In the wake of terror attacks across the United States, House Democrats told The Daily Signal that President Donald Trump is to blame for the heightened threat of terrorism. “Donald Trump has made our country less safe, that’s for sure,” Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., co-chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, told The Daily Signal when asked about the increased terrorism threat. When The Daily Signal asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., about the threat of terrorism, Jeffries put the onus back on Trump, emphasizing he “is concerned with Trump’s unexplained war in Iran.” Democrats in Congress, however, have repeatedly refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which shut down in mid-February after a lapse in funding. While Democrats have continued to demand reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement before reopening the department, Congressional Republicans have repeatedly claimed the reforms demanded are unworkable and expressed their concern that Democrats are leaving Americans vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Republicans have blamed their Democratic colleagues of “refusing to acknowledge and condemn the threat of radical Islam.” “Hakeem Jeffries is leading a party where 53 members side with Iran’s terrorist regime,” Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said in reference to a recent House vote on a resolution condemning Iran as the largest state-sponsor of terrorism. While the resolution passed by a large margin, 53 House Democrats voted against it. “Hakeem Jeffries is in a party that supports radical Islamic terrorism and enemies of the United States,” Fine added. To anyone offended by me calling radical Islamic jihadists the enemy:If the shoe fits, wear it. https://t.co/fF0pMdRt1u— Coach Tommy Tuberville (@SenTuberville) March 17, 2026 Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told The Daily Signal he does not know why Democrats “haven’t acknowledged the threat.” “There is definitely the sentiment among Americans that the threat is elevating,” Massie added. “I talked with some gun industry executives, and they say that firearm sales are up because of the perceived threat Americans have” The post Democrats Blame Trump for Elevated Terrorism Threat Despite DHS Shutdown appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Japan has been a true ally to the United States in recent years, and no where was that more on full display than this morning as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrived at the White House and immediately declined a warm handshake, going straight for a huge hug for President Trump! What an incredible moment. Watch here: President Trump welcomes the Prime Minister of Japan to the White House pic.twitter.com/hZxiDwBDPE — AJ Huber (@Huberton) March 19, 2026 Another video here: BREAKING: President Trump welcomes Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to the White House with a heartfelt hug upon her arrival. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a longtime friend and ally of Trump and America, appeared thrilled! The two reaffirmed the strong U.S.-Japan… pic.twitter.com/Vs2bUhFDTS — The Patriot Oasis (@ThePatriotOasis) March 19, 2026 You just have to love this lady and her energy… Watch the last time she was on stage with President Trump, look at this electric energy! And don’t forget, she has pledged to donate 250 Cherry Trees (a Japanese icon) to the United States to celebrate our 250th birthday! Class act: JUST IN: President Trump will greet Japan's right-wing Prime Minister SANAE TAKAICHI tomorrow morning at the White House Japan is set give America 250 CHERRY TREES for the 250th anniversary of our founding as well Takaichi is a GREAT ally of America! pic.twitter.com/9DIZynPezV — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 18, 2026 RELATED REPORT: UPDATE: NATO Countries Cave To President Trump, Now Pledge To Help Secure The Strait of Hormuz Yesterday, I told you how President Trump laid the perfect trap for our NATO “allies” — and I do put “allies” in extreme quotes to denote sarcasm. Because they’re never here for us, it’s a one -way street only. And in that report yesterday, I explained how President Trump does what he has done best his whole life, trap them in a “double bind”. The double bind is a genius move where you put your enemy in the unfortunate situation of needing to choose between two options, both of which are bad. In this case, the double bind asked our NATO “allies” to help us secure safe passageway through the Strait of Hormuz for all shipping vessels. Seems like a reasonable request, right? After all, we get less than 1% of our energy from the Strait of Hormuz, but to our European “allies” the Strait is critical and essential. So President Trump asked for their help and show of solidarity. And with that, the double bind was set, because at this point they have two options:  Option A, grant President Trump what he asked for, and Trump wins.  Option B, refuse to play ball, and prove that NATO is worthless and risk the USA pulling out entirely after you proved you will breach your obligations when needed most. In every double bind, there’s a bad choice and a really bad choice. In this case, the best decision they could have made was Option A, pitch in, show unity, get your oil and natural gas flowing again and move forward. But that would make Trump look good and their TDS simply could not allow that. So they chose Option B. Now, less than 24 hours later, it looks like at least six NATO “allies” have capitulated and are switching from Option B to Option A. You know, usually picking one option in a double bind is bad enough.  You lick your wounds and you go forward. But you rarely get to see someone put their foot into BOTH traps of the double bind, but that’s what we just got here. Absolutely incredible!  A double win for Trump! They exposed themselves and their true nature, then caved anyway! Watch here: BREAKING: After pressure from President Trump, six American allies just PLEDGED SUPPORT to secure the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes "That's COUNTER to what they previously said!" They are: Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands KEEP PUSHING, 47!… pic.twitter.com/bQrLUFLB1d — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 19, 2026 Reuters confirms the about-face: Leading nations in Europe said in a joint statement ​with Japan on Thursday they ‌would take steps to stabilise energy markets and were ready to join “appropriate efforts” ​to ensure safe passage through ​the Strait of Hormuz. The statement from ⁠Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the ​Netherlands and Japan, condemned attacks by ​Iran and called on it to halt its actions immediately. It also said they ​would work with certain energy ​producing nations to increase output and stabilise markets. The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to know about the global energy industry. Sign up here. “We ‌express ⁠our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait,” the statement said. “We ​welcome the ​commitment ⁠of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.” I will say this about Japan, they have been a true ally. Europe is worthless, but Japan has been a true friend, and continues to prove their friendship to the USA. RELATED REPORT: President Trump Just Trapped NATO — Hook, Line and Sinker! President Trump just sent the bait to NATO, a huge trap — and they took it hook, line and sinker! For years, President Trump has wanted to leave NATO. We fund almost all of it, and we get absolutely nothing for it. So President Trump laid a trap — see if any NATO allies will join with us to secure the safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. This also barely benefits us. But it benefits Europe. And Asia. And so he laid out the proposal: join with us to get this critical shipping pathway open. And because they are all so blinded by their hatred of President Trump, none agreed to help. But it was a classic double-bind by President Trump. The double-bind is when you put someone in a lose-lose (for them) and win-win (for you) situation. In this case, the countries could help us with the Strait, which would show strength and unity to the world and help us in keep the Strait safe and open (win for Trump) or they could refuse and open the door for us to leave NATO because it failed us when we asked for help (perhaps an even bigger win for Trump). They chose Option B and now they’re about to find out what happens next: NATO no more? President Trump says he doesn’t need congressional approval to leave NATO. Polymarket odds of NATO dissolution are at all-time highs. https://t.co/YyZtP8FZuJ — Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) March 17, 2026 Hook, line and sinker! BOOM! Trump laid the trap. NATO took the bait and failed. Once again… called it. https://t.co/jktsCbyUrn pic.twitter.com/GQVFKYzSvp — Joshua Reid | Redpills.tv (@realjoshuareid) March 17, 2026 Here is President Trump laying it out plain as day on his Truth Social: FULL TEXT FOR EASIER READING: The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon. I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street – We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need. Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again! Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer “need,” or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP Watch more here…. He can’t say it any clearer than this: HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just EVISCERATED American "allies" refusing to help the US secure the Strait of Hormuz, openly MOCKS them "Do you have any minesweepers? 'Well, we'd rather NOT get involved, sir!' I said, you mean for 40 YEARS we're protecting YOU and you don't… pic.twitter.com/PdzEt8hIT5 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 16, 2026 And do you know what happens when we leave NATO? We immediately cease all aid to Ukraine. FINALLY! Why are we protecting countries who won’t protect us? Trump: “Why are we protecting countries that won’t protect us?” pic.twitter.com/p0O5YnAVeU — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 16, 2026 FREE RIDE IS OVER! Heck, even the NeoCon Warmonger John Bolton is smart enough to see they just walked right into a massive trap: John Bolton warns that Europe refusing to back the U.S. in Iran—brushing it off as “not our war”—could backfire big time. Because it opens the door for President Trump to turn around and say: “Ukraine isn’t our war either.” pic.twitter.com/K0OJgB2GHe — Ashley (TeamTrump47) (@TeamTrump47) March 18, 2026 I’ll end with this because this lady is consistently putting out the best analysis on this whole situation that I have seen from anyone. She’s spot-on once again. Watch here: FULL TRANSCRIPT: Speaker: Do you remember what Trump did at the State of the Union? He walked Democrats right into a trap and they didn’t even see it coming until it was too late. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. Now he’s doing the same thing with the modern British financial empire and their enforcement arm, namely NATO. But I was surprised to see that NATO, while they agree that it was a very important thing to do, they agree fully. Nobody said, “Oh, you shouldn’t do it.” I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake. And I’ve long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So, this is a—this was a great test because we don’t need them, but they should have been there. Notice how he calls this a great test. He followed up on Truth Social, concluding he wasn’t surprised by NATO’s refusal to defend ships in the Strait of Hormuz since we spent billions defending them with absolutely no return to us. The media is telling you that Trump is throwing a tantrum because our European allies won’t help protect the strait, that he’s mad about oil prices. They’re all wrong. President Trump has been preparing to leave NATO for months. The allies’ refusal to back him on Iran didn’t cause his break with NATO. It confirmed his idea about their stupid games. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: I’m Barbara Boyd. I’ve spent decades tracking the British financial empire’s imperial wars in the Middle East and NATO’s role as their enforcement arm across all of Eurasia. Today I’m going to first cover Trump dumping NATO, a huge story. Then how Iran illustrates the battle between Trump’s American system economics and the British free trade looters. And finally, how the globalists are trying to split MAGA through their oldest weapon, religious warfare. But first, please like and share this video. It increases our reach on YouTube. The end of NATO didn’t begin last week. It began in February 2025 at the Munich Security Conference, the premier annual gathering of the NATO alliance. Vice President JD Vance walked into that room and told Europe’s assembled leadership that Europe wasn’t being threatened from without. It was being destroyed from within by totalitarian censorship, thought crime prosecutions, open borders, and election rigging. Speaker: JD Vance: We also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense. The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within—the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: The room was astounded, but Vance wasn’t wrong, and the Trump administration was serving notice on NATO. Here’s where Iran enters this picture. Under Biden, the Europeans—France, Germany, and the UK—had taken the lead on the Iran nuclear file under Biden’s Iran envoy, Robert Malley. Malley came under investigation for mishandling classified documents and suspected recruitment by Iranian intelligence.   So those talks went nowhere while Iran built its arsenal. In March 2025, Donald Trump wrote to Ayatollah Khamenei seeking renewed nuclear negotiations with a 60-day deadline.   When that deadline expired, he launched Operation Midnight Hammer, bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. After initial waffling, the UK, Germany, and France finally fell in line, supporting the strike and initiating sweeping sanctions against Iran. But in their own backyard, the Europeans were playing a double game, doing everything in their power to sabotage Trump’s settlement of the Russian-Ukraine war. A war killing thousands every week. And now their abject refusal to defend oil and gas shipments to the Gulf, including gas due for their own countries, has solved the testing the president has been doing of them. They have failed. They have shown their true basis. Here’s President Trump yesterday on leaving NATO. Speaker: Donald Trump: Disappointed in NATO that we spend trillions of dollars on NATO. Think of it, trillions over the years, many trillions of dollars. It’s one of the reasons we have deficits and we help other countries. And when they don’t help us, I mean, it’s certainly something that we should think about. I don’t need Congress for that decision, as you probably know. I can make that decision myself. I’d work with some very smart people. And I’d always deal with Congress anyway, but I don’t need Congress for that decision. But, you know, when you—when you say rethink, I’m not—I have nothing currently in mind. But I will say that, uh, I’m not exactly thrilled when we help them with Ukraine. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: Trump is seriously thinking about dumping the Praetorian Guard of the globalist financial empire and he doesn’t need Congress to do it. He’s clearly thought about it. The media won’t cover that astounding and revolutionary statement. But that’s our mission here at Promethean Action to maintain for you the events which matter. Subscribe to our free newsletter and you’ll be in the president’s map of space, not that of our nation’s enemies. To understand what Trump is actually doing, you have to read what his administration has actually written. The national security strategy came out in December. The defense strategy followed in January. Both delivered huge bad news for the post-war globalist financial order. He wants out of Europe. He’s prioritizing the Western Hemisphere, our own country, and trade with the Pacific. Here is what the national security strategy says explicitly about the Middle East.   As this administration rescinds or eases restrictive energy policies and American energy production ramps up, America’s historical reason for focusing on the Middle East will recede. Instead, the region will increasingly become a source of destination of international investment in industries well beyond oil and gas, including nuclear energy, AI, and defense technologies. Read that again. The intent is to get out of the Middle East militarily and open a new chapter of American-led economic development. And it’s not just words. The Gulf States have already committed 17 trillion in investments into the American economy. So why bomb Iran? Because Iran’s constant proxy warfare creates perpetual regional instability. And that instability keeps oil prices volatile and high. That volatility is a direct threat to Trump’s economic revolution at home. That revolution is built on one major foundation. Cheap, reliable energy. “Drill, baby, drill” isn’t a slogan. It’s the load-bearing wall of everything Trump is building for the American working class. And it’s not just Iran standing in the way. Oil prices are not set in Riyadh or Houston. They’re set in London’s spot and commodity markets, and those markets profit from exactly the instability Iran provides. The major oil companies have told Trump repeatedly they’re not interested in “drill, baby, drill.” Excess supply drives down prices and endangers their preference for shareholder value—share buybacks. They would rather manage scarcity than flood the market with cheap American energy. And then there’s the ideological layer in Europe. The UK, Canada, and Europe remain committed to the green religion, willing to punish their own citizens with crushing energy prices in service of that ideology. Cheap American energy isn’t just an economic competitor to them. It’s a theological threat. So when you see NATO allies refusing to back Trump on Iran, this isn’t a diplomatic spat among friends. This is the enforcement arm of the British financial empire fighting for its own survival. While all this plays out on the world stage, the globalists are writing a very old play right here at home. I lived through 1968. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King didn’t just grieve the country. It traumatized it. They broke millions of people’s willingness to fight, to believe political action could change anything. What followed was the counterculture. Remember that? Turn on, tune in, drop out. Not a whole lot of people stayed in the fight. I’ve watched a similar but different dynamic unfold in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10th, 2025, just 6 months ago. In that traumatized, suggestible atmosphere, two separate internet warfare operations ignited, and I don’t believe either is coincidental. The first told MAGA that Trump is controlled by Netanyahu, by an all-powerful Israeli lobby, by a foreign power. The implication: your movement has been betrayed. Never mind that Trump has been calling for military action against Iran since 2011 and earlier before he was even a candidate. The second ran the opposite current, that the administration is riddled with secret Israel-haters, Muslim sympathizers, anti-war saboteurs to cause opposite directions. Same result. Fractured the coalition that delivered Trump’s overwhelming November victory ahead of the midterms. MAGA in 2024 was an interfaith movement. The Muslim vote in Michigan was decisive. Arab Americans, Hindu Americans, evangelical Christians, Jews, traditional Catholics, all under one banner. Religious warfare has been the global empire’s weapon of choice for permanent war in the Middle East for decades. And they’re very good at it and they’re doing it here now. In addition to the president, their primary targets are Vice President Vance and DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Both of whom built political careers on opposition to regime change wars. Both are essential right now for their missions aimed at dismantling the deep state. Here’s Vance at the fraud task force signing ceremony when a reporter tried to drive exactly that wedge between him and the president that we’re talking about. Speaker: JD Vance: I know what you’re trying to do, Phil. You’re trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration, between me and the president. What the president said consistently going back to 2015, and I agreed with him, is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: And Tulsi. Yesterday, one of her top deputies, Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned, claiming Iran posed no imminent threat and the war was started due to Israeli lobby pressure.   That statement is word for word the globalist psychological warfare narrative. It came from inside the building. Here’s Gabbard’s response. Speaker: Tulsi Gabbard: Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our president and commander-in-chief. After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: Neither one of them took the bait and the polling shows MAGA supports the war. The president’s base gets it. But you can’t deliver the victory that we need in the midterms if it’s just the MAGA base. This sigh-war is aimed at all the low-propensity voters, so-called—the voters who turned out in record numbers for Trump in November. That’s who the SCAP is seeking to demoralize along with the first-time Trump voters who were Democrats and the independents. We’re going to put some effort into neutralizing it right now, this operation. But it starts with you, our listeners. You know the people on each side of this on the internet. Tell everyone you know who supported the president in 2024 not to fall for the oldest globalist trick. 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Yesterday, I told you how President Trump laid the perfect trap for our NATO “allies” — and I do put “allies” in extreme quotes to denote sarcasm. Because they’re never here for us, it’s a one -way street only. And in that report yesterday, I explained how President Trump does what he has done best his whole life, trap them in a “double bind”. The double bind is a genius move where you put your enemy in the unfortunate situation of needing to choose between two options, both of which are bad. In this case, the double bind asked our NATO “allies” to help us secure safe passageway through the Strait of Hormuz for all shipping vessels. Seems like a reasonable request, right? After all, we get less than 1% of our energy from the Strait of Hormuz, but to our European “allies” the Strait is critical and essential. So President Trump asked for their help and show of solidarity. And with that, the double bind was set, because at this point they have two options:  Option A, grant President Trump what he asked for, and Trump wins.  Option B, refuse to play ball, and prove that NATO is worthless and risk the USA pulling out entirely after you proved you will breach your obligations when needed most. In every double bind, there’s a bad choice and a really bad choice. In this case, the best decision they could have made was Option A, pitch in, show unity, get your oil and natural gas flowing again and move forward. But that would make Trump look good and their TDS simply could not allow that. So they chose Option B. Now, less than 24 hours later, it looks like at least six NATO “allies” have capitulated and are switching from Option B to Option A. You know, usually picking one option in a double bind is bad enough.  You lick your wounds and you go forward. But you rarely get to see someone put their foot into BOTH traps of the double bind, but that’s what we just got here. Absolutely incredible!  A double win for Trump! They exposed themselves and their true nature, then caved anyway! Watch here: BREAKING: After pressure from President Trump, six American allies just PLEDGED SUPPORT to secure the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes "That's COUNTER to what they previously said!" They are: Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands KEEP PUSHING, 47!… pic.twitter.com/bQrLUFLB1d — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 19, 2026 Reuters confirms the about-face: Leading nations in Europe said in a joint statement ​with Japan on Thursday they ‌would take steps to stabilise energy markets and were ready to join “appropriate efforts” ​to ensure safe passage through ​the Strait of Hormuz. The statement from ⁠Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the ​Netherlands and Japan, condemned attacks by ​Iran and called on it to halt its actions immediately. It also said they ​would work with certain energy ​producing nations to increase output and stabilise markets. The Reuters Power Up newsletter provides everything you need to know about the global energy industry. Sign up here. “We ‌express ⁠our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait,” the statement said. “We ​welcome the ​commitment ⁠of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.” I will say this about Japan, they have been a true ally. Europe is worthless, but Japan has been a true friend, and continues to prove their friendship to the USA. RELATED REPORT: President Trump Just Trapped NATO — Hook, Line and Sinker! President Trump just sent the bait to NATO, a huge trap — and they took it hook, line and sinker! For years, President Trump has wanted to leave NATO. We fund almost all of it, and we get absolutely nothing for it. So President Trump laid a trap — see if any NATO allies will join with us to secure the safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. This also barely benefits us. But it benefits Europe. And Asia. And so he laid out the proposal: join with us to get this critical shipping pathway open. And because they are all so blinded by their hatred of President Trump, none agreed to help. But it was a classic double-bind by President Trump. The double-bind is when you put someone in a lose-lose (for them) and win-win (for you) situation. In this case, the countries could help us with the Strait, which would show strength and unity to the world and help us in keep the Strait safe and open (win for Trump) or they could refuse and open the door for us to leave NATO because it failed us when we asked for help (perhaps an even bigger win for Trump). They chose Option B and now they’re about to find out what happens next: NATO no more? President Trump says he doesn’t need congressional approval to leave NATO. Polymarket odds of NATO dissolution are at all-time highs. https://t.co/YyZtP8FZuJ — Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) March 17, 2026 Hook, line and sinker! BOOM! Trump laid the trap. NATO took the bait and failed. Once again… called it. https://t.co/jktsCbyUrn pic.twitter.com/GQVFKYzSvp — Joshua Reid | Redpills.tv (@realjoshuareid) March 17, 2026 Here is President Trump laying it out plain as day on his Truth Social: FULL TEXT FOR EASIER READING: The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon. I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street – We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need. Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again! Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer “need,” or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP Watch more here…. He can’t say it any clearer than this: HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just EVISCERATED American "allies" refusing to help the US secure the Strait of Hormuz, openly MOCKS them "Do you have any minesweepers? 'Well, we'd rather NOT get involved, sir!' I said, you mean for 40 YEARS we're protecting YOU and you don't… pic.twitter.com/PdzEt8hIT5 — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 16, 2026 And do you know what happens when we leave NATO? We immediately cease all aid to Ukraine. FINALLY! Why are we protecting countries who won’t protect us? Trump: “Why are we protecting countries that won’t protect us?” pic.twitter.com/p0O5YnAVeU — Open Source Intel (@Osint613) March 16, 2026 FREE RIDE IS OVER! Heck, even the NeoCon Warmonger John Bolton is smart enough to see they just walked right into a massive trap: John Bolton warns that Europe refusing to back the U.S. in Iran—brushing it off as “not our war”—could backfire big time. Because it opens the door for President Trump to turn around and say: “Ukraine isn’t our war either.” pic.twitter.com/K0OJgB2GHe — Ashley (TeamTrump47) (@TeamTrump47) March 18, 2026 I’ll end with this because this lady is consistently putting out the best analysis on this whole situation that I have seen from anyone. She’s spot-on once again. Watch here: FULL TRANSCRIPT: Speaker: Do you remember what Trump did at the State of the Union? He walked Democrats right into a trap and they didn’t even see it coming until it was too late. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. Now he’s doing the same thing with the modern British financial empire and their enforcement arm, namely NATO. But I was surprised to see that NATO, while they agree that it was a very important thing to do, they agree fully. Nobody said, “Oh, you shouldn’t do it.” I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake. And I’ve long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So, this is a—this was a great test because we don’t need them, but they should have been there. Notice how he calls this a great test. He followed up on Truth Social, concluding he wasn’t surprised by NATO’s refusal to defend ships in the Strait of Hormuz since we spent billions defending them with absolutely no return to us. The media is telling you that Trump is throwing a tantrum because our European allies won’t help protect the strait, that he’s mad about oil prices. They’re all wrong. President Trump has been preparing to leave NATO for months. The allies’ refusal to back him on Iran didn’t cause his break with NATO. It confirmed his idea about their stupid games. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: I’m Barbara Boyd. I’ve spent decades tracking the British financial empire’s imperial wars in the Middle East and NATO’s role as their enforcement arm across all of Eurasia. Today I’m going to first cover Trump dumping NATO, a huge story. Then how Iran illustrates the battle between Trump’s American system economics and the British free trade looters. And finally, how the globalists are trying to split MAGA through their oldest weapon, religious warfare. But first, please like and share this video. It increases our reach on YouTube. The end of NATO didn’t begin last week. It began in February 2025 at the Munich Security Conference, the premier annual gathering of the NATO alliance. Vice President JD Vance walked into that room and told Europe’s assembled leadership that Europe wasn’t being threatened from without. It was being destroyed from within by totalitarian censorship, thought crime prosecutions, open borders, and election rigging. Speaker: JD Vance: We also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense. The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within—the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: The room was astounded, but Vance wasn’t wrong, and the Trump administration was serving notice on NATO. Here’s where Iran enters this picture. Under Biden, the Europeans—France, Germany, and the UK—had taken the lead on the Iran nuclear file under Biden’s Iran envoy, Robert Malley. Malley came under investigation for mishandling classified documents and suspected recruitment by Iranian intelligence.   So those talks went nowhere while Iran built its arsenal. In March 2025, Donald Trump wrote to Ayatollah Khamenei seeking renewed nuclear negotiations with a 60-day deadline.   When that deadline expired, he launched Operation Midnight Hammer, bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. After initial waffling, the UK, Germany, and France finally fell in line, supporting the strike and initiating sweeping sanctions against Iran. But in their own backyard, the Europeans were playing a double game, doing everything in their power to sabotage Trump’s settlement of the Russian-Ukraine war. A war killing thousands every week. And now their abject refusal to defend oil and gas shipments to the Gulf, including gas due for their own countries, has solved the testing the president has been doing of them. They have failed. They have shown their true basis. Here’s President Trump yesterday on leaving NATO. Speaker: Donald Trump: Disappointed in NATO that we spend trillions of dollars on NATO. Think of it, trillions over the years, many trillions of dollars. It’s one of the reasons we have deficits and we help other countries. And when they don’t help us, I mean, it’s certainly something that we should think about. I don’t need Congress for that decision, as you probably know. I can make that decision myself. I’d work with some very smart people. And I’d always deal with Congress anyway, but I don’t need Congress for that decision. But, you know, when you—when you say rethink, I’m not—I have nothing currently in mind. But I will say that, uh, I’m not exactly thrilled when we help them with Ukraine. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: Trump is seriously thinking about dumping the Praetorian Guard of the globalist financial empire and he doesn’t need Congress to do it. He’s clearly thought about it. The media won’t cover that astounding and revolutionary statement. But that’s our mission here at Promethean Action to maintain for you the events which matter. Subscribe to our free newsletter and you’ll be in the president’s map of space, not that of our nation’s enemies. To understand what Trump is actually doing, you have to read what his administration has actually written. The national security strategy came out in December. The defense strategy followed in January. Both delivered huge bad news for the post-war globalist financial order. He wants out of Europe. He’s prioritizing the Western Hemisphere, our own country, and trade with the Pacific. Here is what the national security strategy says explicitly about the Middle East.   As this administration rescinds or eases restrictive energy policies and American energy production ramps up, America’s historical reason for focusing on the Middle East will recede. Instead, the region will increasingly become a source of destination of international investment in industries well beyond oil and gas, including nuclear energy, AI, and defense technologies. Read that again. The intent is to get out of the Middle East militarily and open a new chapter of American-led economic development. And it’s not just words. The Gulf States have already committed 17 trillion in investments into the American economy. So why bomb Iran? Because Iran’s constant proxy warfare creates perpetual regional instability. And that instability keeps oil prices volatile and high. That volatility is a direct threat to Trump’s economic revolution at home. That revolution is built on one major foundation. Cheap, reliable energy. “Drill, baby, drill” isn’t a slogan. It’s the load-bearing wall of everything Trump is building for the American working class. And it’s not just Iran standing in the way. Oil prices are not set in Riyadh or Houston. They’re set in London’s spot and commodity markets, and those markets profit from exactly the instability Iran provides. The major oil companies have told Trump repeatedly they’re not interested in “drill, baby, drill.” Excess supply drives down prices and endangers their preference for shareholder value—share buybacks. They would rather manage scarcity than flood the market with cheap American energy. And then there’s the ideological layer in Europe. The UK, Canada, and Europe remain committed to the green religion, willing to punish their own citizens with crushing energy prices in service of that ideology. Cheap American energy isn’t just an economic competitor to them. It’s a theological threat. So when you see NATO allies refusing to back Trump on Iran, this isn’t a diplomatic spat among friends. This is the enforcement arm of the British financial empire fighting for its own survival. While all this plays out on the world stage, the globalists are writing a very old play right here at home. I lived through 1968. The assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King didn’t just grieve the country. It traumatized it. They broke millions of people’s willingness to fight, to believe political action could change anything. What followed was the counterculture. Remember that? Turn on, tune in, drop out. Not a whole lot of people stayed in the fight. I’ve watched a similar but different dynamic unfold in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10th, 2025, just 6 months ago. In that traumatized, suggestible atmosphere, two separate internet warfare operations ignited, and I don’t believe either is coincidental. The first told MAGA that Trump is controlled by Netanyahu, by an all-powerful Israeli lobby, by a foreign power. The implication: your movement has been betrayed. Never mind that Trump has been calling for military action against Iran since 2011 and earlier before he was even a candidate. The second ran the opposite current, that the administration is riddled with secret Israel-haters, Muslim sympathizers, anti-war saboteurs to cause opposite directions. Same result. Fractured the coalition that delivered Trump’s overwhelming November victory ahead of the midterms. MAGA in 2024 was an interfaith movement. The Muslim vote in Michigan was decisive. Arab Americans, Hindu Americans, evangelical Christians, Jews, traditional Catholics, all under one banner. Religious warfare has been the global empire’s weapon of choice for permanent war in the Middle East for decades. And they’re very good at it and they’re doing it here now. In addition to the president, their primary targets are Vice President Vance and DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Both of whom built political careers on opposition to regime change wars. Both are essential right now for their missions aimed at dismantling the deep state. Here’s Vance at the fraud task force signing ceremony when a reporter tried to drive exactly that wedge between him and the president that we’re talking about. Speaker: JD Vance: I know what you’re trying to do, Phil. You’re trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration, between me and the president. What the president said consistently going back to 2015, and I agreed with him, is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: And Tulsi. Yesterday, one of her top deputies, Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned, claiming Iran posed no imminent threat and the war was started due to Israeli lobby pressure.   That statement is word for word the globalist psychological warfare narrative. It came from inside the building. Here’s Gabbard’s response. Speaker: Tulsi Gabbard: Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our president and commander-in-chief. After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion. Speaker: Barbara Boyd: Neither one of them took the bait and the polling shows MAGA supports the war. The president’s base gets it. But you can’t deliver the victory that we need in the midterms if it’s just the MAGA base. This sigh-war is aimed at all the low-propensity voters, so-called—the voters who turned out in record numbers for Trump in November. That’s who the SCAP is seeking to demoralize along with the first-time Trump voters who were Democrats and the independents. We’re going to put some effort into neutralizing it right now, this operation. But it starts with you, our listeners. You know the people on each side of this on the internet. Tell everyone you know who supported the president in 2024 not to fall for the oldest globalist trick. 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I have covered so many of these videos over the years…and I will never stop covering them! Because the best disinfectant is always sunlight! And that’s the point the man in this video is making too… Credit to my friend MJ for finding and surfacing this video, which is actually from 2023 but needs to be seen again. Meet Pastor John Amanchukwu. This Father and Pastor found a porno book filled with filth in the school library and took it to the School Council meeting to read aloud. The Board told him his language was “inappropriate”. Oh the irony! It’s from a book in the SCHOOL Library for kids to read! So it’s ok for the kids, but not for adults in a School Council meeting? Unreal. These people are sick and every single one should be removed from their positions. Watch here: Father/Pastor:“Hello Navarro. Suck any good d*cks lately?” Clark County School District:“Sir, your language is inappropriate.” Father/Pastor:“IT’S IN YOUR LIBRARY!”https://t.co/3iHrnHG27Lpic.twitter.com/IRAQPvaxIg — MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) March 19, 2026 Backup on Rumble here if needed: And now some more details around the video: Meeting Overview Status: Authentic footage Location: Clark County School District (CCSD) Board of Trustees meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada Date: September 28, 2023 Key Participants Speaker: Pastor John Amanchukwu (Turning Point USA Faith contributor) Board Representative: Board President Evelyn Garcia Morales Incident Summary During the public comment portion of the meeting, Pastor John Amanchukwu was protesting sexually explicit books available in CCSD school libraries. He read aloud graphic passages from the graphic novel “Flamer” by Mike Curato, a book approved and available to CCSD high school students in print/digital format and to middle schoolers digitally. One of the lines he quoted (the one featured in the viral clip) was along the lines of: “Hey, Navarro, suck any good d*cks lately?” He also referenced content involving “anal sex, blowjobs and orgasms.” Board Response Board President Evelyn Garcia Morales immediately interrupted him with the following statements: “Stop. No, stop. Stop. Absolutely not.” “I’m going to ask you to not use profanity.” “Your language is inappropriate.” His microphone was cut, and he was ultimately removed/escorted from the meeting. Context and Enforcement Official Reason for Removal: The board stated he violated public comment rules, which prohibit: Profanity Disruption of the meeting Content that violates public broadcasting standards The district’s official statement emphasized that while they respect First Amendment rights, those rights “do not allow individuals to disrupt the business of the district.” Legal Status: He was not arrested or charged with anything illegal. This was an enforcement of standard meeting decorum rules. Analysis of the Incident The Protest: Amanchukwu’s point involved a perceived hypocrisy: the board called the language inappropriate for adults in a public meeting but allowed the exact same material in school libraries for teenagers and even younger students. Reason for Removal: He was not removed for his views per se, but for how he expressed them (reading the explicit text aloud). Fact Check: The X post accurately captures the exchange but incorrectly labels the book as “Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens” in some descriptions. The actual book in this specific incident was “Flamer.” The event is well-documented and not staged or edited deceptively. RELATED REPORTS: School Forces Girl to Say D-Word in Graphic Sexual Assignment GRAPHIC SCHOOL SEX BOOK: “Stroke the shaft with different pressures…” MUST SEE: Brave Boy Reads Porno Book Outloud To School Board! I can’t give this kid enough credit… Or his father! This is absolutely a Must-See, although it also comes with a big warning. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED. This is very graphic. But that’s kind of the point right? If I have to give you a warning before even showing you this video, then what the Hell is it doing in a Middle School library? And just watch that board member in the bottom left of the screen squirm in his seat. Uncomfortable bud? Then get this book out of your Middle School library and grow a set of balls (and brain) while you’re at it! Man, I’m fired up. Ok, just take a look for yourself: VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED Brave Boy Reads Pornographic Book Out Loud To School Board Members That He Checked Out Of His Middle School Library pic.twitter.com/eIiQo8VCGn — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) February 25, 2023 I can’t give this kid enough praise for the courage it took to get up there and do this. WELL DONE MY MAN! You have a bright future. And well done to your parents for raising such a grounded kid! Sadly, this isn’t the first time we’ve covered something like this. Oregon School District Votes to Keep Gay Pornographic Book in Library Salem-Keizer School District in Oregon faced severe criticism after parents discovered that a pornographic book, Gender Queer, was available in the school library. In response, the school formed a special committee to determine if the book should be removed. Common sense would tell anyone that a book with explicit, pornographic images should be nowhere near a school library. This is what’s available for children to read. WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES Found Inside Gender Queer A woman named Suzanne West was given the task to head the committee. “West’s job description reads: “Crafting and developing strategies that support the district’s movement to become a more anti-racist and anti-oppressive school system,” Libs of TikTok noted. You’ll probably guess what happened next. The committee voted last week to keep the book. "According to some parents, there has been an alarming trend to sever parent child relationships within Oregon schools such as Salem-Keizer district. Parents have been trying to have the book, Gender Queer removed from schools to no avail." #orpol https://t.co/usXP5neuy5 — Oregon Tea Party (@OregonTeaParty) July 13, 2022 Libs of TikTok reported: It’s no surprise that parents have been outraged at the committee’s decision to keep this pornographic book available for their children. We obtained a copy of an email Suzanne West sent to one concerned parent. The email provided official statements from committee members regarding their decision and they are so unbelievably insane, you have to read them yourself: “The book will be necessary to keep in schools, to help be more inclusive and allow all students from the LGBTQ+ community to have a resource to refer to. In addition, the pages taken out of context do not represent the intention of the book and only served as an illustration to help provide understanding of what the author was trying to portray in their book.” “The book expands on sexual orientation and gender identity which are both topics touched on in wellness.” “It being a graphic novel makes the book more accessible to a variety of readers.” The book “has won a large number of teen-specific literary awards and is an ‘Own Voices’ text for a marginalized community. Inclusion in the library of the three high schools meets the district’s goal for more inclusive and diverse materials.” “This graphic novel is very well done from a literary standpoint. It is an excellent example of a memoir, it includes many visual metaphors, it promotes literacy and accessibility through the graphic format, and it has modern language suitable to our students today.” A “well written/illustrated text; important insight regarding gender identity.” “We think kids need to read about vibrators, blowjobs, masturbation, and chest binders for ultimate inclusion and a show of diversity,” is what the statement should’ve read. Instead, they mask the graphic nature of the book under the veil of “inclusivity” and accuse concerned parents of taking the book out of context. In what context is a photo of someone receiving oral sex okay to show children? Libs of TikTok has documented alarmed parents across the nation who have shown up to local school board meetings to try and have the book removed. One school board even cut off a mother attempting to read the book. Ironically, the book is too “obscene” for a school board meeting but apparently okay to place inside the school library where children have access. WATCH: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1502422010068029441?s=20 https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1523879644264423426?s=20 Communist school boards are infecting children’s minds with pornographic material and masking it under the guise of “inclusive” to label parents as transphobic, homophobic, and hateful. The only solution is voting out these school board members or removing children from the school system. In my personal opinion, I prefer the latter. And: HUNDREDS of Muslim Parents in Dearborn, Michigan SHUT DOWN School Board Meeting Over Pornographic Books There’s a disgusting phenomenon occurring in schools throughout the United States. Many local school boards and administrators are pushing pornographic books in school libraries. Read a few prior reports on this disturbing trend: https://wltreport.com/2022/07/13/oregon-school-district-votes-to-keep-gay-pornographic-book-in-library/ https://wltreport.com/2021/09/15/watch-mayor-demands-school-board-resign-or-face-charges-after-educators-distributed-pornographic-material-to-students/ https://wltreport.com/2021/05/14/despicable-virginia-parents-blast-school-board-over-pornographic-books-assigned-to-ninth-graders/ Parents around the country were shocked and outraged when they became aware of the illegal pornographic books their local schools are pushing on kids in the student libraries. One book that was found in several libraries is titled, Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. The Gateway Pundit explained: The book is a graphic novel with drawings that explains in lurid detail the sexual interactions between two young men, has been inserted into high school libraries across America, despite it violating guidelines against pornography or sexually explicit materials being provided to minors and paid for with our tax dollars. Gender Queer includes countless images of male-on-male sexual encounters, accompanied by words that one would expect to find inside literary works at adult porn shops or gay sex clubs and bathhouses. Even so, this book was purchased and pushed by school officials around the country, despite it clearly violating county guidelines. Here are a couple of pages from the book. Most Americans did not realize this is a PICTURE book with explicit drawings. WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT     These are two pages from the book. How is this legal? How is graphic content like this placed in a school library? It’s complete insanity! “This week Muslim parents shut down a school board meeting over the porn books in their child’s schools,” The Gateway Pundit stated. WATCH: Now things are really getting interesting Can’t wait to see how the woke mob tries to spin this! Video from @/wakeupwithlinda on IG pic.twitter.com/NWQE2ragKX — Gays Against Groomers (@againstgrmrs) October 11, 2022 Detroit Free Press reported: Hundreds of protesters packed a Dearborn Public Schools board meeting this week and shut it down with cries of anger over certain LGBTQ books they said are too sexually explicit for children. And now, some community leaders anxiously await a rescheduled meeting set for Thursday night as others call for calm. A heavy police presence failed to prevent the Monday night meeting from descending into chaos as demonstrators took it over and then various factions within them jostled for control, shouting at each other. Protesters often ignored the requests of police officers to stop interrupting board members. It was unclear who was in control of the meeting at times. Most of the crowd appeared to be in opposition to the books, but there were also a number of people with the the American Federation of Teachers union who showed up to support inclusion of LGBTQ people and others. Not until Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin arrived later did the protesters stop their agitation. Shahin pleaded with the crowd to relax and not embarrass Dearborn. There was concern expressed by some community leaders that the protesters are making the city and its Arab American Muslim population look bad. But others said that as Muslims, they have to stand up for their faith. “The eyes of the nation are on us. … So please, calm down, let’s have respect for each other,” Shahin told the crowd at about 9:10 pm. “We can have a spirited debate, but we can’t conduct ourselves this way, guys, we just can’t. We’re better than this. Dearborn is better than this. This community is better than this. We’re brothers and sisters regardless of race, ethnicity, religion.” Shahin said the board suspended the meeting and would reschedule it for Thursday evening at Fordson High School in order to accommodate a larger crowd. “Vote them out!” the crowd repeatedly chanted during the raucous meeting inside an administrative center where the board holds its public meetings. The room was packed tightly, with many using an overflow room and others standing in the back and on the sides. Several held up signs with anti-gay rhetoric in English and Arabic, making religious references to assert that LGBTQ educational materials and books should not be available in Dearborn Public Schools, the third largest school district in Michigan. Some of the placards held up read: “Keep your porno books to yourself,” “Homosexuality Big Sin,” and “If democracy matters, we’re the majority.” Overflow crowd here at Dearborn Public Schools Board meeting for debate over LGBTQ books. AFT union here in support of books. pic.twitter.com/3Rduf03Y5h — Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 10, 2022 Dearborn Police officer warns crowd to stop yelling and interjecting when school board is speaking. Some are booing board for not doing enough to remove LGBTQ books: pic.twitter.com/umgxSiS2xH — Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 11, 2022 Shouting between various factions as groups take over Dearborn public schools board meeting. Board members have left. Unclear if they are coming back or if meeting will restart. Heavy police presence. pic.twitter.com/XIMEqIRR1X — Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 11, 2022 Also, a 3,200-word story published yesterday before the Dearborn board meeting offering some context: https://t.co/YWBNlSPdAa — Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 11, 2022 Read the full story at Detroit Free Press.

Yesterday, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent resigned and issued a dramatic statement saying he could no longer remain in the Trump Administration because he does not support the strike on Iran because Iran poses no threat to us. And you could almost respect such an extreme, principled stance….if it were true. But many are confused about how he could hold such views when just three months ago he told Shawn Ryan that Iran was an enemy and a clear threat to the United States: DEVELOPING: Footage of Joe Kent expressing why Iran was an enemy and threat to the United States on the on The Shawn Ryan Show 3 months ago is going viral amid his new claims that no threat was present. pic.twitter.com/RHqYwfp9cj — Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 19, 2026 So that already was putting his resignation into a strange light….things already not quite making sense.  Dots not connecting. And now we may have just got the big bombshell that might explain everything. Fox News reports that Joe Kent is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly leaking confidential information. And you might think “sure he is, the Trump Administration is retaliating because they’re mad about the statement he released” … but that would be incorrect. Because the big bombshell here is the fact that the investigation began BEFORE he resigned. In other words, did he catch wind that they were onto him and so he bolted? See here from Fox News, Laura Ingraham looks visually stunned announcing this news: BREAKING: Resigned NCTC Director Joe Kent is reportedly under FBI INVESTIGATION for "allegedly leaking CLASSIFIED INFORMATION" And the investigation was reportedly going on before he resigned This is INSANE.pic.twitter.com/IzHVtKcPVd — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 18, 2026 FULL TRANSCRIPT: Laura Ingraham: Moment ago, um, sources are saying that Joe Kent, the former director of the, uh, United States National Counterterror Center, this is from Semafor, he just resigned. He’s now under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information, and the investigation predates his departure. Congressman, your reaction to that tonight. Congressman: Wow. Well, there, there’s a lot there, and I think that we, we need to let this investigation play out. But we shouldn’t tolerate any leakers in the administration, particularly regarding classified national security, uh, interests and information. So, um, we’ll, we’ll let this play out and, and see where it goes, but if he was leaking, he ought to be held accountable just like anybody else would be. Laura Ingraham: Well, 5 minutes ago he seemed to think that Iran was a big threat, and then suddenly that threat went away. It was very odd. Congressman, thank you very much. Great to see you. Backup here on Rumble if needed: So…was Joe Kent the big leaker inside the Trump Admin? Did we just plug the hole? 1/ Theory: The real reasonCandace Owens, General Flynn's circle, Infowars, Bannon & other big MAGA influencers are suddenly raging at Joe Kent isn't just his Iran stance or "resignation drama." It's because they suspect (or know) he was their inside leak source… and now… pic.twitter.com/NfdmQAaFvo — Jeffrey Pedersen (@intheMatrixxx) March 19, 2026 CBS News confirms: BREAKING: The FBI is investigating Joe Kent, the ex-Trump counterterrorism chief who resigned over the Iran war yesterday. https://t.co/CidFkKCFKx — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 19, 2026 Here is more, from CBS News: The FBI is investigating former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent in connection with alleged leaks of classified information, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter tell CBS News. The probe began before Kent resigned this week over the Trump administration’s handling of the war with Iran, the sources said. The FBI’s Criminal Division is handling the probe, which has been underway for some time, one source said. The FBI declined to comment. Kent did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The news was first reported by Semafor. Former deputy White House chief of staff Taylor Budowich alluded to the issue shortly after Kent resigned, writing on X that Kent was “often at the center of national security leaks” and “spent all of his time working to subvert the chain of command and undermine the President.” He didn’t specify what information Kent was accused of leaking. Kent announced he was stepping down in an open letter Tuesday that criticized the decision to launch a war against Iran when the country “posed no imminent threat to our nation.” He also asserted that “it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent wrote. He expanded on his reasoning in an interview Wednesday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Kent insisted to Carlson that there was no intelligence that Iran was going to preemptively attack the U.S. or was on the cusp of building a nuclear weapon, and said there wasn’t a “robust debate” ahead of the war, instead claiming “the Israelis drove the decision.” The Trump administration has vehemently pushed back. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Kent’s resignation letter was filled with “false claims,” asserting that Iran did pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and calling suggestions that President Trump was driven to war by another country “insulting and laughable.” Leavitt has also downplayed Kent’s importance, saying in a Fox News interview Wednesday that Kent “was not involved in any of the discussions” before or during the Iran war, and had not played a part in assembling the president’s intelligence brief in “a while.” RELATED REPORTS: Karoline Leavitt Answers Questions On DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s Future Following Joe Kent’s Resignation President Trump Shares Screenshot Exposing Joe Kent Following Sudden Resignation President Trump always keeps the receipts. As the WLT Report covered on Tuesday, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, suddenly resigned. In Kent’s resignation letter, he claimed he could no longer consciously support the war in Iran. He later claimed it in his letter that Israel and its powerful lobbyists are the ones who persuaded President Trump into the war. In his first response after learning that Kent had resigned, President Trump called Kent “weak.” Watch here: Trump later in the evening shared a screenshot from a post Kent made back in 2020 in which he supported attacks on Iran. Take a look: BREAKING: President Trump highlights Joe Kent’s post from 2020 where Kent said "We shouldn’t sit and wait for the next attack, wipe Iran’s ballistic capability out." https://t.co/GLyhi8BfBT pic.twitter.com/hbv6pExjFa — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 18, 2026 USA Today reported more on Kent Resignation and Trump’s response: The top US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday in protest over the Iran war, writing that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation” in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump. Joe Kent, a conservative politician and former CIA paramilitary officer, quit as head of the National Counterterrorism Center, alleging the United States went to war “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby” and that Trump had been duped by a “misinformation campaign.” Trump later told reporters “it’s a good thing that he’s out because he said Iran was not a threat. Every country recognized Iran was a threat.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on social media that Kent’s resignation letter was riddled with “false claims.” Kent, who was a top aide to national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, is the first U.S. official to resign over the war, now in its 18th day. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard who Kent served under, also released a statement: Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the… — DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) March 17, 2026 Full Text: Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our President and Commander in Chief. As our Commander in Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat, and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions. After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat and he took action based on that conclusion. So what’s next for Joe Kent? Apparently, he’s about to go on the podcast circuit. https://x.com/TheCalvinCooli1/status/2033943962839351687

A U.S. F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at a U.S. air base in the Middle East after getting struck by what’s believed to be Iranian fire. “This would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft (in this case a stealth, 5th generation fighter jet) since the war started. The F-35 was ‘flying a combat mission over Iran’ when it was forced to make an emergency landing, per Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spox for CENTCOM,” CNN reporter Zachary Cohen said. “The aircraft landed safely, & the pilot is in stable condition,” Hawkins said. “This incident is under investigation,” he added. A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, sources tell @halbritz & @OrenCNN. This would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft (in this case a stealth, 5th generation… — Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) March 19, 2026 CNN has more: Both the US and Israel are flying F-35s in the conflict; the aircraft costs upwards of $100 million. The US has lost other aircraft in the war thus far, though none known to have been hit by enemy fire. Three US F-15 fighter jets were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, with all six crew members ejecting safely. And last week, a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, though the cause is still unclear. The US military said the incident was “not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.” All six crew members aboard the KC-135 were killed. “Iranian officials have just released wild new footage claiming it reportedly shows one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35 fighter jet, which was forced to make an emergency landing,” Rawsalerts wrote. #BREAKING: Iranian officials have just released wild new footage claiming it reportedly shows one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35 fighter jet, which was forced to make an emergency landing. pic.twitter.com/7V7TyAuOLB — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 19, 2026 “Iran’s IRGC says it attacked and ‘damaged’ a US f-35 fighter jet,” Al Jazeera noted. BREAKING: Iran’s IRGC says it attacked and “damaged” a US f-35 fighter jet. US Central Command says a jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing. LIVE updates: https://t.co/AcLp73CTgN pic.twitter.com/AiJLwd6cJw — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 19, 2026 The Hill shared further: The U.S. and Israeli forces have continued striking targets inside Iran, while Tehran has been retaliating with fire against U.S. assets in Gulf states, which have worked to intercept Iranian drones and missiles. On Monday, Centcom said about 200 U.S. service members have been injured in the conflict with Iran, with the vast majority of them returning to duty. Defense officials have said 13 U.S. service members have been killed since the war started. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. remains “on plan” for its objectives in the conflict but declined to give a firm timeline for when the war could end when asked about it Thursday morning.

After Rush finally broke with 2112, they tended to refine and progress with each new album. When it came to the 1980s, that process had to conform to a more streamlined, user-friendly result. Rush accepted the challenge, embraced the technology, and trimmed down the epics to bite-sized songs that the record-buying, MTV-viewing public could relate to. Strangely enough, the Ayn Rand-inspired lyrics were a direct reflection of the “Me” generation that dominated the mindset of the late 70s and 80s. Once synths worked their way onto Signals and its lead-off single “Subdivisions,” Rush seemed to be moving in the right direction. For them, however, more changes were necessary with their 1984 follow-up, Grace Under Pressure. And that started with replacing long-time producer Terry Brown with someone with a fresh perspective. Forty years later, Grace Under Pressure: Super Deluxe Edition not only features a new remaster and multi-channel remix, but also a new stereo remix by Terry Brown from the original studio album’s analog multitracks co-produced by Rush with Peter Henderson. The eight songs that fill Grace Under Pressure sort of pick up from where Signals left off by incorporating many of high-tech apparatuses of the day like fancy dialup synths and electronic drums. In an effort to appease record company brass and hit parade impresarios, the object for Rush in 1984 was to come off as a sleek, modern-age band built for MTV comfort without alienating their more guitar-oriented fanbase of the 70s and early 80s. Grace Under Pressure achieves a balance, letting Alex Lifeson’s guitar operate front and center, without overextending its place in the mix. So you can listen to simple chord patterns frame songs like “Distant Early Warning” and “Red Sector A,” while low-flying keys follow along and fill in the gaps. Any short-run leads Lifeson plays are structured for purpose, not for showboat pyrotechnics. By the time you get to the reggae jump of “The Enemy Within” or the deep-seated groove of “Kid Gloves,” it’s as if the band is distancing themselves from their prog rock roots. On an album where none of the eight songs exceed six minutes, each and every track packs an economical punch without tedium excess. By the time you reach “Between The Wheels,” the guitar and keyboards intersect, without any intention of drifting apart. The Terry Brown remix seems to bring out a little more warmth of the original stereo mix. Without hearing them proper, the jury is still out on Richard Chycki’s 48kHz/24-bit Dolby Atmos and 96kHz/24-bit Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mixes. His surround mixes of other Rush titles haven’t been well received. Steven Wilson’s take on A Farewell To Kings is really the only Rush 5.1 mix audiophiles seem to care about. Too bad it’s only available in the out-of-print box set currently fetching hundreds of duckets on the resale front. Thankfully, the included Blu-ray and the third and fourth CDs on Grace Under Pressure: Super Deluxe Edition include the complete show Rush performed on September 21, 1984, at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, also newly mixed. The video — originally issued on VHS and Betamax as Grace Under Pressure Tour in 1986, two years later on Laserdisc, then reissued in 2006 on DVD as Grace Under Pressure 1984 — has now been retitled Grace Under Pressure Tour: Live in Toronto 1984. Newly edited, mixed and visually remastered in HD concert video, this is the 20-song live set finding the band totally in sync at every turn and easily at the peak of their powers. Watching Geddy Lee sing, play bass and keyboards in one song is a marvel to behold. And seeing the band lock in on “YYZ” into “2112: The Temples Of Syrinx” is all the proof you need that Rush, even as streamlined as they were in the 80s, always kept their musicianship at the highest level. Available in multiple configurations — five LPs or four CDs, the Blu-ray, the Dolby Atmos Digital Edition, and Grace Under Pressure Tour: Live in Toronto 1984 free to view on YouTube — Grace Under Pressure: Super Deluxe Edition also includes new liner notes by Geddy Lee, as well as new illustrations by original album designer Hugh Syme for the box set  cover and each of the album’s eight songs. Altogether, we’re looking at another teaser to wrap your ears and eyes around before Lee and Lifeson return for the Fifty Something tour to celebrate Rush’s music, legacy, and the life of late drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. Fans will expect to hear their favorites from Hemispheres, Moving Pictures and Signals. With 19 albums, they have plenty to choose from. That being said, there’s little doubt a song or two from Grace Under Pressure will find its way to the setlist. ~ Shawn Perry Purchase Grace Under Pressure: Super Deluxe Edition