Donald Trump Safe After Shooting During Pennsylvania Rally
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:14.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | It is 955 PM on Saturday, July 13th. I'm Susan Davis I cover |
| 0:25.6 | politics. I'm Domenica Moncunaro, senior political editor and |
| 0:28.2 | and I'm Danielle Kurtz-Libbonne I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:31.5 | And at about 615 Eastern this evening, |
| 0:34.7 | shots were fired at former President Donald Trump |
| 0:37.5 | as he addressed a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:40.3 | We're going to hear that now, |
| 0:41.7 | and it lasts about 15 seconds if you'd like to skip forward. |
| 0:45.0 | If you want to really see something that said, take a look what happened. A bullet grazed Trump's right ear and he ducked down it down and down. |
| 0:53.0 | A bullet grazed Trump's right ear and he ducked down where Secret Service surrounded him and |
| 1:03.4 | escorted him off the stage as blood drip down his face. The Secret Service |
| 1:07.6 | agents killed the suspected shooter who has not been identified as we taped |
| 1:11.6 | this podcast tonight. |
| 1:13.2 | Danielle, you were there. |
| 1:15.1 | We should also note you are safe. |
| 1:17.6 | Can you explain what was happening |
| 1:20.1 | at the moment the shots rang out? |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, I mean, it was a pretty run of the middle Trump rally up until that point. |
| 1:27.2 | He was talking a lot about undocumented immigrants using pretty inflammatory language and then the shots |
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