This is the group that now wants him dead. If they can’t put him in prison or keep him out of the White House they will assassinate him.
We *think* we have an elected president but if the wrong one gets elected they kill him.
Most authoritarian/dictatorships seriously change in form after about 70 years for some reason. This authoritarian oligarchy came to power in the 1950s. Their coming out party was assassinating JFK. Their time is running short.
In the early 80s, no East German thought they would be strolling through Stasi HQ looking through files. It would have seemed insane to even think about it.