CNN claimed on Tuesday that the US Secret Service ramped up security around Donald Trump in recent weeks based on intelligence from a single “human source” that Iran was plotting to assassinate the former president, accusations Tehran rejected as “unsubstantiated and malicious.”
The report offered no evidence for the claim and only cited unnamed people “briefed on the matter.” They said there was no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate Trump over the weekend, had any connection to the alleged plot.
The idea that the Secret Service increased security around Trump has been contested since Crooks was able to get off multiple shots from a nearby rooftop that wasn’t secured.
The report connected the alleged Iranian plot to Trump ordering the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who headed Iran’s Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In response to the report, Iran’s mission to the UN said, “These accusations are unsubstantiated and malicious. From the perspective of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Trump is a criminal who must be prosecuted and punished in a court of law for ordering the assassination of General Soleimani. Iran has chosen the legal path to bring him to justice.”
IRGC officials occasionally vow they will seek revenge for Soleimani, who was killed on January 3, 2020, by a US drone strike in Baghdad. But amid soaring tensions in the Middle East, Iran has been clearly trying to avoid war with the US, and killing a former president would be a quick way to provoke direct military confrontation with the US.
This year, Iran engaged in indirect talks with the US in Oman to avoid escalation and also pressured its Shia allies in Iraq to stop attacking US bases after three US troops were killed at Tower 22 in Jordan.
When Iran launched a reprisal attack on Israel in response to the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, Iranian officials said they warned the US 72 hours in advance. The US denied the claim, but Turkey and Jordan confirmed they were given notice, which would have gotten back to the US.
Iranians recently elected a reformist candidate as president, Masoud Pezeshkian, who wants to engage directly with the US even in the context of the likelihood of another Trump presidency, which marks a significant shift in Tehran’s policy. Pezeshkian is set to be inaugurated in August.
Well, this is obvious: Jump on the Trump assassination event and tie the terms "assassination", "Trump" and "Iran" together to demonize Iran (and probably Trump as well – a two-fer.)
They're really getting pathetic in their propaganda efforts. Everyone who knew how to do propaganda in the US government must have retired over the last ten years.
They were absolutely not going to miss this opportunity to link in the public's mind this horrific act of violence with Iran. Plus, it's a good deflection from the obvious FAILURE of the SS to protect President Trump.
Sooooo, this "one human source" … is he/she from a certain "ally" who is currently committing ethnic cleansing and genocide locally?
How does such a thinly sourced report become actionable for both the US security services and newsworthy for CNN and the Times??
You answered your own question: an Israeli source. But it doesn;'t matter who the source is. The neocons would tie it to Iran anyway.
The whole story is probably completely made up; there probably is no source but some guy in the CIA or in AIPAC who thought it up just because of the Trump incident.
If it wasn't for the fact that these aholes have the power of life and death over human civilization, the whole schtick would be laughable …
I'm just waiting for Netanyahu addressing US Congress, displaying a profile-pic line drawing of Trump's head colored in up to the percentage that Netty believes the IRI is at in their alleged plan to assassinate The Donald.
You can bet Israel will be providing their own security for Netanyahu when he comes here. They aren't going to rely on the Secret Service Keystone cops after what happened to President Trump.
That's fine. Everyone should be on their A-game for PM Netanyahu, and former Pres Trump.
I wish neither of them any harm. It's like with George W. Bush, exact same reasoning – I want all of them, each of them, to live very very long, to a very old age.
So they can be alive as long as possible to see, hear, and live with the social historical hindsight consensus that each, in their own and similar ways, were hideously bad leaders whose policies, actions, and inactions, let to the demonstrable harm and suffering of HUNDREDS of thousands, possibly MILLIONS, of innocent people in their own countries, and around the world, then and even to present.
Even killing themselves wouldn't end the shame of their name & place in history.
Netanyahu will display a facsimile Trump head with a lit fuse emerging from his good ear.
OK, I'd applaud Netanyahu ONLY for that amusing display of theatrics.
Obviously, they are jockying to divert attention. i.e. cover-up.
Check out this article in the Asia times suggesting a second shooter based on acoustic evidence https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/was-there-a-second-shooter-new-acoustic-evidence/
One could figure out the the bullet's line of the trajectory that clipped Trump's ear by the position of Trump's head at the moment the bullet went buy. It would have to be pretty much parallel to the side of his head. Upon that, from what I perceive looking at the raw videos, the bullet may have come from a building behind, and to the left of where Crooks was?
I heard it was a Lone Gunman.
If "ramped up" security allows a 20 year old community college graduate with a rifle to get off multiple shots at 150 meters ,what would normal security allow?
Or is this whole story just to distract from what you just pointed out?
There are two possible motives for this latest Democrat hoax: First: maybe they think they can get Trump to cut back on his campaigning, giving Biden an edge. Second: the Deep State is planning another assassination attempt on Trump and wants to have its alibi already in place: Iran did it!
Sounds like the plan all along was to pin this on Iran. If Trump would have been killed this story would have been front page news everywhere and the bombing raids would be underway.
I was wondering where a workplace associate, a Right-wing FAUX News fan, came up with his assertions that the IRI was "probably behind" the assassination attempt. I guess the trope was already circulating in Always Trump circles before me seeing this article on here today.
You missed the CNN in the headline?
Crap News Network is late to the party. My point is, FAUX et. al. were churning out this nonsense days ago.
That’s all we get is Fake News on the propaganda media. We agree on that.
Who would have ever thought to secure the roof of a building overlooking the rally and 150 yards from where President Trump would be a clear target?
@charliekirk11
Okay this is just getting ridiculous. It’s now come out that the Trump shooter, Thomas Matthews Crook, was spotted by Secret Service THREE HOURS before Trump’s rally, carrying a rangefinder used by hunters (or snipers) to take long-range shots.
Their response? Apparently, nothing. Nobody stopped him, nobody questioned him, and nobody was ready to halt the event when Crook reappeared on a rooftop during the event itself.
“Eh, no big deal, full speed ahead on the rally. Oh, and don’t put anybody on that roof 400 ft from Trump. It has a slope and we wouldn’t want anyone getting hurt!”
Unreal.
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13643655/Secret-Service-spotted-Thomas-Crooks-hunting-rangefinder-inside-Trump-rally-THREE-HOURS-shooting.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
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The lie of the week…! Blaming Iran versus incompetence of Secret Service…!
Why bother commenting on an article without, you know, reading it?
“They said there was no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate Trump over the weekend, had any connection to the alleged plot.”
They always say that but the blame from media continues…!