Link: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-iran-regime-change-democrats-chuck-schumer-midterms

Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill, and Murtaza Hussain
Feb 20, 2026

Sources with knowledge of internal White House deliberations told Drop Site that Trump is emboldened by what he sees as a phenomenal success in his Venezuela strategy—issuing sweeping demands for capitulation under threat of removing the ruling government and then abducting President Nicolás Maduro when he refused to obey.

But, the sources said, Trump and his aides have pressed war planners for assurances that chaos produced by any U.S. military action would calm down in time for the midterm election season to kick into high gear.

Trump has suggested to aides that he would make a deal with Iran if its leaders bend to his central demands but he stands ready to unleash a massive military operation—potentially including one aimed at assassinating Iran’s leadership—if they do not. Trump has said he may consider an initial round of attacks in an effort to push Iran to submit. In that event, the massive firepower in the region would remain if he decided to move forward with a broader war. Iranian officials say they are currently working on a formal response to the U.S. position laid out in Geneva on Tuesday during indirect talks, but have cautioned Iran has its own red lines. Tehran, meanwhile, told the United Nations it would consider U.S. bases “legitimate targets” if attacked, putting U.S. servicemembers at serious risk.

Trump and his aides have pressed war planners for assurances that chaos produced by any U.S. military action would calm down in time for the midterm election season to kick into high gear.

He has no idea what he's dealing with here. Iran is not Venezuela. I wonder who in his administration is pushing this and feeding him info about Iran, because he certainly doesn't care about this independently

The entire party hierarchy is pushing it, the neoconservatives' present iteration and project 2025 people.

The party is leading him by the hand, and getting him to betray his america first program that won him support from a faction of people that don't support the party, but believed in him because of his anti war stances and tariffs on goods from countries that undercut us on wages and environmental and the rest, that didn't know better.

The president doesn't care to be sure, he's losing his health quickly and on his way out, but they are still taking advantage of him.

Anything but releasing the Epstein files