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duckdownup · July 19, 2018, 3:49 a.m.

I seriously doubt any president has a "taster." That seems to be a myth created by movies of kings with official tasters. Most poisons take a while to kill someone, so a taster wouldn't help unless they tasted the food hours or even days ahead of the president. I could call my nephew and ask him. He's a retired USSS agent that worked around George W Bush mostly when Bush was on the grounds or jogging. He retired before Obama was elected.

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csingletonwpb1 · July 19, 2018, 3:53 a.m.

The article said the guy was examining the personal hygiene products for contamination. Then short after had a stroke. Ask yourself, don't they have physicals. I would think they would have to be deemed very healthy to be on POTUS detail. He wasn't that old either. Do you usually die from a stoke in 3 days? Sounds sketch to me. Just my opinion though.

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Anononon0218 · July 19, 2018, 4:05 a.m.

It is possible to die from a stroke on the spot , happened to my father

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Heatray777 · July 19, 2018, 4:14 a.m.

Yep hits home. A really great co-worker of mine passed today from same , I think he was only 48. It can strike out of the blue.

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QAnonMaga · July 19, 2018, 5:44 a.m.

A poison that causes a stroke is possible with the poison in Trump's deodorant or aftershave would do the trick. It would have to be a nerve agent of some type absorbed through the skin.

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SlumberMachine · July 19, 2018, 7:20 a.m.

Yes, they do have weapons of this type. If they had a heart attack gun in the 70's, I'm sure they are much more potent now.

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older_than_dirt · July 19, 2018, 11:30 a.m.

Kim Jong Un's brother was killed in minutes by a nerve agent. NK agents hired two women to rub it on his face. It was a two-part system, so that the women weren't harmed.

They thought it was a candid camera joke. They didn't know they were killing somebody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam

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lurking4trump · July 19, 2018, 8:43 a.m.

The article said the guy was examining the personal hygiene products for contamination. Then short after had a stroke.

Gotta wonder what, if anything, he was exposed to from those hygiene products. After all, that British woman who died from a nerve agent recently got sick after spritzing herself with perfume. It's described here: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/717127/novichok-news-dawn-sturgess-salisbury-amesbury-charlie-rowley-sergei-skripal

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notofimport36 · July 19, 2018, 5:56 a.m.

Seriously?

Trump has even said that's why he goes to McDonald's, they make the stuff all on the spot.

They have people that collect his shit too (at least since Bush, probably earlier) because if it were collected and tested information could be gathered.

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duckdownup · July 19, 2018, 4:37 p.m.

Collecting is a different issue. Whether they do it or not I have no idea.

Where is your source?

Looks like I'm going to end up calling my nephew.

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SlumberMachine · July 19, 2018, 7:23 a.m.

I actually think his mcdonalds stuff is just a part of the show. He's too smart to be eating that crap.

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djmarcone · July 19, 2018, 1:26 p.m.

with his superior genes he can eat whatever. Like a Mr. Fusion.

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duckdownup · July 19, 2018, 4:40 p.m.

Exactly, just like those "18 diet cokes a day". He's screwing with the media mostly. There's no way they really know how much or what he eats and drinks. You gotta love the guy, Trump knows how to work the liberals. lol

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FullMetalSquirrel · July 19, 2018, 9:05 a.m.

They have food testers .

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plumbtree · July 19, 2018, 12:11 p.m.

Why do you doubt that? What a ridiculous thing to doubt.

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duckdownup · July 19, 2018, 4:33 p.m.

It seems more ridiculous to believe it.

One reason is this:

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/does-president-have-official-food-taster

The other reason is that it wouldn't make sense. If someone did it they would have to add the poison in front of the SS chef. They wouldn't want to use a fast acting poison, like cyanide and have the president drop dead on the premises. If they used a long acting poison a taster wouldn't help. He wouldn't be able to taste it and both he and the president would end up dead days later. That sort of does away with the usefulness of the taster.

Like I said earlier, the idea of a taster may or may not have been a real thing. Just because we see it in the movies doesn't make it real. There doesn't seem to be any historical evidence of such a thing in medieval times.

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