The Republican National Convention has officially kicked off in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and a cloud of anxiety looms heavy over the events following Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. On Sunday, President Joe Biden spoke from the White House and issued a call for Americans to embrace “unity.” For once, Trump and Biden might be on exactly the same page.
In a Sunday interview with The Washington Examiner , the former president said that he had largely discarded the speech he’d planned to give at the RNC on Thursday, in favor of a rewritten discourse promoting national unity. “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger,” Trump told the Examiner , “Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.” “It is a chance to bring the country together.
I was given that chance,” he added. In a Sunday interview with The New York Post , Trump expressed gratitude for surviving the close call with a sniper bullet. “By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God I’m still here,” he said.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” the former president added. “I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead.” Trump reiterated to the Post that he had “prepared an extremely tough speech, really good, all about the corrupt, horrible administration,” for the RNC, but “threw it away.
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