How deranged are the Trump-deranged?
Are the deep-state leakers and their Democratic media mouthpieces so blinded by their hatred for the president that they will go to treasonous lengths just to deny him a victory?
Or are they simply hellbent on provoking a full-scale war with Iran?
CNN’s exclusive report of a leaked top secret US intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency on Tuesday suggested that the weekend B-2 bunker-buster sortie in Iran was a flop.
This conveniently contradicted Trump’s claim that it was a “spectacular military success” that had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities and overshadowed the startlingly good news that the president had somehow pulled off a cease-fire between Iran and Israel, which was still holding more than 40 hours later, when we went to press.
If the aim of CNN and its toxic leakers was to enrage Trump, it worked, with the president venting ever since on social media, on Air Force One to the traveling press corps and in a press conference in The Hague, where he called CNN “fake news.”
He has a point.
Among the intelligence community, regard for DIA analysis is so low that the nickname for the agency is “Do It Again.”
The CNN exclusive was written by none other than Natasha Bertrand, the same CIA stenographer who scooped the dishonest Dirty 51 letter by 51 former intelligence officials back in October 2020 falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.
More on her later.
Dishonest spin
The FBI is hot on the trail of the leaker or leakers of the DIA report, with US special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff accusing CNN’s anonymous deep-state sources of “treason.”
But CNN’s dishonest spin of the intelligence assessment was just as egregious.
The DIA came out later to say it was a “preliminary, low confidence” assessment done in the early hours after the strike and that the analysis was so equivocal, it said the impact of the strikes could be “limited or it could be very severe,” as Trump told reporters at The Hague Wednesday.
CNN just ignored the uncertain nature of the DIA findings and failed to report the contradictory assessments within the report that suggested Trump was right.
But never mind.
CNN’s misleading reporting, soon amplified by the New York Times, gave the rest of the resistance media hours of gleeful raining on Trump’s parade.
God forbid that their audience consider Trump might be a step closer to achieving the ever-elusive peace in the Middle East.
The same Negative Nellies, now chortling that boastful Trump had failed to set back Iran’s nuclear ambitions more than a couple of months, were claiming last week that the president was exaggerating the threat because Iran was nowhere near getting nuclear capability.
They can’t make up their minds because they don’t have any thoughts of their own other than whatever Trump says, they’re against.
Within a day, the CIA, the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and even Iranian assessments contradicted the CNN story with battlefield assessments involving actual on-the-ground human and signal intelligence from Iran to say the US strike on Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear plant was “devastating.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry admitted its nuclear sites were “badly damaged.”
‘Critical infrastructure’
The IAEC said Operation Midnight Hammer’s 13.6-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker-busters dropped on the underground Fordow plant had “destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility totally inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.”
Another post-attack assessment, by the nonpartisan US Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, drew similar conclusions, while warning that “with residual stocks of 60% and hidden centrifuges, Iran retains an ability to breakout and produce weapon-grade uranium.
“[But] considering the damage to Iran’s three known enrichment facilities, the destruction of Iran’s centrifuge manufacturing capabilities, its uranium conversion facility, uranium metal production plant, and other facilities involved in its nuclear weaponization process, reconstituting these capabilities will take significant time, investment, and energy to return to its previous state before the war or build nuclear weapons. Iran has likely lost close to 20,000 centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow, creating a major bottleneck in any reconstitution effort.”
The full battleground assessment is still to come, but Iran is on notice that any further attempts to get its hands on nuclear weapons will be met with further strikes.
Full op-ed continued over at The New York Post:
Miranda Devine: Trump-derangement syndrome drives deep state leakers, CNN to treasonous lengths to deny prez a victory https://t.co/ajMQ8hoo3U pic.twitter.com/I4jMarKFul
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) June 26, 2025
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