Chapter 286: The Scapegoat Behind American Politics

"Why are you helping me? We don't know each other!" Jodie Foster asked suddenly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"We don't know each other, but in that kind of place, a woman is pestered by a lewd man, shouldn't I make a move?" especially a beautiful girl like you!" Zhang Junyi said with a smile.

"I'm afraid the latter sentence is the main reason?" asked Judy Foster rhetorically with a hint of sarcasm.

"Of course, I don't deny that it's because you're beautiful in my eyes, that's the type I like, that's why I'm coming forward, what's wrong with that?" Zhang Junyi didn't mind Judy Foster's tone, and kept smiling.

"Look, didn't I leave directly after I helped, if you don't get on the bus, we won't be standing here now" has always maintained a gentlemanly attitude towards the beauty Zhang Junyi.

"I don't know your name until now, beauty!" Zhang Junyi asked bluntly, in this case, Zhang Junyi wanted to further deepen the relationship between the two, Zhang Junyi could only choose this way, after all, he knew that Jodie Foster's personality was a little different from ordinary girls, otherwise he would not have chosen to become Lala in his previous life.

"Judy Foster, you can call me Judy!" said Judy Foster, unconcerned.

In fact, what Zhang Junyi didn't know was that Judy Foster had already attributed Zhang Junyi to a friend's relationship in the car, although Zhang Junyi did not have a handsome face, but it made Jodie Foster feel very safe and down-to-earth, after all, it was Zhang Junyi who stepped forward just now when Jodie Foster was in need of help, and Zhang Junyi's heroic act of saving the beauty was indeed not in vain.

In addition, although Zhang Junyi looks very young, he has a temperament that Judie Foster can't say, which makes Judie Foster want to explore.

The slightly prickly question just now is actually just due to Judy Foster's own personality, if it weren't for Zhang Junyi's reassurance, Judy Foster would not have come here with Zhang Junyi at all, although American women are open after all, but going to a place that they don't know with a stranger, or a girl and a man, this is absolutely impossible to happen. At least not Jodie Foster.

"Did you know that on Monday, March 30 last year, a nationwide shock occurred in the United States, when President Ronald Reagan, who had lunch and spoke at the Hilton Hotel in the capital D.C. at noon after lunch with representatives of trade unions, was shot with a revolver by a man named John Hinckley along with three other people at the Hilton Hotel in the capital D.C. Reagan was hit by a bullet in the lung, causing severe internal bleeding, but he was able to recover quickly due to resuscitation, and in the end the whole incident did not kill anyone, but White House press secretary James Brady was paralyzed for life due to a bullet in the head, and the perpetrator John Hinckley was found insane by the court and was acquitted and sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. ”

Ironically, the final investigation concluded that John Hinckley's motive for assassinating the president had nothing to do with any political conspiracy, but rather from his long-standing obsession with an actress, Jodie Foster. This obsession began when he watched the film "Taxi Driver" directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, which he watched at least 15 times, and apparently imagined himself as a character like Travis Bycker, the male protagonist played by Robert in the film. ”

Over the next few years, he began to follow Foster around the country, and even signed up for a writing class at Yale University, where he learned from People Weekly that the actress was enrolled in the Ivy League in 1980. He then started writing love letters to his sweetheart and called her twice. Although he had been told that he was "not interested", Hinckley felt that he could not give up halfway. He firmly believes that if he becomes a nationally renowned figure, he will definitely be able to make the actress look at her.

After that, he decided to study under Bycker and began to follow the then president, Jimmy Carter. He was surprised to find that he could easily walk to the president, and at one point he was even a step away, when he was arrested at Nashville International Airport in October 1980 for illegally carrying weapons. However, although President Carter was canvassing for re-election in the local area, the FBI did not link the two events, so the US Secret Service was not notified. “

In March 1981, he wrote three or four more text messages to the actress mentioning her "great cause," and the girl handed them over to the school's dean, who reported them to the Yale Police Department, but the police department did not move at all until March 30, 1981, after the assassination of the president, and the perpetrator John Hinckley was arrested. Hinckley was acquitted of the charge by the court and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. “

"What's even more ridiculous is that all the public opinion and political pressure because the perpetrator John Hinckley was not convicted, and most of them were transferred to this actress who didn't know anything at all, and she had to face the strange eyes of all the teachers and students at school, and what was even more terrifying was that she also had to face the siege and interception of most of the reporters in the United States and countless inquiries from the relevant departments of the American authorities!"

Judy Foster's tone was a little excited, and she told the whole thing to Zhang Junyi as if it were a story.

When Judy Foster recounted the whole incident, Zhang Junyi did not interject a word, just listened quietly, because he knew that at this time, he only needed to play a quiet audience, and there was no need to do anything else now.

After all, it has been more than a year since this incident happened, and the difficulties that the girl should face have already happened to her, so now Zhang Junyi is not very suitable for comfort or anything, so Zhang Junyi can only regard himself as a listening trash can The role is the most appropriate.

"I guess you know who this actress is, that's right, it's me. Seeing Zhang Junyi's eyes at this time, Judy Foster said to herself.

"But why? I'm innocent, I didn't do anything, and even this matter has nothing to do with me from beginning to end, why is everyone okay, but in the end I have to bear all this, it's been more than a year, why do I still have to face the strange eyes of the teachers and students in the school, and even my career has suffered the biggest Waterloo!"

"This, I know the reason, because although you didn't do anything, and the whole thing has nothing to do with you, but this matter can no longer be regarded as just an ordinary assassination case, the whole thing has risen to the weird political incident in the United States, because of this matter, there will be many people who are unlucky in secret, but these things can't be said in the open!" Zhang Junyi paused for a while.

Because he didn't know whether to tell the girl next to him about the darkness in it, after thinking for a while, Zhang Junyi still told the truth, although he didn't come to the whole time itself, but things are such a thing, after several years of ups and downs in the business world, Zhang Junyi still saw this matter very clearly.

Zhang Junyi continued to say calmly following the topic just now: "It is precisely because the thing behind itself cannot be put on the bright side, so all the big people involved on the bright side will need a character who can talk about things, including the police station, and at the same time need such a character on the bright side to reduce the pressure you face, it just so happens that you are a female star in Hollywood, and it is officially suitable!"

Judy Foster couldn't believe Zhang Junyi's explanation, but at the same time, there was no reason to refute Zhang Junyi's explanation.

Seeing that Judy Foster was so pitiful at this time, Zhang Junyi couldn't help but feel a little distressed in his heart, and couldn't help but take the initiative to stretch out his arm and take the girl over, letting her lean on his shoulder.

"A few days before the shooting, Vice President George? H? W. Bush accepted a mandate to be assigned crisis management in an emergency, but Secretary of State Alexander Hagrid objected. However, when the White House learned that the president had been shot, Bush was on the Air Force No. 2 over Texas, and because the vice president's plane was not equipped with an encrypted communication system, his phone call with the White House was intercepted by the media. White House staff Fred? F. Fielding immediately proceeded to prepare the procedures for the transfer of presidential authority under the twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. White House Chief of Staff James Baker and presidential adviser Edwin Meese immediately left for the hospital. “

Cabinet members, including Secretary of State Hagrid, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberg, and National Security Advisor Richard Brown? V. Allen discussed a number of important issues in the White House Situation Room. These include the whereabouts of the nuclear suitcases, the approaching of the Atlantic coast with a group of Polar Bear submarines that are significantly more unusual than usual, the possibility of another invasion of Poland by the Polar Bears, and the succession of the president. Although no recording equipment is normally allowed in the situation room, the recording was made after Allen informed everyone present, and the contents of it were made public. ”

"After obtaining a copy of the nuclear suitcase and the gold code card, they placed it in the war room, and Reagan's nuclear suitcase remained in the hospital with the officer who kept him, and Bush also had a card and a nuclear suitcase. A group of people discussed the need to raise the alert level of the army and, above all, to do this without changing the state of national alert. Although later intelligence showed that the number of Soviet submarines was in fact normal, and that Reagan was undergoing surgery, Hagrid declared, "Under the Constitution, the core of power is now here, in this chair, before the vice president arrives." "But in reality, according to the order of succession of the president under the law, the secretary of state is not the first person to succeed, but the third person after the vice president and the speaker of the House of Representatives, except that according to Title 3, Chapter 19 of the United States Code, the pro tempore speaker of the U.S. Senate and the president of the House of Representatives must resign from their original positions before becoming acting president. The rest of the Situation Room knew that Hagrid's claims were unconstitutional, but none of them pointed them out to him at the time to avoid conflict. ”

"A press conference is taking place in the White House. CBS News anchor Leslie Starr asked White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Spikes who was running the government right now, and he said, "I can't answer that question just yet." Upon hearing this, Hagrid hastily wrote a note to Larry, ordering him to step down from the podium immediately. A short time later, Hagrid personally walked into the press briefing room and made the following highly controversial statement: Gentlemen, according to the Constitution, we should proceed in the order of President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. And if the president decides to transfer power to the vice president, he will do so. But now in the White House, I'm in charge. Of course, I will be in close contact with the Vice President, who is still on the road, and if there is anything to deal with, I will consult with him as well. ”

It was reported that the rest of the room burst into laughter when they heard him say, "I'm in charge." This statement reflects political realities, but has no legal basis. He later added: I'm not talking about the transfer of presidential power, I'm talking about the executive branch, and the question is who is running it now, not "who will succeed if the president dies." ”

Although Hagrid stated in the press briefing room that "there is absolutely no need to take any precautions at such a time," the Secretary of Defense raised the military's alert level as he spoke, and Hagrid objected to him when he returned to the Situation Room because it made him look like a liar. While Weinberg and others accused Hagrid of abuse of authority and the "I'm in charge" statement. Hagrid, on the other hand, advised his opponents to "read the Constitution" and said that his speech did not involve succession, and that he knew the order. ”

"When I say this, I actually want to tell you that behind the whole incident has been involved in the political game between the President of the United States, the Vice President and the Secretary of State, but the Vice President's political wisdom is very high and obviously stands in the right direction, and the Secretary of State is on the opposite side of the president, so he will soon be unlucky, but these things can't be obvious, what happened to you can only be said to have found a place for everyone to distract the public!" Zhang Junyi shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.