The Caring Grandfather and Moderate Statesman. How the Attack Changed Him

From our correspondent
MILWAUKEE — “It will be a very personal speech,” Donald Trump’s advisers told reporters at a news conference who asked if the former president, who aims to reclaim the White House, would talk about foreign policy in his convention speech. The day before, Trump’s interview caused a stir. She suggested that she might not help Taiwan in the event of Chinese aggression (unless it “paid for protection”) and promised to do so. New tariffs on Europe; And the Russians’ support reached his deputy, J.D. Vance (Foreign Minister Lavrov said he was in favor of peace). “Of course, he will focus on the contrast between Joe Biden’s results and his own, but the speech will be a personal story from the heart and a profound message of unity, of charting a path forward, which is what the nation wants to hear. At this moment.” The speech was “completely rewritten by his own hand” after Saturday’s attack, and is 55 minutes long, but he is “still making adjustments,” the council members added: “It will convey optimism.”“My father will be like Lincoln, like Jefferson… one of the greatest presidents of all time,” his son Eric said, describing him on television. “A changed man” after the attack“When a bullet scratches you like that, it changes you. Change the priorities in life, what is important and what is not.”

Trump’s latest speech is the culmination of one conference whose central goal was to transform the former president who is remembered by many Offensive and violent language To a more reassuring person. Trump’s personality is his biggest problem with Republican voters; and the countryside knows it. “How many times have I heard, ‘I would like Trump’s policies without his personality!’ ” his former campaign manager said on stage. Kellyanne Conway“But these policies cannot be without his personality,” he added. This effort to soften the tone was already evident in Trump, who met Biden at the debate (much less aggressive than four or eight years ago) and at the convention, aiming to redefine his persona, and his relatives, friends and allies marched for four days describing the “normal” Trump.

Kay, 17, Don Jr.’s eldest granddaughter, told the story as “Very normal” Who plays golf with her and brags to friends about his granddaughter’s school results (at the end of the third day of the conference he appeared surrounded by all the grandchildren). The ambitious daughters-in-law Lara (Eric’s wife who heads the National Party Committee) and Kim Guilfoyle (who is with Don Jr.), described him as someone who sensed and appreciated potential they “didn’t even know they had.” Even the pain and anger of the families of 13 American soldiers killed in the August 2021 suicide attack in Afghanistan, during the chaotic withdrawal from the country, aligns with this goal: They described a cold Biden who “looked at his watch at funerals” of their loved ones, while Trump ‘spent six hours with us in Bedminster’“I was expecting an arrogant politician,” said the mother, “but he met us because he He knew it would make us feel better.». On the last evening Melania and Ivanka They joined him and her husband Jared Kushner at the show, with only Barron absent.

This is happening as delegates wave signs reading “Mass Deportations Now” and Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser who was released from prison for refusing to testify in the House about the attack on Congress, accuses the judicial system of bowing to Biden. As for the new state’s politics, Vance has been largely vocal: US Open First “To Americans of every color and race” (but there are still two white men at the top), Immigration “on our terms”And warning allies to “share the burden of ensuring peace” and “no more gifts to countries that betray the generosity of American taxpayers.” America’s defensive ideaVance explains: a home (and an economy) to protect, in a tone that sounds both Trumpian and Obamaian, nostalgic and promising change (“This is a Night of Hope”).