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Trump Body Count


Added by Matt • Updated about a year ago by Matt
Added by Matt • Updated about a year ago by Matt

Trump Body Count

About

Trump Body Count is a conspiracy theory that United States President Donald Trump ordered the assassinations of numerous political enemies and eyewitnesses to secure power and protect themselves from legal prosecution. While the conspiracy theory was started as a type of rebuttal to the Clinton Body Count conspiracy theory, in August 2019, following the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the hashtag #TrumpBodyCount began trending on Twitter with some speculating about Trump's involvement in his death.

Origin

Between 2016 and 2019, the phrase Trump Body Count appeared on various social platforms in several contexts. The earliest known usage of the phrase and hashtag was published on August 9th, 2016 by Twitter [1] user @olfashdeb who compared it to the "Clinton Body Count" (shown below).


débb @olfashdeb Replying to @nytimes #ClintonBodyCount=6. #TrumpBodyCount 0 3:54 PM Aug 9, 2016 Twitter for iPhone

The following year, on September 5th, 2017, EliteTrader.com[2] message board user exGOPer published a "starter list" on the Trump Body Count. Each of the examples contains a hyperlink to articles intended to support the conspiracy theory. They wrote:

Jerry Doyle says Trump is "all icing and no cake", Jay Thomas calls Trump a "fucking idiot", "TRUMP is a greater threat to the USA than terrorists", Chris Cornell reunites Audioslave for "Anti-Inaugural Ball": dead

Malcolm Nance says the world sees Trump as a clown show, Bachelorette contestant Michael Nance is dead at 31 (whoops, someone misread the memo).

Garry Shandling makes fun of Trump talking about his penis, Trump friend Mitch Huhem "commits suicide"

"Mysterious helicopter crash" kills three Trump executives. What did they know?

Prince (with Morris Day and the motherfuckin' Time) writes Donald Trump (Black Version) "mysteriously dies."

Spread

Over the next three years, the Trump Body Count garnered a variety of meanings. Some used it to describe political figures and who had died, alleging Trump's involvement (shown below, left). Others used it to describe the people who were directly affected by President Trump's immigration policies (shown below, right).


Adam Wall @adub1967 We should start a #TrumpBodyCount Bradd Jaffy @BraddJaffy Jul 13, 2017 Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show trib.in/2uoq5QX 3:37 PM Jul 13, 2017 Twitter for Android Robert @robt_interrupte Trump has declared war on asylum and immigration. Legal Americans are also being swept up by 100's to satisfy his taste for blood and hate. Many have died in Trump's custody. What say you @ACLU and @UN?? #TrumpWarCriminal #TrumpBodyCount Shaun King @shaunking Aug 9 Read this quote from Anne Frank in light of exactly what happened this week with the largest ICE raids in American history - where parents were literally taken while their kids were at school and the kids literally found out when nobody was there to pick them up. twitter.com/AnneFrankCente... 4:21 PM Aug 9, 2019 Twitter Web App

Jeffrey Epstein's Suicide

On August 10th, 2019, officials reported that Epstein was found dead after hanging himself in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. That day, the hashtag #TrumpBodyCount[3] began trending on Twitter worldwide, with many speculating that Trump had ordered a hit on Epstein to prevent him from exposing evidence against his involvement in his alleged sex trafficking operations (examples below).


Alan Sanderson @TarnishedPath #JefferyEpstein had information on Donald Trump & now he's dead. #TrumpBodyCount 2:46 AM Aug 12, 2019 Twitter for Android Victoria @KsnurseVictoria RT this over and over. Proves @realDonald Trump had a reason to eliminate Epstein. #TrumpBodyCount #TrumpEpsteinMurder Jerry O'Donnell @JerryOD 21h Replying to @JohnFugelsang Yes @POTUS #trump is listed in court documents 6 FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS 5. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, alleges that the Defendants, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. 7 8 Epstein, did willfully and with extreme malice violate her Civil Rights under 18 U.Ss.C. ; 2241 by 9 sexually and physically abusing Plaintiff Johnson by forcing her to engage in various perverted and 10 depraved sex acts by threatening physical harm to Plaintiff Johnson and also her family 6. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, alleges that the Defendants, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E 11 12 Epstein, also did willfully and with extreme malice violate her Civil Rights under 42 U.S.C. ; 1985 by 13 conspiring to deny Plaintiff Johnson her Civil Rights by making her their sex slave. 7. The Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, alleges she was subject to extreme sexual and physical abuse by 14 15 the Defendants, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, including forcible r--- during a four 16 month time span covering the months of June-September 1994 when Plaintiff Johnson was still only 17 a minor of age 13. The Plaintiff Katie Iohnson. alleges she was enticed bv promises of monev and a modeling 8 10 5:53 AM Aug 12, 2019 Twitter for iPhone Albert Maguffin @albert_maguffin Replying to @erzz07 and @ChrisDokish 1 the only person to receive more votes than Hillary Clinton was Obama in 08 and 12. 2 Bill Clinton has no power. Hasn't been pres in nearly 20 years. Trump &Epstein were besties You think the Clintons - not in power - could do this? Trump controls the gov't. #TrumpBodyCount 8:20 AM Aug 12, 2019 Twitter for Android

Search Interest

External References

[1] Twitter – @olfashdeb's Tweet

[2] Elite Trader – Trump Body Count

[3] Twitter – #TrumpBodyCount


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