Trump suggests Iran was involved in both assassination attempts, calls on FBI to hack suspects phones

Former President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday Iran may have been behind both assassination attempts on his life — but the FBI has to penetrate the assassins’ phones to be sure.“There have been two assassination attempts on my life that we know of, and they may or may not involve, but possibly do, Iran, but I don’t really know,” Trump said during a rally stop in Mint Hill, North Carolina.The 45th president was briefed Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.Trump said the “FBI has been unable to open the three potentially foreign based apps” for 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot at him at the rally in Butler, Pa.He also noted the FBI has not been able to open all the phones discovered in Ryan Wesley Routh’s car after he was found with an AK-47 on his golf course.“In the second case, the assassin had six cell phones in his car, yet the FBI has likewise been unable to penetrate their guard.Shouldn’t be tough to do,” Trump said.“They want to know, and I want to know, and the whole country and maybe the world wants to know, who is he calling? Who is he calling?”Trump called on Apple specifically to open the phones of the assassins.He also said he would protect any major political candidate, Democrat or Republican, if he were president.“If I were the president, I would inform the threatening country, in this case, Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens.”...