Trump Assassination Attempt ‘Preventable', New Polling Shows Trump Has Small Lead, 41M Evangelical Christians May Not Vote | Oct. 21

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was preventable. That’s according to the finding of a House of Representatives task force. Decision Desk HQ and The Hill is forecasting a Trump victory. A new Survey predicts that 41 million evangelical Christians may not vote in this election. Relevant Links: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/20/3-biblical-reasons-conservative-christians-should-vote-this-election/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

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0:00.0	Members of Congress have determined that the assassination attempt on
0:05.3	former President Donald Trump could have been prevented. I'm Virginia
0:09.3	Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Monday, October 21st. The assassination
0:24.9	attempt on former president Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania was preventable.
0:29.1	That's according to the findings of a House of Representative Task Force.
0:33.4	20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks crawled onto the roof at a Trump rally on July 13th,
0:39.8	and he was within shooting range of the former president while Trump spoke at the podium during
0:45.1	that rally.
0:46.1	Crooks was shot and killed, but only after firing multiple shots off at Trump, and one of those
0:52.3	bullets hit the former president and three attendees
0:55.9	wounding two and killing Corey Cupper Tori.
1:00.3	About two weeks after the assassination attempt, a bipartisan house task force was created
1:05.0	to investigate how exactly this assassination attempt happened in the first place.
1:09.4	There's seven Republicans and six Democrats that sit on this panel.
1:13.6	So let's talk about what they found.
1:15.7	Put very, very simply, they concluded that the evidence obtained by the task force to date
1:20.8	shows the tragic events of July 13th were preventable.
1:25.2	The full report, it's 53 pages long and the findings are based off of 23 transcribed
1:31.3	interviews with local law enforcement officials, thousands of pages of documents,
1:36.0	from local, state, and federal authorities, as well as testimony from the task force public hearing
1:41.4	in September.
1:42.7	Lawmakers say that they found eight critical findings so far within their investigation,
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