there's not a day goes by i don't think about her, that's for sure. i know i'll see her again someday. it's what keeps me going. i caught something out of the corner of my eye. it was my mom. she was lying on the ground. i went over expecting her to get up or to say something. i put my hand on her shoulder. i kind of turned her, and i could see blood everywhere. >> their family always made the best of bad times. >> my mom always looked for the good in everything. >> but no one fixed this. >> the autopsy showed a total of five shots. >> she didn't deserve to die

that way. >> detectives had a suspect but not much of a case. >> i was told unless they can find the proverbial smoking gun, they will not take this case to trial. >> this case did not have a lot. everything went cold case. >> blow off the dust, fan the ashes, and even an ice cold case can heat up again. >> when i read the file, i was like, oh, my gosh, how can this guy walk around? how is he not in custody? >> some worry this would cost the d.a. his life. >> they tell me he is making plans to murder you and your family. >> this is a guy who's on a mission. >> he killed once. will he kill again. >> when will he stop being dangerous to you? >> when he's dead. on the southern bank of the

columbia river tucked a wayny this cemetery is the place of a woman called joerngs barbara joan lockwood. she wasn't a famous woman, joan. she wasn't rich or celebrated. she lived a quite life in a quiet place and was buried more than three decades ago, but if ghosts could rise from their graves, if joan could speak to us now, what questions would she answer, what advice for this man, this tough aggressive prosecutor who now fears for this life? >>. >> this man is a threat to me and to my family. >> in the an alls of justice, some refuse to lie down and die. they fest ter. >> here we are now. all that happens -- i hate to say this, but i think we have to take this seriously. >> yes, but it begins with her, joan. she lenned when she lived a

thousand miles south of that little cemetery, a few miles from the beach of l.a. in a suburb called torrance on a quiet street call. this is joan's only daughter shaun. >> people would describe her as the most caring people she every met. >> my mom left her kids. we were first and foremost what was important to her. >> the whole neighborhood knew that. >> >> the whole neighborhood loved my month. they didn't even know my dad. >> maybe that was because of bill bradford's job. he worked as an aerospace enjeer at a private company called trw. >> it was an arab defense firm. >> top of the top.

>> if if you're an engineer. >> his reputation at work, did you know much about that? >> i knew he was good about what he did but he was very secret about it. >> you just don't talk about it. >> you don't talk about it. >> in fact, bill bradford didn't talk much about anything to anybody, even his own family. >> he was just very much, you know, here's my role. i work and he's alone. >> exacting, organized, introverted. joan, polar opposite. eventually that disconnect took its toll. bill moved out, joan moved on, filed for divorce. the kids grew up and moved away. and in the fall of 1988, joan told the house on sharanne lane. >> my mom was finished up the

move from torrance to start her life over again. >> it was a friday evening. joan was packing, getting ready. shaun and her younger brother called to say we're coming over. it was getting dark when we arrived. >> we opened up the door, went in, called for her, nothing. went done downstairs where we expected to see her. her purse was on the counter, but there was no sign of her. about that time my brother and i separated and he went out to see if maybe she was in the garage or the backyard. as i went through the front living room, i caught something out of the corner of my eye. it was my mom. she was lying on the ground, and you could see blood everywhere. >> n a panish she called 911 and

her brother. >> she said she's got a hole in her neck. >> i could see numerous bullet holes in the back of her neck. >> keith mason was a detective, torrance p.d. >> in all my years i've seen people shot in homicides but never this many times, five times. >> this was an execution. >> exactly. >> what shaun hat seen, her mother on the floor, had been so confusing, but now she saw nothing because they kept her away. >> one of the paramedics met me and i looked at him and said will she be okay. >> thinking she was still alive. >> i'm wasn't processing. he finally looked at me and shook his head know and that's when i realized that she was dead. >> had she seen what was coming? did she know her life was over. >> they had taken the body out.

somebody had taken a carpet cleaner to clean up. and basically my last memory is a carpet cleaner of my mom's blood, which she didn't deserve to die that way. >> sweet kind-hearted joan bradford was 52. who did it? why? next to her body was a clue. >> i saw a bullet lying on the flo floor. . and they both fired the same bullet. >> when they asked if anyone owned a gun, my initial response was no. my brother turned around and nodded and said dad has one, and i stopped and went, you're right. i stopped and went, you're right. coming up.

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>> i probably didn't know it. it was obvious when i was a teenager, i would start hearing more. i also understood that the way they lived together they were more like roommates, not as husband and wife. they never hugged, they never kissed, they rarely spoke. >> and when they did speak, bill was controlling, condescending. >> at one point when i was 16, my father actually look med in the eye and said life's a bitch and then you mairry one. >> they got into a fight, he pushed her down, her head hit a rocking chair, and it shattered it. that's what i came home to. >> i was in my bedroom and i overhearder this fighting franld my mom's side, do you want to

file the papers or you do want me to? >> what did you think? >> i think i stormed in and yelled at them both at that point. i'm sure it was along the lines of why are you doing this and pretty much left and went up to my room. a few minutes later my father walked into the room. >> what did he say? >> he said, i wish you hadn't heard it the way you had, but, yerkes we've been unhappy for a long time. i asked for how long. he said, well, if i would have gotten a divorce when i wanted one, you wouldn't be aliven today. >> when they finally separated, the divorce was nasty. >> my father refused to pay child support, spousal support. everything he did was to extend the divorce. >> it took ore five years to get divorced. as part of the settlement bill was ordered to pay child support

ajz al moanny support but he did not pay as required. so joan and her attorney were able to garni shih she all of that support from the house proceeds. >> the total amount that was garnished was $40,000. >> it's not that bad. >> it aren't wasn't that much. >> but it bothered him. >> it bothered him because she won. >> to lose $40,000? >> yeah. >> he lost control. my father does not like losing control of anything. >> bill never saw it coming. suddenly he was $40,000 poorer, and the day after bradford got all of that money garnished, his ex-wife was dead. so the cops went looking for bradford. the trouble is he disappeared. didn't pick up his phone,ance the door at his parent. >> detectives went back to

headquarters, inserted the name bill bradford in the day tabase- >> he did own a model 356 magnum. >> which hatched to fire the same type of bullets found at the crime scene. so detective mason got a search warrant to search bradford's apartment. there was no sign of him, but -- >> we did find a box in the bedroom, but it was empty. >> on sunday, two days after the murder -- >> he came into the police department. >> well, well, well. >> myself and another detective asked him if he was aware of the fact his ex-wife was dead. >> i'm sorry to see her dead, but we never had a very good relationship. >> he sat there and looked at me

like i'm sitting here looking at you. i thought, boy, you are a cold, calculating guy, very nonchalant, like who cares. >> bradford's confirmed what his children said. he was very upset about his share of the money from the house sale. he was very upset with joan. so upset he left his apartment for almost two whole days. >> i went to rondondo pier. >> what did he think? >> he said, i didn't want to be with people. i wanted to be alone. >> alone at the pier for nearly two days? the police asked him about his 357 magnum. joan had been shot with hollow point bullets. bradford's admitted he once bought ammo like that, but as

for the gun itself? >> i put my stuff in storage but i have been unable to locate it. >> where did it go? >> i haven't the slightest idea. >> did it strike you as odd that a fellow so well organized misplaced it? >> oh, yeah, with the type of fellow he was? >> bradford's did have an alibi, a parking stub. sure enough, he entered the parking lot at 7:29 p.m., so he said he could not have killed joan, unless -- the detectives put together a timeline. joan answered the phone call at 7:15, but by 7:15 when shaun arrived, she was dead. >> we believe that's the timeline, 7:00, 7:15, right in that window. >> that's a prettinay narrow

timeline. >> right. >> they made the drive themselves. it took seven to eight minutes. it all fit. >> when the detectives said your father is the prime suspect, it's the only thing that made sense. there was no one who could hate my mom so much to want her dead except my father. >> so just days after interviewing bill bradford's, the detectives made their move. >> i arrested him. there's no way i was letting the guy go. >> you'd have to be a dope. >> there was a ton of circumstantial evidence all leading to him. >> murder solved, case closed, right? oh, no. it was just getting started. coming up -- >> i spent a number of months looking over my shoulder. >> a family living in fear with good reason. >> i was afraid that someone was after me. >> someone? >> my father.

>> when "the threat" continues. s

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september 1988, hot and hazy in l.a., beach weather. but bill bradford's wasn't at the beach anymore. no view from a jail cell. and while he waited in custody, detective keith mayesen went over to see the d.a. where he waited for the go-ahead to charge bradford's for the murder for killing his ex-wife. it didn't quite work out that way. >> the head d.a. said do you have the gun? >> no. >> do you have anything to do with the days? >> i was upset, mad, out the door. i knew the jury had to hear the circumstances of the case. there's no way anybody could think anybody else could do this

but him. >> so bill bradford's went back home, went back to work at trw, but his children weren't celebrated. in fact, they feared their father and worried they just might be his next victims. >> i spent a number of months looking over my shoulder wondering who was following me. i can remember cars followed me and just randomly driving places to loose who was tailed me. >> bret said he, too, was being followed. >> i remember driving home from work and get off my exit and have this suspicion about someone who got off the exit about the same time, so i'd take a detour around my house instead of going directly to it. >> so he installed a home security system, started sleeping with the lights on. >> i was jumpy. i would walk into my apartment

and i would actually search it, underneath the kitchen sink, all my closets, i would look under my bed. >> why? >> because i was afraid that someone was after me. >> someone? >> my father. my father murdered my mother, and i don't know why he did it, so the next question is would he murder me. >> late '80s was a busy time for l.a. homicide detectives. murder rates were headed for their all-time peak around then, so detective mason, no choice really, moved on achlt year p. s a year passed. then two. the bradford's case got buried. >> i would sit around and wonder, oh, i'm going to grab the bradford's case out and read it again. maybe there's something i missed, something i didn't do,

maybe there's something i could do. >> but all those somethings led to a bunch of nothings, not one new lead. mason stayed in close contact with shaun who by this time was engaged to be married. her father went on the guest list, but shaun was worried he would show up at her wedding. >> we actually had plainclothes cops that were at our wedding. >> you were nervous? >> yes. my father killed once. he was not welcome. i believe he did this. this isn't safe. >> and she felt nothing but relief when her father missed the wedding, his only daughter's wedding, but he was around, bold as brass. >> i would go out to a big place, and he would be walking around, and i would think right away, you're free, you're free, but i hope not for long, i hope

not for long. >> but it was long, very long. the john bradford's case was ice cold. the '80s turned to the '90s, and then the millennium. bill bradford's remained free, celebrating the new year, the new millennium like everybody else. and then a few months later -- >> i finally retired and there was no new evidence. everything kind of went cold case. >> what feel goes with having to retire with that one case you just couldn't close? >> i'd done everything i thought i could do, i only had one case i couldn't get a -- but everybody knew who did it, so i left and went on to greener fields. >> by then bill bradford's retired, too, eventually moved to the desert, and by the look of it had plenty of money. and one day together, his children faced the facts.

>> bret and i were sitting down, and he looked at me and said, so, it's real. our father's getting away with murder. >> at that point it was like, okay, he got -- there was nothing we could do. you know, what do you do in that situation? >> they didn't know, of course. how could they. what was going on in here, in secret. didn't know who else was thinking about their estranged father and what he may have done. coming up -- >> there's one person who would want her dead. >> closing in. >> you've got to have some evidence. >> all that stuff hiding in plain sight. >> and authorities wondered whether others had been at riff snook you really think he was going to kill a lawyer. >> no question. >> when "the threat" continues. >> when "the threat" continues

bill bradford's's children were convinced their father had gotten away with murdering joan, shot her in cold blood, and walk aid way a free man. >> knowing that all the evidence points to, unfortunately, your father and knowing that he's going to get away with it, didn't sit right. >> but something was being done. in 2000, about 12 years after joan's murder, an ambitious prosecutor named john lewin was

poking through the unsolved miles in torrance p.d. >> when i read the file, i thought, oh, my gosh, how is this guy walking around? how is he not in custody? >> it seemed so obvious. >> it seemed so obvious. >> but difficult to prove. to llewyn called in cold case detective jim wallace who seemed to have a knack for making sense of complicated cases. >> this case did not have a lot. we didn't have anything new. >> you didn't have evidence. what did you do. >> we read between the lines. sometimes when i think of a cold case, i think of the death of a thousand paper cuts. you're accumulating pieces from a lot of pieces. this is the best inference. >> wallace and lewin took a deep dive into files of mostly interviews with a theme. >> the first response always if

it's from kids or friends or neighbors is, william bradford's. so there's one person who would want her dead. it still doesn't mean he's the killer, but it does mean that of all the reasonable options, he is the most reasonable option. >> they learned all about the bradford'ss' troubled marriage, about bill's apparent need to be in control, about the contentious divorce, the money he was forced to pay joan. >> there was court orders to pay about $40,000 to my wife's attorney, and i was very depressed from that point on. >> they microanalyzed his police interview. >> i'm looking at word choices. if you ska yes or no, he would say, kind of, or qualify it in some way. usually that's the area where you don't want to give the real

answer. so i look for deception indicators. >> do you remember anything about the process in that interview? >> yeah, i do remember things that were powerful. they asked him, for example, when did you go home and why did you go home. he would say, i probably went home for this or probably went home for that. one of the key investigators in the interview with hit asked him how he first felt when he first heard about the murder. >> i'm sorry to see her dead, but we never had a good relationship. >> that's a very usual way to answer. >> that she was dead. >> that's a tacit admission. >> then there was bradford's strange story about spending two nights at the pier in his car. even had a parking stub to prove it. >> when you talk to his family and you brought up, hey, is your dad, is he that kind of, you know, beach meditation put on my

sandals and relate to the ocean kind of guy? no. >> except he was very upset. maybe you doubt him, but it's a reasonable thing for a person to say. >> to sleep in their car for two days? >> lewin and wallace were convinced there was another reason bradford's stayed at the pier. it just happened to be where joan's attorney had an office, the very same attorney who helped her garnish that $40,000 from her ex-husband. >> by his own statement, he was pacing, walking up and down the pier right in front of the lawyer's office. the lawyer, had he been there and bradford waited for him for two days, i have no doubt in my mind this would have been a double murder/suicide. >> you really think he was going to kill a lawyer. >> no question. >> you're speculating. >> well -- >> you're saying no question, but -- >> it's logical. he just murdered his wife, and

after he murders her, he goes to a place he never goes to, sleeps in his car for two days and the lawyer happens to be there? we don't leave our common sense at the door. in this case, we had to leave it at another zip code. >> bradford's had been beaten. this attorney made that happen. he had to die too. >> wallace thought he must have intented to use the very same gun he used to kill joan, the 357 magnum bradford's said he lost. wallace did a little research on the hollow tip bullets bradford's once had. remember, those were the same kind of bullets that killed joan. he discovered that particular type of hollow point is rare, less than 1% of all the ammo sold. >> wow, what are the odds. he's either the most unluckiest person in the world to happened to have aligned perfectly to make this perfectly innocent

person look guilty or he's guilty. >> so with all of those circumstantial clues and the clear motive and means, lewin and wallace drove out to the desert and arrested bill bradford. it was may, 2001, 13 years after joan was murdered. >> he just popped over a beer. you don't think in that moment this is the last time you're ever going to lay eyes on anything that is yours, anything that is familiar. i don't think that bill realizes that you will never see this again. this is a guy who will vacuum suck out of his life who has no idea. >> bradford was charged with first-degree murder, one of the detectives phoned shaun. >> my first reaction was, do you know what day today is? no. it's mother's day. he stopped, and he said, oh, my gosh, i'm sorry, no.

that's fitting for the mother that he took away 13 years ago. >> bradford's quickly lawyered up while his family braced themselves for a trial. wi would their father walk free or be locked up for life? >> i only use the word apprehensive because after years, can a case be won? coming up -- >> we felt this burden. we'll never get this case filed again if we ever loose this ose >> we didn't know how this would all fit together. >> and a threat. >> his cellmate has come forward and said bradford's is very angry at you and he is making plans to murder you and your family. >> when "the threat" continues. investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood.

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bill bradford's, aerospace engineer was coming back to torrance to be tried for murdering his ex-wife joan. it was 2002. although, 14 years after the murder, john lewin had the same pile of evidence. he charged ahead. >> were you confident going into this trial? >> very department. i thought circumstantially, it was a very overwhelming case. >> really? the original d.a. rejected it. weak, he called it. no smoking gun, no dna, no eyewitnesses. >> we thought we'd never have a case if we didn't get this one. >> nervous. >> very. i didn't know how this would all fit together having never done a circumstantial case before. i really worried.

>> nevertheless n 2002, lewin and wallace took their first circumstantial cold case to court. >> this was a man who was in an abusive relationship, he would not accept that his wife wanted her fair share, and when he lost, to him, it was the losing. he couldn't take losing. >> and so in a violent rage, said lewin, bradford's executed his ex-wife. bradford's children testified for the prosecution. >> what's it like to go through the trial? >> that was probably almost as hard as finding my mom murdered. >> why would you say that? >> i had to relive for six weeks every aspect of the murder, including things i didn't know. >> like what? >> i didn't know until the trial she had been shot execution

style. >> her father's defense mostly centered on the fact he was an aerospace engineer, loving father. the jury kept suspense alive, was out for two days. and then on a cool april morning came the verdict. guilty. finally justice for joan bradford's. >> i went from suspecting that my father murdered my mom to having it confirmed because there's always that little point that still wanted to be daddy's little girl and wanted to believe that this was something else, but no. it was confirmed. most people looked at me and said, now you have closure.

no. what my heart wanted was my father to be convicted of it, my mom to come back. >> it was shaun's birthday a few weeks later when her father was sentenced to 26 years to life. he would be 85 by the time he was eligible for parole. >> i'm remember telling his daughter that this man is not going to last five years in prison, so i thought it would be a life sentence. >> i was a lot more relaxed. people kept saying, well, he'll be dead in five years, so, you know, i'm safe, he's never getting out. >> safe? maybe not everybody. months later d.a. lieu ingot a call from the prison about bill bradford's. >> they tell me his cellmate has come forward and said bradford's is very angry and you and he's

talking about making plans to murder you and your family. >> of course, in lewin's line of work, idle threats from revengeful jailbird was something not new. he went to talk the informant. >> exclusively they want time off their sentence or something. >> absolutely. >> not this guy. >> nothing. >> one of the first things i asked him was why are you coming forward? he said, i hate the guy. i couldn't believe how he would talk about his wife and how he killed her, and now he said now he's talking about killing somebody else's family, and i just couldn't stay quiet. >> lewin polygraphed the informant and he passed around then added a warning. >> that bradford's had said he thought he was going to get out very quickly. >> on appeal.

>> on appeal. when he got out, either himself or somebody else was going to blow my family's heads off in front of me so i could suffer and then he was going to kill me. so i immediately took it seriously that it was a credible threat. >> but then bradford's lost all of his appeals and gradually lewin stopped looking over his shoulder. he went on on to solve many cold cases successfully with jim wallace. the case went away until 15 years later, 2015. >> i come home from work and my husband says you have a letter from the department of corrections. i said. okay. it's one of two things. he died or parole. i opened it up. he's still alive. >> so option number 2.

his parole hearing at the prison was coming up, which meant bill bradford's, a convicted killer who once alleged to murder the d.a. and his family could very soon be back on the street. coming up -- >> i made a promise to myself that i would speak for my mom. i went to the parole. >> a decision. >> i was stunned. >> but is it final? >> this is a very bright man. he has resources. he has motivation. >> when will he stop dangerous to you? >> when he's dead. >> when "the threat" continues. . >> when "the threat" continues so you're a small business,

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which meant he was up for par e parole. that january, two of bradford's's children traveled to the prison for his hearing. >> i made a promise to myself that i would speak for my mom. i went to the parole. >> what was it like to see him there? >> in my head my father had nod changed. he was still going to be tall, physically fit, healthy man. >> what did you see instead? >> none of that. i saw a man who has not aged well in the last 15 years, needs a walker to get around. they went through the list of the other health problems he had. >> deputy d.a. john lewin went to the hearing too. memories of death threats all too fresh in his mind.

>> he's a threat to me. he's a threat, more importantly, to my family. this is not in terms of any vendetta or about being right. this is about public safety and protecting those of us who sacrifice a lot to do the jobs we do, whether you're police officers or prosecutors or judges. >> cameras weren't allowed inside the hearing as the commissioners began asking bradford about the brutal murder he committed. >> for the first time in 30 years i heard my father admit to killing my mom. >> wow. what was that like to hear. >> honestly, i think my brother and i were so shocked that he admitted it that we were both speechless. >> however, there's a reason for doing such a thing. he has a chance to get parole. >> yes, he did. however, the way he went about it was very unique. the commissioner was asking where is joan, your ex-wife now. he stops and goes, wait, is that

the woman i shot? the commissioner stops and says, you tell us. did you kill your ex-wife? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> i don't remember. >> he appears to have dementia of some sort. >> yeah. >> bradford's's attorney miya emmick told the attorney his health conditions were getting worse and john lewin has nothing to fear from a frail old man. >> nothing has happened in 16 years. mr. bradford's isn't connected to the mafia or prison gang. quite, frankly, he didn't know who john lewin was. >> he didn't know him. >> didn't know him. didn't know his name. >> how did you know is that? >> it's just apparent. he's not a threat at all in the way that it is. >> the prison's own psychologist examined him and they came back with a rating there's low risk, moderate risk, and high risk.

he came back with a moderate risk. >> the issue that the commissioners are trying to focus on and wanting you to focus on, but you didn't want to, is that he's not capable of harming you anymore. >> his mind is very clear. the manu, was able to recite numerous different issues. >> lewin says he thinks what the defense attorney calls dementia is really a severe case of selective memory. >> he denied what he had done, what he remembered about me. he had am nearby ya regarding this whole event. the idea that he is helpless and doesn't have the capable of harming me or my family is absurd. >> when would he stop being a danger to you? >> when he's dead. >> shaun and brett explained why they needed to keep their dad locked up. >> i had to explain for my

safety not only for myself but the general population. >> for hours they listened to bradford and the family. then they went to their chambers to make up their minds. and later that afternoon, bradford's's attorney and lewin were called in and were told -- >> the question about whether or not mr. bradford's poses a current threat, the answer was no. >> no threat meant yes to parole. bill bradford's would be released. >> i'm was furious, and i said, if something happens to my family, the blood is on your hands and you will own this. >> when bradford's's children got the news, those old fears about their father suddenly returned. >> i was stunned. i couldn't believe they would

turn around and say he's not a risk. >> would i be a fool to say we are perfectly safe? no. my father killed once. >> the commissioner timed bradford's's release for february 2019. by then he would be in his mid-80s, more than 30 years from when he pulled the trigger. could he really do it again? >> this is a very bright man. h has resources, and he has motivation. it takes very little to find out where my family is. all he needs is a gun and an uber. this is an 85-year-old guy who's on a mission. if he's able to still command his wits, he's able to command h his wits. >> there was one more step before his relief. >> governor jerry brown could

review the case and keep him in prison. they urged him to do just that. so did bradford's family. >> i contacted the governor's office. i wrote a letter. my brother wrote a letter. and i had two senators actually co-sign a letter. >> lewin acting, too, through the media, tried to persuade california governor jerry brown to keep bradford's locked up. >> he's looking to even up scores before he dies. >> then a week after mechl morimore i ial day 2018 came this letter from governor brown. the evidence showed that he, meaning bradford's, currently poses an unreasonable danger to society if released from prison. therefore, i reverse the decision to parole mr. bradford. >> when it came in, there was a lot of shock, but also a lot of relief. >> that relief would be temporary. at his next hearing bill

bradford's was granted parole. >> i'm not going to have them playing russian roulette with the safety of my family. i work every day trying to protect the public. i don't think it's unfair to ask that those individuals who execute their wives and who threaten to kill me and my family, that they're incarcerated where they can't do any damage. >> bradford's was once again eligible for relief. this time his fate in the hands of current california governor gavin newsom. >> i don't know what this governor's going to do. i'm hopeful he's going to undo this really absolutely indefensive grant of parole. >> newsm agreed and it was reversed, so bill bradford's remains behind bars. and the mighty columbia rolls by a little cemetery where a wife

who love heard children and put up with a difficult husband is at peace. icult husband is at peace ♪ welcome to "kasie d.c." tonight on a special labor day edition of the show, we're less than two months away from election day. for months the president struggled to define his opponent who's been more and more visible beset by mass deaths of americans and a faltering kmirks president trump failed to wield a new cycle in ways he has for years.