Americanswers! Who's to blame for violence against Donald Trump?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The FBI has confirmed it is treating the incident involving a would-be attacker on Sunday as "an attempted assassination" against Donald Trump. We answer your questions on the fallout from another dramatic event in the campaign. Is political violence becoming normalised in the US?
And, a controversial right-wing conspiracy theorist was spotted on board Trump's plane for the presidential debate in Philadelphia before joining him at an event the following day. Who is Laura Loomer, and why are some Republicans concerned she could cost Trump the election?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Mercast listeners and hello, Mariana. |
| 0:07.1 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:08.1 | I'm good, thank you. |
| 0:09.1 | How are you, Anthony? |
| 0:10.3 | I'm hanging in there. |
| 0:11.7 | Good. I can imagine it has been a super, super busy week, |
| 0:15.3 | mainly because, as AmeriCasters will have heard on the emergency episode, |
| 0:19.3 | there was what the FBI is calling another assassination attempt on Donald Trump happened on Sunday night |
| 0:25.2 | and it means that the Q&A that I did mention before that I was going to do with Gabriel Gatehouse who presents the coming |
| 0:30.7 | storm all about social media and conspiracy theories and |
| 0:33.7 | this presidential election has been put on ice for a little bit but don't worry it's |
| 0:37.2 | still coming but first we're going to try and tackle this massive massive story |
| 0:41.1 | that's happened and all of the fallout and consequences of it. |
| 0:45.2 | And on that, Anthony, should we start with a little bit of a rundown of what's happened |
| 0:50.1 | since Sunday? |
| 0:51.7 | Yeah, so Ryan Ruth is the suspect he's in custody. |
| 0:55.0 | He was a man that was arrested, having fled the scene of the assassination attempt. |
| 1:01.0 | He actually had a court appearance on Monday morning. He didn't say much. It was more just to present the charges against him. And the charges against him aren't directly related to an assassination attempt, therefore possession of a firearm |
| 1:15.4 | with a criminal conviction and possession of a firearm that has an obliterated serial number. |
| 1:21.5 | But those are kind of viewed as holding charges while they build a larger case against him. |
| 1:27.0 | We also got some details about his movements, his potential movements, the mourning of the alleged assassination attempt according |
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