from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday,

September 16th. On the morning after another apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump,

as you've been hearing, and a fourth

straight day of bomb threats terrorizing the Haitian community and others in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is safe. You've been hearing this. And the alleged gunman, apparently a radicalized

supporter of Ukraine, as far as anyone can tell, based on reporting on what the person has done in the

past, the gunman who police say had an AK-47 is in custody. They say an AK-47, by the way,

has the range to have hit the former president as he was golfing in Florida about 400 yards away.

In response, Kamala Harris and just about every other current

politician have condemned the attempt. Harris said violence has no place in America. In Springfield,

Ohio, as you may have heard on Morning Edition or all things considered in the last day,

Wittenberg University, which is a small liberal arts college there,

has shut things down today because of bomb threats they received. And Clark State College,

which is the local community college in the city of Springfield, has also announced that

they will be going virtual for this entire week.

Now, on CNN State of the Union with Dana Bash yesterday, Trump's running mate and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance seemed to acknowledge that he was elevating stories that had not been

confirmed or, quote, creating stories. Why? For the sake of getting media attention for what he considers

problems caused by immigrants. Listen. But it wasn't just a mean.

If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering

of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do. If I have to create stories,

create stories, then that's what I'm going to do. If I have to create stories, create stories, then that's what I'm going to do.

When Bash followed up on Vance's admission of creating stories, he said,

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