MAGA national security expert questions if Trump is 'bipolar' or being blackmailed

Trump 'embarrassed' as his Iran deal becomes the 'joke in Washington': analyst

The deal President Donald Trump's administration struck with the Iranian regime has become a joke in Washington, D.C., and it's left the president embarrassed and flailing for an answer, according to one analyst. Last week, the Trump administration and the Iranian regime agreed to a deal that would immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that accounts for roughly 20% of the world's energy trade, and postpone more substantive talks until later in the week in Switzerland. Those talks were scheduled to take place on Friday, but were delayed until Saturday due to ongoing fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Iranian regime also announced on Saturday that it was going to shut the Strait of Hormuz again.Joe Cirincione, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, told MS NOW's Alex Witt on "Alex Witt Reports" that the negotiations have soured to the point where Trump has resorted to his "Tony Soprano" negotiation tactics by threatening the Iranians with violence. That has only seemed to further deteriorate the talks, even though Trump is telling "This is what happens when he doesn't have any cards to play," Cirincione said. "He's in a weak position, and now he's embarrassed by this deal. His base is revolting against it. If he were to force this deal to be presented to the United States Congress, I don't think it would pass, and that's not something I would have said just a week ago.""So, he's frustrated. He's lashing out. He's acting irrationally, as he often does, and basically lying about what's going on," Cirincione added. "The joke in Washington, D.C., is that Trump told us this war was going to end with unconditional surrender. He didn't tell us it was going to be our unconditional surrender," he continued.

Trump Hits Historic Border Milestone: 13 Straight Months with Zero Illegal Aliens Released into the U.S.

The United States has now gone 13 consecutive months with zero illegal aliens released into the country at the border, according to the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection. The post Trump Hits Historic Border Milestone: 13 Straight Months with Zero Illegal Aliens Released into the U.S. appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Expert pinpoints potential Supreme Court plot to sow midterm election chaos

Former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance is sounding the alarm that the threat to mail-in voting this fall does not stop at the White House. In her latest newsletter, the legal analyst argues that even as President Donald Trump pushes an executive order to restrict mail ballots, the Supreme Court may be preparing to throw the nation's election machinery into disarray on its own.The case Vance flags is Watson, a Mississippi dispute over whether ballots that are mailed by Election Day but arrive afterward can still be counted where state law allows it. A ruling against that practice, she warns, could change the deadline for mail ballots for millions of Americans and upend procedures in more than 30 states. She stresses that this is a separate issue from Trump's executive order, which makes it a second front in the same war over how and when Americans get to vote.In the piece, Vance argues the court has already shown its willingness to disrupt this cycle. She points to the justices "gutting" the Voting Rights Act in what she calls the "shameful Callais decision," a ruling she says triggered both election-cycle chaos and what she describes as "a race to the bottom in gerrymandering" by greenlighting last-minute redistricting that targets communities of color.To explain the stakes of the mail-voting fights, Vance turned to her Brennan Center colleague Wendy Weiser, one of the attorneys challenging Trump's order. Weiser lays out a basic constitutional point that runs through both the litigation and the broader concern: the authority to set the rules for federal elections belongs to Congress and the states, not the president. The Constitution likewise gives oversight of the Postal Service to Congress, she notes, which is why an order directing USPS to refuse delivery of valid ballots strikes the challengers as plainly unlawful.The piece situates the Supreme Court worry inside what Weiser calls a "multipronged, concerted campaign" to undermine the 2026 elections. That campaign, in her account, spans efforts to pressure states over their voter rolls, investigations aimed at voter mobilization groups, and now the regulation of mail voting itself, all of which she says are designed to erode public trust and depress turnout.Vance does not present the courts purely as a danger, and that is part of why the high court's posture worries her so much. She notes that lower courts have repeatedly blocked the administration, citing eight courts that tossed out Justice Department claims in lawsuits seeking voter rolls, including rulings from judges Trump appointed. The lower judiciary, in other words, has been a reliable check. The open question she raises is whether the Supreme Court will play that same role or instead become another source of the disorder.Her bottom line is that voters cannot assume any single institution will protect the process for them. Vance urges readers to make a concrete plan to vote, verify their registration, vote early where possible, and resist the conspiracy theories she expects to proliferate. She frames the Watson decision as a looming variable that could reshape the rules mid-cycle, and closes the broader discussion on the warning that, with both the executive branch and potentially the judiciary in play, safeguarding the vote now falls heavily on ordinary citizens.

Conservative economist predicts Trump will spur 'massive money printing' and soaring costs

Economist Peter Schiff is warning that the federal government's yawning budget gap will be papered over with a flood of newly printed money, and that ordinary Americans will pay for it through prices that could eventually double.The chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management laid out the math in a post on Saturday. In May, he wrote, the government spent $628 billion while collecting just $335 billion in taxes, a shortfall so large that balancing the budget would require tax revenue to nearly double. Schiff does not believe that will happen, and his prediction for what comes instead is blunt. "Since that won't happen," he wrote, "massive money printing will cover the shortfall, sending consumer prices doubling instead."In other words, Schiff is arguing that the administration faces a politically impossible choice and will take the path of least resistance. Rather than impose a tax increase steep enough to close the gap, which he later estimated at roughly 50 percent once seasonal revenue is accounted for, he expects the government to monetize the debt. The cost of that decision, in his telling, does not disappear. It simply shows up at the grocery store and the gas pump instead of on a tax bill.The thread drew agreement from others who share Schiff's hard-money outlook.Where Schiff went further than some observers was on the political fallout. When one user argued that doubling taxes was "virtually impossible" and would "absolutely cause massive unrest," recommending spending cuts instead, Schiff agreed the unrest is coming either way. "Yes, but they won't" cut spending, he replied, predicting that the government "will still get unrest, but they will blame it on inflation." The implication is that the administration will treat rising prices as an external force to be managed rather than the predictable result of its own fiscal choices.

Trump's Energy Win: Oil Under $80 Despite Iran Conflict

Explosive report unearths prominent union money trail labeled a 'stunning betrayal' of MAGA members

A major railroad union is accused of funneling money to Democratic causes while sidelining MAGA members, according to a new accountability report.

‘You Close It And You Won’t Have A Country’: Trump Reportedly Says US Could Become ‘Guardian Angel’ Of Strait Of Hormuz

'You Close It And You Won't Have A Country': Trump Reportedly Says US Could Become 'Guardian Angel' Of Strait Of Hormuz

Sen. Lindsey Graham predicts Iran peace talks will fail — and Trump will take Strait of Hormuz ‘by force’

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that he thinks the US peace talks with Iran are going to fail -- and that President Trump is going to seize the Strait of Hormuz "by force."