Iran May Be Behind the Trump Assassination Attempt

I have never been able to make sense of the details of the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump. 

I focus here on the lack of details and information regarding the shooter himself.   All indications are that Thomas Matthew Crooks was an unknown and unremarkable individual.  How did he manage the things he did relative to the assassination attempt and how is his digital footprint so vague, and, we are told, impenetrable?

The New York Post states that “Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany, according to a member of a task force investigating his assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.  U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) stated that the ‘overseas accounts’ piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives. Why does a 20-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States but based abroad – where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?”

Why, indeed.

My first thought was that whoever motivated and supported Crooks was a highly sophisticated yet completely invisible 3rd Party.  I remained perplexed until I read an article recently that points the finger directly at Iran.

Dr. Walid Phares, a Mideast expert, has written an article entitled “Iran Wants Trump Eliminated by Election Day,” which is as sobering and ominous as its title suggests.

In the article, Dr. Phares makes the point that multiple sources have informed him that “the Islamic regime in Iran is trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump … by Nov. 5, Election Day.”  (New York Post, Walid Phares, August 21, 2024).

Dr. Phares continues “the ayatollahs’ mortal animus against Trump is not a secret.  After Trump ordered a Baghdad drone missile strike in January 2020 that successfully killed Qassem Soleimani, head of the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), Tehran vowed bloody revenge.  Now, with the U.S. election race close, the power figures believe Iran’s growing status as a regional Mideast powerhouse will be at serious risk if the former president returns to the White House. Throughout his campaign, Trump has repeatedly promised that if elected, he will stop the regime’s nuclear weapons program and defund it with crippling sanctions.” (NY Post)

Phares concludes that “Trump blames the Biden administration for the resurgence of Iran’s nuclear program and its misdeeds across the region in the wake of Oct. 7 and has vowed repeatedly to use sanctions and make that regime broke, a result the mullahs cannot accept.  Today, killing Trump remains Tehran’s safest option and its highest priority next to growing the country’s nuclear program.” (NY Post).

This is a real and imminent threat.  

However, after the appeasement of the Biden and Obama Administrations, Iran has no real fear of repercussions for any of its actions.  Iran has used its oil money—made available by the reckless actions of the Obama and Biden Administrations—to fund terrorism around the world, mostly deploying its proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. 

But this is much more direct.  If true, this is one country attempting to assassinate the leader of another country. 

I close with this thought.  America is thought to possess the best intelligence agencies in the world.  However, we have witnessed these agencies become highly politicized at the very top.  President Trump is likely not their preferred candidate, so can we assume they will keep him safe? Do they even want to keep him safe?  

This assassination attempt investigation is being conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Secret Service, and FBI, well known Trump-hating federal agencies (to a lesser extent the Secret Service) that were responsible for the Russia hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop suppression, the Ukraine call impeachment and resulting weaponization of the Department of Justice lawfare hoax, and others.

Yet, we are supposed to trust these agencies with ferreting out the truth when with all the technology in the world they have supposedly not been able to crack the code of the encrypted foreign messaging apps that a 20-year-old loner had on his phone? How were they so ineffectual as to be defeated by a 20-year-old with no military experience and potential emotional problems? 

I don’t believe that they have been unable to crack this code. I believe information is being withheld. We are in a perilous time and need both prayers and a strong, forceful American leader.