{"id":2010078,"date":"2023-08-23T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pressed-on-prospect-of-assassination\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T22:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:25:39","slug":"trump-pressed-on-prospect-of-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pressed-on-prospect-of-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump questioned about possibility of assassination."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-pressed-on-prospect-of-assassination%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2010078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Former President Donald Trump Addresses Concerns About His Safety<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent\u2063 interview with Tucker Carlson,\u2062 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pressed-on-prospect-of-assassination\/\" title=\"Trump questioned about possibility of assassination.\">cable news superstar<\/a>, Donald Trump was asked about the possibility of an attempt on his life.\u200c The interview, which aired on\u200b August\u2062 23,\u200d coincided with the first \u2063GOP presidential debate that Trump chose\u200d to skip.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson pointed out the \u200bescalating attacks on\u2062 Trump over the\u200c past few years, starting with protests \u2064and leading to\u2063 impeachment and now potential\u200d indictment. He raised the \u2063question, &#8220;The next stage is \u2063violence.\u200b Are you worried they&#8217;re gonna try to kill you? Why wouldn&#8217;t\u2062 they try and \u2062kill you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related \u200dStories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/assassination-civil-war-impeachment-the-5-bombshell-questions-from-the-trump-carlson-interview-5479544\">Assassination, Civil War, Jeffrey Epstein: 5 Bombshell Questions \u200cfrom Trump&#8217;s Interview With Carlson<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/23\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/epochtv\/trump-runs-counter-program-with-tucker-carlson-during-gop-debate-5479463\">Trump\u200c Runs Counter Program With Tucker Carlson During GOP Debate<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/23\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re savage\u200d animals; they are people\u2064 that are sick, really\u200b sick,&#8221; President Trump replied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have great people in the Democrat Party, you have great people that are Democrats. \u2064Most of the people in our country are fantastic,&#8221; President \u2064Trump said. &#8220;I&#8217;m representing everybody,\u200c I&#8217;m\u200d not just\u200c Republicans or\u200c conservatives\u2014I represent \u2064everybody, I&#8217;m the president of everybody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;ve seen what they do. I&#8217;ve seen the lengths they go to.\u200d When they \u200dmake up the Russia, \u2063Russia, Russia, and that&#8217;s \u2062exposed,\u2062 and they \u2064go down,&#8221; President \u2063Trump said, in a reference\u200c to the debunked claim\u200b that he colluded with Russia to\u200d secure his victory in\u200d 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called\u200c &#8220;Durham\u200c report,&#8221; which catalogued the findings \u2064of Special \u2062Counsel John Durham that \u2062dismissed the collusion narrative, &#8220;explained how corrupt it was,&#8221; \u2062President Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The report in question found that the \u2064FBI had opened its Crossfire\u200c Hurricane investigation into \u200bPresident Trump\u2063 on flimsy grounds and became a larger probe than it \u2063should \u200bhave, a \u2062result of &#8220;confirmation bias,&#8221; according to Mr. Durham.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2062 also cited \u2063the conduct of officials during \u200dthe 2020 \u2064election,\u200d which he \u200dsaid was &#8220;rigged&#8221; against him through manipulation of COVID-19 lockdown policies and through judges\u2064 refusing to consider\u200d evidence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-bans-trumps-full-cpac-speech-unless-users-add-countervailing-viewpoints-about-election-claims\/\" title=\"YouTube Bans Trump\u2019s Full CPAC Speech Unless Users Add \u2018Countervailing Viewpoints\u2019 About Election Claims\u00a0\">widespread election fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later,\u2063 Mr. Carlson returned to the initial question, noting the &#8220;escalation&#8221; of \u2064efforts to bump \u2062President Trump\u200d out of politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s next? They&#8217;re trying \u2063to put you \u200cin prison for life. That&#8217;s not \u2064working. Don&#8217;t they have to kill you now?&#8221; Mr. Carlson\u200c asked.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump responded ambiguously, suggesting\u2064 that such a move would\u200d be seen through by most Americans and wouldn&#8217;t be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I \u200cthink the people of\u200c our\u2064 country don&#8217;t get enough credit \u200cfor how \u2062smart\u200c they are,&#8221; President Trump said, noting\u200c that,\u200d contrary to expectations, his poll numbers\u200b have only gotten higher in \u2064the wake of\u2064 four criminal\u2062 indictments at both \u200cstate and federal levels against him.<\/p>\n<p>The concept \u200bof assassination attempts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-swatted-at-her-georgia-home-at-1am-after-fake-call-from-pro-trans-extremist\/\" title=\"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Swatted at Her Georgia Home at 1AM After Fake Call From Pro-Trans Extremist\">anti-establishment figures<\/a>\u200c like President\u2062 Trump\u200d has increasingly entered \u200dthe public consciousness recently, led \u200bin \u2064part by \u2064the public comments \u2064of\u200b Democratic candidate \u200bRobert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. \u2062Kennedy, the \u2063nephew of President \u200cJohn F. Kennedy \u200band \u2062son of Attorney General Robert\u200b F. Kennedy, has openly \u200dexpressed his\u200c belief that his uncle was assassinated in Dallas in 1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with Tucker Carlson, ex-President Donald Trump was asked about the possibility of an assassination attempt. The interview took place on Aug. 23, coinciding with the first GOP presidential debate that Trump chose not to attend. 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