MILWAUKEE — His voice cracked as he spoke, the cane made necessary by his combat injuries resting under the swanky hotel’s cream-colored bar. “When the bullets stop flying, you need a mission,” he said. “Well, Donald Trump’s got a mission now.”
“Some of us knew it already, but the country saw what he’s made of when he got up Saturday,” said the area military veterans advocate, granted anonymity late Wednesday afternoon to be candid, referring to the failed assassination attempt on the GOP presidential nominee. “Trust me: In combat, when that fight-or-flight instinct takes over, everyone can see what you are. When he got up and said, ‘fight,’ it showed what he’s willing to do for the country.”
Lawmakers, delegates and Trump confidants here this week predicted Trump’s Thursday night Republican National Convention acceptance speech likely would present a surreal scene, with a much different message from the typically bombastic and divisive 45th president.
