Eight Weeks In, Trump May Be Headed Toward An Iran Deal Similar To Obama’s Sanctions relief in return for a moratorium on nuclear fuel enrichment is the exact arrangement that Trump and many Republicans criticized for years.

NEW -- Eight weeks into a "four to five" week war, Trump seems headed toward a deal that could look a lot like the one he has spent 11 years vilifying.

He also appears to be having difficulty keeping tabs on the actual goings on in his own war.

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DeSantis Forging Ahead To Redraw Florida’s Map, Whether GOP Incumbents Like It Or Not With Democratic wins in special elections, Republican House members are nervous about weakening their districts to try to win more seats. The governor doesn’t seem to care.

NEW -- Florida Republicans are more than a bit nervous that Ron DeSantis' plan to squeeze some more GOP House seats out of the state could end up backfiring, given the political climate.

Sadly for them, DeSantis doesn't care what they think.

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Trump Keeps Lying That He Gave Americans A Big Tax Cut When Most Got One In The Hundreds And among the minority who received a larger break, most of the money flowed to already well-off households.

STILL NEW -- Was your tax refund only a couple of hundred dollars more than last year's and you're wondering what all this talk of "thousands" more in refund checks is about?

Don't worry. You're not alone. Trump is lying.

Only select groups got big $$$.

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Trump Keeps Lying That He Gave Americans A Big Tax Cut When Most Got One In The Hundreds And among the minority who received a larger break, most of the money flowed to already well-off households.

NEW -- Donald Trump went to Las Vegas.

You'll never guess what he did there!

(Actually, I'm confident you will.)

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Trump To Brag About His Tax Cuts, Which Are Way Smaller Than His Tariff Tax Increases Trump increased import taxes by $200 billion in 2025 — most of them illegally — some $70 billion more than his tax cuts.

NEW -- The vast majority of Americans got a tax cut of just a few hundred dollars -- way less than the $1,000 per household tax increase they paid via tariffs last year.

Only those in targeted groups got cuts worth "thousands."

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Trump Could Learn A Lesson From Orbán’s Trouncing In Hungary But Probably Won’t Trump, since returning to office, has followed Orbán’s autocratic playbook – the same playbook that led to a landslide loss for the 16-year incumbent Sunday.

NEW -- Trump followed Orban's autocrat playbook closely since returning to office last year, from attacking the judiciary and universities and the news media to the corruption and the Christian nationalism.

Will he learn something from Orban's drubbing?
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Affordability Could Sink A Major Trump Ally In Europe Trump has endorsed Viktor Orbán and even sent his vice president to campaign for him ahead of Sunday’s election. It may not be enough.

NEW -- Trump wants his autocratic, corrupt Hungarian role model to stay in power so badly he's endorsed him repeatedly and last week even sent Vance to campaign for him.

Friday, he even offered Hungarian voters lots of foreign aid -- IF they re-elect him.
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Trump Is Claiming Victory, Even As What Exactly America Won Remains Unclear Iran’s enriched uranium remains in Iran. A formerly free passage through the Strait of Hormuz is now and may remain a toll route. What did we win again?

NEW -- Iran's repressive theocracy is still in charge. They're making much more money selling their oil. They're even charging a toll for ships transiting Hormuz, which they were not before.

So ... what did America win again?

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Trump’s Iran Escalation Would Spike Death And Chaos Across The Mideast If the level of destruction in the Persian Gulf and gas prices here at home aren’t high enough for you yet, just give it a few days.

NEW — If the level of destruction in the Persian Gulf and gas prices here at home aren’t high enough for you yet, just give it a few days.

Trump has promised to commit major crimes against Iran unless they meet his demands. Which he will not articulate.

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Trump’s Iran War Gets Messier After U.S. Fighter Jet Is Shot Down The president was already in a quandary about how to get out of the war before the lives of two F-15 crew members were endangered.

NEW -- As of right now, there is still a downed Air Force crew member in Iran.

Maybe now people can understand why it's better to avoid saying idiotic war crimey things like "no quarter" and bomb them "to the stone ages?"

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Pam Bondi Didn't Ruin The Justice Department Fast Enough For Donald Trump Don't expect the president to give up his thirst for revenge.

NEW -- Apparently Pam Bondi wasn't turning the DOJ into Donald Trump's personal attack dog law firm fast enough.

Her immediate replacement is also his personal criminal defense lawyer, so look for a picked-up pace on weaponized prosecutions.

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Trump Offers No Timeline Or Path Forward In Meandering Iran War Address The president also again lashed out at NATO, even though it is a defensive alliance and not obligated to join in a member’s war of choice and aggression.

NEW — Actually there was nothing “new” in this speech, least of all a plan to end his war without Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Oh, but he did re-up his threat to do war crimes.

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Pottery Barn Rule Out, Trump’s ‘I Broke It, You Fix It’ Rule In Two decades after Colin Powell asserted a moral responsibility for starting a Mideast war, Donald Trump declares it’s someone else’s problem.

NEW -- Remember Colin Powell's "You break it, you own it" rule about invading Iraq?

Donald Trump has replaced that with a "I broke it, you fix it" motto for Iran.

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Trump Continues Threatening War Crimes If Iran Doesn’t Capitulate ‘Immediately’ Destroying a country’s electrical grid, its water system and stealing its oil all violate international law, and Trump says he will do them all.

NEW -- Destroying Iran's electricity infratrastructure. Its drinking water plants. Confiscating its oil.

All are war crimes. All are things Trump is threatening to do, yet again.

Just another day that ends in "y."

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What the WH said Trump would be doing this morning

vs

What he is actually doing

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Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 million This is Trump's 56th visit to his course in West Palm Beach and 110th golf day in just over 14 months in office, keeping him on track to spend $300 million on golf.

NEW -- Is DOGE still around?

Because Donald Trump's golf hobby has now cost us $101.2 million in just 14 months back in office.

That's correct. US soldiers are suffering brain injuries in the Middle East, gas prices are spiking, all while Trump golfs.

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Trump Trots Out Wildly Contradictory Iran War Claims — And Says He Doesn't Care If There's A Peace Deal A month into his air attacks on Iran and with ground troops en route, Trump continues attacking allies while enriching the purported enemy with billions.

NEW -- NATO needs to help open the Strait of Hormuz, but it doesn’t matter if they don’t. The war is already “won,” but thousands of troops are on the way there. If there's a peace deal soon, great, but if there isn’t, that’s great, too.

Alrighty then.

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Democrats See Hope In Numbers Beneath Florida Special Election Wins Two winning Democrats earned far more votes than the number of Dems who turned out, meaning they won over many independents and Republicans.

NEW -- The surprise winners in Florida's special elections got thousands of more votes than there were Democrats who cast ballots.

Meaning they pulled from independents and even Republicans. Democrats everywhere are taking note.

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As Trump’s Iran War Stretches Toward A Month, Rubio And Vance Remain Curiously Quiet The potential 2028 presidential aspirants have publicly supported Trump’s decision to launch a major war, but in recent weeks have been less visible.

NEW -- Trump's war against Iran is going on four weeks now, inflation is heading back up, gas prices are up more than a dollar a gallon and suddenly two guys who might both want to run for the White House in 2028 are nowhere to be seen.

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Democrats Flip Florida Statehouse Seat That Includes Trump's Mar-A-Lago The party's run of success in special elections across the country over the past year continues even in Republican dominated Florida.

NEW -- Trump tweeted his endorsement for the Republican running for the statehouse seat representing his Mar-a-Lago home IN ALL CAPITALS yesterday.

Dems won it today anyway.

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Trump Keeps Press Away From Dignified Transfer But Posts Pics On Social Media No baseball cap this time, though.

NEW -- Hours after barring news media from witnessing the return of six service members killed in Trump’s Iran war, his White House posted images from the service on social media, including several showing the transfer case of at least one of the bodies.
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Trump Finds Outs That After Insulting Allies Forever, They Don't Feel Like Helping Him The president is again threatening to wreck the NATO alliance if members don’t help with Iran, even though the treaty is for mutual defense, not offense.

NEW -- Trump has insulted and berated our NATO allies for years, proclaimed repeatedly that one of them should be the 51st state, talked about attacking another to seize its territory, and suddenly they don't want to help him out of his mess.

Weird, right?

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Trump’s Pick To Represent Him In Florida Statehouse Doesn’t Even Live In The District Trump already endorsed the Republican running in the coming special election, even though his home is not in the district and he is registered to vote at a motel a half hour away.

NEW -- There are thousands of Republicans who live in the Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago.

Trump picked one who does not , and who changed his voter registration to a cheap motel a half hour from his home to be able to vote for himself.

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Secretary Of Defense Hegseth Casually Promises Iranians ‘No Quarter’ – A War Crime The term is defined as refusing to spare surrendering troops and killing them instead, a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.

NEW -- This kind of slipped under the radar this morning, but our secretary of defense casually threatened Iranians with "no quarter."

Those words mean a specific thing, and that thing is a war crime.

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Hegseth Claims Strait Of Hormuz 'Is Open' And Doesn't 'Worry' About It In a particularly unhinged appearance, the former Fox News host said the strait was open but that Iran kept attacking shipping, and there was no need to worry about it.

NEW -- In a particularly unhinged performance, the defense secretary and former Fox News weekend host says he doesn't "worry" about the Strait of Hormuz, that it is "open" except for all the shooting by Iran, and that David Ellison should take over CNN.
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Trump Generating His Own Fog Of Disinformation About Iran War George W. Bush’s false claims about Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” generated scandal. Trump’s open lies about his war with Iran are barely generating a shrug.

NEW -- Remember Joe Isuzu? The ridiculous pathological liar in the commercials?

Would we have ever put him in charge of the military and let him start wars whenever he wanted?

Well, we pretty much did.

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Trump’s War On Iran Will End When He Declares Victory – The Only Question Is When Economists warn that even if that happens quickly, the damage to the American businesses and consumers could last months, years or even indefinitely.

NEW -- Trump could declare victory and bring our aircraft carriers home tomorrow or next week.

But the chaos and high oil prices he's caused with his war on Iran? Those consequences will be with us for much, much longer.

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U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

NEW -- The Geneva Conventions state clearly that after a naval battle, all parties are supposed to take "all possible measures" to rescue survivors from the water.

Our sub that sank that Iranian frigate Wednesday took no possible measures.

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Trump’s Choice To Attack Iran Creating Worldwide Chaos Just Days In From tanking stocks to spiking oil prices to tens of thousands of Americans stranded overseas with no easy way home, the president has unleashed a global mess.

NEW -- Remember in Trump's war video where he warned about the chaos that attacking Iran would unleash, the tanking stock market, the spiking gas prices, the tens of thousands of Americans stranded overseas...

Oh, he forgot to mention that part?
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Why Is Trump Attacking Iran? He's Still Figuring It Out. The president has a offered a series of rationales for the air war, including some that contradict each other.

NEW -- Why is Trump attacking Iran?

It's their nuclear program, which needs to be re-obliterated after getting obliterated just 8 months ago.

It's to free Iranians.

It's to replace their autocrat with a different autocrat.

Call it a work in progress.

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