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NightWatcher

(39,367 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:57 PM Monday

What if it was polonium poisoning?

How long ago did Putin meet with Trump and ride in the beast?
Aug 15th

How long after being poisoned did it take Alexander Litvinenko to die from polonium poisoning?


From The Lancet

The patient continued to deteriorate and within 3 weeks had developed multiple organ failure requiring ventilation, haemofiltration, and cardiac support, associated with a drop in consciousness. On the 23rd day after he first became ill, he suffered a pulseless electrical activity cardiorespiratory arrest from which he could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead.


https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00144-6/fulltext

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2816%2900144-6/abstract
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What if it was polonium poisoning? (Original Post) NightWatcher Monday OP
Or ricin? Did anyone stab him with an umbrella? Ocelot II Monday #1
Hmmmmm 🤔 Traildogbob Monday #2
Good point. Silent Type Monday #3
Intriguing -- but hard to believe Vladdy would destroy his fawning puppet Blue Owl Yesterday #4
Eliminate the evidence? BlueSpot Yesterday #5
What a nice thought! RainCaster Yesterday #6
If there was anything to the pizza pentagon ru.ors (there isnt) this could explain it SSJVegeta Yesterday #7
Why would Putin poison Trump? iemanja Yesterday #8
because he was losing his effectiveness? Or as a warning? LymphocyteLover Yesterday #11
Taking too long. elleng Yesterday #9
Keep Your Sunny Side Up no_hypocrisy Yesterday #10

Traildogbob

(11,736 posts)
2. Hmmmmm 🤔
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:05 PM
Monday

He will not fit out any window. So the tea makes sense.
Pootie could just release the tapes.

Blue Owl

(57,212 posts)
4. Intriguing -- but hard to believe Vladdy would destroy his fawning puppet
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:07 AM
Yesterday

Dump’s basically destroying the USA for him….

BlueSpot

(1,173 posts)
5. Eliminate the evidence?
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:29 AM
Yesterday

Trump's had one foot in the grave for a while now. The dementia is getting worse every day. No telling what he might say. Plus, if he dies, he can't confess. Who else is there to tell about it? Nobody that wants to stay alive, and Trump isn't exactly known for surrounding himself with brave people.

Vlad might have had it in/on the ring on the hand they shook with in Alaska. Pure speculation on my part but the timing seems interesting. Sorta joking, sorta not.

SSJVegeta

(1,341 posts)
7. If there was anything to the pizza pentagon ru.ors (there isnt) this could explain it
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 01:24 AM
Yesterday

Perhaps the Pentagon is prepping to invade Russia as retaliation? But now that China and India have struck hogh profile deals with them, that prospect seems even less likely?

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