Mr. Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination at 8:30 p.m., July 18, ET (9:30 a.m., July 19, Vietnam time) and gave his first public speech since escaping the attempted assassination. July 13 in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump's highly anticipated primetime speech took place on the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention.
According to ABC News, Mr. Trump officially accepted the Republican Party's nomination to run for president in the 2024 election to applause.
"I'm running for president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory for half of America" - the former US President emphasized in his opening speech.
Mr. Trump noted: "The discord and division in our society must be healed. As Americans, we are bound together by a common fate and destiny. We rise together or broken together".
In his first speech nearly a week after the attempted assassination, Mr. Trump thanked everyone for their support and said the experience was "too painful to recount."
According to ABC News, the noisy stadium with chants of "Trump, Trump, Trump" became silent when the Republican presidential candidate spoke about the shooting.
“I heard a loud buzzing sound and felt something hit my right ear very hard,” Mr. Trump said. I thought to myself, oh what is that? It could just be a bullet. My hands were covered in blood, there was blood everywhere."
Mr. Trump said he immediately realized the severity of the incident and brave secret agents rushed onto the stage. If the secret service had acted differently, "I wouldn't be here tonight." "I am standing before you on this stage thanks to the grace of Almighty God" - he added.
Mr. Trump also thanked the crowd in Pennsylvania for not running away or panicking during the shooting. "No one ran away, and thanks to not being trampled, many lives were saved," he said.
In his speech, Mr. Trump asked the entire convention to spend a minute of silence for former firefighter Corey Comperatore - the man who died in the shooting. Mr. Trump kissed the helmet to commemorate the former firefighter and announced that in the past few days he had raised $6.3 million for the families of the shooting victims.
According to ABC News, also in the speech, Mr. Donald Trump expressed his joy in having Senator JD Vance as his running mate in the 2024 US presidential election. Mr. Trump called Mr. Vance "a friend and partner." just fought by my side."
Former President Doanld Trump emphasized: "He is becoming great for this country and with this movement, the greatest movement: "Make America great again" ("Make America great again")" .
