Trump shooting updates: Republican nominee appears at RNC with bandaged ear

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• Trump made his first public appearance since Saturday’s assassination attempt, walking into the Republican National Convention to loud cheers. He had a bandage on his right ear.
• Trump picked Ohio Senator JD Vance as his vice president. The 39-year-old politician, who once called Trump “America’s Hitler”, said he had been sceptical of the former president but has changed his mind since then.
• Black Republican men featured prominently on day one of the RNC, including Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina and Representative Wesley Hunt of Texas. They attacked Biden on inflation and hailed Trump as a champion for working-class Americans.
• Biden sat down for an interview with NBC News and reiterated his intent to stay in the presidential race. The US president also said it was a “mistake” to say that he wanted to put a “bulls-eye” on Trump.
• Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said the assassination attempt on Trump was “unacceptable” and “something that shouldn’t happen again”.
• Top Republicans, including Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, are expected to take the stage at the RNC on Tuesday, while Vance will speak on Wednesday. Trump is expected to address the convention on Thursday.

The economy was the official theme of the first night of the RNC with several speakers praising Trump’s plans to end inflation.

However, Trump’s campaign released few hard numbers and no real policy language or legislative blueprints while speakers on Monday offered little additional detail.

By comparison, the Biden campaign has published an exhaustive 188-page budget proposal that lays out his economic vision and some economists have raised concerns about the potential economic impacts of some of Trump’s key policies.

A recent analysis by the Peterson Institute of International Economics showed that deporting 1.3 million workers would cause the size of the US economy to shrink by 2.1 percent, essentially creating a recession.

Meanwhile, analysis by economists Kimberly Clausing and Mary Lovely found that Trump’s plans to substantially increase tariffs, taxes on imports, would cost a typical US household $1,700 a year.

Crypto stocks, gun stocks and shares of other companies that could benefit from a Trump presidency are up, after an assassination attempt on the Republican candidate boosted expectations he would win the November election.

This included Trump Media & Technology Group, which is majority-owned by Trump and is the parent company of the social media platform Truth Social. Shares of the company soared by 30 percent, lifting its stock market value to $7.6bn, despite its revenue being comparable to that of two Starbucks stores in the US.

“It’s nearly four months to go [until the election] and things can change, but today, the markets are betting on Trump being the victor,” said Ben Laidler, the head of equity strategy at Bradesco BBI, adding that Trump Media “is the tip of the spear and the most sensitive to a Trump victory”.

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There’s been a move away – since Donald Trump won the first nomination in Ohio in 2016 – from keynote speakers. Now, it’s all about headliners as he calls them. Names that are important to the Republican party.

On Monday, for example, there were people who were being considered for possibly filling the vice president slot, like Tim Scott the senator from South Carolina, and Kristi Noem, the governor from South Dakota.

So on Tuesday, we’ll hear from senior figures as well in the party. We’re also likely to hear from Nikki Haley – she has been extended an invitation. That happened on Sunday, a suggestion perhaps that unity is the idea of Donald Trump. We’re also expected to hear from Ron DeSantis, the man who was heavily criticised by Donald Trump, the man that Donald Trump saw perhaps as his biggest rival during the primary campaign and managed to beat him very early in the process.

Then on Wednesday, we’ll hear from JD Vance, the vice-presidential nominee. He will set up his anger, his distrust of the Biden Administration, leaving the way for the boss Donald Trump to come in on Thursday and deliver his speech.

Several speakers at the RNC shared stories of their success as immigrants to the US. These included Robert Unanue, the CEO of Goya Foods, and Vanessa Faura from Moms For America Action.

Many of them lauded Trump’s plans to close the borders if he returns to the White House. Here’s a reminder of what Trump has said he would do:

• Enact the biggest mass deportation in US history using the National Guard and, if necessary, federal troops to deport people. He has not ruled out creating internment camps for processing.
• Limit access to asylum at the US-Mexico border.
• Reinstitute the so-called “travel ban” that restricts entry into the US of people from a list of largely Muslim-dominant countries.
• Seek to end automatic citizenship for children born to immigrants, a move that would run against the long-running interpretation of the US Constitution.

Some of the pre-produced parts, like the video messages, were still very strident, very strong and, some would say, in places, they were angry.

There were a couple of speeches on the stage such as [that of] Ron Johnson, who is the Republican senator from right here in Wisconsin, who describes the Democrats as a clear and present danger.

That’s the sort of language we were told that people would try and avoid.

Marjorie Taylor-Greene was her usual combative self. She’s one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in the House. She spoke about the problems that the Democrats had caused, but on the whole, people were talking about the Donald Trump agenda.

The theme of Monday night was how to make America wealthy. And there was only a slight change in tone, but of course that may change as we go through this.

Could the attempted assassination attempt on Trump mark the beginning of a perilous period for political violence in America? Or will the polarisation and tension recede amid the wave of shock?

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It’s very clear that Biden is unapologetic about some of the language he has used against Trump, insisting that it is not a rise in political rhetoric, insisting that he’s just telling it like it is. He did admit that the use of the word “bulls-eye” in relation to Trump was a mistake.

This was seized on by Republicans after the attempted assassination of Trump, although Biden had made that remark before the attempted assassination. But very clearly here, the Biden campaign – while still calling for a cooling of the political rhetoric – doesn’t mean that there’s going to be no political warfare between the candidates.

Biden is saying that what one has got to do is focus on the rhetoric used by Trump, which he says is certainly incendiary, particularly, he refers there to Trump’s insistence that he will commute the sentences of those who were jailed for the events of January 6, 2020.

Biden is insisting that the focus has got to remain on what Trump has been saying and what he says. It’s not just a question of lowering the political rhetoric, it’s a question of calling somebody out for the flaws that they may have. What Biden is signalling here is that this campaign is on again, that any respite that there might have been in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is now over. Donald Trump is fair game according to the Biden campaign as a political opponent in this election coming up in November and that is a way going to be handled from here on in.

The chair of the Republican National Committee has adjourned the convention for the day, after congratulating Trump and Vance on their nomination.

Trump has exited the arena to another round of applause and cheers.

Trump’s vice-presidential pick spoke to Fox News’s Sean Hannity at the RNC earlier. He was asked about his past criticism of Trump, including comments branding the former president “America’s Hitler”.

“I don’t hide from that,” Vance said. “I was certainly sceptical of Donald Trump in 2016. But President Trump was a great president and he changed my mind. I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans because, again, he delivered that peace and prosperity.”

He added, “I bought into the media’s lies and distortions. I bought into this idea that somehow, he was going to be so different, a terrible threat to democracy. It was a joke.”

The president of Teamsters, Sean O’Brien, has spoken at the RNC, marking a first in the 1.3 million-member group’s history.

“I don’t care about getting criticised. It’s an honour to be the first teamster in our 125-year history to address the Republican National Convention,” he said.

O’Brien criticised “big money” in politics and said workers are being taken for granted and sold out to big banks, big tech and the corporate elite. He added the Teamsters “are not beholden to anyone or any party” and will work with a bipartisan coalition.

The UK’s Guardian newspaper reported that O’Brien has faced internal criticism over his decision to address the RNC, including from John Palmer, vice president at large of the Teamsters who reportedly described Trump as the “most anti-union… president” in a generation.

More from the US president’s interview with NBC News.

Biden said nothing has changed his mind on continuing to stay in the 2024 presidential campaign.

“We knew this was going to be a close race,” he said. “We are in a situation where if you look at all the polling data, the polling data shows a lot of different things, but there’s no wide gap between us.

“It’s essentially a toss-up race.”

The US president, speaking to NBC News, has criticised a Florida judge’s decision to dismiss the classified documents case against Trump.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the prosecution, was unlawfully appointed to his role and did not have the authority to bring the case.

Biden said he was not surprised by the move.

“It comes from the immunity decision the Supreme Court ruled on, and Clarence Thomas, in his dissent, said that independent prosecutors appointed by the attorney general aren’t legit,” he said.

“My generic point is that… the basis upon which the case was thrown out I find specious because I don’t agree with what Clarence Thomas’s dissent and/or the Supreme Court decision on immunity.”

Trump entered the stadium as musician Lee Greenwood sang his signature song, “God Bless the USA”.

The delegates were all on their feet cheering, with many holding up signs or their phones to take photos and video.

“We want Trump. We want Trump,” they chanted.

The US president sat down for an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt.

Biden said he had a “very cordial” call with Trump after the shooting.

“I told him how concerned I was and want[ed] to make sure I knew how he was actually doing. He sounded good. He said he was fine and he thanked me for calling him.”

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem brought up the striking image of Trump after a gunman shot him when he stood and raised his fist with blood streaking across his face.

“Prior to this week, we already knew that Donald Trump was a fighter”, Noem said. But on Saturday, she said, “even in the most perilous moment this week, his instinct was to stand and to fight”.

Noem also praised Trump by harkening back to one of the most chaotic parts of his presidency, his management of the pandemic.

She said that Trump “let me do my job and he let me keep my people free”.

“When other states were pushing mandates and lockdowns, instead in South Dakota, we hit the gas. We embraced liberty.”