Huge Trump ally risks president's wrath with astonishing tirade over whether he should bomb Iran

By CHARLIE SPIERING, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON, DC1/2Published: 09:13 EDT, 20 June 2025 |

Conservative radio host Mark Levin voiced his frustration after President Donald Trump appeared to step back from a decision to launch a military strike on Iran to make more room for diplomatic talks.‘Iran says no unconditional surrender. Again. And again. And again. They cheat and lie and kill. They’re TERRORISTS,’ we wrote on social media. (Who’s “WE”?)

The president said via his press secretary Karoline Levitt Thursday he would make a decision to act within ‘two weeks,’ extending the timetable for military action in Iran, as supporters of further military action in Iran predicted immanent strikes from the United States.

Levin blamed the president's envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbardfor advising the president against military strikes in Iran.

‘They’re adamnable cabal of lunatics, many of whom are antisemites, completely out of step with the overwhelming majority of Americans,’ he wrote, describing them as ‘fifth column isolationists.’ (Did he really use the smear, "antisemites", proves they have a perpetual anger at non-semites. Levin’s entire payroll relies on the Jews, and others, so he’s ready to lose his relationship with Trump, accusing his Admin by his paranoia is not cool.)

‘We, the people, know Iran wants to nuke us and it’s in our national security interest and our own survival to stop these bastards cold,’ he continued’, and added, ‘Enough with the fake MAGA demagogues and grifters.’

Republican hawks have centered on Witkoff’s ongoing role in negotiations with Iran, blaming him for the president’s decision to wait.‘Time to say it again — f**k Witkoff,’ wrote Trump supporter Marina Medvin, one of many influential Republicans who voiced their frustration with Trump’s inaction. (Levin and others are blaming a fellow Jew Witkoff, with siding with terrorists. But they are really mad at Trump.)

Team Trump rushes to defend Witkoff

The attacks prompted Witkoff’s supporters to rally to his defense. ‘My friend Steve Witkoff is an America First patriot!!!!’ Donald Trump Jr. wrote on social media, sharing another post from Trump political advisor Alex Bruesewitz.

‘The attacks against Steve Witkoff are ridiculous. Steve is a patriot who gave up his incredible life in the private sector to serve the President and America — and he’s doing a GREAT job,’ Bruesewitz wrote.

‘Steve Witkoff is a true patriotwho I guarantee on any given day over the last seven months has done more for this country than you have in your entire life,’ wrote former Pentagon official Dan Caldwell. ‘Imagine having this much hatred for a man who gave up a comfortable life to work nonstop to end wars and free hostages.’

The president has not given up on diplomatic negotiations with Iran, as British Secretary David Lammy met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Witkoff at the White House. Lammy plans to head to Geneva, Switzerland for further negotiations with European officials for further diplomatic talks with Iranian officials.

‘A window now exists within the next two weeks to achieve a diplomatic solution,’ he said in a statement.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14832007/mark-levin-donald-trump-steve-witkoff-iran-israel.html

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Levin continues to press the president on his show and on Fox News to act to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, describing the Iranians as terrorists who should not be trusted in ongoing negotiations. Theveteran conservative radio host has a long friendship with Trump, despite his decision to back Sen. Ted Cruz during the 2016 Republican presidential primary. (Oops there it is)

Levin met with Trump for dinner just days before the Israel strikes were launched last week, raising concerns from journalist Tucker Carlson that he was trying to convince the president to engage militarily with Iran.

Carlson and Trump's former political strategist Steve Bannon both urged the president away from getting the United States involved in the Iran/Israel conflict, triggering a messaging civil war between them and more hawkish Republicans.

Trump met for lunch with Bannon on Thursday and spoke with Carlson on the phone on Wednesday as White House advisors are working behind the scenes to diffuse the conflict.

Advisors are urging both sides to trust the president to do the right thing, pointing out that he was listening to his national security team before making a decision.

'TRUST IN TRUMP!' wrote White House communications advisor Steven Cheung on social media on Thursday. 'NO PANICANS!'

The White House said that Trump would continue to keep his promise to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

'President Trump has never wavered in his stance that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon and repeated that promise to the American people since his victorious campaign. Americans trust President Trump to make the right decisions to keep them safe,' White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said to the Daily Mail in a statement.

(Levin has burned so many bridges, there is no way to save it. He unreasonably blames Witkoff, when Levin is really mad at Trump. Always the critics out there. This will not age well for his relationships.)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14832007/mark-levin-donald-trump-steve-witkoff-iran-israel.html

Was Levin hired by Israel, years ago when they knew Trump would win?Was that what all the praises and astounding love he seemed to have for Trump? Remember the Murdochs own by FOX news, Daily Mail, and various other media and papers.

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This is a good listen, Bannon directs questions at Israel, why did you go in and do this without Trump, and then try to drag Trump and America into the war they started.

He's really telling the solid story, Bibi is trying to trap us in another fucking war, and then in a long running war.

Remains of Captain Cook’s Long Lost Ship Found in Newport Harbor

Lowell Cauffiel 20 Jun 202512

Maritime experts appear to have finally determined the resting place of the HMS Endeavour, the legendary ship piloted by Captain James Cook, famed British navigator and explorer.

In what likely has solved a 250-year-old mystery, a report released earlier this month by the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) pinpoints the wreck’s location just off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island.

CBS coverage summarized the connections between Cook, the ship, and Australia’s keen interest in the location:

Captain Cook famously sailed the Endeavour across the Pacific Ocean multiple times in the mid-1700s. He is remembered for his voyage to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia, which he claimed for Britain, as well as Hawaii, where he ultimately met his fate in a dispute with indigenous residents.

Cook’s exploration of the islands laid the foundation for British colonization in those areas.

That, according to the museum’s report, made it a key part of the continent’s history.

The ship was eventually used to transport troops andwas sold to private owners who renamed it the Lord Sandwich and, in 1778, intentionally sank the ship, at that time no longer in good shape, to form an underwater barrier against French and American attacks during the American Revolution.

Its scant remains have long been thought to be resting off Rhode Island.

But now experts are sure a state maritime archaeological site designated RI 2394 in the Newport Harbor is the final resting place, confirmed by decades of research and ten points of evidentiary criteria, according to the museum’s report.

The shipwreck is between 39 and 43 feet underwater.

Researchers, the New York Post reported, were able to confirm that it was indeed Cook’s lost ship by comparing the wreckage with the vessel’s historic plans, finding that the placement of certain timbers was a dead ringer for the locations of its main and fore masts in the outline.

“The size of all the timber scantlings are almost identical to Endeavour, and I’m talking within millimeters – not inches, but millimeters,” ANMM archaeologist Kieran Hosty told the Post. “The stem scarf is identical, absolutely identical.”

The stem scarf is the curved piece at the bow of the ship.

He added, “This stem scarf is also a very unique feature — we’ve gone through a whole bunch of 18th-century ship’s plans, and we can’t find anything else like it.”

Four iron canons were also present on the site, the report stated.

After HMS Endeavour, also known as the HM Bark Endeavour, sailed the world, it was sold in 1775, thus resulting in its renaming as the Lord Sandwich.

Contributor Lowell Cauffiel is the best-selling author of Below the Line and nine other crime novels and nonfiction titles. See lowellcauffiel.com for more.

(This is so cool. I grew up in CT, and we visited RI all the time, it was always the rumor, but there were many other ships that were sunk off the Long Island Sound and the Atlantic.)

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Oh I remember, my Dad would take the whole family, 10 children and Mom on the boat to Newport and we'd go through all the mansions. and growing up we went there a lot because there was tremendous history and weird ass stuff there. Plus there is Misquamicut Beach, right on the ocean, which was the best.

In the prior decades, all the rich came from NY to Newport and even Groton Ct, because it was a great breeze and beautiful beaches. Way to hot in NY and other states. Almost all the homes were right on the water. Then in the late fall, they'd go home to NY.

Even President JFK came to the Griswold Hotel in Groton on the Thames in 1960 or so, which was right down the street from our house.

just a middle class neighborhood, but all the houses were built by the rich that came to that area many years before. The houses were built in the 20's and 30's, my parents bought it in 1959 when we had 10 children. So much better than 3 bedrooms upstairs at the old house.

Our house came with a ghost, truly. The thing was creepy as hell.

Saudi Arabia Watches Iran-Israel Conflict Nervously – But at a Distance, for Now

John Hayward 20 Jun 20251/2

Saudi international relations expert Dr. Salem Alyami told Saudi news network Al Arabiya on Wednesdaythat the Kingdom’s major diplomatic concern at the moment is containing the Iran-Israel conflict to keep the rest of the Middle East from destabilizing.

Interestingly, while Alyami threw in a few perfunctory shots at Israel for conducting a “blatant attack on a sovereign state,”his analysis did not suggest a great deal of genuine outrage at Israel, or concern for the fate of Iran, among Saudi government officials. The Saudis and their Gulf allies are calling for “de-escalation,” but no one seems eager to step forward and save the Iranians from obliteration.

This attitude would have been no surprise a decade ago, when the Saudis and Iranians were regional rivals on the verge of becoming all-out enemies, but they supposedly mended fences in 2023 through meetings brokered by China. The Chinese touted the Saudi-Iran rapprochement as a massive diplomatic triumph and a sign that Beijing had become a major force in global diplomacy.

Today,the Saudis are witnessing Israel dismantle the Iranian military with roughly the same sense of urgency as Willy Wonka watching Augustus Gloop sink into a river of chocolate. Alyami’s analysis hinted the Saudis are growing exasperated with Iran’s stubborn insistence on enriching uranium, even in the face of devastating Israeli airstrikes.

Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that Saudi Foreign Minister Faisan bin Farhan met with his Iranian counterpart,Abbas Araghchi, in Norway last week andstrongly advised the Iranians to make a nuclear deal with the Trump administration quickly, or else Israel could attack. Iran decided to keep playing games with negotiations, and two days later Israel was bombing Iran.

According to Bloomberg, the Arab states were surprised by the speed and potency of Israel’s attack, because they thought President Trump would “restrain” the Israelis to keep his prized nuclear negotiations rolling.

Richard Weitz of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute, told Al Arabiya theSaudis value their “status as a strategic partner of the United States” too much to invest any serious diplomatic capital in trying to save Iran’s nuclear program:

In comments made to Al Arabiya, Weitz also rejects the idea that Saudi Arabia’s role is limited to the current Iran-Israel tensions. He notes that Riyadh has not lost sight of the Gaza conflict, even as the world’s attention shifts elsewhere. He points to Saudi Arabia’s statement on Tuesday at the United Nations in Geneva, where Ambassador Abdulmohsen bin Khothaila condemned Israeli violations, settlement expansions, and the ongoing disregard for international laws and conventions.

Weitz argues that US policy may soon require Saudi intervention, given Riyadh’s strong regional influence. He points to Saudi Arabia’s past diplomatic successes – from mediating in Sudan and defusing tensions between India and Pakistan, to brokering talks between Russia and Ukraine.

The Saudis could have a lot to gain by preserving their image as level-headed intermediaries between the Western world and Middle Eastern powers. They could also have a lot to lose if the conflict spreads.

The Financial Times (FT) on Thursday noted that the Arab monarchies are keen to “avoid being engulfed in the war,” particularly if the United States gets involved, and Iran seeks revenge by lobbing missiles at U.S. bases on Gulf State territory.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/06/20/saudi-arabia-watches-iran-israel-conflict-nervously-but-at-a-distance-for-now/

Iran was told don't FAFO, but they FAFO weeks before.

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Much of that territory is much closer to Iran than Israel is, so the Iranians could hit them with a large inventory of short-range missiles. Iran could also “strangle their oil and gas exports” by attempting to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

Small increases in oil prices are manageable, and maybe even beneficial, to the Gulf states – but not if they lose the ability to ship their oil through the Persian Gulf, or if worldwide anxiety from a widening conflict destroys consumer confidence and pushes the demand for energy down.

Looming large in the memory of Gulf leaders is the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure by the Houthi insurgents of Yemen in 2019. Iran supplied the Houthis with missiles and drones, and almost certainly signed off on the 2019 strike, or perhaps even ordered it. The Saudis have reportedly been telling Iran they will respond to any attack on the oil infrastructure of Gulf states, either directly or through proxies like the Houthis.

Although the Gulf monarchies generally have good relations with President Donald Trump, they are reportedly worried about his “unpredictability” and “concerned that the U.S. would not be fully committed to their protection, should they be dragged into war.”

“Some observers do not believe Iran would risk further isolation and retaliation by inflicting pain on Gulf states. Tehran’s military has also been badly weakened by Israel’s attacks. But Gulf states still fear that US military action would aggravate an already inflamed region and put their détente with Iran at risk,” the FT reported.

“The Gulf wants to focus on its hotels, AI and golf courses and wanted to get rid of this Iran problem by bringing them into the fold— that’s where things were a week ago.

Their biggest fear is that they are the soft underbelly if Trump gets involved,” former CIA chief of Middle East operations Ted Singer told Bloomberg News.

According to Bloomberg’s report, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is sufficiently worried about the risk of fallout from destroyed Iranian nuclear facilitiesthat they have activated an Emergency Management Center to monitor radiation levels coming from sites like the Iranian nuclear power plant at Bushehr.

Another worrying type of fallout would be the political and religious impact of the Iranian theocracy collapsing. Many of the Sunni Gulf states have large, restless Shiite Muslim populations that might become very agitated if Israel brings down the Shiite “superpower.”

“The message from Arab states to Washington is simple and direct: We all want a peaceful, quiet, and moderate Middle East driven by business and economic interests. This will all be lost if Israel and Iran continue the war. This conflict will undo all our painstaking progress towards stability, progress, and peace,” said a Gulf diplomat quoted by the Christian Science Monitor on Tuesday.

(It’s pretty obvious BiBi planned to attack Iran, because he got snubbed by Trump with the President went to Gulf states. The same thing he did with Oct. 7th, when a day or two before Israel going to war, the Prince said he was getting close to sign the Abraham Accords with Israel. Bibi hated the Abraham Accords and tried to destroy them, because he must be at war with anyone that steals their attention. So next if Bibi gets his way, he'll surely try to destroy the Gulf States relationship with Trump, but Bibi won't get his way.)

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/06/20/saudi-arabia-watches-iran-israel-conflict-nervously-but-at-a-distance-for-now/