INSIDE DEAL: The Internal Revenue Service agreed not to pursue tax issues, audits, and even indictments for President Trump, members of his family, and businesses in exchange for the President dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the agency.   The deal was …

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.”   The request, according …

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 …

CHINA SYNDROME: Between official meetings, President Trump bristled online at Xi Jinping’s suggestion that the US is a declining nation, saying, “he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden …

CHINA SYNDROME: Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned President Trump that if the Taiwan situation is handled poorly that could lead to conflict and “an extremely dangerous situation.”   Speaking at a state banquet in Beijing Xi warmed up Trump saying, “The great rejuvenation …

DIRE STRAITS: Control of the Strait of Hormuz was one of the demands made by Iran in the peace proposal abruptly rejected yesterday by President Trump. Iran also wanted war reparations and an end to American sanctions and blocked assets, according …

DIRE STRAITS: President Trump conducting diplomacy on social media yesterday dismissed out of hand the Iranian response to a peace proposal. He wrote, “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”    The …

DIRE STRAITS: The war that Donald Trump says is over continues.    US forces yesterday struck Iranian military facilities believed to be the source of “unprovoked” missile, drone, and small boat attacks against American warships in the Strait of Hormuz, US Central …

May 7, 20296 DIRE STRAITS: As the US awaits Iran’s response to a peace proposal, one Iranian official dismissed it as a “list of American wishes” while another said the offer was under consideration.   Both governments have officials giving conflicting messages on what’s …

THE WAR ROOM: President Trump undercut his own secretary of State yesterday, announcing on social media that he was pausing his “project Freedom” to escort shops through the Strait of Hormuz because “Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final …