Donald Trump calls on Americans to 'stand united' after assassination attempt
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Former US President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt after being shot at a Republican rally in Pennsylvania. We get political reactions from congressmen from both the Republican and Democratic party and speak to the New York Times photographer who captured the image of a bullet streaking past Mr Trump.
Also in the programme: the role has political violence in US political history; and we get the latest sports update from Wimbledon and the Euro football finals.
(Photo: Donald Trump gets escorted off stage after being shot at the Republican rally in Pennsylvania. Credit: REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:08.2 | London I'm Paul Henley. Donald Trump has appealed for unity after the assassination attempt on him yesterday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:17.5 | In a written statement he urged Americans to remain strong and determined. |
| 0:22.0 | He said evil would not be allowed to win. His wife, Malania, meanwhile, |
| 0:26.5 | denounced a monster who treated her husband, as she put it, an inhuman political machine. In the last hour Donald Trump has said he will travel to |
| 0:35.5 | Milwaukee on schedule to attend the Republican National Nominating Convention, which is due to start |
| 0:42.0 | tomorrow. I cannot allow a shooter or a potential assassin, he said, |
| 0:46.2 | to force change on scheduling or anything else. |
| 0:49.8 | The security surfaces are investigating how the gunman 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks |
| 0:55.4 | was able to get so close he was shot dead by a secret service sniper having shot and injured |
| 1:01.1 | the former president. |
| 1:02.5 | In this program we'll consider the questions facing Mr Trump's protection detail and what |
| 1:07.9 | the attempted assassination means for the race for the White House. |
| 1:11.6 | Our first report comes from Gary O'Donohue who was at the rally |
| 1:14.7 | when the shots rang out. |
| 1:16.3 | And you know that's a little bit all that chart. |
| 1:18.9 | It was just a few minutes into Donald Trump's speech when my team and I were about to go on air, we heard this. |
| 1:25.7 | Take a look at what happened. |
| 1:26.7 | Oh! |
| 1:27.7 | Down! |
| 1:29.7 | Immediately we knew it was gunfire and we all hit the ground not knowing where the |
| 1:37.5 | shooting was coming from or how long it was going to last. |
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