'If You Can Keep It': The Attempted Assassination Of Donald Trump

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Details are still emerging after the shooting at a Pennsylvania rally held by Donald Trump.

The shooting is being investigated as an assassination attempt. The former president says he was injured shot in his right ear. One person was killed, and two other rally attendees were critically injured.

We break down what we know about the shooting and the security failures that led to this weekend's events.

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0:00.0	This election season you can expect to hear a lot of news, some of it meaningful, much of it not.
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0:17.0	Listen every morning, wherever you get your podcasts. And you were sitting right behind him?
0:27.0	And you were sitting behind him?
0:29.0	I was sitting right behind on the bleaching.
0:31.0	Right behind President Trump.
0:32.0	What were you feeling thinking when it was happening? on the bleachers behind him? Right behind President Trump.
0:33.0	What were you feeling thinking when it was happening?
0:35.0	The first one that popped, I thought somebody got a firecracker in here because
0:38.0	or somebody from over there was shooting a firecracker.
0:40.0	It's all it sounded like was a small caliber firecracker, but then chaos started happening on the right side
0:46.9	Then the Secret Service jumped in and dropped everybody got trumped down and dropped them
0:52.2	That was John Myers. He attended the
0:54.6	Pennsylvania rally held by Donald Trump where a shooting occurred over the
0:58.0	weekend. He spoke with Oliver Morrison of NPR affiliate W ESA in Pittsburgh.
1:04.0	Details are still emerging and the shooting is being investigated as an assassination attempt
1:08.2	on the former president.
1:09.8	Trump says he was shot in his right ear.
1:12.3	50-year-old Corey-comperator was killed in the shooting.
1:15.8	57 year old David Dutch and 74 year old James Copenhagen were injured,
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