REPORTER: “Do you worry about racism if you ran for president?”
STEPHEN A. SMITH: “No.”
“I do not believe it is as prevalent as some on the left would like us to believe.”
“I do believe a vast majority of Americans judge you on the CONTENT of your individual character rather than the COLOR of your skin.”
Not that this will surprise you, but CBS never aired this part of the interview on TV.
The only way to see it would be to first KNOW about it... then go all the way to the “extended interview” which could only be found buried online.
REPOST and amplify this man's message.
#thinblueline #lawenforcement
Yesterday, @YouTube@TeamYouTube falsely accused me of violating their firearms policy by accusing me of "holding, handling or transporting a firearm" during my daily Iran Revolution Livestream.
When I appealed it, my appeal was REJECTED within 4 minutes and I am now BLOCKED from livestreaming about the Iranian Revolution.
Meanwhile, Youtube is platforming terrorist Mullahs who post videos fantasizing about taking female American Soldiers as concubines and slaves.
Why is YOUTUBE silencing my voice during the most critical moments of the Iranian Revolution?
Why is YOUTUBE taking the side of Islamic Regime Terrorists?
@nealmohan@reneritchie I want answers.
Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is DEAD, and now the people of Iran have a chance to be free.
I’ve lifted off into darkness not knowing what waited on the other side.
The quiet understanding that some missions change lives forever.
Before wheels up, I bowed my head and asked God for protection and clarity.
When you’ve lived that reality, you don’t speak lightly about war.
You know the cost is paid by young Americans in uniform and their families, not by politicians, pundits or influencers.
That experience teaches you something important: strength is not measured by how quickly you rush into conflict, but by how wisely you act to prevent it, and act decisively when needed to eliminate threats.
No President in the history of our nation has prevented conflict and ushered peace across the world like Donald J. Trump.
Today, in a historic moment, President Trump, the men and women of our armed forces, and our friends and allies in Israel ended a threat to humanity.
Real power is precise.
Real deterrence doesn’t require permanent deployment.
Real leadership understands timing.
That’s why I trust our Commander-in-Chief, and today, he delivered, again.
🇮🇷 47 years ago, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and hearing the chants that would steal my country. I didn’t have words for what was happening. Today, I am watching smoke rise over the same city — but this time the smoke is not the end of Iran. It is, God willing, the beginning of her resurrection.
Several weeks ago I wrote in that the fever of 1979 was finally breaking. I never imagined I would wake up to see that fever confronted so directly. Israel — with the clear support of the United States — has launched a preemptive strike deep into Tehran and against the regime’s military machinery. Explosions in the capital. Military targets hit. The IRGC’s aura of invincibility, already cracked, is shattering in real time.
I do not celebrate war. No decent person does. What I celebrate — what millions of Iranians inside the country and in the diaspora have prayed for in secret for decades — is the possibility that a regime which has no right to exist may finally be forced to go.
This is the same regime that:
- Armed and cheered the October 7 massacre against Israel for no reason other than pure genocidal hatred.
- Murdered tens of thousands of its own sons and daughters who dared to walk peacefully in the streets demanding the most basic freedoms.
- Gouges out the eyes of young women for the “crime” of wearing makeup.
- Hangs teenagers from cranes for posting a tweet.
- Exports terror, poverty, and darkness to every corner it can reach including the U.S.
No nation, no people, should have to live under that. Not Israelis. Not Americans. Not Lebanese. Not Syrians. And certainly not Iranians.
I am a physician who has spent his life trying to heal bodies and a son of Iran who has spent his life mourning a stolen homeland. What we are witnessing is not aggression — it is surgery. Painful, necessary surgery to remove a tumor that has metastasized for 47 years. The tumor is the Islamic Republic that has hijacked Iran.
To the brave pilots and special operators of the Israeli Air Force and the men and women of the United States military now carrying out this mission: I pray for you with everything I have.
May God shield you from harm. May every missile find its target and every soldier return home safely to the families who love them. You are not invaders. You are the answer to the prayers of millions who have whispered “enough” in the dark since 1979. You are giving our friends the chance to breathe free air again. The entire region will owe you a peace we have not known in my lifetime.
To my fellow Iranians watching from inside the country right now, heart pounding, maybe hiding in basements or on rooftops: Hold on. The end is clearer than it has ever been. The regime’s fear is real. Their eyes — those same eyes that once stared down at us with absolute power — now show something they haven’t shown in decades: panic. The math has changed. The window of 1979 is finally closing.
To the little three-year-old boy I once was — and to every little boy and girl in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz today who hears explosions instead of lullabies: This time the sounds are not the closing of a door. They are the opening of one.
The road ahead will not be easy. Transitions never are. But the direction is unmistakable. A secular, prosperous, free Iran is no longer a dream — it is becoming an inevitability.
I have lived the stolen life so that others might not have to. Today, for the first time in 47 years, I allow myself to believe that the stealing is almost over.
Thank you, Israel. Thank you, America. The Iranian people — the real Iran — will never forget.
The fever is breaking.
The dawn of 2026 is here.
And this time, the light wins.
🇮🇷❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸
Since 1979, too many across our government have forced the Iranian people to live under a terrorist regime, legitimizing it, funding it, and at times turning a blind eye while it murdered both U.S. troops and Iran’s own citizens and exported violence across the world. Let’s call a spade a spade already.
If you do not understand that this moment is a long overdue course correction, then you are just playing the role of a useful idiot for terrorists. Guess what….appeasement did not moderate them. It empowered them.
Weakness is not an American trait. It never has been. And the era of pretending that it should be is over.
There are those already pushing fear about potential terrorist attacks tied to the strikes on Iran. Don’t hand them that victory.
You are prepared. You are aware. Stay vigilant, not panicked. Fear is a weapon, and it only works if you let someone wield it against you.
If any terrorist is foolish enough to attempt an attack on U.S. soil, they will face deadly consequences.
@KatTimpf You have valid points @KatTimpf. One of the lenses you use is-would I send my family member, husband, or son to fight a battle about whatever the situation? It's the lens that some in this country forget when it comes to the military's sacrifices daily. Freedom is never free.
A 56-year-old man was reported missing in Escambia County on Tuesday.
Marc David Kihlstand was wearing a light blue long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and grey Nike shoes, according to the ECSO.https://t.co/khcTBhXPxZ
Leader Steve Scalise was shot.
President Trump was shot.
Then, another attempt was made on his life.
Christians are being hunted down in their houses of worship.
And now, Charlie Kirk, a father, a husband, a man of God, and a champion for freedom who helped deliver a historic victory for this nation, has been murdered.
This wave of political violence sweeping America is evil, un-American, and must end now.
No family should endure this, no community should suffer this, and no citizen should fear for their life because of their faith or their convictions.
As a father of three, my heart aches for Charlie’s wife and children. I am reminded that life is fragile, sacred, and given to us by God alone.
Today, I led a letter calling for the removal of Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who released a 14-time offender who went on to murder Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte.
This tragedy was preventable. There must be accountability. North Carolinians deserve better.