The attempted assassination of Donald Trump
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🗓️ 14 July 2024
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Summary
A shooter fired multiple rounds toward the stage at a Saturday campaign rally for former president Donald Trump. Federal officials are investigating the incident as an assassination attempt.
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Donald Trump, the former president who is set to formally accept the Republican nomination later this week, was less than 10 minutes into his speech at a rally in Pennsylvania when a burst of gunfire interrupted him. Trump was quickly rushed offstage with what appeared to be blood on one side of his face. He later said in a TruthSocial post that he was shot in his upper right ear. Authorities are investigating the event as an assassination attempt. According to law enforcement, the shooter and one spectator are dead and at least two others are critically injured.
National political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf was at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and witnessed the shooting unfold. He spoke with host Martine Powers late Saturday night, recounted his experience and shared the latest details of what we know so far. Martine also spoke with Post photographer Jabin Botsford who was a few feet from Trump when the gunfire began and a Trump supporter who attended the rally.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon, with production assistance from Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Reena Flores and Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | Isaac, hello. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Martin. |
| 0:05.0 | So it's what, like a little bit before midnight right now on Saturday night. |
| 0:10.0 | You were at the Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania today, and Butler is, what, like about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh. |
| 0:18.0 | I know that you've covered so many Trump rallies over the years. |
| 0:22.0 | In the late afternoon before this unthinkable scene unfolded, |
| 0:27.9 | was there anything that stood out to you? |
| 0:30.0 | Yeah, the things that stood out about this Trump rally for most of the afternoon were how big it was, and the other thing was just how hot it was, you know, it was it was outdoors, it was really sunny, it was 90 degrees. |
| 0:44.0 | You had a lot of people pretty eagerly awaiting his arrival, |
| 0:48.0 | which was about 45 minutes, 50 minutes late. |
| 0:51.0 | Please welcome the next president of the United States, |
| 0:55.6 | President Donald J. Trump. |
| 0:59.2 | And I'm about to be an American. So then Trump starts speaking and after a few minutes he turns to his right and starts |
| 1:09.1 | describing this chart showing immigration statistics. |
| 1:13.6 | Take a look at that chart. |
| 1:15.0 | Take a look at the arrow on the bottom. |
| 1:17.0 | See the big red arrow, right? |
| 1:20.0 | So that's when I left office. |
| 1:22.0 | And before we go any further, I want to give a quick warning to listeners that |
| 1:25.1 | we're going to talk through some of this tape from this moment that might be |
| 1:28.9 | disturbing to hear but the moment is around 6.15 p.m. when the pops begin. |
| 1:35.0 | If you want to really see something that said, |
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