The Truth Will Set You Free

Tucker Carlson suggested that Iran didn't actually plot to kill President Trump, let alone twice. Why? Because he claimed the intelligence "came from Israel," which has "manipulated [the US] a lot." Except, in both cases, those indicted told authorities Iran WAS behind their plots. Despite Tucker's claims that Iran's attempts to assassinate Trump are only known because of Israeli intelligence, both Asif Merchant and Farhad Shakeri told investigators how they had been trained and funded by Iran. (It is worth noting that it's not clear if there was any Israeli intelligence that helped crack either case, as both indictments indicate that authorities learned about Iran's involvement from the defendants directly.) The trial just got underway last week for Asif Merchant, who has a wife and children in Iran and had spent at least a month in Iran shortly before he allegedly recruited what he thought were hit men (but were actually feds) to kill Trump. But it has been public knowledge for quite some time that Merchant told investigators that he had been trained to be a spy by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps — and that his cousin, an Iranian agent, had given him "the money to pay for the assassination." As for the other, unrelated case, that defendant told the FBI that almost immediately after Merchant's arrest became public in September 2024, the IRGC had "asked Shakeri [in mid-to-late September 2024] to put aside his other efforts on behalf of the IRGC and focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump." When Shakeri indicated would need a "'huge' amount of money," per the indictment, "IRGC Official-I said that 'we have already spent a lot of money .. . [s]o the money's not an issue,' which Shakeri understood to mean that the IRGC previously had spent a significant sum of money on efforts to murder Victim-4 [Trump] and was willing to continue spending a lot of money in its attempt to procure Victim-4's [Trump's] assassination." Shakeri has not yet been tried or even arrested, as he is believed to be in Iran. But at least one of his alleged co-conspirators was sentenced earlier this year for a related IRGC assassination plot on U.S. soil, this one targeting American journalist and activist, Masih Alinejad. None of this information regarding Merchant and Shakeri has been hidden from public view. To the extent there was Israeli intelligence involved in uncovering either plot targeting Trump is actually unclear — at least publicly — and the U.S. government's own charging documents clearly lay out that both men detailed Iran's involvement in their respective cases. In other words, Tucker lied. Again. And he could have debunked his own lie in less than 15 minutes. That is, of course, if Tucker had even wanted to do anything other than blame Israel for everything.

Last night, we found a guy in Pakistan that was managing 31 accounts posting AI war videos. All were hacked and the usernames were changed on Feb 27 to "Iran War Monitor" or some derivative. We are getting much faster at detecting this—and also eliminating the incentive to do this.

Bill Clinton personally demanded to bring Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as his plus-ones to the King of Morocco's wedding in 2002. They flew on the Lolita Express together. Clinton, Epstein, and Maxwell sat with the king at the formal dinner. Chelsea insisted on a group photo. Source: NYP