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The Hunt: Why did Thomas Matthew Crooks try to kill former President Donald Trump?

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green,” Fred Burton, executive director of protective intelligence at Ontic, said we may never know why Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

Burton also talked about Iran’s plot to kill the former president.

The Hunt: Israeli intelligence penetrates Hezbollah

Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and the Hamas militants who run the Gaza Strip, launched dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Israel intelligence pressed forward, vowing to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a day earlier, the region braced for further escalation, The Associated Press reported. On this episode of "The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,", Fred Burton, former deputy chief of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, says the way they did it was shocking.
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