Donald Trump’s Motorcade Involved in an Accident on His Way to Republican convention

​Donald Trump’s top campaign advisor said Monday that the Republican presidential candidate’s motorcade was involved in an accident in New York, but he was unharmed.

“What I’m hearing is that everybody’s fine,” campaign chairman Paul Manafort told CNN.

“Mr and Mrs Trump are on the plane and on the way here,” he said speaking from Cleveland. “I’m told nobody’s injured.”

Uproar at Republican convention as anti-Trump delegates revolt

The Republican convention opened to chaotic scenes Monday as Donald Trump’s opponents and supporters traded angry shouts, disrupting the billionaire businessman’s smooth coronation as the party’s White House nominee.

Jeers and yells filled the air as simmering party divisions among the thousands of Republican delegates gathered on the convention floor in Cleveland for the four-day event spilled into the open.

The tough-talking real estate mogul — whose rise to claim the Republican presidential nomination has been one of the more improbable journeys in American politics — is hoping to unify the party after months of infighting.

But Monday’s scenes promised anything but harmony.

Anti-Trump Republicans — outraged that a man who has described Mexicans as rapists and advocated banning Muslims could lead them — were enraged by procedural machinations that denied them a chance to register their discontent.

Many with an eye on history wanted a floor vote to record for posterity who backed the 70-year-old Trump and those who did not.

Pro-Trump delegates tried to drown them out with shouts of “Shame! Shame!”

– Party unity? –

Only hours earlier, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told thousands of cheering delegates: “This convention will come to order.”

A string of speakers then recited familiar conservative credos and lambasted their Democratic nemesis Hillary Clinton.

But behind the scenes, a group branding themselves #NeverTrump gathered enough signatures — a majority of delegates from nine states — to force a rethink of nominating rules.

Team Trump has given the dissenters short shrift.

“This is a Trump convention. The party is united,” Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort said curtly before the gathering began.

Trump fans argue delegates should heed the will of the grassroots of the party.

Trump won a thumping victory in a series of statewide party elections, winning more than 13 million votes — the most of any Republican nominee ever.

But in a sign of lingering divisions, several party luminaries are not making the trip to Cleveland, including the entire Bush family, Mitt Romney and reportedly even John Kasich, host state Ohio’s sitting governor.

– Sheriff Trump –

This was meant to be Trump’s moment.

Ahead of the four-day political jamboree at the tightly secured arena in Cleveland, he had tried to assuage conservative critics and bring the party together by naming Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate.

His wife Melania Trump, a Slovenian-born former model, has top billing for the first prime-time session Monday and will make the case for her husband’s policies and personality.

Her background and allure make her a potentially potent surrogate for her White House hopeful husband, particularly on sensitive issues like immigration and gender.

After his wife, the candidate’s team will send his son and daughters to the convention stage in the coming days in an attempt to humanize The Donald.

Polls show that Trump struggles badly with moderate voters, and his campaign will want to project a more positive image to the general electorate.

The opening-day theme was meant to be “Make America Safe Again” — a play on Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again.”

A spate of race-tinged police-involved shootings — and cop killings, including the fatal shooting of three officers in Louisiana on Sunday — has put the country on edge.

Deadly attacks overseas, most recently in Nice, and an attempted coup in Turkey, have only stoked an overall sense of instability.

President Barack Obama has urged Americans to temper their words and show stronger common resolve, but Trump is instead highlighting divisions.

“Our country is divided and out of control. The world is watching,” Trump tweeted shortly after the Baton Rouge shooting.

Trump has portrayed himself as a sheriff who can fix things.

“We have to bring law and order back to this country, whether we like it or not,” he told Fox, as he bemoaned the ragged state of race relations in America.

Trump believes that Clinton should be jailed for using a private email server to handle sensitive government documents while serving as secretary of state, something the FBI said was careless but not criminal.

As the GOP convention kicked off, Clinton blasted Trump’s candidacy as a “threat to our democracy,” and accused him of stoking racial and ethnic tensions with his rhetoric.

Trump “plays coy with white supremacists, Donald Trump insults Mexican immigrants,” she told the NAACP, America’s largest black civil rights organization, at a meeting in Cincinnati.

“Donald Trump cannot become president of the United States,” she said, to huge applause.

The Republican convention ends Thursday with a speech from the 70-year-old billionaire real estate mogul. The Democrats stage their own convention next week in Philadelphia

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