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ZeroHedge: Kent Tells Tucker: ‘Imminent Threat’ Was From Israel, Not Iran; Ordered To Halt Charlie Kirk Investigation

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Kent Tells Tucker: ‘Imminent Threat’ Was From Israel, Not Iran; Ordered To Halt Charlie Kirk Investigation

Joe Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center who was President Trump’s principal counterterrorism advisor, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to explain his side of the story after stepping down from the administration.

Kent announced his resignation Tuesday, citing his opposition to the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, and his belief that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to America – while asserting in his resignation letter that his wife died in “a war manufactured by Israel” in a 2019 suicide bombing in Manjbi, Syria.

In this first public interview since resigning, Kent elaborated on his reasons amid reports emerging Wednesday that the FBI is investigating him for allegedly leaking or improperly sharing classified information (a probe that sources say predates his resignation and is being handled by the FBI’s Criminal Division, per several outlets).

Early on in the interview, Carlson referenced Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s justification for the strikes – that Iran posed an imminent threat because Israel was preparing to attack Iranian targets, likely prompting Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces. Carlson reframed it bluntly:

Carlson: “So, the imminent threat that the secretary of state is describing is not from Iran. It’s from Israel.”

Kent: “Exactly. And I think this speaks to the broader issue: who is in charge of our policy in the Middle East?”

Kent elaborated that Israel was preparing to strike, which would trigger retaliation endangering U.S. personnel – creating the cited “imminent” risk. He stated:

Kent: “The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which we knew would set off a series of events because the Iranians would retaliate.”

Kent insisted there was zero U.S. intelligence of Iran planning a direct attack, nearing a nuclear weapon, or posing an immediate homeland threat. He cited Iran’s religious fatwa against nuclear weapons (since 2004) and said the assassinated Supreme Leader Khamenei had moderated the program:

Kent: “There was no intelligence that said, hey… the Iranians are going to launch this big sneak attack… There was none of that intelligence.” On nukes: “No, they weren’t [on the verge of a bomb]. They weren’t in June either. The Iranians have had a fatwa – a religious ruling – against the development of a nuclear weapon since 2004… We had no intelligence that it was being disobeyed.”

Internal Dissent Suppressed

Kent described how dissenting views were sidelined in the lead-up to strikes. Key officials, including himself, were reportedly barred from direct briefings with Trump. He said he spoke personally with the president before resigning – a conversation he described as “very respectful” – but felt staying would mean silencing his warnings.

“A good deal of key decision-makers were not allowed to come and express their opinion to the president,” Kent said, adding “There wasn’t a robust debate.”

The Charlie Kirk Assassination and Blocked Investigation

In an emotionally charged segment, Kent discussed the September 2025 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, whom he knew personally. Kent recounted Kirk’s last words to him in the West Wing in June:

Kent (recalling Kirk): “Joe, stop us from getting into a war with Iran.”

Kent said Kirk had opposed escalation and faced pressure from pro-Israel donors. He revealed the NCTC had leads on potential foreign involvement but was ordered to halt:

Kent: “The investigation that the National Counterterrorism Center was a part of, we were stopped from continuing to investigate… There was still a lot for us to look into… there were still linkages for us to investigate that we needed to run down.”

The official narrative focused on lone gunman Ryan Robinson, but Kent insisted unresolved questions remained.

Other Notable Revelations

Kent spent significant time discussing his own warnings from a January 2024 appearance on Carlson’s show, where he had predicted a U.S. war with Iran would become “very bloody very quickly,” rally the Iranian people around the regime, activate deadly proxy networks across the region (Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis), overstretch American military and economic resources amid other global commitments, and ultimately hand strategic victories to China. He stated that those predictions had proven prescient, as Tehran’s proxies were already conducting attacks and that the conflict was draining U.S. attention and treasure at precisely the wrong moment.

A major theme was the strategic windfall for China. Kent warned that deep U.S. entanglement in Iran would play directly into Beijing’s hands:

Kent: “If we get deeply involved and deeply entangled with Iran, we are playing right into China’s hands, because China would like nothing more than for us to be committing our military industrial base to a war in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, and then to be committing our conventional military power, our blood, and our treasure back in the Middle East. That will make the Pacific, our actual border, extremely vulnerable to Chinese aggression, or China will simply just watch us bleed out economically as we bleed out on the battlefield on these couple different theaters.”

He described China as “sitting on the sidelines… silently nodding along with a slowly spreading grin,” benefiting from America’s distraction and resource depletion without firing a shot.

Kent also offered a detailed explanation of Iran’s nuclear calculus, describing Tehran’s strategy as “actually pretty pragmatic.” He pointed to the cautionary tale of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi:

Kent: “The Iranian strategy, it’s actually pretty pragmatic … because they saw what happened to Gaddafi in Libya when he said ‘I’ll give up my nukes.’”

Kent argued that the regime views nuclear weapons as an insurance policy against regime change, and that the current war – rather than deterring them – would likely empower hardliners in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) while rallying the broader Iranian population behind the government. He noted that the assassinated Supreme Leader Khamenei had been a moderating influence and that his successor could prove far more radical.

On the declassification of sensitive historical files, Kent addressed Trump’s orders to release documents related to the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations (as well as Epstein files). He said no “earth-shattering” revelations were expected, but that the bureaucracy was deliberately slow-walking the process:

Joe Kent (on the files): “The same government that told us a magic bullet killed JFK… bureaucracy slows declassification deliberately.”

Kent suggested that full transparency would never occur without sustained pressure from the top.

Full interview here:

It’s Official: Brussels Is Interfering in Hungary’s Election — Backing Péter Magyar

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Engineering the Narrative: Polls, Pressure, and Preemptive Framing

Another small yet important instrument in this machinery is the wave of heavily promoted public opinion polls gaining traction in the international press, showing a significant lead for Péter Magyar. The institutes publishing the most striking figures—Republikon Institute and 21 Research Center—operate within a funding environment linked to European institutional sources and networks associated with George Soros. These are facts.

Polling is a legitimate component of democratic politics. However, in an externally financed research environment, prominently communicated figures often appear with the intent of shaping what is considered a “likely” or “legitimate” electoral outcome according to their own preferences. Through their framing, they subtly prepare the ground for the notion that any result contradicting their projections is implausible—after all, “the polls” say otherwise.

It’s Official: Brussels Is Interfering in Hungary’s Election — Backing Péter Magyar

As the U.S. House Judiciary Committee warned, the European Commission uses the Digital Services Act to shape elections—and has now activated its “rapid response” system around Hungary’s vote.

Balázs Orbán
There is no surprise here. As early as February, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee warned that the European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, is using the Digital Services Act (DSA) to shape the outcomes of elections in EU member states according to its own political preferences. Now, Brussels itself has effectively acknowledged that this is precisely what it is doing in Hungary’s parliamentary elections: tilting the digital public sphere in favor of opposition leader Péter Magyar—who enjoys support from Brussels and Kyiv—just weeks before voters head to the polls.

Attention was drawn to this development by Australian influencer Mario Nawfal, who is set to visit Budapest for CPAC Hungary. He noted that on Monday, a spokesperson for the European Commission admitted the activation of a “rapid response” system, granting EU-funded fact-checking networks and NGOs meaningful influence over Hungary’s online discourse.

Several concrete developments illustrate how a Brussels–Kyiv–Magyar-aligned narrative space is being constructed in the shadow of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s open threats and Ukraine’s blockade of the Druzhba oil pipeline.

The objective is clear. There is a single serious obstacle preventing Brussels and Kyiv from advancing their pro-war agenda without resistance: Hungary’s patriotic government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

· a government that rejects pro-war policies and consistently stands on the side of peace,

· refuses to make Hungarian families pay the price of war,

· and says no to new taxes and austerity.

For this reason, the goal of the Brussels elite is unmistakable: regime change in Budapest. The aim is to install a Brussels- and Ukraine-aligned government that will execute directives without question—whether on migration, gender policy, war, tax increases, or austerity measures.

And the work has already begun. As Mario Nawfal recently reported, Facebook has visibly restricted the reach of posts by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Meanwhile, Péter Magyar, leader of the Tisza Party, is generating disproportionately high engagement figures—exceptional even by global standards—despite operating in a smaller, linguistically limited environment.

Moreover, rather than using an official political page, he operates through a “professional mode” personal profile, which may allow him to bypass restrictions on political content under Meta’s policies.

Nawfal also pointed out that a regional Meta executive has publicly aligned with mainstream Brussels positions, including pro-Ukraine messaging and criticism of the Hungarian government. According to Philip Pilkington and Joey Mannarino, this individual is likely Oskar Braszczyński, whose Facebook profile features visual elements associated with pro-Ukraine and anti-Orbán symbolism—as well as imagery opposing Poland’s conservative Law and Justice party (PiS). Here he is:

Engineering the Narrative: Polls, Pressure, and Preemptive Framing

Another small yet important instrument in this machinery is the wave of heavily promoted public opinion polls gaining traction in the international press, showing a significant lead for Péter Magyar. The institutes publishing the most striking figures—Republikon Institute and 21 Research Center—operate within a funding environment linked to European institutional sources and networks associated with George Soros. These are facts.

Polling is a legitimate component of democratic politics. However, in an externally financed research environment, prominently communicated figures often appear with the intent of shaping what is considered a “likely” or “legitimate” electoral outcome according to their own preferences. Through their framing, they subtly prepare the ground for the notion that any result contradicting their projections is implausible—after all, “the polls” say otherwise.

Following the release of the Judiciary Committee’s report, many in the United States voiced concern about electoral interference in Europe, censorship mechanisms operated by EU institutions, and the global risks they may pose.

Recent developments concerning Hungary only reinforce these warnings.

At the same time, a “crisis scenario” is taking shape—one that preemptively invokes accusations of “Russian interference” to frame the outcome in the event that Péter Magyar fails to deliver the result expected by Brussels and Kyiv. This narrative has already been used to justify activating the DSA machinery and “anti-disinformation” cooperation just weeks before the election—effectively allowing Brussels to legitimize its intervention based on its own constructed claims.

According to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, the European Commission has already applied digital censorship as a form of electoral intervention in the Netherlands, Romania, and Slovakia—across eight elections in six European countries.

For this reason, there is little basis to assume that similar measures were not planned ahead of Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary elections.

And why is all of this necessary?

Because last weekend’s Peace March—the largest of its kind to date—made it unmistakably clear that the pro-peace majority in Hungary is beyond dispute.

Despite threats and pressure, approximately 180,000 people took to the streets to send a clear message: Hungary will not back down.

The sheer size of the crowd came as a surprise not only to Péter Magyar himself, but also to Brussels and Kyiv, which had expected supporters of the Tisza Party to outnumber them.

On March 15, numerous well-known public figures and hundreds of thousands of citizens stood with the national side, marching peacefully through the streets of Budapest, while support in the countryside remains overwhelmingly strong. The “silent majority” now appears stronger than the vocal minority.

According to mobile cell-based data from the Hungarian Tourism Agency, the opposition’s event drew approximately 150,000 participants—while the national side also demonstrated substantial mobilization in Budapest, alongside its well-established strength across the country.

Growing National Unity in the Face of Kyiv and Brussels Pressure

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has carried forward the momentum of last weekend’s Peace March throughout the week, visiting several major cities across the country—with more to come. The campaign has clearly moved beyond Budapest and continues to build nationwide. This week, the prime minister visited three key regional cities before traveling to Brussels today for the EU summit.

The experience has been consistent everywhere: Hungarians are deeply outraged that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has, for weeks, been blocking the Druzhba pipeline—critical to Hungary’s energy supply—while also issuing direct threats against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Public sentiment is increasingly defined by resistance to pressure coming from Kyiv and Brussels.

It is no coincidence that national unity is strengthening. More than 1.5 million people have already returned the National Consultation survey. According to research by the Nézőpont Institute, a decisive majority of Hungarians support the prime minister and reject the Ukrainian president’s threats: 79 percent of respondents consider them unacceptable. Among Fidesz voters, this position is nearly unanimous, but even within the opposition camp, those rejecting such threats are in the majority.

The situation is further aggravated by the fact that these threats are not isolated. Similar statements have been made in succession from Ukrainian political, military, and intelligence circles—clearly serving as instruments of pressure.

In this context, Hungary’s position is clear: the government will yield neither to blackmail nor to external pressure. This is the stance the prime minister represents at today’s European Union summit, where—true to form—Hungary’s national interests will come first.

NYTimes: AIPAC got its first big victories of 2026 — and a tough loss.

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Stratton Wins and AIPAC’s Power Is Tested: 4 Illinois Takeaways

Democratic voters put Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on a path to the Senate, while the pro-Israel lobby notched its first major victories of the year but also faced a tough defeat.

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No group dominated the political conversation before the Illinois primaries more than AIPAC.

The pro-Israel lobby disguised some of its spending through new super PACs with innocuous and unrelated names — Elect Chicago Women and Chicago Progressive Partnership — and acknowledged its quasi-hidden hand only after the results were in.

All told, AIPAC-linked groups spent roughly $20 million in four House races, winning two and losing two.

AIPAC found success supporting Melissa Bean, a moderate former House member who won a primary against Junaid Ahmed, a progressive challenger, and it also backed Donna Miller, a Cook County commissioner who prevailed in a different district. Super PACs tied to AIPAC spent $8.4 million combined on those races.

But believe it or not, AIPAC-linked groups spent even more in the races they lost, laying out the most money in Illinois’s Ninth District.

In that race, the groups spent $4.4 million to support Laura Fine, a state senator, who finished in third place. They also spent $1.4 million opposing Daniel Biss, the Evanston mayor, and $1.2 million opposing a third candidate, Kat Abughazaleh, an outspoken Israel critic. One of the AIPAC-linked groups even made a last-minute gambit to promote a fourth candidate, Bushra Amiwala, who the group said after the election was “anti-Israel,” seemingly to siphon votes from Ms. Abughazaleh.

Mr. Biss won, and addressed AIPAC directly in his victory speech. “The Ninth District is not for sale,” he said.

And in the Seventh District, AIPAC’s main super PAC spent $5 million supporting Melissa Conyears-Ervin, the city treasurer of Chicago, who lost to La Shawn K. Ford, a state representative.

The Illinois elections were especially freighted for AIPAC after the group face-planted in a New Jersey special election last month, spending heavily to stop a moderate former congressman from winning and instead winding up with a pro-Palestinian progressive nominee, Analilia Mejia.

Zaka Tel Aviv on the Haifa refinery attack

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ZAKA Tel-Aviv

This afternoon, an Iranian ballistic missile struck the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, Israel’s largest fuel processing facility, responsible for producing half of the nation’s domestic fuel supply. Power was knocked out across parts of the north as smoke rose over the city. In the same wave of attacks, four Israelis were killed by a Hezbollah rocket strike in Kiryat Shmona. May their memory be a blessing.

Last night, air raid sirens sounded six separate times across northern and central Israel, sending millions of civilians scrambling to shelters in the dark. The barrage came from multiple fronts simultaneously — Iranian ballistic missiles from the east and Hezbollah rockets from the north — stretching Israel’s air defenses and emergency responders to their absolute breaking point.

Zaka Tel-Aviv volunteers are deployed across multiple impact zones. Our teams are working shoulder-to-shoulder with the IDF and Israel Police, navigating active strike areas to treat the wounded and perform the sacred, heartbreaking work of recovering and identifying those who could not be saved. With attacks now targeting critical infrastructure alongside civilian areas, the scenes our volunteers are walking into are more complex and more dangerous than anything we have faced before.

Mark Wauck: Pathetic Trump Blows Up World, Pretends He’s In Control

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Pathetic: Trump Blows Up World, Pretends He’s In Control

Let’s start with the legal principle that a person is legally responsible for the reasonably foreseeable consequences of his actions. Well Will Schryver is taking a well earned victory lap this morning—harking back to 2024:

Will Schryver @imetatronink

 Pick Your Poison

Those who believe Trump is an “antiwar” candidate have conveniently forgotten what happened during his first administration:

– the arming and training of #TheMotherOfAllProxyArmies in Ukraine was expanded and accelerated;

– several covert US bases and bioweapons labs were built in Ukraine;

– massive US missile strikes were launched against Syria;

– Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was assassinated by a drone strike in Baghdad.

  • A second Trump presidency is certain to be AT LEAST as geopolitically and militarily reckless as the first. I am convinced the US will blunder into a military disaster and suffer a shocking defeat.

Of course, a Kamala Harris presidency will lead to the same outcome.

So … pick your poison. 

5:52 PM · Nov 2, 2024

Yeah, so, as if things weren’t bad enough already, Trump blew up the world yesterday by attacking Iran’s South Pars natural gas field—the biggest in the world. That was a massive escalation of the Jewish Nationalist war on the world, but because Trump is nominally POTUS it’s on him. In what alternative world would Iran not escalate in its own turn? Because all people able to find their own ass using both hands knew what would happen in THIS world. I think what Luke means to say here is that Iran has violated the western narrative: this will all be over soon and the world will return to normal. In your dreams.

Luke Gromen @LukeGromen

15h

Very important western narrative violation 

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Andreas Steno Larsen @AndreasSteno

17h

Iran is firing MORE and they are hitting MORE per shot than during the first days of the conflict.

Not good..

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Oh my, Trump has even lost The Economist:

“Although President Donald Trump says he has ‘destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability’, the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy.”

-The Economist

Now Trump is, predictably, pretending to be POTUS instead of the Anglo-Zionist lackey everyone knows him to be. Or, as Little Rocket Man would—and did—put it:

Trump has every reason to be frightened—as does the entire rest of the world. John Mearsheimer must be pulling his hair out:

Jostein Hauge @haugejostein

2h

This is wild.

People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it’s better to depend on China than the US.

The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

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Japan isn’t in that list, but they seem to have assessed the situation. Fun fact, PM Takaichi is due to visit what’s his name in DC very soon, but she—like all of NATO—just flipped Trump off:

RKM @rkmtimes

6h

JUST IN Japan says, it will buy oil from Russia using Yuan through Strait of Hormuz but not join America’s war due to 82% of Japanese oppose Iran-US war.

 US wanted Takaichi to sign a joint statement on Hormuz, but Japan refused. Publicly. Officially. Finally.

Japanese says, No ships. No troops. No war in Middle east,

As if Japan was really going to join a Jewish Nationalist war on the world? Huh? And about that—what was it, a half trillion dollars?—that Japan was going to invest in the US? My advice: Don’t hold your breath on that one.

In this context you’ve really got to wonder what India’s Modi is thinking. He just sent a bunch of Indian navy ships to somewhere around the Gulf of Oman, because Iran is saying: No oil tankers to India until India returns three Iranian ships that Trump lackey Modi seized. You can bet that China is eying India closely at this point.

Did I mention that the UAE has announced that natural gas production is now at ZERO and all natural gas operations have been shut down? And that EU gas prices just went up 30% today after Iran’s strike on Qatar? How’s this for some desperation damage control?

The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter

BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US may remove sanctions on Iranian oil that is on water.

Trump tried to slime Joe Kent in advance of the beans he knew Kent would spill. It’s not gonna work. Here is a sample of some of those beans, mostly via Megatron and Kent’s interview with Tucker:

Massive revelation. Israel intentionally assassinated Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani to sabotage a peace deal. Then they blew up Qatar’s natural gas facilities to lock the US into a permanent regional war. They are destroying the world.

Joe Kent says Ali Larijani was negotiating peace and was killed.

Qatar’s gas could have stabilized energy markets — but it was hit too.

He says Tel Aviv doesn’t want peace, it wants permanent war, and America is the weapon.

The Jewish lobby went after Joe Kent immediately after the interview with Tucker Carlson

Joe Kent, under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information.

I.e., for telling Americans the truths they deserve to know. Shoot the messenger—that always works.

Joe Kent (former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center) says Charlie Kirk was begging [Trump] not to take them in a war with Iran

Charlie Kirk? Who’s that?

Tucker: “Was Iran about to get a nuke?”

Kent: “No. They’ve had a religious ruling against it since 2004. We had no intelligence that it was being disobeyed.”

So the entire war was another Iraq and weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist.

There’s simply no case that Iran was planning an immediate attack. It did not exist.”

The end result so far is that Iran—despite the pounding it’s taking from Trump—is establishing an ever stronger position, a chokehold on the world economy. All the chatter about putting US Marine boots on Iranian ground, or on Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf—it’s just crazy talk. Things have gone much too far for that to make a difference, even if it were feasible. Which it isn’t. Iran warned it would do all of this, and Trump went ahead and did what he was told to do. And Iran has more cards to play. While the world is dissing Trump:

Korobochka (コロボ) @cirnosad

10h

BREAKING: Iran will hold a high level meeting with Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan. Not Saudi Arabia.

Iranian Professor Marandi:

“You’ve messed with the wrong country.”

“Your propaganda doesn’t work anymore.”

“What you have done to the Palestinian people, to the Iraqi people, to the Cuban people, to the Venezuelan people — you cannot do to the Iranian people.”

Trump is predictably trying to lie his way out of this. It’s no longer working. Multiple US and Israeli sources are reporting that Trump signed off on this mad scheme to “send Iran a message” by holding a gun to his own head and pulling the trigger. When the rats start jumping ship …

Note PP’s use of the ‘suicide’ word:

Philip Pilkington @philippilk

5h

Trump has been sucked into a suicidal energy war. If you wanted evidence the administration has ZERO control over the situation, here it is.

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ayden @squatsons

15h

How pathetic is this?

He’s so scared and has no plan…

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Faytuks News @Faytuks

16h

President Trump wants no more strikes on Iranian energy sites after Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field, according to US officials – WSJ

Trump supported today’s attack, but now believes “Tehran got the message”

And it just gets worse.

Don’t Stop with Iran, Mr. President. You’re on a roll!

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Brilliant way to prove Bibi’s not blackmailing you

American democracy is the kind of system where you can vote and vote and vote, but no matter how many times you vote for less war and less immigration, the government is going to give you more war and more immigration. It’s always World War II, we’re always fighting Hitler, and we always have no choice because we’ve got to stop [Fill In Targeted Country Here] from acquiring nuclear weapons. Even if we’ve just totally obliterated their nuclear program.

Also, we’re never getting a wall. Coincidentally, the price tag for a mere two weeks of the Iran war is about what it would cost to build an impermeable, 2,000-mile wall across our entire southern border.

I give up. I’m out of options, but the least I can do is help Trump during his last few years in office. (His last year in office, if the midterms turn out the way they’re looking right now.)

Therefore, I have composed a few draft presidential speeches covering the next 18 months or so, on the assumption that Trump would be embarrassed to leave us with 20 unfinished wars. The speeches practically write themselves. In fact, when Trump is impeached it won’t matter because his foreign policy can be performed by the simplest of AI bots.

Here are the next few major speeches for Mr. “Make America Great Again!” President Trump.

Remarks from President Trump, December 2026

A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Myanmar. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Tatmadaw junta — a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Big junta. Their menacing activities directly endanger the United States. They’ve done things that nobody has ever seen before, including imprisoning American citizens in horrible, horrible conditions. A total disaster.

For 38 years, the Myanmar regime has been at war with the West, waging a campaign of bloodshed and mass murder. Very, very bad mass murder. Killing more than 100,000 innocent people, displacing millions more, putting hundreds of thousands in internment camps. They have targeted the United States and innocent people in many, many countries, including Thailand, our closest ally in Southeast Asia. Very smart people, those Thai leaders.

We’re not helping Thailand; they’re helping us.

Separately, I have directed the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate ongoing efforts across the federal government to support 150,000 vulnerable Iranians, including those who worked alongside us in Iran, as they safely resettle in the United States. Stephen Miller wanted none, but 150,000 is a lot less than the 190,000 Iraqi and Afghan refugees we took in after those stupid wars!

Under Biden, Homeland couldn’t even get critical aid to North Carolina after a very, very bad storm. Crooked Joe — totally corrupt. North Carolina loves me; it was one of the seven swing states I won. I won all seven of them. And I won the popular vote.

Remarks from President Trump, May 2027

A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Sudan, which is not even a country. A paramilitary force led by a guy known as Hemedti — he goes by one name, like “Prince,” a good friend of mine — has committed genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity. He’s a big, big threat to our country. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from Hemedti’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — a vicious group of very hard, terrible people who directly endanger the United States.

Sudan is one of the biggest, worst state sponsors of terrorism in the whole world, folks. Believe me. They’ve been on the State Department’s terrorism list since the mid-nineties — a long time, very bad. These evil, disgusting people gave safe harbor to Osama bin Laden — can you believe it? — and they fought against the U.S. in the Iraq war. It was a stupid war, but a tremendous success from a military standpoint.

If we could, play the tape —

[Video of the Twin Towers coming down, Osama bin Laden, angry Sudanese on the street in the 1990s, waving placards with bin Laden’s face and others scrolled with “DEATH TO AMERICA!”]

In the past few years alone, the RSF has killed 61,000 people in Khartoum State, 10,000 people in West Darfur, and 80% of Geneina’s residents have fled. These wicked people rape women and children — some as young as one year old. Can you believe it? One-year-old. Twenty-five million innocent Sudanese are on the verge of starvation.

Sudanese Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS! … HELP IS ON ITS WAY.

Separately, I have directed the Department of Security — it’s called the Department of Homeland Security, we have a very strong homeland, probably the strongest homeland of any homeland — to coordinate ongoing efforts across the federal government to support 150,000 vulnerable Myanmarians, including those who worked alongside us in Myanmar, as they safely resettle in the United States.

Remarks from President Trump, November 2027

A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group committing atrocities in the DRC.

I brokered a very strong peace agreement between the DRC and Rwanda in June 2025. People said it couldn’t be done, but your favorite president, Donald J. Trump, did it. Only one of dozens and dozens of places where I’ve ended wars. But they don’t give me any credit for it. Horrible people.

The M23 rebels have violated the treaty time and again. These deranged scumbags continue to perpetrate civilian massacres, mass rape and summary executions against the people of the DRC — our best ally in the region, if not the world. These evil people have used starvation, sexual violence and child soldiers as weapons of war. I will not allow these terrorists to keep holding the world hostage.

Congolese President Félix Tshilombo — and that’s how you pronounce it, if you can believe it — said he acted to remove “the existential threat posed by the terrorist regime in Rwanda,” and we are proud to join him in this vital mission — so vital, believe me! A nuclear-armed Rwanda poses an unacceptable security threat to America, the DRC and the world.

Let’s play the video.

[Video from 1993 of Rwandans with fists raised, chanting, “DEATH TO AMERICA!”]

Separately, I have directed the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate ongoing efforts across the federal government to support 150,000 vulnerable Sudanese, including those who worked alongside us in Sudan, as they safely resettle in the United States.

Some very disloyal people have criticized me, claiming I am waging the “endless wars” I campaigned against. These haters and losers won’t give me credit for successfully concluding the war in Iran. That’s okay. It’s ending any day now. Maybe today. Maybe tomorrow. I’ll let you know.

Iran was a huge success. We left Iran with no navy, no air force, no army, no communications, no infrastructure, no hospitals, no roads, no drinkable water, no cultural artifacts. I own Iran. I look forward to accepting their unconditional surrender any day now. And probably the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jewish Insider on Tuesday’s Democrat primaries: Win some, lose some

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Reports of the demise of AIPAC’s political clout in Democratic primaries, it turned out, were greatly exaggerated.

Pro-Israel candidates who received backing from AIPAC or AIPAC-aligned groups won two of the four targeted Democratic primaries in Illinois — and helped block all the Squad-aligned far-left candidates from winning nominations in all of the races. It was a respectable, if not dominant showing, but one consistent with making an impact with the $22 million pro-Israel groups spent in the four open congressional races.

In the 8th District, former Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) came out ahead of anti-Israel activist and businessman Junaid Ahmed, and looks like a lock to hold onto the suburban district as long as she wants.

Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller, who benefited from about $4.5 million in outside spending from a pro-Israel group, comfortably outdistanced former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) in the 2nd District by a double-digit margin (41-29%) — even though Jackson entered the race as the favorite. The anti-Israel candidate in the field, state Sen. Robert Peters, finished in a distant third place, with only 12% of the vote.

AIPAC’s biggest setback came in the affluent Chicago lakefront seat of retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), where Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss prevailed over pro-Israel state Sen. Laura Fine despite facing a barrage of attacks from an AIPAC-aligned group. But pro-Israel voters also dodged the worst-case outcome in the 9th District, with anti-Israel social media influencer Kat Abughazaleh finishing in second, and trailing badly in the district’s suburban precincts. All told, Biss won with 30% of the vote, Abughazaleh finished with 26% and Fine tallied 20%.

And despite AIPAC’s super PAC spending nearly $5 million in positive ads to boost Chicago city Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin in the 7th District, state Rep. La Shawn Ford narrowly prevailed in the crowded primary, 24-20%. Ford was backed by retiring Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), with the congressman’s political machine ultimately making a bigger difference than the money spent on behalf of Conyears-Ervin.

Anthony Driver, Jr. and Kina Collins, the two candidates running on anti-Israel platforms, lagged well behind in third and fourth place, tallying a combined 20% of the vote.

AIPAC managed to block all six of the far-left candidates it viewed as potential Squad-aligned lawmakers, which a source close to AIPAC told JI was the group’s top goal in the home stretch of the campaign — once it backed off of anti-Biss attacks that failed to dislodge him as the front-runner and Abughazaleh closed in in second place. AIPAC is treating that as a win as well.