Tensions between America and Persia reignite as deadly strikes fly across the Gulf, shattering fragile peace deals. The President, refusing to discuss the widening conflict, hides behind the sudden death of his ally Lindsey Graham, dodging questions on the brink of open war. It is a chaotic era where diplomacy dies and shadows lengthen over the Capitol.
**THE DAILY INQUIRER**
*The Voice of the Nation’s Capital — Five Cents*
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# **GUNS BARK IN THE PERSIAN GULF!**
### **WAR CLOUDS LOOM AS PRESIDENT DODGES THE PRESS!**
#### **SENATOR GRAHAM CROSSES THE RIVER JORDAN AT 71; CHIEF EXECUTIVE PLAYS MUM ON EASTERN FRACAS**
**WASHINGTON —** The powder keg in the East has been lit once more! Over the weekend, the fierce Persian lion roared back, raining heavy artillery and drone fire down upon Uncle Sam’s military outposts scattered across the Persian Gulf and Jordan. In response, Washington’s big guns thundered back, pounding coastal radars, air defenses, and missile nests along the Iranian shore.
This latest blow-up comes hot on the heels of President Trump’s failed April blockade of the Strait of Hormuz—a blockade that folded like a cheap suit last month with a signed memorandum of understanding because the Persians had the moola to outlast our boys. Now, the peace is shattered.
From Tehran, Mojtaba Khamenei—son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was sent to his maker by a U.S.-Israeli sky-raid back in February—took to the public wires on Saturday to scream for blood and vengeance. Meanwhile, Persia’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, hopped a passenger liner to Oman to whisper with regional go-betweens, though the Tehran brass vows they won’t sit at the card table until a ceasefire is inked.
But back in Washington, the President is keeping his jaw clenched shut! When cornered on the wireless Sunday morning by Jake Tapper, the eagle-eyed broadcaster for the CNN network, the Chief Executive used a tragedy to dodge the hot seat.
“Are we back at war, and who holds the keys to the Strait of Hormuz?” Tapper barked.
The President, refusing to face the music, played his trump card: the sudden and tragic passing on Saturday of South Carolina’s Republican big-wig, Senator Lindsey Graham, at age 71.
“Out of respect for Lindsey, I’m not talking about that,” the President shot back, though he couldn't help but brag: “We hit ’em very hard last night!”
While the President claims the vital shipping lanes are "open as far as we're concerned," both Washington and Tehran spent Monday morning claiming they are the undisputed kings of the castle.
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### **THE GREAT GOVERNMENT BANNER RACKET!**
## **TAXPAYERS SHELL OUT COLD CASH FOR THE PRESIDENT'S KISSER!**
#### **SCHIFF BLOWS THE WHISTLE ON HUNDRED-THOUSAND-DOLLAR PROPAGANDA FLIM-FLAM**
**WASHINGTON —** Is the Nation’s Capital a free republic, or is it the private gallery of one man? That is the burning question on Capitol Hill today after crusading Democratic Senator Adam Schiff blew the lid off a high-society vanity racket!
According to federal ledgers uncovered by the eagle-eyed Schiff, the Department of the Interior splashed out a cool $39,000 of the taxpayers’ hard-earned greenbacks for giant, high-class lithographs of the President's own face, bearing the slogan "America First." Not to be outdone, the flyboys at the Federal Aviation Administration signed away a whopping $114,000 to a Maryland ink-shop called Grafik Industries for "Freedom 250" drapes.
Senator Schiff tells this paper that plastering the President’s mug on public brickyard is flatly against the law.
“The Trump administration is spending hundreds of thousands of your hard-earned dollars to glorify a sitting U.S. President,” Schiff declared in a fiery dispatch. “An eight-story-high head of Donald Trump certainly qualifies as illegal ballyhoo!”
This isn't the first time the President has dipped into the public till for self-promotion. Just last September, Schiff proved the administration blew at least $56,000 on giant banners hung from the facades of the Labor, Agriculture, and Health Departments. Observers say it’s all part of the President’s grand scheme to rebuild Washington in his own image—though insiders whisper his popularity is hitting rock bottom with the desk-jockeys who run the federal bureaus.
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### **BLOOD ON THE COBBLESTONES OF MAINE!**
## **FEDERAL IMMIGRATION G-MEN GUN DOWN YOUNG DRIVER!**
#### **"YOU TOOK HER DAD!" CRIES DISTRESSED MOTHER AS COPS REVEAL DECEASED WAS NOT THE WANTED MAN**
**BIDDEFORD, Me. —** A quiet Monday morning in the pine-woods state was shattered by the bark of federal pistols! When the smoke cleared in a Biddeford intersection, a 26-year-old Colombian laborer lay dying on the asphalt, his lifeblood spilling from a head wound.
The victim, a legal worker carrying a valid Social Security card, was shot behind the wheel of his white sedan by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrol.
According to local state police and Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, the G-men claimed the young man weaponized his motor-car, attempting to ram an officer as he fled. But eyewitnesses tell a far more sinister story! One bystander told scribes he saw a federal SUV deliberately ram the little white car before agents swarmed, guns blazing.
"I tried to stop," the dying man reportedly gasped to onlookers before slipping away.
A heart-wrenching scene followed as the victim's family rushed the blood-stained street. An older woman, clutching a sobbing toddler dressed in colorful cartoon sleeping-rags, screamed at the federal agents: *“You took her dad! You took her dad!”*
By Monday afternoon, Senator Angus King revealed a shocking twist from the Department of Homeland Security: the deceased man was *not* the target of the immigration warrant. Furthermore, the agents involved were operating in the dark, wearing no body-cameras to record the deed.
This marks the eleventh fatal shooting by ICE patrolmen since the President returned to the White House, coming just days after the July 7 slaying of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas. Angry citizens have already taken to the streets in protest, with local Biddeford Councilor Abigail Woods declaring, “It’s flat-out murder!”
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### **THE SENSATIONAL CENSORSHIP CABAL!**
## **FBI ADMITS TRAINING G-MEN TO SCRUB TRUMP FROM EPSTEIN BLACK BOOK!**
#### **DAUNTLESS LADY-SCRIBE UNEARTHS SECRET VIDEOS USED TO WHITEWASH VICE-DOSSIERS**
**NEW YORK —** In a bombshell confession that has rocked the Department of Justice to its very foundations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted to running a secret school for censors!
The scoop of the century comes courtesy of independent journalist and podcasting ace Allison Gill. After a year-long courtroom brawl using the Freedom of Information Act, Gill forced the Bureau to admit they produced secret slide-lantern training videos instructing investigators on how to scrub the President’s name from the files of Jeffrey Epstein—the late, unlamented millionaire mastermind of a sickening underage vice syndicate.
In whispers to Gill, several G-men confessed they were locked in government offices for grueling 48-hour shifts. Their sole task? To comb through hundreds of thousands of files, photos, and rolls of film, using meticulous index logs to target and erase any mention of Donald Trump.
Despite this massive laundry job, the President’s name still slipped through the cracks over 38,000 times in the initial paper release. Among the unredacted files is a chilling tip-sheet alleging that, some 35 years ago in Jersey, Trump forced a young girl of tender years—just 13 or 14—to perform an unspeakable act of vice.
The Bureau's top brass remains tight-lipped as the public demands to know who ordered the whitewash.