The former president’s campaign issued a statement amid heightened concerns for the Republican nominee’s safety.
Former President Donald Trump, who has already survived two assassination attempts, has received a briefing on “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him,” his campaign said in a Sept. 24 news release.
The office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed the former president about “ongoing threats from the Iran terror regime,” his campaign said.
“Intelligence officials have identified that these continued and coordinated attacks have heightened in the past few months,” the release continued, adding that law-enforcement officials “across all agencies are working to ensure President Trump is protected and the election is free from interference.”
The revelations come in the thick of the presidential election campaign. The former president and current Republican presidential nominee is scheduled for six campaign events this week.
Trump’s campaign says that the alleged Iranian plot is intended to “destabilize” the United States and “sow chaos.”
Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s communications director, said Iranians are “terrified of the strength and resolve of President Trump.”
“He will let nothing stop him or get in his way to fight for the American people and to Make America Great Again,” Cheung said in the release.
The former president said on X on Wednesday that Iran has already tried and failed to carry out an attack.
“The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again,” Trump said.
The former president said he now is encircled by “more men, guns, and weapons” than he had ever seen before.
He thanked congress members from both political parties for unanimously approving more funding for Secret Service protection. “Nice to see Republicans and Democrats get together on something.”
Republican lawmakers and Trump allies continue expressing heightened concerns over the adequacy of Secret Service protection he is being provided.
Earlier Tuesday, federal charges of attempted assassination were filed against Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old Hawaii man arrested Sept. 15. A Secret Service agent spotted a gun barrel protruding from a bush and fence line while the former president was playing golf at a course he owns in West Palm Beach, Florida. The agent fired upon the hidden gunman, who was later identified as Routh; he was initially held on a pair of firearms charges.
By Janice Hisle
