What’s it like to be attacked at a Trump rally?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This week BBC cameraman Ron Skeans was attacked at a rally for President Donald Trump in Texas. A man in a Make America Great Again hat pushed him over and shouted “F*** the media”. It was a shocking incident for Ron and his colleagues but, given the frequency and ferocity of the President’s criticisms of the mainstream media, perhaps not unexpected. Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue and producer Eleanor Montague were with Ron in El Paso and explain what happened and why it matters. This episode contains swear words throughout. Producers: Harriet Noble and Jaja Muhammad Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.1	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.7	the podcast that asks one big question about one big story every day.
0:17.0	Today, what's it like to be attacked at a Trump rally?
0:26.0	We can't tell today's story without a bit of swearing right through the episode.
0:37.0	At first that felt like just another crazy moment in the presidency of Donald Trump.
0:47.2	We seem to get them all the time. A new tweet, a story, something that just emphasizes
0:52.4	that things are different now.
0:55.0	When I heard the headline this week,
0:57.0	cameraman attacked at Trump rally.
0:59.0	My first reaction was almost, well, I'd expect that.
1:02.0	But then, no, it's not normal we didn't have
1:05.6	journalists assaulted at political events even just a few years ago the cameraman
1:10.9	who was attacked is a guy called Ron Skeens. I know him. He's worked for the BBC for years.
1:16.0	He's a lovely man and he's decided not to do any interviews about what happened.
1:21.0	So we called up his team, producer Eleanor Montague and
1:24.3	correspondent Gary O'Donohue, who were with Ron at the rally in El Paso, Texas.
1:29.6	This is the inside story of the attack that you won't hear anywhere else and what it means.
1:37.0	It was very calm, quite friendly. There was nothing that pointed to the fact that something bad was going to happen at all.
1:49.0	So I thought it was, yes, it was seemed quite benign.
1:52.0	It has a sort of, it has a sort of a bit of a party atmosphere outside to start with, doesn't it?
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