Trump revels in campaign trail return after shooting

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GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Despite promising during his nomination acceptance speech during last week’s Republican National Convention not to keep revisiting his assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump relived the moment during his first post-shooting rally in Grand Rapids.

“It was exactly a week ago today almost to the hour, almost to the minute,” Trump told a crowd of 13,000 people Saturday in downtown Grand Rapids to chants of “fight, fight, fight,” the same words he uttered before Secret Service ushered him off the stage to safety seven days ago in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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