FCC boss Brendan Carr said CNN must face ‘accountability’ for a report he claims is inaccurate without providing evidence

Donald Trump fired off a seething threat against CNN Tuesday night in response to its reporting Iran had claimed a “great victory” over the U.S. following the president’s announcement to delay his ceasefire deadline by two weeks.

Trump had originally given Iran until 8 p.m. ET Tuesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, warning a refusal would mean a “whole civilization will die.”

Around 90 minutes before that deadline, Trump and the White House released statements saying the U.S. and Iran had agreed to negotiate an end to hostilities that would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the suspension of fighting for two weeks.

Following the announcement, CNN published a post to its online live blog detailing the Iranian response.

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    Trump basically caved, and accepted a variation of Iran’s 10 point plan. The US gained basically nothing while Iran gained complete and total control over the Stait of Hormuz, which they did not have before. and now they’re going to monetize it, when it used to be free to pass through.

    Oh, and Israel gets to keep bombing Lebanon.

    So, yeah, by any measure, Iran really did get to claim victory here.

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      Oh, and Israel gets to keep bombing Lebanon.

      About that. Iran and Pakistan have said, contrarily to what Israel claims, that the ceasefire includes Lebanon and applies to the US and all US allies. Soo, I guess we’re about to see whether Trump will put the ceasefire talks in jeopardy to continue being Israels bitch or is he desperate enough to throw Israel under the bus just to get out of this massive fuckup he himself created.

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        Israel doesn’t care and has tapes of Trump, other world leaders and billionaires. Lebanon is screwed

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        I think we all know which way that’s gonna go. But, hey, maybe we could all be surprised?

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      The US gained basically nothing

      You’re forgetting, though, that Trump changed the Epstein news cycle. So since Trump doesn’t understand the difference between him and the “US,” I’m sure he’d disagree with you.

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        He may have shifted the new cycle temporarily, like with Venezuela, but people are still talking about it enough that it isn’t totally dead, and it’s about to come back and rear its ugly head once again. And thanks to Jimmy Kimmel repeating it nonstop, people are now starting to refer to it as the Trump-Epstein files, lol.