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Sunday, July 12, 2026
US envoy confirms Israel shared intel on Iranian plot to kill Trump
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirms reports that Israel recently shared with the United States intelligence about an Iranian plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump.
“This week, Israeli intelligence tipped off our side, the president and our officials, that there was a very specific plot that was designed to take out President Trump,” Huckabee says in an interview with Fox News.
Huckabee refuses to answer a question on whether the Israeli warning is what caused Trump to depart Turkey on an older Air Force One plane rather than the new plane recently gifted by Qatar.
“I can only speak to what’s in the public reports — that is that there was a plot, Israeli intelligence picked it up and shared it with the US. That’s public knowledge, that’s all I can really add to that,” he says.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that some US officials believe that the threat shared by Jerusalem was not entirely credible, and that it was shared in hopes it would prompt Washington to resume a full-on war with Iran.
Trump himself has denied the reports, telling The New York Post in a phone interview Friday: “No, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no. I’ve been number one [on Iran’s kill list] for a long time, and it’s the way life is.”
The Times of Israel Community.