Secret Service ramped up security
after receiving intel of Iranian plot
to assassinate Trump; no known connection
to shooting
CNN,
by
Even Perez *
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/16/2024 4:03:45 PM
US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president on Saturday, was connected to the plot, the sources said.
The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 7/16/2024 4:12:35 PM (No. 1758535)
They Increased security, yet this twerk gets around it.
What's going to happen with the t0₩elheads try?
BTW. Did anyone tell Trump about Iran?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 7/16/2024 4:14:48 PM (No. 1758541)
See the 7th paragraph. His rallies are a feature, not a bug. That advice to stop his outdoor rallies is massive interference in the American political process. What's with the Biden/Obama infatuation with the Iranian regime?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/16/2024 4:15:18 PM (No. 1758543)
If this is ramping up, I hate to know what "non-ramped" up detail looked like!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/16/2024 4:28:34 PM (No. 1758560)
How convenient they found an excuse, justification, rationalization to finally provide the increased security which they really didn't want to do.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 7/16/2024 4:49:12 PM (No. 1758575)
September 11, 2023
"The Biden administration informed Congress on Monday that it has taken concrete steps to carry out a prisoner exchange with Iran, issuing a waiver that will give Tehran access to $6 billion in Iranian oil revenue that had been blocked by U.S. sanctions, according to a State Department document sent to Congress and obtained by NBC News."
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In light of this intelligence will Biden continue to release funds impounded under the anti-terror sanctions to Iran?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/16/2024 5:03:10 PM (No. 1758588)
In re #2, follow the money. Not sure where and to whom, but always follow the money.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
thefield 7/16/2024 5:05:31 PM (No. 1758591)
Let's look at the chain. Biden stops us oli production. Buys Iranian allies oli, which sends u.s. money allies which sends money to Iran. Iran not only sends u.s. money to terrorist to kill u.s. allies and kill a former u.s. President. Am I missing something?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 7/16/2024 5:05:59 PM (No. 1758593)
If this is "ramped up SS security".....I'd sure hate to see their normal idiocy.
I think Trump needs to get someone who he trusts to put together a team of former SS agents to protect him and fire the government clown show.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Noj15 7/16/2024 5:07:31 PM (No. 1758595)
LOOK! A SQUIRREL!
* Merrick is hiding under his desk *
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No doubt they are after him and their agents have probably already entered through Biden’s open border. My guess is they are plotting a drone strike. Saturday may have been a blessing in disguise as security has now been enhanced- no thanks to Biden.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
FJB 7/16/2024 5:21:10 PM (No. 1758609)
Dear God. We've all known they were going to get him. Our prayers are with him.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marbles 7/16/2024 5:24:59 PM (No. 1758612)
Iran ? Expect lies and you'll never be disappointed.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/16/2024 5:26:30 PM (No. 1758613)
D'ya think possibly that Antifa (EU Branch) is funded, in part, by the Islamic Jihad in Tehran? "Useful idiots" and "enemy of my enemy" applies here.
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This is deflection from the inside job on Saturday.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 7/16/2024 5:35:59 PM (No. 1758621)
For what it's worth, I think the Secret Service made so many mistakes is because they wanted the ex-president dead. 2+2 has always been 4.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/16/2024 6:00:06 PM (No. 1758632)
Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 7/16/2024 6:02:43 PM (No. 1758634)
Ramped up security, my hind end. Temps are not ramping up security. Cheatle you failed in your single mission, to protect the individual, period. You have no other responsibility. Period. No joke. Your DEI almost got 45 killed. You failed. Period. Bigly. No Joke.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/16/2024 6:05:11 PM (No. 1758636)
I beLIEve them!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/16/2024 6:14:53 PM (No. 1758642)
#2 Dreadnought has this right on the button, they are trying to get DJT to stop his outdoor rallies. The look is unmistakable to everyone, DJT draws thousands while biden can't fill a phone booth in a rainstorm, unless he shows up at the naacp or other radical left venue. Come on Joe have a ralley in PA and lets see what you draw.
Something is rotten in demark and I am more amd more conviinced this was a deep state hit.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Muguy 7/16/2024 7:02:17 PM (No. 1758659)
Interesting how the timing of the news drop comes our way--
Trying to quiet a story going round that the extra SS protection was siphoned off and going to Mrs. Vegetable?
Having been shamed into providing SS protection of another rival as well after leaving him unprotected out of political spite?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/16/2024 7:22:16 PM (No. 1758666)
I don't believe this at all.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
hershey 7/16/2024 9:42:21 PM (No. 1758773)
If they 'beefed' it up, just how bad was it before they did that??? Seeing as what a cluster er,...goat rope it was when he was shot...
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
edgar 7/17/2024 6:35:46 AM (No. 1758948)
Look! A squirrel.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/17/2024 7:39:46 AM (No. 1758976)
Right it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the rake stepping keystone cop cluster..... we just saw Saturday.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 7/17/2024 8:05:47 AM (No. 1758985)
#6 answer is stupid is and stupid does. Pray for our country dear friends.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/17/2024 8:44:37 AM (No. 1759016)
So with the supposed increased personal Secret Service protection granted to Trump by Mayorkis and the Director of the Secret Service to stop a possible Iranian conspiracy to murder Trump, a 20 year old obvious “nut job” local kid came within an inch of murdering Trump with a rifle bullet! Seems like that supposed reinforcement of Trump’s Secret Service security detail designed by Biden Administration “big wigs” was just as incompetent as most all other Biden initiatives.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/17/2024 9:59:32 AM (No. 1759078)
The rallies are a main stay of the President Trump drive for the White House...not surprised that Iran is raising the stakes...they stand to lose their buddies..Obama...in the White House when President Trump takes over again....the fact that they publish this in the fake news means they are getting nervous....
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/17/2024 10:36:01 AM (No. 1759106)
I would really like to know which idiot thought it was a good idea to Tell-All about security issues around the secret service or the president. There's always the chance that such info just a bunch of misleading lies, but you can never be sure. I don't need to know anything about security. Let me just find out if I need to get to the airport, and find it all under a security alert. That is quite enough notice. I lived through the years of Clinton & Gore spending so much time in the capital city--right across from my office. I wasted a lot of "vacation" days during those years just trying to from work to home and back. Whew.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/17/2024 1:10:44 PM (No. 1759295)
Really? A Damn lot of good their "ramped up" security did on the 13th!! Real professional. JFK or Bobby, professional! You talk a great game, but do you play for the other team?
CIA, FBI and it's beginning to look like Secret Service have outlived their purpose. If you have no honor, you have nothing at all!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/17/2024 4:49:32 PM (No. 1759469)
Obama is sooo very jealous; bet he wishes he'd thought of it first, but is just way too cheap.
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