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Today in Politics, Bulletin 447. 8/24/26 Ron Filipkowski Aug 24 ∙ … Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held his major press conference today to announce what was hyped as an “economic D-Day” to crush Iran once and for all after sanctions, bombing, blockades, peace negotiations and threats failed to do the job. … If you were expecting Bessent to list specific actions being taken against specific countries and companies doing business with Iran, you were probably pretty disappointed. What we got from Bessent today was not so much a D-Day invasion but a warning that an economic D-Day might happen. Eventually. Someday. Maybe. … Before the press conference, Bessent posted: “President Trump has dismantled Iran’s military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100% of its military factories, and buried its nuclear program. We are now entering the endgame. At dawn begins an economic D-Day - the single greatest financial offensive ever marshaled against an adversary.” … “The Islamic Republic has subsist...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 445. 8/21/26 Ron Filipkowski Aug 21 ∙ … Wild new revelations in the Natalie Harp saga as Daily Beast published a few of the letters she sent Trump during their trip to Scotland. DB: Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Trump are being revealed in full for the first time—showing her spilling her heart, and saying she is “unworthy” of him. “You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down.” … “The Daily Beast is publishing them amid swirling questions over the national security implications of 35-year-old Harp’s status as 80-year-old Trump’s most significant gatekeeper, even being used as a conduit to the president by foreign leaders. … The extraordinary letters were written in 2023, either during or after Harp accompanied Trump on a trip to Scotland and Ireland. They reveal Harp’s utter devotion to Trump. She even tells him she is envious of women “whose only job seems to be to talk with you and look pretty.” … “I want that job!!” she writes i...