Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner embraces democratic socialism at a Bernie Sanders rally, condemning U.S. support for Israel and Sen. Collins.
Far-left darling Graham Platner stumbled over Sen. Bernie Sanders' name twice during an impassioned rally speech just one week ahead of the Maine primaries.
Foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi questioned whether President Donald Trump authored his Saturday Truth Social post announcing a negotiated Iran war settlement.During his appearance in the "Breaking Points" show, Parsi highlighted the lack of characteristic misspellings, grammatical errors, and personal attacks — all typical of Trump's posts. He also noted the post correctly cited world leaders' titles and names — a stark contrast to Trump's usual social media style. Parsi suggested Trump may have allowed staff to author the post as protection against domestic right-wing figures urging him to abandon negotiations and resume military action. Parsi characterized the inclusion of nearly a dozen world leaders as a preemptive defense against inevitable accusations of abandoning Israel. The carefully crafted nature of the announcement suggests internal coordination, with Parsi criticizing previous Trump posts on Iran deals as market-manipulation tactics lacking professional review. The post's sophistication indicates significant diplomatic effort behind the scenes.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) delivered a scathing assessment of Donald Trump's Iran ceasefire Sunday, welcoming the end of the war while warning that the deal represents a humiliating capitulation to Tehran that leaves the United States weaker than when the conflict began."If this deal with Iran is real, I will welcome it because every day this insane war goes on, America gets weaker," Murphy wrote in a detailed thread on X. "But make no mistake: these are Iran's terms. Our nation emerges humiliated."Murphy laid out his case methodically. The deal, as he understands it, gives Iran billions of dollars to return to essentially the same position it was in before the war started — while reports suggest it may also codify Iran's right to control the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway that has remained at the centerpiece of the violent conflict."What a disaster this whole thing was," Murphy wrote.On the nuclear question — the issue Trump cited most prominently as justification for the war — Murphy was equally dismissive. The one reported concession from Iran, a promise to ship out enriched uranium, was already part of Barack Obama's 2015 nuclear deal. And by dropping sanctions now, Murphy argued, the United States has surrendered the leverage it would need to extract further concessions in future negotiations.Meanwhile, Murphy noted, Trump has failed to achieve a single one of his stated goals. Iran's ballistic missile and drone program remains intact. Its navy retains the ability to close the Strait. The hardline regime is still in power."They took our best shot and beat us," Murphy wrote. "Iran emerges more powerful."The Connecticut senator was careful to separate his opposition to the war from opposition to ending it. Thousands of innocent people have been killed, he noted, and the American economy has been badly damaged by the conflict. But he argued that silence about the incompetence that produced the war would be its own kind of failure."That doesn't mean we should be silent on how incompetent Trump is and how insane this war was from the start," Murphy wrote.
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Sacramento City Councilwoman Mai Vang, a far-left Democrat now seeking a seat in Congress, is under fire after renewed attention to her repeated refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and instances in which she reportedly turned her back on the American flag during public meetings. The post OUTRAGEOUS: Sacramento Councilwoman and Congressional Candidate Mai Vang Turns Her Back on the American Flag, Rejects Pledge of Allegiance in Disgraceful Anti-American Display appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Trump woke up this Memorial Day in a fighting mood and had a message for his Democrat enemies after releasing a touching statement earlier this morning. The post President Trump Issues Savage Memorial Day Greeting and Nickname for His Democrat Enemies appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Donald Trump may have handed Democrats one of their most potent weapons in the fight for Senate control — and he did it back in January, almost without anyone noticing.According to a New York Times report on Republican fears ahead of the midterms, Trump's January attack on Sen. Susan Collins of Maine could be deployed by Democrats this fall to suppress Republican turnout in one of the most consequential Senate races in the country.After Collins voted with Democrats to curtail Trump's war powers following his military action against Venezuela, Trump declared on Truth Social that she "should never be elected to office again." The Times notes that Democrats could now use that quote directly against Collins — not to persuade Republican voters to vote Democratic, but simply to demoralize them enough to stay home.Collins holds one of the seats Democrats must flip if they hope to take back the Senate majority. The race is already considered a toss-up.The revelation underscores a broader pattern the Times identifies in its reporting: Trump has repeatedly taken actions that damage his own party's electoral prospects, from endorsing scandal-plagued Ken Paxton in Texas to creating a $1.8 billion fund to compensate January 6th rioters. But the Collins case is unique because the damage was self-inflicted months ago and has been quietly sitting there ever since, waiting to be used.