Graham urged President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to "do something" about the alleged Iranian plot.

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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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    there’s also no reason to doubt that

    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

    • commandar@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.