By In a shocking development, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz has revealed that a whistleblower from the Department of Homeland Security warned U.S. officials about five assassination teams allegedly planning to target former President Donald Trump.
According to Gaetz, the whistleblower disclosed that three of the assassination teams were inspired by foreign actors, while two were domestic. The whistleblower reportedly expressed concern that the security around Trump was inadequate, especially given the multiple assassination attempts, including one in July that injured Trump and resulted in the death of an audience member.
The claims were made during an interview with Just the News editor-in-chief John Solomon, where Gaetz explained that the whistleblower approached him just before an alleged assassination attempt on Trump this past Sunday.
“I had a senior official from the Department of Homeland Security in my office before the second assassination attempt, saying that what he has assessed is that there are five known assassination teams in the United States, three inspired by other governments, two that are here, that are known domestic assassination teams,” Gaetz said on “Human Events Daily.”
“And with that, this individual was coming to me, concerned that the force protection around President Trump, even before that second assassination attempt, was not sufficient for what it needed to be, and the coordination at that level, at the dignitary protection level is like the bare minimum that we have to do to keep our presidents, our presidential candidates, safe while they’re on the trail,” he went on.
“Five teams that we know are targeting Trump,” he clarified. “And so that raises real questions about why certain teams were being pulled off of the Trump deal detail and put on, for example, the Jill Biden detail.”
“Now we don’t want anything bad to happen to Jill Biden, but at the same time, the threat envelope for her was substantially different than the threat envelope around President Trump, and it would not have necessitated pulling assets away from the Trump detail for the Joe Biden detail or the John Bolton detail or any other details that were beefed up at the same time, the requests from the Trump detail and from the Trump campaign for more security, were going unanswered, frankly,” he concluded.Â
The most recent assassination attempt, Gaetz mentioned, involved radical leftist Ryan Wesley Routh, who was apprehended before causing harm to Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course. It is unclear if Routh was part of one of the assassination teams mentioned by the whistleblower.
Iran has also allegedly been targeting the former president, hoping to disrupt the American elections on behalf of Democrats this fall. Both Harris and Biden have been criticized for having close advisers who are close to the Ayatollah’s regime.
In August, a Pakistani man allegedly tied to Iran has been charged with an elaborate plot to assassinate current and former government officials, potentially including former President Donald Trump.
Asif Merchant, 46, faces a single count of murder for hire after prosecutors say he paid $5,000 to an undercover FBI agent he believed was a hit man, with whom he discussed a complex plot directed at a political figure who Merchant said would be surrounded by security,” according to NBC News.
The claims have sparked major concerns about Trump’s safety as he continues to campaign for the 2024 Republican nomination, with critics questioning whether the government is doing enough to protect him.
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