I wonder....does the President like mushrooms?
https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2006/11/28/the-destroying-angel/
There are white Amanitas elsewhere in the world, too, and you’d best not eat any of them. For an account of what happens when you do (assuming fate is smiling on you), read Richard Eshelman’s survivor story right here at the Mushroom Blog.
In keeping with their reputation, the destroying angels employ a deadly and tricky family of toxins called amatoxins. Common to some Amanitas as well as some Galerina, Lepiota, and Conocybe species, amatoxins will cause gastrointestinal distress (diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain) after five to twelve hours. However, symptoms typically remit after that, and one might assume that the worst has passed without going to the hospital. By the time the symptoms get worse again, after a day or two, it will probably be too late for the victim, who will likely suffer liver and kidney failure and enter a hepatic coma, ending in death. The symptoms are harsh and the ultimate treatment is severe: liver transplant. Though there is a series of experimental treatments that may or may not help, the best way to avoid being killed by amatoxin is to learn to identify the poisonous mushrooms before starting on the edible ones.
The mechanism of amatoxin toxicity is its binding to and deactivating a cellular enzyme called RNA polymerase II, which is critical in protein synthesis. The toxins actually bind within this key enzyme, preventing it from moving along the DNA strand during transcription, the process that generates messenger RNA. Transcription is most active and imperative in the liver and kidney, which feel the brunt of the toxins. All living tissues of the body are affected though, including the lining of the gastrointestinal tract and even the brain. Furthermore, only 0.1 mg/kg body weight can be a fatal dose of amatoxins, which can be found in approximately 50 grams of mushrooms. Upwards of 60% of those who consume amatoxins are killed, and some sources say that amatoxins are responsible for 95% of mushroom-related deaths, worldwide.”
The standard treatment for Amanita poisoning is pharmaceutical grade Sylmarain, which is found in Milk Thistle.
I have no idea if this happened, but you could throw a few mushrooms in with other mushrooms and it would not be noticed.
A lot more than I ever knew about mushroom poisons thanks to your post.
The part about gastrointestinal distress (diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain) going away but then dangerously returning (by the time the symptoms get worse again, after a day or two, it will probably be too late for the victim, who will likely suffer liver and kidney failure) is a cruel way to die if an enemy has poisoned you.
If this is what the Dems and Deep State do to anyone including our President then it is time to have us drop the gentleman and gentle lady rules we have been following.