Yes, two more assassination plots.

  • finley
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    3 months ago

    Why would Iran want to assassinate Trump?

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    Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesperson, said the briefing concerned “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate [Trump] in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States”.

    • @SelfProgrammed
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      363 months ago

      And…

      The Iranian motivation to kill Trump is believed to stem from a desire for revenge over his decision when he was president to order the US strike that killed Maj Gen Qassim Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds force in January 2020.

    • @Bassman1805
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      243 months ago

      And he pulled out of a mutually beneficial nuclear treaty so that he could slap a bunch of sanctions on them.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate
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      83 months ago

      As other people have said, it would be way worse to have him him assassinated. If it’s looking like he’s going to lose, I could see the people who want the US unstable to prefer assassinating him instead.