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A stage was set up at Gourd Lake for a speech from President Di-Jun Wang of Zheng Fa in March 2019.
The speech[]
In March 2019, President Di-Jun Wang of Zheng Fa visited the United States. Bronco Knight, one of his bodyguards, convinced him to stage an assassination attempt to boost his flagging approval ratings back home. A speech was planned on the 25th, during which the fake assassination attempt would take place. Three days beforehand, Knight convinced a reporter named Tabby Lloyd to attend the speech and point a laser scope at the president, setting her up as the "culprit".
Two days before the speech, Shelly de Killer infiltrated the bodyguards in an attempt to assassinate the president for real. When he was in position, he took action, grabbing Knight by the throat, but Bastian Rook, another bodyguard, twisted and shot his left arm, forcing him to retreat. The incident forced Knight to wear a neck brace and caused the president to change the security plans so that only Rook and Knight would be on the stage with him. Because Knight could not turn his head to the right, he was positioned so that he could still do what he needed for the fake assassination attempt.
On the day of the speech, the president's seaplane landed on Gourd Lake and Wang stepped out of it and onto the stage. He delivered his speech, thanking the prosecutor's office for its role in saving Zheng Fa from the clutches of the Cohdopian smuggling ring. During the speech, Lloyd pointed the laser scope, then Knight fired a gunshot from behind his bulletproof attache case. The bullet went through one of the Zheng Fa flags on the stage before hitting a Steel Samurai balloon. In the ensuing panic, Knight and Rook quickly ran in front of the president to protect him. Knight fired a second shot, then helped Rook escort Wang back inside the plane.
The Chief Prosecutor placed Miles Edgeworth in charge of the subsequent investigation. During the course of the investigation, Knight informed everyone that Rook had been killed protecting the president, and that Lloyd would be taken into the plane for questioning. However, de Killer forced Knight to allow Edgeworth to investigate the presidential plane, allowing him to resolve the entire incident and determine that Knight had killed Rook. Afterward, the president apologized to Edgeworth and said that he would take responsibility for his deadly publicity stunt.