Donald Trump

[andyhinch]

There were 4 attempts on Obama and there's already been 3 on Trump. There's been attempts on pretty much every president since Kennedy.

It would take a biblical amount of funding.

 

[aguero93:20]

It would take a biblical amount of funding.

It would only have taken one lad at a rally remembering to take the safety off the gun.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

There were 4 attempts on Obama and there's already been 3 on Trump. There's been attempts on pretty much every president since Kennedy.

Are you counting that one time when someone popped a baloon and he sh*t himself as the Secret Service ran to his rescue?

 

[bobmcfc]

There were 4 attempts on Obama and there's already been 3 on Trump. There's been attempts on pretty much every president since Kennedy.

Really, I must do some research as I’ve not heard of these. We’re they plots ? Bragging online, anyone in jail ? We’re these people American citizens ? We’re any of these actually credible

Reagan took a bullet close up. Weaponry and range has moved on a great deal since then .

 

[bobmcfc]

Ahh just checked on Obama and too many to even get through. Who’d be in the public eye ?

 

[aguero93:20]

Really, I must do some research as I’ve not heard of these. We’re they plots ? Bragging online, anyone in jail ? We’re these people American citizens ? We’re any of these actually credible

Reagan took a bullet close up. Weaponry and range has moved on a great deal since then .

Barack ObamaEdit
Main article: Assassination threats against Barack Obama

• April 2009: A plot to assassinate Obama at the Alliance of Civilizations summit in Istanbul, Turkey was discovered after a man of Syrian origins carrying forged Al-Jazeera TV press credentials was found. The man confessed to the Turkish security services details of his plan to kill Obama with a knife with three alleged accomplices.[94]
• November 2011: Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez hit the White House with several rounds fired from a semi-automatic rifle. No one was injured. However, a window was broken.[95] He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.[96]
• April 2013: Another attempt was made when a letter laced with ricin, a deadly poison, was sent to President Obama.[97]
• October 2018: A package that contained a fabricated pipe bomb was sent to former president Obama at his home in Washington, D.C. The package was intercepted by Secret Service.[98][99]

Donald TrumpEdit
Main article: Attempted assassination of Donald Trump

• June 2016: Michael Steven Sandford, a British national with a history of mental illness, tried to seize a police officer's pistol at a Trump rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, in an attempt to assassinate Trump (then the presumptive Republican nominee). Sandford had reportedly been planning such an action for over a year. The pistol caught in the holster and Sandford was immediately arrested, and eventually deported to the United Kingdom. The incident received less coverage in the United States than in Britain, where it led to a debate over the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and was the subject of a BBC documentary.[100]

• November 2017: A man affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was arrested by the Philippine National Police in Rizal Park for reportedly planning to assassinate President Trump during the ASEAN Summit.[101]

• October 2018: William Clyde Allen III, a U.S. Navy veteran, sent a letter containing crushed castor beans to President Trump. The letter did not reach the White House as it was seized by the Secret Service. He sent similar letters to Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson. Allen was arrested on October 3, 2018 in Utah.[102][103][104]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

Loads on Clinton too. Only 2 on Dubya.

 

[SebastianBlue]

The discussion has taken quite a turn... even for this thread.

 

[super_city_si]

There were 4 attempts on Obama and there's already been 3 on Trump. There's been attempts on pretty much every president since Kennedy.

Don’t forget the dude who threw his shoe at George W’s head. Could have killed him.

 

[andyhinch]

The discussion has taken quite a turn... even for this thread.

I’m resisting putting my thoughts out there on how it could be done and walk away.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Don’t forget the dude who threw his shoe at George W’s head. Could have killed him.

Well done for the snide GPC reference.