,” Gifford recalled of Graham’s recommendation. “And all these years, that’s what I’ve done. You’ve never heard me say a thing about politics — ever.
“And now I’m in a position to,” she said. “I’m in a position to now as a result of, initially, Billy’s long past. I noticed him proper earlier than he died.”
Gifford; Trump’s wife, Melania Trump; and Trump are pictured in 2011. (Evan Agostini/Getty Images)
The famous evangelist died of natural causes at the age of 99 in 2018.
Gifford said she knew Graham would understand why she had to be “very truthful” now and speak out about how Trump had saved her.
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However, she explained that she still “hates politics” and dislikes some of Trump’s rhetoric.
“I might balk every now and then. I might walk, ’Donald negative, negative,'” she said. “That’s no longer the person I knew, you recognize? However the tale I simply informed you is the person I do know.
“That’s my friend Donald,” Gifford mentioned. “Saved my life. Saved my daughter’s life. And if I called him today, [he] would save it again.”
