Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said an Iranian unit leader that tried to kill Trump was taken out. How many assassination attempts does that add up to?

Testimony and evidence in Asif Merchant’s trial has so far portrayed him as a zealous yet bumbling operative who never came close to his mission, which prosecutors say was backed by Iran.

Artemius Gehring, 20, agreed, saying Trump's objective ‌was to bring closure to a longstanding conflict stretching back to the 1979 hostage crisis, when Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held dozens of Americans for 444 days. "I think what he’s trying to do is just end it,” Gehring said. "It’s the right move.”

Ryan Routh, the man convicted in a 2024 assassination attempt of President Trump at his Florida golf course, has been sentenced to life in prison.

President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”

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Some of the loudest conservative voices online say attacking Iran doesn’t fit with Trump’s “America First” agenda.

“Donald Trump represents the worst in honesty, integrity and class and want no association with his campaign of hate and racism,” he added. Hayes III was back on social media shortly after taking Trump to task for using the song yet again.