Huckabee Confirms Israel Warned US of Iranian Plot to Kill Trump

“There was a very specific plot that was designed to take out President Trump,” Huckabee told Fox News.

By United with Israel Staff

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirmed Saturday that Israeli intelligence warned Washington about an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, marking the first public confirmation by a senior U.S. official that the intelligence had been shared.

Speaking to Fox News, Huckabee said Israel alerted the White House after uncovering what he described as a specific threat.

“This week, Israeli intelligence tipped off our side, the president, and our officials that there was a very specific plot that was designed to take out President Trump,” Huckabee said.

The ambassador did not identify who was allegedly behind the plot, how advanced it was, or where an attack was believed to be under consideration. The White House has also declined to release further details of the intelligence.

The confirmation follows an earlier report by The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter as saying Israel had shared intelligence indicating Iran was considering a new operation targeting Trump.

Huckabee said he could not disclose additional classified information beyond what had already been reported publicly.

“I can only speak about what’s in the public reports, and that is that there was a plot, and Israeli intelligence picked it up and shared it with the United States. That is all I can add,” he said.

The ambassador added that the reported plot should be viewed as part of Iran’s longstanding hostility toward the United States rather than as an isolated development.

“This is a longstanding ‘Death to America’ chant they’ve had,” Huckabee said. “They really haven’t changed.”

The warning comes amid renewed fighting between the United States and Iran and increasingly explicit threats against Trump from the Iranian regime.

During funeral ceremonies for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, mourners in Tehran, Mashhad, and other cities carried banners reading, “We will kill Trump,” while crowds chanted for revenge against both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump has repeatedly acknowledged that he believes he remains Iran’s top target. On Saturday, he warned on Truth Social that 1,000 U.S. missiles were “locked and loaded” and aimed at Iran, with thousands more available if Tehran attempted to assassinate him.

He added that the U.S. military had been instructed to remain prepared for at least a year to “completely decimate and destroy” targets across Iran if such an attack occurred.

A day earlier, Trump told the New York Post that although he did not believe Israel had uncovered anything fundamentally new, Iran had sought to kill him for years.

“I’ve left instructions — if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they’ve never seen before,” Trump said.

Despite Huckabee’s description of a “very specific plot,” some U.S. officials have offered a more cautious assessment.

According to Israeli television reports, the intelligence involved discussions among Iranian officials about the possibility of assassinating Trump rather than a fully developed operational plan with a designated attacker, location, and timetable. The officials also said Israel had passed similar warnings to Washington over the past year.

Iran’s campaign against Trump dates back to the January 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, an operation Trump authorized during his first term. Since then, Iranian leaders have repeatedly vowed revenge, and U.S. authorities have disrupted multiple alleged Iranian plots targeting current and former American officials.