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Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it bad that even though I'm an American and not exactly a full on Iranian supporter...but wouldn't mind if they successfully assassinated Trump and Vance at all? It would at least be karma for starting this bullshit war in the first place

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Nope. I'm with you. Almost feels treasonous to wish our president harm/death, but fuck him and his family.