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Donald Trump accepts nomination: 'I am the law and order candidate' – live
Donald Trump accepts nomination: 'I am the law and order candidate' – live
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Balloons
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The speech is over. The crowd goes, as they say, quite wild. Melania Trump takes the stage and is verily applauded. Barron Trump is next, dressed like a Blues Brother. Here come more Trumps. The band’s not playing, that’s the studio recording of All Right Now. Now there are Pences on stage too. There is handshaking and now... now... there is glitter-- the video screen shows fireworks..
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Here’s the end:
To all Americans tonight, in all our cities and towns, I make this promise: We Will Make America Strong Again.
We Will Make America Proud Again.
We Will Make America Safe Again.
And We Will Make America Great Again.
THANK YOU.
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Trump is close to the finish. CAPS below in original script:
I’m asking for your support tonight so that I can be your champion in the White House. My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads: “I’m With Her”. 282 I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads: “I’M WITH YOU – THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.” I am your voice. So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you tonight: I’m with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.
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Trump speaks on personal terms about his family, notably his father, which we haven’t heard him do much of. Ad-libs CAPS:
In this journey, I’m so lucky to have at my side my wife Melania and my wonderful children, Don, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron: you will always be my greatest source of pride and joy. AND BY THE WAY, MELANIA, AND IVANKA, DID THEY DO A JOB.
My Dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest working man I ever knew. I wonder sometimes what he’d say if he were here to see this tonight.
Somebody yells, ‘YOU ROCK!’ Would Fred Trump really say that?
It’s because of him that I learned, from my youngest age, to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people. He was a guy most comfortable in the company of bricklayers, carpenters, and electricians and I have a lot of that in me also. I LOVE THOSE PEOPLE.
Then there’s my mother, Mary. She was strong, but also warm and fair-minded. She was a truly great mother. She was also one of the most honest and charitable people I have ever known, and a great judge of character. SHE COULD PICK ‘EM OUT FROM ANYWHERE.
To my sisters Mary Anne and Elizabeth, my brother Robert and my late brother Fred, I will always give you my love you are most special to me. I have loved my life in business.
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Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
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.
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.
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.
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.
What a big applause line that was.
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Trump now thanks evangelical Christians for supporting him but admits, in an improvised aside, that he may not deserve it:
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.
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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More Trump, ad-libs CAPS:
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.
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.
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One of the biggest applause lines of the night:
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.
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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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.
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!
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’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 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 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.
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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Trump: 'I am the law and order candidate'
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.
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.
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.
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Trump: 'I will restore law and order'
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.
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.
