{"id":18620,"date":"2024-10-26T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=18620"},"modified":"2024-10-26T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T22:02:00","slug":"18620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=18620","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 13, at a rally in Butler, Pa., Trump had only spoken for a few minutes before shots rang out. Thomas Crooks, 20, fired eight rounds at the former president, grazing his right ear with the first shot while killing one rallygoer and severely wounding two others, all of whom were seated behind the former president.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1850006771219279901&amp;lang=en&amp;maxWidth=560px&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativebrief.com%2Ftrump-rogan-2-86640%2F&amp;sessionId=6b6bfcc62b18ddbc75b39045aa13f317fbe370d4&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1850006771219279901\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-35=\"true\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-6=\"true\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-17=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after 10 days due to bipartisan outrage over agency failures.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two months later, would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested after getting within a few hundred yards of Trump while he was golfing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15. Routh was set up behind a hedgerow overlooking a green with an AR-style rifle, and he appeared to be waiting for Trump to get close enough before firing.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service agents spotted the rifle barrel sticking out of the hedgerow and engaged Routh, who fled the scene before being arrested a short while later.<\/p>\n<p>Trump gave Rogan\u00a0a glimpse of the scar he received from Crooks\u2019 bullet. \u201cIt zicked right there,\u201d Trump said of the mark behind his right ear.<\/p>\n<p>Rogan responded, \u201cIt healed up pretty f\u2013king good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like some of the wrestlers, some of the UFC fighters\u2026 it was sort of like a top shot. The thing\u2019s taken off a little bit,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cBut it makes me a tougher guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FULL PROGRAM HERE:<\/p>\n<div class=\"tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Joe Rogan Experience #2219 - Donald Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hBMoPUAeLnY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-35=\"true\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-6=\"true\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-17=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Rogan, 57, suggested that the assassination attempts might not have occurred if the media\u2014and Democrats like his rival Vice President Kamala Harris and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\u2014didn\u2019t equate Trump with Adolf Hitler and fascism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey love to take things out of context and distort them,\u201d Rogan said. \u201cThe rhetoric is that you\u2019re Hitler, and in order to stop Hitler, you have to do whatever it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump recorded the interview at his studios in Austin, Texas, just hours before it went live on \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience\u201d YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-12578241793956198-359\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The interview, which lasted nearly two hours and 58 minutes, garnered just over 800,000 views within an hour of its publication. Trump began the back-and-forth talking about his two different lives \u2014 that as a successful businessman and host of the hit TV series \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d before transitioning into politics and winning the presidency in 2016 when few thought he had a chance against Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a very wonderful life but I wanted to do this,\u201d the GOP nominee said, explaining how producers wanted to extend his contract on the \u201chot show\u201d to stay on primetime TV. \u201cSomehow, they put me in a poll, and I blew everybody away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how the interview came together, but Trump and Rogan have known each other for some time. Rogan is a regular broadcaster at UFC and MMA fights, which Trump has frequently attended.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has participated in numerous podcasts during the final stretch of the campaign and co-hosted a streaming conversation with X owner Elon Musk in August, which the billionaire claimed reached 1 billion viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The former president and Harris are in a tight race, as most swing-state polling shows them nearly even.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 13, at a rally in Butler, Pa., Trump had only spoken for a few minutes before shots rang out. 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