DECISIVE President Trump with his national security team watched the successful bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites on June 21 from the White House Situation Room. The mission ended a 12-day war between Israel and Iran and raised hopes for a lasting peace in the Middle East.


thought he could sit around and do nothing? And whenever someone hears ‘ceasefire,’ they feel like that’s a positive.”


VOICES OF REASON Once the smoke dissipated over Fordow, Towery appeared prescient. After Trump quickly rejected


the idea of regime change, and America’s clear military edge appeared adequate to score a geopolitical win without deploy- ing troops, MAGA faithful on both sides of the intervention is- sue began to ask, “So what’s the problem?” “Nobody’s asking for boots


on the ground,” Lisa Daftari, founder of The Foreign Desk news platform, told Newsmax TV. “Nobody’s asking for an es- calation that will lead to World War III. Look, we are all anti-war — but we can’t be anti-reality.” After news of the attack


broke, Kirk posted on X, “Iran gave President Trump no choice. For a decade he has been ada- mant that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. Iran decided to forego [sic] diplomacy in pursuit of a bomb. “This is a surgical strike, op-


erated perfectly,” he concluded. “President Trump acted with prudence and decisiveness.” “Look,” Chad Wolf, former


acting secretary of Homeland Security, told Newsmax, “we’ve seen presidents for the past sev- eral decades talk about how Iran could not have nuclear capabil- ity under no circumstances. But each and every time, they didn’t take any type of action. “It was only President


Trump,” Wolf said, “who took decisive action, degraded and obliterated their capability — yet we did not have this blow into a much larger conflict of any kind. There’s a ceasefire right now . . . so President Trump de- serves a lot of credit.” The Israeli-Iran ceasefire was


a game-changer. With further U.S. involvement off the table,


“The president is very much aware that if we don’t maintain the political ‘trifecta’ [control of the House and Senate as well as the executive branch] in 2026, the whole thing blows up. So he has to zig and zag, bob and weave, and negotiate and transact to keep this governing majority in place.” — Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state


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OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY DANIEL TOROK


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