Trump Threatened to “Blow [Iran] to Smithereens”

Donald Trump threatened to “blow [Iran] to smithereens” during a campaign rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman reports.

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00:00Donald Trump is speaking out on an alleged assassination campaign against him by Iran.

00:04The former president spoke at a campaign rally in North Carolina Wednesday.

00:08As you know, there have been two assassination attempts on my life

00:15that we know of, and they may or may not involve, but possibly do, Iran.

00:24But if I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case Iran,

00:30that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the

00:36country itself to smithereens. We're going to blow it to smithereens. You can't do that.

00:41According to The Hill, Trump's campaign said Tuesday that he was briefed by the

00:45Office of the Director of National Intelligence on real and specific threats from Iran to

00:49assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States.

00:54And CNN and ABC News had already reported in July that Trump's secret service protection

00:59had actually been increased prior to his shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania,

01:03in anticipation of attacks by Iran. But so far, it's not clear if either of the

01:07actual attempts on Trump's life were connected to the Middle Eastern country.