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President Donald Trump insisted to other G7 leaders that the U.S. was on the verge of winning his war on Iran and insulted one of the leaders who offered his nation's assistance, according to sources.

The U.S. president took part in a virtual meeting Wednesday with the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the EU, and three officials briefed on the call told Axios that Trump boasted Iran was "about to surrender" and claimed Operation Epic Fury had already been successful.

Donald Trump's Iran war is fracturing his inner circle, with fierce internal battles over whether to escalate military operations or declare victory and exit—a conflict that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt attempted to suppress as being "based on gossip and speculation."

According to a Reuters exclusive by journalists Nandita Bose, Matt Spetalnick, and Humeyra Pamuk, Trump administration officials are locked in a "complex tug-of-war" driving the president's shifting public statements on the conflict. Three weeks into the war, aides are still debating when and how to declare victory even as the conflict spreads across the Middle East.

GOP strategist Scott Jennings's attempt to defend President Donald Trump's shifting story on the war in Iran blew up in his face on Thursday during a panel on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip.

The Trump administration has justified coordinating recent bombing strikes against Iran by arguing that the country was close to achieving a nuclear weapon and that Iran presented an "imminent threat" to the U.S. While the administration has been saying everything is going great, recent reports indicate that the Iranians have figured out effective ways to fight back.

President Donald Trump's administration announced an oil market move on Thursday that had some analysts up in arms.

The Treasury Department announced that it had temporarily rescinded sanctions on Russian oil already at sea. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the move was in response to skyrocketing energy prices resulting from the war in Iran, but several analysts noted that Russia benefited from the move in myriad ways.

President Donald Trump's administration temporarily lifted sanctions against Russian oil that is already at sea on Thursday in an effort to ease the oil price crisis caused by the recent war in Iran, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported that the new exemptions will be in place until April 11. The U.S. initially placed sanctions on Russian oil as a means of exerting economic pressure on the country to end its war in Ukraine.

A former senior U.S. official who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations delivered a blunt assessment when asked about the Trump administration's failure to plan for Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz: "I'm dumbfounded."

Trump's own top officials admitted to lawmakers behind closed doors that they never planned for the possibility that Iran would shut down the strait in response to U.S. military strikes, multiple sources familiar with classified congressional briefings told CNN. The scenario is among the most catastrophic economic scenarios American national security planners have war-gamed for decades.

President Donald Trump named the new leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media on Thursday, just one week after a federal judge ousted one of his allies from the post, according to a new report.

NBC News reported that Trump named Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, to lead USAGM after Trump ally Kari Lake was ousted by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth last week. Rogers is a First Amendment lawyer who formerly represented the National Rifle Association, or NRA, and challenged social media companies for allegedly censoring the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk and other conservative voices.

Legal experts were alarmed on Thursday as the latest "laughable" legal theory put forward by President Donald Trump's allies seemed to move closer to becoming law.

The Trump administration has been circulating a draft executive order that would federalize the U.S. election process in the event of a national emergency, The Washington Post reported. Even though the legal theory underpinning the order is "far from irrefutable," Anna Bower and Molly Roberts, senior editors at Lawfare, argued in a new article that "bits and pieces" of the order could still become law.