National Security
Trump Calls Iran Deal Critics “Stupid” as His Own Coalition Revolts
The president dismissed concerns as jealousy, but the loudest critics are Haley, Bannon, and Cruz.
The president dismissed concerns as jealousy, but the loudest critics are Haley, Bannon, and Cruz.
Three days before signing, the war's three principals describe the same memorandum in incompatible terms.
The White House released the memorandum. By its own terms, the reasons the war started are parked in a 60-day window.
A Korean War-era statute now governs US weapons production, days after the defense secretary called stockpile worries a "manufactured story."
The signed ceasefire hands Tehran immediate access to oil markets while the disarmament it is meant to buy waits two months.
Republicans wrote the review statute in 2015. Some now predict their own president will write around it.
A maximalist threat rests on detecting a breach no one is currently positioned to catch.
The president vows a "word by word" reading of a text he won't release until he stages it himself.