Iran gunning for Trump: 4 Stories You Need To Know Today

1. Trump fires back at Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran hates America (they call us the “Great Satan”) and wants Donald Trump dead.

On Tuesday, the former president was briefed about an ongoing Iranian plot against his life. Trump, who ordered the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020, has been a frequent target of the Islamic theocracy ever since.

“President Trump was briefed earlier today by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” his campaign announced earlier this week.

New leaked internal communications indicate Iran also may have stolen Trump campaign documents as recently as last week. Previously, the U.S. intelligence community confirmed that Iran had hacked the presidential nominee’s campaign, sharing private documents with the media. Journalist Judd Legum suggested that Iran still may have access to the campaign after he received additional private documents from a mysterious source weeks after the initial hack.

In true Trump fashion, he refused to take the attacks lying down.

“Big threats on my life by Iran,” he posted on “X.” “The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again. Not a good situation for anyone. I am surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before.”

“Thank you to Congress for unanimously approving far more money to [the] Secret Service,” the former president continued, referring to a recently passed funding bill to boost Secret Service protection for presidential candidates. “Zero ‘NO’ Votes, strictly bipartisan. Nice to see Republicans and Democrats get together on something.”

“An attack on a former President is a Death Wish for the attacker!” Trump concluded with a warning to Iran.

2. The View fawns over Biden

“After 50 years of proud public service, President Joe Biden stepped up to lead us out of the dark, a very divisive era, and became one of the most substantial presidents of the past half-century,” Whoopi Goldberg gushed on “The View.”

Welcoming the sitting president to their ABC talk show on Wednesday, Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro applauded Biden for “putting your country first” by dropping out of the race and “passing the torch” to Kamala Harris.

Biden, who has slunk away from the spotlight since suspending his reelection bid earlier this year, announced that he is “at peace” with his decision. Curiously, he also added that he still believes he could have beaten Trump.

“I never fully believed the assertions that, somehow, there was this overwhelming reluctance to my running again,” he confessed. “I didn’t sense that…. There were some folks who liked to see me step aside so they have a chance to move on. I get that. That’s just human nature.”

“But that wasn’t the reason that I stepped down,” he continued. “I stepped down because I starting thinking about it — you know, it’s hard to think of — it’s hard for me to even say how old I am. No, I’m serious. I gave my word.”

At that point, the conversation veered off into garbled musings about women Biden’s age, ending with Joy Behar briefly cuddling the president.

“Thank you for everything you’ve done in my entire lifetime,” Goldberg later added. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” Navarro agreed.

3. Secret Service knew about threat against Trump days before shooting in Butler

According to a damning new Senate investigation, the Secret Service knew about a “credible” threat against the former president days before the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, but failed to prepare.

In its report on the security failures related to the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs vowed to get to the bottom of what acting Secret Service director Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. called “a failure on multiple levels.” Released on Wednesday, the document determined that the “USSS failures in planning, communications, security, and allocation of resources… were foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day.”

In a laundry list of “key failures,” the committee noted that, while the USSS was fully aware of “credible intelligence” about a threat against Trump, it failed to disseminate that information to many of its agents.

“Of the USSS personnel interviewed by the Committee, nearly all – including the Intelligence Advance Agent and the Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of the Pittsburgh Field Office – said they were unaware of any credible intelligence of a threat,” the committee reported.

“Every single one of these actions is directly related to a failure in the U.S. Secret Service’s planning, communications, intelligence sharing, and law enforcement coordination efforts,” the committee chairman reprimanded. “Every single one of those failures was preventable, and the consequences of those failures were dire.”

4. Joe Biden addresses war-addled world leaders

In his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Biden shared memories about his many decades of experience in American politics, even as the international community faces what he called an “inflection point.”

The 59th Session of the General Assembly, hosted in New York, was rocked by rising tensions in the Middle East and Europe.

Masoud Pezeshkian, the new president of Iran, addressed the body about “peace for all,” even as Trump was briefed about the nation’s ongoing plot to kill him. The very next day (Wednesday), Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, fired a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv, targeting Mossad. Fortunately, the missile was intercepted.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine cautioned that he believes Russia may soon target Ukraine’s nuclear facilities. “We have proof of this,” he said. He announced that he intends to host a peace conference, inviting all countries, including Russia’s allies, in hopes of forcing Vladimir Putin into peace.

For his part, Biden attempted to assuage these concerns with sweeping appeals to optimism, while sidestepping his own complicated foreign policy legacy.

“I know many look at the world today and see difficulties and react with despair,” he said. “But I do not. I won’t.”

“Maybe because of all I’ve seen and all we have done together over the decades, I have hope. I know there is a way forward…. My fellow leaders, there is nothing that is beyond our capacity if we work together.”