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Is political violence America's new normal?

4/28/202631 min

White House correspondents' dinner shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president. The White House says Saturday’s attack is the third 'assassination attempt' on Donald Trump in the last two years. But what do we know about Allen? And what does this all tell us about the rise of political violence in America? 

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Guests:

  • David Charter, assistant editor, US, The Times and The Sunday Times.
  • Nick Bryant, journalist and author of Forever War America's Unending Conflict With Itself and the Substack history Never Ended.

Host: Manveen Rana

Producers: Julia Webster and Olivia Case

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Read more: Cole Tomas Allen: who is the alleged gunman at correspondents’ dinner?

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Clips

From Banter To Terror
America’s Leaders In One Room
Shooter Next Door Revelation
Unity That Didn’t Last
Violence As American Throughline
Trump’s Lincoln Comparison Dismissed
Reverting To Combative Type
America’s Amnesia On Violence
Legitimizing January Sixth
Secret Service Ability Questioned

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    [gentle music] From The Times and The Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Manveen Rana. The White House Correspondents' Dinner is back in the news, but this isn't the first time it's caused a ripple through American political history. Let me take you back to 2011.

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