ANOTHER Trump assassination plot? Feds lock up man intending to kill

Federal authorities say they have jailed a Pakistani man who is accused of working on a plot to assassinate a politician “or U.S. government officials,” in an announcement that is more foreboding because of the recent attempt to shoot President Donald Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally.

That attempt, by a 20-year-old sniper who was shot and killed by police, failed. But the repercussions from the events that day already have cost the Secret Service chief her job and triggered multiple investigations into how America’s elite program to protect leaders failed so badly.

The new scheme may or may not have targeted a particular individual, but a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in eastern New York explains a complaint was unsealed on Tuesday accusing Asif Merchant, aka “Asif Raza Merchant,” 46, of a murder-for-hire plot.