Trump admin may be willing to make 'significant accommodations' on sanctions relief for the terrorists

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of 21st-century diplomacy that somehow hasn't collapsed into a mushroom cloud yet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz now depends on "full Iranian acceptance and then compliance" with negotiated terms. Of course, trusting the ayatollahs to keep their word is like the scorpion carrying the frog across the stream, for you fable fans.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, evidently moonlighting as a Trump hype man, commended President Donald Trump for leading "extraordinary efforts to pursue peace" after a high-level multilateral phone conference that rounded up the usual suspects from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. Sources confirm the call went swimmingly, with zero participants threatening to turn anyone into a parking lot.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated on Saturday that the main U.S. objective remains preventing Tehran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, ambitious stuff, considering Iran views "nuclear weapon" the same way a kid views a participation trophy, as in 'everyone should get one.'

President Trump, never one to undersell a deal, declared that the Iran agreement to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been "largely negotiated," which in diplomatic terms means "we're basically there except for the part where they keep lying."

The U.S. may be willing to make "significant accommodations" for Iran on sanctions relief if the nation's leaders are willing to make similar accommodations to the U.S. on enriched uranium, a senior administration official told Fox News on Sunday, in what historians are already calling "the most polite game of nuclear chicken ever played."

The official downplayed reports that the deal could be signed on Sunday, saying Tehran's system "does not move fast enough."

"Our plan is to deal with all of their stockpile of the enriched material," the official said. "We see the Iranians making some serious accommodations on these questions that we didn't see before." And if you believe the Islamic Regime at their word, I have a bridge to sell you.

"If the Iranians make significant accommodations on the enrichment question then we will make significant accommodations on sanctions relief," the official continued.

"Even in the IRGC's own propaganda, they did not talk about tolling the Strait of Hormuz. Our position is quite clear. We don't think that a toll is an acceptable outcome," the official added. 

At the time of this writing, Iran was reportedly nodding along while secretly spinning more centrifuges, and Washington was pretending this time would be different.

And snakes have hips.

If the Islamic Regime of Iran is allowed to remain in power, nothing will have been accomplished and this will be a waste of blood and treasure.

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White House shooter had criminal history and was mentally ill

The man fatally shot by Secret Service agents after authorities said he opened fire at a White House security checkpoint Saturday had a documented history of encounters with law enforcement and mental health concerns.

"Thank you to our great Secret Service and Law Enforcement for the swift and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House, who had a violent history and possible obsession with our Country’s most cherished structure," President Donald Trump wrote early Sunday morning on Truth Social.

"The gunman is dead after an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service Agents near the White House gates."

The dead gunman was identified as Nasire Best, a 21-year-old Maryland man, who was previously known to United States Secret Service around the White House complex, according to a July 2025 D.C. Superior Court filing.

A 21-year-old armed with a revolver was killed after exchanging gunfire with Secret Service agents near the White House gates, President Trump said. 

In that incident, Best walked into a restricted area at a White House pedestrian access control post, ignored commands to stop and claimed he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to get arrested, according to the filing. He was arrested on an unlawful entry charge in that incident.

The filing said Best interacted with the Secret Service, walking around the White House complex and asking how to gain access at various entry posts. It also said he had been involuntarily committed in June 2025 after obstructing vehicle entry to the White House complex. In that incident, Best claimed he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to get arrested, according to court filing.

Officers requested a stay-away order barring Best from the White House area after the July arrest, according to the filing.

The New York Post reported that a bench warrant was later issued after Best failed to appear for a subsequent hearing.

Then on Saturday, he approached a checkpoint near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW shortly after 6 p.m. ET, pulled a gun from a bag and opened fire on Secret Service officers. Fortunately, Best was the worst in marksmanship as officers returned fire, striking Best, who was quickly taken to a hospital and later died.

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A bystander was also wounded, though officials had not said who fired the round that struck that person or released the person’s condition. No Secret Service agents were injured. Trump was inside the White House at the time and was briefed on the shooting thanks to the lack of gun range practice by the late Best shooter.

His overnight post added a call for White House security, which is being removed from the Senate's now-stalled budget reconciliation package.

"This event is one month removed from the White House Correspondent’s Dinner shooting, and goes to show how important it is, for all future Presidents, to get, what will be, the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C.," Trump's post concluded. "The National Security of our Country demands it!"

And a ballroom wouldn't hurt.

The shooting briefly placed the White House on lockdown. Reporters on the North Lawn were rushed into the press briefing room as agents responded with weapons drawn. The lockdown was lifted at 6:46 p.m. ET.

Authorities had not announced a motive as of early Sunday, but it's safe to say that Best was not a Republican.

The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting the Secret Service and Metropolitan Police Department in the investigation.

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BREAKING: Man fires 3 shots at White House, shoots bystander, and is taken out by Secret Service

A man armed with merely a pistol fired three shots at the White House which immediately went on lockdown. The shooting began around 6:15 p.m. EDT.

The Secret Service fired about 30 shots which neutralized the shooter to the point in which he no longer is alive.

One bystander has also been shot and is in serious condition. It isn't known who fired the shot that struck this individual, but let's hope he or she recovers.

The FBI will be holding a press briefing.

As of this moment, the White House lockdown has been lifted.

Other than the bystander and the shooter, nobody else was shot.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Glorious People's Republic of Brooklyn Takes Shape, Backed by Leftist-Islamist Coalition That Swears It's All About the Vibes

Comrade Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani’s political takeover of New York City was backed by a leftist-Islamist coalition, but abstract ideology only gets you so far. Plenty of the Muslim donors and voters weren’t there just for religious and racial reasons, but they hoped to reap tangible benefits from the move. And that’s where the corruption tends to come in.

Sure, everyone's been distracted by the shiny ‘free grocery store’ promises that now will take 3 years to do, but plans like this may be much closer to where the money is really going as Mamdani proposes massive rezoning of an area that has a large Muslim population. 

The City Planning Commission is referring to its new initiative as the “South of Prospect Plan” and aims to rezone the commercial corridors of McDonald and Coney Island avenues, as well as surrounding blocks, for taller buildings and more housing development.

The blocks currently feature long stretches of single-story businesses, auto body shops and low-rise homes. When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, I could walk to McDonald Ave. and Coney Island Ave. in five minutes. 

Four subway lines connect the neighborhood to Manhattan, and in the coming years, a new light rail line could traverse the area, providing direct access to Queens, making the Brooklyn blocks prime real estate for new housing.

And anyone owning real estate in the area, including the small houses that the mostly Bangladeshi and Pakistani Muslim occupants in the area have settled in, will stand to make tens of millions of dollars. Mazel tov, comrades!

The area south of Prospect Park overlaps with districts represented by Council members Shahana Hanif, Rita Joseph, Farah Louis and Simcha Felder.

Hanif and Joseph each said they support the plan.

Shahana Hanif is a Bangladeshi Muslim councilwoman affiliated with the DSA, and a Mamdani ally who represents the Bangladeshi settler population in the area. Diversity is our strength, especially when it comes with waterfront property values.

I certainly hope the FBI and the DOJ are going to keep a close eye on who profits from this Mamdani plan. Or, knowing how things work in New York, maybe they'll just rename it the "Equity and Inclusion Development Fund" and call it a day.

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Trump's Iran deal 'largely negotiated' while GOP hawks start losing their minds

As Washington celebrated the latest draft of a Middle East peace deal, sources confirmed Thursday that President Donald Trump had nearly completed negotiations between the United States, Iran, Israel, several Gulf states, and apparently every other person on Earth except the people who would eventually have to follow the agreement.

Trump announced on Truth Social that an agreement with Iran had been “largely negotiated,” prompting immediate concern among foreign policy experts, Senate hawks, and several thousand Washington think tank employees whose job descriptions depend on perpetual regional instability.

“I am in the Oval Office at the White House where we just had a very good call,” Trump wrote, explaining that leaders across the Middle East had discussed “all things related to a Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE,” a phrase reportedly causing three defense contractors to faint simultaneously.

The president added, “An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed.”

Sources confirmed that nobody was entirely sure what “the various other Countries, as listed” meant, but negotiators nodded enthusiastically anyway.

The proposed agreement would reportedly reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil shipping route that Iran has largely disrupted throughout the conflict. Analysts estimate this could allow millions of barrels of oil to move freely again, while depriving cable news panels of at least six months of apocalyptic predictions.

Meanwhile, Israeli officials reportedly gathered for emergency meetings after learning that Trump had once again attempted to solve a decades-old geopolitical crisis by making phone calls and declaring victory before dessert.

Still, President Trump insisted everything was proceeding smoothly, and let's face it, most of the time he's correct.

“Separately, I had a call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, which, likewise, went very well,” he wrote. “Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly. In addition to many other elements of the Agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened.”

According to White House insiders, Trump spent several minutes reminding attendees that he literally wrote The Art of the Deal, while Middle Eastern diplomats quietly wondered whether that qualified as binding international law.

Not everyone was celebrating.

Republican senators immediately emerged from their underground network of strategic briefing rooms to warn that peace itself could pose a grave threat to regional stability.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina expressed alarm that any arrangement allowing Iran’s government to continue existing might create a “nightmare for Israel.”

“If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate [sic] force requiring a diplomatic solution,” Graham posted on X.

The war hawk added, “This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability [to] inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel.”

Experts translated Graham’s statement as: “Have we considered bombing something first and negotiating later?”

Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi was equally skeptical.

“The rumored 60-day ceasefire, with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith, would be a disaster. Everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would be for naught!” he posted.

Pentagon officials reportedly spent the afternoon explaining to Americans that “Operation Epic Fury” was, in fact, the actual name of a military campaign and not a rejected Xbox game title.

At press time, Washington hawks were warning that a negotiated settlement could dangerously undermine decades of bipartisan consensus that every Middle Eastern conflict is exactly three airstrikes away from permanent peace.

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Staunch Trump Supporter Beaten and Not Expected to Live

The wife of an elderly San Diego man, brutally beaten outside his MAGA-inspired “Trump House,” has said there is “no hope” for her husband after the vicious attack left him fighting for his life.

Kerry Sheron, 69, lies in critical condition following the assault outside his Escondido property on Wednesday afternoon. His wife, Maria, fighting back tears, told The California Post that her husband is not expected to survive.

The alleged assailant, 32-year-old Escondido resident Thomas Caleb Butler, has been arrested on attempted murder charges and now faces the possibility of life in prison.

Sheron, an Army veteran, had become a local emblem of unapologetic patriotism. His home on Buchanan Street was festooned with Trump flags and other pro-American regalia, a defiant stand in an age when such displays are treated by some as provocations rather than expressions of loyalty to one’s country. In a video from March, he had surveyed the damage after what appeared to be an earlier act of vandalism:

“Somebody decided that our stuff is not good. Incredible, look at this. They even ripped up the American flag, how f–ked up is that.”

Maria believes her husband was targeted precisely because of these displays. In other words, for the crime of loving his country too openly in a time when such love has been recast by parts of the cultural elite as something close to original sin.

After the attack, Butler fled on foot, only to be apprehended nearby. The facts of the case are grim enough. But what lingers is the deeper symptom: a growing willingness in certain quarters to treat political opponents not as fellow citizens with whom one disagrees, but as legitimate targets for violence. When flags become rags and homes become battlegrounds, something profound has already been lost in the republic.

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Omar ran barefoot but got caught and is facing the alleged fraud consequences

Barefoot Muhammad Omar in Minnesota fraud scheme
 captured hours after fleeing FBI in caught-on-camera escape

One of the fraud suspects in Minnesota, thought he could fly. He leaped without a cape from a fourth-floor balcony to escape arrest on Thursday morning and just a few hours later, was captured and in custody. Is this something an innocent person would do? 

“After today’s interagency press conference announcing 15 public healthcare fraud indictments in Minnesota, the below subject who was on the run, Muhammad Omar, has now been arrested,” Patel wrote on X, including a photo of the suspect hobbling while holding one shoe.

“He is charged with healthcare fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1349, 18 U.S.C. § 1347) involving a Housing Stabilization Services company – with fraudulent claims for services not provided and diverting the proceeds for personal benefit,” the FBI director added.

The miscreant? A dude named Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar [no relation that we know of to Ilhan Omar]. He's been charged with Medicaid fraud

So who is this Muhammad Omar? He's a Minnesota man accused of orchestrating a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud scheme  and is becoming a very high profile defendant in the sweeping DOJ fraud crackdown.

Authorities arrested the 32-year-old Omar after he allegedly attempted to evade federal agents by exiting a building the same way Minnesota's public assistance funds have reportedly been leaving state accounts for years: rapidly and without explanation.

The arrest came as federal prosecutors unveiled indictments against 15 individuals accused of helping themselves to roughly $90 million through a variety of healthcare-related schemes. According to investigators, the suspects allegedly discovered a little-known government reimbursement program called "Just Send Us Money And Don't Ask Questions."

Government officials reportedly expressed relief that Omar had been found before accidentally receiving another state contract, possibly from his namesake.

Federal prosecutors allege Omar co-owned North Home Health Care LLC and operated South Home Health Care LLC, businesses accused of billing Medicaid for services that either never happened or occurred primarily in the imaginations of accountants. 

Court documents claim the companies submitted millions in questionable claims while providing taxpayers with the increasingly popular service known as "funding someone else's luxury purchases."

Investigators estimate North Home Health Care billed approximately $3.3 million and received about $3.2 million in reimbursements, a reimbursement rate experts described as "the sort of efficiency private businesses only dream about."

Authorities say Omar fled during a coordinated arrest operation but was later apprehended at a property connected to his business activities. Sources say agents located him by searching every place in Minnesota where government money had recently vanished.

The case is the latest chapter in Minnesota's ongoing fraud saga, a state tradition that now rivals ice fishing and apologizing for bumping into furniture. The most famous example remains the Feeding Our Future scandal, in which prosecutors alleged organizers somehow convinced the government that enormous numbers of meals were being served to children who appeared to exist only on spreadsheets.

That operation's alleged architect, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to more than 41 years in prison after prosecutors said she orchestrated a $250 million fraud scheme. State officials reportedly marked the occasion by lowering Minnesota's giant ceremonial "Days Since Massive Fraud Scandal" sign back to zero.

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Unearthed Posts Show Dem Senate Hopeful Praising Vulgar Graffiti, Making Crude Porta Potty Admission

WARNING: SOME VILE LANGUAGE FROM THIS DEMOCRAT HOPEFUL. READER DISCRETION ADVISED


GOP strategist calls the years-long trail of posts a 'character issue' ahead of a potential race against Susan Collins.

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine released a video of himself with a tattoo of what appeared to be a Nazi symbol on "Pod Save America."

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is already facing criticism over past Reddit posts, made graphic sexual comments on his now-deleted account about masturbating in portable toilets and explicit graffiti found in military restrooms.

In one March 2017 post on Reddit’s r/Military forum, Platner responded to a discussion about nostalgic military smells by writing: "I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portas----er… that blue water smell conditioned me."

The archived posts were made under "P-Hustle," a now-deleted Reddit account that Platner previously acknowledged was his.

In another post from March 2021 on Reddit’s r/USMC forum, Platner described a crude penis drawing inside a portable toilet while deployed overseas.

Responding to a thread dedicated to so-called "GWOT Dick Art," Platner launched into an extended monologue praising the explicit graffiti in unusually vivid terms, calling it "beautiful," "engorged and veiny," and moving "towards its penetrative glory."

"Oh s---!!!," Platner wrote. "You’ve got the Hot Rod C--- from Manas!"

Manas was a major U.S. military transit hub in Kyrgyzstan used during the wars in Afghanistan. Platner enlisted in the Marines in 2003 and served three combat tours in Iraq. In 2010, he joined the Maryland Army National Guard for a fourth tour, serving in the infantry in Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan eight years later as a security contractor.

The post accompanied a photograph of a smiling serviceman posing beside the explicit illustration inside the portable restroom.

"I sat there in sheer awe," Platner wrote. "The soul filling joy to be allowed to witness such glory."Fox News Digital reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment on Monday.

Platner has previously responded to questions about his controversial posts by suggesting he was joking.

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"You should read the comments in context. It's very clear I'm joking," he previously told Fox News Digital when asked about them. "It's called s---posting. It's when you argue with people on the internet and try to bother them. So, yeah, no, it's very obviously not true."

The posts, which are accessible in the Maine Monitor’s archive but have not been previously reported, are the latest in a series of vulgar and inflammatory social media comments that critics say raise questions about Platner’s judgment as the progressive Democrat emerges as his party’s Senate nominee in Maine.Republicans are likely to use the resurfaced posts, along with others, to portray Platner as too erratic and extreme for statewide office as Democrats rally behind the first-time candidate.

Mehek Cooke, a GOP strategist and senior national security and legal analyst for the Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital that, politically, Platner’s "vulgar" posts will "matter" to voters because they are "deciding whether Graham Platner has the judgment, temperament, and basic decency to represent Maine in the Senate."

"His campaign has been built around authenticity and moral seriousness. These posts undercut both," Cooke said. "Platner is not a truth-teller. He is someone whose instincts appear crude, reckless, and deeply unserious. And by the way, if they were really ‘jokes,’ why delete the posts? That sounds less like humor and more like a CYA cleanup operation."

Cooke said that "one tasteless post" can be chalked up to "immaturity" but a "years-long trail of vulgar, sexually degrading, and slur-filled commentary is a character issue."

Platner, a first-time candidate who is backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, became the Democrats' presumptive nominee after his rival for the nomination, two-term Gov. Janet Mills, ended her campaign last month after trailing Platner in polling and fundraising.

Other posts Platner has been questioned about, including in a recent interview with The New York Times, include a 2013 post, which Platner later deleted, that people concerned about rape should not "get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to."

Platner has also faced scrutiny for more recent Reddit posts, including one from five years ago in which he described himself as a "communist" and "socialist." Additionally, Platner’s posts have contained alleged homophobic slurs and praise for military tactics used by Hamas.

"Will every Democrat in Maine care? No," Cooke said. "Platner has shown he can survive controversy inside a Democratic primary. But in a general election, especially against Susan Collins, the cumulative effect of his stances, controversies, and comments matters. The Nazi-linked tattoo controversy, the homophobic slurs, the disturbing comments that have already surfaced, and now these posts create a fuller picture of a morally bankrupt candidate.

Republicans will argue this is not a candidate with a few regrettable moments. This is a pattern that tells voters something fundamental about his character. And character still matters to a lot of Mainers."

Look, folks, this is what passes for a "serious" Senate candidate in the modern Democrat Party. A guy who brags about getting off to the smell of porta potty water and treats military latrine dick drawings like they're Renaissance masterpieces. But sure, he's the one lecturing everyone else about "moral seriousness." The left keeps telling us character doesn't matter until it does, and then they pretend the trail of sleaze is just "jokes." Maine voters might have something to say about that when Susan Collins comes calling.

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