New Hampshire Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chris-sununu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Sununu</a> endorsed former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination for president on Tuesday.
Sununu’s endorsement is a significant victory for Haley, who is relying on a strong performance in early states to propel herself over former President Donald Trump, who has so far dominated the early primary polling. It’s also a significant blow to other GOP candidates vying to compete with Trump for the nomination.
Sununu has appeared with many of the Republican candidates at events in recent weeks. The governor said he was evaluating the field to find the best Republican to have a chance at knocking off Trump for the top spot in the primary. He has said for months that the Republican Party should move on from the former president.
Sununu appeared with Haley and endorsed her at a town hall event in Manchester, New Hampshire.
“This is an opportunity for New Hampshire to lead this country, for New Hampshire to say we’re not looking in the rearview mirror anymore,” Sununu <a href="https://apnews.com/article/haley-sununu-new-hampshire-presidential-election-990cc5cf71b5ae6d50c87cb91e95bfeb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“You bet your ass I am. We’re all in for Nikki Haley,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/steinhauserNH1/status/1734712637160661470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, throwing his weight in the state toward the former U.N. ambassador.
Haley has gained a surge in support in recent weeks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-megadonor-makes-massive-donation-to-boost-nikki-haley-in-gop-primary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> from prominent Democratic donors, coming close to overtaking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Both have trailed Trump significantly since the race began, though DeSantis has held on to the number two spot.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s campaign downplayed the impact of Sununu’s pick in a statement to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/new-hampshire-gov-chris-sununu-set-to-endorse-nikki-haley-in-gop-presidential-race-97545648" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“This puts us down one vote in New Hampshire,” Christie spokesman Karl Rickett said in a statement. The New Jersey governor will overcome the loss of Sununu by continuing to tell the “unvarnished truth about Donald Trump,” Rickett said.
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DeSantis’ campaign similarly shrugged off Sununu’s choice.
“What happens in New Hampshire will be significantly impacted by the outcome in Iowa, where the true Trump alternative will emerge,” DeSantis spokesman Andrew Romeo told WSJ in a statement. The DeSantis campaign has heavily invested in Iowa and won endorsements from its governor, Kim Reynolds, and evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats.
Donald Trump is leading, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average. DeSantis is second and Haley is third. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy sits at fourth, and Christie trails in fifth.

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Vice President JD Vance said the war between Israel and Iran could be an inflection moment for the Middle East after President Donald Trump announced an end to the war on Monday.
Vance appeared on Fox News shortly after the president announced a ceasefire and end-of-the-war agreement had been reached in a post on Truth Social. Vance credited the president for “working the phones constantly” to bring about an end to the war.
Vance also credited the president for accomplishing the objective of creating “a world where Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon.”
“Look, this is a great thing. For Israel – think about this – they&#8217;ve accomplished an important military objective. They&#8217;ve helped us destroy the Iranian nuclear program. They&#8217;ve also destroyed the conventional missile capability of Iran that threatened the country of Israel,” Vance said.
“For the Iranians, I think this is a new opportunity to actually pursue the path of peace. As I said yesterday, what the Iranians have showed through their support of terror networks, through their now-failed effort to build a nuclear weapon, is that they&#8217;re just not very good at war,” he continued.
“I think the president really hit the reset button and said, look, let&#8217;s actually produce long-term peace for the region. That&#8217;s always been his goal. I actually think when we look back, we will say the 12 Day War was an important reset moment for the entire region,” Vance said.
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&quot;The President really hit the reset button and said, &#39;Look, let&#39;s actually produce long-term peace for the region,&#39;&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> on the Israel-Iran ceasefire.
&quot;I actually think when we look back, we will say the 12 Day War was an important reset moment for the entire region.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wFgJ8GXMva">pic.twitter.com/wFgJ8GXMva</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1937273721162522943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Monday afternoon that Israel and Iran would begin a ceasefire after final missions are completed. The ceasefire will last for 12 hours, at the end of which “the War will be considered, ENDED!” the president wrote.
“On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, ‘THE 12 DAY WAR,’” wrote Trump. “This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will! God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD!”
Over the past two weeks, Israel’s air force has operated essentially freely over the skies of Tehran, knocking out key military sites and leaders. Israel also hit some political and propaganda sites, such as Iran’s state-run news agency and Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison where the regime regularly locked up political prisoners.
Attacks by the United States and Israel have all but destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, a goal Trump stated months ago as the United States undertook negotiations with Iran to deconstruct its nuclear enrichment facilities.

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JD Vance: End Of Israel-Iran War ‘An Important Reset Moment’ For Middle East

President Donald Trump “has more spine” than any president in decades, according to Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro praised the president on Sunday in a special episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show” covering the United States’ strike on Iran over the weekend that targeted three of Tehran’s nuclear facilities, including the underground fortress-like facility at Fordo.
“Now, let me be 100% clear, President Trump has more spine, more intestinal fortitude, more cojones than any president of my lifetime by far. It&#8217;s not close,” said Shapiro. “This of course is a historically courageous man. If that was not clear from the moment he stood up during the last campaign, shaking his fist, and yelling ‘fight, fight, fight’ after being shot in the ear, President Trump is a man who has courage.”
To accomplish the strike, Trump overcame significant domestic opposition from both sides of the political aisle. He has also sparked a seismic shift in the power dynamics in the Middle East where Israel is now a regional power backed by the United States and, diplomatically, the Abraham Accords are much more likely to gain signatories, according to Shapiro.
“He said for decades Iran would not have a nuclear weapon, and then he kept his word, and keeping your word is unbelievably rare,” he added before reciting promises made by former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.
Trump’s action to destroy, or at least severely set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions has made the president “a seminal figure in both American history and in world history,” according to Shapiro.
In the United States, Trump “faced down a lot of haters” in his decision to drop bombs on Iran, from critics in the Democratic Party, some of whom are now <a href="https://x.com/AOC/status/1936600627221565468">calling</a> for the president’s impeachment, to isolationists on the right, some of whom are also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-lays-into-kooky-tucker-carlson-over-opposition-to-israeli-strikes-on-iran">calling</a> for Trump’s impeachment.
Critics on the right said that the United States close relationship with Israel and the Trump administration’s backing of Israeli action against Iran would pull the United States into a wider war, possibly launching a third world war.
“Anyone who told you that was going to happen (a United States war with Iran) was lying to you because President Trump lives in the world. He lives in the world of reality, and he played this absolutely perfectly. It is not possible for a president to have played this better,” said Shapiro.
Trump allowed Israel to knock out Iran’s anti-air defenses and the top echelon of its military while offering Tehran repeated chances to negotiate in good faith over the end of its nuclear program. When negotiations failed and Israeli military pressure did not force Tehran into talks, Trump greenlit the strike on Iranian nuclear facilities over significant domestic opposition.
“In the face of those who believe both left and right that American involvement in the world is somehow the prime evil, the great driver of world suffering, that the world is somehow better off in the hands of the Chinese and the Russians and Iran going nuclear, he stood up,” Shapiro said.
“He stood up to the morons like AOC on the left who proclaimed that Trump himself is a Hitlerian threat to the world by standing up to a true Hitlerian threat to the world,” said Shapiro. “He stood up to the dolts on the right who thought that they could somehow claim the movement Donald Trump built, the Make America Great Again movement, for themselves, painting a Howard Zinn-America hating turd with a coating of MAGA language and then trying to pass it off as filet mignon. He stood up to all of them, and he proved that America is great again.”
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Thank you, Mr. President, for restoring Peace Through Strength! There has never been a president in my lifetime with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>’s spine. <a href="https://t.co/kAcaLB6pPz">pic.twitter.com/kAcaLB6pPz</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1936926784202650037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Ben Shapiro: President Trump ‘A Historically Courageous Man’ For Preventing Nuclear-Armed Iran

Seven B-2 bombers that took off from an air base in Missouri early Saturday morning returned home just before noon on Sunday after conducting a bombing run over Iranian nuclear facilities.
The B-2 pilots touched back down at Whiteman Air Force Base after a roughly 36-hour flight to Iran and back. The mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, involved decoys and multiple in-flight refuelings for the strike team to get to Iran and back, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine explained at a Sunday press conference.
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NEW VIDEO: B-2 bombers land back at Whiteman Air Force Base today in Knob Noster, Missouri, after about a 36-hour flight to strike targets in Iran. 
Seven B-2s took off from Whiteman just after 12 a.m. on Saturday. The first bombers back landed just before 12 p.m. Sunday. <a href="https://t.co/g7IbwWD6NH">pic.twitter.com/g7IbwWD6NH</a>
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As the bombers crossed the Atlantic and resumed flight over land, a team of fighters joined to cover the bombers on their entry into Iranian airspace.
“As the Operation Midnight Hammer strike package entered Iranian airspace, the U.S. employed several deception tactics, including decoys, as the 4th and 5th generation aircraft pushed out in front of the strike package at high altitude and high speed, sweeping in front of the package for enemy fighters and surface to air missile threats,” said Caine.
The bomber team appears to have entered Iranian airspace and reached their targets without alerting Iran’s military.
“As the strike package approached Fordo and Natanz, the US protection package employed high-speed suppression weapons to ensure safe passage of the strike package with fighter assets employing preemptive suppressing fires against any potential Iranian surface to air threats,” Caine continued. “We are currently unaware of any shots fired at the US strike package on the way in.”
The bomber struck targets at Fordo and Natanz beginning around 6:40 p.m. ET. Tomahawk missiles fired from a United States submarines hit Isfahan moments later. The entire attack took place within a 25-minute window between 6:40 p.m. and 7:05 p.m. ET.
“Following weapons release, the midnight hammer strike package exited Iranian airspace, and the package began its return home. We are unaware of any shots fired at the package on the way out. Iran&#8217;s fighters did not fly, and it appears that Iran&#8217;s surface-to-air missile systems did not see us. Throughout the mission, we retained the element of surprise,” Caine said.
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Chairman Caine just laid out the PERFECT execution of Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER. <a href="https://t.co/11NpibQhbi">pic.twitter.com/11NpibQhbi</a>
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warriors-read-hegseths-full-statement-to-america-regarding-strike-on-irans-nuclear-facilities?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=%E2%80%98Warriors%E2%80%99%3A+Read+Hegseth%E2%80%99s+Full+Statement+To+America+Regarding+Strike+On+Iran%E2%80%99s+Nuclear+Facilities">praised</a> the strike team and others involved in the operation after its success.
“I want to recognize pilots who flew those bombers; who flew those fighters; who flew those refuelers: Warriors. I want to recognize the sailors, on those destroyers, in those subs. on those carriers: Warriors. All of them. I want to recognize our soldiers doing air defense, base defense, QRF: Warriors. All of them,” Hegseth said in a statement after the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. “Every American involved in this operation performed flawlessly.”

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B-2 Bombers Arrive Back In Missouri After Hammering Iranian Nuclear Sites

Tehran wants retribution after the United States bombed several Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend and has several avenues of exacting it, according to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Iran expert, Benham Ben Taleblu.
Iran could launch missiles against United States assets in the Middle East, attack through proxies, activate terrorist agents in the U.S., or leverage relationships with transnational criminal organizations to attempt high-profile attacks or assassinations, according to Taleblue, the senior Iran program director and a senior fellow at the foundation.
“Make no mistake, they still want to wash away blood with blood,” Taleblu told The Daily Wire.
U.S. bombers dropped payloads on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend: Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan. Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei put out a <a href="https://x.com/IRIMFA_SPOX/status/1936803750435271082">statement</a> after the attack accusing the United States of “colluding” with Israel and expressing Iran’s determination “to defend its national sovereignty, territorial integrity, national security and people by all necessary means.”
For roughly 15 years, Iran has cultivated relationships with transnational gangs to murder targets in the United States, according to Taleblu.
“The Iranians have tried to kill – on U.S. soil – the Saudi ambassador by working with Mexican drug cartels. They&#8217;ve tried to go after a journalist, a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin in New York, by working with, I think it was an Eastern European mafia. And they&#8217;ve tried to go after others by even using a Canadian biker gang,” Taleblu said.
Threats against President Donald Trump from Iran have <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/16/iran-plot-assassinate-trump-00168830">surged</a> in recent years since he greenlit the killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force. In November, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-murder-hire-and-related-charges-against-irgc-asset-and-two">announced</a> charges against an Iranian man in connection with a plot to murder the then-president-elect.
In addition to organized violence, federal, state, and local law enforcement should look out for potential lone wolf terrorists, as well, according to Taleblu.
Abroad, Iran may be able to tap into terrorist proxy networks, though its most lethal proxies – Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen – have been gutted in military operations by Israel and the United States in recent months.
“Some of them are called amateur jobs, but the Islamic Republic only needs to get one of them right to be able to land a blow,” said Taleblu. “And given that they&#8217;ve shown a real capability to do anything from lone wolf attacks to proxy attacks to work with these transnational criminal cutouts, it makes the job of law enforcement and the national security apparatus” much more difficult.
Many United States assets in the Middle East are under direct threat from Iran. While Israel has decimated Iran’s medium range missiles, Tehran has stockpiles and launchers for shorter-range, more precise munitions that could hit U.S. sites in Iraq, for instance.
“Infrastructure that Washington has all around the southern part of the Persian Gulf could be struck potentially by the Islamic Republic of Iran,” said Taleblu.
In the weeks leading up to the strike, the United States has taken precautions against a potential strike at military and diplomatic sites across the Middle East. Over a week ago, the United States began moving nonessential personnel and American families out of the Middle East because of tensions between Iran and Israel.
Trump has also moved military assets around. Roughly 40,000 American troops are currently <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-forces-middle-east-buildup/">stationed</a> in the region with two carrier strike groups and several fighter squadrons.
Iran’s own military has been decapitated at the highest levels because of targeted strikes by Israel on Tehran’s top military officers and nuclear personnel.
“The regime, just like its proxies, is down, but it is not out,” said Taleblu. “We’ve seen them be able to, again, enter negotiations with a weak hand, leave with a strong hand, be able to play to its adversaries’ fear of a wider war, be able to draw on its adversaries’ concern for restraint, be able to prey on its adversaries’ desire for a more responsible and stable Middle Eastern order.
“Simply by being a more disruptive actor, even with the capabilities and even with the persons that they have still at the helm, they can still do damage,” he continued. “When you’re looking at a political system like the Islamic Republic of Iran, regardless of the musical chairs with the commanders, ‘Supreme Leader’ is a title meant to be taken rather literally. An Iran Supreme Leader, an 86-year-old ideological man is currently hosting, or holding, I should say, a nation of 91-plus million Iranians hostage.”

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Expert Details Iran’s Routes To Retaliation Against U.S.: ‘Wash Away Blood With Blood’

The White House released photos taken from inside the White House’s Situation Room on Saturday as American bombers knocked out nuclear facilities in Iran.
The White House posted a series of seven photos on X showing President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and others huddled together watching the mission progress.
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/fw70poHb0O">pic.twitter.com/fw70poHb0O</a>
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1936605842796687502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/QZroRBNW1t">pic.twitter.com/QZroRBNW1t</a>
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1936605850115657813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/T0ECocToiC">pic.twitter.com/T0ECocToiC</a>
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President Donald J. Trump in The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/V4pRVzsqcZ">pic.twitter.com/V4pRVzsqcZ</a>
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American B-2 bombers dropped payloads on three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday. Bombs struck the nuclear facilities Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
The White House had said Thursday that the president planned to make a decision on whether or not to bomb Iran “within the next two weeks.” Trump addressed the nation after the mission.
“Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran&#8217;s key nuclear facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,” the president <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1936607420068856087">said</a>.
Trump threatened further action against Iran unless Tehran chooses peace.
&#8220;This cannot continue. There will be either peace or tragedy for Iran — far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1936611374458675349">said</a>. “Tonight was the most difficult of them all — by far — and perhaps the most lethal, but if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.”
In the United States, the strike on Iran has already sparked calls for impeachment from Democrats in Congress.
“The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1936603028708082160">said</a>. “He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1936602051431063760">defended</a> the president in a post on X, noting that “[l]eaders in Congress were aware of the urgency of this situation and the Commander-in-Chief evaluated that the imminent danger outweighed the time it would take for Congress to act.”

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PHOTOS: Trump, Top Officials Monitor Strike On Iran From Situation Room

Russia and Iran are attempting to sow division among President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; movement by amplifying deceptive voices and opinions “masquerading as MAGA loyalists,” according to a new report.
The report comes around high-stakes talks the Trump administration has had with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine and Iran on ending its nuclear enrichment capability.
The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) report, titled “<a href="https://networkcontagion.us/reports/6-18-25-false-flags-and-fake-maga-how-foreign-and-inauthentic-networks-use-fake-speech-to-destabilize-the-right-from-within/">False Flags and Fake MAGA: How Foreign and Inauthentic Networks Use Fake Speech to Destabilize the Right from Within</a>,” states that Russia and Iran’s “coordinated playbook delegitimized every fresh headline as a false narrative, amplified Tehran’s lines, and accused Donald Trump of complicity and moral corruption.”
Those efforts exploited what the institute called a “false flag reflex,” a “conditioned response that turns every major atrocity into a trigger for trending conspiracy claims.” The report listed the Uvalde, Texas, shooting, the October 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel, the attempted Trump assassinations, as well as other domestic attacks.
“In the days following these crises, Kremlin-affiliated propagandists and Iranian state-linked media are able to rapidly inject narratives that are taken up by MAGA-impostor influencers, who then inject them into MAGA-branded spaces, often within minutes of breaking news,” the report asserted, “During one such activation window, 650,000 posts supporting false flag conspiracies drew nearly four million interactions, powered by a pipeline of Kremlin-affiliated propagandists, spam-bot networks, and domestic influencers such as Nick Fuentes, Jake Shields, and Jackson Hinkle.”
“These figures, who have long been associated with right-wing cultural commentary, first used their platforms to propagate Kremlin-seeded narratives; these influential accounts then turned on Trump himself in a coordinated assault following a public break between Elon Musk and the president,” it continued. “In the lead-up to the war with Iran, this network then pivoted outward and amplified false Iranian claims that the International Atomic Energy Agency was operating under foreign control, echoing Tehran’s strategic messaging.”
NCRI added that their “findings suggest that what appears to be grassroots disillusionment may in fact reflect foreign-directed efforts to fracture American identity from within.”
“If you talk to Republicans right now, more than 80% of them support the war against Iran,” an NCRI analyst stated, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/armies-of-kremlin-and-iran-bots-aimed-at-attempting-to-destroy-maga-report/">New York Post</a>. “But if you go on Twitter you get the sense that there is a civil war raging. This is exactly the purpose of the psychological operation — to destabilize people’s perceptions of institutions that are supposed to protect us.”
An analysis of the main accounts driving such narratives appears to show a coordinated effort, according to the report.
“To identify key narrative drivers, NCRI analyzed X accounts with the highest audience engagement on ‘foreign flag’ posts,” the report stated. The report added that &#8220;he leading amplifiers split into two dominant clusters,&#8221; breaking them down as &#8220;foreign-linked actors&#8221; and &#8220;US-based influencers with MAGA branding&#8230;who gave the campaign domestic legitimacy.&#8221;
&#8220;Despite differing origin points, the accounts converged in timing, tone, and target, suggesting coordinated amplification across aligned ecosystems,” the report said.

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