NEW: Iranian Plot to Assassinate Trump?

US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president in recent weeks, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.

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There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president on Saturday, was connected to the plot, the sources said.

The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old man managed to access a nearby rooftop to fire shots that injured the former president.

Ed Morrissey

You'd better believe it does. Crooks clearly wasn't part of that threat; if Iran was behind it, they would have used a more reliable assassin, not hired a local 20-year-old misfit. But if the Secret Service knew about this intel and still left Trump this exposed, then a lot of heads should roll. 

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