Israel recently provided the United States with intelligence indicating a fresh Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump, according to a report.
The alleged new assassination scheme, detailed Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, follows years of threats from Iran’s regime against Trump, whom Tehran has vowed to target in retaliation for the 2020 US strike that killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Asked to respond, the White House directed The Post to comments Trump made Wednesday during the NATO summit in Ankara.
“They want to take out the US leader — me,” Trump said. “I’m on whatever list. I saw this morning I’m on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I’ve been a bit lucky, but maybe that doesn’t last very long.”
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“These are evil, sick people,” the president continued. “And we have to root out that cancer. That cancer. You know what you do? You’ve got to cut out cancer early. And that’s the way I feel.”
Trump arrived in Turkey aboard his new Qatari “palace in the sky” aircraft, but returned to the US on a different Air Force One. The White House said the last-minute aircraft change was a deliberate “distraction” intended to protect the commander-in-chief.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who joined Trump at the summit, was told shortly before the president switched planes in Turkey not to continue on to Israel as previously scheduled. It remains unclear whether the reported Iranian threat also involved the war secretary.
The Wall Street Journal report did not include details of the alleged assassination plot.
