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Sure, there was the attempted assassination of Reagan and the fears for Obama as the first black President, but in those cases it was a lone nutter rather than a conspiracy.
How long can Trump crash the market before an angry billionaire decides to take him out? The remaining Koch brother is already pouring money into legal challenges against Trump...
As much as I hate the guy I hope he isn't killed. The last thing we need is republicans having a martyr, especially before they find out how bad for them he is.
With tariff fallout there are decent chances they will not have a majority for a long time. After the tariff act of 1930 they went from having 14 seats more than democrats to a low of 16 seats out of 96 In senate in just 8 years. After that they had a senate majority once and congress majority twice in the next 50+ years.
I perfer him to die from the bullet of his own in a bunker (or natural causes after creating a great recession), so that people can stop worshiping toxicity and learn from the mistakes.
If there is no Hoover, there probably will never be a Roosevelt and the new deal.
Why would a billionaire be angry at Trump?
Martyrdom is an honour that Trump doesn’t deserve. If we are lucky, he will die in prison of old age.
I think he's more likely to have a massive Big Mac Attack and just keel over. Which would be a good thing because his opportunist coattail riders will claw each other to pieces trying to be the top dog, or rat or cockroach. It will frag the whole Magapublican party. I just wish he'd hurry it up. Chow down, Donny boy.
Death from "old age" is more likely.
It could have been "by snu-snu", but Stormy Daniels failed us...
Unlikely any bigger conspiracy or billionaire will try. They could wait 3.5 years and not have to bother with anything illegal.
MAGA candidates don't seem to do well without Trump, so even if a republican wins it's unlikely to be whatever this is.
If he is somehow allowed to take a dump on the constitution and get a 3rd term, maybe.
3.5 years assumes Dems have anyone who could beat him in an election. I have my doubts on that.
Unless something changes, he can't run again.
He just said there are ways and I mean he could run as vp and then Pres could resign etc. so yeah I mean he can’t “directly” run again.
He is also be 81 by then.
By Kennedy probably if they havent all had their jabs
Official death reason: assassination
Actual death reason: hit by a golf ball.
I'm surprised it hasn't been taken care of already.
There's definitely been a few attempts (though I'm not convinced they weren't false flags)
When that happens y'all are gonna need video proof that you last fucked your couch less that a week ago every time you leave home.
He will die of a heart attack within the next year, but it will be ruled as "natural causes".
That would be a natural cause. An elderly man dying of a heart attack is pretty natural.
Not likely enough. There is already enough for his entire office to be the first ones prosecuted for treason but nobody got the balls.
I don't think it's at all likely. Trump knows he's hated, and he isn't about to go and do a parade in a convertible. More importantly, the secret service knows he's hated and know they screwed up huge in letting someone take a shot at him, so they've dialed security up to 11.
Reagan and JFK were shot at a time when they had extremely high approval ratings. It was probably harder for the secret service to stay focused and for everyone to take threats seriously when that was the case.
This isn't a Hollywood movie where a billionaire can go on the dark web and hire The Jackal or something. If they were to try to place a hit, most of The Jackals out there are probably feds posing as hitmen.
But, let's say somehow a billionaire could find people willing to make the attempt. Trying to assassinate the US president is a suicide mission. If someone tries to do it as a lone gunman, they're going up against the entire secret service. They may get the attack in, but they're almost certainly not going to get away. If it's a group of attackers, the more people, the more communications, the more communications, the more opportunities for the NSA to spot them.
And, this is one time we don't have to worry about nation-states attacking the president. The US is punching itself in the dick over and over right now. If you're someone who wants the US to fail, you just have to stand by and watch. In fact, if an enemy's surveillance of the US turned up a plan to kill Trump, they'd probably warn the secret service to make sure Trump stays in power as long as possible.
A suicide mission might not be as much of an issue if someone's entire life is in shambless due to economic collapse, no healthcare and God knows what else is cooking up over there in the US. I mean, you're prolly very tight that the feds are on top of it, but human life can be pretty squishy, especially for a ca. 80 y.o. man. Someone could leave a carrot on the white house doorstep and he might trip and snap his neck, who knows.
But I'm more curious about the people who lose everything, are getting truly desperate, and have nothing left to fear.
i had a friend in the drama department in college. he was an idiot. he was one of those guys who got older every year but his girlfriends didn't. a few years after we all graduated, we all went our ways. word made it through the grapevine one day because we all got google alerts. he'd been arrested by the feds, and not for statutory like we'd all first assumed. nah, he couldn't get a job after college so he tried to convince an undercover ATF officer to engage in some light terrorism/treason as a way of blowing off steam. funniest thing is, my mom and that ATF officer's wife go on vacation together like twice a year (they lived in my hometown for fifteen years, we're friends).
uh, fuck. i'm sure there was a point to this story. if i remember i'll get back to it.
i'm trying to remember if there was something about my idiot felon friend who i think is stupid enough to get tricked into being a patsy or something about my myopic but wellmeaning fed friend that was relevant. twas one or tother. i'm very tired an [8]. it may take me some time to figure it out.
But what happens when you tell trump how GOOD he would look in a convertible in a large parade?
No, the secret service did not screw that up. They told the Trump campaign they could not secure the area and the campaign ignored them. Trump is far dumber than Hitler. Hitler had people protecting him and he respected their work. Trump dismisses anything that mildly annoys or inconveniences him. He absolutely will be shot, we just have no idea when or what country will get credit for the kill.
What country would want him shot? He's destroying the US more effectively than any enemy could ever hope to do.
Countries outside the US don’t see it as an enemy, but as a wealthy partner. Having that partner suddenly go insane and lashing out at its friends due to a malignant brain tumour is sad to see. They might well support surgery to remove the tumour in the hope that their former partner can one day recover.
What world do you live in where you don't understand that the US has many enemies?
Sure it does, but most countries see the US as an ally and a valuable trading partner.
He is certainly one of the most likely to die in office. Just on a purely actuarial basis, I should think.