The big news on Monday was Donald Trump picking Ohio’s Junior Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate.

Vance is a man who has forged a very close friendship with the President, who polls well in the critical swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, where we are gathered for the Republican National Convention.

The other huge story was the dismissal of Jack Smith as a Special Counsel when Judge Aileen Cannon declared his entire position was unconstitutional. There is a process: a person in that position has to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate—and those things never happened. That was her clear decision in a 93-page ruling. That means the entire classified documents case has been tossed out—meaning the raid on Mar-A-Lago and everything that came from it was and is illegal.

And all of this follows the attempted assassination of Trump.
I don’t know if I have ever been in a bigger, more consequential news cycle than I have over the past few days.

Donald Trump surviving the assassination attempt on Saturday in Butler County, Pennsylvania, will live on in American lore for eternity—the shot heard around the world followed by a defiant President Trump rising to his feet blood-stained, disheveled, and ready to fight on.

That iconic American moment has defined us as a nation and can be compared to other defining moments in American history.

Remember Obama’s fist bump he’d give his followers? Remember how absurd, fake, and staged the gesture was? 
 
Compare that to President Trump punching the air after being shot and shouting, “Fight, fight, fight.” No other image is as stark. No other comparison is as clear.

No other words are necessary either because we have before us a real profile of courage. We have a spontaneous and remarkable act of presidential courage. We have President Trump standing taller and stronger than those who guard him, than all who failed to protect him, than all who wished him dead and mourned his survival. 

We have the leader we deserve.
We also see and hear the crowd’s reaction. We understand them. We sympathize with them because we feel their pain. 

We mourn with them, too. We remember and honor the life of a face in the crowd. We say a prayer for Corey Comperatore and his family.

We will not forget what we saw. Nor will we forgive what we heard in the aftermath. The denials, the excuses, the attacks, the false charges, the bogus headlines, and fake news—all this will not go down the memory hole.

Unlike Joe Biden, we know what happened.

Unlike the media, we know why it happened, and much of it was because of them.

Unlike Democrats, we know why it must never happen again.
 
Our hearts are with the crowd but not the mob.
 
The mob is a Democrat-run operation.
 
The mob is violent.
 
The mob is cruel.
 
The mob is bloodthirsty.
 
Saturday’s MAGA crowd was and is the opposite.
 
No one demanded blood for what happened.
No one interfered with law enforcement. If anything, the crowd helped law enforcement. The crowd saw the shooter. The crowd shouted that there was a shooter. The crowd shouted before shots were fired and warned every officer they could find.
 
No one rioted in the aftermath—nobody.
 
No one looted.
 
No one disturbed the peace except the would-be assassin.
 
No one protested except to point out the lack of protection—the fact that President Trump was in the crosshairs was criminal.

No “mostly peaceful” protests happened on Saturday.

Only Democrats have called President Trump an existential threat to democracy, while radical leftists are a real danger to us all.
 
Only Democrats have compared President Trump to Hitler.

Only Democrats have the audacity to say we must come together after saying horrible lies about us.
 
Democrats call us fascists, Nazis, racists, white supremacists, and Christian nationalists.
 
Democrats have impeached President Trump twice.
 
Democrats have indicted President Trump.
 
Democrats have prosecuted President Trump.
Democrats have convicted Donald Trump.
 
Democrats have sought to bankrupt and imprison President Trump.
 
And now, Democrats want us to believe they want President Trump to live.
 
How weird is that? They tell us Trump is Hitler, but they pray for him? That doesn’t even make sense.

The media want us to believe that their hands are clean, that they only report the news, and that they would never try to shape or distort it.

Put another way, the people who told us to stand six feet apart want us to believe they don’t want to put President Trump six feet under.

No one who claims to respect us would disrespect us like this.

No one who wants us to vote for Joe Biden would lie to us like this.

The truth is simpler because it’s true.
 
Democrats would sooner disenfranchise us; they would sooner not count our votes than ask us to exercise the franchise and vote for Joe Biden.

Joe Biden would sooner protect himself than fire the people who failed to protect President Trump—which is why nobody has been fired.
Democrats are sorry about where they stand in the polls. 

Democrats are not sorry about where they stand regarding President Trump. 
 
Democrats hate President Trump. 
 
To be clear, Democrats hate us.
 
We are the deplorables and proud of it.
 
We deplore the violent rhetoric of the Democrat Party.
 
We deplore the Democrat Party’s desire for another civil war—a war on us.
 
We deplore the Democrat Party’s desire to end another Republican president.
 
Unlike the Democrat Party, we refuse to be a party to the fast undoing of the Constitution and the destruction of the Union.
 
We refuse to surrender our rights.
 
We refuse to watch our country die.
 
We will not let our country die.

We’re in Milwaukee to celebrate life.
 
We are pro-life.
 
We’re here to celebrate the life of the nominee of the Republican Party.

We celebrate the life of Donald Trump—a life whose finest moments are still to come.

On Tuesday, November 5, we will celebrate the election of President Trump!

Every day until November 5 is a celebration.

We celebrate the chance fate has given us because President Trump is alive and well.

We thank God we can celebrate, that we shall celebrate, because we have a duty to be like President Trump: firm in the conviction that we owe our country our best, that we will do our best to carry on the work of our republic because America is the last best hope of earth.

We shall fight, fight, fight.
 
That is our new motto—forged in the near-death of Donald Trump.
 
That is our pledge.
 
We pledge to be strong like President Trump.
 
We pledge to be strong in the face of lies and personal attacks.
 
We fight the good fight in defense of America.
 
We fight to defend the greatness of America.
 
We know greatness exists.
 
We saw it on Saturday.
 
We see it at this convention as America comes together.
 
We see it in President Trump.
 
And we’ll see it again on Thursday when President Trump speaks to the nation and the world.
 
We have a leader we want to hear.
 
We have a president who wants our vote.
 
Together, we will Make America Great Again.