A book set to be released in March gives insight from national political reporter Alex Isenstadt on the depth of the seriousness of the threats made against President Trump during his second presidential campaign. According to Axios, Isenstadt writes that Iran’s threat to assassinate Trump during the 2024 campaign was “far more serious than publicly known.” The threat led Trump and his team to take serious precautions, fearing a serious attempt on his life, Hannity reports.

Isenstadt’s book, “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,” which was written after the reporter was given “extensive access to Trump’s inner circle during his campaign,” reveals that Trump’s campaign team was more concerned over the threats to his life than the public may have been led to believe.

 
The attempts on Trump’s life during his campaign were unsettling to say the least. In addition to the terrifying attempt to assassinate Trump during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania and the foiled attempt on his Florida golf course, there were other scenarios in which his security team recognized or were warned about threats.
According to Isenstadt, the Secret Service “warned campaign leaders after a Sept. 18 rally on Long Island, N.Y., that they had intelligence that someone might be looking to shoot up his motorcade.”
“During a trip to Pennsylvania the next week, Secret Service agents noticed a drone following Trump’s motorcade. Officers in one of the cars opened up the moonroof and shot it with an electromagnetic gun, disabling it,” he added.
Still, Trump did not let fear of assassination attempts stop him from traveling the country and meeting with Americans. However, Isenstadt reports that Trump was “worried” that voters would get “assassination fatigue,” meaning, he wondered whether Americans would “want to go through four years of their president being under threat.”
Trump’s campaign team was aware of the reality that Iran had, and reportedly continues to have, a target on Trump ever since 2020 when, as president, he ordered an airstrike that killed top Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani. Trump had spoken of the successful strike numerous times, but Isenstadt writes that as the threat from Iran intensified, staffers took notice that he talked about it less.
According to Isenstadt, “Law enforcement officials warned Trump last year that Tehran had placed operatives in the U.S. with access to surface-to-air missiles. Trump’s team worried that the Iranians could try to down his easily recognizable personal jet — better known as ‘Trump Force One’ — as it was taking off or landing.”
This threat reportedly led the team to employ the use of a decoy plane to avert an attempt on Trump’s life from Iran. The plan was reportedly prepared soon after the foiled assassination attempt in Florida that occurred in September, just two months before the presidential election.
{Matzav.com}