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'The district court judge in Boston has said he's going to defy the ruling. So expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court'
Instances of anarchy in the American judiciary are self-evident. There's Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who is on video diverting federal ICE agents and apparently helping an illegal alien criminal escape.
She is arguing in court now that she has absolute immunity for anything she does in her courtroom, or even her courthouse.
Just like the kings of civilizations past.
Moving to the national level, leftists long have complained that President Donald Trump disagrees with and doesn't follow the rulings of the federal court system.
On the first point, they're right, and Trump never has concealed his disagreements with some of the outlandish rulings – like the order to turn jets deporting illegal alien criminals around while they were in the air to return to America. And other entry level judges who claim to control the executive branch's decisions nationwide.
On the second point, wrong. As Trump does follow even the rulings to which he has legitimate objections.
But now a leftist and "activist" judge in Boston has decided the Supreme Court rulings don't apply to him and his court, and the outrage from leftists would compete with crickets for silence.
But the fireworks soon are expected.
It was in a 6-3 decision on Monday that the high court gave Trump's administration a huge victory: deciding that illegal aliens could be deported via "third countries" without requirements that they be allowed to present their case against that.
The fight is over what Trump's officials have called "the worst of the worst," violent criminals accused of crimes in America but who were refused permission to return to their home countries.
Several leftist organizations in America fought in the courts on their behalf, claiming they could not be moved to third countries. A leftist judge, the Biden-nominated Brian Murphy, agreed, but the Supreme Court stayed that order.
Some of the criminals have been held in a makeshift room in Africa, guarded constantly by federal officers, because the Trump administration is not allowed to finish the deportation process there.
At the Western Journal was a commentary: "Remember how President Donald Trump's administration was supposed to listen to judges when they issued injunctions, even if said judge didn't have jurisdiction over the entire nation? Well, as it turns out, that was all bogus. There is one court that has jurisdiction over the entire nation — the Supreme Court, for all you dullards out there who don't get the point — and it handed down a ruling in a controversial case. A judge appointed by President Joe Biden is deciding he can ignore that ruling — and the crickets from the left are more deafening than anything you'll hear in the late, muggy hours of a countryside summer night."
Tricia McLaughlin of the Department of Homeland Security said the ruling was a victory "for the safety and security of the American people."
Murphy, instead, insisted, his order "remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding today's stay of the Preliminary Injunction."
The Gateway Pundit noted Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller held an opinion on that.
"Yes, this is an incredible victory — the Supreme Court win. It allows President Trump, as the law has long said but the courts have blocked, to send illegal aliens convicted of rape, murder, homicide, assault, battery, and crimes against children to any country around the world that is willing to accept them. Whether that be South Sudan, Somalia, or Ethiopia — any country in the world that is willing to accept these monsters — we can get them out of our country and be free of them forever. The only thing I have to share tonight, Sean — and this is a bit of breaking news — is that the district court judge in Boston has said he's going to defy the Supreme Court's ruling. So expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court."
The fireworks didn't take long to appear.
Solicitor General John Sauer Tuesday morning was at the Supreme Court, asking for a decision.
"The district court's ruling of last night is a lawless act of defiance that, once again, disrupts sensitive diplomatic relations and slams the brakes on the Executive's lawful efforts to effectuate third-country removals. For over two months now, the Executive has labored under an injunction that this Court yesterday deemed unenforceable. This Court should immediately make clear that the district court's enforcement order has no effect, and put a swift end to the ongoing irreparable harm to the Executive Branch and its agents, who remain under baseless threat of contempt as they are forced to house dangerous criminal aliens at a military base in the Horn of Africa that now lies on the borders of a regional conflict."
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The network claims the information was based on a bombing assessment report done by the Defense Intelligence Agency after the strikes
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is rebuking CNN after the network ran a story based on "leaked" sources claiming that the damage the U.S. attack on Iran inflicted over the weekend only set Tehran's nuclear ambitions behind by "a few month."
CNN reported Tuesday that three sources indicate the attack Saturday "did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back a few months."
The network claims the information was based on a bombing assessment report done by the Defense Intelligence Agency after the strikes.
Leavitt rebutted the report on social media, pointing out the CNN story was put together "by the same 'reporter' who wrote the very first FAKE NEWS story claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation."
That reporter is Natasha Bertrand.
Besides Leavitt, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also discounted the report, telling Fox News the attack "obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities.
"Based on everything we have seen — and I've seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran's ability to create nuclear weapons," Hegseth said. "Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target — and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission."
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Sneers at critics of leftist, racist, sexist ideologies being taught in many classrooms, but one responds with, 'I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are'
Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union and spoke recently at a meeting of the City Club of Chicago.
She insisted that residents should "blame President Donald Trump, not the city's broken politics, for the fact that Chicago Public Schools are running a deficit of over a half a billion dollars," according to a Western Journal commentary published at the Gateway Pundit.
But the posting suggested her real title should be "the newest reason for you to homeschool your children."
That's because she went out of her way, snarkily ridiculing critics of the public education industry and its ideologies, to insist that she believes schools do own all the children.
She explained, "The budget and its choices manifest into real impact that our young people get to experience. So choices about the budget left students at Julian High School in 2025 without a math teacher for nearly a year, Clemente high school without a chemistry teacher … Those are not occurrences. Those are choices."
But her real ideology soon was revealed, when she explained, "one of the first social studies lessons taught in kindergarten classrooms is of community" as that lets children "come to understand the connectedness of people and institutions."
"The attack on the idea of community is exactly the point," she charged.
She pointed to "right-wing outrage" triggered by "a teacher who quoted African-American author James Baldwin during a rally last year."
"The children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe."
Turning on her sneer voice, she said, "And what comes next is, 'CTU, you think your children are its children.'"
She confirmed, "Yes. Yes we do. We do. [Sneering again] 'CTU thinks all children belong to it, and their socialist conspiracy ideology.'"
She then claimed the corporate education industry educates, nurtures, protects and supports children, and even negotiates for them, although it was unclear what those negotiations involve.
Social media responses included:
"This is so vile."
"They wouldn't treat a dog they (sic) way those children are treated."
"I love it when they are transparent about how sinister they are."
The commentary noted, "And of course they are. We're just coming off the Biden administration, where the president said — in the same speech, mind you — that we've got to stop making teachers 'the target of the culture wars,' then told a group of teachers that their charges are 'not somebody else's children; they're like yours when they're in the classroom.'"
The report noted the full speech is here:
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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, whom many in the political world say is a "rising star" among Democrats, threw a tantrum in Congress Tuesday after she came in last place in her bid to become the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee.
In video of the committee posted online, Crockett is seen shouting foul language at her congressional colleagues who were urging her to "calm down."
"No! Because this is what y'all do! So I'm trying to get clarification," Crockett yelled.
"If you don't want me to be … Don't tell me to calm down! Because y'all talk noise and then you can't take it. 'Cause if I come and talk sh** about her, y'all gonna have a problem."
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., admitted having physical trouble understanding his fellow lawmakers amid the commotion.
"I don't know if you've noticed that I have two hearing aids," Comer said. "I'm very deaf. I'm not understanding. Everybody's yelling. I'm doing the best I can."
Democrats selected Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., as their ranking member on the 47-person panel.
Crockett told reporters: "It was clear by the numbers that my style of leadership is not exactly what they were looking for, and so I didn't think that it was fair for me to then push forward and try to rebuke that."
"They were clear that I was the one that made the least sense in their minds.
"I accept that, and I think that you have to make sure that you are going to be able to work with leadership if you are going to go into a leadership position," she added.
"I think the people may be disappointed, but at the end of the day, we've got to move forward in this country, we've got to move forward for this world, and I don't want to be an impediment."
This was Crockett's second defeat in looking to ascend the rungs of congressional leadership. She was looking to replace the committee's former top Democrat, Gerry Connolly of Virginia, who died in May.
Journalist Nick Sortor reacted to Crockett's tantrum, stating: "Running for Congress should require a minimum IQ. Crockett's become the face of ghetto. And she seems to enjoy that for some reason. Texas needs to dump her a**."
Others indicated:
"In the early round of voting Jasmine Crockett got 6 votes. One of them was from herself. She came in last to 76 year old Kweisi Mfume – who many people had never even heard of before. Maybe Trump should text her about this. "
"Crockett thinks being vile and vulgar is an asset. It just makes her a loser."
"Kamala 2.0."
"Can they censure her for speaking out of turn and in ebonics?"
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Federal provision allows cash handouts to end 'pursuant to the terms and conditions of the federal award, including to the extent authorized by law, if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities'
One thing can be said for certain, President Donald Trump's election to the Oval Office for a second term has assured the federal judiciary of job security.
Dozens, even hundreds, of lawsuits have been filed by individuals, groups, entities, states and nations over his agenda points.
From the work of the Department of Government Efficiency in making budget cutbacks, to his foreign policy, to his economics, to his appointments, no part of the executive branch's constitutional responsibilities that Trump has exercised has escaped being named in some court filing somewhere.
But now instead of waiting for some "offense" to come out of the Trump administration, leftist states that largely voted against the 2024 landslide election victory for Trump and supported the word-salad pro Kamala Harris are suing.
They want court orders to prevent Trump from acting, not just to reverse his orders.
"We can't just sit back and wait for the next set of cuts," Mathew Platkin, the attorney general for New Jersey, claimed.
At issue is a federal OMB ruling that cash handouts set up by Washington can be canceled, "pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Federal award, including, to the extent authorized by law, if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities."
That last phrase suddenly has become important, as the priorities of federal agencies under the executive branch have changed dramatically from the tenure of Joe Biden, whose goals included abortion for all and transgenderism for children.
For instance, where Biden's Department of Justice persecuted pro-life activists who even entered those "bubble zones" around abortion businesses, Trump's DOJ is investigating the vandalism at pro-life centers and churches.
Where Biden openly pushed transgenderism on Americans and their organizations and churches, often despite outraged opposition, Trump's order states that the federal government recognizes two genders, male and female.
Biden openly promoted transgenderism in the military; Trump is working to remove those individuals, whose medical conditions are incredibly costly to taxpayers, from the ranks.
Biden insisted on open borders that allowed in millions of illegal aliens, including criminals and even terrorists; Trump has sealed the border and is working to deport those criminals.
Each issue has, at some point, generated legal conflict.
The new lawsuit has been filed in Massachusetts, where the plaintiff states of New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia, are more likely to obtain a leftist, activist judge than in many other states.
Named are an entire list of federal departments and their managers, mostly appointed by Trump
The states claim that President Trump has launched "an unprecedented and unlawful campaign to terminate billions of dollars in critical federal funding appropriated by Congress."
The complaint doesn't immediately cite that that agenda is exactly what Americans voted for in the 2024 presidential race.
The states complain about the executive branch's decisions to end grants that the Biden administration had awarded, including billions of dollars handed out during the lame-duck part of Biden's term, like, as one commentator explained, dumping gold bars from the Titanic.
While Biden's agencies obviously "approved" those grants, the bureaucracies now under the administration of President Trump no longer support the goals.
"Federal agencies have engaged in this nationwide slash-and-burn campaign by unlawfully invoking a single subclause buried in federal regulations promulgated by the Office of Manage of Budget," the plaintiffs claim.
That, of course, is the permission for agencies to terminate grants "if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities."
The plaintiff states, in fact, are demanding those billions of dollars adopted by Biden bureaucrats be delivered by the Trump administration. They claim without the money, hurt will be programs to fight crime, educate students, safeguard public health, protect clean drinking water, conduct medical and scientific research, address food insecurity, ensure unemployment benefits and more.
They claim the states' sole offense is to be doing just what the Biden bureaucrats demanded, even though those grants are under the auspices of the administration of Trump now, often with complete opposite priorities.
The states claim that the OMB "never suggested … that a grant could be terminated even though the grant was continuing to serve the very goals for which the monies had initially be awarded, merely because the agency's priorities shifted midway during the use of the grant…"
The leftists, including some of those who orchestrated a years-long lawfare campaign against Trump, complained that federal agencies, when Trump took office, "abruptly shifted course."
Trump had, in fact, told agencies and DOGE to "review all existing covered contracts and grants and, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law, terminate or modify" them.
The states complain that the Trump administration now is invoking the clause to terminate grants "based on newly identified agency priorities."
The states complain that the OMB itself allows "no support for a broad power to terminate grants on a whim based on newly identified agency priorities."
And they complaint that no longer being in the pipeline for federal cash handouts has hurt them.
Their solution is for a court to disallow permanently the termination of grants "on the basis that the grant 'no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities' if the award terms and conditions do not 'clearly and unambiguously specify' that the award can be terminated."
That ruling, if made and eventually affirmed, essentially would lock in each new presidential administration into the funding priorities that the previous administration demanded, meaning a president elected in 2028, should that be a Democrat, could be locked into hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that Trump could authorizes during his final months of his second term.
They also demand that the court set aside existing federal regulations and practice.
Among the signatures on the document was Letitia James, attorney general for New York who currently is under investigation for federal mortgage fraud; Philip Weiser, of Colorado, whose all-Democrat state Supreme Court vainly tried to bar Trump from the state's 2024 election ballot, the far-left Dana Nessel whose activities in Michigan have had extremiust overtones for several years, Keith Ellison, the extremist from Minnesota, and more.
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'As for Tehran's hardliners, someone please bring them chamomile tea, a therapist, and a globe. It's time they realize the world isn't flat, and it doesn't revolve around them'
Key voices in the Arab community in the Middle East, those voices described as liberal, have praised the United States strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, with one going so far as to share an image of Iranian chief Ali Khamenei costumed as a "clown" and call for his death.
The comments were compiled b the Middle East Media Research Institute, which documented how that ridicule of the radical Islamic regime leader came from Amr Bakley, an Egyptian liberal based in the U.S.
MEMRI reported, "The June 22, 2025 U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear facilities was met with approval and satisfaction by many Arab journalists and liberals, who took to X to express their support for it. Some thanked U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he had 'made history' and 'saved humanity' from the nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. Others expressed hope for the downfall of this regime, and several mocked Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling on him to surrender unconditionally or else face a grim fate. It should be mentioned that some of these writers also expressed support for Israel's attack on Iran, launched on June 13, stating that this country was not defending only itself but the entire Middle East."
"The dream, the danger and the Iranian nuclear project have come to an end for a long time. Iran wasted billions that went down the drain at the expense of its people's livelihood. Will reason prevail, with Iran launching an economic development project instead of a military one of nukes and missiles?" wrote Saudi journalist Abd al-Aziz Al-Khames.
Another Saudi journalist, Wafa Al-Rashid, released a series of posts, including, "Some regimes are not only a burden on their own people but on all of humanity! They feed on oppression, export chaos, impoverish the world and destroy the people. Their existence is not a 'sovereign decision' but a danger to the future of the world."
Dalia Ziada, a liberal Egyptian researcher who lives in the U.S., explained, "President Trump has made history in the Middle East… for the second time. God bless America! I pray this will trigger the geopolitical reset that the Middle East has been craving since 1979. In case you are wondering, the first time president Trump made history in the Middle East was the Abraham Accords in 2020."
Emirati liberal Amjad Taha was effusive in praise of President Donald Trump.
"To those still struggling with English or math: the U.S. won. Israel won. The Islamist in Iran lost. The Middle East just took its first breath of fresh, non-radioactive air. Trump didn't just send missiles, he sent a message. No nukes. No bullies. No threats to America's allies, especially Israel. This wasn't just war. This was diplomacy with a spine, a masterclass in keeping promises and crushing bad deals. Fordo was flattened. Natanz was neutralized. Esfahan was erased. These weren't peace-loving labs. They were ticking bombs. And now, they're gone with precision."
Taha continued, "God bless America. God save lives. As for Tehran's hardliners, someone please bring them chamomile tea, a therapist, and a globe. It's time they realize the world isn't flat, and it doesn't revolve around them. In the end, peace isn't given. It's earned, protected, and sometimes enforced. And those who chase destruction always forget.. justice doesn't knock. It lands."
Baghdad Post website chief Sufian Al-Samarrai wrote, "[Trump] did it along with the Lord of the World and saved humanity from the nuclear [program] of the extremist Nazi Islam."
Ahdeya Ahmed Al-Sayed, Bahraini liberal, wrote, "It is a historic turning point that will transform the Middle East, [leading to] a future in which the terror of the 'rule of the jurisprudent' [i.e., the Iranian regime] no longer threatens the region. With this step America fulfilled its obligation and put an end to the matter."
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'In a region plagued by historical animosity and political volatility, such a breakthrough demands both courage and clarity. President Trump demonstrated both, offering the world a rare glimpse of hope'
President Donald Trump was nominated Tuesday for the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet."
The nomination came from U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., who submitted a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo, Norway.
Carter stated in his letter: "In recent weeks, the world stood on the precipice of a dangerous and potentially region-destabilizing war. Yet in the face of this crisis, President Trump took bold action to ultimately champion peace through strength and facilitate a ceasefire framework that brought hostilities to a halt.
"In a statement that has since reverberated around the globe, President Trump announced the terms of a complete and total ceasefire agreement, commending both Israel and Iran for their courage to end the war.
"His message of mutual respect and peace will now result in a full cessation of military activity, no further escalation, and the preservation of thousands, if not millions, of lives throughout the Middle East and around the globe.
"President Trump's influence was instrumental in forging a swift agreement that many believed to be impossible. President Trump also took bold, decisive actions to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions and ensure that the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism remains incapable of acquiring a nuclear weapon.
"His leadership at this moment exemplifies the very ideals that the Nobel Peace Prize seeks to recognize: the pursuit of peace, the prevention of war, and the advancement of international harmony.
"In a region plagued by historical animosity and political volatility, such a breakthrough demands both courage and clarity. President Trump demonstrated both, offering the world a rare glimpse of hope."
Carter's nomination comes just hours after Israel accused Iran of breaking Monday night's Trump-brokered ceasefire agreement, which Tehran has denied.
"You know, when I say OK, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour just drop everything you have on them," Trump said. "So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not happy about that."
"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard, that they don't know what the f*** they are doing. Do you understand that?" Trump added.
This is not the first time Trump has been nominated, as Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pushed the president's name for the award this year, noting his 2024 electoral victory had an "astonishingly effective impact" on world peace.
According to the Nobel Peace Prize website: "The Nobel Committee does not confirm the names of nominees, neither to the media nor to the candidates themselves. There are cases where names of candidates appear in the media, either as a result of sheer speculation or because individuals themselves report to have nominated specific candidates."
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White House tells Dem operatives who worked with Biden: 'In light of unique and extraordinary nature of the matters under investigation, President Trump has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the national interest and therefore is not justified'
Joe Biden's administration repeatedly attacked the concept of executive privilege. For President Donald Trump.
Among other ways, officials then used their new standard against Trump in their fight over documents that he held from his presidency.
A report at Redstate explained, "We now know that the heavily politicized agency was just seeking to establish a predicate for the DOJ to charge Trump with a crime. That led to the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump's arrest, and years of litigation. We all know how that story ended, but it only ended that way because Trump won the presidency. If he hadn't, Biden and company would have almost certainly gotten away with their gambit."
But now that Biden standard has been applied to Democrats, from Biden's own entourage, who have been summoned to testify before Congress regarding Biden's mental capabilities, or lack thereof, and to provide details about just who was running the country during Biden's decline.
In came in a letter to Neera Tanden, one of Biden's advisers, who was scheduled to testify.
It makes clear that executive privilege claims are "not justified." And it authorizes Tanden to speak openly about the condition Biden was in.
The letter is from the White House counsel.
"In light of unique and extraordinary nature of the matters under investigation, President Trump has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the national interest and therefore is not justified, with respect to particular subjects within the purview of the House Oversight Committee. These subjects include your assessment of former President Biden's fitness for the office of the president and your knowledge of who exercised executive powers during his administration."
The letter went on, "Evidence that aides to former President Biden concealed information regarding his fitness to exercise the powers of the president – and may have unconstitutionally exercised those powers themselves to aid in their concealment – implicates both Congress' constitutional and legislative powers. The Constitution of the United States empowers Congress with the ability to remove the president under the 25th Amendment when the vice president and cabinet attempt to remove a president unable to perform the duties of the office."
The letter is from Gary Lawkowski, deputy counsel to the president.
The report explained, "This is what happens when you govern with the assumption you'll never lose power again. When Biden and his handlers started setting norms on fire, including those surrounding continuing executive privilege for past administrations, they never imagined that Trump would regain power. On the contrary, the Biden administration believed its nuking of executive privilege would not only keep Democrats in power but would also end up with Trump behind bars."
And the report noted Biden kept a "different standard" for himself. "Regarding the now-released audio of Biden being interviewed by special counsel Robert Hur, that was protected through the 2024 election by executive privilege."
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President Donald Trump expressed concern Monday over a statement by the former president of Russia who is now warning: "A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."
The comment comes from Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council.
Trump is now asking rhetorically on Truth Social: "Did I hear Former President Medvedev, from Russia, casually throwing around the 'N word' (Nuclear!), and saying that he and other Countries would supply Nuclear Warheads to Iran?
"Did he really say that or, is it just a figment of my imagination? If he did say that, and, if confirmed, please let me know, IMMEDIATELY.
"The 'N word' should not be treated so casually. I guess that's why Putin's 'THE BOSS.'"
Trump concluded his message by noting: "By the way, if anyone thinks our 'hardware' was great over the weekend, far and away the strongest and best equipment we have, 20 years advanced over the pack, is our Nuclear Submarines. They are the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built, and just launched the 30 Tomahawks – All 30 hit their mark perfectly. So, in addition to our Great Fighter Pilots, thank you to the Captain and Crew!"
As WorldNetDaily reported, in a series of Sunday posts on X, Medvedev did not specifically name the countries supposedly willing to provide nuclear weapons to Tehran, but asked rhetorically, "What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?
He then provided his answers.
"Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage."
"The enrichment of nuclear material – and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons – will continue."
"Israel is under attack, explosions are rocking the country, and people are panicking."
"The US is now entangled in a new conflict, with prospects of a ground operation looming on the horizon.
"Donald Trump, once hailed as 'president of peace,' has now pushed the US into another war.
"The vast majority of countries around the world oppose the actions of Israel and the United States.
"At this rate, Trump can forget about the Nobel Peace Prize – not even with how rigged it has become. What a way to kick things off, Mr. President. Congratulations!"
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Sunday the U.S. will suffer "everlasting consequences" as a result of its Operation Midnight Hammer.
"The United States, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has committed a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law and the NPT by attacking Iran's peaceful nuclear installations," Araghchi said.
"The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences. Each and every member of the UN must be alarmed over this extremely dangerous, lawless and criminal behavior."
"In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people."
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CNN was forced to make a major correction to its story originally claiming Democrats in Congress were not informed in advance of the U.S. military strikes Saturday against Iran's nuclear sites.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the left-leaning network had to retract its report she called "Fake News," saying Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was spoken to "before the strike," and that U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries "didn't pick up the phone."
Appearing on Fox News Monday morning, Leavitt said congressional members of both parties were informed prior to the military action.
"First of all, we did make bipartisan calls. Thomas Massie and the Democrats – he should be a Democrat because he is more aligned with them than with the Republican Party – were given notice," she began.
"The White House made calls to congressional leadership; they were bipartisan calls. In fact, Hakeem Jeffries couldn't be reached. We tried him before the strike and he didn't pick up the phone, but he was briefed after, as well as Chuck Schumer was briefed prior to the strike.
"So this notion that CNN ran with that the White House did not give a heads-up to Democrats is just completely false. In fact, both Sen. Schumer's office and CNN had to retract that story last night because it was a blatant lie, and we showed them the time stamps from those phone calls."
CNN posted a correction to its online story by Sarah Ferris and Morgan Rimmer, stating: "Correction: This story has been updated to make clear Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was called before the strike, not after as initially reported."
The network noted: "People familiar with the matter initially told CNN that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries received notifications shortly before the public announcement – and after the attack itself.
"But after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt disputed that account, a source conceded that Schumer had been called around 6 p.m. – a little less than an hour before the strikes began – with little detail. He was told of imminent military action without naming the country in which the action was to take place, the source said."
As WorldNetDaily reported, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, also fumed that President Trump didn't "holla" at her to ask her permission to strike Iran.
