With Super Bowl LIX (that’s 59 for those like me who don’t speak number letters) and President Trump set to make history as the first sitting President to attend a Super Bowl, there’s a new report out.
Apparently the danger from a sophisticated assassination attempt was more real than many thought.
And according to one report, President Trump wasn’t playing around — in fact, he took the threat very seriously.
A new book by journalist Alex Isenstadt is detailing some of the steps President Trump took after learning the intelligence his campaign was given about the assassination plans against him by Iran.
While that information is not entirely new — we’ve known about the Iranian plan to shoot his plane down with MANPAD anti-aircraft missile systems — Isenstadt’s new book details just how seriously President Trump took the threat.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Isenstadt’s employment with Politico.
I wouldn’t given his info a second glance if it wasn’t already corroborated by previous sources months in advance, and in many ways by President Trump himself.
According to Isenstadt’s account, President Trump used a decoy plane in order to decrease the probability that an Iranian attempt to kill him would be successful.
TRUMP TEAM FEARED IRANIAN MISSILE STRIKE ON HIS PLANE—USED DECOY JET
A new book reveals that Trump’s campaign team feared Iran could shoot down his plane after U.S. officials warned of an Iranian plot to assassinate him.
While the photos in that post do not reflect the reality of the type of portable anti-aircraft missile system that would have been used…
(Which is still purported to be somewhere in the continental United States after having been smuggled in!)
The threat that became publicly known just before the election was taken seriously, according to a report about the new book in the Independent:
Donald Trump’s campaign team worried that Iran could try to shoot down his plane after threats of an alleged plot to kill him became known.
The concern grew enough that the president flew in a plane separate from his recognizable “Trump Force One” to an event, according to an upcoming book about Trump’s rise to power.
While campaigning for president last year, U.S. law enforcement officials warned Trump and his team that Tehran had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles and there was an alleged plot to assassinate him.
After the Secret Service intervened in an almost-assassination attempt at his golf club in Florida, Trump’s security detail heightened security concerns and chose to fly the future president on a decoy plane, owned by Steve Witkoff, and allowed Trump staff to fly on Trump Force One – much to their anger.
The new details are part of an upcoming book, Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power, by journalist Alex Isenstadt.
That revelation puts President Trump’s recent comments in a different light.
Recently, he revealed that he left instructions to obliterate Iran if they successfully pulled off an assassination attempt against him.
Here’s that clip:
The security concerns related to Iran had been taken into consideration since 2020, when President Trump ordered the strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani outside the airport in Baghadad.
Iran has vowed retaliation ever since.
But the information of a “decoy plane” was only rumors, until Isenstadt’s book detailed the circumstances surrounding the use of the decoy, according to the previously referenced article in the Independent:
Security concerns about Iran targeting Trump have existed for years since the president ordered an airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military leader, in 2020.
The alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump became publicly known in November when Justice Department officials revealed they had intercepted the plot. Officials have indicted and arrested people in connection to the murder-for-hire plot.
Iran has denied the allegations.
On the day of the plane decoy, staff were told Trump would not be flying with them only moments before takeoff when they realized the now-president’s seat was empty.
Chris LaCivita, a political consultant who served as a senior adviser to Trump’s recent campaign, told staffers the decoy plane plan was “a sort of test for how things may happen in the future.”
Isenstadt’s recount of the event reveals that Trump was more troubled by the claims of an Iranian assassination plot than he publicly let on. The president recently revealed that he left his staff “instructions” to obliterate Iran should they succeed in killing him.
On one hand, the threats — some which manifested in assassination attempts against him — have had a definitive impact on President Trump’s outlook.
I would say his faith and sense of purpose for the nation was solidified in a way that any other circumstance would be hard to duplicate.
Just listen to his words from inauguration day, looking back on that dangerous time period.
And as Collin Rugg detailed in that post, President Trump has now ordered that he be given every shred of information the Secret Service has about the assassination attempts on his life.
JUST IN: Trump orders Secret Service to provide every and any detail relating to the assassination attempts on his life, raises concerns of foreign apps found on phones.
“I’m entitled to know,” Trump told The New York Post.
“I want to find out about the two assassins. Why did the one guy have six cell phones and why did the other guy have [foreign] apps?”
“No more holding back because of Biden. I’m entitled to know. And they held it back long enough.”
“No excuses.”
I have to wonder if part of the motivation behind that order is to establish just how credible the Iranian component to those threats against him were.
Was the Deep State involved?
Was Iran involved in the failed attempts?
Was there — dare I say — “collusion” against the President from a number of enemies… both foreign and “from within”?
I believe those are the questions President Trump is attempting to unravel as he moves forward keeping his promises.
Every nook and cranny that Elon Musk’s DOGE team uncovers for President Trump, the greater the threat against him will grow.
And it makes perfect sense that he would want all the puzzle pieces from past threats clarified before him in order to make the best assessment of the danger going forward.
I know many who presume the Iranian threat was nothing but a hoax — a smoke screen to cover the true threat “from within”.
I don’t buy that. The threat posed by the Iranian regime is real.
That’s not to say that I discount the nature of the Deep State.
In fact, if I presume anything, it is that one would be inclined to utilize the other.
That’s what the CIA does. That is their modus operandi.
THAT IS WHAT USAID DID — funnel money, and instructions, to CIA assets.
They made deals behind closed doors, and in dark corners of the world, to orchestrate their clandestine manipulation of nations and the leaders of those nations.
Is it possible that the Deep State is intimately connected to some Iranian threat against President Trump — a threat that could still exist?
I would use the phrase ALMOST GUARANTEED, in place of the world “possible”.
And I’m looking forward to the Secret Service making good on President Trump’s order for all the info regarding those assassination attempts.
The darkness has reigned too long in this country.
It’s time to pull back the curtain, and let some light in.
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