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d because they're trying to protect themselves from assassination basically. So that is my speculation. There's already been a regime change and maybe that's the only reason there's a ceasefire that seems to be holding so far.

According to Blaze Media, the ICE people in America have busted 11 illegal Iranian nationals in our country. One is a terror suspect, one's an ex-sniper, and another has Hezbollah ties. Really, if you were to just round up a bunch of Iranian immigrants who came through our open border, how many of them would be terror suspects, ex-snipers, and have ties? Would most of them or would most of them just be people trying to get a better life or something? That's pretty scary.

Now, I feel like the only thing protecting the United States from a terror attack from some Iranian sleeper cell is that Iran knows that our revenge for that would be so extreme that it couldn't possibly be a good idea. So unless they're actually crazy, I don't think they're going to go big on any kind of state sponsored terrorism in the US. That's the thing I'm least worried about. It might be something, but I don't think anything that will change the nature of the country.

Well, Trump is going after CNN and what he calls MSDNC and the New York Times, and he's over at NATO right now, and when asked, he said that they're all scum. And he says that they're disrespecting the military geniuses and the pilots and they're not getting credit because the news are fake news and they're all scum. Now, is that the right way to treat a bunch of people who are just reporting that we're not sure if the bomb damage assessment is correct? I don't know. He's right that no matter what they knew or whatever sources they had, they probably would be running non-stop content saying it didn't work because they're anti-Trump. So as I said in the beginning, I can tell you what your bomb damage assessment is if you tell me what your political preference is. That's all you need to know. And we will all treat that like we know it and it's true. And it's just the facts. We don't know. We couldn't possibly know.

But Republican Buddy Carter, he's a representative. He's nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in Israel with Iran. And the Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, he agrees. He says, "I think that President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize." So imagine how frustrating it would be to be Trump when you believe you've pulled off one of the greatest peacemaking things of all time, you know, albeit with a bomb or lots of bombs. And you got some people promoting you for a Nobel Peace Prize, which I feel like he would love. I feel like he would like that. And other people saying, "Ah, no, it didn't even work." Oh my god, that would drive me crazy if I were him. So I could see why he's a little bit miffed.

Anyway, so Trump is over at the NATO meeting and apparently NATO has designed itself around Trump. So apparently NATO is saying good stuff about him. They're complimenting him. The secretary general of NATO said to Trump, while Trump was on stage, "I just want to recognize your decisive action on Iran. You were a man of strength, but you're also a man of peace." And he said the fact that you're now getting this ceasefire, I really want to commend you for it. This is important for the whole world. And he said that without President Trump, this would not have happened. So that's the secretary general of NATO. He's basically just really buttering up Trump.

And then separately, NATO said that they've gone to 5% funding, you know, 5% of GDP, I guess, and not right away. There's a schedule to get there, but they're crediting Trump for what will be a huge increase in funding for NATO. So they're praising him for what he's doing outside of NATO. They're praising him for getting funding for NATO. And then the best part, Zelensky shows up wearing a suit. Do you think that Zelensky would have worn a suit to NATO except for Trump? I don't think so. I think everything from Zelensky to the Secretary General to all the leaders of NATO to all the countries, they're all adjusting their approach for Trump. Have you ever seen anything like this? This is the most remarkable persuasive influence you've ever seen in your life. Everything that people are doing from the news to NATO to Israel to Iran to Zelensky to Putin. They're all modifying what they're doing based on keeping Trump happy. Even Putin. Now, have we ever seen anything like this? I don't think so. There's definitely never been a president in my lifetime that was such a big footprint on just everything. I've never seen it. Amazing.

So yeah, Zelensky wore a suit. And Trump said that his negotiator Witkoff told him that a Gaza deal was very close. Do you believe that? Do you believe that a deal for Gaza is close? What would that even look like? And there's not much left of Gaza. So how can you possibly make any kind of a deal? What is Hamas gonna surrender and be shot or jailed? Is Israel gonna let the military wing of Hamas just reconstitute somewhere?

Now remember I said the same thing about the Israel-Iran conflict. I said, "There's no obvious way this could ever stop." And then Trump finds a non-obvious way to do it by putting 12 bombs in six holes and then claiming victory and then forcing Israel to agree to it and basically beating up everybody who disagreed. That worked. I mean, it looks like it worked. We don't know if it's we bought three months or 40 years. But do you think he could pull off the impossible again with whatever is left of Gaza? I don't even know what a deal would look like because Israel is not going to return all those people to their prior homes. There's no home to return them to. And if they put all of the prior residents of Gaza in some kind of concentrated area, it's going to be called a concentration camp. So is the world going to say, "Yeah, that's a good peace deal there." So I don't know what that could look like. My guess would be we're not very close to a Gaza deal at least not one that the Gaza residents would have agreed to.

According to the Wall Street Journal, China and Russia a little bit more interested in having a pipeline so that Russia can supply oil to China with full control of the mechanism of delivery. They don't want to depend on the Strait of Hormuz or anything else that could get easily attacked by other countries. But they're not going forward with it because apparently they can't agree on percentage ownership. So they can't figure out how to make a deal. But imagine how important that would be if they did. If Russia just sent a pipeline to China and then part of the conversation is that Russia doesn't want to be too dependent on having one big customer and China doesn't want to be too dependent on Russia. So they've got issues, but I think it's interesting that we see Russia and China becoming these great friends, and it's a big risk to us. But apparently the big friends, China and Russia, can't even work out a pipeline deal, which honestly doesn't seem like it would be that hard. I feel like Trump could do it. Trump's could work out a pipeline deal, I think, but no, they can't do it.

Well, we know now who was primarily involved in managing the autopen for Biden. Now, I can't believe that we had to wait this long for the pe

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rson who was definitely in charge of it to come forward and only because she was compelled by congressional testimony today. So some oversight committee was querying her and she admitted that she was in charge of making sure the autopen process worked. Now, in theory, that does not mean that she was making the decisions. In theory, she was just doing whatever the president wanted to do. So in the…

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