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Data journalist and pollster Richard Baris claimed on Saturday that ahead of the unprecedented U.S. attack on Iran, the Trump administration had reviewed polling on how many American casualties voters would be “willing to accept in a war with Iran,” the findings of which rattled a number of MAGA loyalists.

“Polling reviewed by the administration asked how many American casualties voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran,” Baris wrote in a social media post on X Saturday morning, several hours after President Donald Trump had authorized strikes on Iran.

President Donald Trump launched a major military operation against Iran early Saturday, citing Tehran’s refusal to renounce pursuing nuclear weapons, but critics say a social media post he made shortly after the strikes began may reveal the true “justification” for the unprecedented attack.

Dubbed Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. strikes on Iran were launched just after midnight early Saturday morning. A few hours later, Trump took to social media and made several posts, one of which, critics claim, may reveal what the president's true motivations were for the attack.

A decision by Donald Trump to launch an assault on Iran with the help of Israel has set off a firestorm among longtime supporters who helped propel him to a second term based, in part, on his promise of no foreign military interventions.

In the wee hours of the night in the US, jets pounded Tehran, with smoke being seen near the presidential palace.

The order, first reported on Thursday, uses as justification for the seizure a claim that China interfered in the 2020 presidential election. No evidence has ever emerged in the dozens of lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, fraudulent, or in any meaningful way affected by illegal voting — and legal experts already raised red flags without even having seen the order that there is no power under the Constitution for a president to control voting practices.

Here are five fast details of what the executive order would do.

Vice President JD Vance announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration will shut off certain types of Medicaid payments to the state of Minnesota for the time being.

"We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily, temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money," said Vance, standing beside Medicare and Medicaid administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.