Hello and welcome to a bonus edition of the Board podcast. I'm your

host Tim Miller. I got today my newest

colleague our managing editor Sam Stein. We needed a grown-up newsman around here for

days like this and thrilled Sam agreed to take it on. How you doing buddy?

I'm good it's been kind of a tumultuous

first two weeks at the bulwark, but a good one. It has. This was not supposed to be our

inaugural podcast together. We're cursed to live in interesting times.

Lenin said that there are weeks where decades happen.

I'm kind of sick of those weeks.

We've had a few of those lately.

But I want to just start by getting the facts out of what we know about the shooting at the

Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania yesterday. The rally was taking place about an hour north of

Pittsburgh. A bullet grazed Trump's ear before he went down

and was surrounded by Secret Service and then stood up and I'm sure if you're listening you've seen the pictures of

him fist pumping and shouting fight fight, fight, fight.

One audience member is dead, two more critically injured.

The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks,

age 20 of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

He was on a rooftop, about 150 yards from the rally. Not much is known about crooks as we

tape. He seems to be a rare 20 year old with not much social media presence. Voter

records show that he made a single $15 donation

to a liberal pack on Biden's inauguration day,

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