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 The democrats are strongly signaling a conspiracy to murder their opponent.
Who is pulling their strings so hard they are willingly exposing themselves to being targeted by the majority of the public? 
 Shall we make predictions?  I predict that Judge Merchan will sentence him to prison, and after only a few days in prison he will have "committed suicide" when the cameras were strangely not working. 
 I’m thinking he’ll sentence trump to the max or at least 100 years. That provides room for an appeal to knock it down to a reduced sentence of only a few decades. (If the first appeal doesn’t result in it all getting tossed)

But the key is the sentencing is purposely timed to cause max uncertainty for the republican convention. 
 Im refering to the pullback of secret service protection bill they are pushing through congress. To remove protection in this circumstance is the same as a conspiracy to murder. Regardless, he'll probably have more protection in prison than he had in the whitehouse.