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
