Presumptuous Politics

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Trump Say Iran Deal Imminent Though Hurdles Remain

U.S. and Pakistani leaders forecast a Sunday signing of a long-elusive framework agreement to end months of fighting between the United States and Iran, but Tehran cast doubt over the timing and hardline protesters in Iran voiced opposition.

Qatari negotiators flew to Tehran on Sunday morning as part of an effort to finalize the agreement, a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters.

President Donald Trump posted that the deal with ‌Iran was scheduled to be signed on Sunday, his 80th birthday. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was preparing for an electronic signing, to be followed by technical-level talks in the coming week.

But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, speaking before Trump's post, was quoted by state media as saying on Saturday it would "not be tomorrow" but could happen "in the coming days."

Iran's Fars news agency, citing an informed source, said on Sunday Tehran has not yet taken a final decision on the framework agreement, with reviews of its political, ⁠legal and technical aspects ongoing at expert and decision-making levels.

A senior Iranian official told Reuters that, under the terms of the draft deal, the U.S. would agree to release $25 billion of frozen Iranian assets, while Tehran would agree not to produce or acquire nuclear weapons.

U.S. FOCUSES ON OPENING STRAIT, CLASHES CONTINUE

Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier that after a framework deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz, ⁠a vital artery for global oil supplies that Iran has effectively blocked, would immediately be "open to all."

Once the strait reopens, the U.S. would lift its naval blockade, sources on all sides of the talks said. Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program — a rationale Trump has given for the war — would take place afterwards.

While U.S. and Israeli bombings since February 28 have heavily degraded Iran's military-industrial base and damaged its military, experts say the war has entrenched the dominance of Iran's hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

When the U.S. and ‌Israel launched the war, Trump called on Iranians to rise up and take over state institutions.

Even as the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving toward an agreement over the past few days, clashes have continued, ‌as the U.S. military maintains a blockade on Iran and seeks to loosen Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which was the conduit for 20% of the world's oil shipments before the war.

Early on Saturday, U.S. forces shot down multiple Iranian drones heading toward the strait, the U.S. military said.

Israel, which says ‌it is not a party to the U.S.-Iran deal, said on Sunday it had attacked Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs after it said the Iranian ally had fired three projectiles at northern Israel.

The exchange highlighted the precarious nature of the negotiations, with Israel saying it will retain freedom of operations in Lebanon while Tehran has made a full ceasefire there an important component of its ⁠demands.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clashed with Trump over U.S. demands that Israel curb military ‌action in Lebanon to allow Washington to reach a deal with Tehran.

NUCLEAR ⁠NEGOTIATIONS TO COME LATER

At pro-government rallies held across Iran on Saturday night, residents and news agencies reported that hardliners opposed to the framework agreement loudly voiced their dissatisfaction.

A resident in the northeastern city of Mashhad told Reuters that some protesters chanted "Death to the compromiser," in ⁠an apparent reference to ⁠Araqchi. They said: "Compromiser, resign, resign."

Draft terms of the agreement described to Reuters by multiple sources indicate the U.S. would begin releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on its oil exports, in return for Iran opening the strait.

"Iran is going to open up the Strait ‌of Hormuz, that's a requirement. It could be open with no tolls. As they do that, we will lift our blockade," a U.S. official said.

Next would come de-mining of the waterway, the official told reporters, indicating countries in the Group of Seven major powers could have a role in this.

Iran's nuclear program would be addressed during a 60-day period of talks.

The senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday that Iran agreed to maintain the nuclear status ‌quo, including no uranium enrichment or expanding nuclear facilities, until a final deal was reached.

A U.S. ‌official said the agreement would ultimately lead to the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to be destroyed and removed.

The senior Iranian official said the draft deal would allow Iran to dilute its enriched uranium inside the country.

An important U.S. aim has been the removal of Iran's enriched uranium, particularly the 440.9 kg (972 lb) enriched to up to 60% purity that the International Atomic Energy Agency estimated Iran had before the first Israeli strikes on June 13, 2025.

That is enough, if enriched further, for 10 nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick, though how much of it remains is unclear. Iran has always denied seeking a nuclear bomb and says its atomic program is for peaceful civilian purposes.

New York Democrats Ignore Warnings As Mamdani’s Government-Run Grocery Scheme Advances

Under its (amazingly) duly elected commie Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York City appears to be shooting for a facsimile of the Energizer Bunny with a bad fentanyl habit: It just keeps getting dumber, and dumber, and dumber.

One of the dumbest ideas the commie Mamdani has had is the notion of city-run grocery stores. Now, the city seems determined to double down on stupid by ramping up five new commie groceries in each of the city's five boroughs.

New York City Councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez and some of her colleagues are pushing a proposal to require the establishment of at least five municipal grocery stores per borough.

The proposal comes as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration aims to establish one municipal grocery store in each of the Big Apple's five boroughs by the end of his first term.

"Let's make sure it’s not something that just our current mayor invests in, but something we can codify into in perpetuity," Gutiérrez said, according to The City Reporter.

Yeah, you might want to ask anyone who lived in the old Soviet Union how that worked out.

This is one of the worst ideas that New York under Mamdani has trotted out, and as you can plainly see by reading recent news out of the Big Rotten Apple, it's up against some pretty stiff competition. At least they seem to have backed away from the "everything is free" grocery store, which pretty much guarantees five minutes of frantic looting followed by empty shelves.

Mamdani Backs Congressional Candidate Who Called America a 'F***ing Disgrace,' Says She's Changed

As you might expect, I have some questions.

First: Where is the money coming from to build, staff, and stock these stores? From the taxpayers of New York City? What a great idea. Drive out the last few remaining productive people by implementing yet another stupid socialist idea, and any proceeds taken will be filtered through several layers of bureaucracy, which will soak up some of the boodle along the way, until there is finally - maybe - a little left over to buy a few bags of moldy potatoes to stock the stores.

Second: Who's going to work in these stores? Volunteers? Not likely. Minimum-wage employees? Or will these employees be demanding the generous pay and benefits Mayor Mamdani has been promising everyone from convenience-store clerks to sewer rats? We might note that Mayor Mamdani's making it easier and easier not to work in New York, so why would anyone step up to staff this stupidity?

Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled

Look, some of us are old enough to know how ideas like this pan out. We've seen this show before, and it ends in everyone wearing the same baggy, dull, ill-fitting clothing, standing in line for 19 hours for the weekly potato ration, and exclaiming in delight at the news that the chocolate ration has been increased from 12 grams to 10 grams. If Mayor Mamdani, the commies that work for him, and the commie council members really wanted to provide New Yorkers with an ample supply of great foodstuffs, the best thing they could do would be to let the free market handle this; tamp down on some of the regulations and taxes, and let free enterprise once more flourish.

But we all know that's not going to happen.

Hillary Clinton Manages to Insult More People With Her New Comments on Redistricting, Voter ID

Voter ID is very popular with Americans, even Democratic voters.

The numbers are clear, as CNN data analyst Harry Enten explained earlier in 2026.

As I wrote in Feb.:

Enten said support for voter ID has been "north of 75 percent" for years. Indeed, in 2025, it was 83 percent. I don't think you have 83 percent agreement on almost anything, so that's phenomenal support.
Democrats also largely support it, he explained, polling at 71 percent. Republicans are at 95 percent.
Even if you break it down by race, the majority still support it, with white people at 85 percent, Latinos at 82 percent, and black people at 76 percent.

It's been clear for years.

The only people who don't seem to be for it are Democratic politicians, and you can probably guess why. That's why they're against the SAVE America Act, and slinging all kinds of invective about it. How dare we have election security!

Guess who crawled out of her hole to argue against what most of America wants? The lady who still can't get over losing in 2016, 10 years later. And in so doing, she managed to insult a boatload of Americans.

Hillary Clinton suggests rural voters are too stupid to show ID to vote and Black and Latino Representatives can only be elected if voters are segregated by race.
Does Clinton think Americans are dumb and racist? pic.twitter.com/OsHoPjwPDD
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 12, 2026

“You carry through what they're doing to try to undermine voting. They’re trying to kick people off of voter rolls,” Clinton said about Republicans wanting election security.

“They’re trying to demand, you know, forms of identification that most real people don’t have, and most older people, and most rural people don’t have.
They are certainly redistricting to make it difficult to elect black representatives, or Latino representatives, or Democrats. So that means that we have to be even more intentional in showing up and voting.”

What the heck is she talking about? Didn't Kamala Harris try this same tactic? It's just such a ridiculous lie. But the lady who insulted Trump supporters as "deplorable" apparently decided she would insult even more people.

Does Hillary really think Americans are going to believe that "most people" don't have a driver's license or a passport? And how insulting is this to the older or rural people she's referencing? Does she think they're incapable of getting IDs or that they don't already have them? It just shows how out of touch she is, or what bull she's willing to spew to support the failure of an argument the Democrats keep trying. No one is buying this for even a minute.

As our sister site Townhall observed, "California’s ballot counting timeframe was abhorrent to the point of making Kim Jong Un blush." That's the mess you get when you have Democrats in charge.

And Here's Where Even Bill Maher's Audience Gasped When Talking About Graham Platner...

We need to understand that not everyone is a political junkie and isn’t glued to this story 24/7, which is healthy and enviable. There are times when I wish I could tune out everything, but alas, that’s not what this job is. So, I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that some in Bill Maher’s audience had no clue that Graham Platner said that he would rape home intruders, but not in a gay way. You can hear audible gasps during his commentary on Friday:

“I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about [Graham] Platner. It’s NOT.”
“There’s the sexting while married.”
“Scary behavior.”
“Old posts about how he’s a communist and all cops are bastards and black people don’t tip.”
“He said about the Iraq war: ‘You can think it’s dumb and also kind of not want to miss it.’”
“And then, of course, there’s the Nazi tattoo on his chest. I mean, seriously, this guy’s whole life is the movie The Hangover.”
“He doesn’t need a term in the Senate. He needs a gap year in Costa Rica.”
“I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about Platner. It’s not.”
“That would be his solution to a home invasion, which is to r—e the home invader. And no, of course, that's not the policy he’s proposing. It’s a fantasy his ex says he talked about. Next week it’ll be policy.”

And then there are the graphic social media posts, the allegations of domestic abuse, the fake working-class hero story—everything about this guy is a lie. But the Nazi tattoo isn’t going anywhere, because like Hillary Clinton with the email server, there’s a new story every week, and each time, the narrative gets blown up.

Where things went off the rails was when Maher said that this is what war does to people. Fine, except that Platner has made social media posts disparaging PTSD. And alas, even after all the baggage, Maher still says Maine should elect Graham Platner:

And yet, I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons. One, we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that. And two, get used to it, America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone addicted, sort of nutty people, and as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror.

Let’s Have a Serious Conversation About Race

“What the hell is wrong with these people?” I heard someone ask as a clip of Jasmine Crockett played on the television at the restaurant bar the other day. What was Crockett talking about? Her sympathy for the murderer named Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Yes, that’s why she cares, or at least pretends to care, about the fate of the man who’ll spend at least the next 17.5 years of his life in prison in Texas. How could anyone, real or not, go on camera and express sympathy for a murderer, at the expense of the murder victim and his family, no less? There’s really only one possibility: the cancerous cultural rot Democrats have forced and enforced on the black community.

We have a very weird relationship with race in this country, one where white people have been bullied into only talking about other races in apologetic tones, like we did something to everyone else. We didn’t.

I, for one, am sick of watching videos of “teen takeovers” on the news and pretending that 90- plus percent of the “teens” share a characteristic beyond their presumed age. How do you address a problem if you aren’t willing to talk about it honestly?

I’m willing, so let’s go.

Most people can’t, or won’t, have that discussion, which suits Democrats just fine. And the rest of the media is as well.

Have you noticed how you only see white cable news hosts talking about issues involving race with black guests? Liberal or conservative, it doesn’t matter; it’s always the white host with black guests where the hosts do everything they can to agree with the guests.

It never goes anywhere or solves anything because no serious conversation can involve pandering, and pandering is all cable news does anymore on the issue.

The truth is, most minorities who have been convinced by politicians, pundits, and preachers that they are victims are, in fact, victims, only they’re victims of the people who convinced them.

Racism, to any extent that matters in America, exists on the left – both inspired and weaponized by politicians hoping the black community won’t realize they’re in the midst of the longest con ever perpetrated: the Democrat establishment against black people.

For more than three-quarters of a century, we’ve had Democrats, both black and white, controlling the cities where most black people live. I don’t think there’s a majority-black city in the country that has had a Republican elected official in my lifetime. Yet, those cities are the centers of drugs, assaults, and murder.

Yes, all those things happen outside of those areas, too, but from a percentage of the population and from a crime perspective, it’s not even close.

In 2024, 15,795 people were murdered in the United States. Of those victims, 6,753 were white, and 8,158 were black. The numbers are down from 2023, when 8,070 white people were murdered, and 11,060 black people were.

However, if you think about it, those numbers expose a horrifying fact: black people make up just 13 percent of the population, so how the hell can they be the majority of murder victims? Well, that’s just the first worm in the can – as people are about 95 percent more likely to be victims of violent crimes by people who have the same skin color as them, that means the murderers of those black people are also overwhelmingly black.

Democrats ignore this because they have no way to exploit it to their advantage. If a white person kills a black person, which happens sometimes (though rarely), they’re all set up for that and have talking points about “structural racism” and “white supremacy” at the ready. If that configuration is reversed, as it was with Karmelo and Austin Metcalf, they used to have nothing.

Now they have this perversion that somehow a fair trial resulting in someone who stabbed a kid in the heart and killed him was an injustice based on race. They’re sick.

Crockett whined, “Black women, especially black women who have black male children, live in fear and agony every single day. A fear and agony that I promise you the Metcalfs probably never spend a day living that way. And we're going to have to have just some real conversations about race in this country.”

Black women who live in fear for their black male children should live in fear of other black males, as they are the perpetrators in all but a rounding error of the murders of young black men. Crockett isn’t stupid; she’s evil. She knows this is true, but what political mileage can she gain by pointing it out?

In the wake of the murder of Austin Metcalf, black “influencers” and social media users have been positing pictures of themselves urinating on Austin’s grave, taunting his family, and calling for more “white boys” to be killed in some perverted version of “justice.” Members of Congress have expressed more sympathy for the murderer and his family than for the victim. Pundits lie about an “all-white jury,” while others instruct black people to lie to get on juries in the future so they can “protect” other black defendants.

I have seen a lot of each of those disgusting things described above, and I only saw one “black leader” who denounced or spoke in real terms about any of it. It wasn’t a “man of god” like Al Sharpton or Raphael Warnock, nor was it a former President or Vice President like Barack Obama or Kamala Harris. It was a sports commentator, Stephen A. Smith.

Smith said, “I would give anything to be able to say something definitively in Karmelo Anthony’s defense. If there was a shred of innocence to the incident itself, I would say so. I don’t want to see another black young man going to jail. But I don’t give a damn about what your race, I don't give a damn about what your race or ethnicity is. Just because you’re white and young doesn’t mean you deserve to be murdered. And just because you’re black and young with challenges that black folks face every single day doesn’t give you a license to murder someone. That's what happened.”

There were no roundtables convened on MSNow or CNN to discuss the cultural rot that would lead to only one man calling a murderer a murderer. There was no discussion or condemnation of the justification of the murder or the calls for more. And there was no one daring to point out the reality of violent crime in this country.

How can you solve a problem when you won’t acknowledge it? You can’t.

When black men are calling for other 15 and 16-year-old black men to kill more white people because “y’all will be out at 30, y’all ain’t gonna do life,” where is the condemnation? Where are the politicians and pastors?

I have been told my whole life how “important the black church is in the black community,” but I have never seen it mobilized for anything more than to elect Democrats. They’re great at mourning – George Floyd had three funerals that were quite the production – but they don’t seem to do much in the way of preventing the need for mourning in the first place.

Politicians are ready to show up to “show support” for whatever lie they’ve got trending on social media, but they suck at doing anything to avoid outrages and improve the lives of the people they claim to care about more than anything else.

Generations of black people have lived and died knowing nothing but Democrats in political power, punditry, and the pulpit, and never saw their family’s lives improve. That’s not “the system” being rigged against them; that’s the Democrats making sure they keep their heads above water enough, so they don’t drown while they routinely promise the alternative would somehow be worse. Never have these Democrats attempted to teach anyone the importance of learning to swim, as anyone who learns on their own is denounced as an “Uncle Tom.”

Democrats created a failed education system designed to keep poor minorities where they are and ensure government dependence indefinitely, and nothing more. They tolerate a culture of violence, where actually learning is attacked as “acting white” and getting ahead is called “selling out.”

Karmelo Anthony murdered a kid, not because “he felt threatened,” as he could have easily walked out of the tent if that were the case. He killed Austin Metcalf because he’d been conditioned by the left to be a victim and to believe that anything he did in response to that victimhood was justified.

It’s a mentality that leads to thousands of dead young black men every year, and millions more giving up hope of improving their lives. It’s also a mentality that leads to Democrats getting reelected in places that are the third world economically and have been for decades, because they’ve successfully conned black people into thinking Democrats actually care about them more than on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in an election year.

You can’t have a serious conversation about race in this country when half the political world benefits from an unserious series of lies on the subject.

U.S. Army joins UFC Freedom 250 to celebrate 251 years of service

The U.S. Army will celebrate its 251^st anniversary with nationwide events scheduled throughout the weekend, including the historic Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event at the White House.

On Friday, the Army teased its involvement in the seven-bout card on X, saying, “The U.S. Army is taking over the Octagon.”

Sunday marks the Army’s birthday. In the morning, the U.S. Army Military District of Washington will host the formal Army Birthday Wreath-Laying Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, which will be livestreamed from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Following the ceremony and the UFC Freedom 250 fan fest, which begins Saturday afternoon, the Army will make a special appearance at the major wrestling event.

“U.S. Army combative fighters will take part in a special pre-match program to spotlight military readiness and heritage,” the Army stated.

In a historic first, the outdoor mixed martial arts event will take place directly on the White House’s South Lawn, featuring a crowd heavily packed with military personnel.

Also on Sunday, the Association of the U.S. Army and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission will host an unveiling of a new historical marker permanently commemorating the Army’s origins outside Philadelphia’s Public Ledger Building near Independence Hall.

Founded as the Continental Army on June 14^th, 1775, the branch was established more than a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

To mark the milestone, Army installations worldwide are hosting birthday balls and ceremonies alongside national celebrations planned across the United States.

On Friday, the U.S. Army Military District of Washington kicked off the weekend by hosting the annual Army Birthday Run. The commemorative event brought together service members and Department of War staffers for a morning run from Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

“We had about 350 people, just short of 350 people today, which is one of the larger runs that we’ve had. Thank you all for coming out for that,” said Scott Abell, director of the Fort McCoy Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.

Rounding out the holiday weekend, Washington Nationals Park will host the annual “Army Day” on Monday. The ballpark tribute will honor soldiers, veterans and Army families with special festivities, including live performances by the U.S. Army Parachute and Drill teams while the Nationals take on the Kansas City Royals.

Decisive Strikes Rock Iran: U.S. Leads with Strength and Strategy

Retired Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt put it bluntly on The Count: this was never a mere negotiation trick — our forces struck decisively and degraded Iran’s ability to project power, leaving Tehran reeling and the hardliners exposed. Conservatives should be proud that American resolve and superior planning forced a historic pressure point on a regime that long sponsored terror and chaos abroad.

The strikes that toppled the top of Iran’s leadership were real and consequential, carried out in coordination with allies and confirmed by multiple international outlets reporting on the Feb. 28 operation. The loss of Tehran’s guiding hand opens a rare window of leverage that a strong America must seize to advance freedom and regional stability.

Holt was also candid about the danger that remains: until the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is dismantled or neutralized, Tehran’s networks can still light fires across the region and activate terror cells at home and abroad. Conservatives know we cannot pretend the job is done; we must insist on actionable guarantees and intelligence-driven follow‑through to prevent blowback on the American homeland and our allies.

President Trump’s team says a performance‑based memorandum could be signed soon that binds Iran to a no‑nukes pledge while holding economic relief hostage to verifiable steps — a deal structure that would reward compliance and punish cheating. Skeptical patriots should demand ironclad verification, quick inspections, and congressional oversight so that any peace is durable and America’s hard-won gains are not squandered.

Longer term, the conservative vision is clear: normalize and integrate responsible nations through deals like the Abraham Accords while isolating and reforming bad actors; the Accords showed that diplomacy backed by strength can reshape the region for the better. If Tehran’s factions choose the path of commerce over chaos, they can be welcomed into the world community — but only after real dismantling of violent networks and a demonstrable change in behavior.

This moment calls for steady American leadership, not appeasement. Congress must demand enforceable terms, the military must remain ready to finish the task, and patriots at home should hold our leaders to the promise that Iran will never field a nuclear weapon or export terror with impunity. The combination of decisive force and smart diplomacy can give Iranians a real shot at freedom — but only if we stay vigilant and unyielding.

Spencer Pratt’s Election Chaos: Reform or a Cover-Up?

Spencer Pratt’s plunge into Los Angeles politics exploded into chaos this week as the reality star-turned-candidate claimed he had uncovered damning evidence of a fraudulent tally in the June 2 mayoral primary. Pratt rode a wave of outrage over the Palisades fire and positioned himself as an outsider ready to take on the city’s entrenched machine, a move many conservatives cheered as a necessary shake-up of a one-party town.

When the dust settled, the establishment result was clear: incumbent Karen Bass and progressive councilmember Nithya Raman advanced to the November runoff, while Pratt’s insurgent bid fell short. For those who watched Pratt surge early, the late-count reversal looked suspicious — and it was the kind of anomaly that feeds distrust in big-city elections where the left has long held sway.

Online flames erupted after a widely shared data update purported to show Pratt receiving zero votes out of a roughly 24,000-ballot update, a supposed smoking gun seized on by social media and national figures eager to delegitimize the count. Fact-checkers and officials, however, said the claim was a misreading of the reporting feed and not proof of malfeasance, a technical explanation that did little to cool the anger of Pratt’s supporters who smell a cover-up.

Local election officials and even a Department of Justice official pushed back, saying Pratt’s campaign did receive votes in every official update and that there was no evidence substantiating the conspiracy narratives. Those reassurances will not satisfy many conservatives who have watched quiet, bureaucratic explanations consistently follow every close race where the left holds power; faith in the process is earned, not assumed.

Patriotic Americans who care about honest government have every right to demand transparency — not to peddle baseless lies, but to insist on full audits, clear chain-of-custody information, and open data that can be independently verified. If the city’s leaders are confident in the results, they should welcome scrutiny and provide straightforward answers instead of relying on technical rebuttals and press releases to defuse legitimate concern.

Pratt himself has conceded the campaign portion of his run while vowing a fight for accountability, a typical posture for a reformer who came up against a powerful status quo but refuses to go quietly. Whatever one thinks of his celebrity past, his candidacy exposed a raw nerve in the city: millions of Angelenos no longer trust the institutions that run their elections, and conservatives must keep pushing until every doubt is addressed and every ballot can withstand the light of day.

Saturday, June 13, 2026

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Fmr PM Truss to Newsmax: Starmer Is Failing UK

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss told Newsmax on Friday that the government is failing the United Kingdom.

Truss appeared on "Finnerty" after anti-immigrant protests swept Belfast, Northern Ireland, following a Sudanese man's arrest on suspicion of attempted murder in a stabbing attack.

"We have a prime minister, Keir Starmer, who believes in open borders," Truss said. "He's a human rights lawyer.

"He's spent his time defending people who have entered our country illegally, and he does not want to change his worldview."

"And instead of dealing with the problem that we have in our country, he's attacking everybody from Elon Musk to Nigel Farage, who dares to question the policies that have led to this appalling atrocity on the streets of our country," Truss added.

Truss said people are "absolutely livid" about what is happening in the U.K.

"When we saw the footage of Henry Nowak, essentially the police handcuffing someone that was dying because they believed it to be a racist attack, rather than understanding what was happening on the ground, it was a sign that our institutions have become corrupted," Truss said.

"They become corrupted by the DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] mentality rather than focusing on everybody being treated equally under the law and the establishment who got it so wrong for many years," she added.

The former prime minister said Britain's leaders refuse to tell the truth about what mass migration has wrought.

"They're simply in denial about what's happening in our country," Truss said. "The police need to have new people appointed at the top who are responding to what the public want, rather than following a progressive agenda."

"Our institutions have become corrupted," Truss said. "They need to be changed. Keir Starmer, our prime minister, is unfortunately part of that establishment. They all need to go, in my view."

Truss said left-wing politicians want to encourage immigration to undermine the basis of Western civilization.

"People who don't support our values, and that that is what they want to achieve," Truss said. "They want to undermine the family. They want to undermine the nation-state."

"They want open borders. They want progressive ideology like transgender ideology," Truss added. "And people in Britain are saying, 'we've had enough of this. We want to hear the truth about what's happening in our country.'"

"The reaction by Keir Starmer is to arrest those people and put them in jail," Truss continued.