Trump Says Military Plan Leakers Should Be Shot at Arizona Rally, Citing 2025 Iran Strike
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 15
Trump Says Military Plan Leakers Should Be Shot at Arizona Rally, Citing 2025 Iran Strike
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 15
Summary
Bullhead City, Arizona, became the site of Trump’s sharpest rhetoric yet on leaks when he told rallygoers that people who reveal military plans “should be shot,” drawing applause.
Trump appeared to link the remark to the June 2025 U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying someone had tipped off the news media before B-2 bombers carried out the strike.
The comment escalated his long-running attacks on officials who speak to reporters; former aide Alyssa Farah Griffin has said she previously heard Trump discuss executing a leaker.
The speech also fit a broader hard-line push on capital punishment: Trump campaigned to restore federal executions and this month approved the first public execution since 1936, with Nidal Malik Hasan set to die by firing squad on Dec. 3.