This Sunday, July 13, marks the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Donald J. Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a brazen act that stunned the nation and led to a sweeping review of presidential security, including scrutiny of DEI hiring practices at the Secret Service.
In the year since the attempt, major changes have taken place within the Secret Service, including the suspension of six agents and the creation of a bipartisan congressional task force to investigate the failures that allowed the gunman to breach security. The task force’s final report concluded that the attempt on Trump’s life was “preventable” and issued 46 recommendations aimed at preventing future lapses.
But as the nation reflects on that near-tragedy, a new threat has emerged from a foreign adversary. In an interview broadcast on Iranian state television, Javad Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the suggestion that Trump could be assassinated while relaxing at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
“Trump has done something so that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago,” Larijani said. “As he lies there with his stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit him in the navel. It’s very simple.” He made the comment while laughing, according to Iran International, a London-based outlet that monitors developments inside the Islamic Republic.
The threat came in the wake of heightened tensions following US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, and appears to reflect Iran’s intent to retaliate not only through conventional means but also by targeting high-profile American figures. U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed the threat as credible enough to warrant renewed counterterrorism alerts nationwide.
A website calling itself Blood Pact claims to have raised over $40 million for “retribution against those who mock and threaten Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.” The site appears to be soliciting donations from across the region in support of what it calls “justice operations.”
Federal law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, have issued new bulletins to state leaders and federal installations, warning of a heightened risk of asymmetric retaliation from Iranian-backed actors. Intelligence analysts say that while Larijani’s statement may be rhetorical posturing, it reflects the regime’s increasingly aggressive stance and its willingness to encourage or even fund acts of terror abroad.
Public interest in the Butler shooting has been reignited recently: Despite the swift apprehension of the shooter, many questions remain about his motives, and some lawmakers continue to press for declassification of certain intelligence surrounding the attack.
For Trump supporters, Sunday will be a day of reflection and reliving the relief they felt when Trump dodged the bullet.
I wish Iran had been totally wiped off the map.
Very on-brand. With MAGA, it’s always extermination instead of reconciliation.
Dog, shouldn’t you be over at Dimwit Cole’s blog? Since he can only do one article per week, you need to give him more donations and tell him to work harder. Go to your friends, Dog. You have none here.
Dog may be the only donor. Dermutt spent all of last week’s savings at the package store. He needs a week off, until the keyboard comes back into focus.
Thomas. Are you in grade school?
Oh isn’t that ripe coming from the summer of love/ antifa crowd and their type of reconciliation….
For reconciliatory tactics to succeed, at the minimum, the following conditions must pertain. One, the pacifist’s opponents must be rational (capable of understanding the logic of the pacifist’s position). Two, the opponents must have moral values and ideals that are not inimical to the pacifist’s. Three, the opponents must respect basic human rights. And four, the pacifist’s opponents must not necessarily equate non-violence with weakness.
Unfortunately, at least one (and usually more) of the required conditions are always missing when opposing totaliarian regimes (due to the nature of totaliarian regimes). Nor can they be present in any struggle against international terrorism (the fundamental tenents of terrorism preclude points two and three). In fact, none of the requisite conditions for successful reconciliation are fufilled in the present struggle against Islamic terrorists.
Throughout history, pacifism and non-violence has encouraged those with a totalitarian bent (whether religious or secular) to ever-greater crimes against their own people, their neighbors, and the rest of humanity. They have historically interpreted it as weakness, which they invariably attempt to exploit for their own demented purposes. This is clear from the writings and statements of modern totalitarian leaders.
Islamic terrorists claim that they are willing to die to the last man for their cause; unfortunately, we must be ready and willing to help them do just that. To paraphrase General Patton: Our job is not to die for our beliefs, it is to make the other poor bastard die for his.
What should you do with vermin? With those that spread disease?
You folks at MRAK can have Dog. His measley donations to my blog, along with all of my other so-called liberal wacko friends, doesn’t amount to squat. I’d be better off going to work part-time for Suzanne (if she’d have me) and taking wages under the table, or in-kind at the beverage store. I can also tone down my radical, left-wing rhetoric to meet Suzanne’s editorial standards. Please, I just need some friends.
Not much pack loyalty there between Der Mutt and that other mangy cur, Whidbey
This is the same kind of BS we’ve seen from them for the past 45 years with their “Death to America” chants. If they pay the bounty to anybody after a successful assassination of an American POTUS, their entire nation becomes a smoking heap of death, and they know it.
If they do pay a bounty, it will have been with money that the US gave them…..
You can bet that deep-state moles are working with them.
We see your attempted confluence s.d. between (still) unknown actors who carried out the attempted Butler assassination and a recent Iranian threat by their “senior adviser” (whatever that means). Maybe it was the Iranians, but I would take a hard look at the U.S. I.C. or Ukrainian elements first. But we know shockingly little about Butler. And that in itself is ridiculous.
An important article by sundance today.
“..and in the growing awareness of the American electorate, the President of the United States does not control the Intelligence Community. It is entirely possible for the US Intelligence Community to take America deeper toward war despite the President and people of America not wanting that to happen.”
‘https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/10/a-significant-geopolitical-problem-for-president-trump-and-us/
The punk who tried to kill Trump had multiple cellphones in his possession. Who was he communicating with? His handlers?
He had some mysterious apps in the phones. Yet to be revealed.
Joe Biden’s DEI Secret Service was involved, not by the rank and file, but at the top. It was more than incompetence, it was complicity with the anti-Trump agenda and an objective to get rid of Trump. The woman in charge of the SS during the Butler incident sent the top resources to Jill Biden on that Saturday. It was all planned out. It will be revealed soon.
Basically, Trump didn’t trust the field agent in charge at Butler. As president, he made sure that agent was relieved, along with a bunch of others. To be sure, the SS under Biden was clearing the path for an assassination. And they almost got one, but for the grace of God.
Seems rude …a “bounty” paid from the planeload of American taxpayers’ cash Obama sent them?
(‘https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash/)
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For senior adviser Javad Larijani’s rudeness, maybe the ultimate time-out is the appropriate response?
They’re paying us back for using the ayatollah’s money to overthrow the Contras. Of course they did get missiles in return.
More Prayers are needed for Trump’s protection along with Prayers for the destruction of anyone in Iran who would do an evil action like this!!!
Carol. Prayer is a dismal waste of time. Have you ever seen it succeed?
All the time, Caleb. We prayed very hard for Trump to be elected in 2024. And then again for the MAGA agenda to sprint ahead. We won. A HUGE success. You should try prayer and thank God for victory.
Naomi. Here’s a summary of the scientific method. 1, notice something unusual; 2, take a guess at why; 3, test your guess; 4, look at the results of your test; 5, draw a conclusion.
You use the scientific method 90% of your day; it’s what keeps your family fed.
But then, with prayer, you bail on reason and evidence and data. That you prayed for trump and he won is not causation. For example, if I pray that Naomi sleeps well in a comfortable bed tonight and you do, am I responsible for god helping you?
Yes.
Secular humanists are efficient time savers.
And NEVER dismal.
I noticed that.
Counter point- have you ever seen it not succeed…? When bombs burst in the air and the men were in the trenches, even non-believers were praying, hoping for a glimmer of hope that they might be answered.
Maybe they were answered and got past the Pearly Gates. Ever think about that?
Herman. Trope.
All depends on what you are praying for.
Finish the job Persident Trump
Mossad is going to try to take him down soon
Oh come on, Iran said the same thing after Trump took out Soleimani in Iraq in 2020. Iran always has a perpetual case of Baghdad Bobitis. The other day they were saying if they are attacked again then “really get angry and do something, and really mean it this time”. Oh please.
If Trump is killed it will be Israelis that do it, not Iranians, everyone understands this.
‘https://youtu.be/nfHOQAT0-Mk?feature=shared’
Never forget that the ascent of Iran to become the leading country that foments terrorism around the world began with President James Earl Carter, RIP, who thought it was a good idea to depose the shah and let a religious/terrorist/jingoistic government run that country. Not long ago, the two stooges, Obama and Kerry, tried bribery to bring the insane Iranian government to heel. The only thing that keeps Iran from sponsoring more terrorist acts is their interest in staying alive. The Ayatollah and his henchmen went right to the brink and were slapped back. Like Dirty Harry said, “Go ahead, make my day”!
The assassination attempt a Trump was clearly staged.
Release the files.
Liz, are you back on the strong stuff again?
Hahah, god I wish.
But…for arguments sake, you can’t expect me to believe that a 19 year old, inexperienced kid that picked up a gun 6 months prior to the event managed to successfully hideout, aim and hit a moving target. There is a lot of movement when Trump speaks, lots of bobbing and weaving going on when he talks. And of all things that he hits, it’s the ear which from experience of having sons, bleeds A LOT. The final piece, imo, in all of this is when Trump stood up and waved his fists in the air. Like in the movies when the hero is down and out but comes back to beat the villain. IDK, smells like fish, looks like fish, tastes like fish……..