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President Donald Trump accused Obama of attempting to conduct a “coup” during the 2016 election and called for his arrest in a post on his Truth Social account Thursday. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just released HUNDREDS OF BOMBSHELL RUSSIAGATE DOCUMENTS proving that Barack Obama personally ordered CIA agents to manufacture false intelligence on President Trump and was actively “working with the enemy” to undermine and erode Americans’ confidence in our democracy and President Trump’s LANDSLIDE 2016 VICTORY. This was a coup attempt by Barack Hussain Obama and his cronies… As Jesse Watters said “Whatever happens to these guys is not revenge… it’s accountability. And it’s time for people to pay the price.” ARREST OBAMA NOW! In recent days the Trump administration has been investigating the conduct of its opponents in past elections. The call to arrest Obama comes just one day after the FBI executed a warrant seizing documents from the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta relating to the 2020 election. The seizure was notable for the presence of a number of high-profile administration officials, including Gabbard and the FBI’s Deputy Director Andrew Bailey. The post Trump Calls for Arrest of Barack Obama appeared first on The American Conservative.

President Donald Trump on Friday named Kevin Warsh as the nominee to succeed Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. The announcement comes after a months-long dispute between Trump and Powell over rate cuts, which escalated when the Department of Justice launched criminal investigations into the Federal reserve chair.   Trump praised Warsh on Truth Social, writing that he had “no doubt” his pick would be remembered as “one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best,” adding that he was “central casting” and “will never let you down.” Warsh, a former Fed governor, played a central role in the Bush-era response to the 2008 financial crisis, working closely with then-Chairman Ben Bernanke. Warsh is not viewed as a sure vote for rate cuts. He criticized the Fed’s September 2024 reduction, though he has recently expressed greater openness to cuts. The dollar strengthened while gold and silver sold off, as traders interpreted Warsh’s nomination as reducing the risk of aggressive rate cuts and political interference with the Fed. The post Trump Names Kevin Warsh as Next Fed Chair appeared first on The American Conservative.

Foreign Affairs Iran Without a Plan The administration risks repeating the Iraq debacle as farce. (CARLOS BARRIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) The United States is steamrolling toward another Middle East crisis of its own making. A second American-Israeli attack on Iran seems almost inevitable—this time likely to be far deadlier for all involved parties. President Donald Trump has surged military assets to the region, threatening that “time is running out” for Tehran to make a deal. He is even reportedly considering using U.S. special forces to launch ground raids against nuclear and ballistic missile infrastructure and other regime targets.  Yet what Trump hopes to achieve remains unclear. Washington has failed to articulate a clear endgame in Iran. Force has become an end in itself, detached from clear and achievable strategic goals.  Proceeding down this path risks disaster. Further U.S. military action against Iran would not be aimed at protecting concrete interests, but at advancing a failed regional agenda that has guided American Middle East policy for decades. Vague objectives, inflated threat perceptions, and regime-change fantasies threaten to pull the U.S. into a costly war that Americans do not want. Trump should immediately pivot toward negotiations with Tehran with realistic expectations.  Current calls for war represent the latest iteration of a multi-decade cycle of policy inertia and special interests pushing the United States toward military confrontation with Iran. This push received new impetus following the series of losses to Iran’s strategic position in the two years since Hamas’s terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza. As Israel escalated against Iran’s regional proxies and the Islamic Republic directly, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who has lobbied for U.S.-led regime change in Iran for nearly three decades—and hawks in Washington hoped to pressure Trump into capitalizing on this vulnerability.  At first, Trump resisted the pressure for military action against Iran. But after five rounds of talks, progress stalled, thanks primarily to Washington being pressured by Israel and its supporters into adopting the poison-pill demand of zero domestic enrichment of uranium. Ultimately, Trump caved, first greenlighting Israel’s attacks on Iran and then joining the war by striking three Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. Afterwards, he claimed the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program—a claim contradicted by both American intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Israel initiated the “12-Day War” against Iran under the dubious pretext of preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon—something Israeli officials have claimed has been imminent for decades, despite U.S. intelligence estimates to the contrary. In reality, Israel’s attacks were not about preempting an imminent threat, but instead an opening salvo to a conflict Netanyahu and his allies hoped would result in regime change.  Now, Israel and hawks in Washington are demanding the United States go back in. Israel first predicated the need for new strikes on targeting Iran’s ballistic missile program. Then, the narrative shifted toward the need to protect Iranian protesters after the outbreak of a mass upheaval rallying against a growing economic crisis inside Iran. This constant moving of the goalposts reflects a sustained effort by these same actors to push the United States toward pursuing regime change in Tehran. For both Israel and hawks in Washington, the greatest problem with Iran has never been its nuclear program, its ballistic missiles, or its authoritarian nature—it remains the regime itself.  Trump has taken the bait. He seems more interested in capitulation than negotiations, demanding that Tehran abandon domestic uranium enrichment, curb its ballistic missile program, and end support for its regional proxies. Yet the idea that Iran would willingly render itself more vulnerable after the losses it incurred over the past two years defies even basic logic. Negotiations will fail if the U.S. enters with these maximalist demands—something proponents of American strikes on Iran are counting on.  New U.S. or Israeli strikes would not be about preempting an imminent threat, let alone freeing the Iranian people from tyranny—they would more likely be geared toward regime degradation and/or collapse. The lack of even ostensible rationales for renewed military action in Iran is glaring. Washington is frantically reaching for justifications to support an already predetermined course of action.  There is no clear endgame to Trump’s Iran plan. Airstrikes alone will not collapse the regime. Nor is the punitive use of force a realistic option for brokering a diplomatic agreement with Iran. Trump’s demands are even greater this time around, which risks repeating the same failures that led to the 12-Day War.  Assuming U.S. strikes would be a one-and-done operation risks triggering a dangerous escalation spiral. Those clamoring for American military action are likely to press for sustained engagement to ensure the regime’s demise and manage an internal transition. They are pushing a maximalist agenda and will keep moving the goalposts until Washington pursues their preferred course of action.   Nor is renewed military action likely to help Iranian protesters. Despite the breadth of the protests, elite cohesion held and the security apparatus remained loyal to the regime, allowing it to squash the uprising through brutal repression. It should go without saying that Iranians, like all people, deserve to live free and determine their own future. But they should not be treated as political pawns.  There is no evidence that military action would rekindle this movement or empower it to the point of regime collapse. The Iranian opposition remains deeply divided, and hawkish American policies toward Iran have historically empowered regime hardliners. There is no surer way to undermine domestic opposition to the regime in Tehran than by appropriating their struggle to justify foreign military intervention.  To think that Washington can successfully engineer and sustain a new status quo inside Iran through military force epitomizes the fantastical thinking that has guided American Middle East policy for decades. Any meaningful reform must be self-sustaining and cannot be externally imposed.  The current course of action carries tremendous risks for the U.S. and the region. There is a high likelihood that the regime will view the combination of renewed strikes and recent domestic unrest as an existential threat, resulting in greater retaliation against the U.S. and its regional partners than before. Tehran will want to signal that periodic American or Israeli attacks inside Iran will not become routine. Iranian officials have indicated as much, claiming Tehran would respond to renewed US or Israeli military action with greater force than during the 12-Day War.  Despite the considerable losses incurred over the past two years, Iran retains the ability and resources necessary to respond decisively. This risks not only destabilizing the Middle East, but also endangering the lives of the roughly 40,000 U.S. troops in the region while dragging the United States into a protracted conflict at a time when it is considerably overextended abroad. Bombing Iran risks repeating the past mistakes of U.S. military interventions in the Middle East. Trump’s window to change course is closing fast. Diplomacy remains the sole means of averting another regional crisis. The post Iran Without a Plan appeared first on The American Conservative.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by Federal agents in Los Angeles, early Friday morning. The arrest was made in connection to a protest which disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.More details soon.— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) January 30, 2026 Lemon was charged under the FACE act and with “conspiracy to deprive rights.” On January 18, anti-ICE protestors stormed the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, disrupting a church service. Lemon accompanied the protestors into the church, where they claimed one of the pastors is an ICE field director.  At the time, Attorney General Pam Bondi promised to respond to the disruption of the church service with Federal law. At the time, the assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice’s civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon, stated that the protest may have contained potential violations of the 1994 FACE Act. The FACE Act makes it a crime to “to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship,” and also prohibits similar actions and protests around abortion facilities. “Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case,” said Abbe Lowell, Don Lemon’s attorney, in a social media post. “Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.” The post Don Lemon Arrested By Federal Authorities appeared first on The American Conservative.

UK Special Coverage The Great Fragmentation of UK Politics “Shattered” Brits are embracing populism of right and left with the enthusiasm of the convert. UK Special Coverage The British are a famously phlegmatic nation, not given to revolutionary fervor or radical politics. The UK is the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world and has had a remarkably stable political system dominated by two class-based parties, Labour and Conservative, for the last century.  Brits have a healthy disrespect for politicians and love to laugh at the antics of the pompous elites who tell them how to live their lives. But their grounding has been in stability and common sense, not getting too “het up” about politics. “Keep Calm and Carry On”, as the wartime slogan put it. Until now. Britain is het up about politics, very het up. The Labour–Tory centrist duopoly has been shattered.  Old political allegiances have been broken. Voters are angry, really angry,  in a way unseen even in the contentious 1970s, when the trade unions turned the factories of Britain into a battleground from which they never fully recovered. Margaret Thatcher may have seemed radical to many, but the Tory prime minister of the 1980s was essentially a centrist suburbanite committed to the political and social consensus. The new party of the right is a very different creature. From almost nowhere two years ago, Reform UK, led by a right-wing maverick and left-wing hate figure, Nigel Farage, has broken through the “uniparty”, as he calls the Labour–Conservative duopoly. Reform stands for the mass detention and repatriation of illegal immigrants; a “net zero” cap on legal migration to the UK; resumption of drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea; and an end to transgender ideology in schools. It is currently in a strong position to win next month’s crucial Gorton and Denton by-election in what used to be one of Labour’s safest seats. But it won’t be without a fight. The Green Party, led by a left-wing populist, Zack Polanski, is coming up fast in this Manchester seat. The Greens are appealing to the large Muslim population here by foregrounding opposition to “genocide” in Gaza. The Greens’ deputy leader, Mothin Ali, famously shouted “Allahu Akbar” after his victory speech in a 2024 council election. Under Polanski’s leadership, the Greens have largely sidelined the environment in favor of policies welcoming more refugees, nationalizing large parts of the economy, imposing punitive wealth taxes and moving towards “a world without borders”. Gorton and Denton is looking like a microcosm of the Great Fragmentation of UK politics. The latest opinion poll on UK-wide Westminster voter attitudes from Find Out Now has Reform UK leading with 29 percent, followed by the Green Party with 19 percent. Labour and the Conservatives are tied for third place with 17 percent. The old centrist party, the Liberal Democrats, have 11 percent. Other polls place the Greens lower, but Labour’s collapse is a rebuke to the Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who won what looked like a landslide election victory only 18 months ago. In reality, it was more a vote against the chaotic Conservatives than a positive vote for Labour. Starmer has become even more unpopular than his Tory predecessor, Rishi Sunak; more unpopular than Donald Trump; more unpopular even than Liz Truss, the former Tory PM who caused a crisis in the bond markets with her ill-thought-out budget in 2022. The Starmer administration has plumbed new depths of governmental chaos with a dozen major U-turns in as many months. Broken promises not to raise taxes have caused a crisis of trust and damaged economic growth. The PM’s failure to stop migrant boats crossing the Channel has infuriated British voters, who are not instinctively racist but feel that allowing 50,000 undocumented young men—often from countries mired in violence—to enter the country illegally every year is simply irresponsible. The cost of living continues to rise. Domestic fuel costs are some of the highest in the world. Starmer has allowed welfare spending to soar inexorably and unaffordably. The National Health Service has failed to improve its dismal performance despite huge investments of public funds. Starmer’s promise to hold a national inquiry into the mass rape of white girls by mainly Pakistani grooming gangs has yet to materialize, a year after Elon Musk on X shamed the British establishment into addressing this long-running scandal. The Conservatives, meanwhile, have lost a raft of former cabinet ministers to Reform, including the former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, the former leadership contender Robert Jenrick, and the former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi. The Conservative Party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, has won plaudits for her recent performance in Parliament, but her party has lost so many key figures that people now say Reform looks like the Tory party in exile. The roots of the Great Fragmentation in UK politics lie deep. In July, the polling organization More in Common published the results of a mega-survey of 20,000 British adults. Its conclusion was that Britain is simply “shattered”. The public feel exhausted and on the verge of psychological breakdown. Seven in 10 voters believe the country is on the wrong track. Nearly 9 in 10 have lost faith in politics. Nearly half say they are “surviving, not living” because of the raging cost of living (median earnings in Britain are 30 percent lower than in the U.S.). Skepticism about politicians has morphed, in many cases, into “deep-seated contempt”, say the pollsters. And it is not just politicians. Brits no longer respect the police, the judiciary, journalists or business leaders. Many voters are furious at the way both Labour and the Conservatives colluded in facilitating mass immigration despite voters repeatedly saying they opposed it. Net migration to the UK rose to nearly 1 million in 2023 under the Conservatives. This influx has been transforming the culture of England and creating introverted multicultural enclaves in many big cities, such as Manchester. The pollsters concluded that Britain is ready, for the first time in modern history, to “roll the dice on something new”. Most of the legacy media still seem to think that all this fragmentation is a temporary phenomenon and that normal service will be resumed before the next general election. After the 2024 general election, commentators, including the BBC’s former political editor Andrew Marr, opined that the election of Labour would presage a period of “stable and sensible government” after the chaotic Tory years, bringing a tide of investment to Britain as a haven from Trumpian madness in America and the rise of the far right in Europe. He could not have been more wrong. Britain may be a newcomer to confrontational populist politics, but it is learning fast, and with the enthusiasm of the convert. The Brits have learned to live dangerously. The post The Great Fragmentation of UK Politics appeared first on The American Conservative.