A Pakistani immigrant with Iranian ties plotted to hire hitmen to assassinate former President and current GOP candidate for President, Donald J. Trump along with other US politicians, sources and a federal criminal complaint state.
Asif Merchant, 46, [no relation known of Judge Juan Merchan] is accused of planning political assassinations in New York City in August or early September. He allegedly paid men who he thought were contract killers advance money of $5,000, according to US for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace.
Donald Trump was one of several current and former US government officials who are thought to be the targets of the plot, a source familiar with the investigation to the New York Post.
It is not known whether Merchant was working for the Secret Service, but nothing seems far-fetched anymore.
Anyway, Asif Merchant had been charged in connection with a failed assassination plot against former president Trump.
Merchant traveled to New York in June ostensibly to meet with the "hitmen" who were actually undercover law enforcement officers. He told them he was arranging the money with an overseas contact, the US Attorney's office said.
Several days later, he came up with the advanced payment and allegedly told the undercover agents that they were to go forward with the assassination plot, prosecutors said.
On July 12, as he was preparing to leave the United States, he was arrested. He revealed that his lovely wife and beautiful children live in Iran, and his other lovely wife and other beautiful children live in Pakistan, prosecutors reported.
On July 12, as he was preparing to leave the United States, he was arrested. He revealed that his lovely wife and beautiful children live in Iran, and his other lovely wife and other beautiful children live in Pakistan, prosecutors reported.
One of Merchant’s homes is in the Iranian capital of Tehran, where he and one of his beautiful wives live.
Merchant’s alleged Iran-backed plot played a role in the Secret Service agreeing to bolster former president Donald Trump’s security detail before the July assassination attempt, sources told The Post, otherwise they would have allowed other dangerously slanted rooftops to go unprotected.
Authorities claim that the Iranian-tied plot is unrelated to the attempt on Trump’s life by Thomas Crooks, who opened fire from a roof top in Butler, Pennsylvania, hitting Trump in his right ear but killing Corey Competoratore and wounding two other men.
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