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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

TRUMP: “I just want to find 11,780 votes”

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Couple things to think about: A) Iran seems willing to play in this tit for tat escalation arena, but problem is, they don’t fear us. That is not good. They think Trump will not climb the ladder. Iran is emboldened. That must not be allowed, or we will suffer a major strategic defeat B) to those who blame Bibi for torpedoing the MOU, it is Iran that is doing so. I’m no Bibi fan, but blaming Israel is just intellectually lazy. C) with VP Vance in the pro Iranian regime Trita Parsi camp, Rubio sitting this all out, and Trump half asleep, what actually is US policy? We seem rudderless.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

we’ve never seen a major nuclear power incapable of defending itself like putin’s russia today.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer https://t.co/7l2bkD0MIH

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Few of us have access to full information on how Trump lost the Iran War. But we can all see the fiasco Trump has made of the 250th anniversary celebrations. Watching Trump fail at something easy helps illustrate why he was doomed to mess up anything difficult.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Anyone who tries to argue climate change with you, just pull up this.

Not about no AC’s no more.

This is about future generations being able to grow food in europe or not.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Wow.

Soldiers in the Battle of Stalingrad lasted longer than that.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

We keep striking Iranian radar, command and control, anti air, drone and missile sites which is interesting since according to Trump we already destroy all their radar, command and control, anti air, drone and missile sites

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I'm just simple retired War College professor, but two sides exchanging fire is not a "cease-fire"

As Kissinger supposedly said during Linebacker II, we're bombing them to force them to accept our concessions.

Maybe renaming the DOD was a little hasty

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

my god. the inhumanity of what putin has done, on every front, is staggering.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan https://t.co/W3UhBerdH0

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

This is what it sounds like when idiots gather, pound their religious breasts and sow stupidity. The words “separation of church and state” do not appear in the Constitution, but the words are a metaphor (you know what that is, right?) from an 1802 letter written by Thomas Jefferson (since relied on as precedent by our Supreme Court) in which he stated that the First Amendment built a "wall of separation between Church & State."
Jefferson should know what those words meant; so if it’s good enough for him…perhaps the idiocracy should sit down and pick up a book they haven’t burned or banned. #BringBackCivics

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

This is pretty hard to square with everything he’s said about pretty much all the previous presidents — including when many of them were presidents. And the vast majority of people who applaud this are surely hypocrites too. It’s fine not to respect presidents. They work for us.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

"The president and the secretary of defense have a right to remove officers, but also an obligation to explain their actions." - ADM (ret) William H. McRaven

https://t.co/mnAsi4FpVp

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

The most predictable thing ever. The cult cannot be broken. Even as Trump completely capitulated to Iran, is giving a deal to them better than what Obama did, we are even establishing a hotline to the IRGC. A terrorist entity . It is a foreign policy debacle for the ages – against everything that the GOP stands for and howled about during all of the Democratic administrations …..and yet as the administration goes full on limp, the cult holds firm.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

From the Navy SEAL officer who planned and executed the Bin Laden raid: “In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation. I have personally worked with most of them in combat….And this week, in an egregious decision, the president forced General Chris Donahue to step down from his position in command of U.S. Army Europe. Donahue is without question one of the most brilliant officers I know. He is strategically focused, tactically aggressive, personally courageous, exceptionally thoughtful in his planning and execution, and compassionate with his troops. He has the respect of every man and woman who ever served with him—and you can put me at the top of that list.”

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Okay, maybe everyone doesn't need to go to a war college. How about any college? High school? Open a book? Anything? Bueller?

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Shocker

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

What????? What??????? Another “help is on its way” line….good lord….This man is not well. He knows nothing of the region. He’s a sycophantic joke. US media should not have him on any longer, unless it’s for SNL.