Trump assassination attempt, one year later; State Department layoffs; Wimbledon; and more
The 7
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🗓️ 11 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The man who may have stopped President Donald Trump's would-be assassin is sharing his story. |
| 0:10.1 | That's where we're starting The Seven from The Washington Post. I'm Reni Svarnovsky in for Hannah-Jule. |
| 0:16.1 | It's Friday, July 11th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:24.0 | One year ago Sunday, on July 13th, 2024, gunfire erupted at Donald Trump's campaign rally |
| 0:32.2 | in Butler, Pennsylvania. If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened. |
| 0:45.1 | Aaron Zaliponi caught sight of the shooter's head and shoulders jutting above the peak of a roofline, about 115 yards away. |
| 0:54.7 | The Butler County SWAT team operator was standing in an open field between the gunmen and the rally stage. |
| 1:02.0 | He snapped up his rifle, aligned the red dot of its scope with the shooter's chin, and fired a single shot. |
| 1:08.5 | According to Zalaponi, would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks immediately |
| 1:13.6 | jerked to his right and slumped back from the roof's edge. Crooks got off eight gunshots and then suddenly |
| 1:20.4 | stopped. It left Trump bloodied, one rally goer dead, and two seriously injured, and it possibly |
| 1:27.4 | changed the course of American history. |
| 1:30.8 | Zalaponi, a 46-year-old army combat veteran, is convinced that his round struck Crooks' rifle |
| 1:37.5 | and forced him to stop shooting. His belief that he cut short the assassination attempt has been |
| 1:43.8 | echoed by Butler County's district |
| 1:45.8 | attorney, the county's SWAT team commander, and a congressman who investigated the events of that |
| 1:51.8 | day. Yet one year later, the significance of Zalaponi's shot is unresolved. The FBI has said |
| 1:59.0 | it found no evidence that the shot hit crooks or his rifle. |
| 2:03.2 | This morning, the post published the first extensive interview with Salaponi. Find it in our |
| 2:09.0 | newsletter. |
| 2:15.2 | Trump will visit Texas today in the wake of last weekend's catastrophic floods. |
| 2:20.8 | That's number two. |
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