Earlier today, the Justice Department charged a man who was apparently tasked with planning a plot led by some forces inside of Iran to assassinate Donald Trump ahead of the election. This is a 51 year old Afghan national who is believed to currently reside [00:00:15] in Iran and is still at large, so here are the details that they provided. He was apparently tasked in September with, quote, surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump, per the DOJ. On October 7th, he was told to provide a plan to assassinate the former president within the following week. [00:00:30] If he couldn't, the effort would be paused until after the election. An official in Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Trump was expected to lose the presidential race, and it would be easier to kill him then. And so they're obviously they're talking about how they're investigating this and there's other people wrapped up in it. We could definitely talk about that. And Jake, I know you have thoughts. [00:00:47] I'm confused about some aspects of this. I don't know why it was so critical in the week following October 7th that it be done. And I'm also not entirely sure why. If he if you hate him and oppose him, if he doesn't win, it seems [00:01:02] like it would be much less necessary. Even from your own point of view to at that point take him out. So I'm confused by the plan, but this is what's being presented by the Justice Department. I'm going to say something a little controversial. I don't believe it. I flat out don't believe it. [00:01:21] So now let me give you context now, and I'll be clear. I'm going to separate out facts. What we know and what my hypothesis is. Okay. So now right as Trump wins and Netanyahu would like to attack Iran [00:01:39] and believes that Trump might let him. We get a story that would maximum anger Donald Trump. Someone trying to kill him, harm him, especially after he got freaked out, understandably, by those assassination attempts. [00:01:56] And they say, and the culprit is Iran, On Donald Trump. Don't you want to do something about Iran? Donald Trump okay, maybe, maybe Netanyahu got super lucky just as Trump won. [00:02:12] Oh my God. That's when they caught the Iranian agent who was going to try to kill Trump. And poor guy. That would help Netanyahu start that war so much. Another stroke of luck by Netanyahu, maybe. Maybe because I don't know. I don't have the evidence. I'm not a right winger telling you a conspiracy theory and all I know for sure. [00:02:29] And it's the frogs. No, I don't know. I don't know, but I do read into it. I read into the guy and I'm like, okay, let's see what kind of guy is this? He's been an informant before. He's informed on other Iranians, I believe. And he had like a bizarre reason for that. [00:02:47] He's served a lot of time in prison, like super sketchy guy comes up with, I had a plan. I'm not an American anymore, so you can't do anything to me. - But we. - Hear Here. He's gone. But he had a plan to kill Donald Trump. [00:03:04] And God, we should all be furious at Iran. Maybe, maybe. But I. Yeah, I told you what my opinion is. My opinion is I don't believe them was. [00:03:19] One. Yeah. I have a hard time seeing the credibility in this. If they could provide some actual evidence that people in the higher reaches of the Iranian regime, were behind this, then I'd be all ears. [00:03:34] But that doesn't seem to be the case at the present moment. And, you know, I think it's it's weird to think that, like, these people who have been in power for something like, it's been like, what, 50 years now since since they kicked the Americans out out of Iran? [00:03:51] Like, there are a lot of things you could say. There are a lot of things, but you can't say they're incompetent. And this idea that they would have this, you know, cockamamie plan to assassinate Donald Trump is ridiculous. And then secondly, I mean, Donald Trump did assassinate one of their [00:04:07] military leaders that happened under Donald Trump's, you know, presidency. And so the idea that they might want to get some get back, that seems pretty reasonable to me. Look, I understand the logic of that. We don't want it, obviously. And but so that's why I thought, well, it could be. [00:04:25] That's why I thought like, I don't know, maybe it is. Right. Maybe they wanted to get back at him. Right. But they had this bizarre plan to only do it for a week, and they thought of it at the last second, and they hatched it like, by the week. Why the week? Why last second? And if this story is anywhere near true and and and one of you guys said, [00:04:44] the critical part I think was that, they have no evidence connecting it to the Iranian government. They're just claiming it like, oh, this guy was going to do it. And we and we think he's connected to the Iranian government. Do you have documents connecting him? No, but trust us. No I'm not anywhere near trusting you. [00:05:02] Not within a million miles of trusting you. So what a bizarre plot there. That clownish and those JD Vance documents that theoretically, the Iranians got. And then they leaked it to people and they sent it to Ken Klippenstein. We covered that whole thing. And even the note that goes to Ken has like, these obvious mis [00:05:22] like misspellings and bad English. Do you think the Iranians are so stupid that they don't know how to write in proper English? It's like when it's forgeries. They say things like, no, not in this case. But to give you an example, like normally Muslims will say, [00:05:38] bismillahirrahmanirrahim, right? They'll write things like Bismillah. Bismillah come from. That's just made up. That's what a non-Muslim non-arabic, or in that case non-persian non Farsi person would say pretending to be Muslim. [00:05:54] - Maybe they're half-irish. - Yeah. So look, I'm not again, I don't know for sure that it's made up, and all we know is the US government is telling us that there's a boogeyman who was trying to kill Trump, and he was. And he and Iran wanted him to do it. Yeah. [00:06:11] Well, look, I will say I have no idea, but if there are, you know, illicit forces trying to use this plot to inspire Donald Trump to help them in a war against Iran, you are wasting your time. Because as we all know, Donald Trump is a man of peace. [00:06:26] He doesn't favor foreign intervention. He shut down every war we were in when he became president. We would never do something like that. Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. [00:06:44] You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. 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