Outrageous claims have emerged from Republican circles suggesting a sinister conspiracy is afoot to brutally murder former President Donald Trump if he is jailed over the criminal charges he currently faces.
During an interview with the infamous conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Monday, April 22, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene voiced inflammatory allegations. She stated that Democrats “literally want him [Trump] dead” and are actively planning to have the former president “murdered” while incarcerated, as reported by Newsweek.
Speaking on Jones’ Infowars program, Greene alleged that this plot involved stripping Trump of his Secret Service protection to leave him vulnerable behind bars.
“They want to lock him up in jail for the rest of his life so that he dies in jail,” Greene told Jones. “And they want to take away his Secret Service protection so that he is murdered somewhere in jail, possibly. This is how serious they are.”
Greene claimed this supposed murder conspiracy stems from a bill recently introduced by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson called the “DISGRACED Act.” The proposed legislation would terminate Secret Service protection for convicted felons like Trump if he is found guilty in any of the four criminal cases he faces.
“Bennie Thompson introduced a bill to take away his Secret Service protection. That’s how serious they are. They want [former] President Trump dead,” Greene stated.
However, a source from Thompson’s Congressional office has flatly rejected these murder allegations as baseless fearmongering, stating the bill simply aims to end “special treatment” for convicted criminals like Trump when it comes to taxpayer-funded security details.
Greene is not alone in promoting this shocking theory. Controversial lawyer Alan Dershowitz, formerly part of Trump’s legal team, made similar insinuations on Newsmax over the weekend, alleging the DISGRACED Act “means they want him killed.”
The former president is currently standing trial in New York and faces dozens more criminal charges across three other cases related to alleged hush money payments, his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his potential mishandling of classified documents after leaving office.
Trump has decried the prosecutions as a malicious “persecution” designed to derail his newly-launched 2024 presidential campaign.
While those around the former president trade in increasingly unhinged and paranoid rhetoric, Trump himself has not directly addressed or validated claims that his political opponents are actively plotting to have him killed.
