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Secret Service confirms awareness of Iranian state media video threatening Barron Trump's life
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Secret Service confirms awareness of Iranian state media video threatening Barron Trump's life

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The U.S. Secret Service has confirmed it is aware that Iranian state media has aired a video that appears to threaten the life of Barron Trump, President Donald Trump’s youngest son. Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring confirmed that the agency is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward the people it protects. But Herring offered no further details and cited the Secret Service practice of not discussing intelligence affecting protectees. Since the U.S. assassination of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media have on multiple occasions circulated content threatening the president and family members. The assassination came at the start of the war in Iran that Trump launched alongside Israel.

Trump used elaborate ruse to fly out of Turkey following summit because of Iran threat, report says
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Trump used elaborate ruse to fly out of Turkey following summit because of Iran threat, report says

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The Washington Post reports President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat. The operation involved a ruse in which journalists and some White House staffers believed they were on the same plane as the Republican president. After boarding Air Force One, Trump was secretly transferred to a smaller Air Force C-32A via an airport catering truck. The White House has not directly addressed the report but issued a statement highlighting it uses every tool at its disposal to address threats on the president. The Secret Service has declined to comment.

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Trump campaign releases letter on his injury, treatment after last week's assassination attempt

  • By JILL COLVIN and BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press
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Donald Trump’s campaign released an update on the former president’s health Saturday, one week after he survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The memo, from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as Trump’s White House physician, offers new details on the nature of the GOP nominee’s injuries and the treatment he received in the immediate aftermath of the attack. According to Jackson, Trump sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear that came “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear." He also received a CT scan at the hospital.

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Multiple failures, multiple investigations: Unraveling the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

  • By COLLEEN LONG, MIKE BALSAMO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press
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Multiple investigations have been launched into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. They include probes into the crime itself and how law enforcement allowed it to happen at all. But it’s becoming increasingly clear this was a complicated failure involving multiple missteps and at least nine different local, county and federal law enforcement divisions that were supposed to be working together that day at the campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The gunman prepared for carnage. He was found with a detonator in his pocket to set off crude explosive devices that were stashed in his car parked nearby. That's according to law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.