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Mike Johnson bolts down Capitol steps when pressed on Trump's latest threat
A War Plan Announced Like a PostscriptThe Power Is ObviousDonald Trump used Truth Social to announce that the United States would be “taking Kharg Island” and other Iranian oil infrastructure, while promising “more bombing tonight” and “bigger” strikes. That is the core fact. Everything else in the scene is institutional decoration: a president using a social feed to announce coercive action, and congressional leaders being forced to react after the fact.The source article is not really about uncertainty. It is about a power structure that has normalized presidential improvisation as policy…
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