He’s finally beaten Gerald Ford’s assassination attempt numbers.
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Though the inter-arrival rate of Ford assassination attempts remains undefeated.
@mattblaze This comment led me to the Wikipedia page on assassination attempts of your presidents and there appear to be many foiled attempts I have never heard of, even on recent presidents. Apart from the last screw up, the CIA seems to be doing a pretty good job.
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For the kids who weren't around then: in 1975 there were two serious but failed attempts on President Gerald Ford's life, just 17 days apart from each other. In both cases, the would-be assassins - one a member of the Manson family - didn't appear to have specific grievances against Ford himself, but rather thought that killing the president would bring about some sort of positive social change.
@mattblaze The thing I don’t understand is why they think killing Trump will make things better - my understanding of history is that it would actually energize his supporters and turn Vance into a “torch bearer”.
You could make a solid argument that if Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated there would have been no Great Society or Apollo program.
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So Ford holds the record for shortest interval between assassination attempts. But Trump and Reagan almost certainly hold the record for presidential assassination attempts in closest geographic proximity to one another.
@mattblaze was disappointed that Wash Post map of Hilton didn't show the proximity the Reagan attempt
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