Leland Vittert’s War Notes: Trump Always Wins 🏅

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Bipartisan Buffoonery 🤪

🤪 Tonight's buffoonery from the Left and the Right

🫏The winner on the Left tonight is former MSNBC Joy Reid
- 🎤Reid: "This woman was part of a group of people who they train to try to be ICE interrupters. And what they try to do is observe what ICE is doing, film them, and try to use their white privilege.To be honest, they're mainly white people, which is what we asked them to do, right?...Because black people… we can't put our bodies on the line because cops will shoot us."
🐘And on the Right we have Candance Owens
- 🎤Owens: "It just seems to be that whenever Bibi Netanyahu's around the corner, like 'hey I want that piece of land.' Suddenly our media starts telling us, 'you wouldn't believe how free these people are trying to get in Iran. These people are really... woah... we need to free the Iranians. Oh they've been living in oppression.' Bibi is over here like oooh no, land. 'oh no really it's about spreading Democracy.' That's a military code word for dropping bombs and stealing a bunch of stuff."

Wow 😱: A reproductive rights doctor that Democrats picked testified before the Senate Health committee on the impacts of an abortion pill today.

🎤Republicans asked her a simple question: "Can men get pregnant?" But she couldn't answer it.
- It went on for 5 minutes. Listen.
🤦Democrats aren't changing their talking points and it will become their Achilles heel.
- Watch tonight 📺: Our friend Mike Nellis joins us.
  - You can't make it up🤷: The Chicago Teachers Union misspells governor in a social media post praising Governor JB Pritzker
    - Thought bubble 💭: We shouldn't be surprised. At many Chicago public schools, not a single child can read or write at grade level.

Evil Survives 😈

Disclaimer: All of the below could be totally wrong if Trump's Oval Office appearance was just a headfake — it's possible.

With Trump you literally never know.

🏆One thing we know — President Trump always wins.

‼️Today, he all but declared victory and delayed any U.S. strikes — he claims the Iranian regime will stop shooting protesters and delay executions.
- 🤷Of course, nobody should believe the Iranian regime — and they will keep killing privately if not publicly — even Trump seemed not to believe his own explanations.
  - 🎤Trump: "We have been informed by very important sources on the other side, and they've said the killing has stopped and the executions won't take place," answered Trump. "There was supposed to be a lot of executions today and that the executions won't take place, and we're going to find out. I mean I'll find out after this, you'll find out. But we've been told on good authority, and I hope it's true. Who knows, right? Who knows?"
- 📱The videos of body bags
- 📱The videos of troops machine gunning unarmed protesters
- 📱The videos of breaking into hospitals to finish the job
- ‼️There is only one conclusion — the ayatollah and his henchmen deserve a one way ticket to hell.
  - "Forgiveness is between them and God, my job is to arrange the meeting" ~ Denzel Washington in Man on Fire
  - Be fair ⚖️: They deserved the ticket before but you get the idea.
‼️Smart! What Trump really said today is he doesn't want to bomb Iran
- 💣Bombing Iran to try and bring regime change is a losing game.
  - 📺Just listen to one of Trump's closest supporters — Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma with CNN's Katilin Collins.
    - Mullin: We're not into regime change.
    - Collins: But you just said you are for regime change here.
    - Mullin: I said I'm for the strikes
    - Collins: You said before that you're for taking out the regime.
    - Mullin: Absolutely. That's different than regime change….
‼️It's COMPLICATED — as we have laid out before, turning Iran into Syria or Libya is objectively not in our best interests.
💣Trump told us today he doesn't want to bomb Iran — that doesn't mean Iran will stop killing its own people.

Watch tonight 📺: Retired Gen. Philip Breedlove, Kian Tajbakhsh and Mark Dubowitz

Poking the bear 🐻: Iran's foreign minister seems to have missed the memo about "deescalating"
- 🎤Iranian Foreign Minister: "Well, we were in the middle of a war started against us, and the rhetorics are quite normal in any war. We have many kinds of threats by President Trump, by other American officials, by Europeans who are talking about Iranian, you know, things in Iran."

My Anti-West Friends

📱Our segment Monday about the massive protests on American college campuses supporting the Iranians racked up hundreds of thousands of views on Instagram — did you miss it?!?!

‼️Watch here

🤦Of course our segment wasn't about the mass protests on college campuses because they didn't happen.

📹We were among the first to point out the deafening silence of the pro-Palestinain crowd as the body bags piled up in Iran.
🤷You wonder why the same soccer moms and college kids calling ICE 'Nazis' are silent when a theocratic regime slaughters young women in the streets, just remember, Bernie Sanders spent his honeymoon in Moscow.
👎Much of liberal America loves anything anti-West and hates the West.
- 🤦To them, the West are the oppressors; thus, anti-West is good
  - ICE is bad
  - Palestinians are virtuous
  - The Iranian regime can't be bad because they are so anti-West
The Telegraph headlines: "The hypocrisy of the luvvies over Iran is sickening"

Watch tonight📺: NewsNation Batya Ungar-Sargon, Dan Turrentine and Lauren Wright on where the outrage is.

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