Hacks, Truth, Lies, and Braggadocio

Krazy Kash’s email has been hacked. By whom? The Handala Hack Team.

Handala, which presents itself as a group of pro-Palestinian vigilante hackers, is considered by western researchers to be one of several personas used by Iranian government cyberintelligence units. (source) 

Handala’s specialty is data theft combined with public leaks with the intention of embarrassing and/or intimidating the target.

"The so-called 'impenetrable' systems of the FBI were brought to their knees within hours by our team," Handala wrote. "All personal and confidential information of Kash Patel, including emails, conversations, documents, and even classified files, is now available for public download.” (source) 

The dirt they got on Kash is supposedly from 2010 and 2019 – before he was put in charge of the FBI. Who knows if they’re really into the FBI systems or if it’s just Patel’s general gmail crap. The Hackers have a lot of motivation to stand up and boast, brag, and overstate their triumphs. Our clownishly inept government have a bazillion reasons to, in a totally macho manner, deny that any such violation of security could EVER occur. Where does the posturing and braggadocio end and the truth – reality – begin? Will we ever know?

Handala also claims to have hacked and published the personal data of dozens of employees at the defense company Lockheed Martin, stationed in the Middle East. So, people who work in defense IN THE Middle East are now even less safe than they were before. Their personal deets are now in the hands of the understandably ultra pissed Iranian government. 

Bozo the President and his ace team of bungling bootlickers and buffoons strike again. How much you wanna bet that old Krazy Eyes will be joining Cosplay Kristie in the unemployment line soon?

What I really want to know, when is that kill-happy, obviously out of his mind, dry drunk Sec. of Defense gonna get the ax. I mean, I know he’s a white boy and was a Fox couch sitter (Pedo’s absolute favorite humans) but won’t he make a good fall guy for the orange idiot’s Middle East “excursion” backfiring so spectacularly? Pedo needs someone to blame.

At a “christian” worship service on Wednesday:

Hegseth recited a prayer that he says was given by a chaplain to troops ahead of the U.S.’s illegal raid of Venezuela and kidnapping of then-President Nicolás Maduro in January.

“I pursued my enemies and overtook them. I did not turn back ‘til they were consumed. I thrust them through so that they were not able to rise. They fell under my feet,” Hegseth said. “And those who hated me, I destroyed. They cried for help, but there was none to save.” He called on God to “snap the rod of the oppressor” and “break the teeth of the ungodly.”

“Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy,” he said, calling for “justice to be delivered without remorse.”

“We ask these things in bold confidence in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ,” he concluded. (source) 

WHAT a sick fuck! Dude really needs to be in a dark rubber room, wearing a nicely padded straitjacket.

Unsurprisingly, Killer Kegboy’s Christian Nationalist pastor is also a murder advocate. Brooks Potteiger recently called for James Talarico, Texas Democratic state representative, senate candidate and Presbyterian seminarian to be “crucified.” Additionally, this wackaloon claimed the Bible is “pro-ICE raids.” JFC!  

There should be absolutely no question in anyone’s mind as to why I’m an agnostic/atheist. Seriously.

What's that spell? What's that spell? What's that spell?

It’s an Edwin Starr kind of a morning. (also Country Joe RIP)

War, huh, yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y’all

The death toll in Donnie and Bibi’s Big Swinging Schwantz Adventure? As of yesterday, East Coast dinner time, 3,181. This doesn’t include the injured who may be sitting in death’s waiting room at the moment.

In Iran alone:

At least 1,937 people have been killed and 24,800 injured by US-Israeli attacks on Iran since February 28, Iran’s Health Ministry says.

• The victims’ ages ranged from eight months to 88 years old
• 240 women are among those killed
• 168 children were killed in a girls’ elementary school in Minab, over
• 55 healthcare workers were wounded and 11 killed, including four physicians, two nurses and three emergency workers (source)

Yep, old DoucheBrain Donnie really won over the hearts and minds of Iran’s citizens, didn’t he? I’ll bet all those who are still physically able to rise up and rebel against their cruel, oppressive government are totally psyched to welcome the bomb dropping, baby killing hordes who just destroyed their homes, businesses, and killed and/or maimed half their families.

Then there’s the rat faced, violence jonesing, imbecilic Sec. of Defense who thinks murder is FUN! This is all just a junior high, my-dick’s-bigger-than-yours game to him. He’s standing there flashing his tiny hard on at his imagined, impressed audience thinking he’s all that and a can of Red Bull.Kegseth is the thing you disgustedly attempt to scrape off the bottom of your shoe and then have to throw the pair in the trash anyway. Unsalvageable.

Mike Luckovich

The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, prayed during a religious service at the Pentagon that there be “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy”. (source) 

He PRAYED for "overwhelming violence?!!!" This motherfucker is un-fucking-believable. He needs to be isolated and locked up tight. You just know this entire administration is full of sickos who tortured and killed animals when they were kids. (and, in Unemployed Barbie's case, as an adult).

French Senator Claude Malhuret has been giving fine critiques of Pedo and his Cabinet of incompetents. 

Last March: 

…Mr. Malhuret…compared Mr. Trump to two tyrannical Roman emperors, Nero and Caligula. But he has added that, if Caligula named his horse a consul, “at least that horse did no harm to anyone.” (source) 

This March:

"Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction!”
~~~
"A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health," he said, referring to RFK Jr.
Malhuret's comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It's said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump's case, he's building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames.

"A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces," Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security," Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar.
~~~
"Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction," he continued. "Bomb more to win more.” (source) 

Listen to/read the full speech here. It's a banger.

This is how the whole world sees the US. Trump has made this country a filthy pariah and the punchline to a joke. WE allowed ourselves to become this disgusting, repulsive, violent, obscenity by not being vigilant enough in opposing him, his supporters and fans. Frankly, this began with not coming down hard enough on the Confederacy, not opposing Nixon's pardon, going soft on the myriad criminals in Reagan's administration, and on and on and on. 

Finally, from the How Stupid and/or Naive Can You Be files:

Epstein survivor who voted for Trump says she now fears ‘we’re not going to get justice’

After casting her vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in hopes that he would bring transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein case, Epstein survivor Jena Lisa Jones said in an interview this week that she now fears “we’re not going to get justice in all of this”. (source) 

I’m just flat out stunned. Gobsmacked even. Was she never there at the same time as the orange rapist? Had she never heard about him from the other victims and survivors? What version of reality does she occupy where Trump has EVER been at all trustworthy or any of his statements have EVER been in any way credible? Are the clouds made of cotton candy in her world? Can you sail on soda pop lakes? Kittens and puppies live forever and mommies and daddies are always good, kind, and properly attentive?

I’m being unfair though. Obviously this woman has been through some incredibly grotesque, hellish traumas in her life. Still, I would think she would learn and grow after her horrific experiences – gain some mature judgement. She's clearly in need of more therapy.

I’ve lived through some pretty heavy, skeevy shit too (no Trumpstein Island type shit, thank Bast). After every survived horror though, I tried to find the lesson. That is, what happened, how/why did it possibly happen, and what could I do so that whatever went down would NEVER happen again.

Survival instincts – they don’t seem to be standard part of every human’s basic operating system. Huh. 

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag – Country Joe McDonald & the Fish 

A Few Pics and Stuff

I have an early appointment today AND I’m just too weary and annoyed with the world to do more than scream obscenities and venom. As David Byrne sang in Talking Heads’ abso-brill Life During Wartime,  "I ain't got time for that now."

Also, I know a big shouty rant is usually fun for me but all frenzied rage and no snark, beauty, wit or general fun makes Donna a dull broad. N'est-ce pas? 

What’s this mean? THAT’S right, meine Freunde, it’s a picture and meme day! Here are more of Hillel's awesome shots from his trip to Thailand as well as other bits that simply amuse me. Yur welcome. 

Buddha in the bodhi tree (Ayutthaya)

Wat Rong Suea Ten/Blue Temple interior

Wat Rong Khun/White Temple 

Wild Life

Yes, this (below) is a real thing. It's honestly not satire. This particular incident comes out in the book RFK Jr: The Fall and Rise (due in stores next month) by Isabel Vincent. The author was given access to Junior’s private journals back in 2013. Why? Why would anyone, especially someone with a famous name, voluntarily share their personal diaries with a journalist? Oh right…narcissism. Nevermind.

In his diary, he writes about cutting off the penis of a road-killed raccoon in 2001, while his “kids waited patiently in the car,” so that he could examine it later. (source) 

WTF!!!

I imagine Junior’s batshitness is partially genetic but a fair amount of it has to originate in the circumstances of his childhood. I mean, between being born to extreme wealth, fame, a political dynasty, having 11 (!!!) siblings, your uncle – the President – being assassinated, and then five years later, your very own father being murdered. Junior was 14 – that's a dicey age – maybe they all are. He started on heroin shortly afterwards. All of this had to seriously jank up his developing brain. Some of his stand-in father figures were...interesting and the times – late '60s - early '70s – were desperately electric.

...then there’s just a wide range of RFK Jr. weirdness and questionable (if not scandalous) behavior. This includes dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park; decapitating a dead whale and taking its head home; allegedly sexually assaulting a babysitter; keeping a sex diary of his many extramarital affairs during his second marriage; hailing his past use of heroin; reportedly sexting with a reporter (while married to his third wife); and causing concern at an environmental group he led over his puzzling distribution of tens of millions of dollars. (source) 

Despite all this, he was once a well respected environmental lawyer. I actually remember those days. They existed! The press didn’t cover his skeevbagian actions – his roadkill obsession, sex predations, lies, delusions, possible financial offenses…his obvious craziness though.

A forceful and articulate public speaker who has mastered the art of appearing to be well-informed, Kennedy has repeatedly showed that he is unfettered by reality and facts and that he is an erratic and stubborn pitchman for unfounded conspiracy theories and dangerously false propositions.

When you’re a wealthy, white man from a famous, well respected family, society gives you a LOT of rope before you’re cut off.

I wonder if any of Junior’s six children are as mentally unwell as him. 

Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy III is 41. IMDb says he’s a writer and director though there’s nothing new listed for him after ’21.

Kathleen Alexandra “Kick” Kennedy is 37 or 38. According to Business Insider she’s done a little acting (been on a few teevee shows) but is now primarily working with the environmental nonprofit Well/Beings in some undefined capacity. 

Conor Richardson Kennedy is 31. He, secretly, actually and REALLY joined Ukraine's International Legion of foreign fighters even though he had no military experience. He was on the northeastern front. He’s been arrested a few times for protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and worked with worked with Ocean Alliance. Also, he’s a musician of some sort. Sounds like a real stand up kid. 

Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy is 30. She’s a “socialite” according to Business Insider. The column says she likes to go to fashion shows. Sounds like a person with all the depth of a cookie sheet. 

William Finbar “Finn” Kennedy is 27. Not a lot out on the interwebz about him beyond that he likes to ski and is keen on wildlife. 

Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy is 24 and I can’t find out shit about him. I just hope he’s not a batshit, drug addicted, fuckhead like his old man.

I wish the kids luck and good therapists. I hope they succeed in ducking the privileged lunacy of their father. Yes, even Kyra.

Raccoon Island at dawn – at low tide we can walk out there.

Broke-Ass Nation

The "stable genius" businessman (AKA mob boss) who drove SIX casinos into bankruptcy has now piloted the wealthiest nation on the planet into insolvency. No…really. That’s the word from the Treasury Department’s own financial statement, released just last week. Unsurprisingly, Pedo’s lapdog media (*ahem* Fox, Bezo’s Washington Post, CBS, etc.) have been quiet about this. You're just so shocked, aren't you? 🙄

Gee, maybe if Republicans hadn’t given millionaires and billionaires all those obscene tax cuts, maybe if corporations paid their fucking taxes, maybe if the pedophile who would be king and his gang of rapacious greedheads weren’t stripping this country for parts, MAYBE if dry drunk, warmongering christofacist Kegbreath and now unemployed ICE Barbie didn’t have unlimited budgets to wage unregulated, wholly illegal, monstrous war at home and abroad, the US wouldn’t now be fucking broke. Ya know?!

ICE, now under Mr. Posturing-Chickenshit-Dumbass-Two-First-Names Mullin (who is quite possibly even more dimwitted than ICE Barbie), is financially incentivized to let people die in custody. Did you know? Each concentration camp gets a flat rate for medical care. Every skipped exam, every denied prescription and operation is money they get to keep. The ACLU found that 95% of deaths in ICE detention were preventable if medical care had been provided. 43 people have died in the last 15 months. But, HEY, profits are up 700%! 

The Pedo administration has been sending all unaccompanied pregnant minors, apprehended by immigration coppers, to a single group shelter in Texas. You know, Texas? The state known for its officials who enjoy watching asylum seekers drown in concertina mined waters. The state motto is “We’re proudly sadistic and inhumane.” 

Some of the girls are as young as 13 and many were raped on their journey to the US. Abortion is illegal in Texas. Of course it is – women are second class citizens in Texas. The children have been through traumatic experiences and NOW they’re locked up in a jail, pregnant due to rape, and getting little to NO care. This is insanely barbaric.

“Per the direction of Chief of Staff, Matt O’Neill Levine, as of [July 22, 2025] we should be placing any pregnant children into the San Benito program moving forward,” reads an email sent by Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Acting Director Angie Salazar, which was obtained by the Texas Tribune. According to seven ORR sources who also spoke to the outlet—and remained anonymous out of fear of retribution—various ORR staff members are also worried that the shelter is only “one-high risk pregnancy away from catastrophe.” At the time of writing, several of the girls who have been detained have given birth, and are imprisoned with their infants. 

“These girls are experiencing high-risk pregnancies and are some of the most medically vulnerable people in detention,” Zain Lakhani, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told Jezebel. “Placing them in a facility that federal officials themselves say lacks necessary specialized care puts their lives and the lives of their babies at risk.” (source) 

Yup, this is that self proclaimed all-Jesus-all-the-time, “pro-life” (as long as that life is white, wealthy, and male), profits-before-people, Guardians Of Pedophiles party – the Republicans.

For anyone saying “this isn’t who we are” or “this isn’t the America I grew up in,” I say, WAKE UP AND READ SOME HISTORY!

Fer fuck’s sake, this country’s insanity is baked in with the genocide of the original people of this land we now occupy. Read Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Read about the Trail of Tears.

Slavery – shit didn’t end when ol’ Abe signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Fuck no. It’s 2026 and Black people are still being lynched. 

Read about the Japanese Americans put in concentration camps here in America during WWII. Their crime? Being Japanese.

I could go on and on. I’ll stop here before I give myself an even larger headache.  Also, I think I need a cookie and a cup of tea now.

Land of the Unhinged

He’s got no idea of what to do now. He’s idioted, bombed, murdered, and despoted himself into a corner. 

I saw a post yesterday where someone said that Pedo has no clue what to do next because this is the point where he usually declares bankruptcy and walks away. 

Yes. I totally agree. 

Before his old man croaked, this would be the point where Fred would swing by to buy a new building for UPenn so the future Prez Pedo could graduate. Or maybe he'd call in a favor from a buyable senator to keep his lazy, moronic kid out of Vietnam. At a point like this, Fred would stop by and drop a fat $3.5 million on casino chips at one of Dim Donnie’s cratering Atlantic City resorts and then walk away without gambling. Too bad Dipshit Pedo’s daddy replacement, Putin, kind of has his hands full right now, what with losing 8,000 troops to fighting in Ukraine this past week alone. Ouch. At some point ol' Vlad’s gonna run out of able-bodied people who will go die in Ukraine, right?

It’s not like Pedo’s got even one bright bulb of an expert in that Cabinet to guide him. They’re all renfieldian sycophants who will walk around in painful, wrong-sized cheap dress shoes rather than tell their mentally cracked, bullying, tyrannical Dear Leader he could possibly be mistaken on anything at all. If Trump says that clouds are made of cotton candy and “windmills are driving the whales crazy,” they’re just going to nod and state in a serious tone “of course. You’re so wise, sir.”

Not one of them has a backbone that would rival a Brazilian Flea Toad's.

So then, where are we now? 

Posted on Al Jazeera early this morning:

On Sunday, Iran said it would strike the energy and water systems of its Gulf neighbours if US President Donald Trump followed through with a threat to hit Iran’s electricity grid, which would mark a serious escalation in the war. Trump’s 48-hour deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on its power plants ends at 23:44 GMT on Monday — 3:14am on Tuesday for Iran. 

Posted at The Guardian at 7:13AM Massachusetts time:

The US president, Donald Trump, has said he has instructed the defence department to postpone all airstrikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five day period. This is subject to the “success” of ongoing “meetings and discussions”, he said in a Truth Social post.

Trump said that, over the last two days, Washington and Tehran had “very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East”.

Translation:
Trump has been backed into a corner by a smarter, savvier opponent (wouldn’t take much – a US homeschooled third grader could best him). What Taco Head will do now is further take out his fury, over being exposed on the world stage as a low-watt, easily baited, gelded, performance rager, on blue cities and states here in the US.

Oh yeah and he’s gonna try to make sure his fellow criminals get elected or reelected. How? With deranged, lying-ass posts on his social media money laundry site. Bast forbid we ever have an actual democracy here in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Anniversaries and Dinosaurs

Today’s a big day. Not only is it this the seventh anniversary of Ten and I jumping over the broom it is Raptor Day!

No, I’m not talking about National Velociraptor Awareness Day (which is on April 18th, thenkewveddymuch), National Bird of Prey (Raptor) Day (October 3rd), OR the rapture  – which we won’t ever have date for according to the christian's very own ultra holy guide book. *ahem* Matthew 24:36 anyone?

NOPE. According to the internet, raptors (presumably of the small, carnivorous dinosaur variety) will be returning to Earth today to…dunno.

Is today like dinosaur Christmas? Do we watch Jurassic Park, cheer on the Dilophosaurus and Gallimimus as they run by and then sit down for a hearty holiday rotisserie chicken dinner? Is there an exchange of presents? Do we hang Raptor stockings on the hearth? What's the traditional Raptor Day cheer? Maybe the Bird of Paradise (Aperol, pineapple juice, and overproof rum)?

 Is Raptor Day more like Easter where we go to midnight mass and celebrate the divine Velociraptor rising from the dead, thus saving all life on Earth (NOT just humanity) from an eternity in Hades? Will there be Velociraptor egg hunts? Were we supposed to paint Velociraptor eggs yesterday and hide them for the kids to find today? Was I supposed to have kids? I forgot to do both of these things. Everything seems to have gotten away from me. *sigh*

I’ve read that we’re supposed to have put Costco rotisserie chickens out last night for the raptors to feast on – that and green Jello. We didn’t – we didn’t know. I don’t even know where the nearest Costco is. Also, being pescatarians, we’d feel kind of funny about buying meat even if we’re not going to be the ones eating it. (cat food doesn’t count) Besides, our coyote and raccoon neighbors would probably get to it before the raptors got here (I don’t know what time they’re scheduled to arrive – they didn't reply to my text).

Why the green Jello? Are the raptors having joint pain or indigestion? Why green? Lime flavor goes with their skin tone better than cherry?

Is Raptor Day a dressy holiday? Do I need to dig in my closet for a nice spring dress? I don’t think that’s gonna work – I don’t do dresses and stockings anymore. No fancy shoes either. I have some flashy tie dye leggings though and a lovely faux tiger skin jacket. That’ll do, right?

I only mention it but, as we all know, our birdy buddies are descended from dinosaurs – birds ARE dinosaurs. AND Big Bird’s birthday was March 20th – just TWO little days ago! Coincidence? I think,the fuck NOT. Is Big Bird coming today to bring us all to the Sesame Street in the sky where we forever share cookies with Cookie Monster, count with the Count, shuffle around with Mr. Snuffleupagus, or sit and listen to Janice, Animal, and the rest of the band play on? I'd like that.

Oh, as it turns out, I got the date of our anniversary wrong. It was on March 30th of 2019 that Ten and I arrived in Valhalla after driving 3,259 miles from Oregon with all his possessions. We're still celebrating today though. I mean, Big Bird's birthday, raptors, anniversaries – bring it all on, baby! The more to celebrate the better. Ten and I can always celebrate our connubial bliss again next week.

Reading Matter

If you aren’t following Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack newsletters yet GET ON IT!!! They’re not long, she gets right to the heart of things, and she speaks plainly. For a Harvard educated prof who’s taught history at MIT, UMass Amherst, and now Boston College, I would’ve expected columns jam-packed with opaque, academic jargon, and absurdly complex sentence structure. Nope. You don’t need to have an Academese to English translator app to understand what she’s communicating.

In any case, her posts from Thursday and this morning just blew my socks clean off. Below are a couple snippets. Please go read the rest of the columns (links with snippets below). 

Also, I’ve just stumbled over a significantly fabola New Yorker piece What the War Has Done to Iranians by Cora Engelbrecht. A civilian in Tehran chronicles a country trapped between bombardment and repression. This piece brought into sharper focus that the average Iranian and the average non-rich, non-white, non-male US citizen have a great deal in common. We are both ruled, to varying degrees, by oppressive, ruthless, lying-ass regimes. At this point I can't put adequate words to the extreme sadness and rage I feel for the people of Iran. Some (many? most?) were hoping the invasion would free them, only to find that the whole operation is run by kill-happy, incompetent madmen who don't give a flying fuck about them and never did.

From Heather Cox Richardson’s Thursday morning post.

Back on February 23, Daniel Ruetenik, Pat Milton, and Cara Tabachnick of CBS News reported on a newly uncovered document in the Epstein files showing that beginning in December 2010 under the Obama administration, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was running an investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and fourteen other people for drug trafficking, prostitution, and money laundering.

The document showed the investigation, called “Chain Reaction,” was still underway in 2015. But the investigation disappeared, although the document suggested that it was a significant investigation and that the government was on the verge of indictments.

As soon as the story broke, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said: “It appears Epstein was involved in criminal activity that went way beyond pedophilia and sex trafficking, which makes it even more outrageous that [Attorney General] Pam Bondi is sitting on several million unreleased files.”

 How much you wanna bet Prez Pedo was deep into the mobster action with drugs, prostitution, and money laundering? OF FUCKING COURSE HE WAS!!!

And a section from this morning’s offering.

On Wednesday, Israeli forces hit Iranian facilities in the South Pars natural gas field in the Persian Gulf, shared by Iran and Qatar. Helen Regan and Ivana Kottasová of CNN explain that the South Pars gas field is part of the largest natural gas reserves in the world, supplying most of Iran’s domestic energy and crucial to Iran’s economy.

Targeting crucial oil infrastructure is a significant escalation in the war. Iran responded by hitting energy targets in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. As Summer Said, Rebecca Feng, and Alexander Ward of the Wall Street Journal wrote, these strikes put oil and gas facilities at the center of the war, worsening the crisis over the supply of energy around the world.

Trump’s social media account blamed Israel for the strike and said the U.S. hadn’t been informed about it ahead of time, but Barak Ravid of Axios reported that both Israeli officials and an official from the U.S. Defense Department said the strike was coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration. The Wall Street Journal reporters added that Trump approved the strike to put pressure on Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.

EVERYTHING out of his mouth is a lie. NOTHING said by anyone in this administration can be trusted.