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Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination: watch speech live Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination: watch speech live
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Ivanka Trump is winding up to the end. This is going well. Trump: 'I am the law and order candidate'
I have loved and respected him my entire life, and I could not be more proud tonight to present to you and to all of America my father and our next president, Donald J Trump. Trump continues, ad-libs CAPS:
There are horns. Lots of horns. I will work with, and appoint, the best prosecutors and law enforcement officials in the country to get the job done. In this race for the White House, I am the Law And Order candidate. The irresponsible rhetoric of our President, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide us by race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment THAN FRANLY I HAVE EVER SEEN OR ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM HAS EVER WATCHED OR SEEN.
Donald Trump comes out and kisses Ivanka Trump. This time the kisses land. The crowd is on its feet, cheering, applauding. This Administration has failed America’s inner cities. REMEMBER, FAILED ITS INNER CITIES. It’s failed them on education. It’s failed them on jobs. It’s failed them on crime. It’s failed them IN EVERY WAY AND at every level.
There are also strings, lots of strings. IT sounds like he just won the crap out of a Grammy. When I am President, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally.
3.17am BST Every action I take, I will ask myself: does this make life better for young Americans in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson who have as much of a right to live out their dreams as any other child America?
03:17 To make life safe FOR ALL OF OUR CITIZENS, we must also address the growing threats we face from outside America: we are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS AND WE’RE GOING TO DEFEAT THEM FAST.
Ivanka Trump: That’s quite an applause line.
“He’s the single most qualified person to serve as chief executive of an $18tn economy,” she says. He’ll recruit “the best and brightest,” she says. “Come January 17, all things will become possible again. We can hope, dream and think big again... he will be your greatest, your truest and your most loyal champion.” 3.51am BST
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03:15 Trump: 'I will restore law and order'
Ivanka Trump: 'my father will fight for you' More Trump, ad-libs in CAPS:
Ivanka Trump promises that “when my father says that he will MAGA, he will deliver.” She does not use the acronym but it’s faster to type. We will bring the same economic success to America that Mike brought to Indiana. He is a man of character and accomplishment. He is the right man for the job. The first task for our new Administration will be to liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens their communities.
She gets a genuine laugh: America was shocked to its core when our police officers in Dallas were brutally executed. IMMEDIATELY after Dallas, we have seen continued threats and violence against our law enforcement officials. Law officers have been shot or killed in recent days in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan and Tennessee.
“When I was a child, my father told me, Ivanka, you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big... On Sunday, more police were gunned down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Three were killed, and four were badly injured. An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans. I have a message to every last person threatening the peace on our streets and the safety of our police: when I take the oath of office next year, I will restore law and order our country. BELIEVE ME. BELIEVE ME.
“To people all over America, I say, when you have my father in your corner, you will no longer have to worry about being let down. He will fight for you all the way, all the time, every time.” 3.50am BST
Other politicians, she says, say “I’ll feel for you.” But “Only my father will say, ‘I’ll fight for you.’” 03:50
3.13am BST Trump: 'millions of Democrats will join our movement'
03:13 Trump says he’ll get Bernie Sanders voters numbering millions of Democrats:
Ivanka Trump has positioned herself as a millennial with a focus on issues that consistently register as top concerns for women voters. Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie Sanders – he never had a chance.
3.12am BST But his supporters will join our movement, because we will fix his biggest issue: trade. Millions of Democrats will join our movement because we are going to fix the system so it works for all Americans. In this cause, I am proud to have at my side the next Vice President of the United States: Governor Mike Pence of Indiana.
03:12 Trump saying Pence’s name gets way more applause than Pence actually appearing.
Ivanka Trump promises to fight for equal pay and family leave And a great guy.
Ivanka Trump says that Trump micro-manages his job sites, talking to everyone from the painter to the super. 3.47am BST
“When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, effort and excellence,” she says. Kind of generic-y. 03:47
Then she gets the biggest applause of the night, with lines about... equal pay. And family leave: Trump presents self as defender of powerless
“At my father’s company there are more female than male executives. Women are paid equally for the work that they do, and when a woman becomes a mother she is supported, not shut out... And the consummation of Trump as populist is complete:
“As president, my father will change the labor laws.. .and he will focus on making quality child care affordable and accessible for all.” I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves.
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Ivanka Trump says father 'color-blind and gender neutral'
“My father not only has the strengh and ability to be the next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs,” she asserts.
“I’ve learned a lot about the world from walking construction sites by his side... competence in the building trade is easy to spot, and incompetence is impossible to hide.. there have always been men of all backgrounds and ethnicities on my father’s job sites, and women long before it was common.
“He is color-blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.”
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Trump says that the goal that unites us all is “when this party and better still this country knows what winning feels like again.”
“If it’s possible to be famous and yet not really well known, that describes the father who raised me,” she says. Interesting. She reminisces about playing on the floor of his office, making buildings with legos, and Erector sets.
“He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic,” she says.
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Ivanka Trump tells RNC she's not always a Republican
Ivanka Trump says that her father prevailed against 16 competitors. “For more than a year Donald Trump has been the people’s champion, and tonight he is the people’s nominee,” she says.
“Like many of my fellow millennials I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat,” she says. That factchecks true.
“This is the moment, and Donald Trump is the person to MAGA,” she says. She doesn’t really use the acronym but it’s faster to type.
“Real change is only going to come from outside the system,” she says.
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Ivanka Trump addresses convention Trump says Clinton committed 'terrible, terrible crimes'
Well that’s a loud cheer now. The band plays Here Comes the Sun as she comes out. Somebody yells: “We love you Ivanka!!!!” More Trump, ad-libs in CAPS:
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws – or worse still, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look the other way.
Here chants of Lock her up! Lock her up!
And 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 consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never before.
When the FBI Director says that the Secretary of State was “extremely careless” and “negligent,” in handling our classified secrets, I also know that these terms are minor compared to what she actually did. They were just used to save her from facing justice for her terrible TERRIBLE crimes.
In fact, her single greatest accomplishment may be committing such an egregious crime and getting away with it – especially when others have paid so dearly. When that same Secretary of State rakes in millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers I know the time for action has come.
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Look who’s watching at home: Trump addresses the #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/hkDkbJ9LdO
Trump's most challenging construction project is that hair. 3.44am BST
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02:58 Protester interrupts Trump
The prompter reads: “Ladies and gentlemen, please give a very warm welcome to Ivanka Trump.” More Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
As soon as the video’s done playing. “Donald Trump has set his sights on a new rebuilding project” the video says. Every day I wake up determined to deliver for the people I have met all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned.
2.56am BST I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. AND THEY ARE FORGOTTEN. BUT THEY”RE NOT GONNA BE FORGOTTEN LONG. THESE ARE People who work hard but no longer have a voice.
02:56 I am your voice.
Now a video testimony to Trump from actor Jon Voight that begins, “as you know he is running for president.” Cheers cheers cheers but the crowd can’t decide whether to chant USA USA or TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP.
And it’s another biography of Trump and story of his career. “He became captain of the baseball team... after college, Donald faced a decision... Donald’s first project was less about building a project than reclaiming its soul.” But now, there seems to be a protester, over by Texas.
2.49am BST Trump stands and nods solemnly. He does not comment on the situation. He puckers his mouth. Presidentially, I guess is the idea.
02:49 Then he knocks it out of the park with a line that delivers this crowd to ecstasy.
It looks like they brought out a special black-and-gold lectern for the Trumps to speak at. We can’t quite see the front of it. Tell us there’s a gold T on there. How great are our police and how great is Cleveland?!?
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This song has the refrain Make America Great Again, and there’s a screaming sax solo in it. Trump, with ad-libs CAPS:
A number of these reforms that I will outline tonight will be opposed by some of our nation’s most powerful special interests. That is because these interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit, BELIEVE ME, IT”S FOR THEIR BENEFIT.
Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place. They are throwing money at her because they have total control over every SINGLE THING she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.
That is why Hillary Clinton’s message is that things will never change. NEVER EVER. [LAUGHS]
My message is that things have to change – and they have to change right now!
Big cheers.
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More Trump, ad-libs in CAPS:
But Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy. The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them. A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes. Tonight, I will share with you my plan of action for America.
The most important difference between our plan and that of our OPPONENT, is that our plan will put America First.
Big cheer, crowd comes to its feet and chants USA! USA!
Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo. As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America First, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect THE RESPECT THAT WE DESERVE.
The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home – which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.
He says “law and order” with a forceful nasty catch in his voice, launching a Trump! Trump! Trump! cheer.
On the economy, I will outline reforms to add millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth that can be used to rebuild America.
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Trump: 'legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness.'
Trump continues, with his ad-libs in CAPS:
I am certain it is a decision THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA truly regrets. Her bad instincts and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what caused the disasters unfolding today. Let’s review the record. In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map.
Libya was cooperating. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was under control. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region, and the world. Libya is in ruins, and our Ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos.
Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the West. After fifteen years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before.
This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness.
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Trump camp issues footnoted transcript
They did their homework and have showed their work. If you doubt the factual fidelity of any line of this speech, check out the annotated transcript here.