White House turns on MAGA allies as Iran deal sparks conservative revolt
Conservative commentators Batya Ungar-Sargon and David Reaboi became the latest targets on Friday.

A pro-Trump commentator triggered a White House attack after she called President Donald Trump's preliminary deal with Iran a humiliation for the United States.Batya Ungar-Sargon, a self-described "MAGA lefty" who hosts a weekend show on NewsNation, broke with the administration over the memorandum of understanding Trump signed with Iran.Ungar-Sargon is an Orthodox Jewish commentator and vocal Trump supporter who has repeatedly championed his presidency. But the Iran deal crossed a line she said she could not defend — particularly after Vice President JD Vance began blaming Israel for the region's instability."This is an utter humiliation of the United States, and everybody knows it," Ungar-Sargon told NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas. "Everybody knows it, but especially Iran knows it. They are celebrating this."She went further with Vance."JD Vance is out there criticizing Israel, making up fantasies about how it is Israel's fault," she said. "It is the complete Tucker Carlsonification of the Vice President of the United States, and it is utterly deplorable."The White House's official rapid-response account fired back with a vicious personal attack."The only humiliation here is Batya desperately begging for an additional brain cell because her failing TV show is even more irrelevant than the likes of Kaitlan Collins and Fake Tapper," wrote Rapid Response 47 on X. "Only a moron of her caliber could still doubt President Trump's leadership."The attack made no mention of the Iran deal or Vance's comments on Israel.The reply also invoked CNN's Kaitlan Collins as a benchmark for irrelevance — notable given that Trump himself has repeatedly attacked Collins, calling her "the worst reporter" after she questioned him about the Epstein scandal.The White House's response fits a broader pattern. Trump and his administration have repeatedly targeted women journalists with personal attacks — on their intelligence, their appearance, and their careers — rather than engaging with their reporting.In May, Trump called one woman reporter "a dumb person" and told another she was "a stupid person" during a single South Lawn exchange. He previously called Bloomberg's Catherine Lucey "piggy" on Air Force One after she asked about the Epstein files."VP JD Vance just brought the US to its knees with a humiliating deal weeks before our 250th birthday," Ungar-Sargon wrote on X, "and he has the audacity to blame … Israel!"
Conservative commentators Batya Ungar-Sargon and David Reaboi became the latest targets on Friday.
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It's a "precarious day for our country," MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace said in her opening of "Deadline: White House" — because President Donald Trump got his chosen partisan loyalist in charge of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence."Donald Trump's personal political attack dog, Bill Pulte, officially assum[es] the role of acting Director of National Intelligence today," said Wallace. "It's a job for which Pulte has zero qualifications except for his unwavering loyalty to Donald Trump."And already there are huge red flags showing, she noted, as Pulte — whom experts already warned was likely to try to use the office to interfere in the midterm elections on Trump's behalf — is planning a top-to-bottom housecleaning to install people who will help him do it."Pulte showed up at his new job a day early on Thursday after asking for a list of every employee in the office so he could assess whether to fire them," said Wallace, relying on new CNN reports. Specifically, he "is eyeing to cut hundreds of jobs ... and his appearance at the headquarters "caught staff off guard, including the outgoing director, Tulsi Gabbard, who was given a brief heads up on the visit," since Trump had previously said Friday would be his first day.So far, Wallace said, Pulte's experience "includes serving as the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he drummed up mortgage fraud cases against Trump's perceived enemies." Meanwhile, even Republican lawmakers were so outraged over the appointment that Trump had to nominate federal prosecutor Jay Clayton for the permanent role instead. However, Trump delayed the hearing last minute to ensure Pulte would get at least some time in charge.Trump, after all, has proven himself "if nothing else erratic," Wallace noted. And now Pulte is free to pursue his "plans to purge the office." - YouTube youtu.be
President Donald Trump's new acting spy chief arrived at his post Friday with orders to fire hundreds of intelligence officials — clearing the way for Trump's election meddling aspirations in the midterms.Bill Pulte, who took over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday without Senate confirmation, can hold the post for up to 210 days under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act — well past November's midterm elections.CNN reported that Pulte showed up on his first day with a list of employees and that he "eyes firing hundreds."Trump has been explicit about what he wants Pulte to do with that window."He may find out some things about the rigged elections," Trump told reporters this month. "I think he wants to do it very much."Reuters reported Friday that the White House has suppressed an ODNI report on voting machine vulnerabilities for months.Some officials believe the report doesn't go far enough to validate Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. Pulte has already been briefed on it, two sources told Reuters.Trump has told the Wall Street Journal he wants Pulte to fire "a lot of people." Pulte's acting status is the point, Trump said: "You're less shackled."Those firings would gut the career analysts most likely to push back on the ODNI report's findings, and on any action taken aimed at midterms.Reuters and Foreign Policy have reported that the CIA has already stopped contributing to some ODNI assessments because of friction under outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and that top analysts are avoiding the National Intelligence Council for fear of political pressure."DNI Gabbard spent 18 months and untold taxpayer dollars trying to give substance to lies about the 2020 election and found absolutely nothing," election law expert David Becker said, adding that Pulte was "hand-picked to replace her precisely because he too embraces the lies and conspiracy theories while ignoring the evidence."
Reporters received exclusive tours of the new Air Force One, a former Qatari jet reported to have "gold plating throughout" to match the design requests of President Donald Trump.The tours offered the public their first look inside the plane.The aircraft, designated the VC-25B Bridge, arrived Friday at Joint Base Andrews after a $400 million military overhaul that added secure communications and anti-missile defenses to the Boeing 747-8 once owned by the Qatari royal family.The U.S. Air Force kept the interior largely intact."This feels more like a house than a plane," Daily Caller White House correspondent Reagan Reese wrote on X.She counted solid wood tables, lounge couches, photos of the National Mall in the conference room, and a presidential seal on every seatbelt buckle. The press cabin is two to three times the size of the old plane's.Center Square Washington bureau chief Sarah Roderick-Fitch saw white leather, wooden paneling, cream carpet, and silver accents. The decor was "simple, but elegant," she wrote.GB News Chief U.S. Correspondent Ben Leo called it "INSANE."Trump's office and meeting rooms, he said, were "better than five star hotels." He counted 24 press seats reclining fully flat and four Rolls-Royce engines."This plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before," Trump said as "God Bless the USA" played."Nobody tops this one," Trump said of landing at foreign airports, "and that's the way we have to have it for our country."The New York Times reported Trump's personal plane has "gold plating throughout, including on the seatbelt buckles," and that he wanted "gold trim" on the new jet.The Qatari interior, by French firm Alberto Pinto Cabinet, featured gold-colored walls and gold furnishings. The Air Force said the layout was kept "minimally changed."Qatar gifted the 747-8 amid ethics objections. Sen. Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, called it a "brazen" violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause. Trump dismissed the criticism as "stupid."The plane will complete commissioning flights before entering presidential service. Trump has promised it will lead a flyover of Washington on July 4.
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Fox News's seemingly lone liberal host, Jessica Tarlov, stunned a political analyst after she humiliated Vice President JD Vance during a recent appearance on "The Five."David Pakman, host of the "David Pakman Show" on YouTube, described Vance's recent appearance on Fox News during a new episode as an "unfortunate stop" on his book tour because Tarlov "had the facts" to counter Vance's narratives about the Iran deal the Trump administration agreed to. Tarlov pointed out that the administration had done a U-turn on key policy proposals, like giving Iran sanctions relief up front in exchange for future talks about its nuclear program. The memorandum of understanding also does not address Iran's enriched uranium, unlike former President Obama's Iran deal that Trump tore up, Pakman noted. "Jessica Tarlov humiliated JD Vance," Pakman said. "She does a very good job here of pointing to JD Vance all the ways in which this Iran deal is pathetic, and Vance really doesn't seem able to counteract any of the substance," he added. Vance has been defending the Trump administration's deal with Iran all week, including going on "The View," which some political analysts deemed disastrous for the Vice President. Pakman noted that Vance seemed unwilling to address many of the issues Tarlov raised substantively. "This is going to be a major problem for Republicans, especially if the deal ends up looking like the letter," he said.
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