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Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes,

Associate Editor at the New Statesman

and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast.

We're taking a break from our regular reporting of UK politics today because there's one story

shaping the world's news agenda right now which has potentially far-reaching consequences

for domestic politics and us all. By now, you'll have seen and heard plenty of

reporting about the attempted assassination of the former

US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

You'll have seen too the striking photograph which may well become the defining image of this US election campaign and beyond of a defiant

bloodied Trump rising above a clamor of secret service agents brandishing a fist and grimacing fiercely under the stars and

stripes of the US flag. Leaders both from within the United States and around the

world have rightly condemned the attack by the lone suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Though President Trump was relatively unscathed, one person has died and two others were seriously injured.

President J Biden called the shooting sick

and extended an olive branch to his presidential opponent

by way of a rare personal phone call and an offer of an increased security support.

Sakea Starma has also spoken with Donald Trump and condemned the violence.

But now the fallout begins.

Republicans and Trump supporters were lightning quick to start claiming the attack was incited by language from the left,

saying that the portrayal of Trump as a threat to American democracy was a

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