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Can There Any Longer Be A Question That Trump Is A Russian Asset?

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In 2016, the U.S. Intelligence Community and subsequent investigations found that Russia heavily interfered in the 2016 presidential election on Trump’s behalf through a hacking and disinformation campaign ordered directly by Vladimir Putin. Though Trump denied it, a Senate committee report concluded that the interference was “sweeping and systematic.”

Additionally, a Special Counsel investigation detailed numerous links between Russia and the Trump campaign resulting in 37 indictments and seven guilty pleas or convictions. Moreover, the investigation found that Trump obstructed the investigation on numerous occasions.

Despite the findings, Special Counsel Robert Mueller declined to charge Trump with crimes as it was believed that only Congress could hold a sitting president accountable.

Of course, there are plenty of other reasons to question Trump’s ties with Russia. A Reuters review of the Trump real estate business found that Russian oligarchs close to Putin invested more than $100 million in Trump properties, including five Trump Tower condos purchased by the Russian mob for more than $4.9 million. And, in most cases, it was found that Russians grossly overpaid for the properties, often a clear sign of money laundering.

Not coincidentally, we recently learned that Capital One closed 385 Trump bank accounts in 2021 over concerns that they were being used for money laundering.

In other signs of a “special arrangement” between Trump and the Kremlin, Trump has sided with Putin over our own intelligence community. He clearly sided with Putin in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by verbally attacking and demeaning Ukraine President Volodamir Zelensky during an Oval Office meeting, by withholding arms to Ukraine, by calling for Zelensky to resign, by suggesting that Ukraine should cede territory to Russia, and by recently blocking Ukraine’s use of Starlink for its self-defense.

Trump has promoted trilateral “peace talks” with the U.S., Russia and China, notably excluding Ukraine. He signed an Executive Order dismissing the most recent congressional-approved economic sanctions against Russia. He violated other sanctions by agreeing to purchase millions of gallons of diesel fuel from Russia providing them an estimated $3.8 to $5.3 billion with which to provide military help to another of our adversaries – Iran. And this week, his special envoy charged with negotiating an end to the war called the murderous Putin a “great humanitarian.”

Further, Trump’s actions including accelerating the national debt, decapitating the leadership of our military, breaking relationships with longtime allies, weaponizing the DOJ, and undermining the Constitution all suggest that he is a leader intent on destroying America, not making it great.

Given all of the evidence, it should be said that if Trump is not a Russian asset, he’s clearly so stupid, so naïve and so entranced by Putin that he is unqualified to continue to hold office.

This Isn’t A Presidential Administration. It’s An Infestation.

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An infestation of shameless con artists, hucksters and sadists who comprise the most corrupt and deadly crime family in history. One that is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. A crime family that has exploited its political power to enrich themselves with billions of taxpayer dollars – money that was intended to improve lives of the impoverished and the downtrodden as well as ordinary hardworking Americans.

The Felon-in-Chief has used his position to finally become the billionaire he long claimed to be. He has raked in billions through licensing agreements, foreign gifts, and investments, including more than $1.4 billion from his unethical and likely illegal cryptocurrency venture. And when he’s not filling his pockets, he’s wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds on his grotesque vanity projects. Likewise, his sons, daughter and son-in-law have used their relationships to finagle multi-billion-dollar government contracts and foreign investments.

Not to be outdone, members of the cabinet and other officials have enriched themselves through apparent insider trading. The former head of DHS, the FBI director, the Transportation Secretary, and others have helped themselves to taxpayer funds through luxury trips, extended vacations and more. Even the Trump-appointed ambassadors seem to be on the take as evidenced by the recently exposed scandal involving Kimberly Guilfoyle and the revelation that Ambassador Mike Hudkabee’s family is selling trips to Israel. (Perhaps they should include tours of Gaza and the West Bank so their clients can experience genocide firsthand.)

Because of Trump’s promise that they will receive pardons at the end of his term, the entire administration seems to be engaged in a contest to see which of them can make off with the most taxpayer money. Or who can extort the largest bribes…er…gifts from foreign governments. Or who can finagle the biggest federal contract for their family and friends.

Though they’re obviously skilled at corruption, they’re utterly incompetent at the jobs they are paid to do. As a result, we’re immersed in an ill-advised and unwinnable war, inflation is exploding, and the national debt is soaring.

It’s time we fumigate our government to end this infestation. A blue wave in this midterm election could result in the impeachment and conviction of numerous members of the crime family. Then we should find a way to prosecute them all, despite the expected pardons, and claw back every dime with interest and additional billions in penalties.

Focusing On What Really Matters.

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Since the return of the Felon-in-Chief to the Oval Office, it seems that Democrats have spent most of their time focused on the Felon’s failing physical and cognitive health, as well as his despicable behavior and outrageous statements.

Every day, we see and hear their reactions to his repeated lies about the 2020 election. His daily lies about the economy. His attacks on the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center. His destruction of the East Wing. His plans for a Kremlin-style ballroom, as well as his Arc d’ Trump and the Washington golf course.

Certainly, these things are alarming. But they are mostly distractions – mere symptoms of the many excesses of the Trump regime.

There are far more important concerns, such as the ill-considered war with Iran, the growing oil crisis, the mass deportations of people of color, the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, Russia’s war on Ukraine, the weakening of our military and our international standing, our relationships with allies and our trading partners, the numerous violations of our Constitution, the massive corruption of the Trump crime family and its billionaire friends, our exploding national debt and, most important, the upcoming midterm elections.

For far too long, Democratic leaders have been relatively silent about the things that truly matter. And now it seems that they are just biding their time until the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2027.

But there’s an old truth about not counting your chickens until they’re hatched. In fair and free elections, Democrats will almost certainly enjoy a large blue wave. But there are no guarantees that the elections will be fair and free. Indeed, they may never even happen.

For months, Trump and his fascist friends have been preparing to steal the elections. In Republican-controlled states, they have used extreme gerrymandering in an attempt to dilute Democratic votes. They have closed polling places in Democrat-leaning districts. They have tried to disrupt mail-in voting. They have tried to override state control of elections. They have tried to gain access to every state’s voting records. They have threatened to deploy ICE thugs to polling places in an effort to intimidate black and brown voters. They have threatened to prosecute poll workers. They have threatened to declare a national emergency to delay or deny the elections. There’s talk of an apparent plan for Speaker Johnson to refuse to seat newly elected Democrats. And Trump has rehired Elon Musk despite claims by Musk’s ex that he bragged about using his Starlink technology to rig the 2024 election on Trump’s behalf.

Think all of this is a Democrat-inspired fantasy? Think again.

If the Felon and his MAGAts were willing to attack the nation’s capital on January 6, 2020, with the intent of overturning the election results and hanging Mike Pence along with Democratic representatives, what’s to stop them from doing it again? Or from doing something worse? After all, those MAGA criminals have been pardoned and are undoubtedly on standby to do the Felon’s bidding again.

So, instead of focusing on the daily chaos, the hateful messages, the latest faux pas, and the latest vanity project, Democrats need to be laser-focused on protecting the midterm elections and countering every possible MAGA attack. They can’t take for granted that the midterms will see a new Congress willing to rein in this fascist regime. Democrats and independents need to vote in overwhelming numbers and be prepared to fight as if the future of our democracy depends on them.

Because it does.

Exposing Republican Falsehoods.

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For generations, the Republican Party proudly proclaimed itself the party of law and order, national security, and fiscal responsibility. While that was never entirely accurate, it is exactly the opposite of the current MAGA version of the Party.

With the Felon in charge, professional law enforcement has largely been replaced with the thousands of belligerent, poorly trained and heavily armed bullies who comprise Trump’s ICEstapo. Trump’s campaign of retribution against political enemies has been substituted for justice and the rule of law. And our constitutional rights to privacy and due process have been swapped for massive surveillance and warrantless arrests.

As for national security, MAGA has decapitated our military by firing highly qualified black and female officers and blocking the promotions of many more. Other senior leaders have resigned in disgust. Trump and his regime have alienated our most reliable allies while, at the same time, embracing our most dangerous adversaries. And, perhaps even more worrying, MAGA has weakened our military readiness by depleting our stockpile of advanced weaponry during Trump’s ill-conceived war of choice with Iran.

Finally, our national debt has now surpassed $40 trillion, of which Donnie Dipsh*t is responsible for at least $11.6 trillion! And by the end of his term, that number is likely to grow by another $5 trillion – the result of the war and tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. Meanwhile, the Felon and his cronies are padding their own bank accounts with billions in taxpayer money.

For the first time in U.S. history, our debt exceeds our GDP which will ultimately result in higher borrowing costs and mandatory budget cuts. Given the Republican Party’s long-standing distaste for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other safety net programs, I believe the Party’s reckless spending is intentional – by burying our nation in debt, it creates an excuse to force the end of those programs while maintaining the many billions in corporate welfare and tax cuts for the ultrarich.

Why Does The Republican Party Even Exist?

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Once the proud party of Lincoln whose actions saved the Republic and emancipated the slaves, the Republican Party has been caught in a destructive downward spiral ever since. Of the seven presidents who served during the nation’s Gilden Age, six were Republicans. Together, they endorsed Horse and Sparrow economics – the predecessor of Trickle-Down economics – that allowed a few industrialists to create an enormous wealth gap between themselves and ordinary Americans.

Likewise, the scandal-plagued, pro-business administrations of Republicans Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge created an overheated economy that led to the 1929 Wall Street crash and the Great Depression. They were followed by Republican Herbert Hoover who, although he was credited with organizing a massive food relief program during and after WWI, his timid response to the Great Depression resulted in a deepening of the depression that continued until the election of Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, the hero of WWII, led us into the Vietnam War and signed off on the Dulles brothers’ ill-advised overthrow of democratically elected governments in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia and Congo. He also embraced White Christian Nationalists who added “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and changed the national motto from “E Pluribus Unum” (from many, one) to “In God We Trust. Those same religious and racist zealots have been trying to turn the U.S. into an unconstitutional theocratic-driven Christian nation ever since.

Republican Richard M. Nixon was elected, in part, due to his violation of the Logan Act by intervening in the Vietnam peace talks. He and Henry Kissinger supported a military coup to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile. Further, his re-election campaign was marked by a series of dirty tricks aimed at Democratic candidates leading to the Watergate break-in and cover-up and his eventual resignation to avoid impeachment. Not surprisingly, Nixon’s Republican successor, Gerald R. Ford, pardoned Nixon to save him from criminal prosecution.

Like Nixon, Republican Ronald Reagan was elected, in part, as a result of his violation of the Logan Act by encouraging Iran to delay the return of U.S. hostages until after the election in return for a better deal. His Trickle-Down economic plan led to a wave of corporate consolidations that continues today, as well as tax cuts for the wealthy. He opened the door for today’s propaganda network by ending the Fairness Doctrine. And he famously created a shadow government as part of Iran-Contra Affair.

Republican George H. Bush continued Reagan’s pro-corporate economic policies and led the U.S. into a war with Iraq called Desert Storm. Republican George W. Bush reprised his father’s war with Iraq costing the U.S. 4,431 military deaths and an estimated $4 trillion. His economic policies also led to the Great Recession following the 2007 banking and real estate crash.

Finally, we get to the worst of them all: the twice-impeached Donald J. Trump.

Elected with the obvious help of Russia, the Felon-in-Chief mishandled the Covid pandemic leading to the deaths of roughly 1 million Americans. Among other illegal acts while in office, he ordered the payment of hush money to coverup an affair and sex with a porn star. He led a conspiracy to overturn his election loss through insurrection. He stole boxes of the nation’s top secrets and engaged in a coverup. Then, when he returned to office, he pardoned the insurrectionists and seditionists and sold pardons to convicted supporters.

He has engaged in self-dealing and insider trading helping his family raise between $2 and $4 billion to date. He and his cabinet have committed numerous constitutional violations. He illegally destroyed the East Wing of the White House. He has engaged the U.S. in an ill-advised and illegal war against Iran leading to out-of-control inflation. He has attacked news media and advanced the MAGA propaganda network. He imposed illegal tariffs against most of our trading partners. He has compromised relationships with our most trusted allies and NATO.

He has threatened free and fair elections. He has used the FBI and DOJ to exact vengeance against his perceived political enemies. He has ignored the climate crisis. He has tried to rewrite history to diminish our nation’s involvement in genocide and slavery. He created a large masked and heavily armed militarized force to arrest hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants. In the process, that force has repeatedly violated the Constitution and murdered dozens of people, including two U.S. citizens. Further, the 34-time convicted felon and litigated sexual assaulter has overseen the destruction of virtually every institution and norm that made our country great.

Seriously, why does that party continue to exist?

Home Of The Brave?

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This year, the MAGA-controlled Congress is expected to pass a Pentagon budget of $1.15 trillion, an increase of roughly $250 billion from this year’s already bloated budget. To put that in perspective, a trillion is a million millions!!! Or, to look at it another way, it’s the equivalent of the next eight nations’ military budgets combined, of which six are allies.

That doesn’t look like bravery to me. It looks like a whole lot of fear – $1.15 trillion worth.

And that’s not all. Adding to the total is the $190.6 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security (in other words, defense), a department that didn’t even exist before 9/11. Removing the $26.2 billion of the DHS budget intended for disaster relief, that means taxpayers are paying a grand total of approximately $1,314,400,000,000 for defense.

Why?

I submit it’s less about defending our citizens than it is about defending our global corporate empire. In the 1980s, I asked the Central American bureau chief of a large news organization to explain the fighting in El Salvador and Nicaraugua. “Who are the good guys?” I asked. “There are none,” he replied. He told me that the U.S. doesn’t really care about international justice and human rights. That we simply support those who will support our corporate interests.

Nothing I have seen since then has contradicted that argument.

We didn’t intervene in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians perhaps because we have economic and military ties to Israel. Our intrusion in Venezuela wasn’t about human rights or communism. It was about that nation’s large oil reserves. Likewise, our attacks on Iran are all about oil. Indeed, our history of conflicts with Iran began in 1953 after the democratically elected government of Iran nationalized its oil resources.

Truth is, American taxpayers pay to defend U.S. corporate interests with our treasure and our lives. And how do our multinational corporations repay us? They pay to elect the government they want and demand ever greater tax cuts. Based on the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s April 2026 analysis, at least 88 of the largest U.S. corporations paid no federal income tax in 2025, despite earning over $105 billion in U.S. pretax income.

Home of the brave? More like home of the suckers.

The U.S Is Facing Enormous Problems Most Politicians Are Afraid To Address.

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When WWII ended, it was thought that are problems were mostly over. We were paying down the wartime debt through income taxes on the wealthy of as much as 94 percent. Manufacturing was thriving. The middle class was growing with more Americans able to afford a home, a car and a good education for their children. And we had begun turning our attention toward eliminating persistent racism and sexism.

Then, beginning in the 1950s, our government and large corporations began meddling in the politics of other countries based on the fear of communism and the so-called Domino Theory. That led to the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the overthrow of democratically elected leaders in Iran, Chile, and elsewhere. And, as our nation’s power and influence spread, so did the power and greed of our corporations.

As a consequence of their globalization, industry consolidation and tax inequity, we have seen our nation change dramatically. The Citizens United decision permitted corporations and billionaires to quite literally purchase our government through campaign donations and influence. That led to growing wealth disparity, a weakened democracy, growing executive power, weakening international influence, increasing threats both domestically and abroad, the threat of environmental and climate disasters, a failure to transition to renewable energy, the threat of corporate and government controlled AI, the threat of corporations and billionaires controlling our food chain, massively increasing deficits and debt, competing ideologies with little hope of compromise, and a growing segment of the population that wants to tear everything down.

There are no easy and quick fixes to these problems. No answers that can be articulated in a sound bite. Few politicians are willing to risk losing their office by speaking out. Very few billionaires are willing to finance those who would address the issues at the risk of losing part of their fortunes. And even worse, few middle-class voters are willing to sacrifice their resource-depleting, energy-consuming, material-based lifestyle.

As I’ve written before, there will come a reckoning – perhaps the kind of collapse my grandparents faced when the banks and stock markets collapsed turning the Roaring 20s into the Great Depression. When many lost everything and an entire hard day’s work paid 50 cents to a dollar. Maybe less.

That may seem like ancient history not worth considering. Yes, it happened nearly 100 years ago. But there’s a lesson to be learned. Those generations thought it couldn’t happen to them, either. Yet it did, because then, like now, voters kept electing shortsighted politicians who refused to make hard decisions.

We can prevent such a calamity from repeating itself. We can overturn Citizens United and place severe limits on campaign contributions. We can create more jobs and reduce consumer costs by transitioning to renewable fuels. That will also benefit the environment and help head off the coming climate crisis and mass extinction. We can break up the 3 or 4 corporations that control almost every industry. We can address the federal debt by charging corporations for the infrastructure they use; by charging extraction industries for the natural resources they take; by making corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes; and by reducing our bloated military budget. We can make healthcare accessible and affordable for all Americans by implementing Medicare for all.

Unfortunately, those ideas are unpopular right now, especially among elected MAGA Republicans and their rightwing propaganda machine. And why not? They all profit handsomely from their obedience to the Felon and his billionaire friends who naturally oppose change. But there are a few politicians who understand that the future of our nation, and perhaps our planet, is at stake. People like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and most of the Democratic progressive caucus. People who understand the real issues and are willing to fight for ordinary Americans.

It’s long past time that we listen to them.

Adding To Our $39 Trillion Debt: What Happens When You Trust The Economy To A Felon.

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When President Reagan took office in 1981, the national debt was under $1 trillion. By the time he left office, it had ballooned to nearly $3 trillion. President Clinton was able to slow the growth and eliminate annual deficits. Then George W. Bush oversaw three wars and a stock market crash that sent the debt soaring. By the time he left office the debt had climbed to more than $10 trillion. And, by the time President Obama was able to correct the economy, the debt had nearly doubled to more than $19 trillion.

Then the debt really started climbing. In his first term alone, despite inheriting a booming economy, the Felon-in-Chief added $7.8 trillion to the debt. Of course, that doesn’t count the trillions President Biden needed to resurrect the economy from the Felon’s failed response to the pandemic. Already in the Felon’s second term, the debt has increased another $2.7 trillion to more than $39 trillion, 133 percent of our GDP. And it’s expected that his tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy will add yet another $3.4 trillion over the next 10 years.

That means that the Felon is on track to add more than $14 trillion to the debt even as he cuts federal services for average Americans and safety nets for the needy!

And that doesn’t include the likely $2 trillion cost of his war of choice with Iran, the $1.776 billion slush fund for his criminal supporters, the tens of millions it cost for his many golf trips, the billions he wants to build a lavish ballroom and his Arch d’ Trump, and the billions his family will skim from the federal budget for their personal use.

Of course, you also have to consider the impact his war and illegal tariffs have had on the cost of living and the cost of health insurance, which have forced American families to spend many additional billions. And the growing possibility that, like W, he and his MAGA party will again crater the economy.

So, if you’re looking for a reason to elect Democrats in the 2026 and 2028 elections, I can give you trillions of them.

Proof Of Trump’s Sedition.

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If there was ever a question that the Felon launched the January 6 insurrection, it has been clearly answered by his actions since returning to the Oval Office.

On the first day of his second term, he pardoned nearly 1,600 of his thug supporters who were awaiting trial, had pled guilty, or were convicted of crimes ranging from conspiracy to commit sedition to brutally beating capitol police officers to obstructing an official proceeding to unlawfully entering and vandalizing a restricted area. And, although no one was charged with the crime, it was also clear that many of those arrested planned to murder VP Mike Pence in addition to Democratic senators and representatives.

In his congressional testimony, special prosecutor Jack Smith testified that he not only had obtained grand jury indictments against the Felon for leading the insurrection and trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But he firmly believes he had enough evidence to secure a conviction. After all, there is an abundance of video of the plot as it unfolded.

Yet the Felon has indicated that he plans to reward his thuggish January 6 followers with $1.7 billion of taxpayer funds as compensation for their efforts!

Combined, all of that would surely be enough evidence to get a conviction of sedition in any court in the land. But sadly, it’s not enough to sway a single Republican to vote for impeachment, let alone a conviction.

That should tell you everything you need to know about the MAGA/Republican Party’s willingness to see justice and our constitution corrupted in its quest for power. It is certainly no longer the “party of law and order” it claimed to be.

Moreover, the party’s actions speak volumes about the lack of patriotism, ethics and morality of those who voted for the 34-count convicted felon. They not only set aside the standard that normally prevents a felon from holding office. A significant percentage of voters was willing to overlook his convictions for fraud and a jury’s decision that he had committed sexual assault, as well as the numerous and credible accusations of rape, including that of a 13-year-old!

Of course, there’s the Access Hollywood tape in which he brags about grabbing women between the legs and walking into the dressing room of the Miss Teen USA pageant to see contestants naked. There’s his longtime friendship with a convicted pedophile and sex trafficker, his adultery and philandering, his many thousands of lies, his delight in acts of cruelty, his obvious ties to Russia, our nation’s greatest external threat, and his obvious mishandling of the nation’s secrets.

But none of that seemed to matter to millions of Americans. They claim to have voted for the man because he promised them lower grocery prices – prices that had become inflated due to his policies and mishandling of the pandemic during his previous term in office.

Even now, many of those voters are willing to overlook spiraling inflation caused by his folly in Iran, his corruption of our justice system and many of our most beloved institutions, his dictatorial and narcissistic behavior, his obvious dementia, and his unconstitutional use of the government to enrich his family. For them, his racism and misogyny aren’t faults, they’re strengths.

Contrary to his supporters’ beliefs, he’s not the second coming of Christ. He’s the second coming of Idi Amin.

Trump’s Folly.

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Let’s call the bombing of Iran and the ensuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz what it really is: Trump’s Folly. He has a confusing and troubling history with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In 2017, he withdrew the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement negotiated with Iran and other world powers to carefully watch over Iran’s nuclear program to ensure that it did not develop nuclear weapons. In the first months of his second occupation of the Oval Office, without provocation, he ordered the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites claiming to have completely obliterated them. Then in February of this year, Trump ordered a second round of attacks, which claimed the life of Iran’s supreme leader, as well as the lives of more than 180 elementary school girls. Again, the Felon claimed the strikes to be a great success.

What followed is something the geographically challenged Felon did not anticipate. Iran struck back at U.S. bases and our Middle Eastern allies. More important, they shut down all shipping traffic past the Strait of Hormuz.

Now this is a conundrum that neither the Felon nor his sidekicks had anticipated. It doesn’t take a world power to close the Strait. All it takes is a few determined individuals equipped with drones, small missiles and enough explosives to damage a few oil tankers and container ships. That is enough for shipping companies to lose their insurance coverage and abandon further attempts.

Currently, there are more than 2,000 ships stranded in the Persian Gulf unwilling to attempt passage. These are ships that move approximately 20 percent of the world’s oil, in addition to a wide variety of other goods, including fertilizer needed for crops in the U.S. and elsewhere.

The astonishing thing about this situation is that any middle schooler with an understanding of geography could see the potential problem of starting a war of choice with Iran. But the Felon and his Secretary of War couldn’t. They obviously committed to the attacks without a goal and without a plan. And now they’re stuck.

They claim the war has already been won. That Iran has no ships, no aircraft, no weapons. Yet the Strait is still closed, and the military says that we are also running out of advanced weapons. They claim that there is a ceasefire. But the U.S. and Israel continue to strike Iran, and Iran continues to strike back. In response, the Felon threatens war crimes and nuclear obliteration.

So far, the war has cost U.S. taxpayers somewhere between $42 billion and $84 billion. And that doesn’t include the $11 billion in additional weapons sent to Israel. Neither does it include the approximately $50 billion in damage to U.S. bases in the Middle East. Nor does it include the $500 billion that the Felon wants to add to our already bloated military budget.

Moreover, it doesn’t include the additional costs for goods and services as a result of rising fuel costs and disrupted supply chains – a total likely far larger than the cost of military weapons and bases. And, of course, it doesn’t include the human costs in lives lost, disrupted or forever changed.

Nevertheless, the Felon continues to claim that he’s winning this “excursion.” He’s not just at war with Iran. He’s at war with reality.