Former President Donald Trump has said that if America’s enemies were to assassinate him, they should wipe out Iran.
Trump, 78, has made it clear he wants fierce retaliation. Authentic Social Posts On Thursday, he posted footage of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussing the Islamic Republic’s assassination threats in a speech to parliament.
“There’s always the possibility that they’ll ‘assassinate President Trump,’ but if that happens, I want the United States to destroy Iran, wipe it off the face of the earth,” the Republican presidential candidate said.
“If this does not happen, America’s leaders will be seen as ‘cowardly’ cowards!” he added.
Trump’s call for revenge for his supposed death comes less than two weeks after an assassin’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving him bloodied, injuring two rally-goers and killing heroic 50-year-old firefighter Corey Comperatore.
Days after the assassination attempt, U.S. officials revealed that they had received intelligence about Iran’s plot to assassinate President Trump just weeks before the July 13 rally shooting.
U.S. officials said the threat was conveyed to the chief Secret Service agent in charge of Trump’s security and to the former president’s campaign.
The White House National Security Council said last week that it has been tracking Iranian threats to Trump administration officials “for years” and that the threats stem from a “desire for revenge” for the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, who was removed in 2020 on Trump’s orders.
45th President 2019 Warning If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it will face “devastation the likes of which we have never seen before.”
“I don’t want war, and if there is a war, it will be the most devastating war we’ve ever seen,” Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“But I’m not going to do that,” he added. “But we can’t have nuclear weapons. You want to talk? No problem. Otherwise, we could have a bad economy for the next three years.”
Trump made similar remarks about North Korea in 2017, warning that if Pyongyang continued its belligerent attitude towards the United States it would face “fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
