Buckle up for Trump's 'October Surprise'

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68% : Now US intelligence agencies say their big worry is that one or more of these nations will reciprocate Trump's love by launching some sort of October Surprise to push voters closer to Trump in time for this fall's election.
60% : In an NBC News article from May 24th titled "Are Russia and North Korea planning an 'October surprise' that aids Trump?" reporters Cortney Kube and Carol E. Lee note that there could be serious consequences arising from the fact that North Korea is today giving Russia more weaponry to use against Ukraine than all of Europe has been able to provide to President Zelenskyy:"U.S. officials are also bracing for North Korea to potentially take its most provocative military actions in a decade close to the U.S. presidential election, possibly at Putin's urging..."The increasingly close relationship between Putin and Kim represents a major shift from when Russia worked with the U.S. in the past to try to rein in North Korea.
53% : READ: 19 fabulously worthless things Trump will give you for your moneyAnd, of course, there was the October Surprise in Florida in 2000 when Florida Governor Jeb Bush's administration got the 68% Black and Hispanic list of Texas felons from his brother, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and used them to purge tens of thousands of Black and Hispanic Florida voters with similar names from the Florida voter rolls in the months immediately before that year's election.
50% : To that end, Russia and Saudi Arabia recently collaborated to cut oil production by 1.4 million barrels a day in an effort to drive up gas prices here in the US, just like they did in October/November of 2022.
48% : As Michael Schuman wrote for an article titled "Why Xi Wants Trump to Win" in The Atlantic:"By weakening U.S. standing abroad and democracy at home, Trump would offer Xi more opportunities than Biden to extend Chinese influence and win hearts and minds within the developing world.
44% : Donald Trump has overtly taken the side of dictators including Putin, Xi, Orbán, and Kim over the past eight years, most likely because he admires the way each has crushed efforts toward democracy and ruled their respective nations with an iron fist.
44% : Since Trump let the Saudis buy the largest refinery in America (at Port Arthur, Texas), expect gas prices to be over $5/gallon this fall.
42% : Such an action could swing our election toward Trump, but also risks provoking a third world war.
42% : So, it's entirely reasonable to assume that Trump -- still in touch with Putin, Kim, and Xi, even if only through media proclamations -- is either planning or expecting help this fall from his autocratic pals.
41% : Now, Moscow is using its veto power on the U.N. Security Council to give Pyongyang cover to evade sanctions enforcement measures intended to constrain its nuclear program.
41% : We all need to stay alert and remain outspoken about the dangers Trump represents, and do what we can to support democracy worldwide.
40% : "Similarly, The New York Times reported last month that China -- in a move reminiscent of Putin's millions of Internet Research Agency troll posts promoting Trump on Facebook leading up to the 2016 election -- is all in on using social media, including, apparently, TikTok, to crush Biden and lift Trump into the White House:"Some of the Chinese accounts impersonate fervent Trump fans, including one on X that purported to be 'a father, husband and son' who was 'MAGA all the way!!'
39% : Will one of these "help Trump get elected while advancing our own interests" scenarios by one or more of these axis nations lead to the end of democracy in America or a third world war?
38% : This past week, Trump told a group of wealthy Jewish donors that if student protests of Netanyahu's policies in Gaza happened during his presidency, he would not only arrest them but he would strip them American citizenship and deport them from the country.
36% : It's today run by the heirs to the regime that successfully handed the 1980 election to Reagan, and tried to help Trump get elected in 2020.
30% : "North Korea firing missiles into the demilitarized zone between it and South Korea to help Trump could represent a major escalation of tensions in the region, as would an October nuclear test or attack on South Korea's border islands.
28% : Trump, who has essentially promised to cut off US support for that besieged nation, could literally save Putin's life if his generals are thinking of taking him out the way Hitler's tried to do.
27% : At the very least, Trump may dial back (as he did when president before) the efforts of Voice of America and other US propaganda and outreach efforts aimed at destabilizing the Iranian regime.
22% : "Given Iran's role in supporting Hamas' brutal raid on Israel last October and the increased pressure the Biden administration is putting them under, disrupting our election to put Trump -- no fan of democracy -- into office apparently makes a lot of sense to the violent mullahs clinging to power in that country.
22% : While they probably won't vote for Trump, polling from 2020 shows that if they hadn't shown up for Biden in that election, Trump would have held onto the presidency.
13% : Combine Iran's efforts with those of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu -- who is both openly hostile to President Biden (as he was to President Obama) and fond of Trump -- and an expansion of conflict in the Middle East also has the potential to both influence the US election and lead to a larger international war.
12% : And Trump empowered them by killing the Iran nuclear deal President Obama had negotiated, allowing them to resume making nukes; embracing Kim and Xi; and giving top secret information to Putin.
11% : Most recently, Trump shouted out to Putin in an echo of Reagan's traitorous embrace of Iran, essentially asking him to humiliate Biden by holding onto imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich until after the election.

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