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Trump tells Iran to sign deal with US or ‘the whole country is going to get blown up’ (www.the-independent.com)

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Donald Trump has issued his latest threat to Iran and said that if officials fail to make a deal with the United States “the whole country is going to get blown up.”

The president also made threats Sunday morning to target civil infrastructure after it was reported that Iranian forces were refusing to allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.

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[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 5 hours ago

Actually died? Lol, no. Four out of 46, or roughly 8-9%. Lincoln, garfield, mckinley, kennedy.

If you include those shot at you can up those numbers a bit. Off the top of my head roosevelt, trump, reagan, and the other roosevelt, ford,

Jackson is the fun story, where an assassin pulled two pistols and both of them misfired or jammed. Taft had an assassin apprehended before he shot. Truman had assassins in the white house, but wasn't in immediate shooting range/sight line. Nixon had a guy who wanted to shoot him, but the car went by too fast, so the assassin later shot a governor. Obama and clinton both had rifles fired at the white house.

So if we include everything involving firearms, we have lincoln, garfield, mckinley, kennedy, roosevelts 1&2, ford, reagan, jackson, obama, and clinton. That's 11/46, or ~24%. Bump that up a wee bit if you want taft to be included.

There's also some standouts for grenades and bombs, but we were originally talking about death by being shot, so...

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