5️⃣ TRUMP'S G7 HEALTH DISASTER
Dean called it days in advance, and the meltdown exceeded every prediction. Trump arrived in Canada looking "pale and lethargic," fell asleep during meetings, slurred his speech, and launched into a rambling Putin-praising rant that left world leaders speechless. Canadian PM Mark Carney literally had to rescue him from his own incoherence, stepping in to cut off the Q&A when Trump couldn't answer basic questions. The man with nuclear codes was so disheveled that advisors pulled him out a day early, using Iran as cover. World leaders were reportedly "relieved" when he left, with one insider describing him as "like a fucking zombie" who didn't know where he was. Heather Cox Richardson even cited Dean's prescient reporting about Trump's inevitable early departure.
4️⃣ TRUMP THREATENS WAR WITH IRAN
The "much bigger" reason Trump fled the G7 became clear: he's preparing for war. Forty-one U.S. bombers are heading to the Middle East as Trump demands Iran's "unconditional surrender" and ominously posts that America knows where Iran's supreme leader is but won't kill him "at least not for now." Even isolationist JD Vance is preparing Americans for military action, saying Trump "may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment." This isn't defensive posturing—it's wartime preparation without congressional approval, following Netanyahu's playbook while Putin would love nothing more than America stuck in a Middle East quagmire.
3️⃣ MASKED ICE AGENTS ARREST NYC COMPTROLLER
Brad Lander, New York City's Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate, was arrested by masked federal agents for the crime of asking to see a judicial warrant. Lander was escorting a defendant from immigration court when ICE agents "swarmed" and detained him for requesting basic legal documentation. This marks the first time in American history that a major elected official has been arrested for asking for constitutional protections. The video is chilling—a man of "impeccable character" manhandled by unidentified agents for doing his job. It's the latest escalation in Trump's war on Democratic officials, following arrests of judges and the roughing up of Senator Padilla.
2️⃣ TRUMP'S CRYPTO PARTNER: RUSSIAN FRAUDSTER
The Nation exposed Andrei Grachev, who invested $25 million in Trump's crypto venture, as a convicted fraudster with extensive ties to Russian state banks. Grachev was sentenced for cargo theft in Moscow, accused of multiple crypto scams where he literally "went into hiding" with investors' money, and his company DWF Labs was flagged by Binance for market manipulation. His associate owns luxury Moscow assets including a Deadpool-wrapped Porsche. When Binance flags you for manipulation, you know you've crossed every line. Congressional Democrats are demanding investigations, but with Trump dismantling regulatory oversight, these foreign criminal partnerships operate with impunity.
1️⃣ THE PERFECT STORM: MUSK'S ELECTION ACCESS
Zev's exclusive reporting reveals the smoking gun: Hurricane Milton gave Starlink emergency access to America's entire cellular network through Election Day 2024. This wasn't disaster relief—it was infrastructure positioning. Every voting machine and tabulator has LTE devices that Starlink could reach through emergency authorizations. Combined with Palantir's partnership with Eaton Corporation (which controls voting machine power supplies) and mysterious Pro V&V updates months before the election, the capability existed to access electronic voting systems nationwide. Musk's mysterious "app" giving him real-time election results before anyone else suddenly makes sense. Trump repeatedly credited Musk's understanding of "those computers...the ones used for counting votes." The infrastructure for election manipulation wasn't theoretical—it was operational, authorized, and controlled by Trump's biggest financial backer.
This isn't just about 2024. If they built the capability once, it's still there for every future election. Trump kept saying "I don't need your votes after this one" because he knew the fix was in—and it remains in.
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