Hannity: Iran Deal Will Be Great Because Of Se''t Know About Yet Don't Know About Yet

Ben Shapiro joined Fox News today and said the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) does not achieve any of the actual goals put forth by Trump after attacking Iran, and instead blamed JD Vance for not serving him well.

Let the gaslighting begin.

On a whim, and not wanting to give up the world spotlight, Trump was easily persuaded, refusing to listen to cooler heads and joined Bibi Netanyahu to attack Iran. Like his illegal tariffs and violent ICE raids, it blew up in his face very quickly.

Wanting to get out of it, Trump sent unqualified supporters like Vance, Kushner, and Witkoff to negotiate.

How did that work out?

According to Ben Shapiro, not well.

SHAPIRO: Well, I've said many times the president deciding to go into Iran and to hit nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer and then to go after Iran's ballistic missile facilities, nuclear facilities, Army, Navy and Air Force in this current operation was the signal act of political bravery, perhaps of my lifetime.

With that said, this M. O. U. appears to be just from the text a disaster that does not achieve any of the actual signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning.

There were effectively five goals that were set by the administration at the beginning. One was ending the nuclear program, not just nuclear weapons, no nuclear enrichment, zero enrichment.

That is not in the deal.

Ballistic missiles ended.

That is not in the deal.

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World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.

French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

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J.D. Vance Goes On The View To Try To Make People Like Him

Via Rolling Stone, J.D. Vance is watching his future political prospects dim as he continues to stand by The Trump. A disastrous foray into Iran, an economy in turmoil, an administration riddled with the kind of corruption that will rebound for decades in court cases and investigations. Faced with the prospect of becoming even more entrenched as an avatar for the failures and broken promises of Trump’s second presidency, Vance is embarking on a media tour to try to remind people that they supposedly liked him at some point, starting with an appearance on The View. (When was that?)

The ladies of The View have long been some of the favorite foils of Trumpland, and it turns out the hosts of ABC’s flagship talk show came prepared to spar. Vance seemed unprepared to actually defend the actions of the administration in which he serves.

The hosts repeatedly questioned the vice president about Trump failing to follow through on his campaign promises — on everything from the economy to the Epstein files — instead focusing on his own self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement.

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Trump Casually Dismisses Iran's Enriched Material After All The Buildup

During a presser with the media at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Trump claimed that after bombing an Iranian mountain, it may not be worth finding the leftover enriched uranium "because it's not really valuable."

Enriched uranium is the main ingredient to produce a nuclear weapon, and there is no such thing as worthless enriched uranium.

Trump attacked Iran over enriched uranium, for fuck's sake.

Trump keeps using an analogy called "nuclear dust" after he bombs what they claim is a nuclear facility, but that is a ridiculous comparison.

"Nuclear dust" is fallout from a nuclear explosion or radioactive material after a nuclear disaster. Not whatever this moronic president pretends it is.

"My second term, we sent in the B-2 bombers, and we terminated their – I call it the nuclear dust – their enriched material, right?" Trump said. "And totally effectively."

Huh?

TRUMP: So the Atomic Energy just reported that it was one of the most devastating bombings that they've ever seen.

The whole mountain collapsed on top of it.

And frankly, to go get it – we're going to go get it – but to go get it is a big deal because they say only China and us have the equipment where you can even get – the whole mountain has collapsed on top.

We have cameras on it.

You could make the case why you're even bothering, because it's not really valuable.

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Trump 'Furious' Over Possible Leak Of Epstein Situation Room Tapes

Trump aides are freaking out that recordings of Situation Room meetings about the Epstein files made their way to New York Times reporters. Rep. Ro Khanna joined Chris Hayes to discuss the Axios report, which claims that Donald Trump "is furious about the blow-by-blow accounts."

Senior White House officials suspect that Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan got their hands on audio recordings from Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book, Regime Change — a potential breach that has the administration rattled, according to Axios.

Recording devices are strictly prohibited in the Sit Room, making this, if true, an extraordinary security violation.

"We're afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded," one administration source said. "And we have no idea which ones."

The suspicion stems from the almost verbatim dialogue that appeared in early excerpts covering the Iran war and the Epstein files, published ahead of the book's June 23 release. The authors drew on more than 1,000 interviews for the project, which chronicles Trump's second term.

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Classic: Hegseth Claims Victory, Then Brennan Drops The Reality Check

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a minute from doing his prancing Pete tippy toe dance, to strut onto CBS's Face the Nation Sunday to deliver what he clearly believed was a devastating flex — the U.S. has totally, completely, absolutely controlled the Strait of Hormuz this entire time, zero Iranian ships, boom, mic drop.

Host Margaret Brennan then gently inquired why, if all that's true, we're negotiating with Iran to reopen it. Hegseth did not have a great answer for that. If you're an oldster like me, you remember the lies that got us into previous wars, but this administration is really bad at it.

"By the way, I think your viewers need to remember, Project Freedom never stopped, and we've run 125 million barrels of oil through the straits, and Iran couldn't do anything about it," Hegseth said. "How many ships from Iran have transited our blockade?"

"Zero," he continued. "Zero."

Here it comes.

"We have controlled the straits this entire time," he insisted.

"You're going to negotiate with them to reopen it," Brennan corrected him.

Jinkies, I don't know, guys, but it seems to me that if you need negotiations to reopen any fucking thing, then you probably weren’t controlling it. Still, Hegseth is saying "Mission Accomplished" while they're still negotiating.

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UK may ban social media for children under 16

The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.

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