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So... SCOTUS decides in Trump's favor, Biden has him assassinated, Biden wins election.
Trump is arguing that this will be OK, right? Right?
I wish someone would confront Trump about that during an interview. “So, do you have an armed guard, because you’re saying Biden can legally kill you?”
And then far right media would parrot for weeks that Biden actually wants to kill Trump. If they did what they did for a “stolen election” imagine what they would do if they had “reason” to suspect that Trump could be assassinated at Bidens wish
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
That's their favorite stance. Because then they can claim moral righteousness. If you can't get an upper hand logically, the next is emotionally.
They would recognize worthy opponents
I'd be pretty surprised if there were a private security option capable of holding off the military, if the president really wanted someone dead and had the legal go-ahead.
I'd be really surprised if Trump could afford them.
Then there's the military's 'knife bomb'...
"While other versions of the Hellfire take out targets in the expected ways — through explosive force or with shrapnel — the R9X crushes or slices a target to death. It is essentially a flying bundle of swords that can kill the occupant of a car without harming people around the vehicle."
How SOCOM's secret 'knife bomb' became the prime weapon for killing hard-to-reach terrorists
You've also forgotten the easiest method - simply bribing (or in this case ordering, as the Secret Service still answers to Biden regardless of the fact that they protect Trump, AFAIK) someone close to him to kill him.
He's a broke bitch, owes half a billion in foreign loans alone. On another note, what kind of security force would be willing to suicide for him? His cult45? They have a combined IQ of an air conditioned room, the military would take them out like mowing your grass.
Bizarrely there are, that's what black water essentially is, a paramilitary group that can hold off a military. If you think it's insane that we allow private companies own their own military, well it is. They of course not allowed to operate on US soil, but they exist.
Even Russia has laws against this, it's kind of nut USA allows it. Of course, Russian law is one thing and wagers existence shows how well that law is followed. But even the Russian founders understood having a private military is insane.
*Edit arguably, Putin flaunting the law and creating Wagner is a reason he became a dictator and what the country was trying to prevent when they made the laws.
The fact you called them Blackwater (haven’t gone by that name since 2009) and posit that they’re more capable than the US military is farcical.
Blackwater was so dogged by scandal after scandal they change to ‘Xe’, then ‘Academi’, before being bought out by a real Private Security company - TripleCanopy.
And former SF pipe hitters in the ranks of PMCs or not, it’s the logistics and intelligence capabilities of the US military that enables them to be so lethal, which PMCs significantly lack.
Former presidents get lifetime security detail as a benefit.
I'm aware. I'm not sure what exactly the secret service is going to do about a salvo of hellfire missiles. If the president of the US wants you dead and isn't legally restrained I certainly wouldn't trade places with you.
Hey, three hookers and an eight-ball will keep that USSS detail busy. No problemo.
This is why they are delaying it until after the election. If Biden wins, they continue to stretch out the trial until Trump dies because of his old age and bad health, then go, "Well the defendant is dead so no reason to rule on this", leaving it open until they get another chance
If Trump wins, then they rule in Trump's favour with the trial suddenly going at breakneck speed
Well Trump will obviously wait until he's installed himself as a dictator in perpetuity before making this ok
SCOTUS would just argue it isn’t an official act if Biden does it.
Technically Biden would have to shoot the man himself, anyone he could order to do it either cannot legally and would basically just be eating the legal bullet for him even though he's not in danger of it, or they have a legal duty to refuse the order.