US intelligence agencies have obtained information about an Iranian plot to assassinate former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump (2017-2021), weeks before last Saturday’s attacksources familiar with the matter confirmed to EFE.
These sources stressed that there is no link between this Iranian plan and the attempted assassination of Trump, which occurred on Saturday at a rally in Butler (Pennsylvania), when a 20-year-old man He shot the former president, wounding him in the ear and killing one of the attendees at the event..
Although there is no apparent connection, at the time of Saturday’s attack, the Secret Service had reinforced the former president’s security due toprecisely to those threats from Iranthese sources detailed.
So the question now is why those additional measures that were put in place because of the Iranian plot failed to prevent the attacker, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, from climbing onto a roof and He fired several shots before being shot dead by Secret Service agents.
According to a senior national security official who spoke to EFE, upon detecting the threat, the White House alerted both the Trump campaign and the Secret Service to the added danger, who took additional measures to protect the former president.
Iran and its threats to US officials
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told EFE that Iran has been threatening US officials for years in revenge for the attack that Trump ordered in 2020 and which ended the life of General Qasem Soleimani, former head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Because of those threats, former senior Trump administration officials involved in that operation still have bodyguards. They include former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former White House national security adviser John Bolton.
“As we have said on numerous occasions, we have been following Iranian threats against former Trump administration officials for years. These threats stem from Iran’s desire to take revenge for the death of Qasem Soleimani. “We consider this a matter of national security of the highest priority,” Watson said.
The spokesperson also assured that No link has been identified between the man who shot Trump and other possible foreign agents.
According to the FBI, which is leading the investigation, the attacker acted alone and used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that had been legally purchased by his father.
The Secret Service is currently under intense scrutiny for failures that may have occurred that allowed an attempted assassination of Trump, the first such incident since suffered by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
The US government has announced that it will conduct an independent investigation into the failures and has also reinforced Trump’s security detail and provided the independent candidate with Secret Service agents. Robert Kennedy Jr.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
