Five days after he survived the assassination attempt, erstwhile president Trump requested national unity, formally accepting the presidential nomination at the climax of the National Republican Convention in 2024.
"I'm moving to become president of the full America, not half of America, due to the fact that there is no triumph in triumph for half of America," Trump stressed, addressing thousands of delegates, organization officials and activists crowded at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee and the national audience of Americans watching the convention from home. "Discord and divisions in our society must be healed. As Americans, we share 1 destiny and a common destiny. We emergence together. Or we'll fall apart," the erstwhile president noted.
"Let me start tonight by expressing my gratitude to the American people for their support after the assassination effort on Saturday," Trump said. As you know, the bomber's bullet was about a 4th inch distant from taking my life. The erstwhile president and Republican organization candidate for president said that “so many people asked me what had happened, so I will tell you what happened.” "You will never hear this from me again, due to the fact that it is besides painful to talk about," he said.
Trump told us about the shooting, saying he knew that we were “attacked”. He praised “very brave Secret Service agents who ran on phase and threw themselves at me to defend me.” "The blood was everywhere, and yet in a way I felt secure due to the fact that I had God on my side," Trump said. "It is amazing that before the shot, if I hadn't moved my head at the last minute, the killer's bullet would have hit the mark perfectly, and I wouldn't be with you today."
"I shouldn't be here tonight. I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Allah Almighty. Many people say it was a minute of providence," Trump said. The crowd chanted: “Yes, you are. Yes, you are.”
He acknowledged that “no 1 of us knows God’s plan or where the adventure of life will lead us. But if the events of last Saturday are clear, it is that all minute we have on earth is simply a gift from God. We must make the best of all day for the people and the country we love."
Trump besides pointed to Corey Comperatore's helmet and fire jacket, a erstwhile fire chief who died at the rally and was placed on stage. And he asked the audience to celebrate a minute of silence. He said he had raised over $6 million in fresh days for the Comperatore household and the families of 2 men who were seriously injured in the shooting.
The erstwhile president besides found time to thank his wife, the erstwhile First woman of Melania Trump. “On this journey I am profoundly honored that my amazing wife, Melania, joined me,” said Trump to the crowd in Milwaukee during an emotional speech.
He then referred to her letter to America, in which she called for unity after an assassination effort on her husband. "I am reasoning of you now, my fellow countrymen," she wrote. “The dawn is here again. Let's unite. Now’.
"At a time erstwhile our politics besides frequently divide us, it is time to remember that we are all fellow citizens – we are 1 nation under God, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all," Trump stressed. "We must not criminalize disagreements or demonize political disputes. In this spirit, the Democratic organization should immediately halt utilizing justice as a weapon and call its political opponent an enemy of democracy, especially due to the fact that it is not true," Trump stated.
Addressing “every citizen, whether young or old, male or female, Democrat, Republican or independent, or white, Asian or Hispanic”, Trump repeatedly criticized the administration of a democratic incumbent in the White House, but only erstwhile mentioned the name of president Biden. "I will not do the harm Biden did, they will only usage his name once," Trump said. ‘Biden. I'm not gonna replace him anymore. Only once’.
Pointing to inflation, the crisis at the confederate border with Mexico and the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, Trump argued that “time for change. We are simply incapable to withstand the next 4 years of this administration."
Trump reminded his supporters that the MAG movement "was never about me, it was always about you." "It was always about hardworking patriotic citizens of America," he said.
Behind: Fox News
