Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is requesting military assets to protect him in the final weeks of the campaign after receiving intelligence briefings from U.S. officials about Iran’s continued efforts to assassinate him.
The campaign has requested “sophisticated, classified military assets that are used only for sitting presidents; the pre-placement of ballistic, or bullet-resistant, glass in the main battleground states where he would be campaigning most frequently; and an expansion of temporary flight restrictions over Mr. Trump’s residences and campaign sites,” The New York Times reported.
The requests come after Trump narrowly escaped death when he was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
There was also a plot from the Iranian government that was foiled in July when a Pakistani national was arrested in the U.S. for an alleged murder-for-hire scheme…
