Reposted from If Americans Knew’s Youtube, August 31, 2026
Afshin Rattansi interviews journalist Ken Silva, author of “The Trump Assassination Plots: What The Investigations Missed And Why It Matters”. Silva discusses how a dual Israeli-U.S. citizen and an Israeli spyware firm, Cellebrite, have influenced the investigation or lack of investigation, on one of the assassination attempts on President Trump’s life.
The original interview on “Going Underground” can be seen here: • The Trump Assassination Plots: What You Ha…
According to his Amazon page, “Ken Silva has nearly 15 years of experience as an investigative reporter. His areas of coverage include crime, politics, and finance—and often the intersection of all three. He has written for the Associated Press, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Reason, and numerous other publications. He is currently a contributor to the Libertarian Institute and the editor of Headline USA.”
*Full transcript below:
Afshin Rattansi: Oliver Stone has been on this show many times and uh there’s a lot of common currency about Jack Kennedy’s assassination for instance and about intimations of Israeli involvement but not to go on about that small country in West Asia. Tell me about Cellebrite software where that comes from and how it was used to identify evidence as regards the wounding of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania in Butler.
Ken Silva: Yeah. So, I mentioned a dual citizen Israeli did the autopsy of crooks. Meanwhile, the FBI used Israeli spyware to crack into his phone. So, we pretty much have
Afshin Rattansi: Does the United States not have have software like that? They don’t have the technological know-how?
Ken Silva: They use Cellebrite. It’s a contractor former like unit 8200, which is Israel’s version of the NSA. Uh they just have a contract with the FBI. They do most of the phone hackings. But the interesting thing with the Crooks case is that they take his phone to the Pittsburgh FBI field office and allegedly their version of Cellebrite can’t get into the phone.
Ken Silva: I mean, he’s got a Samsung. He was kind of a technical savvy kid, so maybe he did have advanced encryption, but they say they can’t hack into it. So they send it to Washington DC and the headquarters of the FBI for the latest and greatest version of Cellebrite. That’s what they said they needed to get into the phone, which I think should probably raise some eyebrows considering we haven’t gotten any information about what’s on this
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