Foiled again: a second attempt on Trump
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
With less than eight weeks to go to the presidential election, tension is running high after a second probable assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Has political violence become routine in America? Virtual replicas of racing cars, plane engines, even bodies, may change how we diagnose problems (9:08). And celebrating Sergio Mendes, the king of Bossanova (17:04).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
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| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm your host Rosie Blore. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. Imagine if you could take a virtual replica of yourself to the doctor to test how different treatments might help you. Not science fiction anymore. |
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| 1:16.0 | Our obituaries editor celebrates the life of Sergei Mendez, the King of Bosunova. But first. |
| 1:40.0 | We have somebody in custody right now that is a potential suspect. |
| 1:44.0 | We got a little bit more work to do on it. |
| 1:46.8 | Former President Donald Trump is safe and unharmed following a protective incident shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday at Trump International |
| 1:56.0 | Golf Club at West Palm Beach. The US Secret Service personnel opened fire on a gunman located near the property line and this |
| 2:05.6 | matters under investigation. |
| 2:10.8 | Another twist in an extraordinary election campaign. |
| 2:14.0 | Yesterday there was a second apparent attempt on Donald Trump's life. |
| 2:18.5 | The suspect 58 year old Ryan Wesley Ralph was soon detained. |
| 2:23.6 | Donald Trump reassured his supporters that he was safe and well. |
| 2:28.1 | But the incident raises further questions about the protection offered to the former president and the level of political violence in America. |
| 2:37.0 | Former President Donald Trump was playing a round of golf on Sunday in Florida |
| 2:42.0 | when a secret service agent spotted a gun barrel sticking |
| 2:46.0 | out of a fence. |
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