Former President Donald Trump, who was in Dallas to speak at the National Rifle Association convention, said Saturday that Second Amendment rights are under attack as part of America's deterioration under President Joe Biden. .
“Our Second Amendment is under siege. Our Constitution is being shredded. Our borders are disappearing,” Trump told convention attendees, especially Biden. When he strongly criticized him, the participants responded with loud applause.
“It's time for a president to replace weakness with strength, poverty with prosperity, and defeat Joe Biden's corrupt tyranny with a great restoration of American freedom,” he said.
President Trump used a phrase from an old TV show. apprenticesummed up the election with a fiery 100-minute speech mixed with humor.
“To have a future, we have to march to the polls and say to crooked Joe Biden, 'Joe, you're doing a terrible job. You're a terrible president,'” President Trump said. Ta. “like apprentice, Joe, you're fired. Get out of here, Joe. ”
President Trump also promised to carry out the largest deportation of illegal immigrants in the history of his presidency.
“It's going to be a big thing,” he said.
Trump also promised to revitalize Texas' energy industry.
“Drill baby, drill,” he said.
Ahead of President Trump's NRA speech, the campaign announced a new Gun Owners for Trump coalition led by “more than 50 Olympic athletes, firearms industry leaders, and Second Amendment supporters.”
And as expected, NRA officials announced Saturday that the group had endorsed Trump.
Democrats will hold the NRA event in the same month as the one-year anniversary of the May 6 mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets in which a man with an AR-15 assault-style weapon killed eight people and injured seven others. He criticized President Trump's attendance at the convention. others.
“There is one factor that is driving this senseless epidemic and that is the shameless inaction of the Republican Party, which is bought and funded by the NRA,” Dallas County Democratic Party Chairman Cardal Coleman said in a statement. said. “To add insult to injury, the City of Dallas and the City of Texas could potentially pay a combined $1 million in taxpayer dollars to host a tournament that does not reflect the values of the City of Dallas.” .”
President Trump's speech in Dallas provided a reprieve from his trial in New York over whether he committed felony business fraud related to hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump's lawyers will continue Monday their cross-examination of Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and fixer at the center of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case.
“They are trying to disenfranchise me worse than Alphonse Capone,” Trump said. “He was less indicted than I was.”
Trump praised Texas throughout his speech. And he told attendees that on Saturday he played golf with former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
President Trump calls Texas, a major fundraising hub for his presidential campaign, his second home. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick leads Trump's Texas campaign, advising the former president on state issues such as border security and energy, and helping endorse statewide and local candidates.
Several prominent Texans attended Trump's speech at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, including Patrick and Reps. Pat Fallon (R-Sherman) and Ronnie Jackson (R-Amarillo). I listened to it.
Some Texas Republican House candidates also attended, including David Covey, who is seeking to unseat House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont).
President Trump called Phelan “an absolutely terrible Speaker of the House.”
“He didn't want to mess with voter fraud,” Trump said. “He didn't want to do it. … We've got to get the speaker out of there.”
President Trump also praised Gov. Greg Abbott, who spoke at the convention in front of the former president.
“He's a passionate politician,” President Trump said of Abbott. “Do you know why he's hot? He's doing a great job.”
President Trump has said that Abbott is on his short list of vice presidential candidates. Abbott responded that he would be honored to be considered, but that he is focused on leading Texas. He is fully committed to the Texas Republican primary, devoting time and resources to promoting candidates who support his plan to allow students to use public money to pay for private schools.
Much of Mr. Abbott's speech focused on border security, praising Mr. Trump and criticizing Mr. Biden.
“This crisis is going to be over in just six months,” Abbott said. At that time, Joe Biden will be removed as President of the United States and Donald Trump will once again become President of the greatest country in the world. ”
In his speech, Abbott highlighted the Texas bills he signed to advance Second Amendment rights, including allowing Texans to possess guns without a permit.
By law, Texas is a Second Amendment sanctuary state, and its agencies and employees are prohibited from assisting in implementing federal gun control policies.
“Now, more than ever, we must fight to protect our Second Amendment rights,” Abbott said.
