Secret Service praised for stopping Trump gunman but questions remain
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🗓️ 17 September 2024
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USA TODAY Domestic Security Correspondent Josh Meyer discusses the Secret Service measures on Sunday surrounding the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, and what's next for the suspect.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday, September 17th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.0 | excerpt. Today, the latest in the aftermath of Sunday's apparent assassination attempt on Donald |
| 0:27.4 | Trump. Plus we talk about Taylor Swift in this year's election and Trump's recent |
| 0:31.8 | post about the pop star and we take a look at |
| 0:34.3 | polling in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania. For learning more |
| 0:40.3 | about the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Sunday, |
| 0:44.4 | though plenty of questions remain. I caught up with USA Today domestic security correspondent |
| 0:49.1 | Josh Meyer for more. Josh, thanks for hopping on to that. |
| 0:53.0 | My pleasure, Taylor. |
| 0:54.0 | So Josh, what do we know as of now in terms of what happens Sunday at Donald Trump's |
| 0:59.1 | Florida golf course? |
| 1:00.5 | You know, we just got a big information dump from the Fed's Secret Service acting director, |
| 1:05.6 | said a couple of important things. |
| 1:07.5 | One was that the suspect, Ryan Ruth, never got a shot off, so this is much different than the last assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania |
| 1:17.0 | when the shooter had a clear line of sight to the former president, |
| 1:20.0 | was able to fire off about eight rounds and hit Trump in the ear. |
| 1:23.7 | In this case, the Secret Service Director said that the suspect did not get a shot off, |
| 1:28.7 | also that he didn't really have a clear line of sight to the president and that it was quick action by the secret service agents |
| 1:34.8 | that thwarted the attack. |
| 1:36.1 | So Josh, have we learned anything since about the suspect, his background and what his motive |
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