Iran’s alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and hack the Trump campaign amount to “an act of war,” according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Just days after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear in July, the FBI announced that Iran had allegedly been separately plotting to kill the former president. Federal officials later revealed that Iran had hacked and stolen confidential information from the Trump campaign.
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Iranian officials have denied involvement in any plot to assassinate Trump and called the hacking accusation “unsubstantiated and devoid of any standing.”
Where is the assassination attempt coming from?
Article says Trump’s campaign claims the FBI said it. Which doesn’t mean shit, Trump’s campaign (and especially the piece of shit quoted) lie about damn near everything.
It’s buried a couple links in from the original article, but https://www.newsweek.com/new-iranian-plot-assassinate-donald-trump-everything-we-know-1925988
The report from CNN detailed that U.S. National Security officials and members of the U.S. Secret Service were notified of the Iranian plot to assassinate Trump prior to his rally over the weekend.
The DOJ announced the arrest of a man working on behalf of Iran attempting to recruit assassins a couple of weeks ago:
No. That says a man who had recently visited the Middle East, and make no mention of a specified target…
That is in no way the same as “Iran tried to assassinate trump”.
He has a connection to Iran - wife and kids live there. Not as strong as saying he works for or is an agent of the gov’t there, though. The devil’s advocate might say that, “he’s got kids in Iran so Iran has the power to compel him to do this, and of course Iran isn’t going to issue him a gov’t ID that says gov't assassin recruiter
if anything they’d try to distance themselves as much as possible to give themselves plausible deniability.”
Still, it’s reasonable to ask for evidence. I’d imagine more proof is forthcoming soon though - the FBI usually doesn’t comment on active investigations, which this would be (if the FBI is really investigating it, as opposed to the CIA or some other agency).
Court documents do not identify any of the potential targets. But U.S. officials acknowledged in July that a threat on Donald Trump’s life from Iran prompted additional security in the days before a Pennsylvania rally in which Trump was injured by a shooter’s bullet. That July 13 shooting, carried out by a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man, was unrelated to the Iran threat and Merchant’s arrest has no connection to the Trump assassination attempt, a law enforcement official said.
This is a story that has been building for a few months. While I’m not particularly convinced that this specific threat was particularly credible, there’s been plenty of reporting that the Biden DOJ is taking this seriously.
It’s not really surprising to me that Iran would want Trump dead. I don’t think they were anywhere close to actually accomplishing that, but I can certainly believe they’d try.
Yes, Trump and the rest of the rightwing are going to blow it up into something bigger than what actually happened, but it’s important to understand the truth in the lie because the story is potentially consequential in the wider relationship between the US and Iran.