Obama Trashes Trump — Doubts His Iran Deal Is Different from His Disastrous 2015 Deal – Forgets to Mention He Gifted Iran Billions and Delivered Pallots of Cash in the Dead of Night
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Christina Laia reported on Sunday that Barack Obama slammed President Trump's Iran deal.
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Jeffrey Epstein paid a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy cash and Disney tickets for favorable jail treatment, his former assistant told Congress, per a new report.Sarah Kellen, a longtime personal assistant to the convicted sex offender, testified before the House Oversight Committee on May 21, per a transcript reviewed by the Miami Herald.Kellen also told the committee Epstein abused her from behind bars — using a jail computer to Skype her and force her to undress on camera, Raw Story reported.It marks the first time a specific deputy has been named in connection with alleged payments at the Palm Beach County Stockade, where Epstein was held from 2008 to 2009."I know that he arranged to have cash and, like, Disneyland tickets, taken to one of the officers in the jail and I'm not sure what he received with that," Kellen testified. She identified the deputy as Michael Fox.She learned of the arrangement because Epstein's paralegal, Story Cowles, complained about having to personally drive to deliver the cash and tickets.Fox retired from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in 2020, and a spokeswoman said the prior investigation never surfaced the allegation."The Epstein investigation did not reveal these allegations, and they were never investigated in connection with that case," spokeswoman Therese Barbera said.Epstein served his sentence in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade.Three and a half months in, he was granted work release — leaving jail 12 hours a day, six days a week.His company paid roughly $130,000 in overtime to deputies who were told to call him their "client.""I was afraid that that would happen. [Epstein] was so smooth. He was trying to hook me in, and that wasn't going to happen," said Michael Gauger, who supervised the jail during Epstein's tenure."If that had come out, he would have been put on isolation and lost his privileges," he further added.The Florida Department of Law Enforcement's 2021 investigation found no wrongdoing by sheriff's office members — but that probe predates Kellen's allegation about Fox. The sheriff's office said it has no plans to reopen.
The United States and Iran reached a tentative agreement Sunday to bring about an end to the war, which one Iranian official involved in the negotiations credited, in part, to Tehran’s unorthodox approach to addressing what they considered to be President Donald Trump’s “mental illness.”Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success.“Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators back to Donald Trump to try to take into account what they say as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies,” Scahill said in an interview with Democracy Now published on Monday.“Almost quite clinically, they said [they] began to see this process yielding results as [they] worked with psychologists to send these communications to Donald Trump, and they credit that, in part, with getting to this point where Trump finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative.”Trump’s cognitive function has come under renewed scrutiny during his second term in office, with The Washington Post reporting last week that the president was assessed by 22 medical specialists during his most recent medical checkup, a figure “nearly double the number of specialists who assessed Trump for his past medical checkups as president.” The president has also been spotted appearing to doze off during important meetings.
President Trump on Monday trolled the weather forecasters in a triumphant post about his successful UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn after warnings of severe storms derailing the fights.
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US President Donald Trump arrives at Geneva airport in Air Force One before boarding Marine One to join other heads of state at the Group of Seven summit in Evian, France. (Source: Bloomberg)
The biggest political cover-up in American history has been taking place in plain sight for the last two years, and it’s finally reached a point where even the most loyal of Trump supporters are being forced to admit it. Jeffrey Epstein has been Donald Trump’s political albatross ever since he returned to office. Trump kept promising to release them while on the campaign trail — all while flying around on the repainted Lolita Express, a screaming confession burning fuel above everyone in the sky. Calling the Epstein Files scandal “Trump’s Watergate” isn’t nearly strong enough. Nixon had some guys break into a hotel room. What Trump has done to this country is exponentially worse because the ripple effect is impacting the entire world. Along with never challenging the 2024 election, I’ll never understand why the Harris/Walz campaign never used Trump’s well-documented friendship with Epstein against him, especially after thousands of pages of previously sealed evidence were finally released in January 2024. The whole “we go high” thing has never really worked for Democrats in this current garbage fire of a political climate, and it’s well past the time for the party to start playing dirty. The bombshell revelation that Trump’s staff met nearly a year ago to discuss the Epstein Files is compounded by the fact that they did it in the Situation Room. It probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that the most criminal administration in history further sullied the People’s House by using that space to figure out how to keep protecting Trump instead of focusing on bringing justice to victims.Covering up the Epstein Files, or at least distracting from them whenever possible, has been Trump’s main priority for the last 17 months. It’s why he keeps bombing Iran, because if the Iran War ends, he’ll have to figure out a different country to bomb. It’s why he keeps vaguely threatening Cuba; he’s got to have multiple distractions on hand, just in case. This cover-up includes literally everyone who works in the White House, with JD “Vladimir Futon” Vance at the helm. If he had the sense of a goat, Vance would’ve sprinted to the press with the Epstein Files to declare to all the world that Trump is indeed implicated.They turned the Situation Room into the Epstein War Room. The Vice President and every member of the administration have been complicit in the Epstein Files cover-up all along. Every lie they’ve told the American people matters, especially the ones told during any of the hearings that have already been held. As an additional sidebar, this is also another example of journalists learning damaging information about Trump and his staff, but sitting on it until their book about it was being released, a la Bob Woodward. I can’t reconcile any reason to sit on the knowledge that Trump understood just how deadly the Coronavirus was, but, then again, I also can’t comprehend anyone choosing loyalty to Trump over our country. Silly me needing to have morals and whatnot.But returning to the “How is this even happening” of it all, what we’re talking about is far beyond a hotel break-in and enters right into a very serious and real discussion about removing this corrupt regime that has defied everything that the presidency is supposed to stand for and continues to evade any accountability.They are covering up potential evidence that Trump was part of Epstein's awful crimes. It’s time to stop sugarcoating anything about the Epstein Files and start laying the groundwork to end Trump’s reign of terror. Article Two, Section Four of the Constitution lays out the framework to do just that. In my heart of hearts, I want to believe there’s already a Shadow Cabinet in place, but I also wanted to believe Democrats were going to fight a lot harder for Kamala Harris. Anyway, it states that the President, Vice President, and “all civil officers of the United States” can be removed from office “if convicted of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”All of those things have already been happening all day, every day, starting from the day Trump wouldn’t put his tiny hand on the Bible when he was sworn in during an indoor ceremony because it was too cold out for him, plus he didn’t want to have to face yet another sparse inauguration crowd. Democrats need to sweep the midterms in both the House and Senate so we can have our version of the Nuremberg Trials in January 2027. And the Epstein Files need to remain front and center every time Democrats are in front of cameras or are otherwise speaking on the record. That’s five months' worth of daily accountability, and we’re all going to have to stay on our elected officials to stay on message.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth crumbled when he tried to explain the difference between Donald Trump’s new deal with Iran and Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Spoiler alert: there is none. Speaking on CBS News’s Face the Nation Sunday, Hegseth struggled to justify what the U.S. had actually won after months and months of mass destruction and global economic turmoil.“The document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won’t seek one, won’t buy one, won’t have one,” Hegseth explained. “JCPOA said that, too,” host Margaret Brennan pointed out.Pretty much verbatim, actually. The preface of Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal states: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.” Hegseth scrambled to defend the new deal. “But they didn’t have the threat of military force the way that we do that Iran respects in a very—in a way that their regime is more devastated, more devastating, excuse me, more devastated than it’s ever been in its 47 years, and that’s why they’re at the table,” he ranted incoherently. HEGSETH: The document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one, won't have oneBRENNAN: The JCPOA said that tooHEGSETH: But they didn't have the threat of military force the way we do that Iran respects. President Trump led with military might. pic.twitter.com/PQcS6hHhEe— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2026“The huge difference is, we did this from a position of strength. President Trump led with military might,” Hegseth added. “That military might will stay as long as necessary.”But let’s assess that military might, shall we? It will take at least three years and an estimated $24 billion for the United States to replace the munitions it expended during Trump’s military campaign against Iran. A recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated a multi-year “window of vulnerability” for the United States in potential future conflicts. Hegseth denied that there were any shortages in the U.S. weapons stockpile. More to the point, the U.S. has demonstrated our unique powerlessness in the face of a regime that has been reminded it can control the Strait of Hormuz. And as for Iran’s regime, it’s far from being “devastated.” Not only was there no regime change, but the regime has arguably gotten even more extreme—and Trump is still ready to hand them billions of dollars.It’s increasingly apparent that Trump pulled out of the JCPOA, only to drag the United States into an expensive war that no one voted for and then walk away with an identical deal. The major difference this time? One $300 billion check for Tehran to rebuild everything Trump destroyed.
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