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One of those harebrained Trump ideas that people in the administration will now reverse engineer reasons to justify, despite it making no sense for any party.

We have long known Trump was an easy mark for this kind of transparent flattery. Witkoff just told the world he is too.

In summary, Witkoff doesn’t know the names of all the Ukrainian provinces occupied by Russia, but somehow knows the people there want to join Russia…and believes Putin doesn’t want the rest of Ukraine despite him repeatedly saying he does. Ok.

You don’t even have to do the “what about her emails” thing. In any other admin, R or D, there would be an immediate FBI investigation, and there should be here as well.

I wonder what the F-18 pilots actually putting themselves in harms way would think about SecDef taking this sort of risk with their safety because he wanted to show off in a group chat.

It was clear Hegseth was an accident waiting to happen from the outset, and everyone who voted to confirm him knew it. Well the first major accident just happened. There will be more, probably with worse consequences, as long he’s in the job.

Bravo, Cory Booker. That was inspiring.

He’s on track to pull it off! Hoover’s legacy at home combined with Chamberlain’s on the international stage.

As this fiasco continues to collapse the economy, there is going to be a strong desire by Trump’s defenders and even the press to identify a fall guy - Lutnick, Navarro, maybe even Bessent. But this is all on Trump. He owns 100% of it, from conception to execution.

That is in fact what we were doing during the Biden admin - coordinating with the EU, Japan, Korea and others to confront China’s unfair practices. Trump just tore that coalition up and pushed our allies closer to China.

Ah yes, the woke Pentagon. Just like that other longtime hotbed of liberal activism, the FBI. Nevermind that it’s Hegseth’s own people who are blowing the whistle on his tenure.

The thing about severing feedback loops is you have no idea when you’re staring at a catastrophe. Trump is already facing one with an economic crisis and continues to risk an enormous national security crisis every day he leaves Hegseth in place.

He might want to think this through a little more before making such a referral.

Would generally be considered a step down for the Secretary of State to become NSA.

In exchange for getting nothing from China, we agreed to remove the gun we had pointed at our own head. We will continue to aim the gun at our own foot, however. Masterful negotiating.

China has won this round of the trade war, in Beijing's eyes. Beijing's view is that its "firm countermeasures & resolute stance" have been highly effective. They believe Trump has folded, at least for now, in the face of China’s “firmness” & the negative market reaction.

Some thoughts on the strikes against Iran’s nuclear program: nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opi…

If I understand Hegseth’s point, it’s that early assessments are nearly always wrong, we shouldn’t believe the early assessments offered by his own internal intel agency, but we should give 100% credence to his early assessment that the Iranian nuclear program has been