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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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"I have paid you $300,000.00 over the years," he wrote her. "As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results."

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Eventually, Deters began to lose patience. Was Guilfoyle going to deliver the promised access or not? “I have paid you $300,000 over the years,” he wrote her. “As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In a Truth Social post Saturday, Trump wrote: “Republicans must WIN the 2026 Midterm Elections, and we must use every appropriate tool — Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, we must ‘swamp’ the Radical Left Dumocrats with massive turnout! SO IMPORTANT — PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A White House spokesperson called the TV spots “public service announcements” and said they are designed to remind “Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending, at home, at our borders, and abroad. The ad is educational and unapologetically patriotic. We should be proud of our country.”

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But complicating matters is that Kennedy’s on-the-job efforts are only part of a larger story, which includes a steady stream of related problems, including difficult ethics questions. The New York Times reported:

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted $4 million in book advances and more than $270,000 in gifts over the past year from close allies who are working to advance his Make America Healthy Again agenda, according to his latest financial disclosure form.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After the shooting, Mr. Garces Perez called his wife, Elizdar, crying, to say that he was in pain after immigration agents had fired at him in the vehicle, she said in an interview in Spanish. When she got to the scene under a highway overpass in Northwest Austin, officers told her he had already been taken to a hospital, she said.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The violence in Northwest Austin was the second ICE shooting to occur in Texas since July. The shooting added to a tally of violent interactions between people in cars and federal agents. More than 20 people have been shot since September, nearly all of them in their cars, and some fatally.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The agreement also included conditions that would permanently insulate the president, his family members, and businesses from IRS audits. Those aspects of the agreement remain in place.

It’s unclear exactly what the DOJ seeks from the appeal.

Williams’ order did not formally eliminate the settlement, since it was a purely executive-branch arrangement. But her findings of collusion and improper purpose created a factual record that could support future efforts to void the settlement

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The result of all this is that the United States is losing a war to a third-rate power in the Middle East. The Russians, meanwhile, are continuing their rampage in Europe and apparently considering things so perilous that the CIA director had to fly to Moscow just to warn the Kremlin off of whatever it was thinking of doing. The Chinese are watching as Trump and Hegseth have stripped the Pacific theater of its only American aircraft carrier. In the midst of this chaos, Hegseth does chin-ups while he ponders calling all of America’s admirals and generals back to another mass meeting so he can again carp at them about fat soldiers and bearded sailors.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Alongside the DOJ, a dozen Republican attorneys general are defending USPS’s new rule. In Thursday’s hearing, Missouri Solicitor General Louis Capozzi argued the agency should be allowed to “preempt” state election laws through the new rule.

Talwani’s order does allow states to voluntarily comply with the law if they so wish, by sending mail ballot designs to USPS for approval. But she refused the red states’ request to exempt them from the order, which would have allowed USPS to refuse to deliver ballots in those states if they did not comply with the rule.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In the document, ICE says that the agency will initially provide a list of specific states it wants to acquire public voter registration files from, though the successful contractor will need to have the capability to obtain data from all 50 states. ICE is also seeking voting history data “for each federal election specified by the government, including general, primary, runoff, and special federal elections.” ICE is seeking publicly available information from each state, which each have their own rules around how it is obtained. This would include voter registration, and in many cases, voting history. Either could potentially include party affiliation—a move that experts believe will violate a right to privacy for US voters.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In the document, ICE says that the agency will initially provide a list of specific states it wants to acquire public voter registration files from, though the successful contractor will need to have the capability to obtain data from all 50 states. ICE is also seeking voting history data “for each federal election specified by the government, including general, primary, runoff, and special federal elections.” ICE is seeking publicly available information from each state, which each have their own rules around how it is obtained. This would include voter registration, and in many cases, voting history. Either could potentially include party affiliation—a move that experts believe will violate a right to privacy for US voters.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Every person that will be brought through this facility is more than an immigration number, a case in the system. Each person is someone’s child, parent, sibling, spouse, friend and neighbor. Being placed behind a fence or a secured door does not remove someone from the circle of our moral concern,” said Pastor Leigh Rachal, the executive director of Louisiana Interchurch Conference and organizer of the event, during a press conference before the prayer service.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement. I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing. They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?” Trump wrote on social media.

Earlier, Trump had appeared to pivot toward trying to bend Iran to his will through economic sanctions. He warned that if Iran retaliated for the new strikes, “they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level.”

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Instead, he is seeking to assuage the psychic injury of his loss in Iran... by kicking America’s allies, the nations he can punish without fear that they will kick him back." Nichols

America and the rest of the world are now witnessing a public exhibition of narcissistic rage. Trump embarked on a war for personal glory, and what he got instead was ongoing humiliation. He clearly finds it all unbearable.

Trump both fears and respects the autocrats who rule Russia, China, and North Korea, and so he dares not cross them. Instead, he is seeking to assuage the psychic injury of his loss in Iran—including the American public learning of the shameful conditions to which he has subjected U.S. forces—by kicking America’s allies, the nations he can punish without fear that they will kick him back.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Attorney Alejandro Brito is also handling the president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against the BBC:

But the judge seemed particularly skeptical that Trump was financially harmed by the Journal’s publication, saying his lawyer’s claims seemed “rather conclusory”.

Brito responded that Trump’s team did not need to specify financial harm and had “done enough at this stage”.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“They're kind of being like, ‘Well, it's not our fault what people choose to do,’ but at the same time, you're providing the tool, right?” she said. “And there's no constitutional protection for providing a tool like that.”

Hanson said that AI tools are some of the most prevalent ways in which child pornography is being made and said companies should be working in conjunction with laws trying to stop it.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“They're kind of being like, ‘Well, it's not our fault what people choose to do,’ but at the same time, you're providing the tool, right?” she said. “And there's no constitutional protection for providing a tool like that.”

Hanson said that AI tools are some of the most prevalent ways in which child pornography is being made and said companies should be working in conjunction with laws trying to stop it.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, posted on X that he was prepared to defend the law.

“Using AI to generate nude images of people against their will is appalling. There are plenty of worthy debates to have about AI. This is not one of them. AI nudification robs the target of their dignity and could cause them immense harm on many levels,” Ellison wrote. “I'll see X in court.”

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Federal judges also appointed Jay Clayton, Trump’s current nominee for director of national intelligence, when he assumed the top prosecutor job in the influential Southern District of New York. Trump did not challenge that appointment.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Rogoff argued his firing was an unconstitutional separation of powers, noting Congress set up a mechanism to appoint U.S. attorneys until the president nominates — and the Senate confirms — a U.S. attorney. He also alleged that he was denied due process.

He is asking a federal judge to declare his firing unlawful and reinstate him as the U.S. attorney until the role is filled by a presidential nomination and Senate confirmation.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Trump’s lawyers had tried to head off the ruling by backing away from some of his initial damage claims, giving up on assertions that the 2024 BBC documentary had caused him economic injuries and diminished the value of his companies.

Brito told Lett the president’s approach to the case has “evolved” and he is now pursuing only damage to his reputation — not his businesses — as a result of how the BBC spliced together portions of Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech. Trump contends that the edit made it sound like he called for violence when he did not.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trump does not seem to comprehend that Iran has a higher pain tolerance than America. Two more deaths are not, as Trump calls them, merely a “very sad thing.” The president led America into a major shooting war. American service people are getting killed and wounded. Trump only yesterday demanded national airtime to rant about electoral conspiracy theories. Before one more member of the U.S. military is killed, he should return to the airwaves—and stand before Congress—to explain what he’s doing in Iran and how many more lives he’s willing to risk.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The press release, which did not say whether there was any evidence of actual voting by noncitizens or explain how DHS reached its finding, was circulated inside the agency ahead of Trump’s planned prime time speech in which he had promised to reveal “really big news” on election security.

It is also not clear how DHS obtained the data. While some voter registration records are publicly available, the Trump Justice Department has sued more than two dozen states across the U.S. for this type of data. All 15 judges who have ruled on those cases so far have rejected the requests as overly broad and without a clear purpose.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Before the Wednesday article was published, a senior official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted a reporter and a senior editor at The Times to ask that the article be held, calling it an issue of national security, according to a person familiar with the conversation. The F.B.I. official declined to explain the security issue. The official also asked The Times to disclose its sources for the article; the newspaper refused to do so. (A spokesman for The Times, Charlie Stadtlander, confirmed the account.)

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The subpoenas contain few specifics, asking only that the journalists testify “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law.” They were issued by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Mr. Clayton, who leads one of the country’s most prominent law enforcement offices, was recently nominated by Mr. Trump to serve as director of national intelligence.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Before the Wednesday article was published, a senior official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted a reporter and a senior editor at The Times to ask that the article be held, calling it an issue of national security, according to a person familiar with the conversation. The F.B.I. official declined to explain the security issue. The official also asked The Times to disclose its sources for the article; the newspaper refused to do so. (A spokesman for The Times, Charlie Stadtlander, confirmed the account.)

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The subpoenas contain few specifics, asking only that the journalists testify “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law.” They were issued by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Mr. Clayton, who leads one of the country’s most prominent law enforcement offices, was recently nominated by Mr. Trump to serve as director of national intelligence.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When the Post asked whether Tuberville has failed to keep his campaign promise to veterans, and whether he still intends to follow through, a spokesperson told the newspaper, “Coach is in the process of reforming the Foundation … and he will keep his promise to the veterans of Alabama.”

In other words, three years into his six-year term, the Republican hadn’t kept his promise, but he intended to eventually follow through.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Nicholas Pinto is among the losers. A frequent crypto trader who voted for Mr. Trump in 2024, Mr. Pinto said he invested a total of roughly $500,000 in the $TRUMP coin, and has now lost about half that investment.

“He is leveraging the power of being president to launch currencies, when he seems trustworthy in the public’s eye,” Mr. Pinto said in an interview. “It is kind of incredible. It is almost a legal scam.”

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The analytics firm’s assessment was calculated this week after Mr. Trump signed an annual financial disclosure showing that he walked away with a $636 million payout on the same crypto bet, part of a haul of at least $2.2 billion from all of his business ventures in 2025.

The odds were always in his favor. Mr. Trump profited whether the price of his memecoin went up or down. He collected returns whenever anyone traded the tokens, as he repeatedly pushed his followers to do, using his Truth Social account to promote the coin

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Judge Lewis Kaplan responded by simply noting “So Ordered” on the docket sheet. Trump must respond by July 7, Carroll by the 10th, which is a week from Friday. At that point, expect Judge Kaplan to order the funds released to Carroll.

It’s particularly fitting that it was two women, one of whom Trump dismissed as “not my type,” who are standing up to the bully, declining to let him have his way. Donald Trump is not a king. He is not entitled to special treatment just because he demands it.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Trump also reportedly denied Israel’s request to view the memorandum of understanding that his administration negotiated with Iran until it was already a fait accompli. Desperate for a deal to wind down his ill-conceived war, the president effectively offered Israeli concessions to his Iranian interlocutors.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For his sins, he has now agreed to a peace framework that the entire world understands is a defeat for him. It is a setback for America, too.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

All these problems remain, and Iran is still weaker than it was three years ago. But the war has given it leverage it did not have when 2026 began. Its regime has demonstrated that it can survive waves of attacks from its two biggest enemies. Its leaders have not had to abandon their nuclear ambitions. And they have learned that the rest of the world seems unwilling to use military force to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran chooses to close the strait at some point in the coming months or years, what will Mr. Trump do in response?

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Mr. Pelley said in the interview that Ms. Weiss would not answer his questions about why the network had decided to fire Ms. Simon, Ms. Alfonsi and Ms. Vega.

Ms. Weiss’s behavior, he said, “was cold and callous and beneath the dignity of CBS News.”

After his meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Pelley said, he returned to the “60 Minutes” offices. Staff members had gathered, awaiting word of his fate, but hours passed with no answer. He eventually urged the staff to return home, then left the building himself.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“I held the line and refused to incorporate suggestions that offend the conscience, a phrase I borrow from a colleague who has also fought to keep questionable editorial suggestions away from the facts. I know from many conversations with colleagues that many producing teams and correspondents working on the show today have had to fight to maintain editorial independence with regularity. I am far from the only ’60 Minutes’ correspondent who has asked herself, ‘What is my personal red line? How much can I push back before I pay the price?'” Vega said in her note.

“I also walk away with an honor no one can take from me: I was the first Latina correspondent to ever be on ’60 Minutes.’ Today I lost an amazing job. But I still have my integrity.”

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“Here is another one,” agents said about a Mexican man who lived in Unit 502, before zip-tying his hands behind his back and marching him out of the building. Agents told the man he wasn’t welcome in the United States, took his city of Chicago identification card and ripped it up in front of him.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And consider the evidence: The Republican arrives in China not just as an erratic figure doing lasting harm to the United States’ global stature, but as a weakened leader at home. It is not lost on officials in Beijing that Trump is an unpopular president, struggling to deal with domestic economic tumult, a failed tariff agenda and an unnecessary war that hasn’t gone according to plan, and whose political party is likely to suffer significant losses in the fall.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Readers can probably guess where this is headed. CNN reported:

"All of the National Guard activations connected to the 2024 election were ordered by state governors, not by Biden. And all 12 of the states that responded to CNN’s requests for information said that none of their troops were deployed to polling locations.

Rather, the states said their Guard personnel worked behind the scenes at other locations — helping with election cybersecurity or serving as internal liaisons — or that their state Guard was not actually activated for the election after all."

Put another way, Hegseth didn’t merely push a false claim about the Obama era, he also twice pushed a very specific false claim about the Biden era about which he got literally every detail wrong.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

“The entire situation baffles me ... there’s no doubt he is a White nationalist based on his recent statements about White people ‘reclaiming their nations,’” Lambert said in new comments to The Post. “As for the massive institutions backing him and investing in his ventures — it’s money before morals.”

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Tesla shareholders have attempted to turn Musk away from political concerns. In November, they agreed to a pay package potentially worth $1 trillion to the CEO, an effort to motivate him to renew his focus on the business after the year of upheaval that followed his endorsement of Trump and time overseeing the U.S. DOGE Service and its drive to reduce the size of government. Musk later fell out with Trump and his political work became untenable with investors. He departed the White House in May 2025.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Organizers said Citizens has provided more than $2.5 billion in financing to private, for-profit prison companies CoreCivic and The GEO Group, which run ICE detention centers where 21 people have died over the past year and a half.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

And the data center fight is far from over in Festus.

Opponents are gathering signatures for a recall petition to oust the mayor and remaining four council members. They also filed a lawsuit Thursday against the city and developer CRG, part of Chicago-based Clayco, a national real estate development and construction company.

Mayor Sam Richards and CRG didn’t respond to calls and emails seeking comment on the outcome of Tuesday’s election or the lawsuit.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said investigators have not been able to identify the federal officers involved in Thao’s arrest. When they attempted to track the federal vehicles at the scene, Fletcher said they found the license plates had been assigned to different vehicles.

“There are limits on ICE authority, just like there are limits on ours,” the sheriff said. “There is a federal court system that can provide a check and balance to ICE, but also the state and local authorities have the authority to provide a check and balance to what ICE does.”

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Tracking new ICE detention facilities (U.S. visual map)

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Mr. Mittal, the company’s chairman and former chief executive, has been a vocal supporter of Mr. Trump, praising him in a business round table in New Delhi in 2020.

Tariffs have made exporting steel into U.S. markets more expensive. But they have also raised global steel prices as a result, benefiting Mr. Mittal’s business. Mr. Mittal commended Mr. Trump’s efforts to place trade restrictions on Chinese steel exports. And in response to U.S. tariffs, Mr. Mittal urged the European Union to step up its trade protections of European steel.

Mr. Mittal also had a long history of business dealings with Wilbur Ross, Mr. Trump’s commerce secretary in his first term. Mr. Ross sold a steel company to Mr. Mittal’s firm and served on ArcelorMittal’s board of directors until he was confirmed as commerce secretary.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Two days after the remarks, the White House issued a lengthy and legalistic proclamation with a provision that would benefit ArcelorMittal. The document made various adjustments to tariffs on trucks, buses and auto parts.

The proclamation contained a provision authorizing Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, to reduce by up to half the tariffs for aluminum or steel producers that operate facilities in Canada or Mexico and supply U.S. makers of cars or trucks. The adjustments would be limited to quantities of aluminum or steel “equal to newly committed United States production capacity, as determined by the secretary,” the document said.

ArcelorMittal makes automotive steel in Canada that is exported to the United States. The company also committed last year to expanding a facility in Alabama, which could help it qualify for the provision.

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ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The president was emphatic about the targets in a follow-up post: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH. Praise be to Allah."

He is talking not just about civilian sites with military uses, which can be considered legitimate targets. In his speech on Wednesday, he said he would "hit each and every one" of the country's power plants, "probably simultaneously." The next day, after the American military destroyed a large bridge near Tehran, Iran's capital, he exulted on social media: "Much more to follow!" At least 13 civilians were killed and 95 injured, an Iranian official said.

No other American President has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes, legal experts, historians and former U.S. officials say.

ttleak86.bsky.social @ttleak86.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Power plants, desalination stations, oil wells, roads, bridges and other infrastructure.

They are the foundations of civilian life in Iran, and their destruction by American and Israeli forces would cause widespread suffering among the country's 93 million people - and in most cases would be considered a warm crime under international law.

Yet President Trump has repeatedly threatened to do exactly that, with the aim of sending Iran "back to the Stone Ages, where they belong," as he put in a speech on Wednesday.

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