Okay. It’s not called “Operation Epstein Fury”. It’s called “Operation Epic Fury”. But who’s kidding who here? Here we ago again. Today on The BradCast, another unlawful foreign regime change war by the U.S. is now underway in the Middle East. In this case, launched by a President who ran for office, lying over and over again that he was against such wars. [Audio link to full show follows below.]

As usual, tune in for much much more. But, among the many points made and news shared today before we get to callers ringing in on Donald Trump‘s new war on Iran in the second half the show…

• Yes, J.D. Vance really wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in 2023 headlined: “Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars” with the sub-hed: “He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.”

• Yes, Stephen Miller actually tweeted just 4 days before the November 2024 President election: “To anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes: Trump said warmongering neocons love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves. Liz Cheney is Kamala’s top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. Kamala = WWIII. Trump = Peace.”

• Yes, Donald Trump really did spend years decrying “stupid” U.S. Presidents who spent “$8 trillion” on wars in the Middle East instead of building roads and bridges and schools and hospitals in the U.S. He really did say, over and over, in 2011 that “in order to get elected @BarackObama will start a war with Iran”. He really did say in 2012 that Obama would “attack Iran in order to get re-elected,” and “Now that Obama’s Poll numbers are in a tailspin, watch him start a war with Iran. He’s desperate.” That Obama would have to do so to “save face”, and Trump really did declare in 2013: “Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly — not skilled!” [Emphasis added.]

• For the record, Barack Obama never did attack Iran. But he did negotiate a deal with Iran and other major countries to successfully prevent Iran from being able to obtain a nuclear weapon, an agreement that Trump unlawfully violated and ripped up after taking office. He’s been begging Iran to strike a new deal ever since. But now his polls are in a tailspin. He is trying to save face, and, because of his inability to negotiate properly, he is (unlawfully and without Constitutional or Congressional authorization) choosing to spend billions on another foreign interventionist war instead of fixing roads and bridges and hospitals and schools in the U.S.

• In fact, Trump is apparently now bombing schools and hospitals in Iran, killing nearly two hundred school girls on the first weekend of his latest misadventure, as six U.S. service members have so far been announced killed and three of our F-15s have been shot out of the sky over Kuwait, with the crews, thankfully, ejecting safely.

• So far, 555 Iranians have reportedly been killed, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. At least 11 people have been killed in Israel.

• The Supreme Leader of Iran, 86-year old Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has been killed. But the attack on Khamanei was “so successful,” according to Trump, that, apparently, so were the preferred choices of the U.S. to replace him. So, now what?

• Why does Trump say he bombed Iran? Well, he seems to be making up new reasons every few hours since ordering the first bombs on Saturday morning along with Israel. To prevent an imminent attack on the U.S. by Iran? Well, that can’t be. Nobody believes they have the intercontinental missiles to do that. So, he’s already in violation of both U.S. and international law. To prevent them from restarting the nuclear program he claimed to have “completely obliterated” when he previously attacked Iran just eight months ago? To stop terror attacks by Iran-funded militias in the Middle East? We discuss all of the above. But he certainly didn’t bomb Iran to distract media attention from his dreadful and getting-dreadful-er approval ratings as the midterm primaries are now under way, right? Certainly not as a distraction from the fact that his DOJ has been caught red-handed unlawfully covering up the release of very serious allegations by a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein that she was also raped by Trump when she was just 13-years old, right?

• As you can tell, we’ve got a lot to discuss today. And a lot of callers in the second half of the show who want to join in on the conversation. I hope you’ll tune in…

The BradCast with Brad Friedman 3/2/2026

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