Why the U.S. Hasn’t Yet Struck Iran
Nancy Youssef and Vivian Salama: “The Trump administration had been considering its military options, which ranged from targeting leaders to hitting Iran’s nuclear program. But officials discovered that the U.S. could not conduct a major offensive as quickly as they had hoped without real risks to American forces, support from allies, and regional stability, two U.S. officials told us.”
“Even though Trump has boasted about a ‘massive Armada’ sprinting toward Iran, the U.S. does not have enough ships and planes in the region to conduct weeks of strikes, the officials said. It also does not have clear targets: The White House has yet to outline to military commanders what it would want to achieve through strikes, the officials said, suggesting that the use of force is not imminent.”
Virginia Supreme Court Green Lights Vote on New Map
“The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday gave the state the green light to go forward with a special election to put Democrats’ redistricting plan before voters this spring,” WRIC reports.
“Virginia Democrats hold a six-seat majority out of the state’s 11 congressional districts, but their plans for a redrawn map could give them as many as four pickup opportunities in this fall’s fight for control of Congress.”
New Video Contradicts Federal Indictment of Don Lemon
“Video footage appears to contradict key aspects of a federal indictment’s descriptions of former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s actions at a protest last month inside a church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” the Washington Post reports.
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Stamping Out Free Speech
Susan Glasser writes that President Trump’s “systematic campaign to stamp out dissent and punish those who disagree with him that will be remembered as among the most singularly un-American aspects of his disruptive tenure.”
“This is not the free-speech Presidency he promised, but a free-speech crackdown without modern precedent…”
CBS News Readies More Cuts
CBS News executives “are actively sketching out plans for another deep round of cuts,” Status reports.
“According to people briefed on the situation, the coming layoffs are expected to impact at least 15% of the workforce, making them more severe than the reductions carried out last fall.”
Unlike the last round of staff reductions, “these cuts are being largely orchestrated” by Bari Weiss herself, “and will put her imprint on the network.”
Trump Backtracks on Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
“Donald Trump is planning to scale back some tariffs on steel and aluminum goods as he battles an affordability crisis that has sapped his approval ratings ahead of November’s midterm elections,” the Financial Times reports.
“The president hit steel and aluminum imports with tariffs of up to 50 percent last summer, and has expanded the taxes to a range of goods made from those metals including washing machines and ovens.”
“But his administration is now reviewing the list of products affected by the levies and plans to exempt some items, halt the expansion of the lists and instead launch more targeted national security probes into specific goods.”
USAID Money Is Paying for Russ Vought’s Security
“The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul that has cut thousands of federal jobs,” Reuters reports.
Trump’s Favorite Strategy Stops Working
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Venezuelans Optimistic After U.S. Intervention
“Venezuelans are much more optimistic about the future after the U.S. seized authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro and want free elections held this year, according to the first face-to-face opinion poll since Washington’s military intervention,” the Financial Times reports.
“Seventy-two per cent of those polled felt Venezuela was moving in a positive direction after Maduro’s capture, although 58 per cent thought security had worsened, according to the poll by Gold Glove Consulting, a firm run by the former Latin America adviser to president Barack Obama.”
What Will It Take for Democrats to Take the Senate?
Bill Scher: “A state-by-state breakdown of the Senate primaries shows Democrats have largely, but not completely, averted a debilitating ideological civil war in the midterm elections.”
Another Month, Another Rahm Emanuel Policy Proposal
“Rahm Emanuel is embarking on a three-day swing through the crucial swing-state of Michigan this weekend. But he’s not just dropping in to help boost down-ballot Democratic candidates — he’s also visiting some trade schools to unveil yet another policy proposal,” Politico reports.
“The moves raise the question: Is he presenting the planks of a larger platform that he can run on for president? Or is he headfaking a run to build buzz and draw interest to his ideas, redirecting the field to where he thinks the party’s intellectual center of gravity should be?”
Inflation Cooled in January
“Inflation rose just 0.2% in January from December and fell to 2.4% on an annual basis. Both readings were less than anticipated, in a positive sign for consumers,” NBC News reports.
Joe Rogan Rips Trump Over Epstein Files
Joe Rogan went after President Trump for his administration’s mishandling of the Epstein files and its failure to protect the victims of the pedophile sex trafficker, the Daily Beast reports.
Said Rogan: “It’s crazy. The whole thing is crazy because like… why have you protected people?”
He added: “It looks terrible for Trump when he was saying that none of this was real. This is all a hoax. This is not a hoax. Like, did you not know? Maybe he didn’t know, if you want to be charitable, but this is definitely not a hoax. And if you’ve got redacted people’s names and these people aren’t victims, you’re not protecting the victim. So, what are you doing? And how come all this shit is not released?”
Trump Wants to Create a Different Official Portrait
“The unveiling of an official presidential portrait is typically a ceremonial event, one that places a former president in the long line of leaders who have piloted the United States for almost 250 years. But the portrait of Donald Trump, painted just after he left office in 2021, has never been publicly seen for a number of reasons,” the New York Times reports.
“Now add to the list another possible cause for the delay in that portrait’s unveiling: Mr. Trump, re-elected to a second term, would like a different one.”
Conspiracy Theories Flourish With More Epstein Evidence
“The release of an enormous cache of files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein might have been expected to quell conspiracy theories about his crimes and the government’s knowledge of them. Instead, it is spawning a generation of new ones,” the New York Times reports.
“Conspiracy theorists, foreign influence operatives and trolls armed with artificial intelligence are seizing on the millions of haphazardly redacted materials, released last month, to cobble together new, speculative stories.”
NewsGuard: “Pizzagate, the baseless conspiracy that top Democrats ran a child sex trafficking ring out of a D.C. pizzeria, has resurged thanks to the Epstein files.”
Europe Fears a Future Exposed by Putin’s War
“Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has been a failure by almost any measure, with his army incurring massive casualties for little territorial gain beyond what it already occupied prior to the invasion almost four years ago,” Bloomberg reports.
“Worries over growing economic strains in Russia have replaced dreams of victory parades in Kyiv.”
“Yet it’s European leaders arriving at the Munich Security Conference today who are agonizing over the existential military and economic vulnerabilities exposed by Putin’s challenge to the post-Cold War order.”
Politico: Europe has the weapons, but still needs America to wage war.
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