Hair alone does not contain the cells needed to clone anything. You've got to have the "growth bulb" at the end of the hair to get actual complete cells. Hair and fingernails are essentially waste products. You need actual complete cells, usually taken from swabbing the inside of the cheek. But you can easily get DNA from any eating/drinking utensil that the person used.
And unless these evil geniuses have a way to force-grow a human being to adulthood in just a few years, they're not talking about "clones." If they fake an assassination of Trump, it will be with a surgically altered double - not an actual clone.
People tend to use "clone" and "double" interchangeably but they are not the same thing.
Hair alone does not contain the cells needed to clone anything. You've got to have the "growth bulb" at the end of the hair to get actual complete cells. Hair and fingernails are essentially waste products. You need actual complete cells, usually taken from swabbing the inside of the cheek. But you can easily get DNA from any eating/drinking utensil that the person used.
And unless these evil geniuses have a way to force-grow a human being to adulthood in just a few years, they're not talking about "clones." If they fake an assassination of Trump, it will be with a surgically altered double - not an actual clone.
People tend to use "clone" and "double" interchangeably but they are not the same thing.