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RNC Unity Night Features Powerful Speeches From Americans Suffering Under Biden
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But the real stars of Tuesday’s lineup were the average Americans who shared their stories of loss and pain under Democrat President Joe Biden and his leftist policies. And none has proved as deadly as the administration’s open-border policies that have led to millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the United States on Biden’s watch. Some are carrying with them lethal drugs, particularly the poison that is fentanyl. The synthetic opioid has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans during Biden’s tenure. The U.S. posted a record 112,000 drug overdoses in fiscal year 2023 alone, the brunt of those fentanyl-related, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a House Budget Committee Report.
Anne Fundner’s firstborn son, Weston, is among the tragic numbers. Weston was a bright and big-hearted 15-year-old, a loving big brother who enjoyed making people laugh, Fundner told attendees at Tuesday’s packed Republican National Convention in downtown Milwaukee. Succumbing to peer pressure and a teen’s desire to fit in, Weston tried something laced with fentanyl, his mother said, her voice breaking in the retelling of that life-shattering day in February 2022.
“Our baby was gone,” Fundner said, choking back tears. “This was not an overdose, it was a poisoning.”
“His whole future, everything we ever wanted for him was ripped away in an instant,” the grieving wife and mother of four added.“And Joe Biden does nothing. I hold Joe Biden, Kamala Harris — the border czar. What a joke! — and [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom and every Democrat who supports open borders responsible for the death of my son.”
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“This fight is not for me, my son is gone. This fight is for your children,” Fundner said.
“Say his name, Joe Biden. Weston,” she said, the crowd responding by chanting her late teenage son’s name.
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The Morin family knows all too well the pain of such a horrific loss. Michael Morin, brother of Rachel Morin, spoke deliberately in recounting the grief his family has endured since the August murder of the 37-year-old mother of five allegedly at the hands of an illegal immigrant.
“Rachel was raped and murdered by a suspected illegal immigrant,” Morin told conventiongoers. “This was described as among the most brutal and violent offenses that has ever occurred in Harford County, Maryland.”
Madeline Brame nearly brought the house down with a powerful speech about her Afghanistan war veteran son, an Army sergeant, who survived enemy fire only to be beaten and stabbed to death by a group of four people on the streets of New York. She said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who campaigned for the job on going after Trump in a legally suspect “hush money” case, denied her son justice.
As the New York Post reported, in 2022, “the Manhattan DA’s office downgraded and dismissed charges against two of the four offenders.” Two others were convicted in the gang attack and are serving 20-year sentences, the publication reported.
“Trump was right when he said, ‘They’re after us.’ He’s just standing in the way,” Brame said to thunderous applause. “And guess what, he always will.”
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