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'Good god': Critics terrified Trump took US 'deeper into chaos' with latest rant

President Donald Trump poked the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and former president, Dimitry Medvedev, in a Truth Social post Monday — and it left many fearful that Trump is growing trigger-happy.

Medvedev began the exchange, suggesting that other countries would transfer nuclear weapons to Iran in support of their fight with the U.S.

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Iran fires missiles at US military base in Qatar: reports

Three different news reports are saying that Iran has fired missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar.

Wall Street Journal national security reporter Lara Seligman noted just before noon EST Monday, "Iran is moving missile launchers into place for a potential attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East in response to the surprise American strike on three nuclear sites over the weekend, according to U.S. officials. DOD tracking a 'credible' threat to U.S. forces in the region."

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'Awful quagmire': Pundit warns Trump has doomed GOP by squandering winning card

Democratic pundit Paul Begala claimed Monday that President Donald Trump has doomed the GOP for the upcoming midterm elections because he failed to get the American people on board with his attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

On CNN Monday, Begala conceded, "Nobody wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Nobody. I mean, nobody."

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'It was all lies!' Massive backlash spreads as Trump tries to spin bombing

During his run to retake the White House in 2024, U.S. President Donald Trump promised to avoid "endless war" and serve as a "peace president."

"We will measure our success not only by the battles we win," Trump said during his second inaugural address in January, "but also by the wars that we end and, perhaps most importantly, the wars that we never get into."But after he launched airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites and called for "regime change" this weekend, critics accused him of blatantly misleading the American public.

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'Want to throw up!' Marjorie Taylor Greene has full-on meltdown on live TV

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lost control of her temper during a live interview about President Donald Trump's strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Appearing on War Room on Monday, MAGA influencer Steve Bannon noted that Fox News host Mark Levin had called Greene a "nitwit" for opposing the attack on Iran.

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'That's why Putin's the boss!' Trump rants about 'N word' from Russian ex-leader

President Donald Trump again referenced the word "nuclear" as the "N word" Monday before berating former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for using it.

Trump posted to Truth Social, "Did I hear Former President Medvedev, from Russia, casually throwing around the 'N word' (Nuclear!), and saying that he and other Countries would supply Nuclear Warheads to Iran?" Trump asked.

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'Off the leash': Analyst suggests attack in US may be exactly what Trump wants

The courts may let President Donald Trump “off the leash” if a terrorist attack occurs in the aftermath of the United States' bombing Iran, according to Salon Columnist Heather Digby Parton.

While polls before the strikes showed Americans — even members of the GOP — were opposed to taking action in the Israel-Iran conflict, Digby Parton believes MAGA world is already “falling in line.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene deletes post accusing Trump of 'bait and switch'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) deleted a post on X that accused President Donald Trump of a "bait and switch" of his MAGA base.

"I spent millions of my own money and TRAVELED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY campaigning for President Trump and his MAGA agenda and his promises," Greene said on Monday. "And Trump's MAGA agenda included these key promises: NO MORE FOREIGN WARS. NO MORE REGIME CHANGE. WORLD PEACE."

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Iranian 'sleeper cells' inside America have ex-CIA director alarmed

President Donald Trump got a warning from Iran that it has sleeper cells in the U.S. that could act in retaliation for his air strikes over the weekend — and a former CIA director is alarmed.

NBC News' national security and military correspondent Courtney Kube told MSNBC on Monday that in the days leading up to Trump's decision to bomb Iran, the country sent him a private message that those on American soil were not as immune from its retaliation as Trump might believe.

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Nixon a 'choirboy' next to Trump's shredding of law: Watergate whistleblower

Former Richard Nixon White House counsel John Dean, a critical whistleblower in the Watergate scandal, reiterated on the "Court of History" podcast this week with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz that the behavior he is seeing from President Donald Trump, like the arrest and prosecution of opposition politicians, is far beyond what Nixon ever could have dared do.

It's the latest warning from the former White House insider, who has also stated he fears for America under Trump in a way he never did during the Watergate affair.

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'Very upset': Steve Bannon unloads on Hegseth for lacking proof of Iran success

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon slammed President Donald Trump's administration for failing to prove Iranian nuclear sites had been destroyed after a U.S. bombing campaign.

"I don't think people are sleeping better," Bannon said on Monday, following the weekend strike. "But I was very upset yesterday morning when we at least didn't have, you know, give me a Norman Schwarzkopf, give me a, at least a grainy gun cannon photo of exactly what the freaking, you know, what happened."

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'You just interrupted me!' CNN host snaps as GOP guest dances around questions

CNN's John Berman got into a testy exchange with Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) after the lawmaker skirted his question on regime change in Iran.

The question came in the wake of President Donald Trump's hint that he supported ousting Iran's supreme leader now that the U.S. has entered into the fray with Israel.

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'Unprovoked aggression!' Moscow angry Trump didn't consult Putin on Iran strike

The Kremlin is enraged over President Donald Trump's decision to strike nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend, Reuters reported on Monday — and at least part of its anger seems to stem from the fact that Trump didn't clear any of his action with Vladimir Putin first.

Per the report, Putin "hosted Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Moscow two days after U.S. President Donald Trump sent U.S. bomber planes to strike Iran's three main nuclear sites," where he told Araqchi, "The absolutely unprovoked aggression against Iran has no basis and no justification. For our part, we are making efforts to assist the Iranian people."

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