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An influential group of GOP hawks has launched a behind-the-scenes lobbying offensive pressing President Donald Trump to not only back off his administration’s quest for a nuclear deal with Iran, but greenlight an attack on Tehran by Israel.

The campaign is raising alarms among Trump and his allies, who have launched a counteroffensive to keep the president’s diplomacy on track.

During a private lunch with the president at the White House last Wednesday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Trump that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon, an argument Trump’s own intelligence team has told the president is not accurate, according to an intelligence official as well as another Trump ally familiar with the matter. Levin urged Trump to allow the Israeli government to strike Iranian nuclear sites, which Trump has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would torpedo the diplomacy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

MAGA vs. ~~hawks~~ AIPAC plants

[–] besselj 4 points 2 days ago

Man with dementia vs the military industrial complex

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Goddamnit I can't believe I have to cheer for MAGA now.

[–] Archangel1313 6 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Trump that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon, an argument Trump’s own intelligence team has told the president is not accurate

Why is the president getting advice from hard-right propagandists? These people are not journalists, they literally make up their "facts"and insist they are true. Who are this guy's sources, and why should HitlerPig listen to him over his professional intelligence sources?

IF there are any actual Americans left in the White House with any authority at all, they need to do something to limit his contact with these parasites. We can't be operating our government based on demands from people like Loomer, Levin, Pirro, Hegseth, etc.

I suspect the problem is that Chief of Staff he has. We know almost nothing about her, she stays hidden, but she's the one who controls access to him, so she must be allowing these treasonous wormtails to whisper in his ear.