The King is coming. Don't mention the war! Trump is famous for turning any occasion into a chance to put guests on the spot. Can he refrain from a dig at Sir Keir Starmer in front of King Charles?

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The King is coming. Don't mention the war! Trump is famous for turning any occasion into a chance to put guests on the spot. Can he refrain from a dig at Sir Keir Starmer in front of King Charles?

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SECRETS is out: How the Brits are messaging the King's visit at a time of erm fraught relations... PLUS why hasn't the DoorDash PR guy learned to tune out social media nonsense? link in thread

SECRETS is on its way. Today: Don't mention the WAR! Why King Charles III is only spending one full day in DC during his State Visit. Plus how staged does a photo op have to be before it's fake news. And could Vance be running???

Persian restaurants go quiet as Iran regime change hopes fade As many as 30,000 members of the Iranian diaspora live in Virginia. McLean has a cluster of restaurants, bakeries and grocery stores.

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SECRETS is out! Read the latest on what Iranian-Americans think of peace talks and the Republican lawmaker spotted at a Creed gig. Link in thread

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

SECRETS is on its way: Why have these Virginia restaurants gone quiet? More on Vance's six red lines. And who was the Republican lawmaker who got a Creed shoutout on Sunday night?

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It is a choice for Trump to allow Netanyahu to continue prosecuting the Israeli war in Lebanon. Ultimately, that may be the undoing of the ceasefire he thought he had agreed to. If so, it’s another moment of political peril for Israel as it will be seen by many as undercutting U.S. interests.

Coming in SECRETS today: How Pakistan got the Iran deal done. According to my sources close to the talks: Islamabad had the trust of Iran, could use Chinese leverage, and CRUCIALLY “they know how to play Trump.”

SECRETS is dropping soon - Who was the British VIP having dinner at Mar-a-Lago last weekend?

Polymarket's 'Situation Room': News for online generation or infotainment scam? The Polymarket "Situation Room" was meant to be the ultimate nerd’s fantasy. But instead, the first night ended up being a party without any TVs.

SECRETS is out: What Polymarket's Situation Room is really all about, the Sarah Sanders joke that was so good we had it twice, and how the Brit PM is managing Trump
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Why Republicans are hoping for midterm help from a star-spangled summer Republicans need all the help they can get to stave off defeat in the midterm elections. They hope America 250 and the World Cup will do just that.

SECRETS is out. Why Republicans hope a the 250th celebrations and the World Cup will help them in the midterms; No bloomin way - an update on relations with Japan. And why Polymarket finds itself in a bit of a SITUATION
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Trump is asked why he didn't tell allies like Japan about plans to attack Iran.
"Who knows better about surprise in Japan?" he says sitting next to Japanese PM.
"Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

Coming today in SECRETS: Why Republicans are hoping for midterm help from a Star Spangled summer - and how Japan's Iron Lady can't even get Mother Nature to help her out during DC visit

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He war gamed an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This is how it's going The creator of a 2007 war game with eery similarities to what is happening now with Iran says it would have been nice if they had been run more recently.

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When economists gamed out what would happen if Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz to oil traffic, the results were disastrous for the US economy. Bill Beach talks us an uncannily prescient exercise which has become his personal groundhog day 2/x

SECRETS is out: The man who war gamed conflict with Iran, why Rubio is surging in the betting markets (and has fallen back again) and Ambassador Farage 1/x

Have you seen these people? One of them may be your next president A new poll suggests that Josh Shapiro has a problem if he runs for president in 2028: Only 17% of voters recognize him from his photograph.

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A third couldn't recognize JD Vance, who happens to be US VICE PRESIDENT, from his photo. Who did they recognise from their photos in our poll of 1000 voters?
Harris 81%
Vance 66%
Rubio 44%
AOC 43%
Newsom 41%
Cruz 40%
DeSantis 30%
Shapiro 17%

SECRETS is out. Have you seen these people? Wanted for president in 2028.

With polling on whether voters even recognize the contenders (they do not much). 1/3

UK Conservatives fight for GOP ties while squeezed by the populist Right Priti Patel was in Washington to lobby U.S. officials to prevent London from giving away the Chagos Islands — home to an American naval base.

Secrets is out. Who are the Voldemorts that Brit shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel dare not name? And why was Nigel Farage really in Florida ... ??
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MAGAworld asks 'what would Charlie Kirk do?' amid Iran conflict Opponents of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran have shared old clips of Charlie Kirk ridiculing the idea of a regime change war.

SECRETS is out: We ask, what would Charlie want? And take a look at how Trump is ignoring the fringe broadcasters who propelled him to power now he is WAR PRESIDENT. Plus have you ever been rescued from a war zone by a Trump ally?

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SECRETS is out! And we hear from Ross Worthington, Trump's speechwriter who generally stays in the shadows. But read him in his own words on his method, his double-blind fact checking, and whether he watches POTUS rehearse ... 1/2

White House report card: Trump makes it too easy for his critics with Obamas video Our pollsters this week both cited the ongoing fallout from Trump's repost of a racist video depicting the Obamas as apes and how it continues to hurt him.

SECRETS is out. White House report card: Our experts agree (do they? maybe, just about...) that the Obamas apes video just makes it too easy for Trump's critics

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