Trump officials caught keeping HUGE SECRET from Trump

Some bombshell news coming out of Rupert. Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, which. dropped a report this weekend that. should worry anyone who cares even a. shred about our national security and. the senile, dangerous, erratic man who's. currently in charge of it. According to. the Journal, citing a senior. administration official, Trump's team. kept him away from the situation room. during the Iran rescue operation. because, quote, they believed his. impatience wouldn't be helpful. Just. think about that for a second. Donald. Trump's own officials, his closest. advisers, kept the president of the. United States away because they.

understood that his erratic behavior. would undermine the mission. That was. during a live military rescue operation. on enemy soil with American lives. hanging in the balance. Not the. president was traveling, not we had it. under control. His own people looked at. him, made a calculation, and said, "He. will make this worse. Keep him out." And. here's what was happening with Trump on. the outside while that operation was. underway. After being informed that an. American jet had been shot down with two. airmen missing, Trump, quote, screamed. at aids for hours and repeatedly said,

"The Europeans aren't helping." All of. this while American service members were. evading Iranian forces inside of hostile. territory. That's where Trump's head. was, griping about perceived slights at. the hands of the very countries that he. has spent the last several years mocking. and criticizing. It's almost like, and I. hope you're all sitting down for this, attacking our allies relentlessly might. have some downsides after all, huh? Or. should we just ask Governor Mark Carney. of the 51st state of Canada what he.

thinks. Anyone from Greenland want to. check in? Panama? Denmark? Mexico? Starting to get the pattern here? But it gets worse because the Wall. Street Journal report doesn't just. describe that single moment. It. describes an entire pattern of. decision-making that should frighten. every single American regardless of. political party. The Journal reports. that Donald Trump had been making key. decisions about the war in Iran in, quote, a slapdash manner without input. from his advisers, waffling between. pushing for all-out military assault and. expressing deep aversion to further.

entrenching US forces in a tactical and. political mire in the Middle East. At. other times, the president seemed to. lose interest in the entire situation. entirely, shifting his attention. elsewhere and leaving his aids unsure of. what his next moves would be. The. president of the United States managing. an active war would sometimes just lose. interest, just drift off, move on to. something else like he's seven. No. offense to 7-year-olds. And what was he focused on instead? As. Donald Trump's deadline approached for.

Iran to agree to talks or else face the. destruction of its entire civilization, he focused on other topics, reportedly. including an Indiana state election. race, the midterms, and cryptocurrency. Dude was thinking about crypto while. threatening to obliterate an entire. civilization. Although, when you. consider how rich he's become laundering. money to himself via crypto, perhaps. it's not that surprising that it. occupies a disproportionate amount of. time in his head. And then there's this, possibly the. single most alarming detail of the.

entire piece. Trump's threat that, quote, "A whole civilization will die. tonight" was issued off the cuff without. any coordination from advisers, according to his administration. officials. And lest you think he had any. remorse, think again. And you wrote this. on Truth Social, "A whole civilization. will die tonight, never to be brought. back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that. we have a complete and total regime. change where different, smarter, and. less radicalized uh minds prevail, maybe.

something wonderful can happen." Mr. President, you were criticized for this. tweet because you said a whole. civilization will die tonight. What do. you want to say about that? And what can. you tell us about next steps here? Are. you planning further destruction? Yeah, I'm fine with it. That statement. brought them to the table with the. exception of the one thing which I. believe that they're going to give up. on. And of course, with every heave of. word vomit spewing out of his face, Donald Trump's mouthpieces and. sycophants were right there to back him. up. >> We feel confident that we can get a.

response, whether it's positive or. negative, we're going to get a response. from the Iranians by 8:00 tonight. I. hope they make the right response. because what we really want is we want a. world where oil and gas is flowing. freely, where people can afford to heat. their homes and cool their homes, where. people can afford to transport. themselves to work. That's not going to. happen if the Iranians are engaged in. acts of economic terrorism. So, they've. got to know we've got tools in our. toolkit that we so far haven't decided. to use. The president of the United. States can decide to use them and he.

will decide to use them if the Iranians. don't change their course of conduct. Mr. President yesterday threatened that. a whole civilization would die if a. ceasefire deal wasn't reached. Understanding that Iranian leaders have. previously said death to America, but. why is it appropriate for the president. of the United States to use that kind of. language when talking about civilian. targets? And was the president mocking. Islam by signing off his Truth Social. post over the weekend, "Praise be to. Allah"? Wouldn't that antagonize Muslim.

allies across the world? Well, I understand the questions about. the president's rhetoric, but what the. president cares most about is results. And in fact, his uh very tough rhetoric. and his tough negotiating style is what. has led to the result that you are all. witnessing today. Iran publicly. acknowledging uh last night that they. have agreed uh or that they wanted this. ceasefire uh with the United States. because they no longer could tolerate. being bombed by our very powerful and. lethal military uh and that they have. committed to the reopening of the Strait. of Hormuz, which the president will hold.

them accountable for, and it's something. the administration is closely monitoring. in real time. And by the way, if you. think that maybe, just maybe, he learned. his lesson, he leaned back in today, posting on Truth Social, "We're offering. a very fair and reasonable deal, and I. hope they take it because if they don't, the United States is going to knock out. every single power plant and every. single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice. Guy.". Just think about this pattern that we're. seeing here. The president of the United. States can't stop threatening to. extinguish a civilization, a statement.

that legal experts, the Pope, the UN, and members of both parties, including. his own, described as constituting a war. crime. And he did it without telling. anybody. No coordination, no review, no. legal analysis, just some errant synapse. firing in his brain and, with the. self-control of a 7-year-old, typing it. out and hitting send. Again, no offense. to 7-year-olds. And I want to be precise about something. here because I think that it matters. enormously. This is not a president who. is making cold, calculated decisions.

that you might simply disagree with. politically. This is a president who is. making decisions based on one overriding. variable: How does this look for me? When the jet was shot down, Trump spent. hours in a nearly empty West Wing. haunted by the specter of the 1979. Iranian hostage crisis, privately. fretting, quote, "If you look at what. happened with Jimmy Carter, it cost him. the election." Not how do we get our. people home safely, not what are the. second- and third-tier consequences of. this operation. The question for him.

was, "What does this mean for me. politically? Jimmy Carter lost, I can't. lose." That's the calculus for Trump. And his own military advisers, the. people responsible for the safety of. American service members, internalized. that reality and responded accordingly. They locked him out of the room, they. managed his information diet, they gave. him updates at, quote, "Meaningful. moments" to keep him calm while the. actual decision-making happened without. him. But the question isn't whether this.

particular mission worked out. The. question is, what happens the next time. there's a crisis and the adults in the. room can't manage to keep him out of it? What happens when the impulses that. Trump acts on are the ones that can't be. walked back? What happens when the. uncoordinated Truth Social post isn't. just embarrassing, but actually. catastrophic? We got lucky this time. The Wall Street Journal told us in. extru- in excruciating detail exactly. how close to the edge we're operating. And I think that we should probably take. that seriously. >> [music].

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