Trump said he thinks Heidi Cruz, the wife of Sen.
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The “crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon, and I mean very soon, come to an end”, he said. “Beginning on January 20, 2017, safety will be restored”. Ted Cruz of Texas, pointedly refused to endorse the party’s nominee during his convention speech, inciting a chorus of boos and catcalls from pro-Trump delegates. More than a day later, a Trump company speechwriter admitted that she had written the lines into the speech by mistake.
He said he’d put aside his own ill will and reluctantly come to the convention and speak in support many of Trump’s policies, while criticizing his opponent Hillary Clinton, despite the fact that he never got an apology for the things Trump did.
Those people “would leave his office, as people often do after being with Donald Trump, feeling that life could be great again”, she continued.
Trump then addressed the National Enquirer story that included a photograph they claimed was Cruz’s father with Lee Harvey Oswald, another grievance Cruz cited as his reason for not endorsing Trump.
He didn’t say that Americans would see their way through because that’s what Americans do.
Thiel concluded: “I am proud to be gay, I am proud to be a Republican, but most of all I am proud to be an American”. “But Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy”.
Donald Trump has leapt ahead of Hillary Clinton according to a new poll – showing the tycoon earned a healthy “bump” from the Republican convention despite controversies over plagiarism and scaremongering.
Americans, he said, have “lived through one global humiliation after another”.
He portrayed himself as the strongman who could crush the violence. “More than party affiliation, I vote based on what I believe is right for my family and for my country”. In the prepared text, the only mention of God was at the end, when he said, “God bless you”, to the audience.
“He’s a chicken”, said Eugene Delgaudio, a delegate from Sterling, Virginia, who clucked like a chicken when asked about Cruz’s decision. And then they said there may not be unity. “Nothing rallies the Republicans like a race against the Clintons and an Obama third term”.
During their vicious contest, Trump re-tweeted an unflattering picture of Cruz’s wife Heidi Cruz and even suggested that the senator’s dad was somehow involved in JFK’s assassination.
As the crowd chanted: “Lock her up” for her handling of United States foreign policy, Mr Trump waved them off and said: “Let’s defeat her in November”.
And while Trump painted a portrait of an America haunted by crime, crime rates remain at historic lows.
“Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist”.
On Twitter, many global observers reacted with shock to Trump’s speech, with some drawing parallels between it and foreign strongmen.
“Lock her up!” the throng chanted. But Jeanie Turk said she’s enthusiastically made the switch.
Leaks from that deposition, Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf says, “could change the discussion entirely”.
But his economic proposals Thursday night were vague, centering on unspecified plans to create millions of jobs.
“She is their puppet, and they pull the strings”, he said.
She escaped criminal charges from the Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this month, when Director James Comey laid out a searing catalog of offenses by Clinton that many Republicans interpreted as bald-faced proof that the former secretary not only broke the law but lied to the public about her email practices. Trump did that just Wednesday.
She presented a polished image of a man with strong work values, of an employer who promoted women and of an entrepreneur who dreamed big and thought big.
“The best I can say is that he got the name of the country right”.
In a rare moment of humility, Trump thanked the evangelical community.
If Republican delegates gathered in Cleveland to nominate Trump were caught off-guard, they didn’t show it. They cheered him – loudly.
Trump’s campaign has defied political norms – fueling ethnic tensions, offending key voting blocs, eschewing big-spending ad buys or campaign infrastructure and relying on heavy media coverage.
Hitting a populist note, Trump vowed to renegotiate “terrible” trade agreements with China.
He had promised to describe “major, major” tax cuts.
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British historian Simon Schama said Trump’s speech was “protectionism added to isolationism – recipe for catastrophe”.
