President Donald Trump responded with anger Monday after he was asked about nuking Iran.

During an open session with the media, Trump was asked about using a nuclear weapon on Iran.

“Well, I would never say that, but the answer is yes. I ruled out — there’s no reason for it,” Trump said, according to a video posted to X.

“What a stupid question that is, actually. Here they are — they’re totally defeated militarily, so now I defeat them, and now I should use a nuclear weapon on top of them? What a stupid question!” Trump said.

“Have you ruled out using a nuclear weapon against Iran?”@POTUS: “They’re totally defeated militarily — so I defeat them and now I should use a nuclear weapon on top of them? What a stupid question.” pic.twitter.com/Gv9dXAJ9Zu

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 31, 2026

As noted in another video posted to X, Trump said that Iran is largely a failed state that refuses to recognize the fact.

“They’re a failed nation,” he said

“They’ve got 350 percent inflation. They have no currency. They’re not paying their soldiers. Their leaders are largely dead. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their surveillance equipment is almost entirely gone. That doesn’t mean we won’t smack them.”

Trump said the United States is in control of the Strait of Hormuz.

.@POTUS on Iran: “They’re a failed nation… That doesn’t mean we won’t smack them.” pic.twitter.com/729VKMYE8E

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 31, 2026

“Many, many ships got through last night, as you know, with the Navy’s assistance, and we’ve been averaging 30 ships a night. That’s a lot, and a lot of oil’s coming out,” Trump said

“That’s why you haven’t seen the price of oil go like they thought it might have to go … I could go on for an hour about what a great job we’ve done,” he said.

Trump noted that the root cause of the war was to deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

“You see, that’s what it’s all about,” he said

“It’s not about any of the other things. It’s about … we as a country and for the world, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel would have been wiped out, You would have Israel right now. You’d probably have no Middle East, and they’d be hitting our cities at some point,” he said.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Iran is pursuing a short-sighted policy in trying to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a private pond, according to the Independent.

“In two years, the Strait of Hormuz will be like a worthless piece of water,” he said Tuesday.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Democrats Use Anonymous Whistleblower to Claim President Trump’s EO on Mail-In Ballots Is “Potentially Catastrophic”

You just can’t make this stuff up.  The lying Dems are now using an “anonymous” source to claim that President Trump’s EO regarding Mail-In ballots will be “catastrophic”.

Showing their extraordinary bias, CBS claimed the following:

A whistleblower is warning of “potentially catastrophic problems” with the U.S. Postal Service’s new system for handling mail ballots. The whistleblower is accusing the agency of flouting court rulings by continuing to work on implementing a Trump executive order to tighten mail voting rules before the November midterm elections.

Described by lawyers as a federal official, the anonymous whistleblower revealed the information about the Postal Service’s mail-voting procedures in a disclosure provided to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that was made public Tuesday. In response, Blumenthal is now questioning Postmaster General David Steiner about the Postal Service’s development of a new online portal to house information about voters and their mail ballots.

“The main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans,” Blumenthal told reporters. “One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, and the USPS puts all of their votes at risk.”

This report is laughable on multiple fronts.

1. Using an anonymous whistleblower making comments to fit their passion for uncontrolled mail-in ballots is laughable.  The Democrats want no controls around ballots so they can insert millions of votes for their far-left candidates.  Preventing the insertion of bogus votes in one method used to steal elections in prior elections.  President Trump’s EO prevents mail-in ballots from reaching counting centers that have not been properly inserted into the election.

2. Using “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal as your mouthpiece ties you to dishonest reporting.  Senator Blumenthal gained his nickname for claiming he served in Vietnam, which was a lie.

3. Democrats are also parading the creator of the corrupt ERIC voter roll machine to make their case.  This, too, shows their desperation.

4. David Becker was on Face the Nation over the weekend, where he shared objections to the President’s EO.  Becker is the mastermind behind the ERIC trainwreck.

Trump administration officials’ threats to arrest election workers have become “almost a running joke,” says CBS News election law contributor David Becker.

“The total number of election officials who’ve been arrested for wrongdoing is zero, and that’s appropriate because not… pic.twitter.com/BSX5lXZ0Kh

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 19, 2026

What is clear is that the Democrats, along with China and other foreign entities, demand uncontrolled elections where bogus votes can be inserted into elections.  This is how elections are stolen. 

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Hunter Biden just confessed that the millions he collected from the corrupt Ukrainian energy giant Burisma didn’t just sit in some consulting account. He used that foreign cash to keep his crack pipe lit.

And while he was living in a Washington, D.C. drug den with a homeless crack dealer nicknamed “Bicycles,” his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, rolled up in a taxpayer-funded motorcade of six SUVs, Secret Service agents at his side, and knocked on the door, Page Six reported.

Hunter dropped the details on the addiction podcast Dopey with host Dave Manheim. When asked how he never went broke during years of crack, prostitutes, luxury bungalows at the Chateau Marmont, and motel benders, Hunter didn’t hesitate.

“I never went broke… Well, I still had the residual. Like for instance, I still was on the board of Burisma.”

He stayed on that board for years after his father left the vice presidency. The requirement? Show up four times a year.

“Even when I was a crack addict and out of my mind, I could show up for four meetings a year,” Hunter bragged.

The Bidens have spent a decade insisting Hunter’s $50,000-a-month (and in some periods $83,333-a-month) Burisma gig was legitimate work by a qualified expert.

The Gateway Pundit published the Ukrainian payment records back in 2019: 46 payments, 38 of them for $83,333, totaling more than $3.1 million in a single stretch.

Hunter had zero energy experience. His father was Obama’s point man on Ukraine. The conflict was obvious to everyone except the corporate media.

Now Hunter himself is saying the checks kept coming while he was “out of his mind” on crack.

Hunter described the scene at his D.C. apartment, the same place where he had moved in his crack dealer, a longtime street addict he called Bicycles.

“My dad showed up. He literally showed up at the house twice, you know, and just knocked on the door.”

He would hear the cars first.

“I’d look out my window because I’d hear all these cars and you’d see like six SUVs pull up and my dad get out and walk with one or two [Secret Service] guys because they have to be next to him. And I’d hear a knock on my door, and I’d open it, and… there I would be, in all of the obviousness of someone that was in distress.”

Joe Biden, according to his son, asked: “Please, like, what are you going to do tomorrow? What’s the plan?”

Hunter said he thinks his father “ran into” Bicycles. The Vice President of the United States, flanked by armed Secret Service, standing in a crack house talking to his strung-out son and the dealer living there.

The Gateway Pundit first published the Burisma payment ledgers in 2019. We covered Devon Archer’s testimony that Joe Biden joined more than 20 phone calls with Hunter’s foreign business associates.

We reported the emails showing Burisma executives wanted Hunter to use his “influence” to stop investigations. We covered the laptop, the “10% for the Big Guy” messages, the Chinese deals, and the two-tiered justice system that let Hunter skate on tax and gun charges until the political calendar made it inconvenient.

Hunter can now go on every podcast in America talking about his “recovery” and how addicts “can do a lot of cool stuff.” Fine. Recovery is good. But the American people still have not gotten a straight answer on why a sitting Vice President’s son was paid millions by a Ukrainian oligarch under investigation for corruption, why those payments continued while Hunter was in active addiction, and why Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail was making house calls to a crack den.

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A Biden-appointed federal judge has dismissed the Trump Justice Department’s lawsuit challenging California’s policy allowing transgender-identifying biological males to compete on girls’ school sports teams.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela of the Central District of California dismissed the Justice Department’s case against the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) with prejudice, handing California officials a major victory in their ongoing battle with the Trump administration over women’s sports, the New York Post reported.

Valenzuela was nominated to the federal bench by Joe Biden and confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate in December 2024.

The Trump Justice Department filed the lawsuit in July 2025, accusing California education officials and the CIF of violating Title IX by allowing biological males who identify as female to compete against girls.

According to the DOJ complaint, California’s policies deprive female athletes of equal athletic opportunities by forcing them to compete against biological males for victories, podium placements, recognition, and potentially college opportunities.

But Valenzuela rejected the administration’s argument.

The Biden judge concluded that California had not received sufficiently clear notice that federal education funding was conditioned on excluding transgender-identifying biological males from girls’ athletic teams.

Valenzuela ruled that even assuming Title IX permits schools to determine athletic eligibility based on biological sex, the statute does not clearly require every state to do so.

The ruling comes despite the Supreme Court’s landmark June 30 decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, where the high court upheld state laws protecting women’s and girls’ athletic categories on the basis of biological sex.

The Supreme Court held that states may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females and may determine eligibility based on biological sex. However, the Court stopped short of declaring that Title IX requires every state, including California, to adopt that policy.

Valenzuela relied heavily on that distinction.

In other words, while the Supreme Court ruled that states such as West Virginia and Idaho are legally permitted to protect female athletic categories, Valenzuela concluded that the ruling did not automatically invalidate California’s opposite approach.

The Justice Department is now evaluating its options for an appeal.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon responded cryptically following the ruling:

“California judge … … Stay tuned”

That certainly sounds like this fight is far from over.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the battle over California women’s sports exploded nationally in 2025 after transgender-identifying biological male athlete AB Hernandez competed against female athletes in California high school track and field.

Hernandez competed in the CIF state championships and took top positions in multiple girls’ events, prompting outrage from female athletes, parents, women’s-sports advocates, and President Trump.

The Gateway Pundit reported that Trump warned California Governor Gavin Newsom that the state could face “large scale fines” and potentially lose federal funding if California continued allowing biological males to compete against girls.

The controversy became so politically toxic that even Newsom — one of the nation’s most prominent Democrat governors and a longtime ally of the transgender movement — admitted during a conversation with Charlie Kirk that allowing biological males into women’s sports was “deeply unfair.”

As The Gateway Pundit reported at the time, Newsom acknowledged:

“It’s deeply unfair.”

Yet his state continued enforcing policies allowing transgender-identifying biological males to participate in girls’ athletics.

The CIF even modified its competition rules amid the Hernandez controversy so that additional biological female athletes could qualify and transgender athletes could share podium placements rather than officially displacing female competitors — an extraordinary workaround that did nothing to resolve the underlying dispute over biological males competing in female categories.

The Trump administration finally took California to court. Now a Biden-appointed judge has thrown that lawsuit out.

But Dhillon’s response suggests the administration may be preparing its next move.

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On July 21, 2025, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, demanded that Michigan’s crooked Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson turn over Michigan’s full, unredacted Qualified Voter File — not the public list, but the files with dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.

Instead of complying, the former Southern Poverty Law Center Board member and current Democrat candidate for Michigan governor, mailed the stripped-down public version and kept the rest. On September 25, 2025, the DOJ sued Benson, and then on February 10, 2026, a federal judge dismissed the case. On June 24 the Sixth Circuit agreed. On August 14 the full appeals court refused to rehear the case. Benson still has not produced the unredacted rolls.

Benson claimed she refused to turn over the voter rolls because wants to protect the voters “privacy,” by not sharing the social security numbers assigned by the federal government. On July 7, 2026 — after the Sixth Circuit loss — Dhillon warned Benson in writing that knowingly leaving noncitizens on the statewide list, sending them ballots, and counting those ballots can be a federal crime, and gave her five days to explain how Michigan would comply.

Benson’s office answered that the state already exceeds NVRA (National Voter Registration Act of 1993) rules, which I can personally attest is false. Time and time again, Phani Mantravadi’s investigators at Check My Vote have provided the Gateway Pundit with shocking details on Michigan’s voter rolls that reveal dead voters, registered voters over the age of the oldest recorded living American, duplicate and triplicate voters and voters who haven’t lived in Michigan for years and even decades.

In May, the Gateway Pundit revealed SIX non-citizens on the DHS Worst of the Worst Criminal Aliens list were on Michigan’s QVF (Qualified Voter Files) and that two of them actually voted in multiple elections.

EXCLUSIVE: Stunning Report — 6 Non-Citizens on DHS “Worst of the Worst Criminal Aliens” List Are Registered Voters in Michigan — 2 Voted in Multiple Elections

Last week, two brave Michigan clerks stepped forward and each recorded themselves asking for help from the federal government to remove non-citizens from their voter rolls, after Barry County, Michigan Sheriff Dar Leaf released a statement from a whistleblower inside the Michigan Secretary of State's office who warned that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s election software is programmed to automatically register non-citizens—including illegal aliens—to vote whenever they update or move their addresses!

Sheriff Leaf explained, "The feature is hardwired into the system. Local clerks have zero ability to override or block it.
Even worse, clerks are locked out of any meaningful way to verify or determine a voter’s citizenship status."

He was very clear about the serious nature of the whistleblower report: "This isn’t a glitch. It’s built into the software itself—leaving Michigan’s voter rolls wide open to ineligible registrants every time an address changes."

And now, Benson wants Michigan residents to choose her as their next governor!

WOW! 🚨🚨🚨MI SOS @JocelynBenson is more crooked than anyone knew!!!@SheriffLeaf confirms;

A whistleblower has revealed that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s election software is programmed to automatically register non-citizens—including illegal aliens—to vote… pic.twitter.com/3s4mHiZk7G

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 19, 2026

The first clerk to speak out and ask for help from the federal government to remove non-citizens from his township's voter rolls was David Olson of Hastings Township:

Hastings Charter Twp, MI Clerk David Olson makes public plea to Feds to help him remove non-citizens placed on voter rolls by crooked MI SOS @JocelynBenson that he says he can’t possibly find or detect.

This clerk’s plea for help comes after SOS whistleblower revealed the… pic.twitter.com/NiBoDRWI3e

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 21, 2026

The next Michigan clerk to courageously request that the feds to come to her office and removed non-citizens from her voter rolls was Climax Township Clerk Sarah DeBoer:

WOW! ANOTHER MI CLERK ASKS FOR HELP TO REMOVE NON-CITIZENS FROM HER VOTER ROLLS!

Climax Twp., MI Clerk Sarah DeBoer is bravely inviting the feds to come into her office and help remove non-citizens from her voter rolls!

Last week, Hastings Charter Twp., MI, Clerk David… pic.twitter.com/iiNs63G79r

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 24, 2026

WOW! ANOTHER MI CLERK ASKS FOR HELP TO REMOVE NON-CITIZENS FROM HER VOTER ROLLS!

Climax Twp., MI Clerk Sarah DeBoer is bravely inviting the feds to come into her office and help remove non-citizens from her voter rolls!

Last week, Hastings Charter Twp., MI, Clerk David… pic.twitter.com/iiNs63G79r

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) August 24, 2026

More clerks across the nation need to take a stand for U.S. citizens who don't want to see their votes canceled out by someone who isn't even a U.S. citizen and is voting in a federal election.

Only moments ago, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon put clerks across the nation on notice---letting them know that if they "knowingly allow non-citizens to vote in elections that they are committing a federal crime" and that the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice "will prosecute."

Calling all state officials! If you knowingly allow non-citizens to vote in elections, you are committing a federal crime, & the @CivilRightsDivision @theJusticeDept will prosecute. One non-citizen vote is one too many! Voters deserve confidence in our elections.

In her interview with GB News, Asst. AG Dhillon explained that non-citizens voting in elections is a crime and said that after she sent a letter to all top officials in the United States reminding them that they were committing a crime if they knowingly allow non-citizens to vote in a federal election. The New Jersey governor suddenly removed thousands of non-citizens from New Jersey's voter rolls.

"One vote makes a difference in a democracy" she reminded the interviewer. When the GB News host attempted to discredit her concerns about non-citizens votes affecting the outcome of an election, suggesting the number of non-citizens voting in elections isn't significant enough to make a difference, Dhillon shot back with the perfect response, "You can ask Al Gore if he thinks a few votes makes a difference."

Calling all state officials! If you knowingly allow non-citizens to vote in elections, you are committing a federal crime, & the @CivilRights Division @theJusticeDept will prosecute. One non-citizen vote is one too many! Voters deserve confidence in our elections. pic.twitter.com/gVMizGWuDe

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) September 2, 2026

Asst. AG Dhillon’s warning should bring more clerks forward in states like Michigan, where the secretary of state’s goal is to keep the voter rolls as dirty as possible, and get them to ask for help removing non-citizens before it’s too late.

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