How Trump Lives With the Threat of Iranian Assassination
Fear of being killed has hung over the president and his senior team for months.
Michael Scherer
Michael Scherer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He previously worked as a national political reporter for The Washington Post, the Washington bureau chief of Time magazine, and the Washington correspondent for Salon. He started his career at The Daily Hampshire Gazette, in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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