Washington: Four days after the dreadful assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, it has been revealed that the central agencies of the United States had received intelligence from a human source regarding the Iranian plot to eliminate Trump weeks before the ‘attack,’ news agency ANI reported, citing U.S. national security officials. After the intelligence input, the former president’s security was increased.
Officials, however, denied any known connection between the Iranian plot and the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate Trump on Saturday.
The US Secret Service and the Trump campaign were notified of the Iranian threat, and security was boosted as a result, as confirmed by a US national security official.
Trump and his former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, have faced threats from Tehran since the 2020 drone strike that killed Qassim Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Quds force, in Iraq.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the US Secret Service, said that it and other agencies were “constantly receiving new potential threat information and taking action to adjust resources as needed.” He added, “We cannot comment on any specific threat stream, other than to say that the Secret Service takes threats seriously and responds accordingly.”
Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said that US security officials had been “tracking Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years.”
The Iranian mission at the United Nations dismissed the report as “unsubstantiated and malicious,” adding that Trump “is a criminal who must be prosecuted and punished in a court of law.”
Former President Donald Trump made his first public appearance at the Republican National Convention on Monday (local time) since surviving the assassination attempt on Saturday.
Wearing a white bandage on his right ear, Trump waved at supporters and received a standing ovation from the audience. He made no remarks during the convention and stood alongside his newly announced running mate, Senator JD Vance.
At a political function on Saturday, the unexpected sound of gunfire echoed as Donald Trump occupied the stage. In the midst of chaos, Secret Service agents promptly made their presence felt. Later, a close escape was revealed by Trump as a bullet barely missed, nicking the upper section of his right ear. Disturbingly, this incident did not end without loss as one attendee was fatally wounded while two others navigated serious injuries. The culprit, identified by the FBI, is a 20-year-old named Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. As of now, the incident continues to be under investigation.
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