Donald Trump, the billionaire maelstrom who roiled America’s elite and empowered its working class, accepted his third straight GOP presidential nomination Thursday night by vowing to unite a country rife with division, insecurity and the pain of stubborn inflation.
Trump sported a bandaged ear, a visible reminder that an assassins’s bullet nearly killed him five days earlier. But his personal and at times melancholy tone reflected a man changed by a harrowing brush with death, an incident he said was “too painful to tell.” But one more time.
“The discord and division in our society must be healed. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart,” he told an adoring audience in Milwaukee, the largest city in the battleground of Wisconsin.
“I am running to be president for ALL of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America,” he declared.
