http://www.leparisien.fr/international/etats-unis-le-survivant-designe-cet-inconnu-qui-pourrait-devenir-president-20-01-2017-6596391.php

This is from a french outlet, "leparisien"

To give you an idea, you can hardly get more mainstream than that, it's the news paper you find in pretty much every bar in france, on the counter, for free, for customers to read in the morning

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leparisien.fr%2Finternational%2Fetats-unis-le-survivant-designe-cet-inconnu-qui-pourrait-devenir-president-20-01-2017-6596391.php&edit-text=&act=url

United States: the "designated survivor", this unknown who could become president

In the event of a disaster at the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump , a member of the administration chosen in advance could have taken his place.

Let's go to riddles. Who would take power in the event of the premature death of the American president? "Easy, the vice president! And if the latter were to die in his turn? "Um, the Speaker of the House of Representatives?" "Bravo! Harder, now: the president, the presidents of both houses and the whole government disappears in a catastrophe, what remains? "..." The United States has an answer to this worst-case scenario. Since the middle of the Cold War, when the nuclear threat was latent, tradition has meant that a member of the US government, the Cabinet, is a potential successor when the main leaders of the country are present at the same time . This situation arises especially when the President makes his annual speech on the state of the Union before the Congress.

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And then it goes on.

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The point of this post isn't about the accuracy of the article mentioned above.

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The point, is why and how on earth, is this even discussed in France ?

I mean, you really think they come up with this article's subject on their own ?

Like "ho yeah, let's just write a piece of opinion on the possibility of the US president getting killed and what would happen next.... Just like the MSM are doing in the US right now... Coincidentally... We aren't pushing the same narrative, just... Doing just that....Coincidentally"