Wall Street Apes

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has a big smile

She called Donald Trump to talk about the Pacific Palisades. She didn’t think he would have time to talk with her because everything happening overseas

Trump called her back and was ready to help her

This is leadership

“I was reluctant to call because there are a few other things going on, like what's happening overseas. And I didn't think, given all that was happening internationally, that he would actually return my call. But he did.

And so the call came through and you know, his first response was, ‘He Karen! We haven't talked in a long time’

I was like, okay”

Karen Bass says she talked to him about getting help to fix the Pacific Palisades

11:12 PM · Mar 6, 2026

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(She called him because Cuba asked her to detract from what they are doing. I doubt 100% she is sincere about CA. Fucking spy!this hasn’t tried anything for two years for those who lost their homes, even when Trump went out for meetings and discussions)

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2030134534512021659?s=20

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

@VigilantFox

Adam Schiff falls right into Bill Maher’s trap as he criticizes a statement he thought was from Trump but was actually from Obama.

MAHER: “This statement from the administration: ‘The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.’ That’s too vague for you?”

SCHIFF: “Totally vague.”

MAHER: “Okay. Because that’s from Obama about Libya.”

Brutal setup. Watch Adam Schiff try to dig himself out of this one.

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12:15 AM · Mar 7, 2026

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https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2030150341178634646?s=20

US hit desalination plant on Qeshm Island, Iran FM says

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A US attack struck a freshwater desalination plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island,disrupting water supplies in 30 villages, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday.

"Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran," he said in a post on X, calling the move a “blatant and desperate crime."

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603072697

Trump shifts Iran war aims toward regime surrender - WSJ

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Donald Trump rapidly shifted the stated objectives of the war with Iran—moving from urging Iranians to shape their own future to demanding the regime’s “unconditional surrender” and signaling he may help decide the country’s next leader, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

"Even as the conflict has escalated into a regional crisis involving more than a dozen countries, President Donald Trump appears to be refining the rationale and endgame of the war on the fly, according to current and former US officials and allied diplomats," the report said.

"It will be impossible to replicate the model in Iran, analysts say. Unlike in Venezuela, where the US was dealing with a hollowed-out petrostate, Washington is confronting an entrenched theocracy backed by a vast security apparatus that is built to preserve the system even after the loss of senior leaders," the report added.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603075188

The American Conservative

@amconmag

Tucker Carlson flew to DC three times in an attempt to convince President Trump not to go to war with Iran.

"He's being shown polling that this war is a 90-10 win for him. I said, 'I don't know where that poll is coming from.' He's watching Fox News and he's getting fake polls."

7:42 PM · Mar 6, 2026

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The Obama Administration’s $1.7 Billion Iranian Deception

It’s time to release the documents regarding the previous president’s payment of the Islamic Republic’s claim

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LEE SMITH

FEBRUARY 21, 20181/2

Over the long President’s Day weekend, the current president complained about the previous one. “Never gotten over the fact that Obama was able to send $1.7 Billion Dollars in CASH to Iran and nobody in Congress, the FBI or Justice called for an investigation!” Donald Trump tweeted.

Wrong, said the Obama White House. That was always Iran’s money. As the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler tweetedat Trump in response: “Has no one who works for Trump ever explained it was a legal settlement of money the Unites States owed Iran from before the 1979 revolution?”

Kessler is one of the top correspondents in Washington, earning respect on both sides of the aisle. He was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s favorite reporter. He’s covered foreign policy, nuclear-related issues, and has been running the Post’s Fact-Checker blog for several years where he’s shown he’s not afraid to correct his own mistakes when he’s wrong. And he’s wrong here.

Prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution, the government of Iran, then under Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, had put $400 million for military equipment into the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) account. In 1981, the clerical regime filed a claim at The Hague to have that money returned.The Obama administration contended that the $1.7 billion represented the $400 million plus $1.3 billion in interest. The White House boasted that it had negotiated the sum down from $6 or $7 billion thereby winning the U.S. taxpayer a sweet deal.

TheObama White House omitted several key facts.

First, when Iran submitted its claim in 1981, the US filed an $817 million counterclaim for Iran’s violations of its obligations under the FMS program. As Rick Richman explained in a 2016 Mosaicarticle, “with both the claim and the counterclaim still pending, it was possible that Iran owed billions of dollars to the U.S., not the reverse.”

Second, a 2000 law signed byPresident Bill Clinton, the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, said that Iran’s FMS account could not be refunded until court judgments held by the U.S. government against Iran for damagesfrom terrorist acts against American citizens were resolved to America’s satisfaction.

American victims of Iranian terrorism had won judgments against the regime in American courts. The problem, as Richman wrote, was collecting. The parent of one young American woman murdered by an Iranian-backed terrorist group during her junior year abroad in Israel discovered the FMS account.The Clinton administration opposed paying out of the FMS account, arguing that the $400 million was U.S., property not Iran’s.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-obama-administrations-1-7-billion-iranian-deception

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However, as Richman wrote:

Congress and the Clinton administration agreed on legislation directing the U.S. Treasury to pay the American holders of terror judgments against Iran for the amount of their compensatory damages plus 10 percent of their punitive damages, up to the amount in the FMS fund. The law subrogated the United States—meaning that the terror judgments became direct U.S. government claims against Iran to the extent the Treasury had paid them. Finally, the law included a provision to ensure that Iran would ultimately have to bear the cost of those payments: “no funds shall be paid to Iran . . . from the [FMS] fund until such subrogated claims have been dealt with to the satisfaction of the United States.”

In short, Obama ignored the law. Moreover, in releasing those funds to the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, he made American taxpayers cover the damages owed by Iran for its acts of terrorism against American citizens.

That said, Trump doesn’t need an investigation to reveal the facts. In a recent phone call, Richman said Trump should release all the documents regarding the Obama administration’s payment of Iran’s claim, including the computation of the amount of interest allegedly owed, the amount of the U.S. counterclaim not used as an offset, the amount of the court judgments against Iran held by the U.S. under the 2000 statute, plus the amounts of interest on both the counterclaim and the court judgments.

“It’s hard to see why the Treasury Department has kept this information classified,” he said. “CIA director Mike Pompeo was involved in this issue when he was in Congress and knows there are many questions that Congress appropriately asked that have yet to be answered. Why doesn’t the Trump White House just release the documents so we can finally have some clarity.”

Indeed, clarity would be most useful. Glenn Kessler is an experienced and honest reporter—which is to say the issueisn’t simply that he was spun around by the Obama administration’s self-serving, and intentionally inaccurate, version of history, law, and finance. The untruth is dangerous precisely because readers count on the integrity of journalists like Kessler. If the fables and fictions seeded by political operatives are not uprooted, there are only weeds.

(https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-obama-administrations-1-7-billion-iranian-deception

Where and what is Obama doing in the background? It can only be sabotage against America and President Trump!

Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran

The president’s private comments have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purposes, sources say.1/2

(NBC releases stupid Conspiracy Theories, to Blame Trump. They just keep the lies going.)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran,according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations.

Trump has discussed the idea of deploying ground troops with aides and Republican officials outside the White House while outlining his vision for a post-war Iran in which Iran’s uranium is secure and the U.S. and a new Iranian regime cooperate on oil production similar to how the U.S. and Venezuela are, the sources said.

The president’s comments expressing serious interest indeploying ground troops have not focused on a large-scale ground invasion of Iran, but rather on the idea of a small contingent of U.S. troops that would be used for specific strategic purposes,the U.S. officials, the former U.S. official and the person with knowledge of the discussions said. They said Trump has not made any decisions or given any orders related to ground troops.

“This story is based on assumptions from anonymous sources who are not part of the President’s national security team and are clearly not read into these discussions,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “President Trump always, wisely keeps all options open, but anyone trying to insinuate he is in favor of one option or another proves they have no real seat at the table.”

Publicly, Trump has not ruled out putting U.S. “boots on the ground” in Iran, though the war has so far consisted only of an air campaign. His private discussions about the idea show a president perhaps more willing to consider taking such a step than his public comments on the issue so far have suggested. Any deployment of American troops inside of Iran could increase the scale and scope of the war — and escalate the risks to American forces.

Since the war began on Saturday, six U.S. service members have been killed and 18 wounded in counterattacks from Iran, according to the Pentagon.

Trump has privately described to aides and Republican officials outside the White House that his ideal outcome in Iran is one like the emerging dynamic between the U.S. and Venezuela since American special forces captured Nicolás Maduro in January, the current U.S. officials and former U.S. official said. In post-Maduro Venezuela, the U.S. backed a new president, Delcy Rodríguez, under the condition that she implement policies that Trump views as favorable to the U.S., including that the U.S. benefits from Venezuela’s oil production.

The president said in an interview with the New York Post this week,“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground.” He said while other presidents have ruled out boots on the ground, “I say ‘probably don’t need them,’ [or] ‘if they were necessary.’”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-privately-shown-serious-interest-us-ground-troops-iran-rcna262176