Is the tide turning yet?

by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette

On June 22

President Trump launched “Operation Midnight Hammer” that severely affected Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear bomb.

The operation used more than 125 aircraft including the main strike force of seven B-2 Spirit Bombers supported by fourth and fifth generation fighters and dozens of air refueling tankers.

Each of the seven bombers carried two GBU 57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) weapons.

A U.S. guided missile submarine launched more than two dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at key infrastructure targets just as the main strike force entered Iranian airspace. The support aircraft pushed in front of the bombers to sweep for enemy fighters and surface-to-air missiles. The bombers hit Fordow and Natanz with a total of 14 MOPs.

According to General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Iran’s fighters did not fly, and it appears that Iran’s surface-to-air missile systems did not see us throughout the mission. We retained the element of surprise.”

Last week President Trump brokered a ceasefire between Iran and Israel ending the 12-day war. Trump also negotiated a historic NATO defense spending agreement in which members agreed to increase their defense spending target from 2% to 5% of their GDP by 2035. In his spare time Mr. Trump also worked a peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to end the decadeslong fighting in eastern Congo.

While President Trump was overseeing world peace deals, his Department of Justice argued successfully at the Supreme Court to limit the use of nationwide injunctions, which previously allowed lower courts to block presidential actions across the entire country. In other wins the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration could deport immigrants to third countries; ruled states could cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood; and, ruled in favor of parents’ rights, allowing them to opt their children out of school lessons that include LGBTQ-themed books, based on their religious beliefs.

Coincidently, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs. Nobody with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) saw that coming. All things considered, President Trump had a pretty good week.

Meanwhile former President Biden may be gone, but he’s not forgotten. FOX News reported, “Biden used his final weeks as commander in chief to grant clemency and pardon more than 1,500 people in what his White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president.”

There he goes showing off again. I suspect he’ll hold that record for a long time. “

More than 1,500 people in … a single-day act of clemency…?”

What proof do we have that he knew what he was approving? All but one was signed by Biden’s autopen. So, which pardon did President Biden personally sign? He pardoned his son Hunter.

Finally, in case you missed it Tesla delivered a self-driving car from a factory to a customer’s home for the first time. “First time that a car has delivered itself to its owner!” Musk boasted on X, a day before his 54th birthday. “The first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y from factory to a customer home across town, including highways, was just completed a day ahead of schedule,” Musk wrote in another post. “There were no people in the car at all and no remote operators in control at any point.