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New York Post
a day ago
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- New York Post
Leftist media's Iran misreporting: Letters to the Editor — June 30, 2025
The Issue: CNN's report on an assessment doubting the US's success in its strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Once again, we have an apparent security leak coming from a government security agency and a cable news channel, CNN, runs the story as though the leaked information is 100% true ('Well, leak of the devil, CNN,' Miranda Devine, June 26). CNN did not disclose that the leaked information came with low confidence and that a full assessment of the bomb damage will take weeks or months to verify. Despite this cautionary warning, CNN ran the story and then other media outlets and Democrats followed CNN's lead. They will do anything to disparage the president. The full facts and respected analysis have not been disclosed, so CNN's actions should be severely criticized. Let's wait for the facts to come out before we judge the success or failure of the mission. Harold Fishman Manhattan If Democrats were given a briefing about the Iran strike, then soon after some of this news was leaked to the news media, what is the president supposed to think? This is information so sensitive it is top secret. To leak this information is a federal crime. Whoever is responsible for leaking the intelligence could be looking at losing 10 years of their life behind bars. Joseph Comperchio Brooklyn We now have a president who makes decisions on behalf of the American people. But all those in the media who see everything through a haze of Trump-deranged hatred respond with reporting aimed toward demonstrably false stories about (for example) mission failure rather than actual success. They couldn't wait to report false stories, leaked by spiteful, residual saboteurs. One can only deduce from this behavior that those Trump-deranged people in the media hate Trump more than they love their country. Rick Cabrera Elmhurst This bombing was as close to the taking out of the Death Star in 'Star Wars' as you can get. America dropped bombs through air shafts the size of your kitchen refrigerator from 13,000 feet and it was a direct hit. This action may lead to actual peace in the Middle East. Yet you'd be hard-pressed to find any mainstream media outlet that cheers anything America succeeds at anymore. This needs to end. If you don't love being here, maybe you should leave. This bombing also showed the rest of the world we are the rulers of the skies and nobody is a close second. James Schwartz Summit, NJ The Issue: AOC and other Democratic politicians' disapproval of President Trump's Iran strike. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should consider that old saying: 'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt' (' 'Make my day' & impeach,' June 25). One wonders what purpose this one-trick pony actually serves in legislative matters other than to oppose, accuse and rabble-rouse, mostly for the sake of anything to say. Vincent Ruggiero Scottsdale, Ariz. How ironic: AOC is up in arms over President Trump's bombing of Iran, saying it's unconstitutional, calling once again for an impeachment. Funny: I don't remember the Dems being upset with former President Barack Obama not asking Congress for permission. Thomas De Julio Delray Beach, Fla. The wimpy and feckless so-called leaders are outraged, with AOC calling for Trump's impeachment. Every one of them complained that Trump didn't go before Congress. But the last time Congress was apprised of the president's intentions for an enemy attack was long ago. JR Cummings Manhattan Want to weigh in on today's stories? Send your thoughts (along with your full name and city of residence) to letters@ Letters are subject to editing for clarity, length, accuracy, and style.
New York Post
5 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Miranda Devine: Trump-derangement syndrome drives deep state leakers, CNN to treasonous lengths to deny prez a victory
How deranged are the Trump-deranged? Are the deep state leakers and their Democrat media mouthpieces so blinded by their hatred for the president that they will go to treasonous lengths just to deny him a victory. Or are they simply hellbent on provoking a full-scale war with Iran? CNN's exclusive report of a leaked top secret US intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency Tuesday suggested that the weekend B-2 bunker buster sortie in Iran was a flop. This conveniently contradicted Trump's claim that it was a 'spectacular military success' that had 'completely and totally obliterated' Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities and overshadowed the startlingly good news that the president had somehow pulled off a cease-fire between Iran and Israel, which was still holding more than 40 hours later, when we went to press. If the aim of CNN and its toxic leakers was to enrage Trump, it worked, with the president venting ever since on social media, on Air Force One to the traveling press corps and in a press conference in The Hague where he called CNN 'fake news.' He has a point. Among the intelligence community, regard for DIA analysis is so low that the nickname for the agency is 'Do It Again.' The CNN exclusive was written by none other than Natasha Bertrand, the same CIA stenographer who scooped the dishonest Dirty 51 letter by 51 former intelligence officials back in October 2020 falsely claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. More on her later. Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington. Subscribe here! Dishonest spin The FBI is hot on the trail of the leaker or leakers of the DIA report, with US special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff accusing CNN's anonymous deep state sources of 'treason.' But CNN's dishonest spin of the intelligence assessment was as egregious. The DIA came out later to say it was a 'preliminary, low confidence' assessment done in the early hours after the strike and that the analysis was so equivocal that it said the impact of the strikes could be 'limited or it could be very severe,' as Trump told reporters at The Hague Wednesday. CNN just ignored the uncertain nature of the DIA findings and failed to report the contradictory assessments within the report that suggested Trump was right. But never mind. CNN's misleading reporting, soon amplified by The New York Times, gave the rest of the Resistance media hours of gleeful raining on Trump's parade. God forbid that their audience consider Trump might be a step closer to achieving the ever elusive peace in the Middle East. The same Negative Nellies, now chortling that boastful Trump had failed to set back Iran's nuclear ambitions more than a couple of months, were claiming last week that the president was exaggerating the threat because Iran was nowhere near getting nuclear capability. They can't make up their minds because they don't have any thoughts of their own other than whatever Trump says they're against. Within a day, the CIA, the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and even Iranian assessments contradicted the CNN story with battlefield assessments involving actual on-the-ground human and signal intelligence from Iran to say the US strike on Iran's underground Fordow nuclear was 'devastating.' Iran's Foreign Ministry admitted its nuclear sites were 'badly damaged.' Get Miranda's latest take Sign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from Miranda Devine Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Want even more news? Check out more newsletters 'Critical infrastructure' The IAEC said Operation Midnight Hammer's 13.6-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker busters dropped on the underground Fordow plant had 'destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility totally inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.' Another post-attack assessment, by the nonpartisan US Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, drew similar conclusions, while warning that 'with residual stocks of 60% and hidden centrifuges, Iran retains an ability to breakout and produce weapon-grade uranium. '[But] considering the damage to Iran's three known enrichment facilities, the destruction of Iran's centrifuge manufacturing capabilities, its uranium conversion facility, uranium metal production plant, and other facilities involved in its nuclear weaponization process, reconstituting these capabilities will take significant time, investment, and energy to return to its previous state before the war or build nuclear weapons. Iran has likely lost close to 20,000 centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow, creating a major bottleneck in any reconstitution effort.' The full battleground assessment is still to come, but Iran is on notice that any further attempts to get its hands on nuclear weapons will be met with further strikes. What's most intriguing about this saga is the media's complicity with rogue elements of the intelligence community in the ongoing treasonous sabotage of Donald Trump's presidencies. Bertrand, CNN's Pentagon correspondent, is not really a journalist in the traditional sense but more a conduit for the laundering of get-Trump CIA narratives. At 33, the Vassar College graduate has had a meteoric rise through the ranks of multiple high-profile media organizations, after well-connected internships at The Atlantic and the Council on Foreign Relations. Bogus reporting She has been at the center of all the bogus Russiagate reporting about Trump, beginning with the fake Steele Dossier, aka 'pee tape,' during her time at Business Insider and later at The Atlantic and Politico, where she was national security correspondent by the tender age of 26. She was quickly rewarded for her unverified beat-ups on MSNBC, where she became a paid contributor. The fact that most of her reporting was later debunked or proven to be misleading did nothing to hurt her career. Quite the opposite. She was rewarded for never admitting she was wrong, including when the Mueller Report debunked Russiagate and when her CIA-sourced story (designed to sabotage Trump's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan in his first term), that Russia had paid bounties to the Taliban for the death of US soldiers, fell apart. 'Even a cursory review of Bertrand's prolific output reveals an endless array of gossip, conspiracy and speculative assertions masquerading as journalism,' independent journalist Glenn Greenwald once wrote. 'There was arguably nobody in media other than Rachel Maddow who promoted and ratified that [Russiagate] hoax as aggressively, uncritically and persistently as Bertrand.' Even Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple, no Trump fan, has criticized Bertrand for her 'thumb-on-scale speculation' and 'boosterism' of the Steele Dossier in an article titled: 'How Politico's Natasha Bertrand bootstrapped dossier credulity into MSNBC gig.' Until now, Bertrand and her employers have been rewarded for their uncritical promotion of malign CIA saboteurs. But the plummeting ratings at CNN and the Resistance media's collective loss of public trust suggest their time is running out. And finally, the leakers face the real possibility of being outed and held to account.
New York Post
7 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Iran-Israel cease-fire totally vindicates Trump's decision to strike
Disappointing hysterics across the political spectrum, from Trump-deranged lefties to pseudo-MAGA isolationists, President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that Iran and Israel have agreed in principle to a cease-fire. This follows Iran's nothingburger attack earlier in the day on a US base in Qatar that barely stirred up the desert dust, a face-saving gesture in lieu of any greater response to Operation Midnight Hammer. That prompted the prez to suggest 'Iran can now proceed to Peace and Harmony in the Region, and I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same' — which seemingly did the trick. And totally vindicates Trump's decision to take out Iran's nuclear sites — and so move this crisis toward a rapid end. Yes, plenty remains up in the air: For starters, will both sides indeed stop firing at midnight Tuesday? It they do, will it last? The odds grow if the deal somehow stretches to include Tehran's terror proxies — especially, if it means Hamas throws in the towel and turns over the remaining hostages, with its disarmed fighters going into exile far from Israel's borders. Then, too, it's not yet clear just how far back the US-Israeli strikes have set back Iran's nuclear-weapons programs; maybe it's decades, or perhaps the mission will need repeating in just a few years. Get opinions and commentary from our columnists Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters And we see no sign that Tehran has forsworn revenge attacks — say, a series of assassinations by those much-rumored sleeper cells. Even with those questions outstanding, Monday brought a fine putdown of all those who fretted about 'escalation' on Sunday: Iran's rulers realized they had no good moves now except to cut their losses and pull back in hopes something will eventually break their way. Cross your fingers that everyone else in the Middle East can go straight to building a better future.
New York Post
16-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Miranda Devine: Army's 250th anniversary parade was a celebration of America — unlike foolish ‘No Kings' protests
The weekend's grand military parade in Washington to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary was a feel-good patriotic triumph and a rebuke to Democrats and their mean-spirited, small-minded anti-Trump protests. America has the mightiest army in the world. It's something to be proud and patriotic about. Why not celebrate? And what a show it was, with uniforms dating back to the Revolutionary War, 6,600 soldiers, 150 vehicles and 50 helicopters participating, not to mention a robot dog and drones. Advertisement The parade was a display of pride in our troops and their awesome weaponry, but importantly, it also stood as a warning to our adversaries at a time of global peril, amid the specter of war in Iran. 'Time and again, America's enemies have learned that if you threaten the American people, our soldiers are coming for you,' the president said in a brief but stirring speech, which lauded the grit of America's soldiers without mentioning Iran or any hostile nation by name. Nonetheless, the warning was clear. 'Your defeat will be certain, your demise will be final, and your downfall will be total and complete because our soldiers never give up, never surrender, and never, ever quit. They fight, fight, fight, and they win, win, win.' The Army's day Advertisement Here was the unmistakable echo of the moment almost a year ago when candidate Trump rose to his feet after surviving an assassin's bullet, blood streaming down his face, fist raised, and uttered the immortal words 'Fight, fight, fight' — which led him, of course, to 'win, win, win' to the never-ending chagrin of the Trump-deranged. But that was the only self-referential moment in the parade. The crowd spontaneously sang 'Happy Birthday' to him at the end, but Trump seemed content to let the Army be the star that day. Of course, his detractors sneered that the parade was a self-aggrandizing display to satisfy his ego because it coincided with his birthday. Get Miranda's latest take Sign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from Miranda Devine Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Want even more news? Check out more newsletters Advertisement But Saturday, June 14, really was the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States Army in 1775, more than a year before the Declaration of Independence. 'There was an army before there was a nation' was the motto of the day, something worth remembering. Another way of putting it is that there would have been no nation without an army. 'Peace through strength' is not possible without the military. June 14 was also Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of Old Glory as the official national flag by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. Advertisement It was providence that Trump's 79th birthday also was June 14. Providentially, too, the forecast bad weather did not rain on his parade, even though Minnesota's weirdo Gov. Tim Walz wished it would. In any case, plans for celebrating the Army's 250th birthday were already in the works under the last administration, but Joe Biden would have had a couple of tanks, maybe a fitness event and probably a drag display. Whatever he decided, it would have been an embarrassment. Biden is the reason the Taliban threw their own military parade with our equipment after his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, so Democrats should really have kept quiet rather than rail against Trump's parade as a 'vulgar,' 'authoritarian' abomination and a waste of money, as if they ever cared about that. They do know a thing or two about vulgarity, it's true. But the estimated cost of Saturday's parade, $25 million to $45 million, is a steal, considering the military spends nearly $2 billion a year on recruitment, money down the drain during the woke Biden era. But now recruitment is soaring; targets for the year were met in just the first five months of the Trump administration. This success is not what the Hate America First crowd wants us to focus on. So, the Dems and their militant proxies staged a series of protests-cum-riots across the country Saturday to take attention away from the military parade, using various branding efforts, the most preposterous of which was 'No Kings.' What a flop. The irony of shouting 'No Kings' at a parade honoring the Army that freed America from a king seemed to be lost on them. Advertisement Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington. Subscribe here! 'Don't feel like king' Trump made a mockery of 'No Kings' without even trying when he joked to reporters asking about the protest. 'I don't feel like a king,' he remarked. 'I have to go through hell to get stuff approved.' From Alex Padilla and Alexander Vindman to Maxine Waters and LaMonica McIver, all the Democrats have are ugly stunts and a compliant media. Advertisement California Sen. Padilla's performance on Thursday, when he disrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's LA press conference and had to be forcibly bundled out by the Secret Service, was designed to add fuel to the Democrat narrative that Trump is a dictator. But Padilla is a big man and was moving toward the podium, where the diminutive Noem was speaking, and interrupting her. It was clear he had bad intent. What was the Secret Service to do during heightened tensions but protect their assigned politician and remove the threat? The murder two days later of a Democratic politician in Minnesota by a suspect linked to Gov. Walz brought home the threat hanging over all our political leaders. Shame on Padilla for causing the ruckus. Advertisement Vindman, a 'Hero of the Resistance' in the first Trump administration when he triggered the first impeachment, was similarly unhinged. He took to X last week to display his toxic id: 'f–k off you fascist b*tch,' he tweeted at Noem last week. Democratic New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver was so violent and out of control during a protest outside a Newark immigration detention center that she has been indicted on federal charges for assault and interfering with immigration officers. We all saw her unhinged behavior on video. Quite unseemly. Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters doesn't know any better, even at the age of 86. She tried to force her way into a federal immigration detention center, requiring National Guard intervention to block her path. Dems are simply bitter and angry because Trump won back the presidency and is winning over their former voters, day by day. The more the country does well, the more vengeful they become. Alex and Alexander and LaMonica and Maxine were perfectly content when President Pudding Brain and his grifter family were in the White House, handing control of our borders to criminal cartels who brought in untold thousands of terrorists, killers, rapists and gangbangers. They loved that. But now that the border is closed, inflation is under control and blue-collar wage growth is at record highs, they have lost their minds.
Gulf Insider
23-02-2025
- Business
- Gulf Insider
'We Created a Monster With Zelensky': White House Isn't Backing Down in Growing Rift
Axios has released a devastating report full of quotes from Trump admin officials which strongly suggests the growing rift with Zelensky is only about to worsen. The Ukrainian leader is seen as having overstepped by the White House. A US administration official involved in peace negotiations with Russia bluntly told the publication that 'Zelensky is an actor who committed a common mistake of theater kids: He started to think he's the character he plays on TV.' 'Yes, he has been brave and stood up to Russia. But he would be six feet under if it wasn't for the millions we spent, and he needs to exit stage right with all the drama,' the unidentified official said. This strongly suggests that Trump is pursuing a full political transition in Ukraine at this point. Another official, also involved in negotiations described that 'We created a monster with Zelensky,' and that 'these Trump-deranged Europeans who won't send troops are giving him terrible advice.' Speaking of which, one Saturday headline has revealed the European Union is still seeking ways to seize part of Russa's frozen $280 billion in assets held abroad. So while Washington under Trump is trying to strike peace and compromise, the Europeans look content to try and sabotage what they already see as a 'bad deal' to end the war. Yet another US official was quoted in Axios as reviewing that 'In the course of a week, Zelensky rebuffed President Trump's treasury secretary, his secretary of state and his vice president, all before moving on to personally insulting President Trump in the press.' The unnamed official followed with, 'What did Zelensky think was going to happen?' Meanwhile a mineral deal is said to be close, with some Friday night headlines claiming a final deal was 'hours' away – but Zelensky's office has said it's still mulling over the first draft. 'President Trump is obviously very frustrated right now with President Zelensky,' National Security Advisor Mike Waltz underscored in Thursday comments. Click here to read more
