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NightWatcher

(39,382 posts)
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 10:57 PM Sep 2025

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 Sep 2025 OP
Or ricin? Did anyone stab him with an umbrella? Ocelot II Sep 2025 #1
Hmmmmm 🤔 Traildogbob Sep 2025 #2
Good point. Silent Type Sep 2025 #3
Intriguing -- but hard to believe Vladdy would destroy his fawning puppet Blue Owl Sep 2025 #4
Eliminate the evidence? BlueSpot Sep 2025 #5
What a nice thought! RainCaster Sep 2025 #6
If there was anything to the pizza pentagon ru.ors (there isnt) this could explain it SSJVegeta Sep 2025 #7
Why would Putin poison Trump? iemanja Sep 2025 #8
because he was losing his effectiveness? Or as a warning? LymphocyteLover Sep 2025 #11
Taking too long. elleng Sep 2025 #9
Keep Your Sunny Side Up no_hypocrisy Sep 2025 #10

Traildogbob

(13,163 posts)
2. Hmmmmm 🤔
Mon Sep 1, 2025, 11:05 PM
Sep 2025

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

Blue Owl

(59,628 posts)
4. Intriguing -- but hard to believe Vladdy would destroy his fawning puppet
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:07 AM
Sep 2025

Dump’s basically destroying the USA for him….

BlueSpot

(1,329 posts)
5. Eliminate the evidence?
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 12:29 AM
Sep 2025

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

(3,141 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
Sep 2025

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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