September 16, 2024: What we know about the second Trump assassination attempt

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

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For the second time in just over three months, Donald Trump has survived an assassination attempt. Around 1:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, Secret Service agents opened fire on a gunman who was located in the brush outside of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Trump, who was on the golf course, was unharmed. But this story is just beginning; Playbook co-author Rachael Bade walks through what we know about the incident and the alleged gunman’s puzzling political views.

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0:00.0	presented by BP.
0:05.5	Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Monday, September 16th.
0:10.5	Just 64 days after Donald Trump ducked a bullet aimed at his head in Butler, Pennsylvania,
0:15.3	the former president yesterday survived a second attempt on his life. For those who were tuned out
0:20.0	yesterday, the FBI confirmed
0:21.5	the apparent assassination attempt, which happened at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach
0:26.2	around 1.30 p.m. At that time, Secret Service just so happened to spot what looked like a long
0:31.5	muzzle from an AK-style rifle, poking out from the brush lining the golf course. That was between
0:36.6	300 and 500 yards from where the former president was golfing at the time.
0:41.1	The agents opened fire, causing the shooter to flee. But where he hid, they discovered not only the rifle and a scope for aiming, but two backpacks in a GoPro camera, suggesting the man was actually hoping to film his dirty deed.
0:53.1	That's according to officials at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
0:57.2	Trump, who was hitting the links at the time with donor and friend Steve Wilcoff, was unharmed and swiftly moved inside his golf clubhouse.
1:04.1	But Fox News, Sean Hannity spoke to Trump and told viewers last night a bit of a readout of what he received.
1:09.3	He said while putting, they heard pop, pop,
1:12.0	Hannity said, and within seconds, the Secret Service pounced on the president and covered him.
1:16.7	Hannity said the agents whisked the president away in an armored vehicle, but that Trump
1:20.5	joked with him about wanting to say on the chorus telling him, I really wanted to finish the
1:24.2	hole. I was even par, and I had a birdie put. The assassination attempt is just the latest example of violence or threats of violence dominating the 2024
1:31.6	election cycle just yesterday. The New Hampshire Libertarian Party called for the assassination
1:36.8	of Kamal Harris, writing anyone who murders Kamal Harris would be an American hero. And this obviously
1:42.4	comes as schools and hospitals in Springfield, Ohio,
1:45.5	closed as the struggling small town becomes ground zero in the now ugly immigration debate.
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