Trump recounts assassination attempt during nomination acceptance speech

 Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday pleaded for national unity as he formally accepted the GOP presidential nomination during the culminating moment of the 2024 Republican National Convention, where he also recounted surviving the assassination attempt five days before, Fox News reports. "I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America. The discord and division in our society must be healed. As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together. Or we fall apart," Trump said.The shooting, at Trump's rally Saturday in western Pennsylvania where one spectator was killed, along with the gunman, instantly impacted the tone and message of the convention, and as Trump has acknowledged, altered his convention address, the report adds.The former president and GOP presidential nominee also expressed his gratitude for the support he received following the assassination attempt on July 13. He said that "so many people have asked me what happened, and therefore, I’ll tell you what happened." "You’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s too painful to tell," he said. Trump said he turned his head slightly to view a chart about immigration projected on a teleprompter screen."In order to see the chart, I started to - like this - turn to my right, and was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which I’m very lucky I didn’t do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me, really, really hard, on my right ear. "I said to myself, 'Wow, what was that - it can only be a bullet.'"Trump praised the "very brave Secret Service agents who rushed to the stage and pounced on top of me for protection."