Salman Rushdie has been removed from ventilator and is JOKING, a day after The Satanic Verses author was stabbed on-stage at Upstate NY literary festival while cops hired to guard event watched
- Author Salman Rushdie was taken off a ventilator and able to talk Saturday, his agent said
- Dr. Martin Haskell, who witnessed Rushdie’s stabbing, said there were two cops guarding the event
- Despite their presence, the attacker was able to run on stage and stab the author multiple times
- Suspected Hezbollah sympathizer Hadi Matar, 24, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault
- Prosecutors called called the brazen on-stage attack a ‘preplanned’ crime