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Trump denies that Israel passed on intel about Iranian plot to assassinate him
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US President Donald Trump gestures after speaking at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, July 3, 2026, near Keystone, South Dakota. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
US President Donald Trump denies reports that Israel had recently passed along intelligence on an Iranian plot to assassinate him.
“No, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no,” he tells the New York Post in a phone interview. “I’ve been No. 1 [on Iran’s kill list] for a long time, and it’s the way life is.”
“The only thing is, I’ve left instructions — if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before,” Trump says. “I hope you’ll miss me.”
In 2024, US prosecutors announced charges in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist.
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