King: Can you update us on Russian intelligence sharing with Iran?
Gabbard: If it's going on, that answer would be appropriate for a closed session
King: It's been in the press. Is it occurring?
Gabbard: What I can tell you is that according to the Dept of War, any support Iran is receiving is not inhibiting their operational effects
King: That's the first cousin of 'yes,' I guess
🇺🇸🇺🇦 General Petraeus spoke about Ukrainian drone production and compared it to the United States
Retired U.S. Army General and former CIA Director David Petraeus described his visit to one of the largest factories, which this year produced three million drones out of the seven million that Ukraine is capable of manufacturing.
“That’s more than anywhere else in the world. The U.S. struggles to produce even 400,000 drones,” he said.
Petraeus emphasized that despite the shifting global priorities caused by the war in the Middle East, Ukraine’s achievements are extraordinary and deserve the support and respect of countries that share the values the Ukrainian people are fighting for.
BREAKING: The US-Europe alliance is reportedly reaching a "breaking point" over the Iran War, and President Trump has "mused" to aides about backing out of NATO, per WSJ.
Details include:
1. Trans-Atlantic ties between the US and Europe are "deteriorating rapidly"
2. Trump has expressed "disgust" with European allies for not joining the US-Israeli war against Iran
3. Trump is questioning whether defending Europe serves US interests at all if Europeans do not help American military interventions in the Middle East or elsewhere
4. The White House’s stance is being described as a "break" with American global strategy since WW2
US-NATO relations appear to be at new lows.
I'm hearing from a very reliable source that Trump is preparing to use his DOJ to target multiple Democratic congressional candidates with fraud-related prosecutions ahead of the midterms, all in an effort to help preserve a Republican majority.
The goal does not seem to be securing convictions. It seems to be creating just enough suspicion in the minds of voters that some stay home on Election Day or choose the Republican candidate instead.
Meanwhile, many Republicans seem entirely unbothered by the fact that Trump himself was found liable for fraud and has pardoned more than a dozen convicted fraudsters. Their concern does not appear to be fraud itself, but the political value of accusing others of it.
Let me read you the MAGA checklist. 👇🏼
We were going to release the Epstein files.
Until Trump showed up in the Epstein files. So we bombed people to distract from them.
We bombed a school in Iran with young kids in it.
We built Alligator Alcatraz — a sewage-backed penitentiary for immigrants in Florida — and laughed about it on camera.
We kidnapped children and didn't know where we were sending them.
We manipulated the markets. Repeatedly.
We accepted a $400 million jet as a bribe and kept it after leaving office.
We excoriated allies who stood with us for over a century.
Threatened to attack a NATO country. Treated Canada like an enemy.
We came after the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of American citizens.
Every price in America went up because of the tariffs.
Then came the tax bill - if you make a million dollars or more — $7,000 benefit.
If you make $50,000 or less — we're taking $500 away from you.
But here's what's finally moving the needle: Gas prices.
It turns out the red line for MAGA is $8 a gallon going into the 250th birthday of America.
Nobody wants to grill hot dogs and explain to their kids why it costs $120 to fill the tank.
The approval ratings are going into the gutter.
And he doesn't care.
That's the part that should terrify everyone.
@SenseAndNon@SmithZoe22704 Happy days, when the rule of law is restored.
Character matters, and this man is not fit. MAGA voters either don't know (ignorance) or they don't care (evil). Sad times for our country.
Mark my words. Pete Hegseth will be fired in disgrace and go down as the worst Department of Defense (Department of War) hire in United States history.
Trump will blame everything on him and he will be brought up on charges for international war crimes in both Iran and Venezuela.
@unusual_whales Hegseth, Trump, and others, are creating new reasons for this war, day by day.
Maybe Hegseth is right, at some level, or maybe he's wrong, but the fact is, we have a constitution, and they're supposed to go to Congress FIRST.
Hegseth: My son... asked about the war and the families I met at Dover. I looked at him and said, 'They died for you, son. So your generation doesn't have to deal with a nuclear Iran.'
Musk really had it all:
He could have been one of the coolest guys on the planet if he had just stayed a goofy tech and space billionaire.
Instead, he chose to back fascism and become a threat to democracy
@MikeLevin Trump does not hire competence.
Trump hires loyalty, fealty, and subservience.
The only time competence matters, is if Trump somehow ends up looking bad.
Today would be a great day for Trump to fire Pete Hegseth and replace him with someone who is actually competent.
Every American and every soldier deployed abroad would be safer for it.
"Men need to be perp-walked in handcuffs to the jail [due to the Epstein files], and until we see that here in this country... we don't have a system of justice that's working," Representative Massie has said.
@unusual_whales We don't have a functioning system of justice.
It has become pay for play. Anyone in federal prison needs a pardon? Just say nice things about Trump and then pay him off.
It is not possible to have faith and trust in government, with corruption at this scale.
BREAKING: Israel is preparing to strike Iranian energy facilities and they are awaiting the "green light" from the US, per Reuters.
Details include:
1. The report comes just hours after President Trump gave Iran 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or he will "reign hell"
2. The timeframe for such attacks would be within the next week, Israeli officials say
3. Iranian state media has also reported new air strikes at a petrochemical zone in southwestern Iran
Strikes on Iranian power plants appear to be increasingly likely.