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CNN is helping fuel unhinged leftist violence directed at ICE by publishing stories that falsely claim the Illegals being sent to “Alligator Alcatraz” have “No Criminal Charges.” A basic fact check would have let them know they were spreading misinformation, but no fact check was conducted as it didn’t fit into their violence-inciting narrative.

CNN Correspondent and anti-American activist Rafael Romo told thousands of Americans this violence inciting lie, “Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times, which obtained records about the migrants being held there. According to the report, Brianna, there are more than 250 people who are listed as having only immigration violations but no criminal convictions who are being held together with those accused and convicted of crimes.”

The anti-American activist is leaving out the fact that these illegals are there because of violent crimes committed in their home countries, including rape and murder. This was not an accidental omission; it was a deliberate manipulation of the truth to incite violence against ICE agents. Thanks to the Pam Bondi effect, DNC-CCP media is now free to openly incite violence against federal agents.

CNN Falsely Claims Illegals in Alligator Alcatraz Have ‘No Criminal Charges’– www.newsbusters.org
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Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration detention center that opened in the Florida Everglades, had the left-wing media twisting the purpose of the facility. On Monday, CNN News Central featured Correspondent Rafael Romo, who made the false claim that “hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz.” What Romo was trying to mischaracterize to the CNN audience was the fact they had criminal charges filed in other countries.

On July 3rd, Alligator Alcatraz officially opened with the first group of detainees. Of course, the immigration detention center has received backlash from the liberal media, but Romo got the facts wrong when he claimed:

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times, which obtained records about the migrants being held there. According to the report, Brianna, there are more than 250 people who are listed as having only immigration violations but no criminal convictions who are being held together with those accused and convicted of crimes.

The key words Romo used were “no criminal charges in the United States.” Romo failed to report that many of the illegal immigrants have criminal charges in their origin countries, not just in the United States.

An edited version of the Miami Herald article, referenced by Romo, had a statement made by the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin that opposed their false claims:

Many of the individuals that are counted as ‘non-criminals’ are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters are more; they just don’t have a rap sheet in the U.S. Further, every single one of these individuals committed a crime when they came into this country illegally. It is not an accurate description to say they are ‘non-criminals.’

It’s worth noting that Romo tried to use President Trump’s words against him when he visited the facility, but there was an obvious truth to his statement: He said that it would very soon house some of the most menacing migrants. He said, some of the most vicious people on the planet.

Yes, Rafael, “some of the most vicious people on the planet” have origin countries that are on Earth, and they just happen to be in the United States illegally.

Romo also added a quote from Democratic Representative Darren Soto about how the architecture of the detention center could have “serious concerns” of flooding during hurricane season.

What separates this facility from prisons located along both sides of the coast in Florida?

CNN’s efforts to sympathize with illegal immigrations while opposing the Trump administration’s policies prove that they didn’t have the safety of the American people in mind. The people who were sent to Alligator Alcatraz were criminals, whether they crossed the border illegally or committed crimes in their home countries.

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CNN News Central
7/14/25
1:43:46 p.m. Eastern

BRIANNA KEILAR: Significant new details about the controversial new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. According to reporting from the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times, more than 700 migrants are either currently detained at or scheduled to be sent to the facility, nicknamed by Trump: Alligator Alcatraz. And many of them do not have criminal records. They’re listed as having only immigration violations. CNN’s Rafael Romo is with us now. Rafael, what are you learning about this?

RAFAEL ROMO: Well, Brianna, you may remember at the beginning of the month when President Donald Trump toured the migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades. He said that it would very soon house some of the most menacing migrants. He said, some of the most vicious people on the planet. But a new report published Sunday suggests that may not be the case.

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, according to an investigation by the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times, which obtained records about the migrants being held there.

According to the report, Brianna, there are more than 250 people who are listed as having only immigration violations but no criminal convictions who are being held together with those accused and convicted of crimes. The report says, only a third of the detainees have criminal convictions, with charges that range from attempted murder to illegal reentry into the United States, as well as traffic violations. The information comes from a list of more than 700 migrants who are either already being held at the tent facility or are scheduled to be transferred there.

Several elected officials and members of Congress had access to the migrant detention center on Saturday for the first time since it opened earlier this month. This is what two of them had to say about the facility.

[Cuts to video]

REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL): They should not put humans in cages in the middle of swampland in the Everglades. It’s outrageous. It’s inhumane. It’s unlawful.

REP. MAXWELL FROST (D-FL): What is the hurricane plan? What is the plan with flooding? We want to see the medical unit. We want to see what the segregation unit looks like. We want to see where the law library is. We want to see all this and make sure that it’s up to the standards of what a federal facility is.

[Cuts back to live]

ROMO: And Brianna, Wasserman Schultz also said that migrants are packed into what she described as cages with 32 people inside each holding unit and only three toilets available. In an interview with NBC on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem dismissed the claims, saying ICE detention centers are generally better than most county jails or federal prisons across the United States.

[Cuts to video]

SEC. KRISTI NOEM: Well, our detention centers at the federal level are held to a higher standard than most local or state centers, and even federal prisons. The standards are extremely high.

[Cuts back to live]

ROMO: One final point, Brianna. This is rather important. After touring the detention center Saturday, Representative Darren Soto, a Democrat, said lawmakers also witnessed evidence of flooding, highlighting serious concerns of what could happen to detainees if there’s severe weather. During what forecasters say may be a very busy hurricane season. Brianna.

KEILAR: Rafael Romo, thank you so much for that.

In another blow to the perception of Rule of Law, The Federalist has discovered a memo that reveals the D.C. Judicial Conference in March turned into a cabal to undermine President Trump, introducing inherent biases into their judgements before a case ever came before them. At the center of the cabal is Chief Justice John Roberts and insurrectionist D.C. Circuit Judge James Boesberg, who said the quiet parts out loud.

From the memorandum obtained by The Federalist, “District of the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues’ concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis.” Given Boesberg’s recent disregard for the Law in his attempt to sabotage a sitting President, this writer hopes the Trump administration is thoroughly investigating the judges that took part in this de facto cabal to plot to overthrow the will of the people through illegal rulings.

Memo Reveals D.C. Judges Predisposed Against Trump Admin– thefederalist.com
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Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties.

During the week of March 11, 2025, members of the Judicial Conference met in Washington, D.C., for the first of its two regular meetings. As the U.S. Court’s webpage explains, “[t]he Judicial Conference of the United States is the national policymaking body for the federal courts.”

The Judicial Conference consists of Chief Justice Roberts, who presides over the body, as well as the chief judge of each judicial circuit, the chief judge of the Court of International Trade, and one district judge from each regional circuit, making for a group of approximately thirty judges. While the Judicial Conference mainstay is considering “administrative and policy issues affecting the federal court system,” and “mak[ing] recommendations to Congress concerning legislation involving the Judicial Branch,” a side conversation at the group’s most recent meeting revealed a disturbing detail — the predisposition of supposedly unbiased judges against the Trump Administration.

President Donald Trump is doubling down on his insistence the Jeffrey Epstein Client list doesn’t exist and that the whole obsession with Epstein is not good. He wrote “The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 ‘Intelligence’ Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!)”

“… Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”

Trump calls Epstein case a hoax and lashes out at Maga critics – live updates | Trump administration– www.theguardian.com
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In a lengthy Truth Social post earlier, Donald Trump has dismissed the furious Maga backlash over the Jeffrey Epstein case as a “scam” perpetuated by Democrats and accused his so-called “past supporters” – who have called for more transparency around documents related to the case – of “doing the Democrats’ work” by buying into the “hoax”.

Trump’s base has been in uproar over the justice department’s recent decision to halt further disclosures related to Epstein, including the alleged client list, as well as its finding that he died by suicide.

“Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker,” Trump wrote. “They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years.”

However, it is very much his current – and prominent – supporters who are leading the calls for the so-called Epstein files to be released, including members of Congress like key Trump ally House speaker Mike Johnson, and influential Maga figures like far-right activist Laura Loomer.

House Democrats have been telling anyone that will listen that their own constituents are talking violent revolution, with some describing their supporters as commanding them to “get shot, get violent, get arrested, even storm the white House.” One anonymous lawmaker told Axios “Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough… [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public.”

Another House Democrat said, “What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and … a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people. Not only would that be a gift to Donald Trump, not only would it make the job of Republicans in Congress easier if we were all mired in legal troubles … [we are] a group that is disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ people — people who do not fare very well in prison.”

What their base fails to realize is Americans are more than ready to meet blood with blood, which might not be the best outcome for any of us. What began with “punch a Nazi” quickly escalated to the place we are at now, “might makes right.” When you don’t share the same values, it increasingly becomes a question of force, not verbal persuasion.

“Storm the White House”: House Democrats Say Their Trump Deranged Supporters Are Urging Them to Get Shot, Get Violent, Get Arrested to Stop President Trump | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Axios reported a crazy story Monday morning about what House Democrats are saying their supporters are urging them to do to resist President Donald Trump: Get shot, get violent, get arrested, even storm the White House.

With Republicans holding the White House, both houses of Congress and a 6-3 (sometimes) conservative majority on the Supreme Court, Democrats are powerless to stop much of the Trump agenda.

With Trump and his administration racking up win after win in Congress, the Supreme Court, the economy, foreign policy and especially the culture, Democrats dropping the F-bomb and other swear words in everyday messaging, giving marathon speeches and holding “No Kings” protests aren’t working to satisfy the masses of Democrat voters consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They want blood.

Washington DC Black Lives Matter Antifa Riots at the White House, screen image via Samantha Jo Roth Twitter/X May, 31, 2020.

In the first four years of the Trump administration, Republicans were shot, Trump supporters attacked, Trump was investigated and impeached (twice!) on phony charges drummed up by the Deep State and rioters tried to storm the White House.

In the four years after his first term, Democrats jailed Trump supporters, tried over and over to jail Trump, tried to bankrupt him and keep him off the ballot.

In 2024, two would be assassins were inexplicably able to get close to Trump, with one assassination attempt wounding him and two supporters while killing supporter Corey Comperatore.

All those efforts to stop Trump have failed, so now Democrat voters are demanding elected Democrats sacrifice themselves.

Excerpt from the Axios report (via MSN):

What we’re hearing: The grassroots wants more. “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.

“Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” the lawmaker said.

A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them “civility isn’t working” and to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.”

A fifth House Democrat told Axios that “people online have sent me crazy s*** … told me to storm the White House and stuff like that,” though they added that “there’s always people on the internet saying crazy stuff.”

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Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods.

“What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and … a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people,” said an eighth House Democrat.

“Not only would that be a gift to Donald Trump, not only would it make the job of Republicans in Congress easier if we were all mired in legal troubles … [we are] a group that is disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ people — people who do not fare very well in prison.”

Please read the entire Axios article at this link for more.

It always comes down to race and ‘privilege’ for the Democrats.

But this report speaks to a dangerous tide within the Democratic Party. Will their supporters be satisfied with peaceful resistance and elections, or will their Trump Derangement Syndrome turn terminal and lead to bloodshed?

A would-be mass shooter was stopped by church members before he had a chance to kill any members at the CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan. The shooter opened fire but was quickly shot by two parishioners and run over by another, who drove her car into the church lobby to stop him.

The shooter was 31-year-old Brian Anthony Browning. He died on the scene. Fortunately, only one church member was injured. Browning began firing at church members, including children, before he was stopped. There were over 150 children present at the time. Had the church not had an armed guard, the outcome could have been a lot different. It was the shot that initially stopped Browning. Motivation for the shooting was not given. Browing had infrequently attended the church in the past.

BREAKING: Active shooter killed in Michigan after driving truck into church, opening fire on congregation | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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One person was shot in the leg during the incident.

A security guard fatally shot a suspected gunman during a Sunday morning incident at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, police confirmed.

The Wayne Police Department responded to reports of an active shooter at the church, located on Glenwood Road between South Wayne and South Newburgh roads, on Sunday morning. Upon arrival, officers determined that an armed suspect had been shot and killed by a member of the church’s security team. Authorities also confirmed that one person was shot in the leg during the incident.

Police have asked the public to avoid the area as the investigation remains active.

Officials did not release the identity of the suspect or the injured individual. The motive behind the incident has not been disclosed.

The shooting occurred shortly after a church event had ended and while the service was still being live-streamed on YouTube. Video footage from inside the church shows the congregation applauding and beginning to rise from their seats when off-camera shouting begins.

Attendees are seen ducking for cover and running from the room as someone shouts, “Everybody to the back, please, everybody come to the back. Come to the back.” A loud bang follows, triggering additional screams before the video feed cuts out.

The Terminally Ill Adults bill passed the UK parliament by a narrow 314-291 vote. The bill will allow mentally competent adults with 6 months or less to live the option of having doctors euthanize them. The concern is the bill will start off with limited candidates for euthanasia, but keep expanding like Canda’s law has, which now even allows the mentally ill to “choose’ death.

UK parliament votes for assisted dying, paving way for historic law change– www.investing.com
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Britain’s parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country’s biggest social change in a generation.

The legislation passed by a vote of 314-291, clearing its biggest parliamentary hurdle.

The “Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)” law would give mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less left to live the right to choose to end their lives with medical help.

The bill now proceeds to Britain’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, where it will undergo months of scrutiny. While there could be further amendments, the unelected Lords will be reluctant to block legislation that has been passed by elected members of the House of Commons.

The vote puts Britain on course to follow Australia, Canada and other countries, as well as some U.S. states, in permitting assisted dying.

DNC Activist Federal Magistrate Judge Ivan Davis has allowed a man who threatened to murder President Donald Trump to go free. He was charged with making threats against the president and ordered to be held pending a hearing.

The man, Peter Stinson, is a 33-year veteran of the Coast Guard and known antifa activist. He has made numerous threats, yet the insurrectionist judge chose to release him for home detention, trusting in a GPS ankle monitor to keep the President safe. It should be noted he is a trained sharpshooter, a fact that had no bearing on the judge’s decision.

Ex-Military Officer Accused of Threatening to Kill Trump Released from Jail on Federal Judge’s Orders– www.westernjournal.com
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A former Coast Guard officer who was charged with threatening President Donald Trump has been freed from jail by a Virginia judge.

A 19-page FBI affidavit said that Peter Stinson of Virginia, who left the Coast Guard in 2021 after 33 years and was a Federal Emergency Management Agency instructor, issued repeated threats aimed at Trump, according to CBS.

Stinson actively made anti-Trump posts beginning in 2020 and last week posted, “When he dies, the party is going to be yuge.”

Stinson was charged with making threats against the president. On Monday afternoon, he was ordered to be held pending a hearing on the charges against him.

The Wednesday hearing resulted in Judge Ivan Davis ruling that sending Stinson home with GPS monitoring was enough for now, according to Fox News.

Although Department of Justice prosecutors said Stinson’s many comments about doing violence to Trump were threats, Stinson’s public defender said he was engaging in protected political speech.

Stinson’s lawyers said his posted comments claiming he could not succeed in assassinating Trump were a reason to spring him from jail, while prosecutors said Stinson had received marksman ribbons in the Coast Guard.

Should Peter Stinson remain in jail while awaiting trial?

Davis said Stinson can go home once his attorneys verify there are no guns at Stinson’s property, according to WUSA-TV.

Davis granted the DOJ’s request that Stinson not seek travel authorization, but rejected a prosecution attempt to have a third-party custodian monitor Stinson.

“The weight of the evidence, on a scale from one to 10, let’s just say it’s not on the side of 10,” Davis said.

Related:

California National Guard Stays Under Trump’s Control in Late-Night Ruling

Davis is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law and has been a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia since 2008.

He gave prosecutors until Wednesday to file documents supporting the charge against Stinson.

The charging documents against Stinson noted that he has been posting anti-Trump comments on social media for years.

On April 1, 2020, the document said that in response to a post that read, “You see Trump drowning, what are you throwing him?” Stinson posted, “This morning I feel like I would hit him in the head with an oar” and also wrote, “He wants us dead. I can say the same thing about him.”

Later that month he also wrote, “Would someone just pull the proverbial trigger, please” and later posted, “I would do it. I would take the fall to save America. Too bad I don’t have the operational skills to pull it off. I am willing to serve in a support capacity for someone else with the skills to take care of things.”

The documents noted that posts continued through 2025, with this from Jan. 28: “Somebody needs to do it. Somebody with the skills to do it right. Somebody with the experience. Somebody with the right tools. Somebody needs to get it done.”

The documents said that on Jan. 29, Stinson posted, “Poison maybe. But you got to get real close.”

Two days later, he elaborated, writing, “Poison. That might be the only solution at this point. Take out 1 and 2. Got to get close to disperse. Need a plan. Anyone done this sort of work before?”

 

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On June 14, 2025, in the early morning hours, 57-year-old Vance Boelter assassinated Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband after attempting to assassinate Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman. In both incidents, the spouses were also shot, with Hortman’s husband also dying.

The motivation for the shooting still remains unclear and contested. So far, law enforcement has yet to release the shooter’s notes, even though parts were released that indicates he blames Governor Tim Walz (D) for the shootings. Walz appointed Boelter to a business council, though Boelter appears to have at one time been registered as a republican and there is video of him espousing “evangelical Christian” beliefs.

Assassinated Minnesota Dem Melissa Hortman had just crossed party lines to cast decisive vote against illegal migrant handouts: ‘What leaders do’ – New York Post
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The Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker who was assassinated by a crazed gunman in a rubber mask crossed party lines just days earlier and made a critical vote revoking health care coverage for illegal migrants.

Melissa Hortman, the state House Democratic leader, was the only member of her party to side with Republicans and vote to repeal taxpayer-funded health care coverage for adult illegal immigrants as part of this year’s budget bill.

She and her husband were gunned down on Saturday in Brooklyn Park just outside Minneapolis, shortly after the same assassin is believed to have gravely wounded Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

Watch: Alleged MN Shooter Performs Unhinged Dance As He Gets ‘Excited About Jesus’– crooksandliars.com
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The man suspected of killing two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was caught on video dancing as he said he was “excited about God.”

In a 2021 video unearthed by Blue Georgia, Vance Boelter could be seen giving a speech to a church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“And I’m just as excited about Jesus!” Boelter shouted. “And when I get excited, and when I get excited, I want to dance. I want to dance. And what Jesus did for me, Oh, Jesus is God! Almighty God! He saved my life! Woo!”

“I’m excited about God!” he continued. “Oh, I want to want to love God. Because he’s coming again and he’s excited. And he’s got plans. He has plans and purposes. And the design for each one of you. And for me!”

Speaking on Meet the Press on Sunday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) linked the shootings to Boelter’s religious ideology.

“It was politically motivated, and there clearly was some through line with abortion because of the groups that were on the list and other things that I’ve heard were in this manifesto,” she said.

Watch the video below.

 

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Hours after the shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, prominent conservative influencers spun unsubstantiated theories that the suspect was a left-wing extremist who targeted the Democratic-aligned leaders for voting against party lines, and did so with the blessing of the state’s top Democrat, Gov. Tim Walz.

Authorities said a man posing as an officer shot state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette in their home early June 14, and then shot and killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a former Democratic speaker, and her husband Mark in their home a few miles away.

Authorities soon identified the shooting suspect as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter of Green Isle, Minn. And conservative influencers, including Benny Johnson, Rogan O’Handley and Mike Cernovich pounced — surfacing what they floated as an incriminating connection between Boelter and the governor.

Walz, the former Democratic vice presidential nominee, reappointed Boelter in 2019 to a state board focused on Minnesota’s workforce. But we found no evidence that Walz and Boelter were closely acquainted nor any evidence that Walz was in any way linked to the shootings, which he described as an “unspeakable tragedy” and “targeted political violence.”

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After a decade of Donald Trump being on the national political stage, it is clear to all observers that Trump is incapable of being a decent or normal human being.

Any president after the horrific shootings of State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Democratic State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife would show empathy, compassion, and leadership by condemning political violence.

Donald Trump used the shooting to attack Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Trump told ABC’s Rachel Scott, who posted on X:

On Minnesota – I asked the president about the assassination and whether he plans to call the state’s democratic governor @Tim_Walz

“Well, it’s a terrible thing. I think he’s a terrible governor. I think he’s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too,” the president said.

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As Townhall covered, two Minnesota state legislators were targeted in shootings in their homes late last week. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife survived. Hortman and her husband were murdered.

In the interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Klobuchar claimed that suspect Vance Boelter, 57, had a list of targets. This included “prominent pro-choice individuals in Minnesota,” an official who has seen the list confirmed to The Hill.

“It was politically motivated, and there clearly was some through line with abortion because of the groups that were on the list, and other things that I’ve heard were in this manifesto. So that was one of his motivations,” Klobuchar said.

 

However, hours before being killed, Hortman was caught on video breaking down in tears after she sided with Republicans on cutting funding for illegal aliens.

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A Democratic North Carolina state representative ignited volcanic backlash after calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump on the same day that a Minnesota politician and her husband were assassinated.

On Saturday, Rep. Julie von Haefen posted a photo on social media showing a protester gleefully holding a flagpole banner with a grisly image of a bloody guillotine at the anti-Trump “No Kings” protest in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The banner bore the words, “In these difficult times, some cuts may be necessary.” The flagpole was flanked by two prop decapitated heads, one of which resembled Trump.

The other severed head had a Nazi swastika carved into its forehead. As a reminder, Democrats routinely attack Trump and other conservatives as “Nazis.”

The horrific image essentially called for Trump‘s assassination — an appalling incitement to violence considering he was nearly assassinated twice last year.

 

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The wife of suspected political assassin Vance Boetler is being detained and questioned after police recovered a weapon, cash and passports in her car during a traffic stop on Saturday morning. Federal and state law enforcement agencies are continuing to search for the gunman accused of gunning down Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounding State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

Jenny Boetler was stopped by police while driving in a car with several relatives near Onamia, Minnesota, late Saturday morning around 10 a.m., local outlet KTSP reported. A witness reported seeing about a dozen law enforcement vehicles converging on the scene, where they stayed for more than three hours.

Sources told the outlet that the vehicle contained a weapon, ammunition, cash and passports. The report further stressed that no arrests have been made and that the vehicle’s occupants are only being detained for questioning as of this report.

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Clashes broke out near the ICE field office in Tukwila after activists, including Antifa and anti-ICE demonstrators, surrounded the building and barricaded exits.

Seattle was the site of widespread unrest on Saturday as “No Kings” protests across the country escalated into violence, with demonstrators in the city targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and assaulting a journalist.

Clashes broke out near the ICE field office in Tukwila, a suburb of Seattle, after activists, including Antifa and anti-ICE demonstrators, surrounded the building and barricaded exits. The protest came after ICE reportedly issued a last-minute call for illegal immigrants to appear at the office for immigration matters. Demonstrators attempted to block ICE vehicles from leaving the facility with detainees.

As ICE and Homeland Security personnel began removing detained illegal immigrants from the building, activists swarmed federal vehicles to prevent them from leaving. In response, federal and local law enforcement deployed tear gas and crowd control munitions to disperse the crowd. ICE vehicles ultimately broke through the barricades and left the area. Several arrests were made during the confrontation.

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Boelter, 57, was taken into custody on Sunday night after he was located by police near his home in Sibley County, Minnesota.

Suspect in the assassination of two Minnesota state lawmakers, Vance Boelter, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder as well as two counts of attempted murder among other charges.

Boelter, 57, was taken into custody on Sunday night after he was located by police near his home in Sibley County, Minnesota.

Posting a photo of him getting arrested, the sheriff’s office wrote, “The face of evil. After relentless and determined police work, the killer is now in custody. Thanks to the dedication of multiple agencies working together along with support from the community, justice is one step closer.”

In Minnesota, second-degree murder is murder done without premeditation, however, a grand jury may indict him for first-degree murder later on, according to Fox News analyst and former congressman Trey Gowdy.

Early on Saturday morning, Boelter allegedly posed as a cop in a vehicle that he made appear as a police car and is accused of fatally shooting State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, early Saturday morning at their home in Brooklyn Park. He is believed to have critically injured State Sen. John Hoffman as well as his wife, Yvette, during the rampage.

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(The Center Square) – Legislative attorneys are meeting with the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives to determine the next steps for a lawmaker who promoted a sign reflecting pursuit of the decapitation of President Donald Trump.

Speaker Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, spoke about the acts by Wake County Democratic Rep. Julie von Haefen in a statement Sunday evening. Members of Congress from coast to coast also weighed in as the news went viral.

“Her disgraceful behavior fails to meet the standards expected from House members and sets a dangerous precedent in an already volatile political climate,” Hall said in part. “I am examining next steps with our legislative attorneys to ensure this behavior does not continue.”

The state’s first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, the North Carolina Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee remained silent Monday morning, about 48 hours since the post first appeared.

The Center Square reached out to von Haefen’s office on Sunday at 2:51 p.m. At 3 p.m., she posted an explanation to her Facebook page. Increasing calls for her resignation followed, including the House speaker’s statement about three hours later.

 

This month, Israel and Iran went to war, with the U.S. appearing to have finished it, at least for now. The fallout of the war will be reported on in the next MIA issue. For now, the Iranian regime is tottering, but not dead, with executions being reported in reaction to growing unrest within. While a ceasefire is in place, it is questionable as to how long it will last.

While Iran attacked Israel with missiles and drones, targeting major civilian populations, Israel wiped out most of Iran’s military and scientific leadership, along with numerous military targets, including ones going after Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. delivered strikes on three facilities, with most “experts’ now conceding Iran’s nuclear program is over, despite denials by Iran’s leadership.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not hold back Thursday morning, slamming the legacy media during a fiery Pentagon press conference. He said their hatred for President Donald Trump was driving their coverage of last weekend’s U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Because you cheer against Trump so hard, in your DNA and in your blood, cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad, you have to cheer against the efficacy” of the strikes.

The Trump administration is fighting back hard against the “fake news” media following CNN’s reckless and misleading report late Tuesday that claimed the U.S. strikes on three of Iran’s key nuclear sites only set the theocratic regime’s nuclear program back by a few months. Anonymous officials had leaked a preliminary “low confidence” assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency to CNN reporters.

Sources told The New York Post that the DIA assessment, which had been labeled “top secret,” was “compiled on Sunday without input from other intelligence agencies. … That suggests the report authors did not use CIA or other assets inside Iran to verify the extent of the damage nor rely on audio or online communications that may have been intercepted by the National Security Agency.”

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June 26, 2025—Hundreds of ordinary citizens, members of religious and ethnic minorities, activists, and others are being rounded up and arrested in Iran as the Islamic Republic, facing its most serious challenge to date, moves to stamp out any trace of dissent and reassert its control.

Key Developments:

  • Over 700 individuals have been arrested across Iran in the past 12 days, with many hundreds more detained in Tehran. Checkpoints are set up in many cities to aid in arrests.
  • Six executions on espionage charges have been carried out just since the war began, with additional death sentences expected.
  • Detainees are being subjected to fast-tracked trials in kangaroo courts without lawyers or due process.

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) calls on the Trump administration to forcefully raise these grave human rights violations in the upcoming negotiations with Iran and warn the Iranian authorities to immediately cease the domestic crackdown on its people.

“Like a wounded animal, the Islamic Republic is going after every perceived threat in the country with deadly force,” said Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI executive director.

“And true to form, the Iranian authorities are locking people up incommunicado without cause or access to a lawyer, and sending them to the gallows on ‘national security’ charges in order to terrorize the public and reestablish control,” Ghaemi said.

In just 12 days of war between Iran and Israel, at least 700 people in cities across Iran have been arrested for alleged collaboration with Israel, according to Iran’s Fars News Agency (126 in Kermanshah, 76 in Isfahan, 62 in Khuzestan, 53 in Fars, and 49 in Lorestan)—while CHRI has received credible reports of additional hundreds—if not more than a thousand—being rounded up and arrested inside Tehran, the capital.

Executions have already begun. Since the war’s outbreak, six individuals have been hanged on espionage charges—three in just the past few days. Two others were executed on the same charges shortly before the conflict began. More are expected to swiftly follow.

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In his first remarks since the ceasefire between Iran and Israel went in to effect, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared “victory over the U.S. regime” and “the fallacious Zionist regime.”

“I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime,” Khamenei, whose exact whereabouts still remain unknown, stated on X Thursday. The Supreme Leader had been holed up in a secret location or bunker since June 13, 2025, due to security concerns. He is reportedly being protected by a special forces unit of the Revolutionary Guards.

“With all that commotion and all those claims, the Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic,” he added.

Israel obliterated Iranian nuclear and military facilities, and assassinated high-profile security, intelligence and military figures, as well as nuclear scientists during the 12-day war.

The majority of the ballistic missiles Iran fired into Israeli towns and cities were intercepted and the few that landed destroyed apartment buildings and other mostly civilian sites. Only five out of the 50 to 60 impacts struck military or energy infrastructure facilities, according to an Institute For the Study of War (ISW) report.

🔴 Watch! Big Winning: Trump’s Iran Victory Makes CNN, AOC, and the Entire Left Absolutely Decompose– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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President Donald Trump knocked out the Iranian nuclear program and has established a ceasefire between Israel and Iran and CNN is mad about it. So mad that they’re reporting is worse than normal. Senator Bernie Sanders appeared on Joe Rogan and it doesn’t seem as though it went the way he planned. We bring you the highlights. The New York City mayoral primary was yesterday. Good news! Andrew Cuomo lost. Bad news: the guy who won might be somehow worse.

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Ohio GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno will introduce a resolution on Wednesday calling on the Senate to formally nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

This comes after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, prompted by Trump

“President Trump just pulled off what neocons and Democrat globalists have failed to do for decades: peace in the Middle East with Iran’s nuclear arsenal decimated – all with no American boots on the ground, American casualties, or injuries,” Moreno said in a statement.

“President Trump is delivering exactly what he promised, the era of regime change and Forever wars abroad is over. Now it’s time for the world to recognize the obvious truth and award him the Nobel Peace Prize,” he added.

The Nobel Peace Prize recognizes individuals and organizations that have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” This was outlined in Alfred Nobel’s will.

In Moreno’s resolution, he outlined the fact that former Democratic President Barack Obama was awarded the prize for his alleged ‘‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” However, this included the deaths of thousands of people, something that should have disqualified him from receiving the prize, Moreno noted.

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The White House distributed a statement to reporters on Wednesday from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission giving their assessment of the damage U.S. strikes inflicted on key Iranian nuclear facilities.

“The devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable,” the IAEC statement reads.

Iran’s nuclear weapons program has now been set back “by many years” following U.S. and Israeli strikes, the statement added.

“We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years,” IAEC said. “The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material.”

The statement comes after CNN reported that U.S. strikes against three of Iran’s nuclear sites did not destroy the nation’s nuclear program—a claim fiercely disputed by the administration.

“This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”

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President Donald Trump brokered an historic ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran on Monday, marking a dramatic pause in the most significant military confrontation between the two foes.

The Monday evening announcement took effect 12 hours later, following a timeline designed to allow final military maneuvers on both sides. However, a barrage of Iranian missile fire in the hours that followed left many Israelis questioning whether the truce had already been violated.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, John Spencer, executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute, said such delayed implementation is not unusual. “It’s hard to turn things off on a switch. You have aircraft in flight. You have forces in position,” he explained.

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The recent Israeli and American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have been “extremely successful” in significantly delaying Iran’s nuclear program, according to Robert Greenway, a former senior intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s U.S. Central Command.

Greenway, who also served as a senior director for the National Security Council and principal architect of the Abraham Accords during President Donald Trump’s first term, questioned leaked intelligence assessments suggesting limited damage.

Speaking to Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo today, Greenway said the Israeli and U.S. operations damaged Iran’s most protected facilities and left the country with no meaningful air defenses.

“The United States and Israel enjoy complete freedom of action in the air over Iran,” Greenway said on “Mornings with Maria,” emphasizing that Iran “has no air defenses to speak of and no air force.”

Greenway expressed optimism that the weakened Iranian position creates favorable conditions for expanding the Abraham Accords, potentially including Saudi Arabia, and represents a fundamental shift in regional power dynamics.

He also suggested the strikes send important signals to other U.S. adversaries like Russia and China, particularly through renewed American influence over global energy markets.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called for China to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most important trade routes for crude oil in the world.

“I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them about that, because they heavily depend on the Straits of Hormuz for their oil,” Rubio said in an interview on Fox News. China is Iran’s most important oil customer and maintains friendly relations with the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s foreign minister warned earlier Sunday that the Islamic Republic “reserves all options to defend its sovereignty,” after the U.S. bombed three key nuclear sites over the weekend.

Iranian state-owned media, meanwhile, reported that Iran’s parliament backed closing the Strait of Hormuz, citing a senior lawmaker. However, the final decision to close the strait lies with Iran’s national security council, according to the report.

An attempt to block the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman could have profound consequences for the global economy. Some 20 million barrels per day of crude oil, or 20% of global consumption, flowed through the strait in 2024, according to the Energy Information Administration.

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President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired back at NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell on Wednesday as she attempted to question them on reports that the Iranian nuclear sites were not “obliterated.”

An early assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which was leaked to CNN, found that the damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities likely only set back the Iranians’ nuclear program by a few months, which contradicted Trump’s claim that the sites were “completely obliterated.” While O’Donnell repeatedly asked about the report, Trump said the DIA report is incomplete and does not properly assess the damages caused by the U.S.’ bombings on Saturday night.

“You talked about having some on-the-ground assessments at Fordow and other sites … What is your message then, sir, to the intelligence community when they present reports?” O’Donnell asked.

“[The DIA] presented a report that wasn’t finished. We’re talking about something that took place three days ago. The report was done days ago,” Trump said, with O’Donnell attempting to push back. “Wait a minute, they didn’t see it. All they can do is take a guess. Now if you take a look at the pictures, if you take a look at how it’s all blackened. You know the fire and brimstone is all underground because it’s granite and it’s all underground. You don’t show it. But even there, with all of that being said, the whole area for 75 yards around, the hole where it hit is black with fire … It’s been obliterated, totally obliterated.”

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An initial classified assessment found the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months, according to three sources familiar with its contents.

The assessment, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s military intelligence wing, said the strikes caused the entrances to two nuclear enrichment facilities, including Fordo, to be sealed off. Resumption of the enrichment program may be determined by how long it takes Iran to clear the entrances and make repairs to electrical and water supplies, two sources familiar with the report’s findings said.

The DIA assessment also indicates some of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile was moved before the strikes, one of the sources said.

Officials familiar with the report cautioned that it was an early assessment that could change as more information becomes available about the sites. It was not immediately clear at what confidence level the judgments included in the report were made.

A complete battle damage assessment is still being assembled, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said on Sunday at a press availability.

“Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction,” Caine said.

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Was it all Kayfabe all along?

President Trump just came right out and told you, for anyone with ears to hear.

What’s “Kayfabe” mean anyway?

In professional wrestling, kayfabe refers to the practice of maintaining the illusion that the staged events, rivalries, and characters are real, even though they are not. It’s a suspension of disbelief that allows audiences to become invested in the storylines and characters. Essentially, it’s the wrestling industry’s version of “the show must go on” and maintaining the appearance of legitimacy.

And is that what we just got with Iran’s “retaliation” strike against the USA?

President Trump just told you:

Check this out…

💥 KABOOM — President Trump literally confirms it was all KAYFAB with Iran!

“Iran was very nice, they gave us warning. They said we’re going to shoot them. Is 1 o’clock ok?

I said it’s fine… and everybody was emptied off the base, so they couldn’t get hurt.”

🔴 MY THOUGHTS:
Come on… you gotta admit this is a pretty weird thing to say, coming from a “terror regime”. Right?

Trump put Iran in check in 2018. We are watching a clandestine military operation take place.

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Arn Anderson’s real name isn’t Arn Anderson. It’s Martin Anthony Lunde. But because he kinda-sorta looked like fellow pro wrestler Ole Anderson, he “became” an Anderson in the weird, wacky world of wrestling. (Of course, Ole Anderson wasn’t really an Anderson either: In the 1960s, Alan Robert Rogowski “became” Ole Anderson, when he was teamed with “brothers” Gene Anderson and Lars Anderson… a.k.a. Larry Heiniemi.) Out of the four Andersons, only one was authentic.

Which is why it worked: A 4-1 ratio is all you need to sell a lie. 

If everything you say is untrue, nobody will listen to you. A Devil who only told lies would collect zero souls. There needs to be an anchor — something real and tangible for you to exploit.

The overwhelming majority of political pundits — from the biggest stars on Fox News to the lowliest “influencers” on social media — simply aren’t smart enough to offer new insights and thoughtful, original analysis of fast-breaking events. And that’s a problem, because their livelihood depends on their minds and their mouths: If they aren’t saying something different than the next guy, then what’s the point in paying ‘em for their opinions? These pundits work, after all, in an attention-driven marketplace.

Unfortunately, this incentivizes media “experts” to greatly exaggerate their “expertise.”

 

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“I don’t see them getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore. I think they’ve had it. They’ve been at it for 20 years, and I don’t see that happening either.”

President Donald Trump spoke to press at the NATO summit from The Hague in the Netherlands on Wednesday, telling reporters that he did not think restarting negotiations with Iran was necessary since the “war is done.”

Trump celebrated the missile strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, calling it “obliteration.” He said that “no other military on Earth could have done it” and it was an “incredible exercise of American strength” that has “paved the way for peace with a historic ceasefire agreement.”

He said that he believes the 12 Day War is “over,” and added “I don’t think they’re going to be going back at each other.” He noted a letter that stated Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities were rendered “totally inoperable” during the strikes, and that the strikes “set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come.”

Trump was asked what made him “so confident” that the conflict between Israel and Iran was over, to which Trump replied, “they’re both tired, exhausted. They both fought very, very hard and very viciously, very violently, and they were both satisfied to go home and get out.”

“Can it start again? I guess someday it can. It could maybe start again soon. I think a big telltale sign was when, as you know, Iran, somewhat but not much, violated the ceasefire. And Israel had the planes going out that morning, and there were a lot of them, 52 of them. And I said, you got to get them back, and they brought them back. They didn’t do anything.”

He said of Iran, “I don’t see them getting back involved in the nuclear business anymore. I think they’ve had it. They’ve been at it for 20 years, and I don’t see that happening either.”

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All those breathless headlines about Iran’s nuclear program from the fake news media on Tuesday are, well, fake news. Shocking, I know.

We kind of already knew that, as my colleague Chris Queen reported yesterday and others have spoken out on it, but when it comes to foreign policy, I listen to one man and one man only, and that is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On Wednesday,  he not only set the record straight on the impact of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, but he also explained why most of Europe is wrong to want to sanction Russia.

Rubio, who is traveling with President Donald Trump to Europe this week, sat down for an interview with Politico on Wednesday morning, and, as you can imagine, Iran was the first topic to come up. Rubio’s biggest problem with the situation is the intelligence leak and the fact that it was likely misread and/or misused just to embarrass the president or promote an agenda:

Well, I can’t talk to you about intelligence.  I can also tell you that intelligence leaks are one of the most frustrating things anywhere, not just because you’ve got somebody who has access to this putting stuff out there, but because it’s so often mischaracterized.  An intelligence report, for anyone who’s ever seen it, sometimes is an assessment.  Some analyst will make an assessment, or analysts will make an assessment.  And in these leaks, what you typically have is someone who read it and then leaks it to the media, giving it the spin and the angle they want it to have because they’ve got some purpose:  embarrass the administration, they were against the action, whatever it may be.

After expressing his frustration with intelligence leaks, he explained that our bombs did significant damage to Iran’s nuclear program.

Let me tell you this. The Iranian program, the nuclear program today, looks nothing like it did just a week ago. The program today has been set behind significantly from where it was a week ago. It is in far worse shape today than it was a week ago because of U.S. actions and because some of the actions the Israelis took. So the bottom line is they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the President took this bold action. That’s the most important thing to understand. Significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we’re just learning more about it.

Understand that most of the damage that occurred here in Fordow occurred deep underground. That’s why we used penetrator weaponry to do that. So that’s why I hate commenting on these stories, because often the first story is wrong and the person putting it out there has an agenda. And I would say that story is a false story and it’s one that really shouldn’t be re-reported because it doesn’t accurately reflect what’s happening here.

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Vice President J.D. Vance has vowed that America will not see “boots on the ground” in Iran.

Vance made the promise as he defended President Donald Trump’s bold airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“We’re not at war with Iran,” Vance told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.

“We have no interest in a protracted conflict.

“We have no interest in boots on the ground,” he said.

“We didn’t blow up diplomacy.”

Trump has said he has no interest in a prolonged conflict in the Middle East after the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend.

The strikes led to criticism from Democrats, as well as some libertarians and non-interventionists on the Right, who feared Trump was breaking a promise not to embroil the U.S. in another war.

Vance, a vocal non-interventionist, said that Trump’s strikes had a limited objective and only came as a last resort.

“We only took this action when it was clear, as the president said, that the Iranians were tapping us along,” he said.

“The Iranians are clearly not very good at war.

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Speaking to reporters during a press conference to finish out his visit to the 2025 NATO Summit, President Donald Trump revealed talks with Iran are in the works and won’t be about their “obliterated” nuclear program.

“We may sign an agreement. I don’t know,” Trump said. “I don’t think it [a signed agreement] is necessary.”

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth all vehimentely pushed back on leftist media reports Wednesday that the U.S. military strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure over the weekend didn’t severely damage their program.

Earlier in the day Trump told reporters Iran could be a great country and that they should return their focus to the oil business, not building a nuclear bomb.

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Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) has said that US and Israeli strikes on Iran on Sunday have rendered the Fordow underground enrichment site “inoperable.”

In a handout, the IAEC claimed the “devastating” strikes “destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure.”

“We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years,” the statement said.

The statement was initially shared by the White House and then later released on X by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Israeli assessment contradicts a leaked intelligence report from the US, which suggests that Iran’s nuclear programme has only been set back by a few months and was not “completely and fully obliterated” as US President Donald Trump claimed.

The report issued by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) on Monday is at odds with statements from Trump and Netanyahu about the status of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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President Trump shut down Iran’s nuclear program and helped get a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. CNN is so upset about it; their reporting is worse than usual. Today’s show breaks it down.

“How can anyone be upset about that?” Crowder said.

Per a Truth Social post from the POTUS:

FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!

However, CNN would like you to believe otherwise.

According to CNN:

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it.

The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.

The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”

 

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Border czar Tom Homan revealed Sunday that 1,272 Iranian nationals were released during the Biden administration, who were among the “over 10 million people” who crossed into the United States illegally.

Homan’s warning comes after President Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that the U.S. struck Iran, in which “a full payload” of bombs was dropped on three nuclear sites in the country. The border czar was asked about the possibility of sleeper cells occupied by Iranians in the U.S., to which he reiterated his national security concerns posed by the last administration’s handling of the border and how it greatly contrasts with Trump’s security of it.

“So we’re not releasing people in this country, special interest aliens aren’t crossing this border undetected,” Homan stated on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. “But under Joe Biden, we had over 10 million people cross that border. But my biggest concern, from day one, beyond the fentanyl, beyond the sex trafficking of women and children, were the two million known gotaways. Over two million people crossed that border, we don’t know who they are, where they came from, because they got away because border patrol is so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created that 2 million people crossed the border and got away.”

Homan went on to state that Trump’s intelligence community has been working “since day one” to figure out where the illegal gotaways are within the U.S. He also expressed gratitude that new leadership at the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are in place, namedropping FBI Director Kash Patel and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Iranian Parliament Orders Closure of Strait of Hormuz, Threatening Global Oil Supply – RedState– redstate.com
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Following President Donald Trump’s “Operation Midnight Hammer” attack on Iranian nuclear enrichment sites on Saturday night, the Islamist nation’s parliament has voted in favor of closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, with the ultimate decision resting with the Supreme National Security Council, according to a report from Iran’s Press TV on Sunday.

The US military launched multiple “bunker buster” bombs at Iran’s Fordow facility, along with Natanz and Isfahan. Trump said the infamous Fordow facility, which is concealed nearly 300 feet beneath a mountain, has been “completely and totally obliterated.”

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites in Iran. All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace,” Trump posted on Truth Social shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, marking the first US strike on Iranian soil.

Following strikes on the three key nuclear targets, international attention shifted to how Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Khamenei might respond. Among the possible responses, most widely debated has been Iran’s threat to block the Strait — through which 20 percent of the world’s daily oil shipments flow. When questioned about the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Aragchi stated that “a variety of options are available with Iran.

Israel alone ‘cannot facilitate regime change’, US involvement would be essential– www.france24.com
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Israel’s strikes on Iran have targeted several of its nuclear facilities, alleging Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons, claims Iran vehemently denies. Meanwhile, the IAEA reports no rise in radiation at the affected sites. Since the US unilaterally exited the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran has gradually rolled back its commitments, especially on uranium enrichment. For deeper insight, Eve Irvine welcomes with Dr. Rouzbeh Parsi, journalist and Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.