God involved in aggressive act by desperately ill conman as president (7,7)
I believe the answer is:
abraham lincoln
'president' is the definition.
(Abraham (Abe) Lincoln)
'god involved in aggressive act by desperately ill conman' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'god' could be 'ra' (Egyptian god) and 'ra' is present in the answer.
'involved' could be 'in' (to be involved in something is to be 'in' it) and 'in' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'as' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for abraham lincoln that I've seen before include "president" , "fatally, he watched some play" , "Famous American" .)