IS TRUMP SUITABLE FOR U.S PRESIDENTIAL? READ MORE
Remarks as prepared for delivery according to a draft obtained by
POLITICO Thursday afternoon.
Friends, delegates and fellow Americans: I humbly and gratefully
accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
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Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we
will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace. We will be a
country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and
order.
Our Convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The
attacks on our police, and the terrorism in our cities, threaten our very way
of life. Any politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our
country.
Americans watching this address tonight have seen the recent images
of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have
witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims.
I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today
afflicts our nation will soon come to an end. Beginning on January 20th 2017,
safety will be restored.
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its
own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to
lead.
It is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state
of our nation.
I will present the facts plainly and honestly. We cannot afford to
be so politically correct anymore.
So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted
lies, and the media myths the Democrats are holding their convention next week.
But here, at our convention, there will be no lies. We will honor
the American people with the truth, and nothing else.
These are the facts:
Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being
reversed by this Administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement.
Homicides last year increased by 17% in America’s fifty largest
cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years. In our nation’s capital,
killings have risen by 50 percent. They are up nearly 60% in nearby Baltimore.
In the President’s hometown of Chicago, more than 2,000 have been
the victims of shootings this year alone. And more than 3,600 have been killed
in the Chicago area since he took office.
The number of police officers killed in the line of duty has risen
by almost 50% compared to this point last year. Nearly 180,000 illegal
immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are
tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.
The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the
border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015. They are
being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for
the impact on public safety or resources.
One such border-crosser was released and made his way to Nebraska.
There, he ended the life of an innocent young girl named Sarah Root. She was 21
years-old, and was killed the day after graduating from college with a 4.0
Grade Point Average. Her killer was then released a second time, and he is now
a fugitive from the law.
I’ve met Sarah’s beautiful family. But to this Administration,
their amazing daughter was just one more American life that wasn’t worth
protecting. One more child to sacrifice on the altar of open borders. What
about our economy?
Again, I will tell you the plain facts that have been edited out
of your nightly news and your morning newspaper: Nearly Four in 10
African-American children are living in poverty, while 58% of African American
youth are not employed. 2 million more Latinos are in poverty today than when
the President took his oath of office less than eight years ago. Another 14
million people have left the workforce entirely.
Household incomes are down more than $4,000 since the year 2000.
Our manufacturing trade deficit has reached an all-time high – nearly $800
billion in a single year. The budget is no better.
President Obama has doubled our national debt to more than $19
trillion, and growing. Yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and
bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and
forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.
Now let us consider the state of affairs abroad.
Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they
have lived through one international humiliation after another. We all remember
the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors
at gunpoint.
This was just prior to the signing of the Iran deal, which gave
back to Iran $150 billion and gave us nothing – it will go down in history as
one of the worst deals ever made. Another humiliation came when president Obama
drew a red line in Syria – and the whole world knew it meant nothing.
In Libya, our consulate – the symbol of American prestige around
the globe – was brought down in flames. America is far less safe – and the
world is far less stable – than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary
Clinton in charge of America’s foreign policy.
I am certain it is a decision he truly regrets. Her bad instincts
and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what
caused the disasters unfolding today. Let’s review the record. In 2009,
pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map.
Libya was cooperating. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing a
reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was under
control. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread
across the region, and the world. Libya is in ruins, and our Ambassador and his
staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was
turned over to the radical Muslim brotherhood, forcing the military to retake
control. Iraq is in chaos.
Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. Syria is engulfed in a
civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the West. After fifteen years
of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of
lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before.
This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and
weakness.
But Hillary Clinton’s legacy does not have to be America’s legacy.
The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction
abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians
who created them. A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes.
Tonight, I will share with you my plan of action for America.
The most important difference between our plan and that of our
opponents, is that our plan will put America First. Americanism, not globalism,
will be our credo. As long as we are led by politicians who will not put
America First, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America
with respect. This will all change in 2017.
The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin
with safety at home – which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and
protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order. On
the economy, I will outline reforms to add millions of new jobs and trillions
in new wealth that can be used to rebuild America.
A number of these reforms that I will outline tonight will be
opposed by some of our nation’s most powerful special interests. That is
because these interests have rigged our political and economic system for their
exclusive benefit.
Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind
the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system
in place. They are throwing money at her because they have total control over
everything she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.
That is why Hillary Clinton’s message is that things will never
change. My message is that things have to change – and they have to change
right now. Every day I wake up determined to deliver for the people I have met
all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned.
I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities
crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and
women of our country. People who work hard but no longer have a voice.
I AM YOUR VOICE.
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because
our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no
patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy
for leaders who fail their citizens.
When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks
the will, or the courage, or the basic decency to enforce our laws – or worse
still, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look
the other way.
And when a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a
private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can’t see her crime,
puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no
consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never before.
When the FBI Director says that the Secretary of State was
“extremely careless” and “negligent,” in handling our classified secrets, I
also know that these terms are minor compared to what she actually did. They
were just used to save her from facing justice for her terrible crimes.
In fact, her single greatest accomplishment may be committing such
an egregious crime and getting away with it – especially when others have paid
so dearly. When that same Secretary of State rakes in millions of dollars
trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers I know the
time for action has come.
I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no
longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves. Nobody knows the system
better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. I have seen firsthand how the
system is rigged against our citizens, just like it was rigged against Bernie
Sanders – he never had a chance.
But his supporters will join our movement, because we will fix his
biggest issue: trade. Millions of Democrats will join our movement because we
are going to fix the system so it works for all Americans. In this cause, I am
proud to have at my side the next Vice President of the United States: Governor
Mike Pence of Indiana.
We will bring the same economic success to America that Mike
brought to Indiana. He is a man of character and accomplishment. He is the
right man for the job. The first task for our new Administration will be to
liberate our citizens from the crime and terrorism and lawlessness that
threatens their communities.
America was shocked to its core when our police officers in Dallas
were brutally executed. In the days after Dallas, we have seen continued
threats and violence against our law enforcement officials. Law officers have
been shot or killed in recent days in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas,
Michigan and Tennessee.
On Sunday, more police were gunned down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Three were killed, and four were badly injured. An attack on law enforcement is
an attack on all Americans. I have a message to every last person threatening
the peace on our streets and the safety of our police: when I take the oath of
office next year, I will restore law and order our country.
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