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Five biggest moments of Trump’s speech to RNC

Five biggest moments of Trump’s speech to RNC

Former President Donald Trump addressed the Republican National Convention on Thursday in Milwaukee, his first speech since the assassination attempt last week — and it had a number of major moments. Trump paid tribute to firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed in last week’s assassination attempt on Trump, calling the Pennsylvania father a “fine man.” “Tragically, the shooter claimed the life of one of our fellow Americans, Corey Comperatore, and seriously wounded two other great warriors.. David Dutch and James Copenhaver. I spoke to all three families of these tremendous people—our love and prayers are with them, and always will be,” Trump said. ” Corey, a highly respected former fire chief… was accompanied by his wife Helen… and two precious daughters. He lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets… what a fine man he was.” Trump then walked over and kissed Comperatore’s firefighting helmet which was placed with his turnout coat on the stage next to the former president as a tribute before asking for a moment of silence. “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for others,” Trump said. “This is the spirit that forged America in her darkest hours, and this is the love that will lead America back to the summit of human achievement and greatness.” At the beginning of the speech, Trump retold in great detail the assassination attempt against him. A somber Trump told the crowd his version of events. “In order to see the chart, I started to turn to my right, and was ready to begin a further turn, which I’m lucky I didn’t, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me, really hard, on my right ear,” Trump recalled. “I said to myself, ‘Wow, what was that—it can only be a bullet,’—and moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down, and my hand was covered with blood, just blood all over the place. I immediately knew it was very serious, that we were under attack, and in one movement, proceeded to drop to the ground.” “There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way I felt very safe, because I had God on my side,” Trump continued. “The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at the very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be with you tonight.” Despite shots ringing out at the crowded rally, attendees did not “run for the exits or stampede,” Trump noted, but instead “tens of thousands of people stood by and didn’t move an inch. In fact, many of them bravely, but automatically, stood up looking for where the sniper would be, and then began pointing at him.” Because of this, Trump said, “many lives were saved.” “But that isn’t the reason they didn’t move—the reason is that they knew I was in serious trouble, they saw all of the blood, and thought I was dead, and they just didn’t want to leave me, and you can see that love written all over their faces,” he said. “I am not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump said, as the crowd shouted back, “Yes you are.” Trump took a moment out of his speech to pay tribute to his wife Melania, saying he was “deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife.” He then referred to her letter to America, in which she called for unity in the wake of the assassination attempt against her husband. “I am thinking of you, now, my fellow Americans,” she wrote. “Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now.” The former president praised the letter. “And Melania, thank you very much. You also did something really beautiful. A letter to America calling for national unity. And it really took the Republican Party by surprise. I will tell you, it was beautiful,’ he said. “Some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the Republican platform. That would be an honor, wouldn’t it?” Trump displayed a chart showing the number of illegal immigrant crossings into the U.S. that had been on display during his speech in Butler, Pa., and that crucially he turned his head to look at as a gunman opened fire. ” Last time I put up that chart, I never really got to look at it,” he said to laughs from the crowd. “But without that chart, I would not be here today.” “I said ‘you got to see this chart’. I was so proud of it. And by the time I got to there, I never got to see it that day. But I’m seeing it now, and I was very proud.” Trump went off script and used President Biden’s name once, and quickly said he wouldn’t do it again. “If you took the ten worst presidents in the history of the United States, think of it, the ten worst and added them all up…they will not have done the damage that Biden has done.” “I’m only going to use the term once. Biden. I’m not going to use the name anymore. Just one time.”

‘They’re incompetent’: Sen Marshall blasts ‘worthless’ Secret Service briefing on Trump assassination attempt

‘They’re incompetent’: Sen Marshall blasts ‘worthless’ Secret Service briefing on Trump assassination attempt

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., said the Secret Service’s briefing to senators on the assassination attempt against former President Trump was “completely worthless.”  He claimed in an interview with Fox News Digital that the information provided to lawmakers on the shooting could be summed up “in two minutes.”  However, “that took them an hour to explain to us.”  SECRET SERVICE ‘CHECK-THE-BOX’ SENATE BRIEFING LEAVES QUESTIONS: ‘INFURIATING’ Senators received the briefing on Wednesday, just days after the shooting took place at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that left Trump bloodied, with his right ear wounded, one spectator dead, and two others in the hospital. “Even though the Secret Service administrator takes accountability for the problem, she never says there was a mass failure,” Marshall pointed out.  JD VANCE BY THE NUMBERS: FIRST SPEECH SIGNALS HEAVY CAMPAIGN PRESENCE IN BATTLEGROUND RUST BELT “What we’ve discovered is that there is a huge, cultural issue within the Secret Service,” he alleged. “They’re more focused on [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] than they are focused on their mission and hiring people to do the job.”  According to the Kansas Republican, agency and department briefings have featured fewer questions under Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. It “seems like there’s less questions each time,” he said.  FLASHBACK: A LOOK AT DONALD TRUMP’S REMARKS AT THE 2016, 2020 REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS During the agency’s briefing, only four senators were permitted to ask questions, another senator told Fox News Digital.  The information was so minimal that Marshall remarked there wasn’t anything “that wasn’t said on the news the day before.” CHUCK SCHUMER PUSHED TO DELAY DNC AS CONCERNS PERSIST OVER BIDEN’S CANDIDACY The Republican senator went as far as to suggest Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle may not even truly know “the details of the investigation.” “The director had very minimal comments, and she turned it over to the assistant director, who then described the investigation,” Marshall said. Whether the assassination attempt was being taken seriously, he said, “I think they’d like to take it seriously, but they’re incompetent.” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News Digital in a statement Thursday: “Continuity of operations is paramount during a critical incident and U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has no intentions to step down.” “She deeply respects members of Congress and is fiercely committed to transparency in leading the Secret Service through the internal investigation and strengthening the agency through lessons learned in these important internal and external reviews.”

Donald Trump talks about moment he was shot at

Donald Trump talks about moment he was shot at

NewsFeed Former US President Donald Trump spoke about how he survived Saturday’s assassination attempt, in a speech at the Republican National Convention where he formally accepted the party’s presidential nomination. Published On 19 Jul 202419 Jul 2024 Adblock test (Why?)

How Israeli settlements are taking over the West Bank as Gaza war rages

How Israeli settlements are taking over the West Bank as Gaza war rages

As Israel carries out a devastating war on Gaza, settlers are exploiting the lack of global attention on the occupied West Bank to expel Palestinians from their land there. The International Court of Justice, the world’s highest court, will rule on Friday on whether Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory is illegal – a move that could outrage Israeli settlers and the broader settlement movement. Settlers have been particularly emboldened by far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, both of whom have pushed to expand settlements in the West Bank – which violate international law – since entering government in 2022. The Hamas-led attacks against Israeli communities and military outposts in southern Israel on October 7, in which 1,139 people were killed and more than 250 people were taken as captives back to Gaza, offered a conducive political environment to steal large swaths of Palestinian land with little international pushback or outcry, experts told Al Jazeera. According to Peace Now, a nonprofit organisation that monitors land confiscation in the West Bank, Israel has seized 23.7sq km (9.15sq miles) of Palestinian land this year while Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, in which at least 38,848 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and 89,459 wounded, goes on. That makes 2024 the peak year for Israeli land seizures over the past three decades. How many Palestinians in the West Bank have been uprooted since October 7? The Israeli army and settlers have displaced 1,285 Palestinians and destroyed 641 structures, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). At least 15 Palestinian farming communities have been completely cleared while civilians from several other communities have been displaced by settler attacks. Many of these farmers have been forced to take temporary refuge in nearby West Bank towns. Since the 1993 Oslo Accord, which then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed with then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the lawn of the White House, the West Bank has been carved up into three zones. Area C was placed under Israeli control, Area B is under joint Palestinian-Israeli control while Area A is under the governance of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was established in 1994. Settlers are primarily targeting farming communities in Area C, said Abbas Milhem, the executive director of the Palestinian Farmers Union. “Most of the ethnic cleansing is happening in the Jordan Valley against livestock farmers,” he told Al Jazeera. “Many were kicked out [of their villages] without being allowed to carry anything with them – not even mattresses or blankets for their children to sleep on.” Shortly after October 7, Ben-Gvir played a significant role in encouraging these attacks by distributing thousands of semiautomatic rifles and other weapons to settlers and far-right Israelis. Palestinian farmers are often unarmed and have no means of defending themselves. “Farmers have nothing to protect them, just their naked chests,” Abbas told Al Jazeera. A plume of smoke rises above Deir Sharaf after Jewish settlers from the nearby Einav settlement stormed the West Bank town on November 2, 2023, after an Israeli was killed when his car came under fire [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) How many Israeli settlers were in the West Bank before October 7? As many as 700,000 settlers were already living in the West Bank before the Hamas-led attacks. They live in 150 settlements and 128 outposts, which are makeshift encampments ranging from a single caravan to a few structures built on Palestinian land. The numbers of settlements and outposts have risen sharply since the early 1990s, when there were approximately 250,000 settlers in the West Bank according to Peace Now, and are considered illegal under international law. The number of Israeli settlers residing in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem has risen from 800 in 1993 to about 3,000 in 2023. Is there anywhere safe for Palestinians in the West Bank now? No. Palestinians have been facing harassment and violence across large parts of the West Bank. In February, for example, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds near Hebron, expelling them from their pastures and using drones to scare their livestock – causing miscarriages and stillbirths during lambing season. This was just one of 561 incidents of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians recorded by OCHA between October 7 and February 20. In another incident in April, mobs of settlers attacked Bukra, Deir Dibwan and Kfar Malik – villages that are under the PA’s control in Areas A and B – by tearing down tents where displaced people were sheltering, stealing goats and beating up civilians. Furthermore, Israeli forces have carried out numerous raids in the West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza. In November, hospitals were surrounded and several people were killed in a major raid on Jenin. This was followed by more raids later in the month in Jenin and elsewhere in the West Bank. At the end of December, Israeli troops launched a coordinated overnight assault on 10 West Bank cities including Hebron, Halhul, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, el-Bireh, Jericho and Ramallah, the administrative headquarters of the Palestinian Authority. Those raids continued for several days. In January, a raid by undercover operatives on a hospital in Jenin killed three people and raids across the West Bank have continued at regular intervals since then. In June, nearly 100 people were rounded up after the Israeli military used helicopter gunships during a large-scale incursion into the Jenin refugee camp, killing five people. “There is no place in the West Bank that is safe [for people to go],” Abbas said. “Whether it is Area A or Area B, it doesn’t matter. The settlers and the army are attacking everywhere.” How many Palestinians has Israel killed in the West Bank since the war on Gaza began? Since October 7, Israeli forces and settlers have killed 513 people in the West Bank, according to OCHA. The vast majority have been civilians. In comparison, Israeli forces killed 199 Palestinians in the first nine months of 2023. The

Australia struck by major IT outage, hitting banks, media, telecoms

Australia struck by major IT outage, hitting banks, media, telecoms

BREAKINGBREAKING, Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator says it is aware of ‘large-scale technical outage’. Australia has been hit by a major IT outage that has disrupted banks, supermarkets, telecoms, media outlets and airlines. Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said on Friday that it was aware of a “large-scale technical outage affecting a number of companies and services across Australia this afternoon.” “Our current information is this outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies,” the agency said in a statement. “There is no information to suggest it is a cyber security incident. We continue to engage across key stakeholders.” IT security firm Crowdstrike said in a recorded phone message that it was aware of reports of Microsoft’s Windows operating system crashing. Photos posted on social media showed blank flight information screens at Sydney airport and inoperable self-service checkouts at supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles. Sydney airport said that flights were arriving and departing but that travelers should expect delays. “We have activated our contingency plans and deployed additional staff to our terminals,” it said in a post on X. Melbourne airport said that check-in procedures for some airlines had been affected. “Passengers flying with these airlines this afternoon are advised to allow a little extra time to check-in. Please check with your airline for flight updates,” it said in a post on X. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Network Ten also confirmed that their systems had been affected. #BREAKING: Widespread Microsoft outages have sent IT systems across Australia into a tailspin this afternoon, with banks, airlines, police, and other systems reported as being affected. (And humble news social team admins too, evidently. We’re doing our best here. More to come.) pic.twitter.com/IM0LZARu5v — 10 News First (@10NewsFirst) July 19, 2024 Police in the state of New South Wales said they were aware of the outage and anyone facing an emergency should call the emergency number 000. Police are aware of the current system outage. For emergency situations, please dial 000. — NSW Police Force (@nswpolice) July 19, 2024 Adblock test (Why?)

Trump preaches unity as he accepts GOP presidential nomination days after surviving assassination attempt

Trump preaches unity as he accepts GOP presidential nomination days after surviving assassination attempt

MILWAUKEE – Five days after surviving an assassination attempt, former President Trump pleaded for national unity as he formally accepted the GOP presidential nomination during the culminating moment of the 2024 Republican National Convention. “I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,” Trump emphasized as he addressed the thousands of delegates, party officials and activists packed into Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum and to the national audience of Americans watching the convention from home. “The discord and division in our society must be healed. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart,” the former president noted. The shooting, at Trump’s rally Saturday in western Pennsylvania where one spectator was killed, along with the gunman, instantly impacted the tone and message of the convention, and as Trump has acknowledged, altered his convention address. MCCARTHY SAYS TRUMP SHOWING ‘REAL LEADERSHIP’ TO THE WORLD AFTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT “Let me begin this evening by expressing my gratitude to the American people for your outpouring of love and support following the assassination attempt at my rally on Saturday,” Trump said. “As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life.”  The former president and GOP presidential nominee said that “so many people have asked me what happened, and therefore, I’ll tell you what happened.”  “You’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s too painful to tell,” he said.  Trump recounted the shooting, saying he knew “we were under attack.”   Trump praised the “very brave Secret Service agents who rushed to the stage and pounced on top of me for protection.”  “There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way, I felt very safe, because I had God on my side,” Trump said. “The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had NOT moved my head at the very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be with you tonight.”  “I am not supposed to be here tonight. I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God. Many people say it was a providential moment,” Trump said.  But the crowd chanted: “Yes you are. Yes you are.”  And he acknowledged that “none of us knows God’s plan, or where life’s adventure will take us. But if the events of last Saturday make anything clear, it is that every single moment we have on earth is a gift from God. We have to make the most of every day for the people and country we love.” EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE TO COREY COMPERATORE DURING RNC SPEECH: ‘SPIRIT THAT FORGED AMERICA’ Trump also pointed to the helmet and firefighting jacket of Corey Comperatore, the former fire chief killed at the rally, which were placed on the stage by the former president. And he asked the audience to observe a moment of silence. He said he has raised more than $6 million in recent days for Comperatore’s family, and the families of the two men who were seriously wounded in the shooting.  The former president also took time to thank his wife, former first lady Melania Trump.  “On this journey, I am deeply honored to be joined by my amazing wife, Melania,” Trump told the crowd in Milwaukee during an emotional speech. He then referred to her letter to America, in which she called for unity in the wake of the assassination attempt against her husband. “I am thinking of you, now, my fellow Americans,” she wrote. “Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now.” The former president praised the letter. “And Melania, thank you very much. You also did something really beautiful. A letter to America calling for national unity. And it really took the Republican Party by surprise. I will tell you, it was beautiful,’ he said. “Some very serious people said that we should take that letter and put it as part of the Republican platform. That would be an honor, wouldn’t it?” The former president also thanked his family, especially his children and grandchildren.  But in the wake of his brush with death, the former president called for a lowering of the temperature in a political climate seared with heated rhetoric from both the right and the left. “In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens—we are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” Trump stressed. “We must not criminalize dissent or demonize political disagreement. In that spirit, the Democrat Party should immediately stop weaponizing the Justice System and labeling their political opponent as an enemy of democracy, especially since that is not true,” Trump claimed. Making a pitch “to every citizen, whether you are young or old, man or woman, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, black or white, Asian or Hispanic,” Trump repeatedly criticized the administration of the Democratic incumbent in the White House, but only mentioned President Biden’s name once.  “They will not have done the damage that Biden has done, only going to use the term once,” Trump said. “Biden. I’m not going to use the name anymore. Just one time.”  LIVE UPDATES: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Pointing to inflation, the crisis at the nation’s southern border with Mexico, and the ongoing wars in Ukraine and in Gaza, Trump argued that “it is time for a change. We simply cannot sustain four more years of this administration.” Trump reminded his supporters that the MAGA movement “has never been about me, it has always been about you.”  “It has always been about the hardworking, patriotic citizens of America,” he said.  Trump was joined on the podium following his address by his family and by his running mate Sen. JD Vance, and the senator from Ohio’s family. The former president announced