🚨 Vance Attacks Israel (Again)

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TODAY'S BRIEF

🎙️ JD Vance draws dividing line with Israel. In a lengthy interview with Joe Rogan, Vice President Vance claimed some within Israel’s government are pushing to keep the war with Iran going “not towards any objective, but just indefinitely.” While he acknowledged Israel was trying to sway public opinion on the war, he asserted that President Trump makes his own decisions.

→ Vance also admitted the administration “screwed up” communications around the Epstein files, while denying any cover-up.

🚔 Trump overturns ICE vehicle stop pause after one day. President Trump ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resume traffic stops just 24 hours after DHS announced a nationwide pause following two fatal shootings. Trump called the traffic stop "one of ICE's most important and effective Crime Fighting tools" and warned that halting them would be "playing right into the criminal's hands."

⚖️ Liberal judge lets illegal alien truck driver killer off easy. A 21-year-old Indian illegal alien who caused a deadly multi-vehicle pileup on a Southern California freeway last October, was sentenced to just four years and eight months by a Newsom-appointed judge. The killer had been caught and released at the California border by the Biden administration in 2022.

👶 Gay Canadian couple sues surrogate who refused to abort baby. Two men are suing the woman who carried their now 2-year-old son for hundreds of thousands of dollars after she refused to end the pregnancy following a prenatal diagnosis of a treatable cleft lip.

Coming just a month after taking credit for the MOU with Iran (despite it falling apart), JD Vance is intent on cementing his legacy as the “peacemaker” who wanted to avoid war with Iran from the beginning. This issue will inevitably come up in the 2028 primaries, and Vance believes history will be on his side. — Brandon

Ro Khanna Wants to be President. He’s a Total Fraud.

Ro Khanna is the California congressman positioning himself as the next great voice of working Americans, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. He condemns billionaires and capitalism and has spent years building his brand as a Democratic Socialist who fights for ordinary Americans.

But according to new reports, Khanna “lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury home with a four-story elevator and so much premium marble that even the two laundry rooms have marble counters.” This is the man who wants to lecture you about income inequality from inside a house with its own elevator, not to mention his $190,000 Range Rover.

Here’s the kicker. His vast wealth, estimated between $100 million and over $340 million, comes from his wife’s father. Khanna has made himself a very comfortable, cushy life while telling everyone else that the system is rigged against them.

While Khanna has criticized hedge funds and supports a ban on congressional stock trading, his family's trusts reportedly executed more than 4,100 stock trades worth roughly $53 million in 2025 and hold investments in a hedge fund.

The trusts also own multimillion-dollar stakes in three private golf clubs that generated substantial passive income for his young children, meaning they don’t ever have to work a day in their lives.

IT’S ALL SHOW BUSINESS

This brings us to Ro Khanna's recent trip to Israel, which connects directly to the Democrats' disastrous Graham Platner affair.

Khanna was among Platner's most prominent endorsers. Each time a fresh allegation about Platner's troubling history surfaced, Khanna doubled down in his defense, insisting that the progressive politics Platner championed were worth the risk of a salacious story or two. He claimed that Platner had "taken responsibility” and cast him as a veteran wrestling with PTSD.

Khanna kept defending him, as did the rest of the party's leadership, right up until the moment they realized the scandal was curdling voter sentiment. Worse still, he later confessed he "should've listened to my wife" about Platner. The people close to him had flagged the warning signs all along. He ignored them.

As we know, Platner dropped out. And now Khanna and his fellow leaders are left with a public relations mess, having spent months promoting a man accused of sexual misconduct and later rape.

What is an ambitious politician to do? Reach, of course, for the issue that is red meat to progressives: Israel and Palestine.

EXPERIENCING THE “GENOCIDE”

So he went to Israel. There, he was offered a meeting with former Israeli hostages, the men and women seized by Hamas, whose rescue was the central aim of Israel's campaign in Gaza, and whose eventual release brought the fighting to a close. Khanna turned the offer down.

Instead, he took a trip to Judea and Samaria, or the “West Bank,” on a tour led by an Israeli organization opposed to Israeli military rule in the territory.

He visited Palestinian villages, with one being the wealthiest of them all, and stood in front of their mansions, discussing apartheid.

Then, his group drove into an area believed to be a closed military zone without coordinating with the IDF, Israeli police, or anyone else, according to the Israeli military. Khanna says he did that “on purpose.”

He even brought along The New York Times to make sure the inevitable confrontation was caught on camera. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to solve this mystery. This was transparently a political stunt.

So, a couple of armed Israelis stopped Khanna’s car, told them to wait, and called the police. The police arrived about an hour later and waved them through. That was it.

What Khanna told the world afterward was something else entirely. He claimed he had been "detained at gunpoint" by "violent" Israeli settlers in what he called "an unprecedented, illegal detention of Americans by a foreign country." He was never detained; they simply stopped his car for a little while.

He claimed he had never felt more powerless in his entire life.

He called on Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu to arrest the soldiers involved. The footage his own team eventually released, after days of suspicious delay, showed his guide calmly chatting with soldiers who spent the entire incident waiting for police to give the all-clear.

There is little need to speculate about Khanna's motives. His parting shot on this perilous journey was: "Free advice to the Israelis: It's not a good idea to detain long-shot presidential candidates." He hopes this ruse impresses his progressive fans with his anti-Israel bona fides.

THE MACHINE AT WORK

The press has been largely happy to play along. Khanna gets the kind of coverage that lets him build the working-class warrior persona without anyone asking too many uncomfortable questions, like how a champion of the people ends up with hundreds of millions of dollars and a home with an elevator.

They parroted his words and framing, pushing the idea that he'd been violently detained by Israeli settlers. And they let him slide past his support for Platner. No outlet touched the other stories, like where he spoke at "ArabCon," where panelists laughed about October 7 and cheered the idea of blaming Israel and no one else.

He's a progressive, so he'll be protected.

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