Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben - 4/30/2026

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4.9 • 56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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0:31.3	Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Myceles and this is breaking news. Let's get into it, folks. Donald Trump,
0:39.8	right now experiencing an unprecedented death spiral when it comes to American politics, at least.
0:48.7	You wouldn't know that if you turned on corporate news. They still want to talk about how heroic Donald Trump was regarding
0:57.6	the alleged White House correspondence dinner incident, which has so many red flags. It's not even
1:07.1	visible which flag from the next. It's just one gigantic kind of red screen at this point.
1:15.4	We learned that the alleged suspect's lawyer was saying that the lawyer wasn't even able to meet
1:21.2	with the suspect in a private and confidential place. We're going to keep you updated there, but there's not really a
1:31.5	clear explanation about whether the alleged suspect was actually the person who shot one of the
1:38.2	Secret Service agents or whether it was friendly fire. They're saying that the alleged suspect had a
1:43.6	shotgun, and it seems that it would be pretty
1:46.9	easy to run a quick ballistic to determine if it was a shotgun residue or shotgun spray
1:53.5	versus a handgun.
1:55.5	But we'll set that aside because I think you all have the same red flags and questions that we do.
2:03.1	But the reality is that Donald Trump is historically unpopular, right?
2:08.0	The latest AP Norke poll has Trump's approval at 33% nationwide amongst all respondents.
2:17.0	The latest Reuters poll has Trump's approval at 34%. In terms of
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