Donald Trump fact-check: 2024 RNC speech in Milwaukee full of falsehoods about immigrants, economy
First, he recounted surviving an assassination attempt five days earlier in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“You’ll never hear it from me again a second time, because it’s too painful to tell,” Trump told a hushed audience. “I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God.”
When Trump said, “I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” the audience chanted, “Yes you are! Yes you are!” Onstage, Trump kissed the firefighter’s uniform of Corey Comperatore, whom Trump’s would-be assassin killed.
After about 20 minutes, Trump’s speech shifted. He countered Democrats’ claims that he endangers democracy, praised the federal judge who dismissed the classified documents case against him and called the legal charges “partisan witch hunts.”
Though he criticized the policies of his opponent, Democratic President Joe Biden, Trump said he’d avoid naming him.
