DISINFO: Deep State may be behind second attempt on Donald Trump

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DISINFO: Deep State may be behind second attempt on Donald Trump

SUMMARY

The situation in the US is similar to that of the 1970s, when the US establishment was in crisis and factions conspired and fought to shape American politics for decades to come.

After former US President Richard Nixon resigned from office in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford replaced him, a man no one had voted for. During his short-lived presidency, there were two failed assassination attempts against Ford within a month in 1975, and we still don’t know who was behind those shootings.

Some analysts argue that if the Deep State or the Clintons, Biden and Harris wanted Trump dead, he would be in the ground. But not unlike 1975, the US deep state is not necessarily a singular entity. And when there’s cracks in this consensus that they have, that’s when some of the crazier things happen. And so, if the entirety of the deep state or the American oligarchy was decided upon the fact that Trump needed to go, as was the case with John F. Kennedy it seemed, Trump would be gone.

RESPONSE

Conspiracy theory not backed by any evidence, aiming to promote a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the US Deep State, whose ultimate goal is to undermine democratic institutions.

Ryan Wesley Routh, suspect of having tried to shoot Donald Trump on September 2024, had a past record of felonies and mental instability and was obsessed with Trump and Ukraine. Nothing indicates that he had any external backing or was part of any plot, and Roth’s plan appears to have been poorly executed if he actually intended to kill Trump. Allegations about a conspiracy behind the two assassination attempts on Gerald Ford are also unsubstantiated.

See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the Deep State and desperate globalists organised the Trump assassination attempt, that negligence in protecting Trump may be deliberate as Deep State see him as a threat, that the ears of globalists and Judeo-Masonic forces stick out behind the assassination attempt on Trump, or that the Deep State failed to kill Trump, could try again.

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