Iran trying to assassinate Donald Trump, other US leaders, officials say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "In his post, Trump thanked Congress "for unanimously approving far more money to Secret Service" for his protective detail.
43% : Moves were already made by Iran that didn't work out, but they will try again," Trump wrote.
40% : And in July, CNN reported the Secret Service had beefed up security for Trump over concerns of an Iranian plot.
38% : Trump himself acknowledged the ongoing concern Wednesday in a post on X that garnered 19.9 million views by noon.
35% : A spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, acknowledged briefing Trump but declined to address any specifics.
23% : After Trump was shot and wounded in the right ear at his July 13 campaign rally, the White House confirmed the broad outlines of a separate threat against him from Iran.
21% : Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said he hadn't seen "any indication" Iran had anything to do with the two alleged assassination plots against Trump, including one that drew blood at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in July.
16% : ""The Iranian desire and plotting to assassinate Donald Trump is the single gravest foreign threat to an American leader in our history," Rubio said, citing a video posted by the Iranian regime in January 2022 depicting the assassination of Trump on a golf course as revenge for killing of Soleimani.

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