‘$10m for the removal of Donald Trump’ – do political bounties ever work?

The Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has promised a large reward for information that leads to the downfall of the US president. Such offers are an age-old weapon in the arsenal of the aggrieved

If there is something public discourse could arguably do without right now, it’s a seventysomething man they call “the porn king” flopping a $10m (£7.5m) cheque on the table. But here comes Larry Flynt, the American publisher of Hustler, laying down perhaps the biggest bounty in political history.

Flynt wants information that would lead to the downfall of Donald Trump. In a full-page advert in the Washington Post Sunday, he argued that Trump is “dangerously unfit” for office, adding: “Impeachment would be a messy, contentious affair, but the alternative – three more years of destabilising dysfunction – is worse.”

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