<p>Milwaukee: Five days after a gunman tried to assassinate him at a political rally, former President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> on Thursday night described his personal experience of the shooting as he formally accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and called on Americans to see in him a unifier. </p><p>“As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life,” Trump said at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “So many people have asked me what happened — 'Tell us what happened, please.’ And therefore, I’ll tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.” </p><p>The crowd inside Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee was rapt and silent as Trump described turning his head to look at a chart on a screen behind him and then feeling a bullet hit his ear. He was lucky, he said, he had not turned further.</p><p>“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump said. The crowd, devoted fans of a man they had nominated to be their presidential candidate, responded in unison by chanting, “Yes, you are.”</p><p>Trump shook his head. “I’m not,” he said, adding that it was only “by the grace of almighty God” that he had survived. </p><p>On the stage with him was the jacket and helmet of Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter and supporter who was killed in the shooting. Leaving the podium briefly, Trump kissed the helmet. </p>.Obama tells allies Joe Biden needs to reconsider his re-election bid: Report.<p>The former president’s recounting of the shooting, in his first public speech since the assassination attempt, came as he encouraged Americans to unify behind him.</p><p>Trump — who frequently mocks his political enemies, has promised retribution against them and often insists this election is the country’s “final battle” — insisted that Americans must put aside the divisions that he has often stoked.</p><p>“The discord and division in our society must be healed. We must do it quickly,” Trump said. “As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart.”</p>
<p>Milwaukee: Five days after a gunman tried to assassinate him at a political rally, former President <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> on Thursday night described his personal experience of the shooting as he formally accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and called on Americans to see in him a unifier. </p><p>“As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life,” Trump said at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “So many people have asked me what happened — 'Tell us what happened, please.’ And therefore, I’ll tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.” </p><p>The crowd inside Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee was rapt and silent as Trump described turning his head to look at a chart on a screen behind him and then feeling a bullet hit his ear. He was lucky, he said, he had not turned further.</p><p>“I’m not supposed to be here tonight,” Trump said. The crowd, devoted fans of a man they had nominated to be their presidential candidate, responded in unison by chanting, “Yes, you are.”</p><p>Trump shook his head. “I’m not,” he said, adding that it was only “by the grace of almighty God” that he had survived. </p><p>On the stage with him was the jacket and helmet of Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter and supporter who was killed in the shooting. Leaving the podium briefly, Trump kissed the helmet. </p>.Obama tells allies Joe Biden needs to reconsider his re-election bid: Report.<p>The former president’s recounting of the shooting, in his first public speech since the assassination attempt, came as he encouraged Americans to unify behind him.</p><p>Trump — who frequently mocks his political enemies, has promised retribution against them and often insists this election is the country’s “final battle” — insisted that Americans must put aside the divisions that he has often stoked.</p><p>“The discord and division in our society must be healed. We must do it quickly,” Trump said. “As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart.”</p>