Another attempted assassination on Donald Trump?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Former President Donald Trump was rushed to safety on Sunday after what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt at Trump's golf course in West Palm Beach. The incident comes almost exactly two months after a shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which left Trump wounded. Anthony and Sarah - reporting from Florida - answer key questions around what we know so far, who the suspected gunman is, and how it might impact the election.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | You probably weren't expecting to hear from us. |
| 0:07.5 | We certainly weren't expecting to record another America's |
| 0:10.0 | because we were having a nice quiet weekend. |
| 0:12.4 | There didn't seem to be any major news occurring, and then suddenly. |
| 0:15.5 | Here we are, 50 days out from the election, and there is another shooting incident, |
| 0:19.9 | one which the US authorities are specifically calling an apparent attempted assassination |
| 0:24.8 | of Donald Trump once again. The suspected gunman is already in custody but there is plenty to talk about. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Amerast. Americaast. |
| 0:35.2 | Americaast from BBC News. |
| 0:37.8 | There was blood pouring everywhere and yet I had God on my side. |
| 0:42.6 | So I decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. |
| 0:46.4 | You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? |
| 0:49.2 | We're effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies. |
| 0:53.0 | You know it, you feel it. |
| 0:54.5 | These guys are creepy and yes, just weird as hell. |
| 0:57.0 | Let Trump, America, Run Wild Brother. |
| 1:00.0 | Let us choose Joy! Joy! Hello, it's Sarah here and I have just arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida, which is very near |
| 1:18.6 | Marilago. |
| 1:19.6 | And it's Anthony, I've just arrived in my bedroom at my home in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 1:23.4 | It was a bit of a scramble to get here as it always is when these kind of things happen. |
| 1:28.4 | There was a gunman that was detected on the perimeter of a golf course where Donald Trump was playing a few rounds with a friend of his on a nice Sunday afternoon. |
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