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NEW -- Yes, Donald Trump abandoned AF crew, Secret Service agents, journalists and his own WH staff as a decoy while he secreted his own catering-truck escape, but that was a sacrifice the president was willing to make. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Abandons Air Force Crew, Secret Service, Press And His Own Staff As Expendable BaitFaced with a threat from Iran, the president left as many as 100 people to serve as decoys while he secreted himself away.
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NEW -- Trump keeps claiming that Iran is "desperate" for a deal. It's not true. How do we know? Because the purported "dealmaker-in-chief" explained to the whole world just six weeks ago why Iran has all the leverage. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Keeps Claiming Iran Is Desperate For A Deal Weeks After Explaining Why It's NotThe “dealmaker-in-chief” told the world last month how close the economy is to collapse if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, giving Iran plenty of incentive not to give in.
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NEW -- If you were wondering what Comically Over-the-Top Corrupt Thing Trump did today, worry not. HuffPost has you covered. Hint: If you solicit something, it's not a "gift," as Trump should know, given his dealings with the NYC mob. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Shows Off His New $400 Million Jumbo Jet He Solicited From The Qatari Royal FamilyTaxpayers have spent hundreds of millions upgrading it to serve as Air Force One, but Trump plans to take it with him when he leaves office.
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NEW -- Looking exhausted and unwell, Trump is at G7 selling a deal that: 1) Gives Iran $300 B in what are effectively reparations; 2) Opens the Strait of Hormuz, just as it was before he started his war; 3) Puts off nuclear language. Art of the Deal. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTired And Confused-Looking Trump Continues Selling Iran ‘Deal’ At G7 CloseGiven the opportunity to insult in person the allies he has attacked from afar, Trump did not take it and instead remained reasonably well-behaved.
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NEW: Trump has arrived at the G7, which is being organized by Emmanuel Macron, who two months ago lashed out at Trump over Iran and offered this advice: “Il faut peut-être pas parler tous les jours.” It's maybe not necessary to speak every day. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Gets New Opportunities To Insult America’s Allies In PersonAfter suffering the consequences of his war with Iran, though, the other members of the G7 are likely not in the mood to hear them
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Trump is likely making billions from his crypto exchange, millions from his souvenir "meme" coins ... yet he feels the need to cash in on the UFC fight he is hosting for his birthday, too, with a stock purchase of $15-50,000? Double-fisted grifting. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Bought Stock In Company Profiting From His UFC Spectacle On The South LawnThe president purchased as much as $50,000 of TKO Group Holdings even as he heavily promotes an Ultimate Fighting Championship event for his birthday.
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NEW — All that highly enriched uranium that Iran possesses and which Trump claims is the reason for this war? It exists for one reason: Donald Trump, who tore up Obama’s nuclear agreement. Iran was honoring it. Trump didn’t care. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comThree Months Into A War, Trump Can’t Solve The Iran Uranium Problem He Himself CreatedIran had zero highly enriched uranium until Trump tore up the nuclear agreement predecessor Obama had negotiated. Now it has half a ton.
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NEW -- Did any mental health professionals make any observations of our president today, maybe try to understand why he's been even more incomprehensible and bizarre of late? Even if they did, good luck trying to find out. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump’s Third ‘Annual’ Checkup In 13 Months Leaves Mental Health Questions UnaddressedHis increasingly incomprehensible public rambling and increasingly bizarre and violent social media posts likely won’t be covered in a public report.
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NEW: Trump to Xi: Oh, you're the best, I love you so much! Xi to Trump: Stop meddling with Taiwan or there will be trouble. And so it goes as Trump avoids inflation at home and the mess he's made of the Strait of Hormuz. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Lavishes Praise On China’s Xi As Taiwan Hangs In The BalanceThe president already abandoned Ukraine to Russia’s autocrat and said he would discuss the fate of the island democracy with China’s.
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NEW -- Trump, right this moment, is promoting his private, for-profit business, which has partnered with the failing LIV Golf league. And he is doing it on your dime. Again. Total tab for travel and security so he can make more money: $18 million. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Yet Again Promotes His Personal Business On Taxpayers’ DimeHe flew Marine One to a LIV golf tournament in Virginia, a week after flying Air Force One to a PGA tournament in Florida, which followed an Air Force One trip to hawk his crypto coins.
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NEW -- Just 14 months ago, Trump scolded Zelenskyy for getting invaded and told him he had "no cards." Today, Ukraine hits deep into Russia, cuts defense deals with Europe, sells interceptors to Gulf States, scares Putin... Maybe he has cards after all. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

huffpost.comA Year After Trump’s Scolding, It Turns Out Zelenskyy Has All Kinds Of CardsUkraine’s star rises while Trump’s autocrat friends suffer setbacks in Moscow and Budapest.
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NEW -- Obeying Trump and giving him an even-more-gerrymandered map is a no-brainer for a potential Republican presidential aspirant. If you're okay with openly flouting a constitutional amendment passed by 63 percent of Florida voters, which DeSantis is. www.huffpost.com/entry/desant...

huffpost.comDelivering Gerrymandered Map For Trump Gives DeSantis An Easy Boast For 2028The Florida governor’s open flouting of the voter-approved ban on partisan map drawing in the state constitution gives him chits for his next presidential run.
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NEW — The Florida constitution specifically bans partisan gerrymandered maps. But that’s what Donald Trump demanded, so that’s what Florida Republican legislators delivered. www.huffpost.com/entry/florid...

huffpost.comFlorida Approves Map That Solves Neither Of The Issues DeSantis Complains AboutThe new map uses the same population data that the Florida governor calls flawed and outdated. Florida lawmakers approved it anyway, obeying Trump’s demands.
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NEW -- Trump just now yet again called on Republicans to redraw Florida's map to produce more GOP seats -- which is absolutely forbidden under the state constitution. In fact, each time he or an ally repeats it, it helps opponents build their legal case. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comFlorida’s Constitution Bans The Sort Of Map-Rigging Republicans Want To Do ThereThe focus of Trump’s mid-decade redistricting war now turns to Florida, where his demands face a constitutional ban on districts drawn to favor a party.
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NEW -- Trump extended his ceasefire, apparently indefinitely. More important: The deadline originally was today at 632 pm. Yesterday he extended it to Wednesday without explanation. Can he not read a calendar? Or was it the 7+14 part that threw him? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Extends Ceasefire In Iran War To Allow More Peace TalksThe announcement came either two hours or a full day, depending on which Trump statement you believe, before the expiration of the two-week halt in attacks.
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NEW -- Eight weeks into a "four to five" week war, Trump seems headed toward a deal that could look a lot like the one he has spent 11 years vilifying. He also appears to be having difficulty keeping tabs on the actual goings on in his own war. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comEight Weeks In, Trump May Be Headed Toward An Iran Deal Similar To Obama’sSanctions relief in return for a moratorium on nuclear fuel enrichment is the exact arrangement that Trump and many Republicans criticized for years.
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NEW -- Florida Republicans are more than a bit nervous that Ron DeSantis' plan to squeeze some more GOP House seats out of the state could end up backfiring, given the political climate. Sadly for them, DeSantis doesn't care what they think. www.huffpost.com/entry/desant...

huffpost.comDeSantis Forging Ahead To Redraw Florida’s Map, Whether GOP Incumbents Like It Or NotWith Democratic wins in special elections, Republican House members are nervous about weakening their districts to try to win more seats. The governor doesn’t seem to care.
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STILL NEW -- Was your tax refund only a couple of hundred dollars more than last year's and you're wondering what all this talk of "thousands" more in refund checks is about? Don't worry. You're not alone. Trump is lying. Only select groups got big $$$. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Keeps Lying That He Gave Americans A Big Tax Cut When Most Got One In The HundredsAnd among the minority who received a larger break, most of the money flowed to already well-off households.
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NEW -- The vast majority of Americans got a tax cut of just a few hundred dollars -- way less than the $1,000 per household tax increase they paid via tariffs last year. Only those in targeted groups got cuts worth "thousands." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump To Brag About His Tax Cuts, Which Are Way Smaller Than His Tariff Tax IncreasesTrump increased import taxes by $200 billion in 2025 — most of them illegally — some $70 billion more than his tax cuts.
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NEW -- Trump followed Orban's autocrat playbook closely since returning to office last year, from attacking the judiciary and universities and the news media to the corruption and the Christian nationalism. Will he learn something from Orban's drubbing? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Could Learn A Lesson From Orbán’s Trouncing In Hungary But Probably Won’tTrump, since returning to office, has followed Orbán’s autocratic playbook – the same playbook that led to a landslide loss for the 16-year incumbent Sunday.
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NEW -- Trump wants his autocratic, corrupt Hungarian role model to stay in power so badly he's endorsed him repeatedly and last week even sent Vance to campaign for him. Friday, he even offered Hungarian voters lots of foreign aid -- IF they re-elect him. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comAffordability Could Sink A Major Trump Ally In EuropeTrump has endorsed Viktor Orbán and even sent his vice president to campaign for him ahead of Sunday’s election. It may not be enough.
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NEW -- Iran's repressive theocracy is still in charge. They're making much more money selling their oil. They're even charging a toll for ships transiting Hormuz, which they were not before. So ... what did America win again? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Is Claiming Victory, Even As What Exactly America Won Remains UnclearIran’s enriched uranium remains in Iran. A formerly free passage through the Strait of Hormuz is now and may remain a toll route. What did we win again?
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NEW — If the level of destruction in the Persian Gulf and gas prices here at home aren’t high enough for you yet, just give it a few days. Trump has promised to commit major crimes against Iran unless they meet his demands. Which he will not articulate. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump’s Iran Escalation Would Spike Death And Chaos Across The MideastIf the level of destruction in the Persian Gulf and gas prices here at home aren’t high enough for you yet, just give it a few days.
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NEW -- As of right now, there is still a downed Air Force crew member in Iran. Maybe now people can understand why it's better to avoid saying idiotic war crimey things like "no quarter" and bomb them "to the stone ages?" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump’s Iran War Gets Messier After U.S. Fighter Jet Is Shot DownThe president was already in a quandary about how to get out of the war before the lives of two F-15 crew members were endangered.
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NEW — Actually there was nothing “new” in this speech, least of all a plan to end his war without Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz. Oh, but he did re-up his threat to do war crimes. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Offers No Timeline Or Path Forward In Meandering Iran War AddressThe president also again lashed out at NATO, even though it is a defensive alliance and not obligated to join in a member’s war of choice and aggression.
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NEW -- Destroying Iran's electricity infratrastructure. Its drinking water plants. Confiscating its oil. All are war crimes. All are things Trump is threatening to do, yet again. Just another day that ends in "y." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Continues Threatening War Crimes If Iran Doesn’t Capitulate ‘Immediately’Destroying a country’s electrical grid, its water system and stealing its oil all violate international law, and Trump says he will do them all.
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NEW -- Is DOGE still around? Because Donald Trump's golf hobby has now cost us $101.2 million in just 14 months back in office. That's correct. US soldiers are suffering brain injuries in the Middle East, gas prices are spiking, all while Trump golfs. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTaxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 millionThis is Trump's 56th visit to his course in West Palm Beach and 110th golf day in just over 14 months in office, keeping him on track to spend $300 million on golf.
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NEW -- NATO needs to help open the Strait of Hormuz, but it doesn’t matter if they don’t. The war is already “won,” but thousands of troops are on the way there. If there's a peace deal soon, great, but if there isn’t, that’s great, too. Alrighty then. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Trots Out Wildly Contradictory Iran War Claims — And Says He Doesn't Care If There's A Peace DealA month into his air attacks on Iran and with ground troops en route, Trump continues attacking allies while enriching the purported enemy with billions.
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NEW -- The surprise winners in Florida's special elections got thousands of more votes than there were Democrats who cast ballots. Meaning they pulled from independents and even Republicans. Democrats everywhere are taking note. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

huffpost.comDemocrats See Hope In Numbers Beneath Florida Special Election WinsTwo winning Democrats earned far more votes than the number of Dems who turned out, meaning they won over many independents and Republicans.
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NEW -- Trump's war against Iran is going on four weeks now, inflation is heading back up, gas prices are up more than a dollar a gallon and suddenly two guys who might both want to run for the White House in 2028 are nowhere to be seen. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comAs Trump’s Iran War Stretches Toward A Month, Rubio And Vance Remain Curiously QuietThe potential 2028 presidential aspirants have publicly supported Trump’s decision to launch a major war, but in recent weeks have been less visible.
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NEW -- Trump has insulted and berated our NATO allies for years, proclaimed repeatedly that one of them should be the 51st state, talked about attacking another to seize its territory, and suddenly they don't want to help him out of his mess. Weird, right? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump Finds Outs That After Insulting Allies Forever, They Don't Feel Like Helping HimThe president is again threatening to wreck the NATO alliance if members don’t help with Iran, even though the treaty is for mutual defense, not offense.
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NEW -- There are thousands of Republicans who live in the Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago. Trump picked one who does not , and who changed his voter registration to a cheap motel a half hour from his home to be able to vote for himself. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

huffpost.comTrump’s Pick To Represent Him In Florida Statehouse Doesn’t Even Live In The DistrictTrump already endorsed the Republican running in the coming special election, even though his home is not in the district and he is registered to vote at a motel a half hour away.
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NEW -- This kind of slipped under the radar this morning, but our secretary of defense casually threatened Iranians with "no quarter." Those words mean a specific thing, and that thing is a war crime. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...

huffpost.comSecretary Of Defense Hegseth Casually Promises Iranians ‘No Quarter’ – A War CrimeThe term is defined as refusing to spare surrendering troops and killing them instead, a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.
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NEW -- In a particularly unhinged performance, the defense secretary and former Fox News weekend host says he doesn't "worry" about the Strait of Hormuz, that it is "open" except for all the shooting by Iran, and that David Ellison should take over CNN. www.huffpost.com/entry/hegset...

huffpost.comHegseth Claims Strait Of Hormuz 'Is Open' And Doesn't 'Worry' About ItIn a particularly unhinged appearance, the former Fox News host said the strait was open but that Iran kept attacking shipping, and there was no need to worry about it.