Trump gets a hero's welcome at the Republican convention: Former president greets cheering fans with a bandage on his ear just two days after assassination attempt

Donald Trump has arrived astatine nan Republican National Convention conscionable 2 days aft he survived an assassination attempt.

The erstwhile president wore a bandage connected his correct receptor wherever nan slug fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks ripped done his ear.

The crowd of adoring Republicans were sent into raptures arsenic their newly-anointed statesmanlike campaigner graced nan screens and past went into his family box.

Tim Scott told nan crowd earlier Trump came out: 'If you didn’t judge successful miracles earlier Saturday—you amended beryllium believing correct now…Because connected Saturday, nan devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle—but an AMERICAN LION sewage backmost up connected his feet, and he ROARRRRRRRRED…' 

'Have you ever been to a metropolis pinch electricity? That man tin ray up a city,' said Debbie Epling, chair of nan Aiken County Republican Party successful South Carolina.

And that was earlier Saturday. That nan leader of nan MAGA activity had turned his caput astatine nan infinitesimal a would-be assassin's slug had been streaking towards his caput has not gone unnoticed by his supporters. 

'Divine intervention,' said Epling, who was decked retired successful a sparkling red, achromatic and bluish hat. 'People amended return notes, because it matters.'

Others went moreover further successful seeing belief value successful moreover Saturday's day and nan attempted assassination of a pope.

'July 13 was nan aforesaid day erstwhile nan Holy Mother revealed nan 3rd concealed of Fatima,' said a Catholic attendee, lining up for a burger astatine nan sports arena's concessions.

That was nan day successful 1917 erstwhile nan Virgin Mary appeared to 3 Portuguese children, entrusting them pinch her prophesies.

The imagination foretold an onslaught connected a 'bishop dressed successful white,' and was only revealed successful 2000, 19 years aft an assassin tried to termination Pope John Paul II.

'You can't make this worldly up,' said nan suited Republican arsenic nan statement inched forward.

The normal began pinch nan bang of a gavel, followed by a dream and past nan Trump-appropriated anthem of 'God Bless nan USA.'

As nan strains of nan opus died away, delegates connected nan level took up Trump's words of defiance. 'Fight, fight, fight,' they chanted, successful an echo of nan words he shouted arsenic he sewage to his feet connected Saturday, humor streaming down their face.

It was conscionable 1 of nan ways nan shock, alleviation and yet ceremony of Saturday permeated proceedings astatine nan Fiserv Forum, location of nan Milwaukee Bucks.

Trump's fingerprints were each complete proceedings, from nan merchandiser connected waste to nan roster of speakers who mostly came of property nether Trump and roseate to prominence arsenic America First Republicans.

Even nan rotation telephone of states announcing their support for nan nominee was turned into a family affair.

It was Eric Trump, opinionated adjacent to his relative Don Jr., who put his begetter complete nan top, officially clinching nan information pinch Florida's delegates.

'On behalf of our full family and connected behalf of nan 125 delegates successful nan unbelievable authorities of Florida, hereby nominate each azygous 1 of them for nan top president that's ever lived, and that's Donald J Trump, hereby declaring him nan Republican nominee for president of nan United States of America.'

It was a procedural matter. A spot of accounting. Yet nan assemblage went wild, breaking retired into a chant of, 'Fight, fight, fight,' again.

Bill Kolo, 56, a delegate from Connecticut said nary 'mere mortal' could bounce backmost arsenic Trump had done connected Saturday. 

'He's been persecuted much than, successful my opinion, immoderate personification since Jesus Christ, he said.

'And someway he gets backmost up each day, erstwhile everything's being thrown astatine him from each level, and still he stays and talks and fights for us.'