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Injured But Defiant Trump At Convention After Assassination Attempt (Worthy News Focus)

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News

MILWAUKEE, USA (Worthy News) – An injured but defiant former U.S. President Donald J. Trump walked into the Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee with a thick bandage over his ear as the crowd chanted “Fight! Fight! Fight” and pumped their fists.

Trump made a triumphant entrance on Monday, the first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC), in Milwaukee on Lake Michigan’s western shore.

Surrounded by many secret service agents, he received a raucous ovation from the party faithful two days after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear in what believers said was “an intervention by God.”

The former president appeared moved by the response as he stood in a box alongside his family members and Senator J.D. Vance, his choice for running mate announced earlier in the day.

The four-day convention where he will be nominated as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee opened hours after Trump secured a major legal victory as a federal judge dismissed one of his criminal prosecutions.

Trump’s criminal case on charges that he illegally retained classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club residence was thrown out on the grounds that the prosecution had been improperly appointed.

Aileen Cannon, the U.S. district judge appointed by Trump, said the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel “violated the U.S. Constitution” as he wasn’t named to his post by the president or confirmed by the Senate.

KEYNOTE SPEECH

There was more welcoming news for Trump, with Billionaire Elon Musk saying he endorsed him. However Musk later denied reports by the Wall Street Journal newspaper that he plans to commit around $45 million monthly to a new pro-Trump super political-action committee.

The America PAC group backing former President Donald Trump’s in a Monday filing showed that it has raised more than $8 million.

Yet the announcements came as an encouragement for Trump as he prepares for his keynote speech later this week at what promises to be a historic convention with a presidential nominee surviving an attack on his life.

Wearing a bandage on his ear, Trump waved at a packed Milwaukee arena and received a standing ovation two days after the botched attack at a Pennsylvania rally.

An iconic photo showing the bleeding Trump raising his fist to a crowd near an American flag has become a defying and likely World Press Photo image impacting generations.

As he settled late Sunday near Senator J.D. Vance, Republicans got their first look at the Trump-Vance ticket. The former president mouthed the words
“Thank you.”

At 39, Vance could become one of the youngest vice presidents in the U.S., a sign that Trump also wants to appeal to younger voters.

CHINA THREAT

In one of his first interviews following his nomination as Trump’s running mate, Vance branded China the biggest threat to America, underscoring the likely tougher stance of their administration toward Beijing if elected.

The Ohio Senator said Trump would also negotiate with Moscow and Kyiv to “bring this thing to a rapid close so America can focus on the real issue, which is China.”

Trump was due to formally accept the party’s nomination in a prime-time speech on Thursday and will face Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 5 election.

The four-day convention began less than 48 hours after a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one supporter.

The gunman was shot dead, and his motive remained unclear.

However, BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, said Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspect in Saturday’s attempted assassination of Trump,
briefly appeared in its advertisement in 2022.

“In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in the background, including Thomas Matthew Crooks,” BlackRock said.

INVESTIGATION ONGOING

The group told the Reuters news agency that it would make the footage available to the appropriate authorities and removed the video from circulation. “The assassination attempt on former President Trump is abhorrent,” the company said.

With the investigation into the attempted assassination continuing and Trump attending the RNC on Monday, U.S. President Joe Biden urged calm.

However, in the same interview with NBC television, Biden pointed toward his opponent’s alleged role in raising the temperature of contemporary American political rhetoric.

After saying he was grateful Trump survived the shooting, Biden mentioned Trump’s remarks after a rally of White supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. However, critics said they were taken out of context.

Biden also complained about Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results that he claimed led to the attacks on Capitol Hill in 2021.

“Look. There’s so much violence now. … There’s no place at all for violence in politics in America. None. Zero. And we’ve reached the point where it’s become too commonplace,” Biden said.

“Not assassinations, but to talk about, for example, January 6, the attack on the Capitol.”

POLITICAL TEMPERATURE

He mentioned he only ran in 2020 because of Trump’s comments after Charlottesville. “The then-president was asked what did he think, and he said, “Very fine people on both sides. Not fine people on both sides,” Biden added. “No excuse. Zero.”

Critics said Trump’s words were taken out of context and that the then-president did what Biden now says he does but fails to do: lower the political temperature.

Later, Biden said: “I am not engaged in that rhetoric. Now my opponent is engaged in that rhetoric: He talks about it’ll be a bloodbath if he loses, talking about how he’s going to forgive all the actions, I guess suspend the sentences of all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to jail because of what happened in the Capitol. I’m not out there making fun of like when remembering the picture of Donald Trump when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was hit with a hammer going – talking – joking about it?”

Biden declined to say how the Trump shooting will affect the election.

Instead, he offered more details on the conversation he had with Trump in the hours after the shooting.

The president characterized the call as “very cordial.” I told him how concerned I was and wanted to make sure I knew how he was actually doing. I told him he was literally in the prayers of Jill and me and his whole family was weathering this.”

Yet conservative commentators said Biden seemed more angry than compassionate less than 48 hours after a shooting in which America was literally an inch away from losing Donald J. Trump.