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š THE PROMISE CHINA KEEPS BREAKING
Trump and Xi began their bilateral today with Trump desperate for a way out of his own Iran war. Xi handed him a promise: China will stop arming Iran but theworld has heard this promise before ā and the arms kept flowing through secret shipments, front companies and Gulf transit hubs. A leaked Pentagon intelligence report explains why. China is winning on every front of the war Trump started ā selling weapons to the Gulf allies the United States is sworn to defend, keeping the worldās energy moving after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, watching the Pentagon burn through Patriots, THAADs and Tomahawks Washington would need to hold Taiwan, and pulling Thailand, Australia and the Philippines closer. Beijing has no reason to help Trump stop his war.
šļø PUTINāS ISRAELI ASSET ON TAPE
Narativ this week published the audio from Jeffrey Epsteinās Manhattan townhouse, dated February 2013. On the tape, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, Epstein and Larry Summers discuss Vladimir Putinās recruitment of Barak. Weeks later Barak flew to St. Petersburg and sat with Putin. A million-dollar wire from oligarch Viktor Vekselberg arrived in Barakās Hyperion E.B. account shortly after. Israelās former prime minister, its former defense minister ā on paper, Putinās man.
āļø EIGHT WAYS LUTNICK LIED
Howard Lutnick sat in Room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building on May 6 and answered 96 pages of questions under penalty of 18 U.S.C. Ā§ 1001. The Oversight Committee released the transcript today. Narativās reporting catches him in eight contradictions ā the $10 townhouse chain that runs through Epsteinās trust, the 250 family emails he reduced to āfour in one day,ā the AdFin signing five days after his island lunch, the nanny resume Epsteinās accountant circulated, the Maxwell parties two whistleblowers independently described, the blackmail walkback that confirms the regimeās cover-up, the FBI hits the Bureau walked past before his 51ā45 confirmation, and the Tether question the committee never asked. The Senateās Warren-Wyden Tether deadline is today.
š 250 PARDONS FOR 250 YEARS
The Wall Street Journal scooped Wednesday that the White House is weighing 250 pardons for Americaās 250th anniversary ā announcement target June 14, Trumpās birthday, or July 4. Jho Low of 1MDB and Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX are in the mix, on top of CZ, Ross Ulbricht, Trevor Milton and the 1,500 January 6 defendants already cleared. The clemency power is now a loyalty program.
šŗ SHAPIRO RUNS OUT OF AUDIENCE
NY Magās Ross Barkan documented this week what conservative new media has watched for months ā Daily Wire layoffs, YouTube videos drawing under 10,000 views on a 3-million-subscriber channel, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens lapping Shapiro on the right. The Iran war broke the Israel-first conservative under thirty. Carlson, Owens and Fuentes inherit them.
šÆ THE PATTERN
Trump landed in Beijing this morning, and Xi handed him a promise to stop arming Iran. The promise has been made and broken before. The Pentagon ledger says China is winning the war Trump started; the Epstein tape says Putin owned former Defense Minister Ehud Barak; the Commerce Secretary lied eight ways to oversight about his ties to Epstein; the White House is drawing up 250 pardon names for July; and Shapiro is out of the audience. Bottom line is Trumpās in trouble, and his friends in China donāt mind it. Trumpās base is bristling at his Israel ties, and Narativās exclusive show shows how Epstein compromised politicians for Putin.
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Documenting that Ehud Barak was a vassal and directly beholden to Putin is a real scoop, Zev. Congratulations to you and Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.!
I sure hope you are sharing the info with thoughtful parts of Israel's media ... among other outlets.