(Just obtained a draft copy of former President Trump’s Convention Acceptance Speech)
“On the Road to Milwaukee”
My fellow Americans, Republican delegates, members of the media and people and leaders around the world. There’s an old saying that you’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. Last week I lived that old saying. And it has given me much to think about. I know my detractors don’t think I think seriously about anything, except my own personal welfare. Up until last week’s event, that might have been true.
Like Paul on the Road to Damascus, on my Road to Milwaukee I was struck down by a searing bullet to my ear. And what I now hear from that ear has led me to a new life.
I’ve lived a life so far from danger and physical harm. I’m actually in rather decent physical shape despite a life lived bereft of healthful habits of nutrition and exercise. I avoided serving my country in Vietnam because I paid a doctor to lie that I had bone spurs in my feet. On reflection those bone spurs might have been in my head. I once said in half-jest that my personal Vietnam was all the close encounters I had with contracting STDs during my wild profligate days in the 1960s & ‘70s. Yes, I succumbed to the temptations of the flesh of a porn star and others and shrugged off my vows to various marriages. I’ve violated the personal intimacies of many women to satisfy my insatiable lust. I’ve stolen secrets from our government for my own vanity to either sell or simply satisfy my need for power. I’ve lived a life of luxury, both inherited and earned, even though much of it was earned thru cheating on taxes, not paying hard-working contractors, scamming innocent people with my various bogus enterprises such as Trump University and products as varied and dubious as hats, wine, steaks,vitamins, home decor, menswear, bottled water, a board game, mattresses, pillows, eyeglasses, lighting/chandeliers, coffee, cologne/perfume, deodorant, vodka, square inch pieces of my felony arraignment suit, fake gold sneakers, and God forgive me, Bibles! Yes, I was certainly a greedy entrepreneur.
If I’m honest, which for the first time in my life I’m trying to be, the Seven Deadly Sins seem to have been written exclusively for me: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. Well, maybe not so much “sloth” because I don’t really sleep that much.
I now realize that this is a critical time in our nation’s history. Division, hate, suspicion, derision, revenge, retaliation, ridicule, retribution is spreading across our land; and much of this sowing of poison is due to me. Which has caused others to respond in kind. My political rallies over the years have been gaseous clouds of ridicule and hate. I preyed on all of you for my own political and personal gain. I encouraged you to feed your dark angels, not your better angels.
I stand before you tonight a convicted felon, 34 times over, with more justice still to face. I’ve lived a life of lies and cronyism, setting myself up to you as a model businessman and as an example for you to aspire to. Last week’s brush with death has changed all that. Tonight I stand before you humbled and imploring you to accept me as a candidate for President, a President who will try to heal our wounds, wounds which I helped inflict but now need to heal. I promise you tonight that I will accept the results of this election and not attempt to overthrow our Constitution by refusing to yield power. If elected I will not seek retribution on my opponents but will reach out to them with grace, understanding and look first for shared values rather than opposing views.
There is only one way we can Make America Great Again, and that is by all of us, conservative, liberal, Black, White, people of every color and creed come together in love, unity and determination to renew our constitutional vows to uphold the right to pursue happiness, justice and freedom for all.
Thank you. Thank you…and God Bless our soldiers, especially the ones who died defending our nation who I once called suckers and losers.
Donald J. Trump
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