An assassination attempt: what next for America?
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
After the shocking attempt to kill former President Donald Trump, how will America respond? Though leaders have called for calm, the risk is that an already hate-filled campaign could take a darker turn (11:06). Our correspondents consider the consequences for the two candidates, the presidential race and America at large
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host Rosie Blore. |
| 0:15.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. And you know that's a little bit old that chart that chart a couple of months old |
| 0:29.2 | and if you want to really see something that said take a look what happened. |
| 0:33.6 | Go. |
| 0:34.6 | Go down, get down, get down, it down. It had been more than four decades since America last saw a president or former president |
| 0:57.7 | wounded by a would-be assassin until this weekend. On Saturday at 615 at a rally in Pennsylvania, |
| 1:07.0 | Donald Trump escaped death by a hare's breadth. |
| 1:10.0 | A bullet intended to kill Trump instead pierced the upper part of his right ear. |
| 1:15.0 | As security officers dragged the former president from the stage, |
| 1:20.0 | he insisted on stopping to raise his fist to the crowd and mouthed fight, fight, fight. |
| 1:27.8 | Others were not so fortunate. 50 year old Cori Comparator was killed as he died to protect his family. |
| 1:35.6 | Two other spectators were critically injured. |
| 1:38.6 | The FBI named the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old kitchen worker from Pennsylvania. |
| 1:47.0 | His motives are unknown, but in a campaign already filled with so much hate, |
| 1:53.2 | America is coming to terms with another moment of political violence. |
| 1:58.0 | Donald Trump was doing a pretty ordinary campaign rally. |
| 2:02.0 | He was in Western Pennsylvania, started to talk about a chart and he turned his head. |
| 2:07.0 | Later we saw a still picture of a bullet racing by and it seems to have clipped his ear, |
| 2:12.0 | which means that Donald Trump came probably a |
| 2:14.8 | millimeter away from dying, which is just an astounding, astounding thing. |
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