I don’t have a horse in this race, but from the WSJ article I read it sounds like the dead president was a Trump-style wannabe dictator who was narrowly elected

I don’t have a horse in this race, but from the WSJ article I read it sounds like the dead president was a Trump-style wannabe dictator who was narrowly elected in 2016 and then refused to leave office when his term was up. When people don’t respect the law and democratic process it shouldn’t be a surprise when others also choose to disregard the law and take matters into their own hands.