Secret Service ‘received intel on Iranian plot to assassinate Trump’ and increased security around him weeks before he was shot at rally

Donald Trump’s Secret Service security was increased in the weeks ahead of the assassination attempt due to intelligence of an alleged plot by Iran to take out the former president.

A human source informed U.S. officials of the plot, according to a new report from CNN.

It does not appear at the current time that shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks is connected to the Iranian plot. 

Crooks, 20, shot Trump in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday before he was taken out by U.S. Secret Service.

The new report of enhanced security around the former president could raise even more questions after Republican outcry ensued on how Secret Service failed to detect the would-be assassin before he opened fire at the rally.  

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