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Republican convention live: Trump speech excerpts released
Ivanka to introduce Donald Trump at Republican convention – live
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Priebus switches to criticizing Clinton.
Barrack tells the crowd to make “once upon a time” “once upon this time.”
“You can kiss your gun rights goodbye if she ever finds her way into the White House. ...
The band’s back.
It was on her watch ISIS began to spread its wings of evil over the Middle East. And she has spent the last 16 months looking into the eyes of the American people and lying about how she recklessly jeopardized national security with her secret email server.
Ivanka Trump is next.
She lied. And she lied over and over and over. She lied. She lied.
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Here he’s interrupted by chants of Lock her up. Then Priebus continues:
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Perhaps worst of all, Hillary Clinton has perfected the art of politics for personal gain. She reads ethics rules as carefully as Americans read their junk mail. Just look at her track record.
While Barrack speaks – he’s telling very nice personal stories about Trump – here’s the latest report from the city of Cleveland about the security situation:
She used her post as Secretary of State to grease the wheels for Democrat lobbyists, special interests, and political insiders connected to the corrupt Clinton Machine.
Two officers, one a Georgia State Trooper and one with the Cleveland Division of Police, were treated for minor skin irritation. They are doing well. The incident is still being investigated, but it is confirmed that no needles or syringes were used. It is possible that it was coming from irritant on a sticker.
Her family foundation took millions of dollars in donations from countries notorious for human rights abuses and funneling money to radical Islamic terrorists.
As a precaution, police are advising that if you received a sticker from a person that you don’t know, wash the area with soap and water. Do not take any items from anyone you don’t know.
For Hillary Clinton, the Oval Office is just another cash cow. Well, I have one word for all this hypocrisy and corruption.
Syringes have been banned as a precaution, illustrating that the City is monitoring and reacting to incidents.
Well, I have only one word for all this hypocrisy and corruption: Enough.
Barriers will be removed when deemed possible by the United States Secret Service.
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Priebus is drawing distinctions between Democrats and Republicans. Here are some good things he says about the Republican party:
Talk about a campaign about the future. The Trump camp has just sent, prematurely, an email in which Trump tells people that he just spoke at the RNC conventions.
We are the party of new ideas in a world changing faster than ever.
We are here, and if we missed that speech, it was really nice working here.
We are the party of the grassroots. We honor what the voters say.
But we’re pretty certain that Trump has not yet spoken, despite what this fundraising email says:
We know every child matters and the classroom is not an assembly
Tonight was amazing.
We want healthcare choices in the hands of patients.
I just delivered my speech at the Republican National Convention, where I officially accepted our Party’s nomination for President of the United States.
We say an independent people deserves individual solutions.
David, I am so honored and humbled.
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I can’t thank my wonderful supporters enough.
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And I have such an incredible running mate in accomplished conservative warrior Mike Pence, Governor of the great state of Indiana.
Back onstage, chairman Priebus. He begins:
This is our time to Make America Great Again!
To the people of Cleveland, we say thank you for your hospitality. I stand before this convention tonight as the Chairman of a party that is carrying the torch of liberty.
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We are the party of the open door.
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The official Republican platform this year calls for a “physical barrier” running the length of the Mexican border.
Barrack says nice words about Melania Trump:
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Melania I want to tell you, on behalf of 10,000 people in this arena and 50 million people watching, you are a timeless tribute to beauty, grace and elegance under pressure, you’re amazing. You’re awesome.”
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That’s applauded heartily.
Here’s another video. They’re trying to get to 9pm it feels like. The video is about the Republican wave of 2014. Senators are talking to the camera about the glory days of two years ago.
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Here’s Tom Barrack, CEO of Colony Capital, real estate investor and former deputy undersecretary of the Department of the Interior in the Reagan administration.
Pursuant to Paul Manafort’s comments earlier that women will support Trump because their husbands aren’t making enough money to support family needs. It looks like a powerful argument – maybe 40 years ago:
“Wow this is a wow,” he says. “I have to tell you I feel like the anchovy on Ivanka’s Caesar Salad. I know you’re salivating for that and you’re going to get it.”
Re: Manafort/"husbands" comment (Data from Pew) pic.twitter.com/mXvXUau5b2
“Donald Trump is one of my closest friends for 40 years,” he continues. He says he’s the son of a humble Lebanese grocer. And he’s speaking without notes or the Teleprompter. This is a seriously practiced public speaker.
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“You’re going to hate me for it, because you’re not going to hear one negative thing out of my mouth. I have nothing negative to say about Hillary, I have only good things to say about Donald,” he says.
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Here’s another video. What’s it about? 9/11? Criminal justice? Education? Autism? Immigration? All those things so far.
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It turns out the video follows story lines of five or six members of the Republican Leadership Initiative. It’s party propaganda as opposed to Trump propaganda. Now it’s doe and it sounds like time for more band.
More useful information about Donald Trump’s career, narrated by Donald Jr.
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It would be awesome to enjoy another tribute to Donald Trump's real estate career, narrated perhaps by one of his childr-- oh good.
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Here now is Dr Lisa Shin head of Koreans for Trump (the announcer said; not Korean-Americans, which is how Shin then describes herself).
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She’s from New Mexico. Forty-some years ago her parents left South Korea to become Americans, she says. “They knew that America was the land of opportunity and freedom, whre immigrants could succeed and prosper...my parents never imagined that one day their daughter would be speaking to you today. This is the beauty of the American dream. To do the unimaginable.”
RNC applauds Thiel for 'proud to be gay' line
“Hillary Clinton is a direct threat to the American dream,” Shin says.
When Thiel says “who cares?” about bathrooms, there is clapping and cheers.
“She represents everything that is wrong with the system!” Applause for that line.
Then he gets something of a standing ovation, from maybe a third of the crowd, when he says, “I am proud to be gay. But most of all I am proud to be an American.”
Shin critiques Clinton at length. “She is not qualified to be our next president. She is unfit to be commander and chief.. There is only president that can preserve the American dream... who will ensure a more prosperous, safe and secure future... only one candidate who will protect, stand with and fight for we the American people.”
The crowd cheers him at the end, and he gives a toothy, kind of dopey grin, and stands there for a second before waving and wandering off, as if thinking, “well, that went well.”
She’s not going to say Clinton, is she.
It did.
“There is only one clear choice for America, and that choice is Donald Trump!” she finishes. Big applause.
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“Safety will be restored,” Donald Trump will promise Americans on Thursday in an acceptance speech as a Republican presidential nominee that strikes a sharp new authoritarian tone, write Dan Roberts and Ben Jacobs:
Amid a backdrop of terrorist attacks and police shootings, Trump will seize on law and order as a potential rallying cry for a party bruised by internal feuds and an unruly convention.
“I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017, safety will be restored,” Trump will say, according to extracts of the speech circulated by the campaign after an unconfirmed full draft was leaked online.
The chaotic release of the speech – three hours before Trump was due to take to the stage in Cleveland – caps a week in which his wife’s opening address plagiarised Michelle Obama and a call for party unity was torpedoed by Ted Cruz’s refusal to endorsee the nominee.
Read the full coverage here:
Related: Donald Trump seizes on 'law and order' theme in convention acceptance speech
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Next up: Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin, the state’s first woman governor, once mentioned as a potential running mate for Trump. She is describing growing up in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. She has yet to mention the American dream.
Thiel to tell RNC: 'I am proud to be gay'
She says, kind of out of nowhere, that Oklahoma had no shortage of “African American heroes”, continuing:
Next up is Peter Thiel, the PayPal founder and Facebook investor, the billionaire who financed multiple lawsuits against Gawker including one attached to Hulk Hogan’s sex tape, reportedly because he was mad at Gawker because a sister site published that he was gay.
When I look back on my childhood, my America, I don’t see a perfect place. But we were united by a simple belief: that no matter who you were or where you came from, better days were just ahead for America.
Thiel plans to tell the crowd “I am proud to be gay,” according to his prepared remarks. How will the crowd respond?
She goes on to say that “it’s no secret that Donald Trump is bold, tenacious, courageous, and he has outspoken ideas.”
Here’s an excerpt that Thiel has yet to get to:
Here are further Fallin excerpts as released by the Trump campaign:
When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom.
“We are one in our belief that America must address the national debt – not by increasing taxes – but by increasing opportunity.
This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?
We are one in our belief that we must protect our borders, and promote fair trade that puts American workers first.
Of course, every American has a unique identity.
We are one in our belief that we must stand with allies like Israel, a beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
I am proud to be gay.
We are one in our belief that we must respect and honor our military, veterans, and law enforcement, whose sacrifice keeps us safe and free.
I am proud to be a Republican.
And we are one in our belief in that every life is precious, regardless of race or class, including the lives of unborn children.”
But most of all I am proud to be an American.
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Blackburn quotes Larry the Cable Guy. “Let’s Get ‘er Done.” That part didn’t make the excerpts.
Trump to speak in an hour
She says Trump has lived the American dream. We’ll forgo a wisecrack about Trump’s inheritance to earnestly posit that we thought the American dream had to do with scoring success from humble beginnings because equality. Not making money into more money.
Donald Trump is scheduled to make a speech accepting the Republican nomination for president in about one hour, around 10.15 pm. No going back now.
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Priebus is done. The band is covering Can’t Get Enough (of your love). We made up those parentheses. While we wait for the next speaker, here’s some more three-dimensional chess from Ben Carson, who has said that the Trump children grew up at a disadvantage because they had money, which turns most kids into spoiled failures but look how good the Trumps turned out:
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The band is now doing REO Speedwagon again. Roll With the Changes. It’s a really great cover band.
The band played. Now here’s Representative Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee. She gives a special shout out to people watching the convention on Twitter.
Here’s an excerpt of Blackburn’s speech released by the Trump campaign:
We are in desperate need of true leadership and unity. The last eight years have been a challenge, to our national and household budgets, our Constitution, to the men and women who give their lives and sacred honor to protect both. Donald Trump is a leader who has seen challenges, learned lessons, solved problems, delivered results. Some of our greatest leaders have been people who worked in the real world, know firsthand how cumbersome rules and unnecessary regulations get in the way of greatness. I want a president who knows leadership is not as it appears, but as it performs.
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Here now is a video presentation by Bobby Knight, the former Indiana basketball coach.
“As a coach my primary objective is to win and I know Donald Trump will always have winning on his mind,” Knight says. It’s a really short video and a pretty... lame? endorsement, for one of Trump’s favorite surrogates.
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Next up is Brock Mealer, a motivational speaker who suffered a spinal injury in a car wreck in 2007 and was told he could not walk again.
Mealer walks to the lectern, using two canes. He says doctors gave him less than a 1% chance of ever walking again. “Truthfully, god made that 1% a reality – his will, not mine,” he says. The crowd applauds warmly.
“And guess who else was told he only had a 1% chance?” is Mealer’s transition. “Mr Trump, welcome to the club. I defied the odds but I couldn’t do it on my own. Donald Trump can’t do it alone either. He needs our help and support.”
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“A leader gets stuff done,” Tarkenton says. I’ve known Donald Trump for 48 years, and like those other leaders, I know for sure he gets stuff done... Donald Trump is a proven leader, a teambuilder... I’ve watched him.. succeed wildly. I’ve watched him fail because all of us fail. I’ve watched him get back up because he never quits.”
This is a positive talk from Tarkenton. He asks the crowd to “go and win this game together.” Nary a discouraging word.
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Here’s a Fran Tarkenton highlight reel:
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Next up is Fran Tarkenton, the former Minnesota Vikings quarterback. “Right now I look at America, and I need to ask, what the hell’s goin on here?”
He says Washington is “broken for everybody who doesn’t make their living inside the Beltway.”
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“Here in America the only colors that matter are red white and blue,” Burns says. Related:
Related: Florida police shoot black man lying down with arms in air
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Here’s a charge of energy, suddenly: Pastor Mark Burns, the adamantly outspoken Trump-supporting South Carolinian. At the bottom of this post you can read the controversial invocation Burns delivered on Monday night.
Burns practically screams that under a Donald Trump administration, All! Lives! Matter! – a popular viewpoint in this arena.
He gets the crowd to chant All Lives Matter.
They take up the chant: All Lives Matter! All Lives Matter!
Burns realizes, or maybe seems to realize, that this is a potentially bad look for this room, in terms of projecting welcome to voters who may not be white. He ditches the teleprompter and says he disagrees with the tactics of Black Lives Matter, but “I understand that hopelessness and lack of opportunity breeds this type of desperation. This is true in many of our nation’s ghettoes.”
Then he gets them to shout Together! Together!
Then he promises that under a Trump administration, “all Americans will have jobs.”
1/ I've heard a lot of prayers by religious leaders of different faiths at RNCs & DNCs. But nothing like this. pic.twitter.com/RYfpn58TNi
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona is at the lectern. Arpaio was subject for a time to an independent monitor after a judge found that his department engaged in racial profiling.
“My most important mission has just begun,” he says. “To help elect Donald Trump president of the United States.”
“As someone who for 35 years has been a top law enforcement official.. I can tell you firsthand about the dangers of illegal immigration and drugs.”
He says “we have terrorists coming over our borders” and committing “massive destruction and mayhem.”
He closes with calls to support law enforcement and the military. “Let’s elect Donald Trump,” he says.
He seemed a bit subdued, actually, as did Falwell.
