President Donald Trump has addressed reports of potential Iranian sleeper cells in the United States and an alleged revenge plot involving a possible drone attack targeting California.
Fears of possible cells came after encrypted communications, believed to have come from inside Iran and intercepted by the US, were sent as an ‘operational trigger’ for ‘sleeper assets’ on Monday.
The FBI alerted California law enforcement to potential Iranian drone strikes on the West Coast in retaliation for the US war against Iran.
‘Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran,’ the alert obtained by ABC News said.
‘We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack,’ the FBI update continued.
Speaking to reporters upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews following a rally-style event in Kentucky, said that federal law enforcement was probing the drone threat.
‘It’s being investigated. You have a lot of things happening, and all we can do is take them as they come,’ he said.
Trump also continued to blame Joe Biden’s immigration policies – calling him ‘the worst president in the history of our country’ – for the possible existence of sleeper cells.
‘I have been [briefed] and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border,’ he said.
‘But we know where most of them are. We’ve got our eye on all of them, I think,’ he added.
The president also continued to tout the success of his war against Iran.
‘Iran is being absolutely decimated. We’ve knocked out all of their boats. I think we’re in very good shape,’ he said.
Trump previously blamed Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for the Democrats’ partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which he claimed is preventing his administration from doing anything about it.
‘One of the things we have to do is get the Democrats to stop the Democrat shutdown because, as you know, the apparatus that looks into that, Schumer and the Democrats have shut it down,’ Trump told the press.
He added that the move shows that the Democrats ‘probably hate our country a lot’.