Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be traveling to the Middle East from June 23 to June 25 while Vice President JD Vance leads talks with Iran over the war.
Rubio is set to visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Bahrain, State Department spokesman Thomas Pigott said in a statement Monday. He will also speak with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Bahrain to address common priorities in the area. Vance began talks with Iran on ending the war and intermediaries June 21 after President Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) June 17.
Pigott said, “The Secretary will discuss a range of priorities including the memorandum of understanding with Iran, efforts to secure full and free safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz, and the importance of safety in the region.”
The GCC has supported U.S. efforts to end the war with Iran, but they also have concerns over some of the aspects of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) the U.S. made with Iran, Reuters reported. The current MOU includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund to Tehran, which Gulf State leaders worry may allow Iran to rebuild the military capacity the U.S. destroyed. They are also reportedly concerned about potential future dangers from Iranian missiles and drones.
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The MOU between the U.S. and Iran calls for “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.” However, U.S. officials said Monday that the agreement does not necessitate Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, according to The Guardian. Lebanon’s National News Agency said Israel struck multiple targets June 20, three days after Iran and the U.S. signed the MOU, although Israel claimed they were retaliating against an attack from Hezbollah, Reuters reported.
Pigott did not name which specific leaders Rubio will be meeting with or which days he is visiting the individual countries. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman are all members of the GCC.
The MOU gives the U.S. and Tehran a 60-day window to reach a more in-depth agreement.
The U.S. began launching strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, prompting the Islamic Republic to effectively halt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
Editor’s note: Article updated with additional information. This is a developing story and will be updated.
Whistleblowers and declassified documents have revealed a pattern of the CIA and FBI soft-pedaling findings that could rattle China, raising questions about whether President Donald Trump has the best information about America’s chief geopolitical rival at a high-stakes moment for U.S.-China relations.
A soft-on-China bias during the Biden administration shaped analyses of COVID-19 and election interference at CIA, FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the evidence suggests. Many officials in the sprawling $115.5 billion intelligence apparatus ascribe to a neoliberal worldview that prefers free trade and unfettered scientific cooperation with China, whistleblowers say.
The country’s most formidable adversary may have shaped an election and ignited a pandemic that killed 1.2 million Americans without serious alarm bells ringing at the top of the U.S. intelligence community, even as Beijing grew evermore brazenin its encroachments onto American shores.
However some evidence suggests that spy world is strengthening its position vis à vis China after a series of stumbles, even as the Trump administration marshals the military for the war in Iran.
Even as the Iran War has diverted munitions from Asia, CIA Director John Ratcliffe has stepped up efforts to recruit spies in China, including in a February video capitalizing on apparent chaos in the Chinese military. Ratcliffe reported to Congress in March that CIA had increased foreign intelligence gathering in China by 100%.
The message about rooting out political bias has “been received within our analytic community and within the CIA,” he said.
The bias under prior administrations was “pervasive,” according to James Erdman III, a CIA whistleblower who has risked retaliation by speaking out publicly.
Erdman revealed in Senate testimony on May 13 that when he dug into the suppression of intelligence pointing to a lab accident in Wuhan of the COVID-19 virus, many intel officials reported reluctance to elevate information that reflected poorly on Beijing. Erdman served as a member of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s task force unearthing intelligence community missteps and abuses, and remains at the CIA. The ODNI is working to declassify intelligence related to the origins of COVID before Gabbard leaves the post on June 30.
“That was pervasive among the individuals we talked to,” he said. “There’s certainly reluctance to provide information that would be geopolitically destabilizing or provide ammunition for actions that maybe they thought would be unwise.”
Virologists with the National Academy of Sciences advising the intelligence community would simultaneously work with Chinese scientists and were not subject to routine counterintelligence checks, according to Erdman’s written testimony. The most striking example: University of North Carolina virologist Ralph Baric advised the intelligence community through the BSEG and simultaneously worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab with ties to the People’s Liberation Army. Baric retired from UNC, Science reported on May 12.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe appear during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
But the CIA now says it is righting the ship.
“From day one, Director Ratcliffe has been committed to setting the record straight on the origins of COVID-19 and ending what he observed as DNI—the politicization of intelligence on COVID-19’s origins in China,” CIA spokesperson Liz Lyons told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “In his first week as director, he declassified and released CIA’s updated assessment, which confirmed what intelligence, science, and commonsense had indicated for so long—that the likely cause of the pandemic was a lab-leak by China. Not only has Director Ratcliffe delivered the vital truth about COVID origins to the American people, he’s also rooted out any politicization of intelligence and held people accountable, and will continue to do so.”
Chinese Election Interference Suppressed
A whistleblower’s report on Chinese election interference in 2020 was suppressed by a senior manager at the NIC, detailed from the CIA, amid concerns it would shape Trump’s position vis-à-vis China, the whistleblower told the Daily Caller News Foundation. This whistleblower was forced to subject his report to CIA edits that watered down its central conclusion, he told the DCNF. This individual spoke with the DCNF anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Senior analysts at the CIA tend to be culturally similar in their neoliberal worldview, he said. The CIA controls the intelligence community’s internal “printing press” and can suppress intelligence reports that do not jibe with its own preferences, he added.
The lectern at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, December 11, 2014. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
In a 2021 report, the intelligence community’s internal watchdog echoed the whistleblower’s account: Threats to the 2020 election from Russia and China were subject to inconsistent standards. Threats from Russia were elevated and taken seriously, while threats from China were not because CIA career staff disagreed with Trump’s hawkish rhetoric.
CIA analysts “appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the administration’s policies, saying in effect, I don’t want our intelligence to be used to support those policies,” the watchdog said.
Ratcliffe, then the director of national intelligence, wrote an unclassified memo agreeing with the whistleblower and expressing concern about the politicization of intelligence on China.
A man reads a newspaper with an article about meetings between China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP via Getty Images)
At the FBI, all raw reporting about interference in the 2020 election moved through FBI Director Christopher A. Wray’s headquarters in Washington, DC, according to internal FBI emails. FBI higher-ups demanded more control over election interference reporting after the suppression of an FBI report about the possibility of thousands of Chinese-supplied driver’s licenses for the purposes of electing Joe Biden in 2020, the emails show.
The FBI field office report about Chinese authorities planning to export fraudulent driver’s licenses to sympathizers in America for the purposes of voting was yanked in an “abnormal” way, documents declassified by the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2025 revealed.
The tip was credible: One FBI official described the human source who provided the tip as “competent” and “authentic in his/her reporting.” A few months earlier, Customs and Border Protection announced it had seized 19,888 counterfeit driver’s licenses from China and Hong Kong, mostly of college-aged individuals.
Because the report had been recalled, the tip was never fully investigated, the documents show.
“This FBI remains committed to detecting and countering foreign interference efforts by adversarial nations,” the FBI said in a statement to the DCNF. “Our Counter Espionage Division and field offices work together to defend the homeland against all foreign interference efforts, including any attempts at election interference.”
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The thing Rubio likely doesn’t realize is that the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as Hamas and Hizballah, do not think of those rapes and murders as a mark of shame. They are proud of them. That’s why the Hamas jihadis filmed them on bodycams: for distribution among their appreciative fellow jihadis. They were fulfilling the commands of the Qur’an and the example of Muhammad, and so why should they be ashamed? The biggest impediment to Westerners trying to navigate relations with Muslim countries is that Westerners assume that everyone in the world thinks exactly the way they do, and has exactly the same desires and priorities. This is not the case. Rubio, in his position as secretary of state, should know better.
“Rubio slams Iran for investing in Hamas ‘rapists and murderers,’” JNS, May 25, 2026:
( May 25, 2026 / JNS ) The Islamic Republic of Iran would rather invest in Hezbollah, “in the rapists and murderers of Hamas … than they do in their own people,” U.S. State Secretary Marco Rubio told reporters at a press conference in New Delhi on Sunday.
This investment is what the media “should be asking me about; that’s what the BBC should be covering; and that’s what these other media outlets should be covering—is how evil these people are in Iran and the damage they’ve done to people all over the world,” Rubio continued….
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Saturday that two relatives of the late Qasem Soleimani had their green cards revoked and were in custody.
Soleimani, a notorious commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a crucial figure in providing advanced IED components that were used against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, was killed in a Jan. 2020 strike. The State Department said Soleimani’s niece and her daughter had been living a “lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles.”
“Last night, the niece and grandniece of deceased Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani were arrested by federal agents following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status,” a statement released Saturday said. “Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. As identified by both press reporting and her own social media commentary, Soleimani Afshar is an outspoken supporter of the totalitarian, terrorist regime in Iran.”
Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States.
Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on…
“While living in the United States, she promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East, praised the new Iranian Supreme Leader, denounced America as the ‘Great Satan,’ and voiced her unflinching support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization,” the statement continued.
President Donald Trump announced that the United States military commenced Operation Epic Fury in a video posted on Truth Social early in the morning of Feb. 28.
“The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes,” Rubio said in a Saturday post on X.
Rubio called for the visas of foreign students who supported Hamas to be revoked during an Oct. 17, 2023, appearance on “The Ingraham Angle” while commenting on pro-Hamas demonstrations that took place at multiple universities and colleges in the days after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel.
“The law says if you are a supporter of a terrorist organization you shouldn’t even have a visa,” Rubio told Fox News host Laura Ingraham during that appearance. “So now, once you get that visa, if you identify yourself as a Hamas supporter, then you should have your visa canceled and you should be removed from the country.”
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio skipped the interpreter and took matters into his own hands Saturday, switching to fluent Spanish to deliver President Donald Trump’s agenda directly to a dozen Latin American leaders at the Shield of the Americas Summit.
“We don’t need an interpreter for this one,” Rubio told Trump before addressing the room in Spanish, as shown in the video shared by The White House. The moment went viral across social media. Trump looked on with approval as his top diplomat assumed translation duties.
The exchange set the tone at Trump National Doral in Miami. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed Rubio to the podium and told the president, “I only speak American,” PJ Media reported from the scene. Rubio responded by joking that he speaks Cuban, according to a social media post cited by PJ Media.
Reporter Sarah Anderson, who attended the event, noted warm personal rapport between Rubio and the attending heads of state. The secretary of state told the group that alliance with America “is a good thing. It’s reciprocated,” per the State Department feed cited by PJ Media.
Trump signed a proclamation creating the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition before departing for Dover Air Force Base to receive the remains of six U.S. troops killed in the Iran conflict, Fox News reported. The White House framed the 12-nation gathering as a historic push to dismantle drug cartels and counter foreign interference across the Western Hemisphere.
With Trump headed to Delaware, Rubio ran a working lunch and introduced Kristi Noem in her new capacity as Special Envoy. He told leaders they would “see a lot of her” and that Noem would engage with each country “at a personal level and on a daily and weekly and monthly level,” according to the State Department’s official transcript.
Saturday’s event added yet another responsibility to Rubio’s expanding portfolio. Trump tapped the secretary of state to oversee the Shield of the Americas initiative alongside Noem just days before the summit.
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Few maneuvers capture the essence of strategic persuasion as vividly as the “one-two punch” masterfully delivered over two years at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), first in 2025 by Vice President JD Vance and again in 2026 by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Vance’s MSC address served as the initial jab, calling Europe to task for its internal neglect of democratic values, cultural heritage, and the needs of its people. A year later, following what can only be seen as a period of American punishment through tougher U.S. policies under President Donald Trump, Rubio delivered the follow-up hook.
In Rubio’s speech Feb. 14, he welcomed Europe back into a renewed transatlantic fold, calling on the critical connections that bind our histories and heritage.
This diplomatic choreography not only revitalized alliances, as evidenced by the Munich crowd’s rare standing ovation for Rubio, but also aligned closely with Christian theology, a cornerstone of Rubio’s political homily. By invoking our shared Christian roots, Rubio underscored that Western civilization, forged in the crucible of faith, can be preserved only by returning to these principles. In an era of global fragmentation, this approach demonstrates that tough love, repentance, and redemption, which are hallmarks of Christian doctrine, are not just spiritual ideals but practical tools for saving the West.
At the heart of Vance’s rebuke was a charge against other Western leaders for neglecting ordinary citizens whose concerns about mass migration, cultural dilution, and economic insecurity were being dismissed or criminalized. He invoked cases like U.K. arrests for silent prayer near abortion clinics, framing these as symptoms of a broader malaise where elites prioritized ideological conformity over the liberties that define Western society.
Vance’s tone was urgent and paternalistic, made starker by the fact the U.S. was a child of Europe. However, he urged Europe not to fear its own voters, stunning the audience and forcing a reckoning with how Europe had strayed from its heritage of liberty, rooted in Enlightenment ideals but underpinned by centuries of Christian moral theology.
This initial punch landed hard, setting the stage for a year of what Rubio would later allude to as punishment for forsaking Western ideals in their governance. Under Trump, American policy shifted toward reciprocity. Trump demanded that NATO allies meet defense spending targets. He placed tariffs on European goods to counter unfair trade practices. The U.S. leveraged its military might to pressure Europe to implement reforms, including halting migration flows, securing its borders, and revitalizing industries.
While some countries balked at the requirements, seeing them only as punishments, the U.S. clearly regarded them as corrective measures for wrongs committed against its people and the ideals of Western civilization. It echoed biblical notions of chastisement as a means of growth. Vance’s speech was the verbal harbinger of this phase, exposing Europe’s neglect of its people and heritage.
But Europe needed to hear the U.S.’s rebuke of its failings. Without Vance’s speech, they wouldn’t have understood why Rubio’s address will go down in history (I hope) as the catalyst for a renewed Western civilization, one that doesn’t hate or feel ashamed of its heritage but embraces it as one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments.
Rubio’s 2026 address marked the redemptive second punch that brought Europe back into the fold. It built on Vance’s foundation but pivoted toward unity and renewal, rather than chastisement. He emphasized the importance of shared bonds and a path forward. He opened by invoking the MSC’s history amid Cold War divisions, celebrating the transatlantic alliance’s past triumphs over communism.
Still, Rubio didn’t hold back in acknowledging both the U.S. and Europe’s mutual mistakes in pushing deindustrialization, outsourcing our sovereignty, appeasing a climate change cult, and allowing unchecked mass migration that “threatens the cohesion of our societies, the continuity of our culture, and the future of our people.”
“We made these mistakes together, and now, together, we owe it to our people to face those facts and to move forward, to rebuild,” Rubio said, positioning the U.S. under Trump as a leader in this renewal, and inviting Europe to join not out of obligation but shared destiny.
“We care deeply about your future and ours,” Rubio said, “because we know that the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own.”
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Central to Rubio’s redemptive message was our shared Christian heritage. He wove it as the thread binding the West forever. He repeatedly invoked the West’s Christian faith as the “sacred inheritance” linking America and Europe. He credits it with the West’s cultural marvels, such as Mozart, Michelangelo, and the ideas of liberty and the rule of law.
Rubio argued that Western civilization’s pride and confidence stem from this heritage, and without it, the West risks civilizational erasure. Rubio framed Christianity’s universal truths of love, justice, and redemption as the West’s unique gift to humanity. He correctly warned that in a modern world threatened by authoritarianism, secularism, and cultural erosion, embracing our Christian heritage is the only salvation for the West.
Together, Vance and Rubio model a diplomacy that saves the West not through power but spiritual renewal. Grounded in Christian theology, this strategy reconnects the West to its heritage, ensuring survival amid contemporary perils. As Rubio eloquently put it, the West must be “unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance” to shape a future worthy of its past.
It’s no surprise that this message landed with leaders in Europe. Despite their efforts to ignore or discount their heritage, it is part of what makes them unique and binds them forever to the U.S.
Many accuse the Trump administration of being isolationist. The idea was never to pit the U.S. against the world, but rather to expose the rest of the West to their failings and to offer them a path to renewal. Vance and Rubio showed the West the paths before them. It is now up to the leaders to decide if it will be punishment or redemption.
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The White House announced Wednesday that the U.S. is exiting 66 international organizations and treaties, including a landmark climate change entity joined in 1992.
The Trump administration found that the listed international organizations, conventions and treaties did not serve America’s interests. Notable exits pertaining to global efforts to combat climate change include two United Nations entities: the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the last of which the U.S. joined in 1992 under President George H.W. Bush.
“Today, President Trump announced the U.S. is leaving 66 anti-American, useless, or wasteful international organizations. Review of additional international organizations remains ongoing,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X Wednesday. “These withdrawals keep a key promise President Trump made to Americans — we will stop subsidizing globalist bureaucrats who act against our interests. The Trump Administration will always put America and Americans first.”
Today, President Trump announced the U.S. is leaving 66 anti-American, useless, or wasteful international organizations. Review of additional international organizations remains ongoing.
These withdrawals keep a key promise President Trump made to Americans – we will stop…
The presidential memorandum notes that the exits follow a February 2025 executive order and subsequent recommendations from the Secretary of State.
“I have considered the Secretary of State’s report and, after deliberating with my Cabinet, have determined that it is contrary to the interests of the United States to remain a member of, participate in, or otherwise provide support to the organizations listed,” the presidential memorandum reads.
Notably, Trump signed an executive order to exit the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC on his first day back in the Oval Office, The Paris Agreement is a global climate change compact marked by a pledge to lower emissions.
The Wednesday announcement also said the U.S. will leave the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development, the International Energy Forum, U.N. Energy and the U.N. Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
“For United Nations entities, withdrawal means ceasing participation in or funding to those entities to the extent permitted by law,” the announcement said.
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Americans woke up Saturday to stunning news: after promising to end wars on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump sent the military into Venezuela to capture the country’s president and bring him to stand trial in the United States.
The conflict with Venezuela escalated quickly, as the administration moved from striking alleged narcoterrorist drug boats to surrounding Venezuela with warships and ultimately executing a decisive nighttime raid of Nicolas Maduro’s residence.
For the most part, the administration has been tight-lipped about its true motivations for initiating the conflict. Trump and administration officials have repeatedly pointed to Maduro’s hand in helping cartels smuggle drugs into the United States, an explanation that critics said was insufficient to justify the scale of the U.S.’s involvement.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles admitted as much in an interview with Vanity Fair, insinuating the drug boat strikes had something to do with regime change.
Keen observers who have studied Trump’s foreign policy, including some who have worked directly with the administration, theorized various triggers, from a fixation on the Monroe Doctrine to the influence of Marco Rubio.
A former administration official argued that the United States has to correct years of poor foreign policy that allowed threats to American safety and security to go unchecked.
“I think that they’re getting America back to a foreign policy that is actually focused on what matters to the American people’s physical safety,” the former official told the Caller. “I understand where some of the frustrations are coming from but it’s going to take a lot of time and effort and energy to untangle the mess that previous generations of foreign policy elites have made.”
“The Trump doctrine, if you will, is not about no war, but it’s about bringing military force to only the circumstances where you know the American people stand to benefit,” William Thibeau, the director of the American Military Project at The Claremont Institute, told the Caller.
Melissa Ford Maldonado, Director of the Western Hemisphere Initiative at the America First Policy Institute, told the Caller that Trump’s positioning on the Venezuela issue signifies a new Monroe Doctrine.
“The Western Hemisphere is our first line of defense. I believe the administration knows that, and that’s why they’ve chosen to put the Western Hemisphere front and center of U.S. foreign policy,” Ford Maldonado said.
The administration was already putting the screws to Venezuela long before striking the first alleged drug trafficking boat. Trump announced a secondary 25% tariff on any country buying Venezuelan oil as a part of his “Liberation Day” tariff policy in April.
Several months later, in August, Trump raised the bounty on Maduro to $50 million. Airstrikes began the same month, and a few weeks later the military began building up its presence in the Caribbean.
In November, the president told reporters he wouldn’t rule out “anything” when it came to the conflict with Venezuela, including potentially sending in ground troops. The president explained that Venezuela “dumped hundreds of thousands of people into our country from prisons.”
The same day, his administration designated the Venezuelan-based Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The State Department said it would use “all available tools to protect our national security interests and deny funding and resources to narco-terrorists.” A month later, he would designate fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
Ford Maldonado told the Caller that she could only speculate about the administration’s reasoning for going after Venezuela, but said she thought it was meant to send a message that the president is willing to protect his people from cartels and drugs — whether its on U.S. soil or not.
“I think they recognize that the stability, security, and prosperity of the United States is tied to what happens in our neighborhood. What happens in the region directly affects American security,” she added.
The biggest question remaining ahead of Saturday’s incursion was whether the administration’s ultimate goal was to remove Maduro from power. Operation Absolute Resolve ended the speculation as videos showed the deposed Venezuelan president being perp walked by federal officials in New York City.
The former official speculated that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was likely a big proponent of taking out Maduro.
“It absolutely is [about regime change] for Marco Rubio. I oppose regime change in Venezuela, but considering Marco’s history, his family history, you can understand why he feels this way,” the former official told the Caller.
“I really liked working with the State Department, and I actually came to really respect Secretary Rubio, but he absolutely is the chief proponent of regime change. I think other people in the admin are definitely more skeptical, but he does want this,” the former official added.
While on the campaign trail, Trump promised to end foreign conflicts and pull America out of unnecessary entanglements. Trump has faced some backlash from his supporters who feel his actions in Venezuela are evidence that he is spending too much time on foreign policy rather than domestic issues. The president justified his actions during an interview with Politico, arguing that those who feel that way aren’t really his supporters.
“I do think the MAGA base is willing to be patient with President Trump’s implementation of his foreign policy agenda. It’s common sense to understand a difference between military action in the Middle East for liberal ideological ends, and military action in America’s backyard to secure resources and check our adversaries,” Thibeau told the Caller, adding that the “Trump Doctrine” has never been about pacification.
“I do think a reasonable wariness of endless war does animate the MAGA base, so I don’t think patience is infinite, especially if future involvement requires the prolonged commitment of American boots on the ground,”
Following Operation Absolute Resolve, Trump started touting his foreign policy as the “Don-roe Doctrine,” a nod to President James Monroe’s foreign policy that established that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization.
Touting the new title, Trump argued that “foreign adversaries in our region” were “acquiring menacing offensive weapons that could threaten U.S. interests and lives, and they used those weapons last night.”
“All of these actions were in gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy, dating back more than two centuries, and not anymore,” the president said on Saturday after the mission was complete. “All the way back, it dated to the Monroe Doctrine. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They now call it the ‘Don-roe Doctrine.’”
Even before Trump pointed to the Monroe Doctrine, Ford Maldonado used the historical document to explain to the Caller how she thought the administration was approaching the conflict.
“That doctrine reflected a defensive posture, not an imperial posture. The U.S. was protecting Latin America from predatory outside powers, particularly European empires, at a time when many nations in the region were newly independent,” she told the Caller.
“The message was essentially ‘mind your own business, and we’ll mind ours,’ while the U.S. ensured the hemisphere wasn’t recolonized or dominated by foreign powers. That framework later expanded with the Roosevelt Corollary, and I think the president is invoking elements of both today,” she said.
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The United States is reportedly planning to target drug traffickers in Venezuela, raising questions about the possibility of regime change in the country.
U.S. military officials are considering attacking drug traffickers in the coming weeks within the borders of Venezuela, four sources told NBC News.
“We’ll see what happens. Venezuela is sending us their gang members, their drug dealers and drugs. It’s not acceptable,” the White House told NBC, referencing a previous statement from Trump.
The report follows rising tensions over drugs and the mobilization of U.S. forces in the Caribbean.
Throughout September, President Donald Trump authorized striking several boats allegedly carrying drugs and drug traffickers.
“BE WARNED — IF YOU ARE TRANSPORTING DRUGS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS, WE ARE HUNTING YOU!” Trump declared in a Truth post on September 15, attaching a video of the second boat strike. “The illicit activities by these cartels have wrought DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES ON AMERICAN COMMUNITIES FOR DECADES, killing millions of American citizens. NO LONGER.”
The attacks sparked the ire of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Maduro responded to the first strike on Sept. 2 by flying two F-16 fighter jets over a U.S. Navy destroyer two days later, according to Time magazine.
Maduro claimed the U.S. was seeking “to intimidate and seek regime change,” and that the U.S. was “looking for a military incident,” according to the Associated Press.
Trump has denied regime change in Venezuela is a goal of his administration, Time reported Sept. 6.
“We’re not talking about that,” he told reporters.
Maduro helped spearhead the Cartel of the Suns, a drug-trafficking group, and has a $50 million bounty for his arrest, according to the Department of State.
Republican representatives have warned that Maduro could face consequences.
In an interview published Sept. 13, Republican Florida Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart said Maduro has three options: leave now, end up in prison for the rest of his life or end up like Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, which he describes as “basically being reduced to dust in a plastic bag.”
“Those are the three options that Maduro, the Maduro regime and those around them have,” Díaz-Balart added.
Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez posted in August that “Maduro’s days are numbered.”
The U.S. planned to deploy 10 F-35 fighter jets to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, bolstering its already strong presence in the area, sources told Reuters in September.
“So we’re not going to have a cartel, operating or masquerading as a government, operating in our own hemisphere,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a mid-September interview with Fox News.
“The President of the United States made clear that he’s not going to allow cartels, that cartel or any other cartel, to operate with impunity in our hemisphere and send drugs towards the United States. And he’s going to use the U.S. military and all the elements of American power to target cartels who are targeting America.”
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth deemed Maduro “effectively a kingpin of a drug narco state” and added that he “should be worried” in an interview with Fox News.
“The Trump administration has carefully constructed a policy rationale that this is not ‘regime change’ for the sake of exporting democracy to the world’s benighted peoples,” former National Security Council and U.S. State Department official, José Cárdenas, told Newsweek.
“It is a national security initiative meant to eliminate a source of tons of cocaine from entering the United States. Main Street, USA, can identify with that,” he continued.
Trump recently detailed his plans to crack down on drug traffickers in his address to the United Nations (UN).
“We’ve recently begun using the supreme power of the United States military to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicolás Maduro,” Trump said at the United Nations General Assembly. “To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence.”
“Maduro is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela; he’s a fugitive of American justice who undermines regional security and poisons Americans and we want to see him brought to justice. The U.S. is engaged in a targeted counter-drug cartel operation,” State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott told The Daily Caller in a Statement.
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Better late than never:, the American government will now impose sanctions on both members of the Palestinian Authority and on the PLO as an organization. More on this welcome news can be found here: “US to sanction Palestinian Authority, PLO members, State Dept. confirms,” by Guy Alster, Reuters, July 31, 2025:
The United States will impose sanctions on several members of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the State Department said on Thursday.
The State Department announced it had reported to Congress that neither the PLO nor the PA complied with their commitments under the PLO Commitments Compliance Act of 1989 and the Middle East Peace Commitments Act of 2002.
The offenses listed included “taking actions to internationalize its conflict with Israel” through the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, as well as supporting and glorifying violence, particularly in textbooks, and the pay-to-slay program.
The move prevents those targeted from receiving visas to travel to the United States, the statement said. “It is in our national security interests to impose consequences and hold the PLO and PA accountable for not complying with their commitments and undermining the prospects for peace.”
The State Department did not confirm which individuals would be sanctioned.
These sanctions on PA and PLO officials come after the State Department imposed sanctions on more than 115 Iran-linked individuals and entities. Their assets in the U.S. may be frozen and they be prohibited from entering the United States. This might extend to Iranian diplomats currently assigned to the U.N. It will certainly make the life of Iranian officials much more difficult. Foreigners who serve as apologists for, and agents of, Iran, while living in this country, such as the sinister Trita Parsi, a Swedish citizen, are likely to have their visas revoked.
The US has already imposed sanctions on Iranian-linked individuals and on the UN’s Special Rapporteur for Conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese. The UN now says that the American government has no power to deny the antisemitic Albanese from entering the US. The American State Department does not agree; it has no intention of allowing Albanese, who has been carrying on a campaign at the UN against both Israel and America, to visit, or live, or work in the US. We’ll see who wins that diplomatic tug of war.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is smiting the enemies of this country and of Israel hip and thigh as has never been done by any administration before. He’d be an excellent presidential candidate in 2028.
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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has announced the release of long-classified files related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The release includes over 230,000 pages of documents connected with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s (MLK) assassination in line with President Donald J. Trump’s executive order, according to an Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) press release.
This release was conducted alongside the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Archives. Trump issued the executive order in January declassify records tied to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), former President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and MLK.
The MLK records released had never been digitized — unlike the JFK files— and sat untouched in government archives for decades, according to the ODNI.
“The American people have waited nearly sixty years to see the full scope of the federal government’s investigation into Dr. King’s assassination,” said Gabbard.
Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available now at https://t.co/71P3p5jBgK. The documents include details about the FBI’s investigation into the assassination… pic.twitter.com/l96t9tgYmn
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are ensuring that no stone is left unturned in our mission to deliver complete transparency on this pivotal and tragic event in our nation’s history. I extend my deepest appreciation to the King family for their support.”
The documents include FBI memos outlining the case’s progress, leads in the investigation and records connected to James Earl Ray’s former cellmate, who claimed Ray spoke of an alleged plan to assassinate Dr. King, according to the press release. Ray pleaded guilty to assassinating MLK in 1968 after being arrested in London and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term, according to Britannica. He soon recanted his confession, though he remained in prison.
Also included are Canadian police records tied to Ray’s escape after the assassination and CIA intelligence gathered during the global search to capture him, the agency said.
“In partnership with ODNI and FBI, today’s release represents a significant milestone in CIA’s efforts to deliver maximum transparency to the American people,” said CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
“CIA is proud to contribute to President Trump’s historic initiative to declassify and release intelligence information that serves the public’s interest.”
Although some of the documents had previously been released in response to FOIA requests, this release marks the first time they’ve been published together online in a single collection with minimized redaction, according to the ODNI. As more files are uncovered, they will be added to the centralized collection.
“Today’s record release marks a historic step in the Trump Administration’s ongoing commitment to transparency and accountability,” Secretary of State and Acting U.S. Archivist Marco Rubio said.
“Thanks to President Trump’s leadership and a coordinated interagency process, NARA was able to review and release the records at an unprecedented speed.”
Relatives of MLK Jr. were given early access to review the documents two weeks ahead of the public release.
Dr. Alveda King, niece of MLK, expressed her gratitude to Trump and Gabbard for fulfilling their promise to release the documents related to her uncle’s assassination.
“My uncle lived boldly in pursuit of truth and justice, and his enduring legacy of faith continues to inspire Americans to this day,” she said.
“While we continue to mourn his death, the declassification and release of these documents are a historic step towards the truth that the American people deserve.”
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The State Department notified its staff Thursday that it is beginning its wide-spread layoffs, according to a notification obtained by the Daily Caller.
The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to move forward with his executive order directing agencies to prepare “large-scale reductions” in the workforce in a ruling Tuesday. The State Department began prepping in April for a reorganization that would close 132 offices, representing a 17% reduction, a senior official shared with the Caller at the time. Deputy Secretary of Management and Resources Michael Rigas notified officials on Thursday that the “Reduction in Force” would soon be underway, according to a document obtained by the Caller.
“Once notifications have taken place, the Department will enter the final stage of its reorganization and focus its attention on delivering results-driven diplomacy,” Rigas wrote.
The mass firings were to be underway as soon as Friday, Semafor first reported
As a part of the reorganization, redundant offices within the State Department will be removed including those that did not “align with President Trump’s priorities and [the dept’s] national interests,” a senior State Department official previously told the Caller.
In the transition, 137 offices will be put in another location within the Department “to consolidate/increase efficiency,” the official told the Caller.
In the weeks to come, Under Secretaries will communicate with their “family organizations” and host “town halls,” the memo writes.
“On behalf of Department Leadership, we extend our gratitude for your hard work and commitment to executing this reorganization and for your ongoing dedication to advancing U.S. national interests across the world,” Rigas wrote.
A senior State Department shares with @DailyCaller the following about @SecRubio‘s plan to shake up the office:
The State Department is going from 734 offices to 602. Permanently abolishing 132 offices… a 17% reduction
“Secretary Rubio, at the direction of President Trump, has undertaken a historic reorganization of the State Department, which was thoughtfully and deliberately executed by department leadership. The America First State Department will better serve the American people,” a senior State department official told the Caller about Thursday’s announcement.
In a similar move, the State Department ended a program that for decades has given benefits and funds to low-performing diplomats rather than phasing them out of the department, according to a memo previously obtained by the Caller on July 2. Under the Annuity Exception, Foreign Service members were able to remain on the State Department payroll beyond their scheduled departure from the administration, the internal memo explained.
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The FBI will relocate its moth-eaten headquarters from the Hoover Building to the Ronald Reagan Building downtown after USAID vacated the complex, officials announced Tuesday.
The shuffle caps nearly 20 years of bureaucratic waffling over where to park the nation’s premier law enforcement agency. By opting for a ready-made federal property — freshly emptied when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officially shuttered operations Tuesday — the Trump administration says it will save taxpayers billions while giving agents a secure, modern workplace.
“We are ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a press release. “Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution.”
General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian, whose agency manages the federal real estate portfolio, said the Hoover Building “has accumulated years of deferred maintenance, suffering from an aging water system to concrete following off the structure.”
USAID’s exit made the move possible. The development agency had been headquartered in the Reagan complex since 1998 but was stripped of its lease in February, according to multiple reports. Rubio confirmed the broader shutdown Tuesday, writing that USAID “will officially cease to implement foreign assistance” as its functions fold into the State Department.
The era of government-sanctioned inefficiency is OVER.
The Reagan Building already houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) and several private tenants. GSA says it will “work with CBP and their agency partners to fulfill their mission while the transition of the FBI to the Reagan Building commences.”
Officials have not released a firm timetable for the relocation.
What happens to the hulking brutalist Hoover block remains unclear. GSA has yet to announce whether it will pursue demolition, redevelopment or sale. Neither the GSA nor the FBI immediately responded to requests for comment.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is leading a Republican-led investigation into the suspected illegal immigrant linked to the recent terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.
Jordan will send letters obtained by the Daily Caller to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, expressing concern over federal immigration enforcement.
Specifically, the Ohio congressman sharply criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of visa vetting, using the case of Mohammed Sabry Soliman as a key example.
Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, entered the U.S. during the Biden administration and remained in the country after overstaying his visa, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF). He faces charges for allegedly attacking several people at a demonstration supporting the 58 hostages of Hamas with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails.
“The issuance of Soliman’s visa and his admission into the United States raise serious questions about the Biden-Harris Administration’s application of federal immigration law and the adequacy of visa vetting procedures more generally. The Trump-Vance Administration, by contrast, has applied increased scrutiny to aliens seeking to obtain a visa or other immigration benefit,” Jordan wrote in the letter. “Soliman’s antisemitic attack also comes in the wake of oftentimes violent anti-Israel protests and harassment across the United States, including on college campuses.”
“During his first month back in office,” he continued, “President Trump quickly acted to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students from foreign nationals who weaponize the U.S. immigration system to attack American values.”
Citing the committee’s authority to oversee federal immigration policy, Jordan added, “Pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to conduct oversight of federal immigration policy and procedures. To assist the Committee with its continued oversight of federal immigration policy and procedures, we ask that you please provide the following materials regarding Mohammed Sabry Soliman, his wife, and his five children.”
BREAKING: Three senior DHS sources tell @FoxNews that the Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration. I’m told Mohamed Sabry Soliman arrived at LAX on 8/27/22 on a B1/B2 nonimmigrant…
In his request, Jordan specifically asked for “case history information, including, but not limited to, the aliens’ immigration history, immigration benefits applications, the alien file (A-file) or consular file (including all consular notes), and immigration detention status and history.”
He also requested information regarding the time, date, and place of any and all entries the aliens have made into the United States by June 20.
“The Colorado Terrorist attack suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country,” a DHS spokesperson stated Monday to the DCNF. “He entered the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired on February 2023. He filed for asylum in September 2022.”
The attack injured eight individuals — four men and four women, ranging in age from 52 to 88 — who were treated at hospitals for burns and various injuries in the Denver metropolitan area. One of the victims is a Holocaust survivor.
A federal judge in Colorado appointed by Biden blocked the Trump administration from deporting the family of Soliman.
The decision pauses removal proceedings for Soliman’s wife and five children.
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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is nominating National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to be his ambassador to the United Nations after reports that the top official would be departing his role this week.
Trump also wrote that in Waltz’s absence from his national security role, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as interim National Security Advisor. Ahead of Trump’s post, it was reported that Waltz would soon depart as National Security Advisor after the president and top aides had grown frustrated with his tenure.
“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role,” Trump wrote.
“In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” the social media post continues.
Waltz originally came under fire after The Atlantic published a story revealing that its editor-in-chief and longtime Trump rival had been accidentally added into a text group chat dedicated to discussing pending strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. The president expressed support for Waltz at the time, but since then the former National Security Advisor has been on shaky ground with the president, sources told CNN.
Despite his best efforts to fight for his job this week, Waltz’s standing with the president and top aides never recovered, sources told CNN.
After “Signalgate,” several members of the National Security Council were ousted. Activist Laura Loomer had visited the Oval Office before the firings and presented Trump with research she had on staffers indicating they were not loyal to the president, Axios first reported.
Waltz also struggled to get along with other White House staff, Axios reported, and Vice President JD Vance had previously counseled him on “working more collaboratively.”
“He treated [Chief of Staff Susie Wiles] like staff and didn’t realize he’s the staff, she’s the embodiment of the president,” one official told Axios. “Susie is a deeply loyal person and the disrespect was made all the worse because it was disloyal.”
But trouble may have been brewing for Waltz even before “Signalgate,” as sources told Semafor that Waltz’s traditionally hawkish views on national security caused tension between officials with non-interventionist view points.
“President Trump lost confidence in him a while ago,” once source told CNN.
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