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Trump's Shooting Upends 2024

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Pod Save America

News, Politics

4.587.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

After surviving a horrifying assassination attempt, Donald Trump announces J.D. Vance as his VP pick and promises to shift the tone of the Republican convention. Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy talk about the VP selection, whether it's possible to "lower the temperature" of our political discourse, and Joe Biden's testy interview with Lester Holt.

 

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Pla Save America. I'm John Favro. I'm Dan Fyfer.

0:23.4

Tommy Vytor. Well, quite a bit has happened since Friday's show and absolutely none of it has been good.

0:28.7

Donald Trump was shot in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally, his hand-picked judge throughout his classified

0:34.8

documents case, he picked MAGA Air JD Vance as his running mate on the opening day of the Republican

0:39.9

Convention, and new swing-state polls give him an even larger lead over Joe

0:43.5

Biden who spent the last few days giving a number of high-profile speeches and

0:46.5

interviews as he tries to convince Democrats and all Americans that he's still the

0:51.0

best chance to beat Trump.

0:53.0

But let's start with the assassination attempt,

0:56.0

words that still feel just awful and shocking to say out loud.

1:00.0

The investigation is still underway.

1:02.0

Here's some of the new details we've learned as of this recording, Monday night.

1:05.5

Head of Secret Service did an interview with ABC News today

1:08.0

where she said, quote, the buck stops with me,

1:10.8

but she's not resigning.

1:12.2

So far the picture that's emerging of the shooter,

1:14.4

20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks,

1:16.5

does not suggest he was a Trump-Hater, a Trump fan,

1:20.4

or even that political.

1:22.0

It looks like he once made a $15 donation to one of those

1:24.9

scammy progressive groups that fucking emails you all the time. But after that

1:29.5

he registered as a Republican and neighbors just told a Pittsburgh news station they've seen

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