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Lets Have A Discussion
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Congratulations to @skynews, who take home News Channel of the Year. The jury praised the channel’s “consistent ability to be in the right place at the right time, delivering strong, well-balanced and memorable coverage of the year’s big stories” #RTSAwards


Fuller MP Strictly Come Dancing practice…











It’s really quite shocking to watch President Trump denigrate Starmer for not letting US planes land at Chagos, and vilify him as “not Winston Churchill”. This was not in response to a question. It was something he wanted to get off his chest, attached to his extraordinary attack on the Spanish government. This represents a serious fracture in the tradition transatlantic alliance, as I said yesterday


Over the last few days the Greens have been under sustained attack. This is why, the establishment know we're coming to break the system that benefits the minority over the majority. Ordinary people first not billionaires, not mega-corporations, not the industrial war machine!


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.


Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said. Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.




















