ABC News reported Thursday, citing sources, that federal law enforcement officials intend to announce criminal charges on Friday in connection with a suspected Iranian hacking of messages. Email For campaign members Trump.
The former US president called on Wednesday to threaten “destruction.” Iran If it harms a candidate for the US elections, after intelligence informed him of the threats to him behind it Tehran.
“If I were the president, I would tell the threatened country, in this case Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we will destroy your largest cities and the country itself,” Trump said during an election rally in North Carolina.
Trump, who was subjected to my attempt, confirmed it Assassination Recently, Tuesday, his life was directly threatened by Iran.
His campaign team indicated that it received information from American intelligence About “concrete” assassination threats against the Republican candidate, issued by Iran.
US intelligence confirmed to Agence France-Presse that a meeting in this regard had been held with the Trump campaign, without providing further details.
In the middle of last month, the United States accused Iran of several hacking attempts on the Trump campaigns And Kamala Harris The presidential candidate’s team revealed one of them on August 10.
According to US authorities, Iranian hackers were sent to a campaign team Joe Biden Who has since withdrawn from the race to The white housedocuments “stolen” from the Republican billionaire’s team.
Trump’s spokesman explained that these “threats” illustrate the fact that “the terrorist regime in Iran loves Kamala Harris’ weakness and fears President Trump’s strength and determination.”
Trump has been the target of two assassination attempts in recent months, and he was shot and injured in his right ear during an election rally in Pennsylvania in mid-July.
Then on September 15, a man was arrested after officers spotted him with a device Secret Service He was in possession of a weapon near a golf course where Donald Trump was present in Florida, and he was charged on Tuesday with attempted murder.
