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Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president Thursday night, delivering a voice communication that lays out America'southward struggles with crime, terrorism and immigration and how he plans to accost them.

NPR's politics team has annotated Trump's speech below. Portions we commented on are highlighted, followed by analysis, context and fact cheque in italics.

Thanks, thank you. Thank you very much.

Friends, delegates and young man Americans: I humbly and gratefully accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.

The states, USA, USA, USA, USA.

Who would accept believed that when we started this journeying // because nosotros are a team would take received almost xiv 1000000 votes the near in the history of the Republican political party and that the Republican party would get 60 percent more votes than it received eight years agone. Who would take believed this. Who would have believed this.

The Democrats on the other hand received xx percent fewer votes than they got 4 years ago. Not so skillful. Not so good.

Together, nosotros will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our land back to safety, prosperity, and peace.

We will exist a state of generosity and warmth.

Simply we will also exist a country of law and order.

[Law and order has become a big theme for Trump in recent weeks, especially since the killings of five constabulary officers in Dallas. — Sarah McCammon]

Our Convention occurs at a moment of crisis for our nation. The attacks on our police, and the terrorism of our cities, threaten our very way of life. Whatsoever politician who does not grasp this danger is not fit to lead our country.

Americans watching this accost tonight have seen the recent images of violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities. Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims. I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon, and I mean very soon, come to an end.

Offset on January 20th of 2017, condom volition be restored.

[Policing, public safety and the vast majority of the criminal justice appliance are controlled by state and local authorities, not the federal government. — Carrie Johnson]

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to practice then is a government unworthy to pb. Information technology is finally time for a straightforward assessment of the state of our nation.

I will present the facts evidently and honestly.

We cannot afford to be then politically correct anymore.

So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media myths the Democrats are holding their convention next calendar week. Get there.

But here, at our convention, in that location will be no lies. We volition award the American people with the truth, and nothing else.

[Fact checkers might beg to differ. PolitiFact, for instance, has found a number of false statements uttered at this week'south RNC. — Tamara Keith]

These are the facts: Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are at present being reversed by this Assistants's rollback of criminal enforcement. Homicides terminal year increased by 17 percent in America's fifty largest cities. That's the largest increment in 25 years.

[These data seem to come from a January Washington Post analysis that found homicides were up by 17 percent in 2015 over 2014, and that it indeed was the largest increase since 1990. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

[However, violent offense is an intensely local phenomenon and murders were non up in all of those 50 cities. — Carrie Johnson]

[And in that location's a broader context for crime figures: While tearing criminal offence may exist climbing this year, rates are far below their peak in the early 1990s. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

[Americans in recent years have said they believe crime is getting worse even though the overall trend is downwardly. — Sarah McCammon]

In our nation's capital, killings have risen by 50 per centum. They are up near sixty% in nearby Baltimore.

[That same Post assay found murders upward by 54.3 percent in Washington, D.C., and 58.5 percentage in Baltimore in 2015 over 2014. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

In the President'southward hometown of Chicago, more than than 2,000 people have been the victims of shootings this year alone.

[But three days ago, the Chicago Tribune reported that almost 2,200 people have been shot in Chicago this year, with 329 of those people dead. The Tribune also reported that that'south 100 more such deaths than at this bespeak concluding twelvemonth. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

And more than four,000 have been killed in the Chicago area since he took part.

The number of law officers killed in the line of duty has risen by most fifty% compared to this betoken last yr.

[The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund says as of July 21, 2016, total fatalities this year compared with the same fourth dimension last yr reflect an increase of five deaths, or 8 percent. Deaths related to firearms are upward by fourteen deaths, or 78 percent. — Carrie Johnson]

About 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our land, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens.

The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the edge so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015.

[The number of families apprehended this fiscal yr along the Southwestern border thus far (that is, starting in October 2015) is around 51,000, according to Border Patrol data. That is already over the nearly 40,000 apprehended during financial year 2015. Total apprehensions are besides on pace to exceed their 2015 total, also, according to these data. However, that wouldn't be a very high number in the context of recent years; full apprehensions at the border today are far, far lower than they were in the early on 2000s. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

They are being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the impact on public safety or resource.

One such border-crosser was released and made his fashion to Nebraska. There, he ended the life of an innocent young girl named Sarah Root. She was 21 years-former, and was killed the day afterward graduating from college with a iv.0 Grade Point Average. Number one in her class. Her killer was then released a second time, and he is now a fugitive from the law. I've met Sarah's beautiful family unit. Merely to this Administration, their amazing daughter was just one more American life that wasn't worth protecting. No more.

I more kid to sacrifice on the lodge and on the chantry of open borders.

[America does not take "open borders." It has restrictions on clearing and Edge Patrol agents who make hundreds of thousands of apprehensions a year. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

What almost our economy? Again, I will tell you the plain facts that have been edited out of your nightly news and your morning newspaper: Well-nigh 4 in 10 African-American children are living in poverty, while 58% of African-American youth are at present non employed.

[30-six percent of African-Americans under 18 were below the poverty line as of 2014, according to the Census Bureau. It's not entirely clear what Trump means by "not employed," which is non technically the same every bit "unemployed," which counts people who aren't working and are looking for work. However, the unemployment rate for blackness Americans ages 16 to 19 was 38.1 percent equally of June. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

ii million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than 8 years ago.

[That'due south roughly true, by the latest information available. Around eleven million Hispanic-Americans were in poverty in 2008, compared with 13.one million in 2014. The poverty charge per unit makes more sense to compare, though — that has grown 0.4 points since 2008, but information technology has also declined lately, down by nearly 3 points since 2010. Equally for whether President Obama is responsible for this, we get to that beneath. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

Another fourteen million people accept left the workforce entirely.

[At that place's a lot going on in this statistic. So here goes: Trump may exist talking about the number of adults not in the labor force — that is, neither working nor looking for work (and so it includes retirees and students, for example). That figure has climbed by fourteen million since January 2009 (importantly, this isn't people leaving the labor force; it'southward but people not in it, period). But while labor force participation is relatively low, the labor forcefulness has still been growing — Trump's 14 million effigy might imply that information technology'south non. And that depression labor strength participation isn't entirely most a tough economic system — a lot of information technology is unproblematic demographics. In 2014, the Congressional Budget Office constitute that half of a recent iii-bespeak drop in the rate had been due to baby boomers retiring. The other half was economic factors. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

Household incomes are down more than $iv,000 since the year 2000. That'southward sixteen years ago.

[That'due south true, using median household income data, though he is not measuring from the start of the Obama administration as he is for the other stats here. If he measured from 2008, the drop was $1,656. Measuring from 2000 means measuring from the figure's almost-peak.

[A broader point about all of these economic statistics: A lot of them have been truthful, but the question is whether Obama is to blame. Higher poverty, for example, doesn't appear to be Obama's doing, as nosotros wrote in a fact bank check last twelvemonth. Moreover, many experts believe a president mostly has simply very limited power to affect the economy. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

Our trade deficit has reached an all-time high think of this, think of this, our merchandise arrears is almost $800 billion, think of that, 800 billion dollars, last year alone. We're going to fix that.

The budget is no better. President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And withal, what practice nosotros have to testify for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are Third World condition, and 40-3 million Americans are on food stamps.

Now permit u.s. consider the state of affairs abroad. Non only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, simply they've lived through one international humiliation later another.One after another. We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees past their Iranian captors at gunpoint. This was just prior to the signing of the Iran deal, which gave back to Iran $150 billion and gave us absolutely nothing – it will get down in history every bit one of the worst deals ever negotiated.

[PolitiFact has debunked this — that $150 billion is an estimate (and a loftier 1) of the value of Iranian assets tied up by economic sanctions, according to the site. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

Another humiliation came when president Obama drew a red line in Syria – and the whole world knew information technology meant absolutely nada. In Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya, our consulate – the symbol of American prestige effectually the globe – was brought downward in flames.

[The diplomatic outpost in Benghazi was not a consulate. Here's how one-time CIA Deputy Manager Michael Morell described it in a Political leader article:

["The State Department facility in Benghazi has been widely mischaracterized as a Us consulate. In fact information technology was a Temporary Mission Facility (TMF), a presence that was not continuously staffed by senior personnel and that was never given formal diplomatic status by the Libyan government." — Tamara Keith]

America is far less safe – and the globe is far less stable – than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy.

[Editor's note: Crowd chants "Lock her upwards."]

Let's defeat her in November, okay?

I am certain that it was a decision that President Obama truly regrets.

[President Obama has enthusiastically endorsed Clinton, so it would seem unlikely that he regrets choosing her to be his secretary of state. — Tamara Keith]

Her bad instincts and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what acquired so many of the disasters unfolding today. Let's review the record.

In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was non fifty-fifty on the map. Libya was stable. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing and really a large big reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was somewhat under control. Later iv years of Hillary Clinton, what practise we have? ISIS has spread across the region, and the entire world. Libya is in ruins, and our Ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the easily of savage killers. Arab republic of egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim brotherhood, forcing the armed forces to retake command. Republic of iraq is in anarchy. Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis, now threatens the Due west. Afterwards 15 years of wars in the Centre E, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the state of affairs is worse than it has always been before. This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: decease, destruction, terrorism, and weakness. But Hillary Clinton'southward legacy does not take to be America's legacy.

[ Attacks on Hillary Clinton and the argument that she is part of the status quo that is making many Americans unhappy in their lives are a common theme at Trump rallies. — Sarah McCammon]

The problems nosotros face now – poverty and violence at domicile, war and devastation abroad – will final only equally long as we go on relying on the same politicians who created them in the outset identify.

A modify in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.

[ Many of these ideas are familiar: making improve trade deals, fighting terrorism, putting "America start," and the notion that only a dramatic change in the leadership of the country will exist able to solve national problems. — Sarah McCammon]

Tonight, I will share with you lot my plan for action for America. The most of import deviation betwixt our program and that of our opponents, is that our plan volition put America Kickoff.

Americanism, not globalism, will be our ideology. Equally long every bit we are led past politicians who volition not put America Offset, then nosotros can exist assured that other nations will not care for America with respect. The respect that we deserve.

The American People will come first once over again.

My programme volition brainstorm with safety at habitation – which means prophylactic neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There tin can be no prosperity without law and order.

On the economy, I volition outline reforms to add together millions of new jobs and trillions in new wealth that can be used to rebuild America.

A number of these reforms that I volition outline this night volition exist opposed by some of our nation'due south nigh powerful special interests. That's because these interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit. Believe me. It's for their benefit.

Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the entrada of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged organization in place.

They are throwing money at her because they have total control over everything single affair she does. She is their puppet, and they pull the strings.

That is why Hillary Clinton'due south bulletin is that things will never change. Never always.

[Clinton has reams of plans and proposals to change everything from the nation's immigration arrangement and criminal justice policies to the fashion people pay for college. — Tamara Keith]

My message is that things have to change – and they have to change right now.

Every solar day I wake upward determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers, and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country. And they are forgotten. But they're non going to be forgotten long.

These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I am your vocalism.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas earlier the national expert. I have no patience for injustice -

[Editor'due south note: Protester interrupts, oversupply shouts "U.s.a."]

How dandy are our police! And how slap-up is Cleveland?

Cheers.

I have no patience for injustice. No tolerance for government incompetence of which there is then much, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. When innocent people suffer, because our political system lacks the volition, or the courage, or the bones decency to enforce our laws – or yet worse, has sold out to some corporate lobbyist for cash – I am not able to look the other fashion. And I won't await the other manner.

And when a Secretarial assistant of Country illegally stores her emails on a individual server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities tin't meet her criminal offense, puts our country at gamble, lies about information technology in every different class and faces no consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our land.

[There was no official determination that the private server was illegal, although the Country Department inspector general plant it was not approved and would not take been had Clinton asked. — Carrie Johnson]

When the FBI Manager says that the Secretary of State was "extremely careless" and "negligent," in treatment our classified secrets, I likewise know that these terms are minor compared to what she actually did.

[FBI Managing director James Comey had enough of criticism for Clinton but said "no reasonable prosecutor" would charge Clinton with a law-breaking for the emails. — Carrie Johnson]

They were merely used to save her from facing justice for her terrible, terrible crimes.

In fact, her unmarried greatest achievement may be committing such egregious criminal offense and getting away with information technology – especially when others who take done far less, accept paid so dearly. When that same Secretary of Country rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers I know the time for action has come up.

I accept joined the political arena so that the powerful tin can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves.

Nobody knows the system better than me.

Which is why I lonely can fix it.

I accept seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens, just similar it was rigged confronting Bernie Sanders – he never had a chance. Never had a gamble. But his supporters volition bring together our movement, because we will fix his biggest single issue: trade deals that strip our country of its jobs and strip us of our wealth as a country.

[Sanders had a lot of issues that he was deeply passionate about, including trade, simply it wouldn't be at the acme of his list. His campaign revolved well-nigh intensely around two things: income inequality and a broken entrada finance organization. — Tamara Keith]

Millions of Democrats will join our movement, because we are going to fix the system so it works adequately and justly for all Americans.

[A recent Pew poll found that just ix percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning Sanders supporters said they planned to vote for Trump in the general ballot. "85% say they programme to vote for Clinton in the full general ballot, compared with ix% who say they will vote for Trump and 6% who volunteer that they will vote for another candidate or don't know."

[Sanders got approximately 12 million popular votes. Dorsum-of-the-envelope adding, 9 percent of 12 million is a bit more than 1 meg, not millions. And that poll was taken earlier Sanders endorsed Clinton. — Tamara Keith]

In this cause, I am proud to have at my side the next Vice President of the United states of america: Governor Mike Pence of Indiana. And a bang-up guy.

We will bring the same economical success to America that Mike brought to Indiana. Which is astonishing.

He'south a homo of graphic symbol and accomplishment. He's the human being for the job.

[Trump is saying that he and Pence will improve U.Due south. merchandise deals, but merchandise is simply ane of several areas on which they differ. Pence has been a strong proponent of free merchandise in the past, having approved of NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, equally the New York Times reports. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

The offset chore for our new Assistants volition be to liberate our citizens from the offense and terrorism and lawlessness that threatens our community. America was shocked to its core when our law officers in Dallas were so brutally executed. Immediately after Dallas, we have seen continued threats and violence against our police enforcement officials. Constabulary officers have been shot or killed in recent days in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan and Tennessee.

On Sunday, more police were gunned down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Iii were killed, and three were very, very badly injured. An attack on law enforcement is an assail on all Americans.

I take a message to every concluding person threatening the peace on our streets and the condom of our police: when I have the oath of office next year, I volition restore law and order to our country. Believe me. Believe me.

I volition work with, and appoint, the best and brightest prosecutors and law enforcement officials to get the task properly washed.

[The president does select U.S. attorneys, merely those meridian federal prosecutors handle a small fraction of violent law-breaking cases in the nation. Near murders, robberies and assaults are prosecuted past local authorities. — Carrie Johnson]

In this race for the White House, I am the Law And Order candidate.

The irresponsible rhetoric of our President, who has used the pulpit of the presidency to divide u.s.a. past race and color, has made America a more dangerous environment that frankly that I have ever seen of anybody in this room has e'er watched or seen.

[The Brennan Eye for Justice says overall crime rates from 2014 to 2015 were "virtually identical." Tearing crime rose by 3 percentage over that catamenia. — Carrie Johnson]

This Assistants has failed America'southward inner cities. Call up, it has failed America'southward inner cities. It's failed them on educational activity. It'south failed them on jobs. It'southward failed them on crime. It's failed them in every mode and at every single level. When I am President, I volition work to ensure that all of our kids are treated equally, and protected as.

Every activity I take, I will ask myself: does this brand better for young Americans in Baltimore, in Chicago, in Detroit, in Ferguson who have actually, in every way folks, the same right to live out their dreams as any other kid in America? Whatsoever other kid.

To make life condom for all of our citizens, we must also accost the growing threats from outside the country. We are going to defeat the barbarians of ISIS and we're going to defeat them fast.

Once over again, France is the victim of brutal Islamic terrorism. Men, women and children viciously mowed down. Lives ruined. Families ripped apart. A nation in mourning. The impairment and devastation that can be inflicted by Islamic radicals has been proven over and over – at the Earth Merchandise Heart, at an function party in San Bernardino, at the Boston Marathon, at a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And many many other locations.

Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered past an Islamic terrorist. This time, the terrorist targeted LGBTQ community. No good, and we're going to stop it.

As your President, I will practise everything in my ability to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a mean foreign ideology. Believe me.

[The party is well to Trump's correct on LGBT issues, as NPR's Brian Naylor has reported. The Log Motel Republicans have called it the "most anti-LGBT platform" in GOP history, according to ABC News. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

And I take to say equally a Republican it is so nice to hear you auspicious for what I simply said. Thanks.

To protect us from terrorism, we need to focus on three things. Nosotros must accept the all-time, absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world. The best. We must carelessness the failed policy of nation building and authorities change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Republic of iraq, in Libya, in Arab republic of egypt and in Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now, doing it apace. We're going to win. We're going to win fast.

This includes working with our greatest marry in the region, the State of Israel.

Recently, I have said NATO is obsolete because information technology did non properly encompass terror. And also that many of the member countries were non paying their fair share. Every bit usual, the U.s.a. has been picking up the costs. Presently thereafter, information technology was announced that NATO will be setting upward a new programme in order to gainsay terrorism. A true step in the right direction.

Lastly, and very chiefly, we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms take been put in place. We don't want them in our country.

My opponent has chosen for a radical 550% increment in Syrian, think of this. Recall of this, this is not believable but this is what'southward happening. A 550 percentage increment in Syrian refugees on pinnacle of existing massive refugee flows coming into our country already under the leadership of President Obama.

She proposes this despite the fact that there'due south no fashion to screen these refugees in order to notice out who they are or where they come from.

[PolitiFact ranked the claim about the lack of a vetting system fake.

[However, PolitiFact did observe that Trump's number is correct as to the increase in refugee admissions proposed by Clinton. Interestingly, about a month ago, Trump said it would exist a 500 per centum increment. PolitiFact noted that it actually worked out to 550 percent. Trump has adjusted to the higher and more authentic number.

[In 2015, the U.South. admitted (per the State Section) 1,682 Syrian refugees. That is well under President Obama's goal. Information technology would exist hard to contend that is "massive." — Tamara Keith]

I simply want to admit individuals into our country who will back up our values and honey our people.

Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in our country and never ever will be.

Decades of record immigration take produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers. We are going to take an clearing organisation that works, merely ane that works for the American people.

On Mon, nosotros heard from three parents whose children were killed by illegal immigrants: Mary Ann Mendoza, Sabine Durden, and my friend Jamiel Shaw. They are simply three brave representatives of many thousands who have suffered so profoundly. Of all my travels in this country, zero has affected me more than, nothing even shut I accept to tell you lot, than the time I have spent with the mothers and fathers who have lost their children to violence spilling across our borders which we can solve. We have to solve it.

These families have no special interests to correspond them. There are no demonstrators to protect them and certainly none to protest on their behalf. My opponent will never meet with them, or share in their hurting. Believe me. Instead, my opponent wants Sanctuary Cities.

But where was the sanctuary for Kate Steinle?

Where was the Sanctuary for the children of Mary Ann, and Sabine and Jamiel? Where was sanctuary for all the other, it'due south so sad to even be talking near it, considering nosotros can solve this problem so quickly. Where was the sanctuary for all of the Americans who have been so brutally murdered, and who have suffered so horribly? These wounded American families have been lonely. But they are not alone any longer.

Tonight, this candidate and the whole nation stand in their corner to support them, to transport them our love, and to pledge in their honor that nosotros will relieve endless more families from suffering and the aforementioned awful fate.
We are going to build a swell edge wall to stop illegal immigration, to stop the gangs and the violence, and to stop the drugs from pouring into our communities.

I have been honored to receive the endorsement of America's Edge Patrol Agents.

And volition work directly with them to protect the integrity of our lawful, lawful, lawful immigration system. Lawful.

By ending take hold of-and-release on the border, we volition end the cycle of human smuggling and violence. Illegal border crossings will go down. We will finish information technology, it won't be happening very much anymore. Believe me.

Peace will be restored. By enforcing the rules for millions who overstay their visas, our laws volition finally receive the respect that they deserve.

Tonight, I want every American whose demands for immigration security accept been denied – and every politician who has denied them – to listen very, very closely to the words I am about to say. On January 20th of 2017, the day I have the oath of office, Americans volition finally wake upward in a land where the laws of the United states are enforced.

We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our ain struggling citizens.

The states. USA. USA.

[Editor's note: Trump chanted forth with the crowd here.]

My plan is the exact contrary of the radical and dangerous immigration policy of Hillary Clinton. Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration. Which is what we accept now. Communities want relief. Nevertheless Hillary Clinton is proposing mass amnesty, mass immigration, and mass lawlessness.

Her plan will overwhelm your schools and hospitals, further reduce your jobs and wages, and make information technology harder for recent immigrants to escape the tremendous cycle poverty that they're going through right now and make it nigh incommunicable for them to join the middle class.

I take a different vision for our workers. It begins with a new, fair trade policy that protects our jobs and stands up to countries that cheat. Of which there are many.

It's been a signature message of my campaign from twenty-four hour period i, and it will exist a signature feature of my presidency from the moment I take the oath of role.

I accept fabricated billions of dollars in business making deals – now I'm going to make our country rich again.

Using the greatest business organization people in the globe, which our state has, I am going to plough our bad trade agreements into great trade agreements.

America has lost well-nigh-1 third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, post-obit the enactment of disastrous merchandise deals supported by Nib and Hillary Clinton. Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, 1 of the worst economical deals ever made past our state. Or frankly, any other country. Never e'er again.

[As nosotros accept pointed out in two earlier Trump voice communication annotations, and as NPR's Chris Arnold reported this year, it appears that NAFTA didn't have a huge outcome on jobs. As the Congressional Research Service reported in 2015, the agreement neither lived up to proponents' promises nor caused the massive chore losses that opponents claimed it would. As well, Bill Clinton was not solely responsible for NAFTA; it was negotiated under George H.W. Bush earlier it became law under Clinton. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

I am going to bring our jobs back to Ohio and Pennsylvania, and New York, and Michigan, and all of America – and I am not going to let companies move to other countries, firing their employees along the fashion, without consequence. Not going to happen anymore.

My opponent, on the other paw, has supported nearly every trade agreement that has been destroying our eye class. She supported NAFTA, and she supported China's archway into the World Trade Organization – another one of her husband'due south colossal mistakes and disasters.

She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Which will not simply destroy our manufacturers, merely will make America field of study to the rulings of strange governments. And it's not going to happen.

I pledge to never sign any trade understanding that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom or independence. We will never sign bad trade deals. America Get-go again. America Outset.

Instead, I volition brand private deals with private countries. No longer will we enter into these massive transactions, with many countries, that are thousands of pages long – and which no one from our country even reads or understands.

Nosotros are going to enforce all trade violations, against whatever state that cheats.

This includes stopping China'southward outrageous theft of intellectual holding, forth with their illegal product dumping, and their devastating currency manipulation. They are the greatest that ever came about. They are the greatest currency manipulators ever.

Our horrible merchandise agreements with Communist china and many others will exist totally renegotiated. That includes renegotiating NAFTA to get a much better bargain for America – and we'll walk away if we don't get that kind of a bargain.

Our country is going to first building and making things again.

Next comes the reform of our taxation laws, regulations and energy rules. While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increment, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for the president this year – Democrat or Republican.

Centre-income Americans and businesses will experience profound relief, and taxes volition be greatly simplified for everyone. I hateful anybody.

America is i of the highest-taxed nations in the world.

Reducing taxes volition cause new companies and new jobs to come up roaring back into our country. Believe me, information technology'll happen and it'll happen fast.

And then we are going to deal with the issue of regulation, one of the greatest chore-killers of them all. Excessive regulation is costing our country equally much as $2 trillion a year, and we volition stop it very, very quickly.

[A few analyses accept plant that regulation costs effectually $2 trillion — one of the best-known, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, estimated it at effectually $1.nine trillion this year. But every bit the Washington Mail service'south Fact Checker has pointed out, in the by this figure has been characterized every bit a "back of the envelope" count, and that moreover, it doesn't make sense to talk near costs without trying to count the benefits of regulation. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

We are going to lift the restrictions on the production of American energy.

This will produce more than than $20 trillion in chore-creating economic activity over the next four decades. My opponent, on the other paw, wants to put the great miners and the smashing steelworkers of our country out of work and out of business – that volition never happen with Donald J Trump as president. Our steelworkers and our miners are going back to work again.

With these new economic policies, trillions and trillions of dollars will kickoff flowing into our land. This new wealth will improve the quality of life for all Americans – Nosotros volition build the roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, and the railways of tomorrow. This, in plough, will create millions of more than jobs. Nosotros will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice.

My opponent would rather protect bureaucrats than serve American children. And that's what she's doing. And that'southward what's she's done. We volition repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare.

You will be able to choose your own md once again.

And we will set up TSA at the airports! Which is a full disaster.

Nosotros're going to work with all of our students who are drowning in debt to take the pressure off these young people just starting out in their adult lives. Tremendous problem.

We volition completely rebuild our depleted military, and the countries that we protect, at a massive cost to u.s., volition be asked to pay their fair share.

We will take care of our bang-up Veterans like they have never been taken care of before.

My only released 10 indicate program has received tremendous veteran support. We will guarantee those who serve this country will be able to visit the doctor or infirmary of their choice without waiting five days on a line and dying.

My opponent dismissed the VA scandal. One more sign of how out of bear upon she actually is. We are going to ask every Section Head in government to provide a list of wasteful spending projects that we can eliminate in my first 100 days.

The politicians take talked about this for years, simply I'1000 going to do it.

[Editor's note: Crowd chants "Yes You Will"]

We are going to engage justices of the United states Supreme Court who will uphold our laws and our Constitution.

The replacement of our beloved Justice Scalia will be a person of like views and principles and judicial philosophies. Very important. This will exist one of the near important bug decided by this election. My opponent wants to essentially abolish the second amendment.

I, on the other mitt, received the early and strong endorsement of the National Burglarize Association and will protect the right of all Americans to go on their families safe.

At this moment, I would similar to thank the evangelical and religious community considering I'll tell you what. Because the support they've given me, and I'yard not sure I totally deserve it, has been so amazing. And has had such a large reason for me existence here this night. True. Then true.

They have so much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws forbid you lot from speaking your minds from your own pulpits. An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson, many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views. Their phonation has been taken away.

[Here's an IRS caption of the rules on churches and taxes, saying that to be tax-exempt, a church may not " participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office." This LA Times slice from 2008 is a breakup of some of the arguments for and confronting the Johnson Amendment. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

I am going to piece of work very difficult to repeal that linguistic communication and to protect free oral communication for all Americans.

We tin accomplish these keen things, and then much more than – all we need to do is start assertive in ourselves and in our country again. Start assertive. It is time to show the whole earth that America Is Dorsum – bigger, and ameliorate and stronger than ever before.

In this journey, I'chiliad then lucky to accept at my side my married woman Melania and my wonderful children, Don, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron: you will always be my greatest source of pride and joy. And by the way, Melania and Ivanka, did they do a chore.

[There's as well a bit more of the personal in this speech. Trump non merely talks about his children, as he often does, just also his parents and siblings. This week nosotros've seen an endeavour to humanize a homo who is known for being bold and confrontational, and that continues here. — Sarah McCammon]

My Dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest working man I always knew. I wonder sometimes what he'd say if he were here to run into this, and to run into me, tonight.

Information technology's because of him that I learned, from my youngest age, to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

He was a guy most comfortable in the company of bricklayers, and carpenters, and electricians and I have a lot of that in me also. I dear those people.

And then there'southward my female parent, Mary. She was strong, merely also warm and fair-minded. She was a truly slap-up mother. She was also one of the about honest and charitable people I have always known, and a groovy great estimate of character. She could pick 'em out from anywhere.

To my sisters Mary Anne and Elizabeth, my blood brother Robert and my late brother Fred, I will always give you lot my dear you are most special to me.

I take had a truly great life in business organization. But now, my sole and exclusive mission is to get to work for our country – to become to work for y'all. It'south time to evangelize a victory for the American people. Nosotros don't win anymore, just nosotros are going to start winning again.

But to do that, we must interruption free from the piffling politics of the past. America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is beingness led past a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

Remember: all of the people telling you you can't take the country you want, are the same people telling you lot that wouldn't stand up, I hateful they said Trump doesn't have a chance of being here this evening. Non a hazard. The same people. Oh we love defeating those people. Don't we? Don't nosotros? Love it. Love it. Beloved information technology.

No longer tin can nosotros rely on those same people in the media media, and politics, who will say annihilation to go along a rigged system in place.

[Americans as a whole aren't fans of the news media, merely Republicans dislike the media fifty-fifty more. According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 17 percentage of Republicans say the national news media "has a positive effect on the manner things are going in the country," compared with 33 percent of Democrats. — Danielle Kurtzleben]

Instead, we must choose to Believe In America. History is watching united states now. Nosotros don't have much time, but history is watching. Information technology'south waiting to encounter if we volition ascension to the occasion, and if we will show the whole world that America is still free and independent and strong.

I am request for your support tonight so I can be your champion in the White House. And I will be your champion.

My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-give-and-take loyalty pledge. It reads: "I'm With Her". I choose to recite a different pledge.

["I'chiliad With Her" started out as a hashtag and sometimes supporters practise chant it at events, but the Clinton campaign doesn't inquire supporters to pledge loyalty by reciting information technology. The campaign's current slogan is "Stronger Together." — Tamara Keith]

My pledge reads: "I'M WITH YOU – THE AMERICAN PEOPLE."

I am your voice. So to every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their hereafter, I say these words to yous tonight: I am With You lot, and I will fight for y'all, and I will win for you.

To all Americans tonight, in all of our cities and in all of our towns, I make this promise: We Will Make America Strong Again. We Will Make America Proud Again. We Will Make America Safe Again. And Nosotros Volition Brand America Great Again.

God bless you, and goodnight. I beloved y'all.

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Source: https://www.npr.org/2016/07/21/486883610/fact-check-donald-trumps-republican-convention-speech-annotated

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