TODAY  Trump Says He’s Holding Iran Attack

HOLDING FIRE: President Trump announced yesterday that at the request of leaders from three Persian Gulf countries he’s going to “hold off on our planned Military attack of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was scheduled for tomorrow.”

YESTERDAY  Church and State Merge on National Mall

PRAY FOR US: Thousands of people gathered yesterday on the National Mall in Washington for a nine-hour Christian prayer festival advertised as “a rededication of our country as One Nation Under God.” It was part of the campaign by the evangelical right to merge church and state in America … paid

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  The request, according to Trump, came from leaders of  Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Trump said, “serious negotiations are now taking place” and that  “a Deal will be made, which will be very acceptable to the United States of America.”

  He said, however, that he told the Pentagon to be prepared to go forward with “a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s notice, in the event that an acceptable Deal is not reached.”

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It's Been Said

"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."

  • Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right