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Dem clashes with Fox News host over claims Iranians support Trump's genocidal threat

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) got in a fiery exchange with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Tuesday after she claimed that Iranians broadly support President Donald Trump's genocidal threats.

Khanna joined the conservative network's live broadcast after Trump had posted on his Truth Social platform that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran did not agree to his negotiation by 8 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday. He argued that Trump's comments had changed from his initial objectives for entering the Iran war and that America should not make genocidal threats that counter everything the United States stands for.

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Ex-Trump advisor makes staggering prediction about Trump's latest threat to Iran

One of President Donald Trump's former national security advisors made a staggering prediction about the president's latest threat to destroy Iran's "civilization" if a deal to end the war is not reached.

On Tuesday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that a "whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran does not agree to a deal to end the war. The threat follows Trump's previous statement that he plans to attack civilian infrastructure like bridges and water systems.

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Trump vows response after Pakistan negotiates Iran ceasefire ahead of his deadline

President Donald Trump is aware of a Pakistani proposal for a 2-week ceasefire in Iran in exchange for opening the Strait of Hormuz.

"Diplomatic efforts for peaceful settlement of the ongoing war in the Middle East are progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully with the potential to lead to substantive results in [the] near future," Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced Tuesday on X. "To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open [the] Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture."

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Texas Republican breaks ranks and condemns Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization

A Republican lawmaker has spoken out against President Donald Trump's threats to wipe out Iranian civilization.

"The United States of America must always be prepared to use overwhelming military force when necessary to defend our national security interests and protect Americans at home and abroad," Rep. Nate Moran (R-TX) posted to X on Tuesday. "And, a President should have the latitude to make decisions to that end, but only to the extent that those decisions are also consistent with the inherent authority of a Commander-in-Chief under the U. S. Constitution and the provisions of the War Powers Resolution. To date, I have supported the President’s decisions relating to the Iranian conflict because they were consistent with these authorities and the ultimate goal of protecting national security interests."

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Megyn Kelly: 'Trump could drop a nuke' and I still wouldn't vote for a Democrat

Right-wing podcast host Megyn Kelly insisted that she wouldn't vote for a Democrat even if President Donald Trump decided to deploy a nuclear weapon.

"All I think about when I think about the Democrats is those very unattractive people in Minneapolis," Kelly said on a podcast this week. "That's when I think Democrat, that's what I think."

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'I'm sick to my stomach': Lawmakers call for 25th Amendment as Trump heightens Iran threat

A number of congressional Democrats were raising concerns and demanding that it was time to invoke the 25th Amendment on Tuesday after President Donald Trump raised a serious threat to permanently damage Iran and its people.

Trump said via his Truth Social platform that if Iran did not meet his negotiation deadline by 8 p.m. ET, "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will."

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'Humiliating his understudy': Analyst says Trump will discard Vance as MAGA fractures more

Vice President JD Vance has taken multiple hits from President Donald Trump — and might not realize that the joke is at his expense, an analyst suggested.

Dana Milbank, a NOTUS columnist, described in a New York Times opinion guest column published Tuesday how Trump has continued to embarrass Vance as the MAGA coalition has cracked.

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Iranians form human shields at power plants as Trump threatens possible war crimes

Just hours before President Donald Trump's deadline for ending the civilization in Iran, the country was organizing human shields at power plants on the U.S. targeting list.

This week, Iran's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Alireza Rahimi, called on Iranians to form human chains at power plants at 2:30 p.m. local time.

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MAGA pouts about Trump destroying GOP midterms chances: 'Every day will be hell'

MAGA influencers Steve Bannon and Eric Bolling warned that Democrats would "rain hell down" if President Donald Trump's war in Iran leads to defeat for Republicans in the midterm elections.

During his Tuesday War Room podcast, Bannon cautioned that it could be "one of those days" after Trump threatened to destroy Iran's civilization in a single night.

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Nobel winner says Trump's new 'motive' admission will make war crimes trial 'no problem'

Economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman warned that President Donald Trump's serious threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight" in his latest escalation of the Iran war would lead to lasting damage for the United States.

In his Substack on Tuesday, Krugman suggested "the civilization we destroy may be our own" and that Trump had made a major admission with his comments. He called it America's "darkest hour" yet.

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Iran cuts communication with Trump over threat to destroy civilization: report

President Donald Trump's gambit to force Iran to negotiate has reportedly backfired.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," Trump warned on Tuesday in a Truth Social post.

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'Time to say no': MAGA influencer calls on US military to disobey Trump

MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson called on members of the White House and the U.S. military to disobey President Donald Trump if he tries to commit war crimes in Iran.

"Unless somebody puts the brakes on right away, we're going to wind up in a place that we can't even imagine," Carlson warned on a podcast this week. "And so that means, because this is obvious to anyone who's paying any attention, that if you work in the White House, work in the US military, now it's time to say, no, absolutely not."

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Trump blindsides JD Vance by forcing him to learn about major Iran update from reporters

Vice President JD Vance had no idea President Donald Trump had escalated the war in Iran until reporters tipped him off during a press conference in Hungary on Tuesday, according to reports.

A Washington Post reporter recommended Vance check his phone as he was on a stage with Trump ally Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, just after Trump had sent a serious threat warning on his Truth Social platform and said "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again," if Iran does not make a deal by his 8 p.m. ET deadline, The Daily Beast reported.

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