Teen charged with killing parents also planned to assassinate Trump, FBI says

A 17-year-old Wisconsin teen charged with killing his parents is also accused of plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to an unsealed affidavit from the FBI.

Last month, Nikita Casap, of Waukesha, was charged with killing his mother, 35-year-old Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, 51-year-old Donald Mayer, and accused of living with their corpses for two weeks. Officials are saying he was also conspiring to kill the president.

Would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may have had accomplice, data shows, as investigators say FBI suppressing info

It’s been almost nine months since a seemingly mild-mannered 20-year-old attempted to assassinate then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Butler.

And we still have no good reason why.

Sources told The Post the FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left no manifesto, did what he did. It’s left local law enforcement as well as Crooks’ former friends, classmates and teachers frustrated.

Trump's paranoid desire for revenge is more dangerous than you can imagine

A new book details Donald Trump’s paranoia during his 2024 presidential campaign over a potential assassination threat from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Reports that Iranian operatives had access to surface-to-air missiles led Trump and his advisers to use his staff as a decoy in a plane switcheroo, according to Politico’s Alex Isenstadt.

Exclusive: Inside Trump's Iran fear

Iran's threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life.

Why it matters: My upcoming book, "Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power," reveals the depth of U.S. authorities' concerns about an Iranian attack on Trump — and how it impacted him.

Trump names agent Sean Curran as Secret Service director

President Trump on Wednesday tapped Sean Curran to serve as the director of the Secret Service, elevating a long-time agent who was protecting Trump during an assassination attempt last July.

“Sean is a Great Patriot, who has protected my family over the past few years, and that is why I trust him to lead the Brave Men and Women of the United States Secret Service,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Iranian president denies assassination plots against Trump, blasts 'Iranophobia'

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday denied that his country had plotted to assassination President-elect Donald Trump and blamed Israel for promoting "Iranophobia."

“We have never attempted this to begin with and we never will," he told NBC News's Lester Holt.

“This is another one of those schemes that Israel and other countries are designing to promote Iranophobia," he also said. Iran has never attempted to nor does it plan to assassinate anyone. At least as far as I know.” 

Trump assassination attempt hearing goes off the rails as shouting match erupts between acting Secret Service director, GOP rep

Acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe erupted into a screaming match against Rep. Pat Fallon after the Texas Republican ripped the protective agency’s failures that enabled two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump.

Fallon lambasted Rowe for waiting days before visiting the Butler, Pa., site where Trump was nearly killed on July 13 — and then presented a photo showing the acting director near the now-president-elect instead of his detail during the Republican’s visit to New York to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.