by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning:
Today, Iran launched a major missile attack against Israel, which heightens the chances of a wider Middle East conflict. I’ll have more to say about that tomorrow.
Today I want to address the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The second assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump in the past two months is already being memory-holed by the mainstream media.
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Who’s to blame for the second attempt? Beyond the obvious implications for society as a whole, the latest attempt will have major ramifications for markets and investors.
That’s because the economic and regulatory policies of the two candidates — Trump and Harris — could not be more different.
Trump wants lower taxes, less regulation, high tariffs to create high-paying U.S. jobs (a policy first advocated by Alexander Hamilton and later expanded by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln), an end to wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a strong national defense and reforms to the FBI and the intelligence community (IC).
Harris wants higher taxes (including much higher capital gains taxes on stock profits), more regulations, open borders (which lowers average wages), a depleted defense posture, permanent wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, censorship of dissenting views (under the false label of “misinformation”) and a continuation of the weaponized FBI and IC to wage war on domestic political opponents.
The choice is clear. Yet investors and voters won’t have that choice if Trump is killed.
Increasingly, it appears that the U.S. government operating through the Secret Service, FBI and CIA is at least complicit in the Trump assassination attempts.
They may be actively creating the conditions for an assassination through intentional gross negligence by Trump’s security detail and nurturing mentally deranged Trump-haters in a way that leads directly to the sniper’s nest.
Let’s explore these claims in detail.
The last attempted assassination of a president was the shooting of President Reagan on March 30, 1981, over 43 years ago. The last attempt before that was a shooting aimed at President Ford on Sept. 22, 1975, 49 years ago.
Of course, President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin on Nov. 22, 1963, almost 61 years ago.
That makes two shootings and one assassination of U.S. presidents in the past 61 years prior to July 13, 2024. President Trump has been the victim of two assassination attempts in the past 80 days.
Something is seriously wrong with that timeline. One is reminded of the Ian Fleming quote from his James Bond novel Goldfinger: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
I’m willing to shorten Fleming’s timeline in the case of Trump — Twice is enemy action.
At this point, it’s fair to conclude that the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) is complicit in the Trump assassination attempts.
The security failures at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally site last July are well-known at this point and don’t have to be repeated at length.
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