We are 10 years into Donald Trump’s dominance of American public life, and still…his remarks yesterday were perhaps another level of bonkers, even for him. We annotate and debunk it all in this morning's First Draft @zeteo.com —>
New: @imeupolicy.bsky.social & @justicedemocrats.com spending $100K to back Junaid Ahmed in IL-8 Democratic primary
Opponent Melissa Bean support includes: Pelosi, Landsman, Hoyer; pro-Israel, Crypto, AI donors
Ahmed support includes: Sanders, Warren, Khanna, Ramirez, Jayapal
Election next week
A Cover-Up? Survivors of Israel’s Attack on US Ship Still Waiting for Answers 58 Years Later
A Zeteo special investigation by @premthakker.bsky.social gets a first-hand account of Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty from a survivor.
Read:
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New Quinnipiac poll shows 44% of voters — a record high — think the US is too supportive of Israel. It is the highest percentage since Quinnipiac first asked this question in 2017:
New Quinnipiac poll shows 44% of voters — a record high — think the US is too supportive of Israel.
It is the highest percentage since Quinnipiac first asked this question in 2017:
“He’s one of the dumbest human beings I’ve ever seen… you’ll end up starting WWIII with a guy like that.”
— Donald Trump on Lindsey Graham in 2016.
Now, Graham is right alongside Trump, as the pair pierce any illusion of Trump being a dovish exception to the war-hungry conservative movement.
Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
"We are haunted by the knowledge that one of the women before us lost her baby in the bathroom. They deported her the next day."
On International Women's Day, and the 1-year-anniversary of when Mahmoud Khalil was first detained, read this powerful first-hand account from Leqaa Kordia — a young Palestinian woman who is *still* in detention after being detained shortly after Mahmoud was:
The media is peddling propaganda, and running the same tired lines like "Trump Frustrated With Israel" — as if he has no agency.
Politicians and government officials meanwhile are attacking @zeteo.com for reporting on all the lies.
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Lindsey Graham earlier this week:
“I talked to Bibi this morning. They’re all in. This regime is going to collapse. It’s not if, it’s when. And the day that happens, the world will be safer.”
News: Sources say that Trump has been receptive to officials and allies privately encouraging him to send US troops into Iran.
This comes as Lindsey Graham has reportedly gone to Israel and coached Netanyahu on how to push Trump to take action in Iran.
NEW (!) — Sources say Trump has been positively receptive to officials & allies privately encouraging him to send troops on the ground into Iran.
Comes amid revelations that Lindsey Graham has gone to Israel and coached Netanyahu on how to persuade Trump to take action in Iran.
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NEW: The Trump-Vance-Rubio administration has once again bypassed Congress to push through a $151.8 million bomb sale to Israel —>
NEW: The Trump-Vance-Rubio administration has once again bypassed Congress to push through a $151.8 million bomb sale to Israel —>
This Hollywood group — linked to the Israeli government and supported by individuals in the Epstein Files, including a Russian oligarch and Casey Wasserman — is leading a smear campaign against a film about a 5-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces, to stop it from getting an Oscar:
We asked Randy Fine what evidence he has that Iran was who killed at least 160 people at a girls school.
He replied: “what’s the evidence they didn’t?”
Now, right afterwards, it’s been revealed that US military investigators believe the Trump-Vance-Hegseth-Rubio admin was likely responsible.
Video worth watching and sharing.
Thomas Massie tells @premthakker.bsky.social Trump’s war on Iran is “at least costing $1 billion a day,” and warns that Congress may send even more straight to the “military industry complex.”
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Think about this: Trump’s new pick to “protect Americans” said he didn’t know how many Americans have been killed by Israel — and when asked if that concerned him, he said he hadn’t “even give it much thought”
Markwayne Mullin — Trump‘s new pick to lead DHS and protect Americans — asked just months ago if he knew how many Americans the Israeli military had killed: “I haven’t even given it much thought.”
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"[Trump's] calling it a war... [Republicans are] afraid that it makes them look even tinier than they already are.”
Rep. @ericswalwell.bsky.social says Republicans are afraid of looking “even tinier than they already are” as they try to claim the US is not at war when Trump is saying it out loud.
Rep. Randy Fine claims it was Iran, not the US, that bombed a girls school killing over 160 people.
When asked what evidence he has — he says, “what's the evidence they didn’t?”
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“They’ve lied to the American people. We are clearly at war.”
@premthakker.bsky.social asked Rep. Pat Ryan whether the illegal strike on an Iranian naval ship violated the law of war.
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Update — One day after John Fetterman accused Zeteo of being “anti-Israel,” a new letter shows that Fetterman did *not* join an effort asking the Trump administration to investigate the Israeli terrorist murder of his own teenage American constituent:
On the same day the US sank an Iranian ship in international waters, we have heard three entirely different answers from the highest Republicans in Washington about whether the US is at "war" with Iran
“We are in an undeclared state of war.”
After Mike Johnson says the US is not at war, and Donald Trump says it is, Lindsey Graham tells @premthakker.bsky.social a third answer: an “undeclared state of war” — which, he suggests, allows the US to illegally strike ships in international waters.
Senator John Fetterman’s response to @premthakker.bsky.social when asked about the illegal US strike on an Iranian Naval ship in international waters:
“I want to offer condolences to your boss [Mehdi]. I know he’s all broke up about the Ayatollah.”
