Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him?

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or rather, they assassinate him themselves, since someone who has held clearance higher than any other member of the US government is a liability if he becomes disloyal to the US

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  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Becomes?

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    • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah I know he is already, but if he becomes more overt about it then the government will be more likely to be overt about treating him as such

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      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah. It’s a spiral that our media culture seems perfectly engineered for.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They aren’t assassins. They’ve spent up to a quarter of their career keeping this guy alive, they aren’t going to turn around and shoot him. In the highly unlikely case Trump let it be known that he actually had a photographic memory and wanted to write it all down for Putin the secret service would simply be recalled. And his plane would fall apart mid-air, as they tend to do when the CIA or FIS (Russian flavor) gets involved.

    Most likely scenario is we all remember Trump didn’t even read his intel folders and we wave a fond bon voyage while offering free tickets to Russia for any die hard MAGA fans who want to go with him.

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    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To be perfectly honest, I imagine the US government would see it as too big of a risk to just let him go without at least some sort of shadow watching and following his every move, ready to pounce the second he sneezes wrong. This would be if they were to let him leave.

      Granted, it would all be speculation, but the possibility does exist.

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The government and our laws really aren’t that put together. If he were to defect there would be no visible reaction to us. And the stuff we couldn’t see would be purely defensive, waiting to see what he could actually compromise and then trying to stay ahead of that. That’s what we have systems and procedures for and that’s what the government runs on.

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  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah the USSS won’t kill him.

    That’s the CIA’s job

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    • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      While accurate, we’ll probably never find out if they end up being the ones responsible for his assassination.

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      • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It would become public around 20-30 years later, if the contra program is any indication

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      • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Plane went down over the Atlantic during mysterious circumstances.

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