{"id":6251,"date":"2026-07-23T21:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/why-isnt-barron-trump-going-to-iran-the-stories-of-the-kia-iran-mali-and-the-saudi-nuke-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:24:46","slug":"why-isnt-barron-trump-going-to-iran-the-stories-of-the-kia-iran-mali-and-the-saudi-nuke-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.righteous-media.com\/IndependentAmericans\/why-isnt-barron-trump-going-to-iran-the-stories-of-the-kia-iran-mali-and-the-saudi-nuke-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn\u2019t Barron Trump Going to Iran? The Stories of the KIA. Iran, Mali and the Saudi Nuke Deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=\" width=\"100%\" height=\"210\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Mamdani vs Netanyahu and Why The Answer to the Extreme Right Isn&#8217;t the Extreme Left. Media Blitz Pod<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Four young Americans are dead. The Secretary of Defense is asking Congress for more money after months of all gas, no brakes. The Saudis are quietly telling the world they don&#8217;t trust Trump to neutralize Iran \u2014 so they&#8217;re going to build their own bomb. And now the Washington Post reports the administration is weighing strikes on Mali, the eighth country hit since Trump returned to office. This is what a forever war looks like when nobody in Congress is willing to stop it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Paul Rieckhoff cuts through the noise from Union Square with a no-BS media blitz \u2014 MSNBC with Nicole Wallace, CNN with Erin Burnett \u2014 and lays out the human cost the White House doesn&#8217;t want you to see. He calls out Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s Netanyahu stunt as the extreme-left mirror of MAGA, honors Sergeant Angel Rampersat of Queens, and asks the question no anchor will: if this war is so noble, why isn&#8217;t the president&#8217;s own 20-year-old son in uniform? Independents are 45% of this country. The extremes running our politics are barely a quarter. It&#8217;s time to act like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>-WATCH <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/quFHbmfEYos\"><span>full video of this episode here<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>-Millions of American veterans are being locked out of primary elections in the country they served. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/independentveteransofamerica.org\/veterans-locked-out\/\"><span>See what we\u2019re doing to change that<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>-Visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/kalshi.com\/r\/INDEPENDENT\"><span>Kalshi and trade on anything<\/span><\/a><span>. 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