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Trump Trying to Appease All GOP factions; Bannon: “We’ve got to put our country first'”
Some MAGA supporters argued that Israel’s targeted strikes of both nuclear sites and top military commanders were part of an effort to ignite a bigger conflict and draw the United States into it. U.S. officials said on Friday that the Pentagon was positioning warships and other military assets in the Middle East to help protect Israel and U.S. troops in the region from any further Iranian retaliation.
“The bottom line is we cannot be dragged into, inexorably dragged into, a war on the Eurasian land mass in the Middle East or in Eastern Europe,” Stephen K. Bannon, a former top adviser to Mr. Trump who remains close to the president, said on Friday on his “War Room” podcast.
On Israel, he said: “Hey, you guys did it. You’re putting your country first. Your country’s defense first. That’s fine, but we’ve got to put our defense first.”
As Israel pummels Iran with waves of airstrikes, President Trump is navigating the divides within the Republican Party over whether the United States should get involved in another foreign conflict.
On one side are the isolationists who fear that Israel could pull the United States into another Middle East war. And on the other are the Iran hawks and Israel supporters who have been calling for just this sort of military action for years.
Mr. Trump appears caught between the two sides, veering back and forth as he tries to distance the United States from Israel’s assault while celebrating the success of the attacks and warning Iran that more is coming.
“This, right now, is going to cause, I think, a major schism in the MAGA online community,” Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist and podcaster, said Thursday on his podcast.
Mr. Trump had several times this year dissuaded Israel from launching an attack, saying he wanted to pursue a negotiated settlement with Iran. Shortly after the assault began, the White House sent out a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, emphasizing that the United States was not involved in the initial military operation.
“Israel took unilateral action against Iran,” Mr. Rubio said. “We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.”
But in subsequent interviews, the president said he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday, knew the attacks were planned and called the strikes “excellent.” In a post on Truth Social, he wrote Israel has “already planned attacks” that would be “even more brutal.” And the U.S. military helped Israel intercept some of the ballistic missiles Iran fired in retaliation, an American official said.
While running for president, Mr. Trump promised to end wars around the world, and in his inaugural address, he said he wanted to be remembered as a peacemaking president. So far, Mr. Trump’s diplomatic efforts have failed to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, which he had promised to do within 24 hours, or the war between Israel and Hamas.
Over the past several months, the Trump administration had been trying to strike a new nuclear deal with Iran, and the president had urged Mr. Netanyahu to hold off any military actions as the talks continued.
“I don’t want them going in because that would blow it,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House just hours before the attacks.
After Israel launched the missiles, Mr. Trump put the blame on Iran, faulting its leaders for refusing to accept a proposal that would have stopped it from enriching uranium.
“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal,” he wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning. “I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done.”
Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, noted that Mr. Trump had flipped his position on whether Israel should strike Iran. But he said Israel made a calculated gamble that Mr. Trump would go along with the idea.
“They made a bet on President Trump,” he said, adding: “Trump, for a long time — most of the time he’s been in office — has been saying ‘no, we’re negotiating, no, don’t do it.’ The Israelis strike, and today Trump called it excellent.”
For many Republicans, Israel’s military strikes were long overdue amid growing fears that Iran was moving closer to full nuclear capabilities.
“The number of Republicans who do not see a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to Israel and the world is exceedingly small,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and a close ally of the president. “The overwhelming majority of Republicans back Israel’s use of military force to neuter the Iranian nuclear threat.”
Another faction of Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters see it differently. Israel’s strikes and the prospect of U.S. involvement in the conflict, they argue, run counter to Mr. Trump’s “America First” foreign policy agenda.
“The emails are so largely overwhelmingly against Israel doing this, I’d say it’s probably a 99 to one,” Mr. Kirk said on Thursday night of feedback he was receiving from his listeners.
Some MAGA supporters argued that Israel’s targeted strikes of both nuclear sites and top military commanders were part of an effort to ignite a bigger conflict and draw the United States into it. U.S. officials said on Friday that the Pentagon was positioning warships and other military assets in the Middle East to help protect Israel and U.S. troops in the region from any further Iranian retaliation.
“The bottom line is we cannot be dragged into, inexorably dragged into, a war on the Eurasian land mass in the Middle East or in Eastern Europe,” Stephen K. Bannon, a former top adviser to Mr. Trump who remains close to the president, said on Friday on his “War Room” podcast.
On Israel, he said: “Hey, you guys did it. You’re putting your country first. Your country’s defense first. That’s fine, but we’ve got to put our defense first.”
But Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said the Trump administration was just “shouting from the sidelines.”
“Trump will likely keep the U.S. out of conflict and offer mediation, but at this point, he’s just basically treading water,” he wrote in an email. “The big issue will play out in Congress during debates about Israel aid and replenishing Israeli stockpiles.”
NYTimes: The U.S, is defending Israel; explosions in Tel Aviv
An American official, who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing operation, said that the U.S. military was helping Israel intercept some of the ballistic missiles. The official said that American military assets, already in the eastern Mediterranean to help defend American troops in the region, were used to intercept the missiles.
Iranian ballistic missiles struck at least seven sites around Tel Aviv on Friday night, hours after waves of Israeli strikes devastated Tehran’s military chain of command and hit critical nuclear facilities.
Explosions were heard over Jerusalem as missiles streaked overhead, while in Tel Aviv, Israeli television showed images of a damaged building and many mangled and burned cars from one of the impact sites in the area. Three hospitals in the area said they had received about 20 wounded people among them, describing their injuries as light and moderate. Fire officials said several people had been rescued from inside buildings struck by Iranian missiles.
In one area near Tel Aviv, officials said a 70-year-old woman was in critical condition after being pulled from the rubble of a building. A man was seriously injured with shrapnel wounds to the face, officials said. Officials said another man was treated with head injuries, burns and smoke inhalation from a fire. Thirty-four people were taken to hospitals in the area, officials said.
Israel’s strikes in Iran have killed 78 people, including senior military officials, and injured 329 others, Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, told the U.N. Security Council.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, told the Council that Israel’s strike Friday on Iran’s nuclear site near Natanz had destroyed its aboveground enrichment plant, causing chemical and radiological contamination.
Israel Katz, Israel’s defense minister, said in a statement that Iran “crossed a red line” by firing missiles at populated areas in Israel, warning that “the Ayatollah regime would pay a very heavy price” for its actions.
Some of the explosions above Israel appeared to be from interceptions of Iran’s missiles by Israel’s Iron Dome defensive system. Tracer fire from the ground could be seen streaking above the cities and sirens.
An American official, who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing operation, said that the U.S. military was helping Israel intercept some of the ballistic missiles. The official said that American military assets, already in the eastern Mediterranean to help defend American troops in the region, were used to intercept the missiles.
Early reports from both Iran and Israel were difficult to immediately verify, as both countries claimed that their militaries had inflicted significant damage in the escalating conflict.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement that it had struck dozens of targets in Israel “forcefully and with precision,” including military and defense sites, in response to Israel’s attacks on Iran that killed senior commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians. The New York Times could not independently verify that claim.Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said earlier that Israel “should anticipate a harsh punishment” for its daylong assault, as some of Israel’s European allies expressed worry that Israel was ratcheting up its military conflict with Iran.
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If You Thought Service at Home Depot Was Bad Before…
Almost immediately after the mostly peaceful protesters (who are mostly Mexican illegal aliens) took to the streets of Los Angeles to engage in Latin American-style protests — throwing rocks, burning cars, waving Mexican flags, etc. — the media begged the rioters to stop. (Who knew there was something left to burn in LA?)
Back when BLM riots were tearing through our country, it was all, Violence is the language of the unheard; People, not property; Riots are joyous and liberatory; Looters are just trying to “feed their child“ (that was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). Popular Mechanics ran a helpful piece, “How to Topple a Statue Using Science,” and the Democrats’ future presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, exulted that the protests “are not going to stop.“
But since Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election (mostly on the issue of immigration), Democrats have been trying to turn over a new leaf by pretending to be normal. With the illegal alien riots driving public support for mass deportations from 60% to about 90%, the media are in major damage control mode.
The New York Times editorialized, “protesters will do nothing to further their cause if they resort to violence.” (During Gay Pride Month, no less!) This is a new position for the Times. Throughout the BLM terror, the paper never quibbled with the smashing, the looting, the burning, the maiming, the killing.
Similarly, a much-praised (by MSNBC) article in The Atlantic hectored the once-beloved rioters: “Don’t give [Trump] the pretext he wants.” The advice continued: “As unsatisfying as it may be for some citizens to hear, the last thing anyone should do is take to the streets of Los Angeles and try to confront the military or any of California’s law-enforcement authorities.” (“Citizens” is a nice touch.)
Is this because attacking federal law enforcement officers would be wrong? No, of course not. It’s because illegal alien riots are exactly what Trump wants! He wants “people walking around taking selfies in gas clouds, waving Mexican flags, holding up traffic, and burning cars.”
After a gratuitous insult — Trump “is resolutely ignorant” — The Atlantic credits him with “picking the right fights.” Sure, Trump could have sent ICE agents to Fargo, North Dakota, but instead, he’s “zeroing in on California,” the wily scamp.
Why would ICE agents go to California to arrest illegals? I think it might be because that’s where the illegals are.
Forty percent of all illegals in the entire country live in California. Back in 2006, illegals staged a “Day Without Immigrants” protest in LA — and 1 million to 2 million illegals turned out. It was the largest public demonstration in California history. (Nothing says “well-functioning country” like a million illegals living in a single U.S. city.)
In the Times, Tyler Pager’s “News Analysis” is headlined: “Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Confrontation in California Over Immigration.” Using his special mind-reading skills, Pager announces this “is the fight President Trump had been waiting for.”
In retrospect, it would have been so easy for illegal aliens to checkmate Trump by simply not throwing rocks and bricks at ICE agents, setting cars on fire or trying to seize ICE facilities. Oh well, live and learn.
In perhaps the dumbest sentence ever to appear in the Times, which is saying something, Pager complains that Trump is “focusing particularly on examples of protesters lashing out at federal agents — even as many remained peaceful.”
FDR focused particularly on Pearl Harbor, even as many harbors remained peaceful.
The media are accusing White House adviser Stephen Miller of starting the whole thing by telling ICE to increase deportations from 600 to 3,000 a day. (Forbes: “Stephen Miller’s Order Likely Sparked Immigration Arrests and Protests.”)
Enforcing the law: This is what autocracy looks like.
In fact, 3,000 deportations a day is pathetic. Trump is going to have to average 8,000 removals a day simply to rid us of the 10 million illegal aliens Joe Biden let in — forget the 40 million to 50 million illegals who were already here.
Returning to The Atlantic‘s advice, note the predicate: “As unsatisfying as it may be for some citizens to hear …” Evidently, Democrats find it “unsatisfying” to be told “Don’t riot.”
But do liberals seriously believe citizens are doing the rioting? (Undoubtedly, antifa is there, but those future-suicide cases would show up at a forest fire to throw gasoline on the flames.)
Violence is not only “the language of the unheard,” it’s the language of Latin America. During the Rodney King riots in 1992 — the most destructive riots in U.S. history until the BLM riots in the Year of Our Floyd — one-third of those arrested were illegal aliens. More than half of the arrested were Hispanic.
In Mexico City, violent protests are a daily occurrence. Let’s take a peek at Mexico City news today: “[Protesters] vandalized the headquarters of the Interior Ministry, destroying several doors and windows of the iconic Cobian Palace. At least seven homemade firebombs were tossed onto the grounds …”
Welcome to your new country — unless Trump starts deporting 10,000 illegals a day.
Racial Bias in Juries
Over 34 studies of jury behavior, 7397 participants, White jurors show essentially 0 racial bias, while Blacks have strong bias in favor of their own race. pic.twitter.com/LEt7nWl5Do
— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) June 10, 2025
Trump said to have told Netanyahu to end Gaza war, attacking Iran off limits for now
With all the talk of war and Israel being ready to attack and pressuring Trump, it’s gratifying to see that so far Trump is standing by his often-enunciated distaste for war.
Trump said to have told Netanyahu to end Gaza war, attacking Iran off limits for now
In call on Monday, US president also reportedly told PM that threats to strike Iran ‘aren’t helping’ nuclear talks; CENTCOM chief says White House has ‘wide range of options’ if negotiations fail
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks alongside US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images via AFP)
In a tense 40-minute phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, US President Donald Trump told the premier he must permanently end the war in the Gaza Strip, Israeli television reported Tuesday.
Trump reportedly told Netanyahu that the so-called “Witkoff framework,” which would pause the war for some 60 days in exchange for about half of the hostages held by Hamas, will not suffice.
Netanyahu has so far refused to negotiate a Gaza truce-hostage deal that would permanently end the fighting in the Strip — a red line for him and his far-right coalition partners.
Trump also ruled out an attack on Iran as the White House seeks to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief, according to the reports.
Meanwhile, the top US military commander in the Middle East said he has provided Trump and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with “a wide range of options” for preventing Iran from attaining nuclear arms should talks with Tehran fall through.
Channel 12 reported that there would be no discussions on a strike against Iran until Trump determines that the nuclear talks have failed. The network also cited two sources familiar with the phone call as saying Netanyahu did not receive a clear answer from Trump as to whether the US would give Israel a green light to act alone against Iran, or whether Washington would want to participate in or lead a strike.
According to the network, Trump said he has not completed his efforts in the US-Iran nuclear talks, adding that despite his disapproval of Iran’s latest offer, the door on negotiations has not closed.
Netanyahu replied that a “credible military threat” must be kept on Iran at all times, to which Trump responded that a strike must be “taken off the table for now,” the report added.
According to Kan, Netanyahu told Trump that “the negotiations with Iran are futile, Iran is playing you and all it’s trying to do is to gain time.”
“Your statements about an attack on Iran aren’t helping. We’re working on a deal,” Trump was said to have replied, though White House sources cited by Fox News on Tuesday appeared to agree with Netanyahu’s comment.
Both Kan and Channel 12 said Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on the conversation with Trump. On Monday, in a sparse readout of the conversation, Netanyahu’s office said Trump had told the premier that Washington has presented Tehran with a “reasonable proposal” and expects a response “in the coming days.”
On Tuesday, Fox News quoted Trump as saying Iran was “acting much differently in negotiations than it did just days ago.”
“It’s surprising to me. It’s disappointing, but we are set to meet again tomorrow — we’ll see,” he added, though Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said the sixth round of talks was set for Sunday in Oman.
A handout picture released by Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization on November 4, 2019, shows the atomic enrichment facilities Natanz nuclear research center, some 300 kilometers south of capital Tehran. (HO / Atomic Energy Organization of Iran / AFP)
US attack plans drawn up in case talks fail
Iran’s leaders, who are sworn to destroy Israel, have publicly denied seeking nuclear weapons, but have stocked up on 60%-enriched uranium — far above what is necessary for civilian uses, and a short step away from weapons-grade. US officials are reportedly concerned that Israel could strike Iran’s nuclear sites with little warning.
Netanyahu has demanded that any nuclear deal with Iran fully dismantle the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities and uranium enrichment sites. Speaking to reporters after the phone call on Monday, Trump said Washington would not allow Tehran to enrich uranium on its soil.
The US proposal for a nuclear deal would reportedly allow just that, though, for a temporary period of time. Iran’s parliament speaker said Monday that the proposal did not mention sanctions relief, calling Trump “delusional” for thinking Tehran would accept the offer.
In a statement Tuesday, Iranian parliamentarians accused the US and Israel of laying a “strategic trap” for Iran in the nuclear talks.
Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)
The White House “has set the goal of talks as imposing its demands and has adopted offensive positions that are diametrically opposed to Iranians’ inalienable rights,” said the statement. “The only acceptable deal is one that permanently lifts all sanctions with the aim of achieving economic benefits for Iran.”
CENTCOM attack plans
Gen. Michael Kurilla, the outgoing commander of the US Central Command, told American lawmakers that he presented the White House with plans for a strike on Iran in case the nuclear talks fail.
During a hearing of the US House Armed Services Committee, the committee’s Republican chair, Representative Mike D. Rogers of Alabama, asked Kurilla whether CENTCOM would be “prepared to respond with overwhelming force to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran” if Trump orders such a strike.
“I have provided the secretary of defense and the president a wide range of options,” said Kurilla.
“I take that as a yes,” Rogers replied.
“Yes,” said the general.
During his testimony, Kurilla said Iran has reached a 40-year low point strategically amid the “tectonic shift” unleashed in the region by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza.
During that time, Syrian rebels ousted their country’s Iran-backed President Bashar Al-Assad, and Lebanon’s Iranian proxy Hezbollah has emerged severely weakened from war with Israel.
“This dealt a massive blow to Iran’s terror network,” said Kurilla. “The Iranian proxies are at one of the weakest levels they’ve been.”
Kurilla noted that the regional conflict saw Israel and Iran come to direct blows for the first time, with Iran launching massive barrages of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel in April and October last year. Israel’s reprisals, which damaged Iran’s air defenses, have reportedly left the Islamic Republic bracing for a strike on its nuclear sites.
On Thursday, Hamas said it remains open to the ceasefire deal proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff, but said it requires stronger guarantees against Israeli attacks.
In a televised speech on Thursday, Khalil Al-Hayya, a high-ranking official in the militant group, said Hamas has not rejected Witkoff’s proposal but has submitted amendments with stronger security guarantees.
Hamas wants any deal to include a permanent end to the war in Gaza and a withdrawal of Israeli forces.
NGOs Prepare For Nationwide Color Revolution; Walmart Heiress Calls For “Mobilization”
NGOs Prepare For Nationwide Color Revolution; Walmart Heiress Calls For “Mobilization”
A network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with known affiliations to Marxist-aligned political ideologies initiated coordinated protest activity across Los Angeles last Friday. Almost immediately, these protests escalated into widespread unrest, including acts of vandalism, arson, and looting, consistent with patterns observed in previous color revolution-style mobilizations by the Democratic Party.
In response, President Trump authorized the deployment of National Guard units and Marines to secure high-risk areas and prevent further civil unrest, with looting and chaos continuing in the overnight hours…
There is reason to believe that an early staging of a coordinated national mobilization effort is underway to unleash a color revolution across cities, similar to BLM-style protests that morphed into riots in 2020, spearheaded by a group identifying itself as “No Kings.” This organization appears to function as a front entity for broader far-left networks, with affiliated support from established rogue leftist NGOs, including Indivisible, a Soros-funded nonprofit previously linked to a failed color revolution targeting Elon Musk’s Tesla earlier this year.
Leftist news outlet Common Dreams stated that Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg is one of the leading groups behind the “No Kings” movement.
This weekend’s planned protest is receiving organizational backing—or, at the very least, logistical support—from nearly 200 groups, including a wide range of NGOs (get ready for the bussing of professional protesters to cities near you).
Here’s a partial list of those groups…
Notably, the timing coincides with June 14, a symbolic convergence of Flag Day, President Trump’s birthday, a military parade in Washington, DC, and the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, suggesting deliberate political signaling behind the mobilization effort.
Map: Nationwide Mobilization Effort
FBI Director Kash Patel told media outlet Just the News, “The FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for these riots.”
Patel might want to take a look at the funding Billionaire Walton Family Heir Christy Walton (one of the heirs to Walmart) could be involved in; the 50501 movement, the leftist group also partnered with No Kings, re-posted Walton’s protest mobilization ad in the New York Times.
“Who had Christy Walton, Walmart Heiress, on your Bingo Card paying for ads in The New York Times to promote: “No Kings”, June 14, Nationwide Protests? Anyone?!?” 50501 movement wrote on Facebook.
Riots and chaos in Los Angeles are creating terrible optics for the Democratic Party. The NGOs’ deployment of migrants and radical leftists as frontline actors—some of whom are burning vehicles, looting, and causing chaos while waving foreign flags—has strongly reinforced President Trump’s mandate from the American people regarding the urgent need to deport criminal illegal aliens.
“The protests the Left is calling “No Kings” for next Saturday should be consistently messaged as “the Left’s Anti American Flag Day protests.” That’s what they are,” author and commentator James Lindsay wrote on X.
All in all, early indications suggest staging efforts nationwide are underway with the Democratic Party’s color revolution operation against Trump, supported and funded by rogue NGOs, in an effort to shift public opinion polls. Democrats are using the same playbook from their 2020 BLM riots.
There is growing public awareness of the Democratic Party’s deployment of dark NGO networks to orchestrate domestic unrest through tactics resembling the 2020 BLM riots. The ongoing unrest that could potentially spread nationwide by the weekend is best characterized as a hybrid war—cultural and informational against the sitting president of the U.S.
The central unresolved question remains: To what extent are these leftist NGO-linked operations influenced or financed by foreign actors?
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