The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today’s episode sets out what we know about the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening. Doug Mills, a photographer for The Times, recounts what it was like to witness the shooting, and Glenn Thrush, who covers gun violence for The Times, discusses the state of the investigation into the man who did it.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisie, and this is the Daily.
0:09.0	The nation is waking up to a new reality after former president Donald Trump was injured in an
0:15.2	apparent assassination attempt. Gunshots ripping through a Pennsylvania
0:20.2	campaign rally and carving their way into the history books.
0:23.7	I heard pop pop.
0:24.8	I think a lot of people in the crowd just thought was fireworks going off.
0:27.1	I knew immediately was gunshots.
0:28.4	And everybody's screaming drop and you can see the blood like splatter on his face and
0:32.1	the secret service just barricades him and you
0:34.8	know it was just like so scary.
0:37.8	Today.
0:38.8	Senior law enforcement officials say the gunman was a 20 year old man from Pennsylvania. The gunman was on the roof was a 20-year-old man from Pennsylvania.
0:43.2	The gunman was on the roof of a building several hundred feet from the lectern where Trump was speaking.
0:49.1	What we know about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.
0:54.7	I just go back to this idea that something has been fundamentally changed.
0:58.7	People are desperate for answers to figure out how this could have happened, how to prevent it.
1:03.4	My colleague, photographer Doug Mills, recounts what it was like to witness the shooting.
1:10.2	And reporter, Glenn Thrush, on the state of the investigation into the man who did it.
1:17.0	It's Monday, July 15th.
1:25.0	Oh, this is him.
1:27.0	I have to reroute through this thing though, hold on.
1:36.0	Doug? Hey Sabrina, how are you?
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