This time it was with a discreet, flesh-colored bandage on his ear that Donald Trump appeared. A week after the assassination attempt of which he was the victim, the Republican candidate for the White House resumed the thread of his presidential campaign on Saturday, July 20, holding his first rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan since the shooting that he suffered a week earlier in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, the billionaire was officially nominated Thursday in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) by his party to run for president in November, during a triumphant rally where he wore a large white gauze on the tip of his ear.
His former White House physician, Ronny Jackson, explained Saturday in a rare health bulletin since the assassination attempt that the passage of the bullet caused a wound two centimeters deep. ” There was considerable bleeding at first, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper part of the ear.have specified the X the former doctor, who was elected to the hard right in the House of Representatives. According to him, the swelling has since subsided and the ulceration has started “to heal properly”.
On Saturday in Michigan, it was with JD Vance, his official running mate, that Donald Trump was cheered by 12,000 supporters in a packed gymnasium in this “revolution mode” that he had won in 2016 but that Joe Biden took from him in 2020.
The former president is looking to cement his base in this northern region, which has suffered from deindustrialization, like the city of Detroit. He has made numerous promises about tax cuts, the fight against inflation and taxes on imports to protect “made in America”.
Democrats ‘don’t know who their candidate is’
In the middle of an almost two-hour-long speech peppered as usual with anecdotes about his relationship with heads of state − who “bright” Chinese Xi Jinping who “controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist” – he renewed his complaint about migrants, whom he accuses of the worst crimes, and promised “largest eviction operation” of the country’s history.
Donald Trump also promised “a monumental tidal wave” in favor of the Republicans in the next election and mocked the Democrats “who do not know who their candidate is”, while Joe Biden, forced into isolation at his private residence in Delaware due to Covid, is weakened by a growing rebellion. More than thirty elected officials publicly urged him to make way for a younger candidate. And one of his main donors, businessman Michael Moritz, called on him to resign and announced that he would suspend his donations to the party.
Speaking before Donald Trump, JD Vance took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris, whose name repeatedly comes up to replace Joe Biden. “I served in the United States Marine Corps and started a business. What did you do other than cash a check?”he said of the former California senator and attorney general.
Donald Trump condemned the internal pressure that the Democrats exerted on Joe Biden, so he abandoned the race. “Right now, Democratic Party leaders are frantically trying to overturn their own party’s primary results to keep scoundrel Joe Biden off the ballot.”he said. “As you can see, the Democratic Party is not the party of democracy.”
Huge attention to safety
The former Republican president also denied being an extremist, as he is sometimes portrayed by his opponents “They keep saying that I am a threat to democracy. Last week I took a bullet for democracy,” he declared to cheers from his supporters. “I shouldn’t be here right nowHe continued. Something very special happened. »
On Saturday, much attention was paid to the security system, while many questions remain regarding the shortcomings of the previous meeting, which was held in an open room. The Grand Rapids meeting was held in an enclosed location, an environment that was easier to secure.
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The participants had to go through a metal detector when they entered the room. “This is the tightest security I’ve ever seen,” testified Renee White, a supporter who claims to have attended 33 Donald Trump rallies. “Usually we can take a few small bags with us, but today I had to leave some things behind”she added.
