He said he’d stop “illegal immigration”. They said, it’s a boring speech, Mr. Trump, nothing good, nothing bad. But instead of striving for unity, his convention speakers used their pulpits to bully and badger dissenting Republicans into voting for Trump. “Another humiliation came when President Obama drew a red line in Syria – and the whole world knew it meant absolutely nothing”.
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Trump pledged to defeat the Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS, and hailed Israel as America’s best ally in the Middle East.
Cleveland – Donald Trump chased the check writers and the chambers of commerce out of the Republican temple Thursday night, accepting the presidential nomination from a GOP now in the hands of its anti-establishment, anti-government, anti-politician base. “Doing it now, doing it quickly”. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. We’re going to win fast. “This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the State of Israel”.
Trump criticized the United States’ allies for taking advantage of its military protection and financial assistance.
Citing terrorism threats, Mr Trump wants to reject refugees from countries where terrorism resides, at least until better vetting mechanisms is available. He promises “a country of law and order” in which the right to bear arms is secure.
A CNN snap poll of viewers of the speech said 57% had a “very positive reaction” to the address and 18% a somewhat positive reaction, while 24% said it had a negative effect.
Donald Jr., the eldest of Trump’s five children, was the one to announce that his father had enough votes during the roll call on Tuesday to secure the party’s nomination and then later that night addressed the convention. He plans to bring jobs home: “Americanism not globalism”. “They said, ‘We’re moving it.’ And Kimmel and Fallon and all the shows, they all went back a long way ’cause they weren’t gonna miss this convention”. “Corey Lewandowski was great, I have to tell you”, he said. That was about growing fear of violence and his unique ability to end it. He claimed America is in crisis, communities in chaos, with attacks on police and terrorism in the cities that threaten America’s way of life. But when it became clear that Cruz would not utter the magic phrase, “Vote for Donald Trump”, the crowd turned against him and he left the stage, smirking, to a percussive blast of boos.
Laying out his case against Clinton, he denounced nation-building policies that were actually put in place to some extent by George W. Bush, without mentioning by name the Republican president who launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. “But that’s not where you want to necessarily send a risqué picture”, he said. He cited Vermont Sen.
Trump painted his rival from the Democratic camp Hillary Clinton as incompetent. “This new wealth will improve the quality of life for all Americans”.
California delegate Shawn Steel said Ivanka Trump’s speech was “the high point of the entire convention for me”.
“I’ll be watching and listening”, Cruz said, but added: “I won’t sit down, shut up, support the team”.
“They have much to contribute to our politics”, he said of religious leaders. “Yet our laws prohibit you from speaking your own mind from your own pulpit”.
“When a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can’t see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no outcome, I know that corruption has reached a level like never before in our country”.
Trump’s campaign has defied political norms-fueling racial tensions, offending key voting blocs, eschewing big-spending ad buys and an elaborate campaign organization.
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As he did in the interview with The New York Times that was published late Wednesday evening, Trump intends to argue that the United States should retreat from the world stage, and leave areas of strategic interest to dictators, who Trump posits are the only solution to the problem of radical Islam.
