Trump on Assassination Threats: 'We Are Going to Blow Your Largest Cities and the Country Itself to Smithereens'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Trump thanked Congress for its bipartisan push for legislation to boost his Secret Service protection.
58% : But Trump promised that if elected, he'll take the action further.
50% : "Trump pointed out at the rally that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is in the United States this week, where he has spoken to the United Nations General Assembly's annual gathering in New York City.
44% : "As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve, but possibly do, Iran, but I don't really know," Trump said at his campaign event Wednesday.
37% : In the Florida case, Routh had "six cell phones" but the FBI has likewise been unable to open the apps on them, Trump added.
34% : Trump posted on his Truth Social page early Wednesday that anyone trying to assassinate him or another candidate would have to have a "death wish" and that "moves were already made by Iran that didn't work out, but they will try again.
32% : Trump was grazed in the ear by a bullet shot by Thomas Crooks at his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally in July, with the Secret Service shooting and killing the 20-year-old.
30% : Members of the Senate on Wednesday advanced legislation that will provide equal protection for major presidential candidates that is provided for a sitting president after a pair of assassination attempts against Trump.
30% : Both of the suspects were U.S. citizens, and Trump acknowledged Wednesday that he doesn't know if they were connected with Iran.
21% : "We have large security forces guarding him, and yet they're threatening our former president and the leading candidate to become the next president of the United States," Trump said Wednesday.Iran has rejected the accusations that it is plotting assassination attempts on the former president, or that it had hacked into his campaign's accounts to share details with President Joe Biden earlier this summer.
17% : Another suspect, Ryan Routh, who is accused of planning to assassinate Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, is being held on charges of attempted assassination.
15% : We are going to blow it to smithereens," Trump said at a campaign event Wednesday in North Carolina.

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