President hails ‘major win’ for US as he attempts to exit war having failed to achieve regime change in Tehran. Plus: an investigation into the murky world of OnlyFans ‘managers’Good morning.Donald Trump has signed a 14-point agreement with Iran, claiming it delivered a “major win” for the US – even as it made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a “worldwide depression”.How have US Republicans reacted to the deal? Senator Lindsey Graham, a key Trump ally, appeared to soften his view of the deal after a “very lengthy and productive” conversation with the the US special envoy Steve Witkoff. But his fellow senator Ted Cruz, who has backed the war, said: “History teaches that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea. I think the president is receiving some very poor advice on this deal.” And Senator Bill Cassidy declared: “Reagan is rolling over in his grave.”Why is Ukraine newly concerned about Belarus? Russian spy drones flying into Ukraine from Belarusian airspace have sharply increased since the beginning of the year, leading to Kyiv reinforcing fortifications on its northern border. What concerns Ukrainian and European officials is that Moscow appears to be attempting to integrate Minsk ever more closely into its war efforts, including through joint nuclear exercises earlier this year. Continue reading...
President Trump blasted critics of the Iran deal as "fools" for not thinking he was tough on Tehran, describing them as "either jealous, bad people, or stupid."
The tentative memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Iran went into “immediate effect” after President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed it on Wednesday, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Sharif, who served as the top mediator between Iran and the U.S., said signing the 14-point MOU demonstrated “the commitment of…
Amid the chorus of criticism of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance over the Iran deal, one GOP senator has been vocal in their defense. […]
President Donald Trump signed an agreement aimed at ending his war in Iran, but many noticed the symbolism of the location he chose to do it.The 80-year-old president signed the so-called memorandum of understanding Wednesday during a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron in Versailles, the historic setting of the 1919 treaty that ended World War I, and CNN's Audie Cornish asked her panelists about his choice."This was signed at Versailles," she said. "Lots of things have been signed at Versailles. But usually when you call something a Versailles treaty, it's, in foreign language policy land, kind of an insult, right? It's a self-defeating agreement. What's your response to the critics out there who are making those analogies?"Germany signed the original Treaty of Versailles under protest, and the severe penalties it imposed ultimately destabilized its government and led to the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the "CNN This Morning" panelists agreed the symbolism was strange."President Trump didn't have to sign that peace deal at Versailles today," said Middle East expert Sina Azodi. "He could have had an agreement in February before he decided to go to war. He was dragged into a war of choice that didn't have to [and] 13 Americans died, billions of dollars [were] spent. He could have taken the deal that the Iranians had offered, and it was a pretty good deal compared to the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], and I know that President Trump is very sensitive to the war and JCPOA and Obama. But that was a very good deal that he had on Feb. 26 in Geneva.""Well, the hope is from the White House that 60 days from now, whatever they have will be much better than happened in 2015," Cornish added. - YouTube youtu.be
Zeteo reporters Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng say President Donald Trump is now having to admit humiliating defeat in the war he single-handedly launched against Iran, so now he is bitterly back to focusing on ramping up attacks on fellow Americans."As [his] failed war in Iran allegedly nears its conclusion, as a humiliating and well-deserved defeat, our authoritarian president is pivoting back to his other unsuccessful war – his assault on Americans," writes Zeteo. “... Trump’s ICE operations are surging, and so are his garbage lawsuits against protesters … One Trump adviser even explicitly told us that it was ‘a good thing’ the president was seemingly trying to wind down his war in Iran, because ‘we need to focus on the terrorists here and the problems we have at home.’”This, they say, includes American citizens who dare to protest the administration’s policies, with the administration “getting back to bringing ridiculous criminal cases against anti-Trump protesters.”“The Trump Justice Department, which functions as an arm of the White House, unveiled a conspiracy case on Tuesday against members of ‘a Minneapolis-based direct-action group with antifa ties,’” reports Zeteo, quoting the DOJ. “The case is eerily reminiscent of the DOJ prosecution of the ‘Broadview Six,’ which included former Zeteo contributor Kat Abughazaleh, for allegedly blocking vehicles at an ICE facility outside Chicago.”The DOJ was forced to dismiss all charges in that case once the judge reviewed grand jury transcripts and found evidence of allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. As in the Broadview Six case, the DOJ fell back to rote allegations of “conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer” against some protestors. Abughazaleh posted of the lazy charges, complaining that “the process is the punishment.”“Earlier this year, sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell us, officials in the Trump Justice Department and elsewhere in the federal apparatus were determined to bring sweeping criminal charges against peaceful protesters and activist leaders in Minnesota,” reports Zeteo. “So far, they’d brought some cases against … activists, but not to the degree that certain senior Trump officials, such as White House policy architect Stephen Miller, craved.”Administration personnel examined everything from the way Minnesota activists and demonstrators were organizing on encrypted messaging apps, to their liberal use of whistles, despite such accusation being “a tough sell,” according to one administration official conceded to us. “It’s hard making people afraid of people with whistles," they added.Nevertheless, Zeteo reports the administration looking to crack down on blue cities across the nation, including New York.
President Donald Trump's costly attempt to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has blown up in his face, with the Daily Beast reporting that he is now taking drastic emergency steps to fix the algae bloom before July 4.As part of his broader campaign to renovate and remodel Washington D.C., to his own personal taste, Trump undertook a $13.1 million project to paint the city's iconic Reflecting Pool a new shade of blue, which he insisted would make it more "patriotic." After rushing through the process and awarding a no-bid contract to a Virginia firm for the job, the project was completed last and promptly went sideways when the pool became infested with a massive bloom of green algae, making the watery landmark so green that it could be seen from planes thousands of feet in the air.Still hoping to have an "American Flag Blue" Reflecting Pool ready for the country's 250th birthday next month, Trump's National Parks Service is now in crisis mode. As the Daily Beast noted in a Thursday report, the government is "desperately seeking additional workers to help address the issue," and has upgraded the situation internally to a "regional and national priority.""An email addressed to National Park Service employees and reviewed by the outlet stated that officials were working on 'critical pre-July 4th operational needs' and were seeking 'additional personnel to assist immediately,'" the report explained. "Specifically, workers are needed to support 'scrubbing and pump out operations' at the pool. They are being asked to work 12-hour shifts starting this week and continuing through the weekend."It continued later: "The algae bloom appeared within 24 hours of the end of renovation work earlier this month. Workers have already been deployed to vacuum algae from the pool and disperse hydrogen peroxide into the water, but the algae and resulting green tint to the water have remained."Different theories have been floated around to try and explain what is going on with this sudden algae bloom. Some have suggested that the light waves reflected off the new blue paint job are more conducive to producing algae, while Cochise Wanzer II, president of the Pool Service Company in Arlington, Virginia, told the Associated Press that the development was wholly unsurprising, given the type of water used.“What do you expect?” Wanzer said. “You’re basically taking natural, untreated river water, pumping it in and expecting it to do something different from what it would do out in the open.”Wanzer also added that the navy blue paint job made the pool "nice and dark," increasing the pool's temperature to a level at which algae grows better.The Trump administration, as the Daily Beast noted, has attempted to defuse criticism of the situation, claiming that the algae bloom is typical of the immediate aftermath of such a project and being handled, while also taking the opportunity, unsurprisingly, to hail Trump as an "expert builder" while denigrating Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Congressional reporter Myles Morell contributed to this report President Trump’s extraordinary public rebuke of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the G7 summit has ignited fresh tensions inside the Republican Party — and Sen. The post ‘Israel Is Our Only Friend in the World’: Sen. Kennedy Defends Israel After Trump G7 Slap (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
According to former CIA official Marc Polymeropoulos, Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which has set off a deluge of criticism within the Republican Party, has left the leadership of Israel in a state of shock.Appearing on MS NOW with “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist, Polymeropoulos, who just returned from Tel Aviv, claimed he found a sense of betrayal during his visit. Geist prompted the 26-year veteran of the CIA with, “Marc, take us to Tel Aviv this morning. And what Bibi Netanyahu must be thinking; that he got his man in the White House in Donald Trump, that he went to the Situation Room, sold the war successfully. He thought that Donald Trump, the United States military, would come in and finish off Iran, take out the regime, and now he sits here this morning with this memorandum of understanding anyway, with explicit language that says there can be no attacks on Lebanon.”“So the Israelis I speak with are in a state of panic, one former Mossad official said, literally, ‘I can't believe this is happening,’” he reported. “But in some ways they should have known better,” he explained. “And one analyst actually told me, ‘Look, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu decided to ride the tiger — that's Donald Trump. And the tiger just turned around and just bit him on the rear end.’”“And like many of us predicted he would, he continued, “Because Trump was no dedicated, you know, savior. He was not the messiah for Israel. He's too transactional.”“Let me just add one quick thing, Willie,” he insisted. “Let's not forget at the end of the Biden administration, if you calculate what President Biden did after October 7th, he gave the Israelis $18 billion in military aid. Yet somehow, he is seen as not a supporter of Israel. That was preposterous. And right now, I think the Israelis are realizing that Trump was not who they thought he was, and that this MOU actually puts them in a very precarious national security situation, particularly in terms of ballistic missiles and what to do about Hezbollah, a terrorist entity sitting on their northern border.” - YouTube youtu.be