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  "id": 4967291,
  "title": "Vance talks about the end times and the attempted assassination of Trump in Christian podcast",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/vance-talks-about-the-end-times-and-the-attempted-assassination-of-4967291",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T23:53:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Associated Press",
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    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-end-times-ai-1914946b096677c40938bb170c02288a"
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  "account": "On September 1, 2026, Vice President JD Vance discussed faith, the assassination attempt on Donald Trump during the 2024 election, and the potential consequences of such an event in a podcast interview with Christian podcaster Bryce Crawford. The vice president, who recently converted to Catholicism, also touched on President Trump's posting of an image of himself as Jesus and speculated on the possibility of artificial intelligence as a sign of the end times.\n\nVance opened the conversation by referring to the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which a bullet narrowly missed Trump's ear and resulted in the death of a supporter. The vice president posited that if Trump had been killed, the country would have experienced significant civil unrest that could have been difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Many Trump supporters would have likely viewed the event as a conspiracy and doubted the legitimacy of the political system.\n\nThe majority of the podcast focused on Vance's spiritual journey and his Easter meeting with Pope Francis, as well as the president's fallibility and the human condition. However, the interview also delved into darker themes, discussing the potential for dark forces to thwart Trump's presidency and the possibility that such an event might be a sign of the end times.",
  "summary": "Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast released Tuesday that if a 2024 assassination attempt had killed Donald Trump, he would have always wondered if it was part of a conspiracy and might not have accepted even another…",
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