Night of convention to praise prez

Rather, he spoke of his dad’s “fighting” spirit and took ominous shots at Democrats.

“The Democrats want to defund law enforcement, the Democrats want an America where your thoughts and opinions are censored when they do not align with their own,” Eric Trump said. “It must be fought for and protected. This is a fight that we are in right now, and it is a fight that only my father can win.”

Tiffany Trump, the president’s youngest daughter, suggested she could relate to the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic because she recently graduated from the prestigious law school at Georgetown.

“I can relate to so many of you who might be looking for a job,” she said. “My father built a thriving economy once and believe me, he will do it again.”

Melania Trump’s speech proved an opportunity for her to overwrite the controversy she sparked with her last convention address in 2016. That speech lifted several verbatim passages from former First Lady Michelle Obama’s address at a Democratic convention eight years earlier.

One of Melania Trump’s speechwriters ultimately took the blame for the 2016 snafu, but that didn’t save the soon-to-be first lady from embarrassing accusations of plagiarism at the time.

While she didn’t address the controversy in her Tuesday night speech, the first lady reminisced about the 2016 convention.

“It seems like just yesterday that we were at our first convention,” she said.

Beyond the cadre of family members, Trump invited some lesser-known characters to speak at Tuesday night’s GOP confab, including Nicholas Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student who settled lawsuits against CNN and The Washington Post over reports about his involvement in a 2019 protest at the Lincoln Memorial.

“Cancelled is what’s happening to people around this country who refuse to be silenced by the far left. Many are being fired, humiliated or even threatened, and often the media is a willing participant,” Sandmann said, echoing Trump’s attacks on the press. “I would not be cancelled. I fought back hard to expose the media for what they did to me.”