On this day in 1973, Richard Nixon agreed to turn over the White House tapes to Judge John Sirica – a key step on the path to the threat of impeachment and removal that persuaded a Republican president to resign in disgrace.
Happy Friday… Swine here. We are in the last days of extraordinarily high stakes 2026 midterms, and if Donald Trump and the Republican Party loses control of the US House and Senate in a campaign »bloodbath“, they will have largely Trump and his illegal war on Iran thank.
So what will our awesome president do next? He is busy preparing to make the war in Iran even more shitty and painful for all of us.
In today’sFirst draft“, we will enter directly into the new foray of the self-proclaimed “president of peace” into Eternal War. Additionally, Trump went into storm over the GOP Ohio gubernatorial candidate. Vivek Ramaswamy despicable attack ad against Democrats Amy Acton, and guess what, the president didn’t calm things down. There was also news of a surprising new book on Jared Kushner. And we have an exclusive political cartoon of the famous New Yorkers the designer Tom Toro. Let’s dig.
It’s hawkish season in a very hawkish year at the White House. Or, as a Trump adviser said, who deplores “Fox News delays» – their word, not ours – for helping drag this president into war, he says: “There’s still time, again.”
President Trump’s so-called ‘Secretary of War’ Pete Hegseth recently snuggled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who started the war in Iran with Trump in February. THE New York Times reported that “The US and Israeli militaries have drawn up specific plans for further strikes against Iran after the US midterm elections.“, and that”targets would likely include Iran’s energy infrastructure, nuclear facilities, and missile and drone arsenal.” U.S. government officials with knowledge of the situation tell me that preparations have indeed accelerated considerably and that possible targets once again include civilian infrastructure.
Several senior officials I have spoken to are (to put it mildly) massively They are skeptical that restarting Trump’s war machine will produce the (supposedly) desired result: forcing the Iranian government to make meaningful concessions and end the war in Trump’s favor. These officials also fear a further collapse of the US and global economies, which have already suffered greatly during the oil crisis and other shock waves caused by Trump’s war and Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. (This is to say nothing of the likelihood of rising death tolls in several countries, danger to U.S. troops, and other inevitabilities if Trump persists.)
For many American officials, Trump, Hegseth and the others I lost the war a long time ago – the president just doesn’t want to admit it. So here we are.
As for the flashback, THE Tutor note THURSDAY : “Iran will strike oil installations, submarine cables, data centers and AI facilities in seven Gulf countries in the event of another US-Israeli attack, said Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council..”
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