Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Say’s “Iran Tried To Kill President Trump and President Trump Got The Last laugh,” [VIDEO]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Wednesday as he gave an update on the administration’s war against Tehran, that the leader of an Iranian unit behind an attempted 2024 plot to assassinate President Donald Trump has been killed.

“Yesterday, the leader of the unit who attempted to assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed,”  “Iran tried to kill President Trump, and President Trump got the last laugh.”

The assassination that Defense Secretary Pere Hegseth was referencing was in the summer of 2024, when Trump was campaigning for president, U.S. intelligence indicated there was an Iranian threat to assassinate Trump who was not the acting president at the time, prompting the Secret Service to increase his security protection.  Then in November 2024, the Department of Justice charged an Iranian man who prosecutors said was tasked with surveilling and killing Trump to avenge the 2020 death of Qassem Soleimani, the top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimani was killed in a January 2020 U.S. drone strike in Baghdad directed by Trump.

According to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth the killing was not the objective of the mission.

The person that has allegedly been killed has not been named and Iran has denied that it had plotted to kill Donald Trump.

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