2024-07-21 14:03:08
The leaders of the Democratic Party are trying to overturn the results of the primaries and eliminate Joe Biden from the electoral race, the party is not democratic, Donald Trump said on Saturday at the first election rally since the assassination, in which he suffered an ear injury exactly a week ago. AP reported. Trump is making his first appearance at the rally with Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance.
“Right now, the leaders of the Democratic Party are frantically trying to overturn the results of their own party’s primaries to get crooked Joe Biden out of the race,” Trump said, referring to a growing number of Democrats calling for Biden to run for another candidate. . “As you can see, the Democratic Party is not a democratic party,” he added.
“They keep saying: He’s a threat to democracy,” Trump said, referring to criticism of himself. “Last week, I took a bullet for democracy,” he added, according to AP, to thunderous cheers from the completely filled arena with a capacity of about 12,000 seats. Many rally attendees also wore T-shirts with a picture of Trump with a raised fist from last Saturday, when he was targeted for assassination.
Trump also said “most world leaders” wrote to him after he was targeted. He specifically mentioned Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom he said was a “great guy” and who wrote him a “beautiful message,” CNN reported.
The former US president opened the speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan with a “special thank you to all Americans” who support him after “the terrible evening of last Saturday”. Just a week ago, at Trump’s meeting with voters in Pennsylvania, an attacker hit the ex-president in the ear and only slightly injured him. But he killed one man and injured two other people. As Trump now mentioned the assassination, the crowd started chanting “fight, fight, fight” again. Trump repeated that he is “only standing here by the grace of God almighty,” as he said Thursday at the Republican convention in Milwaukee.
He also recalled the two injured and the 50-year-old firefighter who died in the attack on him in Pennsylvania last Saturday. “He was a hero and we will carry his memory in our hearts,” Trump said.
Shots were fired at Trump’s campaign rally. The ex-president has an injured ear, two people died | Video: Reuters