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Pentagon Ran a Decoy Strike on Iran Because Trump Couldn’t Be Trusted to Keep Quiet

In an unprecedented move, the U.S. military staged a phony airstrike to distract the one man who couldn’t keep a secret: Donald Trump.

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Gabe Sanchez
Jun 23, 2025
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It turns out, the biggest national security threat to a secret U.S. military operation was the President of the United States.

According to a bombshell report from The New York Times, that is exactly what happened.

In a plot twist ripped straight out of Veep, top Pentagon and U.S. Central Command officials staged an entire decoy mission. Not to fool Iran,…

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