Another attempt was made on Trump's life. What do we know?
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🗓️ 16 September 2024
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What do we know about the suspect, his motivations, and what this could mean for the rest of the 2024 election?
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| 0:00.0 | It seems to have happened again. |
| 0:03.0 | So we've just been getting an update from officials on those shots fired on the same golf course where Donald Trump he was golfing at the time on the fifth hole. |
| 0:12.0 | He later said that he heard popping |
| 0:14.5 | sounds. |
| 0:15.5 | Just over two months after former President Trump survived an attempt on his life during a |
| 0:20.8 | Pennsylvania rally, federal authorities say Trump was possibly the target of another |
| 0:26.4 | assassination attempt on Sunday at his Florida golf course. Florida Authority is now having |
| 0:31.6 | custody 58-year- old Ryan Wesley Ruth. |
| 0:35.0 | Details about Ruth continue to emerge. |
| 0:38.0 | Palm Beach County Sheriff Rick Bradshaw said yesterday that Trump was about 3 to 400 hundred yards away when a secret service agent saw the alleged gunman |
| 0:45.8 | NPR's Greg Allen reports that the agent fired first at Ruth who fled and left behind an |
| 0:52.0 | SKS style rifle with a scope that could have put Trump within range. |
| 0:57.0 | Ryan Wesley Ruth has a record of arrests mostly for minor offenses, but he also has a felony on his record for illegally possessing a machine gun. |
| 1:04.8 | Ruth appeared Monday in a packed West Palm Beach federal courtroom. |
| 1:08.6 | His motive has not been stated. |
| 1:11.8 | Consider this, in just barely over two months, there not been |
| 1:15.0 | two attempts to end former president Trump's life in this final stretch |
| 1:21.0 | before the 2024 presidential election. |
| 1:24.2 | Coming up, what we know so far about the latest suspect and where the investigation stands. From NPR, I'm Elsie Chang. |
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