President Donald Trump delivered a stunning declaration during a wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview Sunday, asserting that Israel would not exist today without his administration’s military intervention against Iran.

In a Friday Truth Social post, Trump wrote: “Israel and, in fact, the entire Middle East, WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY if I did not stop Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon. Nobody wants to say that, but everybody knows it’s true!”

Speaking with CBS correspondent Ross Douthat on Sunday, Trump defended his decision to unleash America’s military power against Iranian nuclear facilities while arguing that nations benefiting from American protection should help reimburse the United States for the staggering costs of the Iran war.

When asked whether he planned to escalate the war now that the elections were over, Trump pushed back.

“Well, I’m not looking to. I don’t think there’s any reason to. I don’t think there’s any reason to,” Trump responded.

Douthat then challenged the president over Iran’s remaining nuclear material.

Trump insisted that the regime’s nuclear capabilities had been effectively neutralized.

“They have nothing. It’s buried under thousands of tons of rock,” Trump said.

The conversation then turned to the Strait of Hormuz, where American military forces continue to maintain a significant presence to protect commercial shipping.

Douthat questioned how the United States could eventually withdraw its military assets from the region.

Trump dismissed concerns about the cost of maintaining the deployment and suggested American forces could remain there indefinitely.

But the president then made another extraordinary declaration: The countries benefiting from American military protection will be expected to pay Washington back.

“At the end of this whole thing, those countries that we’ve protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we’ve had for the war, because without us, they wouldn’t exist. Without us, Israel wouldn’t exist. Let me tell you.”

When Douthat repeated, “Israel,” Trump doubled down.

“Israel would not exist except for Donald Trump, because we went in with those beautiful B-2 bombers more than a year ago, and we hit the 3 sites at the time.”

WATCH:

“You’re not going to escalate the war now that the midterms are over?”

@POTUS: “I’m not looking to. I don’t think there’s any reason to.” https://t.co/Iczk6jaR3Z

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 9, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit reported in June 2025, President Trump authorized Operation Midnight Hammer, a massive American military operation against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

The mission involved more than 125 American aircraft, including B-2 stealth bombers armed with bunker-busting weapons.

The attacks targeted three major Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

The Gateway Pundit also reported that American forces deployed decoy bombers over the Pacific Ocean to confuse Iranian intelligence while the actual strike force carried out its mission.

Trump has repeatedly celebrated the operation as an overwhelming military success.

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Truth is Freedom on X came out with another report Sunday night on just how impossible the results were in the 2026 midterm elections.

There were 35 states total holding a US Senate election.

Of the 35 – four had Republican senate candidates who did not face a Democrat opponent. (Idaho, Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota)

Two races have not been called by lean Democrat. If this holds, Democrats will win 29 of 30 contested US Senate elections.

Of the 30 contested Senate seats with both Republican and Democrat candidates, Democrats won 29 of the races (if Alaska and Mississippi hold for Democrats).

The odds of this happening is 1 in 5,510 chances or 00.018%.

So…. In other words, it’s not real.

Here is Truth is Freedom‘s report:

The 2026 midterm elections will go down as the year of the impossible. Let’s pray the truth on what really took place comes out soon.

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President Trump on Sunday night sat down with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat for some reason.

The interview took place at The White House on Friday.

During the discussion President Trump said he would like to do something on immigration.

Who is this man? I have no idea who this is.

Trump is defeated. What else is there to say.

Here is the transcript:

Ross Douthat: Whether it was the message or the record, the Republican collapse will give Democrats in Congress new powers over budgets, hearings, and subpoenas… You came out after the midterms, you congratulated the Democrats, you said that you were open to working with them. True. What is one thing you would like to work with a Democratic majority on?

President Trump: I’d love to do something on immigration.

Douthat: What?

Trump: Because, well, So…

Douthat: Do you think immigration hurt you in the midterms? Do you think the crackdown hurt you?

Trump: I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A+ for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out. But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs that created one violation or breaking of the law. And that was that they came into the country illegally. Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there’s a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they’re good people working in a landscaping company or working in a hotel or doing something right. And in some cases paying taxes. And there’s a large group of people think that they should be allowed to stay.

Douthat: So you think your deportation policy was too tough? It was too tough.

Trump: I think it might be too tough. Yeah.

Douthat: What would happen? What does the deal look like with the Democrats?

Trump: Ultimately, that hurt me. Well, the deal would be we would work something out. And I think it’s something— I think that’s something that’s actually doable…

Douthat: Doable to create some kind of legal status for the landscapers?

Trump: Yeah. When you go into a hotel and you have a woman that’s worked there as a maid, as a cleaner, as a this, as a that, as a waitress, a lot of good things, great jobs. And all of a sudden they’re being taken out of the country. It’s tough. It’s a tough thing. But there’s a group of people that I would say on the sort of pretty far right that would like everybody taken out. Do some of them— group of people—

Douthat: Do any of those people work in your administration? Are they in the building with us right now?

Trump: No, no. Well, there are a lot of those people. Then there’s also people that are more modified on that. In other words, get the killers out, get all the rough ones out, get the drug dealers out, but let the people that are here and in some cases here for 10 and 15 years work a deal for them.

Douthat: You think The Democratic Party right now has people in it who would be interested in this kind of deal?

Trump: I think so, yeah. People have already called me.

Douthat: So I’ll say I saw James Talarico, the new Democratic senator from Texas. I saw him on Fox News and he said immigration was one of the things he wanted to work with you on.

Trump: Others too. South Carolina said— You did—

Douthat: Numerous people have wanted to. In the course of the campaign, you did occasionally call him “Talafreako.”

Trump: Yeah, I did.

And they’re still going to jail him until he dies anyway!

40 years ago this week, Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act allowing millions of lawbreakers in American amnesty. Reagan wanted to limit the number of illegals granted amnesty. Liberal courts did not agree and millions of illegals were given amnesty in America.

Now President Trump says he too is for amnesty.

Who is this guy?

Here is the video via AF Post.

Trump endorses an amnesty deal with Democrats, saying immigration maximalists are on the “pretty far right” and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay.

Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/HSbH4RluaK

— AF Post (@AFpost) November 9, 2026

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President Donald Trump delivered one of the most brutally candid moments of his presidency during a remarkable interview with CBS News, refusing to pretend he could forgive his political enemies, even when confronted with a hypothetical question about standing before God and entering heaven.

During an extraordinary exchange on 60 Minutes Sunday with Ross Douthat, President Donald Trump refused the easy political answer and openly admitted he cannot bring himself to forgive certain enemies even if it were the sole requirement to enter paradise.

Douthat, referencing Trump’s remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial (where the President had said, in essence, that he hates his opponents and does not want the best for them, contrasting himself with Kirk), posed a stark hypothetical.

After noting Erica Kirk’s moving words on Christian forgiveness, Douthat asked: “Imagine you pass away and are entering the next life. All you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, and others you’ve expressed hatred for over the years. Can you do it?”

“Well, then I wouldn’t be real, would I? I mean, if I said to you, sure, the easy answer to that is ‘Oh, yes, I could forgive,’” Trump responded.

He continued without hesitation, describing Comey and Pelosi as “extremely dishonest people, very bad people, very bad for our country.”

He added that he loves the country far more than he can love people like that. When pressed if the answer was therefore no, Trump replied plainly: “The answer is no. I want to be honest, no.”

Douthat pushed further, invoking “the judgment throne of God” and noting Trump’s “charmed and remarkable life,” asking how he could not find it in his heart to forgive.

Trump acknowledged it would be simple to just say yes, but refused: “Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that, no, because I do hate some of my enemies and I always will.” He referenced what they put him through—the weaponization, the indictments, the impeachments.

WATCH:

Q: You’re entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc…can you do it?

TRUMP: Then I wouldn’t be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest people, bad people, I love our country far more…the answer is no. I want to be honest.

Q: In judgement before God?

TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.

REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can’t find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?

TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.

Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.

He COULD just say “yes” and get out of the question, but he didn’t

One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 9, 2026

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A federal judge has delivered a clear defeat to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sanctuary-city obstruction, ordering his administration to turn over identifying information on certain male residents of a city-run Bronx homeless shelter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In a ruling issued Friday, November 6, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee, sided with federal immigration authorities in their months-long battle with New York City over records involving residents of the Bruckner Boulevard homeless shelter in Mott Haven.

The decision clears the way for ICE to obtain the names and dates of birth of certain male shelter residents with serious criminal histories, subject to screening by a court-appointed special master.

According to the New York Post, the city repeatedly fought requests from ICE for identifying information about people living inside the sprawling migrant facility.

But Kaplan rejected the city’s arguments that the subpoena was excessively burdensome or an improper attempt to circumvent New York’s sanctuary policies.

In his November 6 memorandum opinion, Kaplan wrote that the city “has not shown that producing this list would be unduly burdensome” and that the records are “material and relevant to the enforcement of the federal immigration laws.”

He rejected the city’s claims of an improper “fishing expedition” and speculation that ICE was mainly trying to undermine local sanctuary policies, stating that nothing in the record showed the agency sought the information for any reason other than enforcing immigration law against those with serious criminal histories.

The parties have two weeks to submit a proposed order on the special master’s appointment and compensation.

The Bruckner facility is a converted South Bronx warehouse/storage building with roughly 2,000–2,200 beds. It has served as the city’s last major emergency migrant housing site for asylum-seeking men, many transferred from the troubled Randall’s Island tent complex.

ICE has documented that approximately 100 people received immigration mail there, at least 20 had entered illegally and listed the address, and at least a dozen had been charged with one of the specified serious crimes.

The agency’s investigation focuses on whether unlawfully present individuals with criminal histories are housed there and may be subject to removal.

This is not ICE’s first attempt. Federal officials issued multiple subpoenas beginning in August 2025 (at least four), initially seeking broader resident data from city shelters.

The city repeatedly refused, calling earlier requests an “improper fishing expedition lacking any legitimate investigative purpose” and arguing they would circumvent sanctuary rules that limit local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

Kaplan’s order effectively ends that resistance for this facility under the narrowed, special-master process.

Mamdani spokesperson Ivonne Rodriguez said the administration is “evaluating next steps,” and New York Attorney General Letitia James indicated she is reviewing the possibility of an appeal, according to Politico.

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President Trump gave Vice President JD Vance’s brutally honest post-mortem of the Republican midterm bloodbath a clear green light during his first major sit-down since the November 3 rout.

In an extended 60 Minutes interview with Ross Douthat that aired Sunday night, Trump stated he does not disagree with Vance’s assessment that the war with Iran is the main reason Republicans got crushed.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Vance took to X the morning after the election and laid it out in plain terms: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”

He noted that many 2024 Trump-Vance voters showed up but crossed over to Democrats, citing four top reasons from a pollster who correctly called the results: end the war, focus on cost of living and inflation, put America First, and change the U.S. relationship with Israel.

Democrats flipped the House (holding 228 seats), seized at least seven Senate seats (with Alaska and Mississippi still too close to call), and captured five governorships, including Texas, where Greg Abbott was unseated. The blue wave hit hard in what were supposed to be safer Republican territory.

Douthat pressed Trump directly: “A couple days ago, your Vice President, JD Vance, wrote a social media post where he says the reason we lost is the war, meaning Iran. And he said things in that post about Israel. So you agree with his analysis?”

Trump’s answer was immediate and unmistakable: “I don’t disagree with it.”

He confirmed Vance had run the post by him. “He asked me, ‘What do I think?’ I said, ‘You write what you want.’”

But Trump added the one line he wished Vance had included.

“The only thing I wish you would have said there, if he felt it, and you’d have to ask him about that, but ‘If you had it to do again, would you do it?’ You know, he’s part of a decision-making process, and my answer is an emphatic ‘Yes,’ because you can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump continued: “I think, historically, this will be a very good decision. Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not. But, you know, I have to go with what’s right for our country. If they had a nuclear weapon during my term, I would be excoriated, far worse than what’s happened. I’ve stopped them from having a nuclear weapon. That’s a big thing.”

This tracks with Trump’s earlier reaction the day after Vance’s post, when he told reporters he knew how Vance felt, thought the statement was “fine” and “good,” and reiterated that stopping Iran’s nuclear program was non-negotiable.

WATCH:

President Trump FLATLY states he doesn’t “DISAGREE” with Vice President JD Vance’s BRUTALLY honest assessment of why Republicans got TROUNCED in the midterm elections. “The only thing I wish you would have said there, if he felt it, and you’d have to ask him about that, but ‘If you had it to do again, would you do it?’ You know, he’s part of a decision-making process, and my answer is an emphatic ‘Yes,’ because you can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”

60 Minutes’ Ross Douthat: “A couple days ago, your Vice President, JD Vance, wrote a social media post where he says the reason we lost is the war, meaning Iran. And he said things in that post about Israel. So you agree with his analysis?”

President Trump: “I don’t disagree with it.”

Ross Douthat: “Did you know he was going to write that post?”

President Trump: “He asked me, ‘What do I think?’ I said, ‘You write what you want.’ By the way, ‘What are you going to write?’ The only thing I wish you would have said there, if he felt it, and you’d have to ask him about that, but ‘If you had it to do again, would you do it?’ You know, he’s part of a decision-making process, and my answer is an emphatic ‘Yes,’ because you can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon. I think, historically, this will be a very good decision. Is it a good decision for today and tomorrow? Maybe not. But, you know, I have to go with what’s right for our country. If they had a nuclear weapon during my term, I would be excoriated, far worse than what’s happened. I’ve stopped them from having a nuclear weapon. That’s a big thing.”

— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) November 9, 2026

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