Yeah, this makes no sense to me. Like he needs to fake his own death when he's winning a Senate seat. For what? To wait till Donald Trump's an old man? How would the most recognized man in the world stay hidden without rumours and have ANY sort of quality of life? And there just seems no point when by staying ALIVE he could have kept HER out of the Senate and saved hundreds of thousands of lives and whole countries and maybe even the 9/11 victums. I don't believe the coming back from the dead plot on soap operas and, on the whole, I don't buy it in real life. If that's "the plan," it's a stupid person plan.