The Justice Department on Friday revealed an Iranian murder plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he was instructed by a government official before this week’s election to plan to assassinate the Republican president-elect.

Investigators were tipped off about the plot to kill Trump by Farhad Shakeri, an accused Iranian government asset who has served time in US prisons for robbery and who authorities say maintains a network of criminal associates enlisted by Tehran for surveillance and plots of murder for hire.

Shakeri told the FBI that a contact in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed him last September to drop other work he was doing and come up with a plan within seven days to surveil and eventually kill him kill Trump, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan. .

The official was quoted by Shakeri as saying that “I have already spent a lot of money” and that “money is not a problem”. Shakeri told investigators that the official told him that if he couldn’t come up with a plan within seven days, then the plot would be shelved until after the election because the official assumed Trump would lose and it would be easier to kill him then. , the complaint said.

Return of Republican leader to renew self-confidence: Ramaswamy

• Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election will renew national self-confidence, Indian-American politician and close Trump confidant Vivek Ramaswamy said, hoping that his comeback would mean America’s comeback.
• “America has this great tradition. We believe in our own manifest destiny… We were born to be the greatest nation that sets an example for all others of what is possible for human capacity,” Vivek Ramaswamy told the Tucker Carlson Show in an interview.

Biden will host press conferences

• A statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet in the Oval Office at the invitation of the sitting president.
• Such a post-election meeting is traditional between the incumbent president and the new president.
• However, Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for such a meeting after losing the 2020 election. PTI