Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/07/2024
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 14 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has narrowly escaped with his life after an attempted assassination attempt. The UK government condemn the violent act, Nigel Farage say liberal media narratives are to blame, pollster Frank Luntz says the moment may be decisive in the US election, and former Tory adviser Samuel Kasumu says the US needs to think about gun control.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shops, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday roundup. |
| 0:18.3 | The world has woken up to the news that Donald Trump narrowly escaped with his life |
| 0:22.2 | after an attempted assassination at his rally in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:26.0 | Dramatic images of the aftermath show a defiant Trump being escorted away with a bloody deer |
| 0:31.0 | as one spectator was killed and two others are in a critical condition. |
| 0:35.4 | Secret Service agents shot and killed the gunman whom the FBI has identified as a 20-year-old Thomas |
| 0:41.7 | Matthew Crooks. |
| 0:43.0 | On Sky News this morning, journalist Tom Newton Dunn, |
| 0:46.0 | who was present at the rally, gave his account to Trevor Phillips. |
| 0:49.0 | It was about five minutes into Trump's speech. |
| 0:52.0 | He was late. He's always late, these sorts of things. He should have been on stage at 5 p.m. He came on just 5 minutes past 6. The crowd didn't mind at all. They were very pleased to see him. There are a lot of thank you Trump chances as he came on stage |
| 1:05.0 | and there was the usual routine. |
| 1:07.0 | He started getting into it. |
| 1:08.4 | We've heard his speeches before. |
| 1:09.6 | He went into immigration first and he was just making a point on immigration leaning forward on the lectern which is potentially |
| 1:16.4 | how he managed to save his own life quite extraordinarily as Marcus just described to you |
| 1:20.7 | and just he was making that point |
| 1:26.4 | four or five maybe six sort of cracks we heard there was a small pause and then another three or four more cracks and it |
| 1:32.2 | was that cracks that was the gunfire now when you hear |
| 1:35.8 | gunfire gun fire gunfight never sounds like gunfire it could be anything it could have |
| 1:39.7 | been firecrackers and you don't know if you're at this sort of event you don't expect this to happen so I think a lot of us thought is this a stunt is this a prank by someone and it took a few seconds really of quietness the eerie quietness really for it to dawn on all of us. |
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