US President Donald Trump launched three strikes in Iran overnight, despite campaigning for office on a platform of peace.
Trump described the attacks as a “spectacular military success”, and was keen to emphasise that this had been part of American planning for a significant time.
Multiple members of the American Democratic party have called for Trump’s impeachment following the event.
West Wing Reports founder and White House Bureau Chief Paul Brandus told The Anton Savage Show that it is unlikely that Trump will be impeached given the Republican party’s stronghold on the country’s congress.
“It does go to show you just how severe some of the criticism on the left will be,” he said.
“But then also on the right, some of these Trump allies who will remind him that he campaigned very much on this promise of not getting involved in any more wars, ‘America first, we need to build up ourselves here at home’, and all that.
“So, we’ll see where all of this goes, it’s just the first chapter in a story is just unfolding.”
President Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)Mr Brandus acknowledged that Iran could retaliate by targeting American military bases or “they could do something to impede a shipping in the Persian Gulf”.
“I think people here in the United States are particularly concerned about, might there be terror cells in the United States?” he said.
“In other words, Iranians who have been here for a long time going about their business and just waiting for some sort of order to attack a subway or an airport or something like that, who knows?”
The Iranian Foreign Minister has said he is going to meet with Vladimir Putin and has highlighted what he described as a “strategic relationship” with Russia.
According to Mr Brandus, he does not see Russia as being able to provide much support to Iran given the country’s focus on the war in Ukraine.
Main image: Washington D.C., USA - January 27 2020: US President Donald Trump shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office.
