Around the time of the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, there were rumors of an Iranian plot to kill the current Republican nominee for president. Those rumors appear to have some truth to them.
TIME magazine reported on Monday that a man known as Asif Merchant was arrested on July 12 — the day before the first attempt on Trump’s life — as he was on his way to an airport. Merchant was going to either Iran or Pakistan to visit his wife and children. And, it’s not that authorities weren’t sure which country his family was in. Merchant supposedly has a wife and children in both countries.
According to TIME:
The identity of that person was not explicitly stated, either by Merchant or by his handler in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a leaked document that was posted online by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley on Sept. 5 after, the Iowa Republican said, it was provided to him by a whistleblower. But, along with other evidence, the documents all but confirm that Donald Trump was the person Merchant was authorized to offer up to $1 million to kill.
In the leaked document, Merchant described remotely scouting a Trump rally, then sending a written report on event security—how many guards, how many body scanners—back to Tehran. In secretly recorded meetings described by the FBI after his arrest, Merchant “games out the assassination” with the informant. The plan he details involved a crowd, a staged demonstration intended to serve as a distraction, a target at a podium, and “security all around.” Alerted to the Iranian plot well before Merchant’s arrest, the Secret Service increased protection of Trump—context that only amplified the agency’s failure when an assassin’s bullet grazed the former President at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13.
The first attempt on Trump’s life, as noted above, was at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The second attempt was at a Florida golf course in a highly suspicious circumstance. The would-be assassin somehow knew that Trump would be at the golf course, despite it being a last minute decision by Trump to play a few holes. That attempt occurred on September 15.
Related: Second Trump Assassin Reportedly Wrote Letter Offering '$150k to Whomever can Complete the Job'
The news of Merchant’s arrest comes at roughly the same time as a report that the second attempted assassin wrote a letter months back offering a $150,000 bounty on Trump’s head.
The letter was contained in a box that was given by the assassin to an “unidentified civilian witness” would never opened the box until they recognized the picture of the assassin after his attempt.
The only logical reasoning for not opening the box would be if the assassin told the person not to open the box unless he failed at his attempt on Trump’s life, which he thankfully did.
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