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Trump Accepts GOP Nomination, Says He Survived Assassination Attack By “The Grace Of Almighty God’

Donald Trump described on Thursday how he narrowly survived an attempt on his life, telling a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention in his first speech since the attack that he was only there “by the grace of Almighty God.”

“I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard on my right ear,” he said during a 14-minute account, a thick bandage still covering his ear. “I said to myself, ‘Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet.”

When he told the Milwaukee crowd that he was “not supposed to be here,” the delegates chanted back, “Yes you are!”

The former president struck an unusually conciliatory tone during the speech’s opening moments, when he formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination for the Nov. 5 election.

“I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,” he said, in a marked shift in tenor for the typically bellicose former president.

But he swiftly pivoted to well-worn attacks on the Biden administration, which he said was “destroying” the country. He claimed without evidence that his criminal indictments were part of a Democratic conspiracy, predicted President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, would usher in “World War Three,” and described what he called an “invasion” of migrants over the southern border.

In the meandering remarks that followed – at 90-plus minutes the longest convention speech in history – Trump abandoned the message of unity he had promised to embrace in favour of his usual mixture of bombast and grievance, repeating his false claim that Democrats stole the 2020 election.

Trump asserted, as he has throughout his political career, that only he was capable of saving the country from certain doom.

“I could stop wars with a telephone call,” he said.

The speech capped a four-day event during which he was greeted with adulation by a party now almost entirely in his thrall.

In a statement, Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said Trump had presented only problems, not solutions.

“It was Donald Trump who destroyed our economy, ripped away rights, and failed middle class families,” she said. “Now he pursues the presidency with an even more extreme vision for where he wants to take this country.”

(REUTERS)

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