Robbie Gramer

The indictment charging Raúl Castro in the deadly '96 shoot-down of Brothers to the Rescue planes is expected to be unsealed Wednesday, to coincide with a symbolic event at Miami’s Freedom Tower on Cuba’s independence day. By @ngameztorres and @jayhweaver #storylink=cpy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

Kata'ib Hezbollah (KH) commander, Mohammed Baqir Saad, has been arrested in Turkey and handed over to the US for planning terrorist attacks on American soil. This is a bombshell as far as Iraq-related news goes. It will put Iraq in a very difficult position vis-à-vis the US. This is KH acting here as an Iranian proxy with little regard for Iraqis’ lives, well-being, or the consequences for Iraq. Given the recent variations in US policy toward Iraq, it will be interesting to see how Washington calibrates its response to the arrest of Saad: whether it focuses narrowly on KH and certain figures within it, or whether it expands toward broader action targeting a wider range of actors, including groups, individuals, and perhaps even state institutions. In any case, the Iraqi people do not deserve to be put in a dangerous position by the actions of Iranian proxies. nytimes.com/2026/05/15/nyr…

I made a chart to show how severely they cherry-picked this data.

This is baloney. For starters Poland was not notified. Senior leaders contacted me yesterday saying they were blindsided. And… I’ve learned EUCOM did NOT say there was minimal risk by cancelling the deployment. This was a foolish and embarrassing course of events.

Pallbearers and attendees are being sought for the funeral of 98-year-old WW2 veteran John Bernard Arnold III, who died on May 6th with no living relatives. Visitation will be this Monday, May 18th at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Hanson, Massachusetts at 10am. A funeral mass will follow at 11am, and burial will take place at Cedar Knoll Cemetery in Taunton, Massachusetts. patriotledger.com/story/news/202…

EXCLUSIVE: Last year Kash Patel and his gf flew on an FBI G5 to Philly to see George Strait & Chris Stapleton from a private stadium suite that costs up to $50,000. He won’t say who paid. nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/… via @NYTimes

“They told me exactly how the Trump administration is building a new diplomatic corps that actually loves America… and what the Foreign Service was like under Biden (the news on that front was alarming, to say the least).” piratewires.com/p/marco-rubio-…

I made the case on @CBSMornings that for all the good vibes coming from the summit, if you listen carefully to what Xi was saying, it was threatening and uncompromising—on Taiwan and also on US-China relations more broadly.

American staff took everything Chinese officials handed out - credentials, burner phones from WH staff, pins for delegation - collected them before we got on AF1 and threw them in a bin at bottom at stairs. Nothing from China allowed on the plane. We’re taking off shortly for America

At a time of war in the Middle East, the US has no ambassador in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Iraq or Kuwait. At a time of war in Europe, there is no US ambassador in Russia or Ukraine. Altogether some 115 of 195 ambassador posts are vacant. @RobbieGramer wsj.com/politics/polic…

USAID’s abrupt shutdown caused a 10-to 12 percent increases in conflict events and a 9 percent rise combat deaths in Africa, according to peer-reviewed research released on Thursday. defenseone.com/threats/2026/0… My latest for @DefenseOne

This is a would. Not could. But his conditioning is vague but actually quite clear between lines. A full suspension. No allowing Iran to do various things during that period as mediators have been pushing.

Gutes Telefonat mit @POTUS Donald Trump auf seiner Rückreise aus China. Wir sind uns einig: Iran muss jetzt an den Verhandlungstisch. Die Straße von Hormus muss geöffnet werden. Teheran darf keine Nuklearwaffen haben. (1/2)

President Trump on Rubio's Nike sweatsuit: "I thought he looked very good in the outfit, sweatsuit. I don't know if I'd do it, but I thought he looked very good."

President Trump on China spying in the U.S.: "We spy like hell on them too."

@connorstringer love the hoodie look @alexbward

🚨TRUMP NOW on Air Force One🚨 — Trump and Xi did not discuss tariffs — Xi talked ‘a lot about Taiwan’ — On the risk of conflict ‘I don’t think so, I think we will be fine. He doesn’t want to see a war. He doesn’t want to see a movement for independence. I made no commitment either way.’ — On the arms sales to Taiwan ‘I’ll make a determination’. — Release of Jimmy Lai unlikely The scene here as press pool gather around the one working laptop to listen live.

先程、トランプ大統領と電話会談を行いました。 中国訪問を終えられ、お帰りになるエアフォース・ワンの中から、お電話をいただきました。 トランプ大統領からは、今般の中国訪問について詳細に説明があり、経済安全保障を含む経済や、安全保障など、中国をめぐる諸課題を中心に意見交換を行いました。 また、イラン情勢についても、トランプ大統領に日本の考えを改めてお伝えしました。 日米同盟の更なる強化に向けた協力やインド太平洋、中東などの国際情勢への対応で、今後とも、トランプ大統領と緊密に連携してまいります。

NEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir. Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies. notus.org/money/donald-t…

Cool annotated side-by-side picture by @nytimes of who attended the Trump-Xi summit.

It would be tough to find anyone on the streets of #Venezuela who has noticed any benefit so far. And the argument might be more convincing if the were transparency - at both the U.S. and Venezuelan ends - regarding the flow of funds. Instead there is opacity.