USA Trump wants to promote unity after assassination at party conference

In the wake of the assassination attempt on him, former President Donald Trump has said he wants to campaign for overcoming the political divide in the country at the Republican party convention. In an interview with the tabloid "New York Post", Trump said that he had scrapped his originally planned and very aggressive speech for the Republican Party convention. "I want to try to unite the country," Trump said. "But I don't know if it's possible. People are very divided," he said.

The four-day Republican Party convention in Milwaukee in the US state of Wisconsin begins today. Trump is expected to be officially chosen as the party's candidate for the presidential election in November on Thursday and give an important speech. Despite Saturday's attack at a campaign event, in which he was injured in the ear, the 78-year-old traveled to Milwaukee on Sunday.

"I had an extremely tough speech completely prepared, really well, all about the corrupt, horrible government," Trump went on to say, according to the New York Post. "But I threw it away." When asked, he explained that the different political positions, for example on migration, were of course unchanged, but that he wanted to bring the country together through success. The newspaper reported that he had suggested that the election campaign should now continue with a more moderate tone.

The phone call after the assassination attempt by US President Joe Biden, whom he wants to challenge in the November election, had been good. Biden was "very nice", Trump was quoted as saying.

In a State of the Union address on Sunday evening (local time), Biden warned Americans against politically motivated violence and called for the heated political climate to be cooled down. "We are not enemies," he emphasized. Shortly after Biden's speech, Trump posted in capital letters on the Truth Social platform he co-founded: "Unite America!".

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