All posts tagged "Assassination"

President Donald Trump was confronted with a bizarre "threat" from an Iranian official during a question-and-answer session at the White House on Wednesday, where he met with African leaders.

Fox News's Peter Doocy paraphrased Mohammad-Javad Larijani, "a regime figure and adviser to Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei," who said on Iranian television, "Trump can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago, because while he's lying down, a micro-drone might target and strike him right in the navel."

According to Newsweek, Larijani "laughed as he made the remark...as part of a discussion about the country's military technology."...

Former President Donald Trump's campaign rivals should answer whether they agree with his attorney John Sauer's argument in the D.C. Court of Appeals that the former president couldn't have been prosecuted even for ordering the military assassination of a political opponent, as long as he was not impeached over the offense, argued former Republican Party chair Michael Steele on MSNBC Wednesday — because the obvious logical extension of this argument is that President Joe Biden couldn't be prosecuted for having Trump killed either.

This comes as Chris Christie, the only Republican presidential candidate who took it upon himself to condemn the assassination theory, dropped out of the race this evening.

"Donald Trump's lawyer ... went into a federal courthouse and said that the President of the United States has the absolute authority to have SEAL Team Six run a hit on their political opponent," said anchor Joy Reid. "Meaning by his logic, Joe Biden could have a hit against Donald Trump. And no one said anything except Chris Christie, what is happening?"...

As a response to apparently forged British passports having allegedly been used to facilitate a team of Israeli assassins who targeted a high-ranking Hamas figure in Dubai, an unnamed Israeli diplomat has been expelled from the United Kingdom.