Donald Trump narrowly survives an assassination attempt
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A bullet hit his ear while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. President Biden has urged everyone to condemn the attack.
We will hear from eye witnesses to the attack and we'll examine the security failures which led to it. And we'll also be asking what effect this is likely to have on the presidential campaign?
(Picture: Donald Trump being taken to safety by his security detail. Credit: Maxell / EPA)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:08.0 | London I'm Paul Henley. Donald Trump has been the target of what the FBI called an assassination attempt. |
| 0:15.0 | He was shot in the right ear during a campaign speech at a rally in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:20.0 | One person attending the event who was in the line of fire was killed while two others were badly injured. |
| 0:26.0 | Donald Trump himself has now left hospital and his campaign team says he's doing well. |
| 0:31.0 | The FBI has identified the attacker as 20 year old Thomas |
| 0:35.2 | Matthew Crooks from Pennsylvania. He was shot dead at the scene by the Secret Services. |
| 0:41.1 | Former President Trump was 10 minutes into his speech at the rally in the town of Butler |
| 0:46.4 | last night when this happened. |
| 0:48.8 | And you know that's a little bit old that chart, that chart's a couple of months old and if you want to really see something |
| 0:54.8 | that said take a look what happened |
| 1:00.0 | those pops you just heard were shots ringing out. Mr. Trump put a hand to his ear then |
| 1:07.5 | ducked down below the lectern a huddle of security personnel then surrounded the |
| 1:12.4 | former president who had blood on his ear and on his face off the stage and put him into a vehicle. |
| 1:18.5 | He could be seen several times punching the air to let the crowd know he was okay. |
| 1:23.0 | Soirab Sharma, the president of a conservative non-profit group called American |
| 1:28.0 | Moment, was in the crowd. |
| 1:30.0 | When those first few bullet noises happened, there were people all around me, including myself that thought that this was a firework or a BB gun, that it wasn't an actual shooting event. |
| 1:40.0 | But as they kept coming, everyone kind of really quickly hit the floor including the president and it was a little bit of a day's situation at that point |
| 1:49.4 | As we kind of peaked our heads back up Secret Service had formed that kind of shell around him, and I got a little bit of footage of that. |
| 1:58.0 | And the first thing I saw was him, you know, reach out his fist to the audience, come to find out later that he was saying fight, fight, and that definitely caused a ripple through the crowd. |
| 2:12.6 | Everyone noticed that. |
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