The UAE is not Saudi Arabia. The two countries are at best “frenemies.”
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Agreed. Inconsequential, and yet:
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FWIW: I always imagine Negativland’s David Wills delivering that song’s refrain.
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Has anyone started taking bets on which of the 18 other defendants will be the first rat to jump ship and offer to testify against Trump to try to save their own skin?
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That guy’s trying to play it cool but the eyebrows are telegraphing that he’s reading some crazy shit.
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Are we talking mundane ways, spy thriller ways, action movie possibilities?
The secret service is more focused on keeping people away from him than on keeping him from doing stuff. Ditching them probably isn’t that hard.
Goes to bed one night and sneaks out a back/side door. Goes to a long private meeting at his lawyer’s office, sneaks out the back/side/basement door instead, in a laundry cart or shipping box. Boards his plane and heads to his private room on board and instead exits the plane into a waiting car while everyone thinks he’s on board, wearing a fancy disguise 3D printed face. Maybe in the catering truck cargo box Taylor Swift style.
Get’s in a car and drives or is driven to a boat with access to the Atlantic ocean. It’s a fishing boat and he hides in an empty catch tank for the spy thriller. In the action movie, it’s a racing speed boat.
Once off shore, transfers to some rich assholes mega yacht. In the spy thriller, it’s a container ship with a special fake container to smuggle him in. Obviously in the action movie it’s a Russian submarine.
Choose you own adventure style, mix and match. 
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Former Presidents aren’t required to use Secret Service protection. If he was serious about fleeing the country or going into hiding (which I don’t believe he is) then Trump could just drop his Secret Service detail altogether like Nixon did in 1985.
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The Ukraine War put an end to available Super Yachts belonging to friendly oligarchs docking in Florida. Guess it’s going to be wading out to a waiting sub during Shark Week.
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That’s even more mundane then.
To Russian Super Yachts. There’s still plenty of rich assholes with them that might help.
So, we’re down to dropping his secret service protection, driving to the marina, getting on a TFG Boat Parade larger boat, heading out into the Atlantic like a deep sea fishing trip, transferring to a rich asshole’s large yacht (yet smaller than the largest Russian oligarchs boat), and heading off to anywhere.
Making it work would require not posting to social media until he reached his destination. Something that is likely impossible. 
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Or he falls out of a window, hits his head and dies then rolls into a canal where his bloating carcass floats out into the Atlantic where a Russian trawler captain spots seagulls picking at his decaying remains and says “Oh well.” and turns around just as a hungry great white shark passes on a meal.
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That’s more complicated than it needs to be. That being said, I’m going to suggest a different (somewhat complicated) approach.
Maybe he holds a Donald Trump look-alike contest. [Of course being surrounded by himself is on-brand.] You’d think he’d be a shoe-in to win, right? Ask Dolly Parton about that.
During judging, he secretly swaps places and credentials (passport and driver’s license) with one of the contestants (a rabid MAGA follower) and ditches his security detail. When the contestants all leave at the end of the event, he goes with them and drives off in the car owned by his doppelganger. [I don’t know how long it’s been since he drove; perhaps one of his doppelganger’s friends / accomplices drives him instead.] Said doppelganger has bought a round trip ticket on a flight to some other country and Trump uses it to leave the country.
The doppelganger could, once Trump has left, report his IDs stolen to avoid being charged with aiding and abetting Trump’s flight from justice.
Of course, this assumes Trump would be willing to admit (even to himself) that he’s in danger and should sneak away. I’m not sure his ego would allow him to do that.
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… I actually have seen velveeta go bad, and it was NOT pretty.
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I was suggesting three different scenarios to ditch the secret service, a mundane, spy thriller, and action movie scenario. Distinct and different, not doing all of them.
I would put your possible plan in the spy thriller genre. All the doppelganger and misdirection feels very spy thriller like. 
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This scenario reminds me of the real Elvis in:
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I don’t think they would. A few here or there, perhaps… But TFG’s supporters gave it their best shot on Jan 6 2021. They not only failed, but they are now living under the specter of being pursued for their criminal actions on that day. The ones who haven’t been caught yet must be quaking in their boots, trying to remember if that rock they threw hit a cop, or if there is enough DNA evidence in the poop they smeared on the wall to lead the police back to them.
Trump has already tried, several times, to get his supporters to “fight” and stop his trials. Police set up huge response teams to prepare for thousands of people… And barely anyone showed up. If I remember correctly, there were more media crews than “protesters”.
They’ll send money, they’ll vote for TFG, but I don’t think for a moment that there will ever again be another attack. Too many people were hung out to dry, after TFG promised that he’d pay for their legal fees and (gasp!) DIDN’T.
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You’ve thought about this a lot, haven’t you?
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