Why not?  Especially when combined with certain elemente who cling to edifices of a decadent past.  Compartementalized:  Funding Planning Execution All can be offshored, with plausible deniability.  With just a.couple.of.months before the elections, the question is whether death is such an appealing idea?  The wetdream is to kill Potus reputation.   Drag him out of the white house.  That kind of thing.  If they can incapacitate Trump and maybe VP pence too ( either voluntarily is on board, or is kept there as a pet)  Then all is well for the DS, and they can roll back many of the gains Trump initiated.  Public execution would only enrage a certain section of the public, and cause major upheaval, and that will not be to their advantage.