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HARD-HITTING SPEECHES

The evening featured a hard-hitting, emotional video in which families of soldiers killed during the 2021 US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan blamed Biden for their deaths. The relatives then took the stage and voiced their anger, with some in the audience wiping away tears.

Several speakers leveled aggressive and sometimes baseless attacks against the Biden administration. The heated tone contradicted the message of national unity Trump had promised to deliver after the attempt on his life at Saturday’s rally.

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who was released from prison earlier in the day after serving four months for contempt of Congress, received a huge ovation as he took the stage.

Navarro, who was convicted for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the committee investigating the Jan 6, 2021, attack at the US Capitol by Trump supporters, said he, like Trump, was a victim of Biden’s “Department of Injustice”.

Trump has frequently claimed, without evidence, that his four indictments since leaving office were part of a Democratic conspiracy to prevent his election.

Others focused on Biden’s border policies, a favorite target for Trump.

Tom Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump, said Biden was the first president in history to “unsecure” the border.

“This isn’t a choice,” he said. “It’s national suicide.”

As he spoke, delegates waved signs that read, “Mass Deportation Now!”

While border crossings reached record highs during Biden’s tenure, arrests dropped sharply in June after the president implemented a broad asylum ban.

Trump has pledged to launch the largest deportation effort of illegal immigrants in US history.