Donald Trump, former President of the United States and Republican candidate for the White House, has asked the government for planes and military vehicles for his travels until the end of the campaign for the presidential election on November 5, due to intelligence reports suggest Iran intends to kill him.
Trump has already suffered one attack this campaign and another frustrated one, and the Republican candidate’s campaign team has expressed his dissatisfaction with the secret services. Specifically, campaign manager Susie Wiles sent emails to Ronald L. Rowe Jr., the head of the Secret Service, in which she told him that Trump had than canceling a public event at the last minute due to “lack of staff” of your department.
For this reason, Donald Trump claimed military aircraft To be able to fly in the final weeks of the campaign, he extended flight restrictions to his residences and rallies, and required bulletproof screens and military vehicles to transport him. This is what was reported in these emails. The Washington Post. His team’s demands come after Trump campaign advisers received reports in which the administration claimed Iran was still actively plotting to kill him.
Donald Trump fears for his life because of Iranian plots
These are extraordinary and unprecedented demands: no candidate in recent history has been flown on military planes before an election. Trump advisers are increasingly concerned about drones and missiles, people say.
Trump campaign manager says Secret Service chief in emails revealed by The Washington Post that the U.S. government has been unable to provide what the campaign considers a sufficiently comprehensive plan to protect Trump.
According to the jobThe campaign believes that the administration of US President Joe Biden has not proposed a broad enough plan to protect Trump, who has been the victim of two assassination attempts in recent months, although neither is linked to Iran.
Asked about it today, Biden said the government would give Trump whatever he needed “as long as he doesn’t ask for F-15 jets.” “I told the Department (of Defense) to give him everything he needs … as if he were a sitting president, give him everything he needs,” Biden said to journalists.
Trump was the victim of first attempted murder on July 13 at an outdoor event in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the right ear while attending a rally by a young man who was later shot.
On September 15, the second attempt occurred when Secret Service agents spotted a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle hiding behind bushes at the Trump International Golf Club, where Trump was playing with a group of friends.
