Ben Carson Tells The RNC: Donald Trump Is 'A Gift To Us As A Nation'

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Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson recounted his friendship with Donald Trump, and enthusiastically voiced his support for Trump's reelection at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, WI.

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00:01Thank you so much.

00:03You know, Sarah Huckabee always says to me, I hate to follow you, but I think she turned

00:20the table on me tonight.

00:24I want to thank you all for being here and for being involved.

00:28Like many of you last week, I watched with horror as the events unfolded in that Pennsylvania

00:34field.

00:36I saw President Trump, a dear friend, escape death by mere inches.

00:42And my thoughts immediately turned to the book of Isaiah that says, no weapon formed

00:49against you shall prosper.

00:55Well, let me tell you the weapons that they used.

01:01First, they tried to ruin his reputation, and he's more popular now than ever.

01:11And then they tried to bankrupt him, and he's got more money now than he had before.

01:21And then they tried to put him in prison, and he's freer and has made other people free

01:27with him.

01:28And then, and then last weekend, they tried to kill him, and there he is over there alive

01:35and well.

01:51You know, I have no doubt that God lowered a shield of protection over President Trump.

02:09And I join millions of Americans in thanksgiving for President Trump's safety.

02:15And I encourage you to join me in praying each day for his continued protection.

02:21You know, our hearts, our hearts go out to the victims in the audience.

02:27Let's also pray for them and their families.

02:29These events have brought unusual clarity to the times we are living in.

02:37We have all harbored the nagging feeling that everything we love is slipping away.

02:44All you have to do is turn on the television.

02:47The free press, a pillar of any free society, has abused the public trust and resorted to

02:55lies, deception, and disinformation.

03:01They divide us along lines of race, class, and gender, rather than uniting us around

03:09our shared bond as Americans.

03:12Our government has been no better, shredding our constitution and upending the rule of

03:18law.

03:19We have a wide open border, a broken education system, and chaos breaking out around the

03:26world.

03:27And on top of it all, we have a president who, well, if you can't say anything good,

03:32don't say anything at all.

03:38But ask anyone around the world, what does it mean to be an American?

03:44Most will tell you that it means unlimited opportunity, that where you begin in life

03:51doesn't dictate where you will end.

03:55That's the America I grew up in, and no other country could a poor inner city kid raised

04:03by a single mom, make it to an Ivy League school, then to medical school, become a

04:10successful neurosurgeon, run for president, and eventually become a member of the president's

04:15cabinet.

04:16You know, and as a member of his cabinet, I had a chance to work closely with him.

04:31And I got to tell you, this is a man who is a gift to us as a nation.

04:37He is very gifted, he is very smart, he is very compassionate, he cares about people.

04:44And I'll tell you, the first time I met him was before either of us got into the political

04:48arena.

04:49And someone, we were at Mar-a-Lago, and someone came up to him and said, Mr. Trump, Rod Stewart

04:55just walked in.

04:56And he said, I don't care, this is Ben Carson.

05:00But I feel blessed that I've been able to live the American dream.

05:11But my story is moving further out of reach in America today.

05:17The lessons my mother taught me, like hard work and the value of well-rounded patriotic

05:23education and faith in God above all else, are being forced out of the public square.

05:29But we're all here today because we know we can bring these things back.

05:36By God's grace, we live in a country where the people rule.

05:45We have the power to choose the kind of nation we will be and the kind of men and women that

05:49will lead us.

05:51And today, the choice could not be more clear.

05:54The most repeated phrase in the Bible is this, do not be afraid or fear not.

06:02It appears 365 times in scripture, a reminder to live each day with faith, hope, and joy

06:11as joyful warriors for Christ.

06:23And when God is with us, nobody can stand against us.

06:27With this assurance from the Almighty, even the face of evil itself cannot shake our resolve.

06:35We will keep fighting.

06:37We will keep praying.

06:38And by the grace of God, we will save our country and reelect President Trump together

06:45with Vice President Vance this November.

06:49And I want you to remember this, in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to study

06:56our nation because the Europeans were fascinated.

06:59They wanted to know how could a nation barely 50 years old already compete with them on

07:04virtually every level.

07:06So he looked at our government, and he was duly impressed by our checks and balances

07:10and separation of powers.

07:13And then he looked at our business environment, and he was duly impressed by how we encouraged

07:17entrepreneurship and innovation.

07:19And he looked at our educational system, and he was blown away by the fact that he could

07:24find a mountain man in the middle of the woods who could read, who could tell him about the

07:27Declaration of Independence.

07:29But the thing that impressed him the most was when he went to our churches, and he heard

07:36those inspirational sermons from the pulpits that inspired a ragtag bunch of militiamen

07:42to defeat the most powerful army in the world and gave the American people a moral base.

07:55And he concluded his two-volume set, Democracy in America, with these words.

08:02He said, America is great because America is good.

08:07And if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.

08:11It is our job to make America good.

08:14And let's do this by re-electing President Trump so we can make America great.

08:19Thank you very much.

Ben Carson Tells The RNC: Donald Trump Is 'A Gift To Us As A Nation'

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