A Second Assassination Plot and the New Era of Political Violence

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A suspect was charged on Monday in connection with what appears to be a second assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump. Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Glenn Thrush, who have been covering the case, and Peter Baker, The Times’s chief White House correspondent, discuss the suspect’s background, the Secret Service’s struggle to protect the former president, and this new era of political violence. Guests: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a correspondent on the National desk of The New York Times. Glenn Thrush, who reports on the Justice Department for The New York Times. Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Balarro. This is the Daily.
0:07.0	Today. Today, everything we now know about what appears to be a second attempted assassination of Donald Trall.
0:22.0	I spoke with my colleagues about assassination of Donald Trump.
0:27.0	I spoke with my colleagues about the suspect's background. The Secret Services struggle to protect Trump and this new era of political violence.
0:34.1	It's Tuesday, September 17th. On Monday, law enforcement officials offered a much fuller picture of what they're describing as the attempted assassination of former
0:54.1	President Trump in West Palm Beach, the second such attempt on his life in just
0:59.6	over two months.
1:02.0	According to a criminal complaint two months.
1:08.0	According to a criminal complaint, cell phone data showed that the suspect, Ryan Wesley Rouse had been lurking in the woods near Trump's golf course for roughly 12 hours starting at around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.
1:19.7	Then around 1.30 p.m. as Trump began a round of golf, a secret service agent who was
1:26.7	monitoring the perimeter of the golf course spotted what appeared to be the barrel of a
1:32.1	rifle poking out from a line of trees.
1:36.0	Moments later, the agent fired in the direction of the rifle.
1:40.4	All right, 1.30 this afternoon.
1:56.5	Call came out shots fired that was called in by the Secret Service because it was then according to Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw that Ralph unharmed by the gunfire fled the scene. Fortunately we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said hey I saw the guy
2:02.1	running out of the bushes. He jumped into a black Nissan and I took a
2:07.2	picture of the vehicle and the tank, which was great. Police in Palm Beach quickly took that license plate information and fed it into the state's
2:17.3	highway camera system.
2:18.9	And we were able to get hit on that vehicle on I-95 as it was headed into Martin County.
2:24.8	Take two steps to your right.
2:28.8	Take two steps to your right.
2:29.8	Driver, walk straight back.
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