Trump puts Iran on notice over alleged assassination plot as chilling video emerges: 'If I were the president...'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : The video animation ends with the message, "Revenge is Definite," evidently a reference to the US-directed assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 while Trump was still in office.
35% : "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 told supporters in Mint Hill, NC on Wednesday.
33% : "Meanwhile, we have the president of Iran in our country this week, we have large security forces guarding him, and yet they're threatening our former president and the leading candidate to become the next president -- certainly a strange set of circumstances," Trump said to supporters in a speech in the battleground state of North Carolina on Wednesday.
26% : "Enough!"The animation, which was posted to Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei's website in January 2022, shows an assassination attempt on Trump as he is playing golf.
23% : "Trump went on to urge that "we all need to pull together" to end such threats and "bring back American strength, power, and prestige," which he reminded have been decimated under the current administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
18% : Trump addressed the threats in his speech, putting the Islamic nation on notice by warning that if he or other leaders were to be harmed, "We are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens.

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