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Trump tells CNBC: ‘I don’t care’ if Iran negotiations are over

President Donald Trump on Monday shrugged off the possible collapse of peace negotiations with Iran, telling CNBC, “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly.”

“I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” Trump told CNBC’s Eamon Javers in a phone interview midday Monday, saying he thought the protracted discussions “started to get very boring.”

Trump had been asked about the prospect of Iran ending talks with the U.S. in light of reporting earlier Monday that Iranian negotiators would take that step — and also move to “completely block” the Strait of Hormuz — due to Israel’s military operations in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.

Asked if the Iranians had told him that they are not going to negotiate further, Trump said, “No they haven’t.”

Trump said that he was “going to ask” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “what’s going on with Lebanon.”

Trump said in a Truth Social post later Monday afternoon that he “had a very productive call” with Netanyahu. “There will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back,” Trump wrote.

He said in the same post that he spoke with Hezbollah “through highly placed Representatives,” and “they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”

In another post, Trump wrote, “Talks are continuing, at a rapid pace, with the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

In his call with CNBC, Trump said he wasn’t worried about oil prices, which spiked following the report earlier Monday in Iranian state media.

“I think the oil will be dropping like a rock in the very near, you know, the very near distance,” Trump said.

But he also insisted that Americans who understand the importance of halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions will not mind higher gas prices as a result of the war.

“Once you explain that this is all about Iran having a nuclear weapon, people are willing to pay a little bit more,” he said.

Trump asserted that prices at the pump will drop “very quickly.” But he also repeatedly signaled he was in no hurry to restart the stalled negotiations with Iran.

“If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring,” Trump told CNBC.

Asked if he believed it was time to formally end the U.S.-Iran ceasefire that is nominally still in place, Trump said, “Let’s say I knew exactly what you’re asking ... and I sort of do. Why would I tell you?”

He also said that the U.S.′ NATO allies “should come in and help us out” because they rely on the oil that flows through the Hormuz Strait more than the U.S. does.

“We don’t need it, we have a lot of oil,” he said.

But when asked if he has reached out to NATO to participate in reopening the strait, Trump said, “They would if I wanted them to, but I’m not sure I want them to.”

“We don’t need them. We don’t need NATO. They were very, very weak and very sad, what they said,” Trump said. “They said, ‘We’ll help you as soon as the war is over.’”

Read the full transcript of Trump’s call with CNBC:

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Hello.

EAMON JAVERS

Hello, Mr. President. It’s Eamon Javers here with CNBC. How are you, sir?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Hello, Eamon. What’s going on, Eamon?

EAMON JAVERS

Well, I see that markets are moving on this idea that the Iranians say they’re not going to negotiate anymore, and I wonder if you can confirm?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

What does that mean they are moving?

EAMON JAVERS

Well the oil market, oil prices have moved dramatically more than 8% when that news crossed. So the idea is that oil is going to get more expensive if the war is not going to come to an end, because the Iranians won’t negotiate. Have the Iranians told you that they’re not going to negotiate, or what is your sense?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

No, they haven’t. They told you so, they only want to tell the fake news, Eamon. They only want to tell CNN, which, and you don’t get any more fake than your company. Let’s see I’m just looking at the prices, and oil went up 7%.

EAMON JAVERS

7%, yeah.

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Well, that’s part of being a negotiator, but they don’t have any cards, because a lot of people would be very happy. Stock market is just down a little bit. Yeah, it’s alright.

EAMON JAVERS

Do you think the negotiations are over now, or is this a bluff?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring. They were giving us what we needed, but I think I think they handled the negotiations poorly. It took too long. I thought they were tapping us along that’s all. Yeah, they were.

EAMON JAVERS

You think they were stalling for time?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Yeah. I thought that, yeah, I did.

EAMON JAVERS

So, what’s the way forward now? Then, how do you get the strait open now?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

I’d say there’s about now, well, the strait is already open. If you think all you have to do is take a look at the many boats that have gone out of there over the last week. You do know that, you know, boats have been leaving, and we have, and we have the blockade, we blockade them, they blockaded the strait, and then we blockaded them, and our blockade is a lot tougher than their blockade. As far as I’m concerned, they can, they can continue to lose $500 million a day, which is what they lose because of the blockade, they can continue to lose that. And so, what is their problem? Their problem is with Israel, right?

EAMON JAVERS

It seems to be, they’re saying that they’re not going to negotiate until Israel stops attacking in Lebanon. Have you, have you talked to Netanyahu about that?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

No, but I’m going to ask him what’s going on with Lebanon. Been fighting a long time, they’ve been fighting a long time.

EAMON JAVERS

Are you worried about oil prices—

PRESIDENT TRUMP

No

EAMON JAVERS

Given the apparent breakdown of negotiations? No?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

No, I don’t worry about that, no.

EAMON JAVERS

And why not? Are you confident this will be over in a short time,

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Yeah –

EAMON JAVERS

Or are you confident the oil market can ride it out?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

I think the oil will be dropping like a rock in the very near, you know, the very near distance. I think oil is going to come down very much. You have 1,700 boats right now that are loaded up with oil, and that’s going to be like an oil gusher. So I’m not worried about it at all, and the people understand it, and the only thing I care about, the thing I care about, I care about everything, but the thing I care about most at this point in life is that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. And if they want to try and have a new nuclear weapon, I will blow them up to kingdom come.

EAMON JAVERS

One of the things that we’ve seen is a real concern out there about price of gas among Americans. What’s your message to Americans about the price of gas?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

It’ll go down very quickly as soon as it’s over, and Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. Once you explain that this is all about Iran having a nuclear weapon, people are willing to pay a little bit more, and but it’ll, it’ll happen very quickly, and as soon as that happens, gasoline will get down to $1.85 like it was in Iowa three months ago. I was in Iowa, was $1.85 a gallon, and when it was really getting low.

EAMON JAVERS

And you say when this is all over – so how do you bring this to an end now if negotiations are not happening and the ceasefire is in place? Is there, is it time to end the ceasefire?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Well we will see. Let’s say, let’s say I knew exactly what, you know, what you’re asking to do now, sort of. And I sort of do. Why would I tell you?

EAMON JAVERS

Fair enough. Fair enough. I mean, I think just global markets watch this, and they’re trying to figure out, you know, what’s the end game here.

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Well, I think then NATO should come in and help us out, you know, because they’re the ones we don’t use the strait, we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil, we have more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined, times two, so we don’t need the oil, but Europe does. We’re out there doing a service for a lot of other people, primarily because we still don’t think we can. We know we can’t allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, so that’s why we’re doing it. That’s why I’m doing it.

EAMON JAVERS

Have you talked to anybody in NATO about that? I mean, have they changed their tune on the strait?

PRESIDENT TRUMP

They would, if I wanted them to, but they would. I want them to. We don’t need them. We don’t need NATO. They were very, very weak and very sad. What they said, they said we’ll help you as soon as the war is over. NATO, Europe has lost its way. They have a tremendous immigration problem, and they have a tremendous energy problem, because all they want to do is build windmills all over the place, so anyway.

Well, call me. You can call me tomorrow, and I’ll talk to you about it. Let’s see what’s going on - okay?

EAMON JAVERS

Thank you, Mr. President. Really appreciate your time here.

PRESIDENT TRUMP

Thank you very much.

EAMON JAVER

Okay, bye bye.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/trump-iran-war-negotiations-oil-israel-interview.html

So let's wade through to the jest of it.

Trump has no concern that Iran was stopping the peace talks in fact claimed that might be a good thing. “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less,” and " “started to get very boring.” Which must be why he immediately phoned Netanyahu to address the very reason Iran said they were cancelling the peace talks and according to trump got Netanyahu to back off in Lebanon even rescinding troops headed for Beirut.

Will this man ever say anything that isn't a blatant and obvious lie?

I believe there's a difference in getting "a QB" verses getting one of or possibly one of the two QB's you actually believe in and want. Drafting somewhere between 4th and 6th in next years draft may not be enough to accomplish that even if that happens. What I wouldn't want to see happen is the Browns end up being in a situation where they feel cornered into drafting a QB just to draft a QB by being stuck into drafting the 3rd or 4th QB in the draft out of desperation and need.

It's true that they have to hit on the QB they draft no matter which one they draft. But at the same time, when attempting to address the franchise QB position and using such a high investment, you don't want to end up with a participation trophy.

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"Or you admit you don't know, while finding a client sending "💜😏🌹" to an allegedly "professional" massage therapist suspicious."

That's one out of 26 accusers. 26 women is a copious amount of evidence to try and dispute for anyone other than those who try to blow this off as all of these women being some form of prostitutes. Which is ridiculous and demeaning to women in general.

It's as if we're back in the 1960's when if when a woman was raped some men would blame it on the victim for they way they were dressed claiming she was asking for it because she was wearing a mini skirt. There's nothing new about your kind.

Or you admit you don't know, while finding a client sending "💜😏🌹" to an allegedly "professional" massage therapist suspicious.

They caught and arrested the fleeing fugitive...............

ICE officer wanted in the shooting of a man during the Minneapolis crackdown is arrested in Texas

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal immigration officer wanted in the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown was arrested Friday in Texas, authorities said.

Christian Castro, of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, was taken into custody 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors charged him with assault and falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.

Hennepin County, Minnesota prosecutors said the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension located Castro, 52, in Texas, and the Texas Rangers said they assisted in the arrest in Cameron County, which borders Mexico in the southernmost part of the state.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General said its agents were not involved in or present for Castro’s apprehension, denying the Hennepin County Attorney’s office’s claims in press statements about the arrest.

“Any characterization that DHS OIG agents participated in or led the arrest operation is inaccurate,” the Office of Inspector General said in a statement.

Messages seeking comment were also left with ICE and the Texas Rangers.

Online court records do not list an attorney for Castro, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he has one.

In a statement, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty heralded the arrest as “a critical step forward in our prosecution of Mr. Castro.”

Castro is the second federal agent to be charged over their conduct during the Minnesota crackdown, which was known as Operation Metro Surge. He is one of two agents that ICE Director Todd Lyons said lied about the circumstances of the incident.

According to prosecutors, Castro fired through a home’s front door and shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh after Castro and another officer chased a different man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, to the Minneapolis apartment duplex where he and Sosa-Celis lived. Sosa-Celis and Aljorna were legally in the U.S., Moriarty said.

Federal authorities initially accused Sosa-Celis and Aljorna of beating an officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel. A federal judge later dismissed the charges, and ICE and the Justice Department opened an investigation into whether the officers lied about what happened.

In a statement after the charges were announced, ICE said the U.S. attorney’s office was investigating statements made by the officers, who could face disciplinary action including being fired and prosecuted. ICE called the Hennepin County attorney’s action “unlawful and nothing more than a political stunt.” DHS’s Inspector General’s Office, which Moriarty credited with assisting in the arrest, is separate from ICE and is meant to serve as a watchdog for DHS agencies, including ICE.

Minneapolis last month released video showing the moments before Sosa-Celis’s shooting, captured from a distance by a city-owned security camera.

The video appears to show a person standing with a snow shovel outside the house, near the street, then retreating toward the house and tossing the shovel into the yard. This happens as a person being chased by another person runs up from the street, falls on the sidewalk, gets up, and keeps heading toward the house.

The three appear to scuffle near the front steps for about 10 seconds. The exact moment when Sosa-Celis is shot isn’t clear. A car with flashing lights pulls up, and another person walks up.

The Trump administration sent thousands of officers to the Minneapolis and St. Paul area as part of President Donald Trump’s national deportation campaign and considered Operation Metro Surge a success.

But tensions mounted during the weekslong campaign, and the shooting deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers sparked mass unrest and raised questions about officers’ conduct.

Minnesota leaders and the Trump administration have clashed over who has the authority to investigate and prosecute federal officers for on-duty conduct.

Moriarty’s office last month charged immigration agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with assault for allegedly pointing his gun at people in a car on a highway. He turned himself in last week, and his lawyer disputes the charges.

The county is also investigating Good’s and Pretti’s killings and sued the Trump administration in March to gain access to evidence in those cases and the Sosa-Celis shooting.

https://apnews.com/article/minneapo...sacelis-811eca576b7b7088694cc3a646999d51

#hangmikepence

This guy is so good.

It appears there are many "out of shape" in the military which are still in the military or there would have been no need for this memo to begin with. There are many tech jobs, engineering jobs and critical surveillance jobs just to name a few in the military which need the smartest and brightest among us, not the most cut and chiseled soldiers prepared to fight on the front lines.

But I suppose when you call something "The Department of War" instead of "The Department of Defense" you have to keep up unrealistic appearances to your base voters.

Lead prosecutor on former FBI Director Comey's 'seashells' case withdraws without explanation

The department did not include any explanation for the move.

The lead prosecutor tasked with overseeing former FBI Director James Comey's prosecution stemming from his post of seashells that the Justice Department claims amounted to a threat against President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the case, according to a court filing.

Matthew Petracca was the lone prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina assigned to the case when it was unsealed late last month.

On Friday evening, however, the Justice Department filed a notice with the court indicating that Petracca has been replaced by assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Severo.

The department did not include any explanation for the move in the high-profile case.

Comey's attorneys are expected to make a vigorous push to have the case dismissed before it can go to trial through a variety of legal challenges.

A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

Comey was charged with threatening to kill Trump by posting a photo on Instagram of seashells on a beach arranged in the numbers "86 47." Citing the slang meaning of "86" as to "nix" or "get rid" of something, allies of the president allege that the post was a veiled threat against Trump, who is the 47th president.

Following backlash over the post, Comey removed the photo from Instagram and said he was unaware that the post could be associated with violence.

Critics of Trump say the indictment is another effort by the administration to punish the president's perceived enemies after a judge last year threw out an indictment against Comey on unrelated charges.

At a press conference announcing the charges last month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued that Comey's post crossed the line between First Amendment-protected speech and speech that warrants prosecution.

Comey's trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 21.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/lead-p...comeys-seashells-case/story?id=133437435

This entire thing seems contrived, botched, manufactured and mishandled in at least 8647 different ways.

The problem with adding states is that the ones on the list would likely be democratic in political preference.

Judge halts Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund after Jan. 6 prosecutor sues

A separate judge, who oversaw the Trump-IRS case that led to the fund’s creation, launched an inquiry after 35 retired federal judges asked the court to re-open the case.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, created as part of an unprecedented settlement with the president, his family and the Trump Organization.

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia entered the order Friday after a Jan. 6 prosecutor and others sued to block the fund last week.

The fund is being operated out of the Justice Department. Both Democrats and Republicans have criticized the fund. Opponents have labeled it a massive “slush fund” for President Donald Trump’s allies. Its existence has alarmed some legal experts, in part because there will be very little public oversight over how it is managed. Senate Republican leaders last week punted a vote on a GOP package to fund ICE and the Border Patrol until June in part because of concerns over the fund, NBC News reported.

The Trump administration cannot take any further action on the fund while legal motions are pending, “which includes the transferring of money to the fund; the consideration of any claims submitted to the fund; and the disbursing of any funds from the fund,” according to the order.

The judge said the order was necessary to “ensure that no funds are irreversibly disbursed from the Anti-Weaponization Fund” while there are motions pending to block the distribution of funds. She set a hearing for June 12.

Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman, who heads the group that filed the suit, said the judge’s order “recognized the urgent need to prevent taxpayer dollars from being distributed through a secretive and unprecedented political compensation scheme” that needed to be fully reviewed by a court.

“This is a victory for transparency, the rule of law, and the American people,” Perryman said in a statement. “No administration has the authority to spend public money through a political rewards program that Congress never authorized.”

The process to apply for money can’t officially begin until five commissioners are chosen to decide how the money is doled out, though people who claim they were targeted by the government have already requested money. The White House referred questions to the DOJ.

“The Department remains extremely confident in the legality of the Anti-Weaponization Fund which is supported by ample precedent, including Obama-era settlements,” a Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement. “We will not allow the policy preferences of judges to interfere with our efforts to provide restitution to victims of lawfare.”

It’s also not clear how people would formally apply. The pool of possible applicants is substantial, according to the DOJ.

Andrew Floyd, who headed a task force in the now-closed Capitol Siege Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, before he was dismissed in July, filed a declaration in connection with the lawsuit on Thursday. Floyd prosecuted cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The Trump administration “is gifting the people I helped investigate and prosecute after January 6” access to what he described as an illegally created process designed to “rush money out the door to perceived political allies, while treating me and people like me as disfavored enemies.”

Describing the firing of dozens of law enforcement officials as “appalling,” he wrote that no president should be able to abuse their authority to target those who did their jobs.

“The president’s targeting of me and others involved in January 6 prosecutions leaves our country in a very dark place, sending a message that insurrection and sedition will be protected (and even encouraged) as long as it is on behalf of this administration,” Floyd wrote.

The Trump administration moved to set up the fund just ahead of court deadlines over a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the executive branch he controls in connection with a years-old leak of his IRS records.

A federal judge in Florida had questioned whether a court could even hear the case, given Trump’s control over the Justice Department attorneys who would be responding to the lawsuit. Trump’s private attorneys dismissed the case and announced a settlement of other claims against the government the day the fund was announced.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, the judge who oversaw that case, requested a further briefing Friday after 35 retired federal judges asked the court to re-open the case.

She wrote that a “party’s decision to file a frivolous lawsuit for the sole purpose of forcing a settlement may qualify” as the kind of impropriety that allows the court to investigate and determine “whether an attorney has abused the judicial process.”

The fund is facing other lawsuits in Washington.

Trump mass pardoned roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants on his first day back in office last year. Last week, the Trump administration began erasing news releases about Jan. 6 prosecutions from the Justice Department’s website, which it described as “partisan propaganda.”

“We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes,” read a statement posted from a Justice Department social media account.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...d-jan-6-prosecutor-files-suit-rcna347539

Once again we see proof that when it comes to trump, every accusation ends up being a confession.

Fair is a fairy tale. We like the idea of things being fair and mostly equal, but the reality doesn't play out that way, be it pretty much in anything.

Reports are circulating that after trump's latest medical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, during his colonoscopy doctors discovered that just over half of congress was planted firmly up his ass. The earliest they said treatment may become available would be shortly after the mid term elections.

Depends. Can he shoot the trey? I like the idea. Cavs need some "bad assery."

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