LOS ANGELES.–Democrats and the fake news got another rude awakening with 79-year-old President Donald Trump overwhelming success in his attacks on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Democrats and the fake news grossly underestimated the damage done to Iran’s nuclear programs, citing anonymous sources with inaccuarate readings on the actual damage to Iran’s Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan uranium enrichment sites. Fake news was quick to try to discredit Trump spectacular mission, using B-2 Stealth bombers, support aircraft and submarine-based Cruise missiles. Trump mission in Ukraine was applauded by NATO as a booming success, exposing, once again, the fake news propaganda driven by a Democrat political agenda. Democrats and the fake news learned nothing from the 2024 presidential election that you can’t gaslight the public without consequences.
Consequences for the latest fake news reporting at CNN and the New York Times about Trump’s Iran mission will cost them the 2026 Midterm elections. Voters know they cannot trust Democrats and the fake news to do anything but push a Democrat agenda. New reports by the CIA on bomb damage assessment show that the damage to Iran’s nuclear program are far more serious than reported by CNN and the New York Times. When Trump went to the NATO summit at The Hague June 22-23, Trump was put on a pedestal for his astonishing mission in Ukraine and push to get NATO countries to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP, something that will happen over time. Democrats and the fake news did everything to disparage the most complex military mission in U.S. history, pulled off to perfection, without any hitches, leaving Iran’s nuke program in shambles.
No one ever said that over time Iran could not build back its nuke program no matter what the damage. But the real genius of the Israeli-Iran war was exposing Iran as another Mideast paper tiger military, all show but no go. Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is all feeble propaganda showing how he responded to the Zionist regime and Great Satan. Ayatollah spoke for the first time since the start of the 12-day war, claiming victory to save face to his hapless following. Any Iranian with access to the Internet knows that Iran was humiliated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump over the 12-day war. Trump let Netanyahu soften up Iran’s air defenses and other military targets before launching the most daring, dynamic and effective attack in U.S. history. Ayatollah and the fake news can join hands in trying to minimize the damage to Iran’s nuke industry.
When Trump visited The Hague this week, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte heaped praised on Trump for the most extraordinary military mission witnessed by any country. Rutte’s praise of Trump was disparaged in the fake news, especially the Associated Press who actually wasted an article on showing Trump was an egomaniac for talking about a great U.S. military success. From Moscow to Beijing and everywhere in-between, Trump showcased the military might of the U.S., far in excess of every other country. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping can only look on and marvel at the incomparable execution of the U.S. military. Trump’s Iran mission exposes Iran as a paper tiger but, more importantly, serves notice to U.S. adversaries to stay clear of provoking the U.S. Democrats and the fake news can’t stop gaslighting.
Rutte told the world that Trump’s Iran mission was an undeniable success, contrary to what you hear in the fake news. “When it comes to Iran, the fact that he took this decisive action, very targeted, to make sure that Iran would not be able to get his hand on nuclear capability—I think he deserves all the praise, calling Trump a “good friend.” Democrats and the fake news ran on a platform that Trump was trying to destroy NATO, support Putin and weaken the transatlantic alliance. Why would Rutte sing Trump praise if he didn’t think he supported the NATO alliance? Trump compared his targeted bombing of Iran’s nuke sites to U.S. nuke bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended WW II in the Pacific. While the comparison isn’t perfect, it showed that the Ayatollah gave up, wanted out and soon entered into a truce with Israel to end the 12-day war.
New CIA bomb damage assessment reports on Iran’s nuke sites show that any Defense Intelligence initial findings about the degree of damage was incomplete and premature. Yet Democrats and the fake news ran with it to discredit Trump’s Iran mission. If the NATO Secretary-General says Trump’s Iran mission did wonders to neutralize Iran’s nuke program, why would the fake news dispute it. “The intelligence says, “we don’t know, it could have been very severe. That’s what the intelligence says. So I guess that’s correct, but I think we can take the ‘we don’t know.’ It was very severe. It was obliteration,” Trump said before the CIA released its report that the damage could take Iran years to fix. Only Democrats and the fake news play politics with national security.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
