Iran’s alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and hack the Trump campaign amount to “an act of war,” according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Just days after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear in July, the FBI announced that Iran had allegedly been separately plotting to kill the former president. Federal officials later revealed that Iran had hacked and stolen confidential information from the Trump campaign.
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That’s still not showing any connection to the Iranian government…
Just that this guy has a wife and children that live in Iran…
Which is a pretty good reason why he spends time in Iran btw.
In your quote the “from Iran” just doesn’t mean what you think it means
I understand this might seem a little pedantic, but the difference is fucking huge and trump’s campaign is exploiting the same misunderstanding that you’re having right now
My “misunderstanding” is having followed this story for more than a single headline.
Marcy Wheeler has written extensively about it for months now. She’s been at the center of the story to the extent that she was one of the journalists that (presumably Iran) attempted to leak hacked Trump campaign documents through. She’s very adamantly of the stance that there is a real threat because it’s been corroborated by multiple sources who don’t have any interest in propping up Trump.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/09/25/dont-make-the-same-mistake-with-iran-that-denialists-made-with-russia/
Trump’s a blowhard. He’s absolutely going to use the story as a wedge. Don’t do his work for him by dismissing the possibility of what appear to be real threats out of hand.
I’m not saying we know the exact nature of what’s going on or that any threat is particularly immediate; what I am saying is that there’s enough information available from sources that aren’t affiliated with Trump that the possibility should be taken seriously.
Yet she offers absolutely zero evidence it is connected to Iran’s government…
You’re conflating evidence of them hacking, and saying that proves there was a state sponsored effort to recruit an assain to kill trump.
We do t even know if he’s the target…
What is so hard to understand about literally any of this?
I’ve honestly ran out of ways to keep saying the two very basic points here
Repeating yourself does seem to be your priority here.
If you had actually read through the piece I linked instead of looking for something to immediately disagree with in the snippet I quoted, you’d see she linked to this story. The entire reason we’re hearing about this now is because Trump was briefed on the threat by US intelligence and Trump is literally incapable of not immediately repeating what he’s been told.
And if you took 20 seconds to Google after that, you’d find that the DNI has publicly confirmed that the briefing with Trump happened. Additionally, the same story has Anthony Blinken confirming that the US has been tracking Iranian threats against Trump as well as other past and current officials. It even links to multiple previous reports discussing an increased threat profile dating back months just like I said was the case.
My point is that Trump is not the only source and that there’s been corroboration from parties who really don’t care about making Trump look good. I’m not inclined to believe the story because Trump said it and, yes, Trump is absolutely a liar; I’m inclined to believe it because it’s been fairly widely reported well before Trump said anything at all.
In fact, there are a couple of other possibilities.
He’s a lone wolf who just happens to have a connection to Iran.
He’s based in Iran but actually working for Hamas or Hezbollah.
He actually is working for Iran but not going after the former prez (being deemed too hard of a target after two assassination attempts), rather they might aim for former VP Mike Pence, or Bolton again.
Some combination of the above (e.g. a lone wolf going after Bolton).
I suppose we’ll just have to wait the trial and see what the investigation uncovers.