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Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination: watch speech live Donald Trump accepts nomination: 'I am the law and order candidate' – live
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4.28am BST
04:28
Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson, many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views.
I am going to work very hard to repeal that language and protect free speech for all Americans.
We can accomplish these great things, and so much else – all we need to do is start believing in ourselves and in our country again. It is time to show the whole world that America Is Back – bigger, and better and stronger than ever before.
What a big applause line that was.
4.26am BST
04:26
Trump now thanks evangelical Christians for supporting him but admits, in an improvised aside, that he may not deserve it:
At this moment, I would like to thank the evangelical community BECAUSE I WILL TELL YOU WHAT, THE SUPPORT THAT THEY’VE GIVEN ME, AND I’M NOT SURE I DESERVE IT, HAS BEEN SO AMAZING, AND IS SUCH A BIG REASON FOR ME BEING HERE TONIGHT. You have so much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from your own pulpits.
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04:25
More Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
The replacement for Justice Scalia will be a person of similar views and principles. VERY IMPORTANT. This will be one of the most important issues decided by this election. My opponent wants to essentially abolish the 2nd amendment. [LOUD BOOS] I, on the other hand, received the early and strong endorsement of the National Rifle Association and will protect the right of all Americans to keep their families safe.
4.24am BST
04:24
One of the biggest applause lines of the night:
We are also going to appoint justices to the United States Supreme Court who will uphold our laws and our Constitution.
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04:23
More Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
This new wealth will improve the quality of life for all Americans – We will build the roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, and the railways of tomorrow. This, in turn, will create millions more jobs. We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice.
My opponent would rather protect education bureaucrats than serve American children. AND THAT’S WHAT SHE’S DOING. AND THAT’S WHAT SHE’S DONE. We will repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare. [CHEERS.] You will be able to choose your own doctor again. [CHEERS] And we will fix TSA at the airports WHICH IS A TOTAL DISASTER!
We’re going to work with all of our students who are drowning in debt to take the pressure off these young people just starting out their adult lives.
We will completely rebuild our depleted military [BIG CHEERS], and the countries that we protect, at a massive COST TO US, will be asked to pay their fair share.
We will take care of our great Veterans like they have never been taken care of before. My just-released Ten Point Plan has received tremendous veteran support. We will guarantee those who serve this country will be able to visit the doctor or hospital of their choice WITHOUT WAITING FIVE DAYS ON A LINE AND DYING. My opponent dismissed the VA scandal – one more sign of how out of touch she really is.
We are going to ask every Department Head in government to provide a list of wasteful spending projects that we can eliminate in my first 100 days. The politicians have talked about THIS FOR YEARS, BUT I’m going to do it.
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04:18
More Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world. Reducing taxes will cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into our country. BELIEVE ME, IT’LL HAPPEN, AND IT’LL HAPPEN FAST.
Then we are going to deal with the issue of regulation, one of the greatest job-killers of them all. Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as $2 trillion a year, and we will end it VERY VERY QUICKLY. We are going to lift the restrictions on the production of American energy. This will produce more than $20 trillion in job creating economic activity over the next four decades.
My opponent, on the other hand, wants to put the great miners and steel workers of our country out of work – that will never happen WITH DONALD J TRUMP AS President. OUR STEELWORKERS AND OUR MINERS ARE GOING BACK TO WORK AGAIN. With these new economic policies, trillions of dollars will start flowing into our country.
4.15am BST
04:15
Trump keeps going on the topic of trade. Ad-libs caps:
My opponent, on the other hand, has supported virtually every trade agreement that has been destroying our middle class. She supported NAFTA, and she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization – another one of her husband’s colossal mistakes.
She supported the job killing trade deal with South Korea. She has supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership WHICH will not only destroy our manufacturing, but it will make America subject to the rulings of foreign governments AND IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers, or that diminishes our freedom and independence. WE WILL NEVER SIGN BAD TRADE DEALS AGAIN. AMERICA FIRST AGAIN. AMERICA FIRST.
Instead, I will make individual deals with individual countries.
No longer will we enter into these massive deals, with many countries, that are thousands of pages long – and which no one from our country even reads or understands. We are going to enforce all trade violations, including through the use of taxes and tariffs, against any country that cheats.
This includes stopping China’s outrageous theft of intellectual property, along with their illegal product dumping, and their devastating currency manipulation. THEY ARE THE GREATEST CURRENCY MANIPULATORS EVER. Our horrible trade agreements with China and many others, will be totally renegotiated. That includes renegotiating NAFTA to get a much better deal for America – and we’ll walk away if we don’t get THAT KIND OF A DEAL Our country is going to start building and making things again.
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04:12
Is the crowd growing fatigued? Few delegates left standing, most comfortably seated, many filming on their phones. The waves of applause are a bit less powerful. He just trashed NAFTA and the applause was nearly perfunctory.
4.10am BST
04:10
Trump swears to enforce immigration law
Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
I have been honored to receive the endorsement of America’s Border Patrol Agents, and will work directly with them to protect the integrity of our lawful LAWFUL LAWFUL immigration system. LAWFUL.
By ending catch-and-release on the border, we will stop the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. Peace will be restored. By enforcing the rules for the millions who overstay their visas, our laws will finally receive the respect they deserve.
Tonight, I want every American whose demands for immigration security have been denied – and every politician who has denied them – to listen very closely to the words I am about to say.
On January 20th of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone.
But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.
Cheers and applause. And, thanks to the California delegation, a USA! USA! chant.
My plan is the exact opposite of the radical and dangerous immigration policy of Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE NOW. Communities want relief.
Yet Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration, and mass lawlessness. [BOOS.] Her plan will overwhelm your schools and hospitals, further reduce your jobs and wages, and make it harder for recent immigrants to escape THE TREMENDOUS CYCLE OF poverty that they’re going through right now and make it almost impossible for them to join the middle class.
I have a different vision for our workers. It begins with a new, fair trade policy that protects our jobs and stands up to countries that cheat OF WHICH THERE ARE MANY. It’s been a signature message of my campaign from day one, and it will be a signature feature of my presidency from the moment I take the oath of office.
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04:06
Here it is, the wall:
We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities.
The crowd chants: Build the wall! Build the wall!
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04:05
Trump shifts seamlessly from the threat supposedly posed by Syrian refugees to the threat supposedly posed by immigrants from the south. Ad-libs CAPS:
Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never will be.
Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.
On Monday, we heard from three parents whose children were killed by illegal immigrants Mary Ann Mendoza, Sabine Durden, and MY FRIEND, Jamiel Shaw. They are just three brave representatives of many thousands. Of all my travels in this country, nothing has affected me more, NOTHING EVEN CLOSE I HAVE TO TELL YOU, than the time I have spent with the mothers and fathers who have lost their children to violence spilling across our borderS WHICH WE CAN SOLVE. WE HAVE TO SOLVE IT.
These families have no special interests to represent them. There are no demonstrators to protest on their behalf. My opponent will never meet with them, or share in their pain. Instead, my opponent wants Sanctuary Cities. But where was sanctuary for Kate Steinle? Where was Sanctuary for the children of Mary Ann, Sabine and Jamiel? Where was sanctuary for all the – OH, IT’S SO SAD TO EVEN BE TALKING ABOUT IT, BECAUSE WE CAN FIX IT — other Americans who have been so brutally murdered, and who have suffered so horribly?
These wounded American families have been alone. But they are alone no longer. Tonight, this candidate and this whole nation stand in their corner to support them, to send them our love, and to pledge in their honor that we will save countless more families from suffering the same awful fate.
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04:02
Trump continues. Paragraph in bold was a late-stage add not in the Politico version. In it Trump tries to clean up his recent comments dismissing Nato.
This includes working with our greatest ally in the region, the State of Israel.
Recently I have said that NATO was obsolete, because it did not properly cover terror, and also, that many of the member countries were not paying their fair share. As usual, the United States has been picking up the cost. Shortly thereafter, it was announced that NATO will be setting up a new program in order to combat terrorism -- a true step in the right direction.
Lastly, AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place. WE DON’T WANT THEM IN OUR COUNTRY.
Once again, it’s the improvised line that gets the cheer. He continues:
My opponent has called for a radical 550% increase in Syrian – THINK OF THIS. THINK OF THIS. THIS IS NOT BELIEVABLE BUT THIS IS WHAT’S HAPPENING- refugees on top of existing massive refugee flows coming into our country under President Obama. She proposes this despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from. I only want to admit individuals into our country who will support our values and love our people.
So much cheering for that line. Americans want to be loved.
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3.57am BST
03:57
Trump continues, ad-libs CAPS:
Once again, France is the victim of brutal Islamic terrorism.
Men, women and children viciously mowed down. Lives ruined. Families ripped apart. A nation in mourning.
The damage and devastation that can be inflicted by Islamic radicals has been over and over – at the World Trade Center, at an office party in San Bernardino, at the Boston Marathon, and a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted... LGBTQ community. NO GOOD. WE’RE GONNA STOP IT.
He has a funny kind of clumsiness getting through the five letters LGBTQ. They don’t roll off his tongue.
As your President, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.
The crowd cheers, and then Trump thanks them for cheering:
AND I HAVE TO SAY, AS A REPUBLICAN, IT IS SO NICE TO HEAR YOU CHEERING FOR WHAT I JUST SAID.
They cheer some more.
To protect us from terrorism, we need to focus on three things.
We must have the best intelligence gathering operation in the world. We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorISM AND DOING IT NOW, DOING IT QUICKLY, WE’RE GOING TO WIN, WE’RE GOING TO WIN FAST.
USA! USA! USA!
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03:5403:54
Trump: 'I am the law and order candidate'Trump: 'I am the law and order candidate'
Trump continues, ad-libs CAPS:Trump continues, ad-libs CAPS:
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.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.
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.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.
When I am President, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally.When I am President, I will work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected equally.
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?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?
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.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.
That’s quite an applause line.That’s quite an applause line.
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Trump: 'I will restore law and order'Trump: 'I will restore law and order'
More Trump, ad-libs in CAPS:More Trump, ad-libs in CAPS:
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.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.
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.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.
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.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.
3.50am BST
03:50
Trump: 'millions of Democrats will join our movement'
Trump says he’ll get Bernie Sanders voters numbering millions of Democrats:
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.
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.
Trump saying Pence’s name gets way more applause than Pence actually appearing.
And a great guy.
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03:47
Trump presents self as defender of powerless
And the consummation of Trump as populist is complete:
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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Trump says Clinton committed 'terrible, terrible crimes'
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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Trump addresses the #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/hkDkbJ9LdO
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Protester interrupts Trump
More Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
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.
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.
I am your voice.
Cheers cheers cheers but the crowd can’t decide whether to chant USA USA or TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP.
But now, there seems to be a protester, over by Texas.
Trump stands and nods solemnly. He does not comment on the situation. He puckers his mouth. Presidentially, I guess is the idea.
Then he knocks it out of the park with a line that delivers this crowd to ecstasy.
How great are our police and how great is Cleveland?!?
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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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03:39
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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03:35
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.