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Donald Trump said this weekend that a failed assassination attempt at one of his rallies prompted him to rewrite his entire speech for this week’s Republican National Convention. While the speech leading up to the shooting was going to attack President Joe Biden, Trump’s comments will likely now bring a divided country, and perhaps even the world.
Speaking to the Washington Examiner on Sunday, Trump said, “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be spectacular. If that hadn’t happened, it would have been one of the most incredible speeches,” noting that it would have focused on Biden’s policies. Honestly, now the narrative is going to be completely different. ” After being shot in the ear in the assassination attempt, which also claimed the life of one of his supporters and wounded others, Trump said he now sees the speech he will give in Milwaukee as an opportunity to unite the country. This is an opportunity to unite the whole country, if not the whole world,” he said. The speech will be very different, very different from what it would have been two days ago. “
Several allies of the former president said they had turned him into a new man after Saturday’s attack. Speaking to Axios about Trump’s stated plan to use the conference to unify people, his friend and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said, “I think it’s real. Being shot in the face modifies a man. A Republican close to Trump’s crusade said his colleague Gabriel Sherguy said that “Trump has made it clear that he does not need to communicate revenge or retaliation in his speeches or elsewhere. “(After the shooting in Pennsylvania, Senator J. D. Vance, named Trump’s running mate on Monday, blamed the current president, writing on social media that Biden’s “crusade rhetoric led directly to the assassination attempt on President Trump. “Republican Mike Collins wrote that “Joe Biden sent the orders,” while Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that “Democrats wanted this to happen. “)
Obviously, it would be wonderful if Trump actually replaced the way he spoke during the crusade and focused on unity, only time will tell if that happens. Previously, the former president had called his warring political parties “vermin,” threatened retaliation against those he considered enemies, and called other people he didn’t like “human scum. ” On Monday, reacting to the dismissal of his classified documents file and referring to other legal proceedings against him, he wrote in Truth Social: “The Democratic Justice Department has coordinated ALL of these political attacks, which are a conspiracy to interfere in the elections opposed to Joe Biden’s party. Political opponent, ME.
But of course, maybe it has changed. Speaking to Sherman, resources who spoke to Trump privately over the weekend said he seemed very different. “He told me, ‘Shit, that was close. ‘ He feels blessed,” said one user.
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