Fighting For Faith, Family & Freedom
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary Bauer
Day 156
It’s Day 156 of President Trump’s second term. No one has lost their Social Security, Medicare, or veterans’ benefits in spite of constant media and leftist lies.
Ceasefire Announced
This White House delivers amazing surprises with regularity. Forty-eight hours after the extraordinary attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
It is admittedly an uneasy ceasefire. I am praying it holds. I’m also praying that Iran’s radical regime has learned its lesson. Only time will tell.
It was amusing to see Vice President J.D. Vance on Fox News last night, discussing recent events. While he was on the air, Trump announced the ceasefire, and Vance had to react on the spot. He handled it incredibly well and articulated the rationale with ease.
Once again, Donald Trump has cemented his place in history by doing what previous presidents promised but failed to do.
Trump Responds
As often happens historically in ceasefires, the opening hours and even days can be fraught with difficulty. Disgruntled soldiers and generals, who want to keep fighting or who may not have received new orders, deliberately or accidentally violate the ceasefire.
After the ceasefire went into effect, Iran launched two waves of missiles at Israel. President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu discussed the situation. Israel restrained itself to a symbolic strike on one Iranian radar installation and “refrained from additional attacks.”
Speaking to reporters this morning on the White House lawn, President Trump expressed his anger that left-wing media outlets were downplaying the success of the incredible Iranian mission and not giving the B-2 pilots and other military personnel the credit they deserve.
Many of the same people criticizing this unbelievably successful operation made excuses for Joe Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan. Trump blasted CNN as “scum” and specifically called out Brian Roberts, the owner of “MSDNC.”
Suspects Arrested
Amid warnings about Sleepy Joe’s sleeper cells, federal law enforcement officials over the weekend arrested 11 Iranians who are in the U.S. illegally. The arrests took place in eight states across the country – Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, and Texas. Among those arrested were:
- An Iranian Army sniper who still had his Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card.
- A former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with known connections to Hezbollah.
Five more illegal aliens from Iran were arrested today.
A Big Win
The Supreme Court just gave the White House and the American people a big win. In a 6 to 3 decision, the justices overturned an order by a federal district court judge blocking the administration from deporting illegal aliens to countries other than their native country.
Often the home countries of criminal illegal aliens refuse to take these violent thugs back. As a result, the administration is sending them to countries that will take them.
To be clear, this is a temporary win. The Supreme Court is allowing the administration to continue these deportations while the merits of the case are argued in the lower federal courts.
This ruling does not mean the issue is settled. But legal experts say the ruling is a good indication that the issue will ultimately be resolved in the administration’s favor. Otherwise, a majority of justices wouldn’t have overturned the lower court’s injunction.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) praised the decisions, saying, “The Supreme Court ruling is a victory for the safety and security of the American people. . . DHS can now execute its lawful authority and remove illegal aliens to a country willing to accept them. Fire up the deportation planes.”
However, the Biden-appointed judge in Boston who imposed the initial injunction declared that the Supreme Court’s decision has no effect on him. Incredibly, he is citing the minority opinion of the court’s liberals as his justification for claiming that the original defendants are somehow still protected by his order.
The result is that eight violent criminal illegal aliens who were ordered to be deported to South Sudan have been stranded at a military base in Djibouti for weeks.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller blasted the Boston judge, saying, “Expect fireworks . . . when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court.”
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