RNC 2024 live updates: Trump details rally shooting in nomination acceptance speech

Earlier this week, Donald Trump promised his speech would focus on unity in the wake of the assassination attempt against him on Saturday.

“Just like our ancestors, we must now come together, rise above past differences, any disagreements have to be put aside and go forward united as one people, one nation, allegiance to one great, beautiful — I think it’s so beautiful — American flag,” Trump said during his keynote speech.

“You will be forgotten no longer,” he continued. “We will press forward together. We will win, win, win.”

Trump then led the audience in a chant: “Win, win, win!”

Donald Trump falsely claimed he “stopped the missile launchers from North Korea.”

“Now North Korea is acting up again, but when we get back, I get along with him,” Trump said of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump’s claim is not true. North Korea continued to launch short-range missiles while Trump was in office, NBC News reports.

The United Automobile, Aerosapce and Agricultural Implement Workers of America slammed Donald Trump during his Republican National Convention speech.

“@RealDonaldTrump is a scab and a billionaire and that’s who he represents. We know which side we’re on. Not his,” the union posted on X moments ago.

Trump called for the union president to be fired during his keynote address.

“The leader of the United Auto Workers should be fired immediately, and every single auto worker, union and non union should be voting for Donald Trump, because we’re going to bring back car manufacturing, and we’re going to bring it back fast,” the former president said.

Donald Trump showed Republican National Convention attendees the chart that he looked at milliseconds before Thomas Crooks opened fire at his Butler, Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

If he hadn’t turned his head to look at the chart, Trump said, the “bullet would have perfectly hit its mark.”

“That was the chart that saved my life,” Trump told the Republican National Convention.

Donald Trump name-dropped his opponent during his keynote speech — saying he would only do so once.

“If you took the ten worst presidents in the history of the United States, the ten worst added them up, they will not have done the damage that Biden has done,” Trump said.

“I’m not going to use the name anymore, just one time. The damage that he’s done to this country is unthinkable.”

Donald Trump alluded to his baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in 2020. However, Trump continues to claim the election was stolen from him.

“This administration can’t come close to solving the problems we’re dealing with…we have people that are a lot less than fierce, except when it comes to cheating on elections and a couple of other things,” Trump remarked from the convention stage.

Trump also falsely claimed his political opponents relied on the COVID-19 pandemic to “cheat” the election.

“They use COVID to cheat — we’re never going to let it happen again.”

“War is now raging in Europe and the Middle East, a growing specter of conflict hangs over Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines and all of Asia, and our planet is teetering on the edge of World War II, and this will be a war like no other war because of weaponry,” Trump said at the Republican National Convention. “The weapons are no longer army tanks going back and forth, shooting at each other. These weapons are obliteration. It’s time for a change.”

Soon after, Trump began harping on inflation, promising to “lower the cost of energy.”

“Drill, baby, drill,” the former president chanted as the crowd roared.

Donald Trump kissed the helmet of Corey Comperatore, the retired fire chief killed by Thomas Matthew Crooks during his Butler, Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.

Comperatore died after diving on top of his wife and daughter to protect them from Crooks’ gunfire.

Trump also flashed a $1 million check donated by a friend to support Comperatore’s family and the two others injured at the rally.

The ex-president, who wore a bandage on the ear that was grazed during the attempt on his life, told the crowd of delegates and supporters that he was “not supposed to be here” and credited his presence on the stage to “the grace of almighty God.”

As Donald Trump described the assassination attempt against him, the crowd joined in on the remarks with cheers and chants of their own.

Trump earned a big laugh when he told the crowd that ears bleed more than any other part of the body.

When Trump said he is “not supposed to be here” following the near-miss gunshot, the crowd responded by chanting, “Yes you are, yes you are!”

“I raised my right arm, looked at the 1000s and 1000s of people that were breathlessly waiting and started shouting, ‘Fight, fight, fight,’” Trump told the crowd.

Attendees responded by chanting, “fight!”