Author: Jamie McIntyre

TRUMP: ‘WE COULD BE ENDING … THE END OF THAT ROAD’: Even before he was elected president, Donald Trump nurtured a dream of getting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a room, knocking their heads together, and using his art of the deal wizardry to compel a peace deal. Now, Putin…

DOD IG: ‘SECRET/NOFORN’ INFO IN SIGNAL CHAT: Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Washington Post is reporting that the Pentagon’s acting inspector general found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s description of planned airstrikes on Yemen in March — shared on an unsecure group chat on Signal — included details derived from a classified email…

For 50 nights beginning March 15, the U.S. military pounded Houthi targets in Yemen with “unrelenting” forces, including bombs from fighter jets and missiles from warships, to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. In late 2023, shortly after the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel in which terrorists killed 1,200 people and…

President Donald Trump has made it clear he believes the war in Ukraine has devolved into a bloody meatgrinder, where neither side will reap anything but further death and destruction from continued fighting. “It’s time to stop this madness,” Trump said in his address to a joint session of Congress. “It’s time to halt the…

TRUMP UNLOADS ON ZELENSKY: They say nothing good comes after the words “with all due respect.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after prefacing with that qualifier and insisting that as the leader of the American people, President Donald Trump is someone “who we respect a lot,” went on to defend himself against Trump’s false claims about…

TRUMP: UKRAINE ‘SHOULD HAVE NEVER STARTED IT’: As Russia launched another massive drone and missile attack on civilian targets in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa, President Donald Trump was bristling at the suggestion that Ukraine was being sidelined as the U.S. pursues a better relationship with Russia and an end to the war on President…

‘SOMETHING VERY POWERFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN’: Speaking to reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews last night, President Donald Trump issued another veiled threat to Panama, suggesting military force to reclaim the Panama Canal could be on the table, if it’s not handed over to the United States. “What they’ve done is terrible.…

TRUMP: UKRAINE PEACE PUSH ‘UNDERWAY’: Appearing via video link at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, President Donald Trump called the war in Ukraine “an absolute killing field” and said his efforts to end the conflict by brokering a ceasefire have already started. “Our efforts to secure a peace settlement between Russia…

TRUMP ‘EXPECTS IMMEDIATE RESULTS’ AT THE BORDER:  Robert Salesses may only be acting secretary of defense for a short time, but he’s acting with dispatch to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order that “suspends the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.” After a Monday…

TRUMP: ‘WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THEM OUT. I DON’T CARE’: In a wide-ranging interview conducted in conjunction with Time magazine naming Donald Trump its Person of the Year for a second time, the president-elect doubled down on his pledge to conduct the largest mass deportation in American history and use the U.S. military to…