Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz. It's Tuesday the 28th of April. I'm Billie Fitzsimons. I'm Zara Seidler. On Saturday night, US President Donald Trump was hosting an annual black tie dinner for the country's top journalists and government officials when the sounds of shots rang out.
We now know there was a man with a gun sprinting towards the ballroom, but he never made it inside before he was tackled by security guards. It marked yet another assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life. Today we'll tell you what you need to know, but before we get there, here's a quick message from the TDA team.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the assassination attempt on Trump?
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Now, Billie, before we talk about the assassination attempt, I do think contextualising where Donald Trump was, where all of his team were on Saturday night, because if you will have seen any of the photos, everyone looks very glam. Everyone's in tuxes. That's because it was the White House Correspondents' Dinner. As journalists, we're very familiar with it.
For those who aren't, what is the White House Correspondents' Dinner?
So it's an annual black tie gala dinner that is held basically for the journalists that cover the White House or cover the US presidency every single year. It's kind of an interesting thing because if you think of the media and the White House, I would say particularly in this administration, they don't necessarily have the best relationship. Donald Trump is a huge critic of modern media. But
You kind of put that all aside for this one night to all come together to appreciate the job of both sides, I guess.
It's like the Midwinter Ball in Australia.
In Australia we have something called the Midwinter Ball. I think it's less known here in Australia because in Australia it's all off the record.
Yeah.
But in the US it's not. And it's less funny. It's less funny. At the White House Correspondents Dinner they have a comedian who kind of does this roast, well, does do a roast every time it's on. So, yeah, it's a night of laughter. It's all recorded so it's all very public, unlike it is here in Australia. It's a very longstanding tradition. It's been held since 1921. Mm-hmm.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the White House Correspondents' Dinner?
His name is Cole Thomas Allen.
Mm-hmm.
The manifesto that you're talking about, well, actually, before I get there, I will say he was a guest at the hotel. So he had booked a room at the hotel that this ballroom was at, which is quite interesting that he was able to book a room at this hotel where the president and all of the senior officials of the Trump administration were.
Yeah, that is interesting. I mean, you would have presumed that the entire hotel was booked out for guests.
I would have thought so, but no, clearly not. In terms of the manifesto that you're talking about, so the New York Times obtained a note that was written by the suspect. It's not clear whether it was on him at the time that this happened or we know that US officials have now gone to his home in California and raided his home. And so it could have been obtained during that search.
But this note, it was about a thousand words. And we know that in that he said that he was quite angered by some of the actions of the Trump administration. And it suggests that the top officials were his target in this attack. So officials haven't even confirmed that Donald Trump was the person that he was wanting to assassinate.
But of course, Donald Trump was in the room where he was charging towards with guns. So it's the strong presumption there. The note did say that the gunman wanted to target members of the Trump administration from highest ranking to lowest. So essentially wanted to target anyone in the Trump administration.
And that whilst the guests of the White House Correspondents Dinner, so the journalists there and the hotel staff, weren't the primary target, he said in this note that if he did shoot them, that that was essentially okay by him, as long as he did attack his primary target, which were the government officials. Yeah. So like I said, that's the media reporting.
That's not from the official press conferences yet.
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Chapter 4: How did security respond to the gunman at the event?
It's very controversial. Yeah. I feel like that is a whole other podcast, but interesting that he brought it up in this situation.
Yeah, it is. All right. Before we go, Billie, do you have a tidbit for me?
I do have a tidbit, a very exciting tidbit. As you know, I'm a very passionate runner, but unbelievably slow considering how much, actually I don't run that much.
You told me that you ran 11 kilometers on the weekend.
Thank you for bringing it up. I wasn't personally going to bring it up, but I did. And after I went for my little 11K run, again, I'm very slow. It's not a little run. I literally talk about it because there's nothing to brag about because I'm so unbelievably slow. But anyway, over the weekend, the official record for the men's marathon was broken. Did you see this? It's absurd. It's absurd.
It's the first time in history that someone has run a marathon, which is 42 kilometers under two hours. He did it. And not only did he do it under two hours, he did it in one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds.
Out of control.
Literally out of control. That was at the London Marathon.
I continue to feel very inspired from my couch.
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