Does anyone feel that Trump may be frightened for his life...?

[First Speaker]

...look at all the people dropping like flies connected to Putin and/or Treasongate. I suspect at least one motive for this is to send Mr Trump a message--keep your mouth shut, at all costs. Trump is certainly in way over his head. I don't think he ever expected it would come to this. It wouldn't shock me completely if the very act of running for President wasn't his idea in the first place. Would Putin really contemplate eliminating a President of the United States? If he thought it was in his interest, absolutely. Even if it stank to high heaven, there probably wouldn't be proof. And there is, of course, a precedent...

[tblue37]

1. It's not as if presidents have not been gotten to before. nt

[Sculpin Beauregard]

2. He should be

though I wonder if his extreme narcissism makes it possible.

[demmiblue]

3. He thinks he is untouchable... it is part of his narcissism, imo. n/t

[stillsoleft]

4. He's the Joe Pesci psychopath

In Goodfellows. Thought he was getting made and got whacked

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. He may see being a total fuckup as a way out.

It wouldn't surprise me that Putin used blackmail to force him to run . He never figured there was a chance he could win. Then the Russians messed with the election outcomes. And Trump found himself in a job he never wanted. A job he he is totally unqualified for.

And Putin is realizing he backed the wrong guy.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Sword of Damocles

According to the story, Damocles was pandering to Dionysius, his king, and exclaimed to him that Dionysius was truly fortunate as a great man of power and authority, surrounded by magnificence. In response, Dionysius offered to switch places with Damocles so that Damocles could taste that very fortune firsthand. Damocles quickly and eagerly accepted the king's proposal. Damocles sat down in the king's throne surrounded by every luxury, but Dionysius arranged that a huge sword should hang above the throne, held at the pommel only by a single hair of a horse's tail. Damocles finally begged the king that he be allowed to depart because he no longer wanted to be so fortunate, realizing that with great fortune and power comes also great danger.[2][1]

King Dionysius effectively conveyed the sense of constant fear in which a person with great power may live. Cicero used this story as the last in a series of contrasting examples for reaching the conclusion he had been moving towards in this fifth Disputation, in which the theme is that virtue is sufficient for living a happy life.[3][4] Cicero asks, "Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?"[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles

[janterry]

7. I think paranoia

and incompetence has served him well over the years. He doesn't leave a paper trail - so he's hopeful that any crimes - can't be linked back to him.