Donald Trump’s Weird and Wild Post-RNC Speech

While Cruz did congratulate Donald Trump for securing the GOP presidential nomination, he did not endorse the billionaire businessman.

In what should have been a feel-good victory lap the morning after his thundering acceptance speech, Trump instead defended his decision to retweet an unflattering photo of Cruz’s wife, Heidi, and returned to wondering about possible links between Cruz’s father and President John F. Kennedy’s assassin. If he gives it, I will not accept it. Just so you understand. He described an exceedingly violent nation, flooded with murders, when in reality, the violent crime rate has been cut in half since the crack cocaine epidemic hit its peak in 1991, according to Reuters.

The floor drama angered some delegates including Mary Balkema, who called Cruz’s speech “deplorable”. But he relied on statistics ripe for manipulation, cited misleading numbers on the economy, for example, through selective use of years, data and sources. This time, calls of, “Lock her up”, rang through the convention arena as Gov. Chris Christie and others talked about former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration’s rollback of criminal enforcement”, he said, citing rising (but cherry-picked) homicide rates in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Then it was on to the illegal immigrants purportedly flooding the streets of America. My only shot is to tie my wagon to Donald Trump.

Cruz’ actions drew condemnation from Republicans, who questioned whether the senator had torpedoed his political future. “Unity? There wasn’t one person in the room, including the Texas delegation, right?” For those of us who actually want to prevent that nightmare, we pray for Cruz to join the fight and heal this unfortunate and unnecessary conflict. Later in the week, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who dropped out of the nomination race in May, refused to endorse Trump in a prime-time speech. “He was implying people shouldn’t vote for Trump”.

“I don’t know his father”. Cruz used that Trump slam as a reason for not honoring a pledge to support the Republican primary victor.

“To me, “America First” is a brand-new, modern term”, Trump said. Here it comes, I thought: the moment when he shows us he has found a way to shelve the differences and bad blood of the primary season to deliver clarity and leadership of the type we have come to expect. The delegates were angry, really, incredibly angry, and started booing loudly and chanting “We want Trump!” Where Nixon pledged to heed the “voice of the great majority of Americans, the forgotten Americans-the non-shouters, the non-demonstrators”, Trump said that he would work to “deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected, and abandoned”.

Americans woke up Friday to find “birds were chirping and the sun was out”, Obama said, adding that “some of the fears that were expressed [at the Republican convention] just don’t jibe with the facts”. “See now if I don’t win, I’m going to blame Mike, right?” “Now Ted never denied that it was his father”.

Her one-time Democratic rival Bernie Sanders also wrote in a tweet: “Trump: ‘I alone can fix this.’ Is this guy running for president or dictator?'”