but crime in America is out of control. I'm going to make it along with the economy, inflation, strong borders and energy dominance. My top priority. I'm including crime in America. You know, normally that's done locally and we're gonna give the local people a lot of help like I did initially. But not that much. We had a lot of great numbers coming out when I was president. Now we're seeing numbers that are just absolutely horrific. The Democrats are holding their convention in Chicago in order to showcase it. And yet, as you know, on 4th of July weekend, 117 people were shot. Of the 117, 17 were killed. This is 4th of July weekend and 40 were shot last weekend. I don't know how many were killed, but soon a lot. And that's a war zone that's worse than Afghanistan that we read about all the time. Speaking of Afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country. In my opinion, we left 13 dead soldiers, 47 obliterated, just obliterated the arms, the legs to face, left people behind and we left $85 billion worth of equipment behind for the Taliban to use as it sees fit. And they're selling a lot of it because they don't need 700,000 guns and rifles. They don't need 72,000 armor plated vehicles. They're one of the largest sellers of military equipment in the world right now. They're selling our equipment because we said they said, by the way, would have never happened with me. Abdul would never have done that. But they said we didn't have anybody shot after my conversations with the leader of the Taliban. Uh, zero shot in 18 months. We had nobody lost in 18 months. He knew that he was not going to do that. I knew that. But now you look at what's happened and it's back. You know, we would have kept Bagram. That's the big air, the big air base, not because of Afghanistan, but because it's located one hour away where, uh, from where China makes its nuclear weapons. So it's one hour away. And we had it one of the biggest air bases in the world. We built it for billions and billions of dollars many years ago. Got the biggest runways, the biggest everything. And we just walked away from it, gave it to them. And now China is occupying it. And I thought that the scene a few days ago of the third anniversary, they call it the defeat of America. I was one of the ugliest scenes that I've seen on television in a long time. I've seen some pretty bad ones. So have you were witnessing some pretty bad ones. Uh, they had a parade where the parade was, uh, all of our equipment, a lot of our equipment, brand new, beautiful armor plated trucks coming down a road and people cheering. Not that many people cheering, actually, but there were people cheering, but they were making us look very bad because we have a fool, a fool as a president. They lied last night about things that nobody's ever seen. They lied about soldiers at a grave site. They lied about Charlottesville. They lied about, uh, inflation. The inflation has been absolutely horrible, absolutely horrible. And everyone knows that we had virtually no inflation. They had 9%, but that wasn't including some of the things that went up more than anything else. They gotta, they gave themselves a pass, but mothers will no longer be losing their Children because of weak liberal policies and politicians that have given up on securing a crime free America. We want a crime free America. We're gonna stop violent crime in the United States. And it's people like this that can do the job better than anybody. They do the job justly and fairly. But nobody, there's nobody like these people. Thank you.
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DNC Counter-Programming Crescendo: Grandiose Denial and Evening Escalation as Convention Spotlight Shifts to Harris
Trump spent the entire day counter-programming against the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, growing steadily more aggressive as the evening wore on. The morning featured attacks on Biden's economic record and a heated response to Biden's farewell address, followed by a campaign rally in Howell, Michigan. After the rally, he unleashed a rapid evening volley targeting energy policy, Chinese manufacturing, and election fraud — reviving the preemptive delegitimization playbook familiar from 2020. The mood was overwhelmingly combative and grandiose, treating the DNC's celebration as a personal affront to be drowned out rather than ignored.