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Trump Says US Forces Will 'Finish the Job' Soon in 1st Prime-Time Speech of Iran War
President Donald Trump said U.S. forces will “finish the job” in Iran
soon as “core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” offering a
full-throated defense of the war Wednesday night in his first national
address since the conflict began more than a month ago.
Trump got a wide audience and a chance to articulate clear objectives
for the war after weeks of changing goals and often contradictory
messages about whether he’s winding down or ready to escalate military
operations — even as Iran kept up its attacks on Israel and Persian
Gulf neighbors and airstrikes pounded Tehran.
But he spent much of his time repeating some of the same things he said
in recent weeks, while also suggesting that the U.S. was close to
meeting its major military objectives in Iran and his estimated
timeline for concluding operations within two to three weeks. He
promised U.S. forces would continue to hit Iran very hard.
Pentagon Briefed Trump on Plan to Seize Iran's Uranium
President Donald Trump reportedly asked U.S. military leaders to
propose a plan to remove nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium
from Iran, highlighting his administration's resolve to ensure Tehran
never obtains a nuclear weapon.
The War Department has developed a detailed and highly complex proposal
that would involve deploying U.S. forces deep inside Iran, bringing in
excavation equipment, and even constructing a temporary runway to
airlift the radioactive material out of the country, The Washington
Post reported Wednesday.
The plan, presented to Trump in recent days, underscores the
seriousness with which the administration is approaching Iran's nuclear
threat.
Iran regime uses war to mask 'brutal' execution surge against political opponents
Rights groups say the Iranian regime
is on track to beat last year's record number of executions, with 657
in the first three months of this year alone
The Islamic Republic of Iran is on track to exceed the record number of
executions it carried out against opponents in 2025, with 657
executions in the first three months of the year, according to the Iran
Human Rights Society.
Hiding behind the war with the U.S. and Israel, critics say the regime
appears desperate to eliminate opposition, particularly following
anti-regime demonstrations that shook the nation's rulers and resulted
in tens of thousands being murdered by the country's security forces
and militias.
In March, the regime was met with condemnations, including from
President Donald Trump, over the execution of 19-year-old wrestler
Saleh Mohammadi.
FBI notified Congress last week of China-linked hack deemed 'major incident'
FBI officials recently reached out to members of Congress to alert them to a cyber hack classified as a "major incident."
Fox News is told that China is the culprit and that the breach could pose a threat to national security.
The FBI made this designation last week when notifying several members of Congress.
Trump elevates immigration fight at Supreme Court, turning up heat on Democrats ahead of midterms
Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office, but federal judges blocked it from coast to coast
President Donald Trump's presence at the Supreme Court this week may
not sway the justices, who appeared skeptical of the president's push
to curb birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
But Trump's historic appearance — no sitting president has attended
oral arguments at the high court before — showcased the president's
great interest in his landmark effort to upend more than a century of
legal precedent that allowed automatic citizenship to those born in the
U.S.
And the president's presence at the Supreme Court may pack a political
punch by energizing MAGA voters ahead of the midterm elections, when
Republicans will be defending their fragile House and Senate majorities.
Bessent: Trump Steering US Economic Strength
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailed President Donald Trump’s April
1 address as a defining articulation of how American economic power is
being leveraged to achieve decisive strategic gains abroad —
particularly in confronting Iran.
Bessent, in a post on X following the president’s national address,
credited Trump’s “decisive leadership” with building what he described
as “the strongest economy in history,” arguing that this economic
foundation is now directly enabling U.S. military and geopolitical
success.
“America’s economic strength feeds into our great military strength.
Economic security is national security,” Bessent said, echoing the
central theme of Trump’s address. “Under President Trump, those two
forces are being aligned in a way that is delivering results.”
AOC to oppose all aid to Israel –even for Iron Dome after facing lefty backlash
Bronx and Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that she will
no longer support any military aid to Israel, even for defense
purposes, buckling to intense pressure from the far left.
Previously, Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) backed legislation to replenish
Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, though she had been critical
of sending arms to the critical US ally.
“The Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system,
which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket
attacks and bombardment,” Ocasio-Cortez declared on X Wednesday.
“I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military
aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and
U.S. law.”
Carville gloats that Democrats will go after Trump's 'stupid jacka-- kids and their spouses' after midterms
Carville warned that upcoming political defeats and humiliation will feel like getting 'punched in the mouth by Mike Tyson'
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville condemned President Donald
Trump, gloating on Tuesday that he, his children and his children’s
spouses will face investigations after the midterms.
Carville warned Trump that he is in for a world of hurt after the
Republican Party faced what many expect to be a defeat in the upcoming
midterms. Carville, in his trademark southern style, said that it would
feel politically like getting "punched in the mouth by Mike Tyson."
"Let’s talk about your future, your post-November future," Carville
said, anticipating widespread defeat of Trump and the GOP. "The
Democrats are going to investigate you to no end."
"They're going to start going after you. Then they're going to start
figuring out where all the money stolen is," he continued. "Then
they're going to go after your stupid jacka-- kids and their spouses
and all the other bulls--- that you see, and they're going to
investigate the s--- out of you."
An illegal migrant may have exposed Kristi Noem’s husband’s salacious cross-dressing secret
An immigrant sex worker may have wanted to expose Bryon Noem’s double
life as a cross-dressing fetishist as payback for his former DHS chief
wife’s enforcement of President Trump’s immigration crackdown,
according to a White House reporter.
Marc Caputo of Axios revealed in the wake of the shocking scandal that
a source tipped him off in February with a “weird lead” about Bryon
Noem, purportedly coming from a sex worker – possibly in the US
illegally – who claimed South Dakota’s former first gentleman made use
of her services online.
He said he didn’t pursue the lead because he couldn’t land an interview
with the accuser and was therefore unable to verify the allegations.
Miranda Devine: Dems’ callous rebuke of an Iryna Zarutska mural exposes their own twisted, backwards ‘values’
By Miranda Devine
It’s fitting that the Iryna Zarutska mural in Providence, RI, is being
removed on the say-so of the city’s lefty mayor before the artist could
complete the murdered young woman’s face.
Her long blond hair is there, and the outline of her beautiful
features, but her identity is being erased by political sadists who do
not want Americans to remember the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who
was stabbed to death on a light rail train in Charlotte, NC, by a
deranged homeless man with a long and violent rap sheet.
Iryna fled a war zone, but it was more dangerous for her to ride public
transport home from her job at a pizzeria in her work uniform at 9:45
p.m. on a Friday in a blue city.
Providence Democrat Mayor Brett Smiley this week slammed the mural
honoring her as “divisive and [it] does not represent Providence.”
His equally callous Democrat stablemate, Rhode Island state Rep. David
Morales, opined to a local NBC reporter that the artwork honoring Iryna
“does not reflect” the “values” of Providence.
Shutdown ends with America doubting there was ever any point to it in the first place
By New York Post Editorial Board
Not only are TSA agents getting paid, the whole absurd Homeland
Security shutdown will soon end . . . with a whimper, wouldn’t you say?
It leaves all sides in Washington a bit disgruntled and the public (especially those about to fly!) simply relieved.
Senate and House GOP leaders John Thune and Mike Johnson announced
Wednesday that they’d pass the bill to fund everything except some
immigration-enforcement functions, then cover ICE and so on (which are
fine for now thanks to special funding passed last year) in a
reconciliation bill (which dodges the Senate filibuster) in a few weeks.
Of course President Donald Trump took the key steps in ending the
standoff, first by sending ICE agents to airports to help out and then
by issuing an executive order to get TSA agents paid and so remove
whatever cudgel Democrats thought they had to force “reforms” to gut
immigration enforcement.
