Donald Trump's convention speech: ‘I had God on my side’
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The RNC has been waiting all week to hear Donald Trump speak for the first time since his attempted assassination.
In a record-length speech, he described in detail the moment he was shot before paying tribute to the Pennsylvania fire chief who was killed at the rally.
Sarah and Anthony were in the room to witness the speech, and reflect on the key themes with Justin Webb. They discuss the key messages in the speech, and what a second Trump term in the White House might look like. Also, what did delegates make of Melania Trump's reappearance?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | I said to myself, wow, what was that? |
| 0:10.0 | It can only be a bullet and moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down. |
| 0:17.0 | My hand was covered with blood, just absolutely blood all over the place. I immediately knew it was very serious that we were |
| 0:27.3 | under attack and in one movement proceeded to drop to the ground. Bullets were continuing to fly as very |
| 0:39.7 | brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage and they really did they rushed to the |
| 0:45.2 | stage. |
| 0:48.2 | So that was Donald Trump there with his big and extremely lengthy speech that he has just finished delivering to delegates here at the Republican National Convention. |
| 1:00.0 | It is very late on Thursday night. In so late it's Friday morning really we're |
| 1:04.0 | going to be running through what Donald Trump had to say what it all means what's |
| 1:08.1 | been happening through the week a lot of those thoughts will also be on our radio |
| 1:11.8 | for episode this week |
| 1:14.4 | it has been just the most extraordinary few days in american politics so uh... yeah |
| 1:19.9 | we'll go through all of the highlights |
| 1:22.4 | welcome to america's We'll go through all of the highlights. Welcome to America's. |
| 1:24.2 | America's. |
| 1:26.4 | America's. |
| 1:27.4 | Americaast from BBC News. |
| 1:29.9 | Let me start off with two herbs. |
| 1:31.8 | Made in America. I'm not running for |
| 1:33.8 | Saint-Hoo here. I'm running for president. I did everything right and they |
| 1:36.9 | indicted me. I can chew and walk on at the same time. There is no indication |
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