Will We See an Assassination Attempt Against Trump Before November 2024 (and Other Scenarios)?

We are entering uncharted territory, boys and girls!

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”  —Frank Zappa

Scenarios are tricky. The reasonableness of a scenario — which is not a prediction, just a description of a possible outcome — depends on conditions being met. If they aren’t, the scenario isn’t possible and loses its point.

As I’ve noted, two forces in America are on collision course — those being the “liberal pseudo-democratic” ruling class, exemplified by the Democrat Party in its current form — versus the “populist” forces that coalesced around Donald Trump back in 2015-16, routing worthless “movement conservatism,” and continue to see Trump as leading spokesman.

January 6 might turn out to have been a skirmish compared to what’s coming … at least in some presently imaginable scenarios.

I cannot underestimate how significant — and dangerous — the insurrection official narrative has become. Numerous state-level efforts are underway to keep Trump off the ballot in those states on 14^th Amendment grounds — assuming this narrative, that Trump fomented an insurrection. The 14^th Amendment, Section 3 of which contains the infamous “insurrection clause” dating to 1868 and aimed at former Confederates, doesn’t even specify that the one accused of insurrection need be convicted by a jury of one’s peers. It simply says, “shall have engaged in insurrection,” which leaves the matter muddled just in case some believe it was an insurrection but others do not.

The people invoking the insurrection clause are either Democrats or Establishment Republicans, i.e., GOP ante-2015-16.

This could trigger more lawsuits which may or may not target the insurrection narrative itself. If they are able to do this, then what?! is the obvious question.

Should the effort succeed at keeping Trump off the ballot in one or more states, Trump could well pursue the option of denouncing such ballots as illegitimate and ordering up his own, with his name on them, all else the same. What would stop him?

We are in uncharted waters here! Never before has the leading candidate of a major political party been targeted in this way. But then again, never before has the leading candidate of a major political party been targeted by four different sets of indictments, a level of lawfare that dwarfs what was made against Nixon.

This is only one possible scenario, and it might not happen. Some legal scholars realize that calling January 6 an “insurrection” is a stretch. An attempt to block or at least postpone the certification of an electoral victory the legitimacy of which might be in question is NOT an attempt to overthrow the government.

Worse and even more dangerous scenarios are possible. Tucker Carlson just suggested that an assassination attempt against Trump could become a live option. He outlined the deadly progression in a recent interview he gave with Adam Carolla:

“Begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to impeachment, now you go to indictment, and none of them work! I mean what’s next? You know, graph it out man! We’re speeding toward assassination, obviously. No one will say that, but I don’t know how you can’t reach that conclusion!”

This assumes the indictments will fail, of course. There’s 91 of them (so far). None are slam-dunks, corporate media propaganda notwithstanding. Most of them involve reaching, some relying on precedents not invoked in eons.

An assassination attempt is almost certainly a last resort. I don’t expect to see it tried unless Trump actually gets the GOP nomination and clearly has at least the same chance of winning as he had in 2016. The “liberal pseudo-democrat” (i.e., globalist plutocrat) ruling class is far from stupid. They doubtless understand just how dangerous such a move would be. If they actually murdered Trump, the reaction could well make what happened on January 6 look like a cafeteria food fight by comparison.   

Not that “our” Establishment couldn’t gain control, with its vastly superior resources including weaponry, and its vastly superior level of organization, but as I concluded last time, there would be a lot of breakage. Including skulls and bones (not the Yale sort!).

I’m reasonably sure the Department of Homeland Security still has those millions of hollow-point bullets, purchased well over a decade ago, possibly foreseeing such a possibility. Those atop that division of the U.S. war machine are fully capable of turning their arsenal against any group that revolts openly, declaring Posse Comitatus to be “ink on a page.”

What this would mean, of course, is an end to all pretenses that America is really a democracy. I don’t see how any such pretense could be maintained, no matter how many propagandists at CNN and MSNBC work overtime trying.

Tucker Carlson drops another equally dangerous scenario the ruling class is doubtless thinking about: the proxy war with Russia, via Ukraine, turn hot war — via U.S./NATO sending troops onto land claimed by Russia or into Russia itself. Launching drone strikes on Russian targets would be enough.

Our deep state will be gambling that Putin won’t simply get fed up. It’s not a gamble I’d be willing to make, but I’m not a psychopath whose view is, Either I stay in power or nuclear Armageddon is a live option!

As we know, an ally of Putin’s who become an arch-nemesis, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, was killed along with several of his associates in a recent plane crash.

Many had stated that after he turned on the Russian military and began his infamous march toward Moscow back in June, that his days were numbered. Prigozhin embarrassed Putin before the world. Bad idea. Very.

Did Putin order Prigozhin’s execution? I have no idea, of course, but it’s not an unreasonable suspicion.

In the U.S., Trump remains more than a mere thorn in the sides of the West’s ruling elites, its plutocratic oligarchs. He, and a broad base of support that is larger than he is, remain an existential threat.

What Trump represents is a solid challenge to the leftist-globalist alliance and all its trappings, in what is the still the world’s largest economy with its most powerful military machine.

The challenge held through the covid fiasco, which some of us are convinced was an orchestrated effort intended to shut down global “populism” when mere censorship and public demonizing hadn’t worked, as well as open doors to putting in place a technocratic global state based on total surveillance and population control.

This effort is now struggling. No informed, sensible person believes the dominant narratives anymore!

This is a main reason Trump remains the lead candidate for the GOP nomination next year despite facing four indictments in four jurisdictions.

A blanket refusal to end his candidacy is not impossible, a refusal that would have tens of millions of his supporters rallying behind it.

This would precipitate a Constitutional crisis unlike anything the U.S. has previously faced.

We might get to find out if one of Joe Biden’s handlers (I don’t think Sleepy Joe himself is mentally capable of planning and executing such a thing) will have done to Trump what Putin is accused by many of doing to Prigozhin.   

It might not be a “long gunman” appearing out of nowhere. That’s ridiculously obvious, and no one in his right mind would believe it!

Plane crashes have been a means by which the powerful took out political opponents in the recent past. Remember Omar Torrijos of Panama and Jaime Roldós of Ecuador? I was in Panama briefly in 2016. I met Panamanians who assured me: no informed person there thinks the plane crash that killed Torrijos on July 31, 1981 — just two months after Roldós’s death in an identical crash (May 24). Both men had crossed up U.S. corporate-governmental elites.   

As I said, I see this as an absolute last resort of a globalist ruling elite doing whatever it has to, to stay in power. And since the majority of Trump supporters would refuse to believe it was an accident, just as many Panamanians to this day deny that Torrijos’s death was an accident, such a scenario would be taking the chance that the time had come to end all pretenses that the U.S. is a democracy and simply crack down.

But wouldn’t the globalist-leftist alliance just let Trump ran and arrange to steal Election 2024? (How election theft probably happens.)  Yes, they might. Narrative management on elections has proven somewhat easier, it is true.

But again, the reason Trump is the leading GOP candidate is that no one on the “populist” side of the fence believes it.

And given the response to January 6, the U.S. may never see another election deemed trustworthy.

The point is, stopping Trump has become the highest priority for the global ruling class, operating through our legal system, electoral system, and corporate media machines.

Before this is over, the globalist ruling class may just decide that maintaining the décor of democracy is no longer worth it, that it’s too inconvenient and costs too much for something no one much believes in anyway (except Democrats who will believe anything they’re told on CNN and MSNBC).  

They’ll take down the scenery, remove the tables and chairs, pull back the curtains, reveal the brick wall at the back of the theater.

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