Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Thursday night, saying he was “running to be president of the entire nation.”
In his first public speech since the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally, President Trump said the current “difference and division” in America “must be healed,” adding that as a nation we can either “stand together” or “fell apart.” Trump’s speech came after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot by a “penetrating bullet” above his right ear in a gunshot from the roof of a nearby building.
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“The divisions and discord in our society must be healed,” Trump told a crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “As Americans, we are bound by one destiny, one common destiny. We will rise together, or we will fall apart.”
The former president added that he was “running for president not for half the American people, but for all the American people.”
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“Winning half of America is not winning,” Trump said, adding that he was “proud” to accept the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump went on to express his “gratitude to the American people” for the “outpouring of love and support following the assassination attempt” in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The former president went on to explain “what happened that day,” adding that “you will never hear from him again because it is too painful to talk about.”
