US justice department files charges over alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump
by Guardian staff and agency from World news | The Guardian on (#6S2Y8)
Trump campaign said US officials warned him in September about suspected Iranian assassination plot
The US justice department is bringing criminal charges over an Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump that was thwarted by the FBI, the government said.
The federal government has unsealed criminal charges in what the justice department said was a murder-for-hire plan to take out Trump before this week's presidential election, which he won decisively over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.
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