Posted originally on CTH on June 19, 2025 | Sundance
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will be holding a press briefing today at 1:00pm ET. Livestream links below.
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June 19, 2025 | Sundance
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Antifa and the FBI – Ask the Right Questions
Posted originally on CTH on June 19, 2025 | Sundance
As President Trump is known to say, “don’t make it complicated.” Just look at things as they are, as they present themselves to be, and ask the most obvious questions.
Consider Antifa.
How can a group within America openly threaten police, use violence against police, throw Molotov cocktails, bricks and explosive fireworks at police. Use batons, shields, bats and physical violence against police and federal law enforcement; destroy vehicles, set cars on fire, destroy property, trash and block the streets and create chaos…. Completely without being stopped?
It doesn’t matter where it is happening, that’s irrelevant. Think plainly and simply.
How does any individual or group get to do this without being arrested?
It doesn’t make sense… unless….
…. Unless…. The group conducting the violence cannot be arrested.
Many people are coming around to the understanding that the FBI is Antifa.
If the FBI did not support Antifa, quite simply Antifa would not exist. They are right there, highly visible, doing illegal things on camera, repeatedly, all over the country, and the FBI doesn’t lift a finger to stop them. Why?
The only thing that makes sense is that the FBI wants this activity to take place.
If they did not want it to take place, they would stop it and arrest the lawbreakers who are attacking federal buildings and officers.
This is not complicated.
The FBI supports Antifa.
… If they did not support them, the FBI would stop them.
Remember this.
If the FBI is Antifa, the next question becomes…. are the Cartels the CIA?
President Trump Gives Himself Two Weeks to Decide Whether to Strike Iran
Posted originally on CTH on June 19, 2025 | Sundance
The White House is now saying Iran has everything they need to build a nuclear weapon, the only remaining factor is when to assemble it. “Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that.”
Press Secretary Leavitt then announced President Trump will make the decision to conduct U.S. military strikes within two weeks. “Based on the fact that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place in the near future, I will make my decision of whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.
Benjamin Netanyahu also answered a question about when the Trump administration will become involved.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rejects CA Governor Argument – Affirms Power of President Trump to Control National Guard
Posted originally on CTH on June 20, 2025 | Sundance
While it is a strong win, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to fully stay the lower court order was not unexpected. The temporary restraining order issued by District Judge Charles Breyer was obviously political and legally weak, very weak.
The Ninth CCA simply affirmed that a violent crisis was afoot in California; federal officials and buildings were under attack; the local police and state government did nothing to stop it; so President Trump took legally authorized action to intervene, and took control of the national guard. [SEE RULING HERE]
The decision is not complicated. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously concluded President Trump lawfully exercised his authority in federalizing control of the guard. The ruling affirmed the Trump administration presented enough evidence to show it had a rationale for doing so, citing violent acts by protesters.
“The undisputed facts demonstrate that before the deployment of the National Guard, protesters ‘pinned down’ several federal officers and threw ‘concrete chunks, bottles of liquid, and other objects’ at the officers. Protesters also damaged federal buildings and caused the closure of at least one federal building. And a federal van was attacked by protesters who smashed in the van’s windows,” the court wrote. “The federal government’s interest in preventing incidents like these is significant.”
The court also found that even if the federal government failed to notify the governor of California before federalizing the National Guard as required by law, Newsom had no power to veto the president’s order. A common sense straightforward interpretation of the law.
Now, let’s expand this lawful process into every non-compliant blue city and state and go remove the illegal aliens.
Western Globalism is a “Hot Mess” and Only Two Leaders Actually Matter
Posted originally on CTH on June 20, 2025 | Sundance
Consider the final day of the G7 Summit in Canada that President Trump smartly avoided.
The G7 is supposed to be the assembly of seven leaders from Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany, France, the UK and USA. Essentially, an economic forum with some of the world’s most influential nations. However, instead of this focus, here’s the picture of who was invited to the G7 in Canada – the group President Trump avoided by leaving early.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney poses for a family photo with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Council President Antonio Costa, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, World Bank President Ajay Banga, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, in Alberta, Canada, June 17, 2025
Does it make sense? A G7 assembly with a final day invitation list that brought Australia, Mexico, Ukraine, South Korea, South Africa, India, the United Nations and the World Bank into it. Why? Because President Trump, that’s why.
U.S. President Donald Trump smartly exited the G7 assembly a day early, he departed just before the crowd of interests arrived. If we drop the pretending we all know why Canada invited them and these nations came running – Tariff$!
Without retaining the status quo trade system of unlimited access to the USA consumer base, the exfiltration of American wealth is halted. A process to keep USA wealth inside the USA is against their interests. That’s why they came. That’s the only reason they came.
President Trump is resetting the global system of production and trade, focused exclusively on recapturing American wealth and using that economic power to rebuild and restore our nation. Unfortunately, all of those global leaders above stand in opposition to that objective.
Oddly and ironically, can you see through the noise to the singular absent voice who has no parasitic interest in this dynamic? Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Now, given the context of the language President Trump used during the 36 hours when he was present in Canada it starts to become very clear that he can see it also. However, all of those aforementioned characters need to keep President Trump and Vladimir Putin from forming a strategic geopolitical alliance.
CANADA – […] After the summit in the Rocky Mountain resort area of Kananaskis concluded, Carney issued a chair statement summarizing deliberations.
“G7 leaders expressed support for President Trump’s efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in Ukraine,” the statement said.
“They recognized that Ukraine has committed to an unconditional ceasefire, and they agreed that Russia must do the same. G7 Leaders are resolute in exploring all options to maximize pressure on Russia, including financial sanctions.”
“There would be things that some of us, Canada, included, would say above and beyond what was said in the chair summary,” Carney said at a closing news conference.
Trump did agree to a group statement published on Monday calling for a resolution of the Israel-Iran conflict.
“We had a declaration given the exceptional, fast moving situation in Iran,” Carney said. “We concentrated on that as a specific one. I held this (Ukraine)for my chair summary.”
“I am returning to Germany with cautious optimism that decisions will also be made in America in the coming days to impose further sanctions against Russia,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
[…] A White House official on Tuesday said Trump explained that he returned to the U.S. because it is better to hold high-level National Security Council meetings in person, rather than over the phone.
Upon arriving at the summit, Trump said that the then-Group of Eight had been wrong to expel Russia after Putin ordered the occupation of Crimea in 2014.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Trump was right and said the G7 was no longer significant for Russia and looked “rather useless.”
Many leaders had hoped to negotiate trade deals with Trump, but the only deal signed was the finalization of the U.S.-UK deal announced last month. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remained at the summit after Trump left.
Carney also invited non-G7 members Mexico, India, Australia, South Africa, South Korea and Brazil, as he tries to shore up alliances elsewhere and diversify Canada’s exports away from the United States. (read more)
Limbo.
Everything in the world of geopolitics is in a holding pattern until President Trump’s legislative priority The Big Beautiful Bill is completed in the Senate and then reconciled in the House.
Just like the global leaders and their delegations’ ulterior motives, so too does the Senate understand that once the BBB is completed, their self-importance, donor focused pontificating, media appearances and priorities become irrelevant to Godzilla Trump.
There is a closet full of targeted policy winnamins waiting to be unlocked as soon as the BBB noise concludes.
Look around, Chairman Xi Jinping is shrinking every day and President Trump isn’t really focused in his direction. This reality underpins the Chinese promotion of their “good talks” with European leadership. All of the geopolitical chess moves are right there for those who have clear eyes to see.
There’s really only two leaders in the world who matter.
Friday:
• 11am: The president receives his intelligence briefing with the National Security Council
• 1pm: The president signs executive orders
• 2pm: The president leaves the White House for Bedminster, NJ
• 7:30pm: The president attends a private fundraiser
Saturday:
• 4pm: The president leaves Bedminster for the White House
• 6pm: The president receives his intelligence briefing with the National Security Council
Sunday:
• 6pm: The president receives his intelligence briefing with the National Security Council
And Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said yesterday the president will leave Monday morning for the NATO Summit in the Netherlands, June 24 and 25.
A Dangerous Moment – The Targeting of Tulsi Gabbard
Posted originally on CTH on June 18, 2025 | Sundance
For the sake of urgency I’m going to talk in direct and bold terms about the targeting of Tulsi Gabbard. The IC system is attempting to remove her as a disruptive influence by using Iran as a wedge to get her out, but the issue they have with her has nothing to do with Iran.
CTH approaches this after being very concerned about Tulsi Gabbard’s ability. Not because of intent, but rather because we doubted she understood the scope of the IC opposition aligned against the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
She started out with these weaknesses, but she learned quickly – grasped the opposition– and has become a transformative force within the Intelligence Community. Director Gabbard’s recent efforts within the Intelligence Community Inspector General office is another feather in her cap of competence. Gabbard is now a threat.
If President Trump allows or supports the removal of DNI Gabbard, he is opening up the backplate of his armor, and making himself vulnerable. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Tom Cotton, the disassembled National Intelligence Council and a host of Intelligence Community embeds would like to see Gabbard removed. DC wants to see her removed because the traditional role of the DNI has been a willful tool of the Intelligence Community; Gabbard is not that.
As DNI Mrs Tulsi Gabbard has chased down intelligence community leakers, released the JFK files, released Joe Biden’s domestic terrorism surveillance plan, intercepted an NIC plot to impeach President Trump (confirmed by Rubio), taken control of the Presidential Daily Briefing, and begun to confront the corruption within the IC Inspector General organization. These are actions, not words, and those actions speak boldly. Suffice to say, her effectiveness has placed a target on her back.
In the past few weeks, ever since she began intercepting the ICIG issues and using her own personnel to monitor the IC network, she has been targeted with several direct smear campaigns. It is obvious the targeting is coming from inside the intelligence apparatus, and perhaps even the orbit around/under CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
She did make a strange video about nuclear weapons contrast against the horrific outcomes in Japan, but that seemed to be more of a personal video entry expressing a deep concern about nuclear weapons from her own perspectives. I said it was weird when I saw it, but I put that into the context of ‘surfboard Tulsi‘, the DNI peacenik. No biggie.
However, with the Israel -v- Iran conflict encompassing the White House, there is a transparent objective to weaponize Tulsi Gabbard’s activity as a contrast against President Trump supporting military conflict in Iran.
This contrast is being stimulated by the same elements who want to see her removed for the reasons noted above.
The latest narrative du jour in the files includes:
WASHINGTON DC – […] Trump has increasingly mused about nixing Gabbard’s office completely, an idea he floated when he gave her the job. In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it’s unclear what that would mean for Gabbard. The Director of National Intelligence serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser and oversees the sprawling U.S. spy community. (link)
First, “nixing Gabbard’s office completely” is exactly what the bad elements of the Intelligence Community would love to see. Second, “folding its mandate into the CIA” is like a dream come true for the darkest elements of the IC and Senate enablers. And Third, “serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser” is false. That’s the job of the National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio.
If there is one hope amid this looming and increasing drumbeat to remove her, it is that Marco Rubio likely can see exactly what the motives and intentions are from his former colleagues. The elements targeting DNI Gabbard all come from SSCI Chairman Marco Rubio’s old tribe.
SoS/NSA Rubio might save her, as too may Vice President JD Vance. Both of them are at the perfect distance to see the assembled drumbeat against Gabbard for what it is. At least that is my hope.
I am not confident they will succeed removing her. However, what I am confident about is that if Tulsi Gabbard is removed, she will not be replaced, and that’s as good as a win for the bad actors trying to target and survive Trump.
President Trump has no more juice or influence in the Senate. That time is over. Trump has exhausted all of the political capital he held in the upper chamber. Every Republican Senator will now smile, nod and do whatever the heck they want regardless of how it impacts President Trump. This is especially true for the SSCI who would control confirmation of a DNI replacement. They don’t have to pretend any longer, Trump’s juice is gone.
If President Trump allows the Brutus crew in his orbit to isolate, ridicule and marginalize Tulsi Gabbard, he will be putting a significant part of his administration at risk. This is the Six Ways from Sunday crowd.
Tucker Carlson Debates Senator Ted Cruz on Israel and Foreign Policy
Posted originally on CTH on June 18, 2025 | Sundance
Texas Senator Ted Cruz came from the Bush administration following his legal work on the Florida electoral challenge to George W Bush. As Karl Rove notes in his book, Courage and Consequence, Cruz wanted to be the United States Attorney General for the Bush administration. Dubya would not consider him, so Ted Cruz set about a new career path to run for the U.S. Senate from Texas.
Cruz worked as Texas Solicitor General (2003-2008), giving him statewide name recognition. Ted Cruz ran for U.S. Senate and won in 2012. In 2014 Robert Mercer (Breitbart) and Mark Levin began promoting Cruz as a presidential candidate for 2015/16; the ‘Cruz crew’ was born. The same ‘Cruz Crew’ coalition later evolved into the Ron DeSantis team in 2023. One of the four cornerstones of the Cruz/DeSantis political base, which includes a targeted evangelical following, has always been strong support for Israel.
This alignment is why we see the Cruz/DeSantis coalition as extremely supportive of the Israeli campaign against Iran, despite their generally soft support for President Trump on other matters. Obviously, the political gravity of President Trump is very strong – so those with future aspirations must remain Trump-adjacent, if not directly in his orbit.
In this somewhat adversarial interview, Tucker Carlson confronts Senator Cruz about his support for Israel, against the backdrop of the current Israeli zero-sum conflict with Iran. I am providing the interview for discussion only because the same conflict dynamic is playing out on several platforms, and it is of great interest to many Trump supporters.
Chapters:
0:00 Why Does Cruz Want Regime Change in Iran?
06:28 Is the US Currently Acting in Its Own Best Interest?
07:49 Was Regime Change in Syria Beneficial to the US?
12:31 Was the Iraq War a Mistake?
18:55 Why Aren’t US Politicians Focused on Fixing America’s Problems?
27:02 How Much Money Is the US Sending to Israel?
29:17 Does Cruz Think It’s Okay That Foreign Governments Spy on America?
31:47 How Much Money Has Cruz Taken From AIPAC?
38:22 To What Extent Is the US Government Influenced by Foreign Governments?
49:12 Is the Israel of the Bible the Same as the Current Israeli Government?
55:09 How Does Funding Israel Benefit the US?
1:11:54 What Happens Next in Iran?
1:13:42 What Really Is an Isolationist?
1:19:53 Are There Iranian Assassins Trying to Kill Trump?
1:30:18 Cruz Knows Nothing About Iran and Wants to Destroy It Anyway
1:32:55 Trump’s Response to Tucker’s Position on Iran
1:34:51 Cruz Refuses to Apologize for Supporting the Disastrous Ukraine/Russia War
1:46:55 Why Does Cruz Think Zelensky Is a Hero?
1:47:44 Why Did Cruz Support the Blowing up of Nord Stream?
1:50:12 Is Russia an Enemy of the US?
1:56:29 Is America the Moral Authority?
President Trump Takes Questions From Media About ongoing Israeli Bombing of Iran Sites
Posted originally on CTH on June 18, 2025 | Sundance
During an oval office event to celebrate the Juventus team, President Trump took questions from the assembled press pool. The questions begin at 01:44 of the video below – prompted.
President Trump notes a situation room meeting was scheduled for updates in approximately 1 hour. The president also notes the Iranian delegation wants to meet to discuss the ongoing conflict; President Trump is not in a hurry to hear the requests at the current time.
President Trump is asked about what changed his perspective and leaned toward a willingness to engage with U.S. support for the physical removal of the Iranian nuclear capabilities. Trump notes Israel is proceeding “well” on a planned course of action to eliminate the threat Iran represented. WATCH:
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President Trump Participates in New Flag Raising at White House
Posted originally on CTH on June 18, 2025 | Sundance
President Donald Trump participates in the first raising of the U.S.A. flag at the White House.
President Trump commissioned the two new flagpoles carrying our nation’s colors at the White House last month. Construction was undertaken in the past several weeks and today the first flags were raised on the South Lawn. WATCH:
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President Trump Speaks to Media as New Flagpoles are Raised
President Trump participated in a flagpole raising celebration earlier today at the White House. During the installation, President Trump delivered remarks to the media and took questions from the assembled press pool. WATCH:
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June 18, 2025 | Sundance
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