'They tried twice': Trump admits Iran airstrikes linked to personal assassination attempts

President Donald Trump acknowledged that his decision to attack Iran was at least partially motivated by efforts to assassinate him.

The 79-year-old Trump ordered airstrikes against Iran over the weekend that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Washington Post reported that he gave an interview Sunday night suggesting that decision was connected with two two cases of alleged Iranian murder-for-hire attempts that were charged by U.S. federal prosecutors.

“I got him before he got me,” Trump told ABC News on Sunday night.