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From the New York Post: Former President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday Iran may have been behind a pair of attempts on his life earlier this year — but the FBI has to penetrate the assassins’ phones to be sure.
“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, 78, told supporters in Mint Hill, NC.
The 45th president was briefed Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Cheung did not say what ODNI specifically revealed to Trump, but the former president has since stated that “moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out.”
After the Butler PA attack on July 13, the FBI reportedly discovered two phones belonging to gunman Thomas Crooks — which included encrypted messaging accounts on platforms based in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany. It was reported in July that investigators were having trouble trying to crack into the encrypted apps on Crooks’ phones.
In the Florida incident, when investigators searched Ryan Routh’s car, they reportedly found six cellphones, including one that showed a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico. Two of the the phones showed Routh’s car had been in that area around Trump’s golf course multiple times over the month prior to the September 15 assassination attempt.
“In the second case, the assassin had six cell phones in his car, yet the FBI has likewise been unable to penetrate their guard. Shouldn’t be tough to do,” Trump said on Wednesday, adding, “They want to know, and I want to know, and the whole country and maybe the world wants to know, who is he calling? Who is he calling?”’
He called for the FBI to get Apple to open the apps on the phones.
Trump also pointed out the irony, noting that the FBI had no trouble opening the apps on the phones of the January 6 protesters.
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