One of President Donald Trump's fiercest loyalists appeared to play a key part in burying the administration's latest scandal, according to two experts.

Last week, it was reported that Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer's husband, Shawn DeRemer, had been barred from the agency's office in Washington, D.C., after he was accused of sexually assaulting a female employee. That step is extraordinary in and of itself, but even moreso considering that DeRemer has not been charged with a crime.

The Washington Metropolitan Police Department concluded its investigation on Thursday and found insufficient evidence to substantiate the allegations against DeRemer. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host, also declined to bring charges against DeRemer

Even so, Pirro appeared to play a central role in making the whole thing go away, according to Legal "Diva" Melba Pearson and former Florida state attorney Dave Aronberg, who discussed the scandal on the latest episode of the "Legal AF" podcast.

Pearson noted that Pirro's decision not to bring charges was questionable, given that the agency had decided to prohibit DeRemer from being on the premises.

"What perturbs me is that Jeannie Piro ... she's like, 'Yeah, I saw the tape. Nothing doing.' which under normal circumstances, I would take the prosecutor's side," Pearson said.

"Why would you ban him from the building if there was nothing to see?" she added.

Pearson added that the Department of Labor did not bring in an outside investigator to look into the allegations against DeRemer. Instead, that duty fell to the agency's Inspector General, she said.

Aronberg said the episode made him question how the accuser could get a fair shot at justice at all.

"The number one criterion for Trump is not job performance, it's loyalty," he said.

A military expert flagged the "most troubling" part of President Donald Trump's decision to coordinate an attack on Iran with Israel on Saturday.

Mark Hertling, retired commander of the U.S. Army Europe, argued in a new article for The Bulwark that Trump's "campaign" to bomb Iran's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities has an "apparent gap between strategy and action." That makes it hard for Trump's domestic and international allies to line up behind the decision, he added.

"Hope is not a method," Hertling wrote. "A regime-change strategy without a phased-action plan is not a strategy at all. It’s an aspiration untethered from reality, and it will quickly lose support, either from the rest of the government or our citizens or both."

Early Saturday morning, Trump posted a more than eight-minute video on his Truth Social account where he described the action against Iran as a "war" that sought to topple former Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a brutal dictator who had ruled the country since 1989. Khamenei was killed in the assault, but what comes next appears less clear, Hertling argued.

He added that the move could cause foreign nations to trust the U.S. less than they already do. A report by the Washington Post revealed that Trump's decision likely came at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"When U.S. policy appears driven by another state’s security priorities, even an ally’s, it complicates coalition-building," he wrote. "European partners may question whether they are being drawn into a regional conflict that does not align with their threat assessments. Gulf states may cooperate tactically while resisting deeper political alignment. In the long term, perceived policy capture—however inaccurate—erodes confidence in American strategic independence."

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President Donald Trump may have been led to strike Iran alongside Israel by an "unusual pair" of allies, a new report revealed.

The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing four sources familiar with the matter, that Trump's decision to conduct a series of strikes against Iran's ballistic and nuclear missile facilities came at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who had been lobbying for the strikes for weeks, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"The combined effort helped lead Trump to order a massive aerial campaign against Iran’s leadership and military, which in its initial hour led to the death of [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials," according to the report.

"The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade," it added. "Saturday’s attack on Iran was a break from decades of U.S. decision-making to hold back from a full-scale effort to depose the regime of a country of more than 90 million people. It also marked a stark shift from Trump’s own previous military forays, which until now have been far narrower in scope."

Early Saturday morning, the U.S. and Israel launched a coordinated attack against multiple Iranian sites. The move sparked protests across both countries and prompted a testy exchange between the United Nations Ambassadors from both countries.

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