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An anonymous U.S. defense official revealed the branches of the U.S. military learned of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany “in real time,” without prior knowledge of the intended move, the AP reported Saturday. Trump on Wednesday announced via a Truth Social post that his administration was “studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany.” The announcement followed an assessment by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week that insisted the U.S. is “ being humiliated ” by the war in Iran. A Pentagon spokesman on Friday confirmed to Breaking Defense that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “has ordered the withdrawal of roughly 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next year.” Two Republicans who chair the congressional Armed Services Committees, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), on Saturday questioned the Pentagon’s decision, telling Punchbowl news“any significant change to the U.S. force posture in ...

Former Army major Harrison Mann says President Donald Trump tosses off lies and untruths, but his latest this week isn’t doing anything to help the party catching splash damage from his Iran conflagration . Trump claimed this week that his self-declared war on Iran is officially over, but Iran gets its own say and is maintaining its block on global oil tankers filing through the narrow Strait of Hormuz. This is walloping U.S. and global oil and fertilizer prices and delivering considerable damage to Trump and his party. “Frustrated Republicans like Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) have seized on the (1973 War Powers Resolution) 60-day deadline in the hope of prodding the administration to wrap up a war that Trump increasingly appears emotionally and intellectually incapable of ending,” said Mann, who resigned in protest of his office’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza under the Biden administration. “Other Republicans have also pointed to a provision of the W...

The Daily Beast reports President Donald Trump bragged about his ability to correctly identify common animals while touting his mental prowess on Friday, and he even suggested his fans could not pass such a test. Trump, who is now 79, said at a rally in Central Florida that he is proud that he managed to ‘ace’ three cognitive tests identifying animals like giraffes, bears and sharks. “You know I’m the only president to take a cognitive test, because I don’t think Obama could pass it. Didn’t he get into Harvard with a C-Average? I don’t think he could pass it. Biden? Give me a break,” Trump told the crowd at The Villages Charter School in Sumterville. But then Trump told his crowd of supporters that many of them had no hope to pass a test designed to identify mental deterioration. “The first question is very easy. I lion, a giraffe a bear and a shark. They say which one is the bear. Everybody says it’s a very standard test but it gets pretty tough around those last 10 questions. Not t...

Former U.S. solicitor general and conservative attorney Paul Clement says the Trump administration’s lawsuit against an entire federal court in Maryland must die, and die quickly, before the spirit of the infection spreads to other courts and dismantles the U.S. justice system. Last June, President Donald Trump’s politicized Department of Justice targeted the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in a lawsuit after the chief U.S. district judge for Maryland granted automatic stays against the government in response to a flood of petitions for writs of habeas corpus, reports Law & Crime . The court granted the stays automatically as a matter of judicial economy because of the flood of immigrant habeas petitions, Law & Crime reports. But Trump and his helpers were furious, and launched a first-of-its-kind suit to undermine the court. Judges on the court hired Clement to argue their case, and Clement did not hold back in the withering response brief he filed with th...

President Donald Trump is waging political warfare against Indiana Republicans who did not vote for gerrymandering — but he is meeting opposition from members of his own party. “Even though Indiana state Senate leader Rodric Bray isn’t on anyone’s primary ballot next week, he is the ultimate target of President Donald Trump’s demand for political retribution,” the Indiana Capital Chronicle reported on Thursday . “Seven Republican senators who voted in December against redrawing Indiana’s U.S. House district maps are facing Trump-endorsed challengers backed by millions of dollars in spending by national pro-redistricting groups.” Bray, who spoke with the Chronicle about the subject, expressed disappointment with the president’s actions. “It was a very, very challenging session in December, and those votes were hard, and the folks that voted against it, I know, are now under a massive attack from Washington, D.C, and elsewhere in the nation,” Bray told the Chronicle. “I just would hate ...