On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump pushed a narrative being spread by US intelligence officials that Iran is trying to kill him even though there’s no evidence of Iranian involvement in either attempt on his life.
Trump’s campaign said they were briefed on the alleged Iranian threat by officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is led by Avril Haines.
“Big threats on my life by Iran. The entire US Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again,” Trump wrote on X after the briefing. “Not a good situation for anyone. I am surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before.”
The claim that Iran is plotting to kill Trump was first made by a CNN report back in July, following the assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot and killed by the Secret Service. The report acknowledged there was no evidence Crooks was linked to Iran, which was reaffirmed on Tuesday by intelligence officials speaking to The New York Times, who stressed there was no Iran connection to the July shooting.
The Times report also said there was no evidence that Iran was connected in any way to Ryan Routh, who was arrested on September 15 and recently charged with attempting to assassinate Trump. Routh is a staunch supporter of the Ukraine proxy war and traveled to the country to help recruit fighters for the Ukrainian foreign legion.
Despite the lack of evidence, Trump suggested at a campaign event on Wednesday that Iran might have been involved in the two assassination attempts. “As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve – but possibly do – Iran,” he said at an event in North Carolina.
“If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens,” Trump added.
The claims about Iran come amid soaring tensions in the Middle East as Israel has dramatically escalated its bombing campaign in Lebanon, a situation that could potentially turn into a full-blown war between the US and Iran. But Iran’s actions over the past year have shown they’re not interested in war with the US.
For example, 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. Iran and the US also engaged in indirect negotiations in Oman to avoid escalation.
Iran’s new president, Masoud Peseshkian, has also taken an extremely diplomatic tone toward the US since coming into office and wants direct negotiations with Washington. “We are not hostile towards the US. They should end their hostility towards us by showing their goodwill in practice,” Pezeshkian said last week. “We are brothers with the Americans as well.”
Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) occasionally vow they will take revenge for Trump’s assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who headed the IRGC’s Quds Force. But in response to recent allegations, Iran has said Trump should be punished for the killing in a court of law.
“These accusations are unsubstantiated and malicious,” Iran’s mission to the UN said in response to the CNN report in July. “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.”
Another sign that trump is off the rails.
He is not off the rails as much as Bidet and Harris are! I wish we had better, far better choices, but Trump may very well be what we need now!
Sure, every country needs a convicted felon as their leader. Plus he will stop the run away eating of cats and dogs.
Tim, I bet if I were a Federal Prosecutor and took a hatred of you I could find something to make you a felon too! And yes, what went on in Springfield is a HORROR show, produced by Bidet/Harris!
Wow, okay, I take back a different comment – you actually CAN make a valid point on a topic. Good on'ya, Baes !
Tragic that "Make America Great Again" means war on all fronts, at any cost, t0 no good end.
Trump is not going to bring a World War, that has already been put in place by the Bidet/Harris administration and now, IMHO looks imminent. 🙁
Of course this new Iran "Boogey Man threat" I believe is an attempt at a False Flag event. J## boi's want to knock out all 3 of their perceived enemies at once, Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran, and are so very frantic to do so quickly while the USA security state and Congress, Bidet , Harris is crazily and evilly, behind them.
F, Them All before they kill us all!!
Trump just showed you he will do the same thing…
He did not, just running his mouth like he often does. He is our last hope, but it may already be too late. Hurry up and spend quality time with your loved ones while you can, I am. 🙁
He killed their general. He wasn't running his mouth when he did that. And he'd pick up where he left off with the Iran belligerence, including war, if he gets in office. Unless Biden beats him to it. If he's our only hope, we're still screwed.
And Biden has fed GENOCIDE and MASS KILLING,,what don’t you get Brother???
I don't get how you think what I said meant I preferred Biden. In fact, I said "Unless Biden beats him to it." Meaning war with Iran. And I won't vote for either. With rare occasions, I've been "wasting" my vote since 1980. Vote third party.
Have a great weekend my friend. 🙂
It's not clear when Trump et. al. think America was "great". Could they perhaps cite a year ?
Was it 1946 ? 1955 ? 1961 ? 1880 ? 1775 ?
Just want to know PRECISELY what metrics they're comparing against.
2017 to 2021. Just ask them. LOL.
"Iran has chosen the legal path to bring him to justice." Well there you have it. For someone with a messiah complex the size of the Laniakea supercluster, that is much worse than getting assassinated, let alone sacrificing loads of other people to try divert attention. You can hear Netanyahoo nodding in total agreement, great friends think alike.
The new Russia hoax. The Secret Service fail to protect Trump and all of a sudden there’s a nefarious plot by this evil foreign country. And now big T is trying to use it to his electoral advantage. The sh_t show never stops …
Vote Trump 2024, unless U love and agree with what Bidet and Harris have brought to our door step.
Write in Nobody and be part of a nonviolent revolution to make a new nonviolent nation.
Way too late for that Garrett…….:(
I'm open to other suggestions for avoiding extinction.
That's what I do. It's the only way I can have a clear conscience. Even the third party candidates are not acceptable to me. Nobody is the only acceptable choice. People should not be able to vote to enslave their neighbors. And that's what democracy entails.
Real democracy is simply a human tool for focusing distributed intelligence and seeing where one fits or doesn't fit in, whether right or wrong.
I prefer a society where consent of the governed extends all the way down to the individual.
Yes, however there are contrarians operating without social cares.
That's true. But they are far outnumbered by people operating with social cares, who will voluntarily organize themselves to protect each other from the contrarians (criminals) who operate without social cares.
I agree with Garrett … besides, living in CA, it doesn’t matter what I do. The biggest state in the union is just a piggy bank in elections. I haven’t seen a single presidential ad yet (not that I’m complaining 🙂 )
So, symbolically I’ll vote for West (if available) or Stein.
Same.
Since I am retired and using by 401 K, I love the high stock market that Biden brought.
I do too, but it's built on a foundation of sand.
He listens to Lindsey Graham.
you guys have unusual leaders
Evil "Leaders",,really TRAITORS to this nation, the once great USA,,,doomed now in so many ways.
So when did the USA not become great? Got a date?
Probably when Lincoln "killed his own people"?
It was never great.
S**t, if YOU think that & your Prez 4 Life is the Green Gobblin' (Up Money), the USA is screwwwwwwed.
Zelenskyy should get replaced with Zaluzhnyy, we need a miltary leader (more than we already do)
Syrskiy can stay head of the AFU tho
All F**ked Up ?
Well one of those unusual leaders is saving your country. The other will destroy you country.
Still unusual nonetheless
Pot calling Kettle black.
Trump being delusional and stupid yet again…! This is not gonna help him more votes in the election…!
Trump is delusional. He shows that in the debate with his cat and dog comment.
Kamala is an idiot. She shows that twice with her non-answer to what she would specifically do to turn the economy around. On both occasions, she went into an idiotic memorized speech about her middle class childhood and working at McDonalds, and ignored the question. Naturally, during the debate the questioners let her slide on her dance around the question.
Trump's hate easily equals Kamala's hates.
Do you hate who you are taught to hate?
Trump's hate easily equals Kamala's hates.
Do you hate who you are taught to hate?
The empire of lies at it again. Shocking that his own fellow American want to kill him but has the audacity to blame iran. All their leaders were murdered by their own people
What would the USRael do if Iran killed a high ranking General the way Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed? I guarantee you sparks would fly, but, apparently, as witnessed the Israel's actions always being deemed "revenge attacks" by the mainstream media, Iran does NOT have that same right of "self-defense"! In fact, Trump should be more concerned with Israel because Iran is not THAT stupid to give Israel exactly what it wants! Most Americans with half a brain KNOW that Trump's attackers are DOMESTIC!
Admire that American military leadership never seems to be a target for assassination. Perhaps because there's just SO MANY (the Navy averages an Admiral for every 2 ships in the fleet) OR perhaps because current US military tactics and strategies are already perfectly incompetent beyond the "invade & destroy" phase of any campaign ?
The current number of active-duty general or flag officers is 218 for the Army, 149 for the Navy, 170 for the Air Force, 62 for the Marine Corps, and 21 for the Space Force. The US military has 2.86 million people worldwide, including 1.29 million active-duty troops and 767,238 national guard and reserve members. So there is about 4,600 persons per general/admiral. With a larger military there will be a large number of officers.
Grade creep.
Realising, too, the number of captains / commanders, colonels / majors beneath all those expand out in geometric fashion into even BIGGER numbers.
That aside, your numbers (thanks for those !) illustrate 218 Army Generals for which the IRI has no evident interest in assassinating.
Telling the deep state that they should blow Iran to smithereens if you die is sorta lie telling OJ Simpson you've named him as beneficiary for your $100 million life insurance policy. This is really dumb, even for Trump.
I'd love if the Persians had themselves a laugh on this, Tweet out, "Sorry, who is Dave Trump ?" and consistently get his name wrong & appear unfamiliar with him. "Is he related to Dale Trump, that former US President whose administration lost more jobs than any time since the Great Depression?"
Is anyone bothering to listen to anything this moron says? Who says "we'll blow you to smithereens"? He talks like he's some imbecile from Arkansas. And only imbeciles from states like that listen to him.
If it isn't obvious that Trump would start a war with Iran in his second term, it should be. He would have started one in his first term if he could have figured out how to do it without being blamed for it.
Reportedly at one point after either the drone shoot down or the Iran strike on the US Iraq bases (I forget which), he had planes in the air to conduct a strike on Iran. They were painted by Iranian long-range radar and Iran informed the US via the Swiss that if one US missile landed on an empty Iranian beach, Iran would retaliate with everything they had. Trump backed down because at heart he's a cowardly narcissist.
Did the donations from Sheldon cadavar co pour in soon after the claim?
Unfortunately,, he drank the koolaid too. Not because he believes he’ll get super powers but because they told him to drink it.
Trump is paranoid, but rightly so. He ordered the assassination of top Iranian General Soleimani and the men accompanying him on a peace mission. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
"One day a man named Truth and a man named Lie stood by a river just outside of town. They were twin brothers. Lie challenged Truth to a race, claiming he could swim across the river faster than Truth. Lie laid out the rules to the challenge stating that they both must remove all their clothes and at the count of 3, dive in to the freezing cold water swim to the other side and back. Lie counted to 3, but when Truth jumped in, Lie did not. As Truth swam across the river, Lie put on Truth’s clothes and walked back in to town dressed as Truth. He proudly paraded around town pretending to be Truth. Truth made it back to shore, but his clothes were gone and he was left naked with only Lie’s clothes to wear. Refusing to dress himself as Lie, Truth walked back to town naked. People stared and glared as naked Truth walked through town. He tried to explain what happened and that he was in fact Truth, but because he was naked and uncomfortable to look at, people mocked and shunned him; refusing to believe he was really Truth. The people in town chose to believe Lie because he was dressed appropriately and easier to look at. From that day until this, people have come to believe a lie rather than believe a naked truth."
https://medium.com/@ParkerSimpson/the-story-of-truth-lie-1476bda2d45e
Our clandestine agencies will blame Iran if a disgruntled loner succeeds where the other two have failed. Trump shouldn't be playing that game because it might increase his danger.
I saw that stupid CGI video. It was poorly done and on purpose. Spookville USA
Of course Iran would like to kill Trump. They would like to kill Biden and Harris as well.
According to who?
Western media that lies about everything and investigates nothing?
The Iranians have made it clear a number of times. I’m just conveying information. They think that they have justification. Even if they do, the U.S. can’t just lay down for them.
If I were Trump, I'd be looking at the Cheney Family and the UNI-PARTY Bush/Clinton Crime Syndicate.
Trump has so many directions to look these days he's probably getting dizzy.