LOS ANGELES.–Democrats and the fake news have been hell-bent on discrediting Trump air strikes on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, claiming the military action did little more than set Iran back by a few months. Democrats and fake news cited a preliminary Defense Intelligence report that indicated the that damage wasn’t quite a great a was first reported by President Donald Trump. But what became clear as more information came in from various sources including Iran, Israel and the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog IAEA, that the damage, as initially reported by Trump, was accurate, Iran sustained massive damage to its Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan enrichment facilities. Yet Democrats and the fake new persist in minimizing the damage all for politics, to discredit Trump’s undeniable success as much as possible. When Trump went to the NATO summit this week, he was given a hero’s welcome.
Every U.S. voter should make note over Democrats and the fake news gaslighting the public to believe Trump botched the mission in Iran when the fact showed the opposite. U.S. news coverage has become so toxic, so twisted, so distorted, so inaccurate that all it does advances a Democrat agenda. CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times have done everything possible to distort the facts surrounding the Iran bombings. All indications point to widespread destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites with the press quibbling over words “obliterate,” “annihilate,” “destroy” and other adjectives describing the same thing. “Both the U.S. and Israel say they achieved their objectives,” said Jacob Olidort, director of the Center of American Securit. Even Iran’s Foreign Policy spokesman Esmail Bagheri told Al Jazera news that “our nuclear installations have been badly damaged.”
Playing politics with foreign policy and national security is exactly what happened in the Biden years when he decided to fund proxy war against the Kremlin. Democrats and the fake news were all in taking on the Kremlin, even if it turned Russia into a mortal enemy. Biden ended decades of diplomacy, détente, arms control and global cooperation with the Kremlin, all but wrecking U.S.-Russian relations. Trump has been working hard, despite recent events in Iran, to restore normal diplomatic relations. With the stock market rolling and the Iran-war ended, Trump has been riding high, something Democrats and the fake news want to stop. Democrats put all the eggs into the 2026 Midterm elections, hoping to show the country in ruins to gaslight the public into taking back the House. Voters saw all the gaslighting in the 2024 presidential election, with Democrats and the fake news calling Trump a dictator, something they continue to do.
When it comes to the Ukraine War, Democrats and the fake news support the war, want to continue the Biden policy of giving Ukraine a blank check to battle the Kremlin. Democrats are having a hard time saying Trump colludes with the Kremlin because he went ahead with bombing Iran’s nuke sites over objections of Russia and China. Trump received praise at the NATO summit for taking action against Iran’s nuke program. U.N.’s chief weapons inspector IAEA Secretary-General Rafael Grossi said whatever adjectives are used to describe air strikes on Iran nuke sites, he called the damage done by U.S. and Israeli strikes is “very, very, very considerable.” Why does CNN and the New York Times insist, against all available facts, that the damage was minimal? Democrats can’t stomach the fact that Trump engaged in the most complex military operation in U.S. history, delivering astonishing results.
Trump has been blamed by Democrats and the fake news for not meeting a key campaign promise of ending the Ukraine War. Trump has worked feverishly with his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to bring and end to war. Once Witkoff found out through several meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin what it would take to end the conflict, Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky refused to cooperate. Zelensky stabbed Trump in the back at the Munich Security Conference, telling delegates that Trump wasn’t concerned about European security. Well, when Trump went to the NATO summit earlier this week at The Hague, he was greeted with a hero’s welcome. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised Trump to no end to his work to increase NATO defense spending and strengthen the transatlantic alliance. So, when the EU meets again with Zelensky, you’d think they’d tell him to follow Trump.
Discrediting Trump is the main political goal of Democrats and the fake news. By anyone’s standards, the Iran nuke bombings were a booming success that was pulled off without a hitch. CNN and New York Times look like fools pushing the fake narrative that the strikes did little or nothing. While no one yet has visited the sites other than Iran, the world knows that Trump delivered on his promises to stop Iran from enriching uranium. Whether Iran builds back the nuke program in the future is anyone’s guess. What’s known with growing certainty is that Iran’s nuke sites have been put out of commission. Trump warned Iran that if they try to build back, he wouldn’t hesitate to go back and destroy them again. Iran is a different country after the 12-day war. No longer can they hide behind the illusion of strength when the world saw them crumble.
About the Author
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.
