What Caused Trump’s Second Assassination Attempt? | Lora Ries

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Four presidents have been assassinated in office, and several (in office or not) have been wounded. All of these incidents took place decades, if not a century, ago. So it’s understandable that the second wounding of a president while not in office, that of Donald Trump in Butler Pennsylvania in July of this year, would have shaken the nation. Now, a mere two months later, a second assassination attempt against the former president has occurred.

Why are we seeing this happen now? Heritage Expert Lora Ries joins the podcast to explain.

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.9	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.6	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.7	Ask not to remind the current regime.
0:18.0	We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.
0:22.5	All, all,
0:24.2	actually to get back in their box and stay there.
0:28.3	Lift-off.
0:29.2	We have a left-down.
0:32.1	From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains.
0:46.1	Yeah. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. Four U.S. presidents have been assassinated in office.
0:50.8	Abraham Lincoln was the first, killed at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1865,
0:57.6	mere days after the end of the Civil War that had consumed the nation.
1:02.5	James Garfield was shot in 1881 and William McKinley in 1901.
1:08.2	The last president to have been assassinated was John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963.
1:14.4	One president has been wounded while in office, Ronald Reagan by a gunman in 1981.
1:20.3	And now two presidents have been wounded while not in office.
1:24.8	The first was Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, who was shot in the chest while on the campaign
1:29.6	trail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Fortunately, the bullet struck a copy of his speech and a metal
1:35.7	glasses case in his pocket which slowed the bullet and probably saved his life. With blood
1:41.8	dripping down his shirt, he proceeded to deliver his 84-minute speech before
1:46.4	receiving medical attention. All of these incidents took place decades, if not a century ago. So it's
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