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Jul 4, 2026 - World

A conservative former judge warned Americans that they're facing a stark and important choice right now.In a July 4 appearance on MS NOW, ex-judge Michael Luttig said Trump is forcing Americans to decide what kind of country they want for the next 250 years. Trump "could not have presented the choice any more starkly," Luttig added."As we celebrate our founding today once again, these are the times in America that try men's souls, and Americans must decide today, this year, what America they want," Luttig said, evoking a quote by Thomas Paine. "What America they want and what America they do not want for the next 250 years."While Luttig stressed how critical the decision is, he struck an optimistic tone about the path that Americans seem to be choosing. He noted, "Only as of late, I have seen hope in the American people that they are beginning to rise up and reject this government and this president and all that he and it represent."Luttig cautioned that Trump fits the description of the kind of monarch that the founding Americans rejected through the 27 grievances in the Declaration of Independence. According to Luttig, "The American people, I believe, have finally come to their senses in a way and understood what vision of America this president and the current government has, and Americans don't want that."He added that no matter what Americans choose, "it's the decision of the American people that will prevail," and "If we have the courage in our breasts and the hope in our hearts that our founders had 250 years ago, when they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to create this country, we will long endure."

Jul 3, 2026 - World

An ex-GOP operative flagged how Trump is killing what he once touted as his "best" deal at the expense of his supporters.During an episode of The Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller described Trump's plans concerning the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which Trump negotiated and boasted about during his first term."The Trump administration decided not to renew the USMCA," Miller noted. "Which is pretty interesting because Donald Trump said that was the best agreement we've ever made, the best trade deal of all time."While "it's strange that they would not renew the best trade deal of all time," Miller explained, "They're now going to do yearly reviews where Trump shakes down the leaders of Mexico and Canada...not great."According to Miller, Trump will ditch the USMCA in favor of an arrangement where the U.S. conducts annual reviews of trade with Mexico and Canada. He predicted that the new arrangement would likely hurt American farmers, who supported Trump."The farmers, it's one hit after another for the farmers, who, it seems like, every Trump policy is like it's almost like an elaborate plot to see how much he can p— off the farmers and still run up the numbers in rural America," Miller said.Miller's guest on the show, New Yorker writer Susan Glasser, agreed."As far as the farmers go, Donald Trump loves to provide evidence that his ride or die supporters will be there no matter how much he humiliates them," Glasser said. "No matter how much he backs away from policies that would support him, no matter how much he fails to deliver the things that he said he would deliver. That to Trump, that's the ultimate sort of political own, and he loves that move."

Jul 3, 2026 - World

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board is alarmed by President Donald Trump's hints he'll give F-35 fighter jets to the Turkish government — which, despite being a NATO ally on paper, has disconcerting ties to Russia.This comes after Trump recently said that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a notorious autocrat who has cracked down on freedom in his country, “is a strong member of NATO. I’m going to probably do something that’s going to make him very happy. He’s a respected man, a respected leader, and he’s been a friend of mine.”"America’s premier fighter jet should be a nonstarter for Ankara as long as it owns an S-400 missile-defense system," wrote the editorial board. Trump initially kicked Turkey out of the F-35 program in his first term, the board noted, when it bought that Russian missile system in the first place in 2019, having "offered Patriot defenses to Turkey and warned Ankara multiple times."That was the right idea in the first place, the board argued, and it makes no sense to reverse it now."Allowing the two systems to work together would amount to letting Vladimir Putin conduct target practice on the free world’s pilots," noted the board, because it would give Putin valuable intelligence about how the F-35 program works. Worse yet, "The stakes of cracking the F-35’s tech are especially acute given Russia is working with China and Iran in a larger competition with the U.S."Moreover, the board wrote, there is the soft power issue to think about: caving to Turkey and letting them have American tech at the same time they use Russian tech will "fuel European cynicism that Mr. Trump cares less about European defense spending than he does about pleasing the illiberal strongmen he views as pals" — which comes at a moment Trump has already enraged Europe with his efforts to bully Denmark into handing over Greenland.If Trump truly values "hard power and real deterrence," as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently said in a speech, a key part of that is "not handing the alliance’s prime adversary a potential cheat code on the West’s best military aircraft technology," the board concluded.

Jul 2, 2026 - World

A former Republican operative warned that Trump not only lost the Iran war but set in motion a larger conflict.Steve Schmidt argued in an episode of The Warning podcast that Trump lost the war with Iran because he failed to achieve any of his aims. However, Schmidt added that the consequence will be more conflicts breaking out. "We should appreciate that there are consequences for great powers losing wars," Schmidt said. "And in the manner that Trump has lost this war, and the lies that he told about a peace that does not exist, we should all understand that what he has set in motion is cataclysm, a larger war, a looming war, a building crisis, a deadly one."Although Schmidt stopped short of predicting where another war or conflict will take place, he warned that conflicts will carry on after the Iran campaign, which will "be Donald Trump's legacy of ruination," Schmidt added. "In part, it will be the lost wars and the next wars."Schmidt pointed to Iraq and likened Trump's assertion about winning the Iran war to George W. Bush standing below a banner that read "Mission Accomplished.""And Iraq today is a fragile democracy," Schmidt said. "We have lost a war to Iran, and what's amazing about the tolerance of the American people for Donald Trump is that he's hung his 'Mission Accomplished' banner on his forehead at least 500 times over and over."Even though "Trump tells you his lost war is over, the fighting rages on," Schmidt said. "The American people, stupefied, somehow hypnotized, numbed, as if they had a cattle prod zap them in their frontal lobes, seem detached."

Jul 2, 2026 - World

A leading political scientist revealed a chilling prediction Thursday suggesting that the Trump Department of Justice was close to reaching a deal with captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.Norman Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and contributing editor for The Atlantic, said that the deal was inching closer to completion and suggested that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche would work out a deal with Maduro and his wife over an unsubstantiated claim that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 American presidential election — something President Donald Trump has long complained was "rigged.""Something I predicted multiple times is about to come true," Ornstein wrote on X. "Blanche is going to cut a deal with Maduro to have him falsely claim that Venezuela tilted the 2020 elections. In return, he and his wife are likely to be in the same prison as Ghislaine Maxwell."Ornstein was not the only political expert to weigh in on this apparent negotiation. Tara Setmayer, co-founder of bipartisan superPAC The Seneca Project, responded to this forecast."I’m hearing this Maduro rumor also," she wrote on X. "As soon as he was captured, I thought Trump would try this nonsense. Firing Bondi, then Gabbard opened up this scheme with Blanche & Pulte as the henchmen. I hope this doesn’t happen but it’s more than plausible and would throw the midterms into utter chaos."Something I predicted multiple times is about to come true. Blanche is going to cut a deal with Maduro to have him falsely claim that Venezuela tilted the 2020 elections. In return, he and his wife are likely to be in the same prison as Ghislaine Maxwell— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) July 2, 2026