President Donald Trump was apparently more concerned about an Iranian conspiracy to kill him on the campaign track than he left in public – even with the help of an elusive tactic from a espionage film to throw them off his path.
Federal Legal Enforcement Officers had warned the then Republican candidate at the time that Iran had concluded agents in the United States who had access to surface-to-air missiles, writes Axios reporter Alex Isenstadt in his new book details he shared online.
Their goal was to try to dissidents dissidents who are critical of the regime and back in Trump for the death of Qasem Soleimani.
After hearing about the threat that Iranian officials later denied, some were afraid of the Trump campaign that the candidate would take his Trump force an airplane, would make him an easy target.
Their worries only grew after a so -called murderer opened the fire on his golf course in Florida on 15 September – only two months after he was shot in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania.
At that time, Trump's security detail let the candidate fly to an event on a local aircraft owned by his friend, real estate manager Steve Witkoff.
Co-campaign manager Susie Wiles joined Trump on the plane of Witkoff, but the rest of the staff-inclusive co-campaign manager Chris Lacivita traveled in Trump Force One.
“The boss is not driving with us today,” Lacivita was forced to tell the staff members, according to Isenstadt. “We had to put him in another plane.”
President Donald Trump was apparently more concerned about an Iranian conspiracy to kill him on the campaign track than he left in public
His campaign staff was delivered that he would be too easy of a target if he would use his Trump Force one plane to arrive and leave rallies
“This is nothing but a kind of test for how things can happen in the future,” he said.
The news rose some assistants of the region, who are concerned that they could become 'additional damage' if Trump was aimed at one.
They described how the flight became a surreal experience for them when they shared 'Gallows Humor Galore'.
“This was what S ***,” a former employee told Isenstadt.
Within the campaign, the ride would later be known as the ghost flight, he reports.
In the meantime, the secret service also arranged for a Decoy Motorcade on the same day, with Trump in one and his employees in another.
But the worries about Trump's safety have only been set up, with the secret service reporting campaign leaders warned after a Rally of September 18 on Long Island, New York that someone might be looking for his motorcade.
During a trip to Pennsylvania the following week, the officers of the Secret Service also noted a drone after the Motorcade of Trump, exhausting an officer to open the monthly bag of the vehicle and shoot the drone with an electromagnetic gun – that switched off.
The concern grew after Trump was the victim of two murder attempts – including one who wounded him
As the security problems were set up, campaign -insiders said that Trump was more concerned about the threat of Iran than he publicly.
He brought the murder on January 2020 of Soleimani less at his campaign meetings and reportedly began to express more concern about the staging of his campaign events.
Trump would also be worried that voters would get 'murder fatigue' and would not want to choose a president who was constantly threatened.
He eventually revealed that he was confronted with murder attempts by Iranian officials on his social social platform.
“Great threats on my life by Iran,” Trump wrote on his social social platform in September. “The entire American army looks and waiting.
“Iran who did not succeed, but they will try again.”
Trump was eventually concerned about the staging on events
A Pakistan national national was later sued in connection with a 'murder-for-rent' plot to kill a politician or government official, of which FBI director Chris Wray said it was “directly from the Playbook of the Iranian regime.”
AXIOS reporter Alex Isenstadt has detailed the efforts to keep Trump safe in his new book
By November Farhad Shakeri, 51, was also described by the FBI as an 'assets of the Iranian revolutionary guard.
Shakeri – Together with New Yorkers Carlisle Rivera, 49, and Jonathan Loadholt, 36, are also accused of focusing on an Iranian -American activist and were offered $ 500,000 to kill two Jewish business people who live in the US
The IRGC had constant contact with the suspects and said that 'money was not an object' when it came to pursuing their goals.
Allegedly, the Shakeri has informed the surveillance and killing of Trump to avenge the devastating drone strike that Soleimani, the leader of the Elite Quds force of Iran, killed.
Shakeri was instructed to kill Trump with only a month until millions of Americans went to the polls on November 5.
However, he told the FBI in recorded phone calls that he did not intend to perform the operation in the time frame that he received.
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Trump has been a target of Iran Assassination Threat since he ordered the strike that Soleimani killed, the leader of the Brutal Iranian Quds troops
Shakeri was then told to postpone the conspiracy, because Iran thought Trump would lose the elections and it would be easier to reach him without his full detailed services at the presidential level.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in the aftermath that there are 'few actors' in the world that “form a serious threat to the national security of the United States, just like Iran.”
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – a designated foreign terrorist organization – is conspiracy with criminals and hitmets to focus and harm Americans on American soil and that will simply not be tolerated,” he said.
'Actors directed by Iran's government continue to focus on our citizens, including President-Elect Trump, on American soil and abroad. This must stop ', “American lawyer Damian Williams for the southern district of New York added.
“Today's charges are another message to those who continue their efforts – we remain inexorably striving for bad actors, regardless of where they live, and will not stop if those who harm our safety and safety.”
The Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi later denied that the IRGC had hired a murderer who wrote on X, because 'a Killer does not actually exist, scenarists are brought in to produce a third-rate comedy. '
“Who can believe in their mind that an assumed murderer is in Iran and talks online with the FBI?!”
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Nevertheless, Trump has issued a hair -raising warning to Iran if the nation in the middle east tried to kill him.
Last week he signed an executive order in the Oval Office that described a 'maximum pressure' campaign on the nation, while working to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon.
The president said he was' torn 'torn' when signing the order – who led a reporter to ask why he was hesitant when Iranian leaders threatened to kill him.
“If they did, they would be erased,” Trump replied. “I left instructions. If they do it, they will be erased, there is nothing left. '
When asked to clarify his comments, the president made the same threat.
“That would be called total destruction,” said Trump. “I can't imagine they would do that,” he added.
