Plus: Trump's Iran energy chess move and naval blockade tweet, the fluoride shortage media flip-flop, No Tax on Tips final IRS regulations, and Italy's immediate deportation of a radical imam — all in today's episode.
Eric Swalwell is out — and the timeline tells a story. In the span of 48 hours, reported sexual assault allegations surfaced in the San Francisco Chronicle, Democratic leadership including Jeffries and Pelosi called for investigation, Swalwell dropped his California governor's bid, and then resigned his congressional seat entirely. Chuck Frank breaks down what this sequence reveals about the party that has spent years claiming the moral high ground on accountability.
Meanwhile, Trump's Iran strategy has nothing to do with war — and Wall Street already knows it. While Congress panics and Tehran scrambles, the Straits of Hormuz are under new management. Oil tankers are moving. Trump says in a late-night post that 98.2% of ocean drug trafficking has stopped. Chuck explains the energy dominance play behind the headlines: who controls the oil controls the game, and the Grand Master just moved. Plus — the IRS released final regulations listing more than 70 occupations now covered under No Tax on Tips. Find out who qualifies. And Italy didn't form a committee — when an imam publicly endorsed marriage to 9-year-old girls on national television, they put him on a plane.
Truth starts now.
