Last night, former president Donald Trump accepted the Republican party’s nomination for president, and started his much-anticipated speech at the Republican National Convention by retelling the events of the attempt on his life at last Saturday’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. ‘I’ll tell you what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s too painful to tell’, he said.
As Trump walked through the events that day, attendees cried and laughed. He praised the crowd in Pennsylvania for their courage and calm amid the bullets, saying the lack of a stampede ‘saved many lives.’ The famous image of Trump raising his fist as blood ran down the side of his face flashed on the screen and the crowd chanted with him: ‘fight, fight, fight!’ Trump remembered the supporter, Corey Comperatore, who lost his life at the hands of the would-be assassin while shielding his family from bullets. Comperatore’s firefighter uniform and helmet were propped up on the stage behind Trump.
You got the sense that Trump was grateful to be in Milwaukee at all
Reports were that Trump completely rewrote his speech after the assassination attempt, in order to call for national unity.
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