John M. Donnelly
@johnmdonnelly
Senior defense writer, CQ Roll Call. National Press Club leader & sports nut. http://johnmdonnelly83.journoportfolio.com & [email protected]
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Graham is back at it today, about how Putin and nations still doing business with Russia have "underestimated" Trump. All we can say is "so prove it". Putin has so far correctly estimated that Trump will never do anything to punish or deter him from murdering more Ukrainians.
🙄 After repeating this cycle of "losing patience" and granting more time, no one believes the Trump administration will ever actually do anything to pressure Russia, Putin least of all, and they shouldn't believe it until it happens for once.
Trump last week promised to drive down drug prices by as much as 1,500%, which would be quite a trick since prices obviously can't be cut by more than 100%, but he regularly throws out made up numbers to try to impress or fool audiences. @NaftaliBendavid washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
Sen. Tuberville blocked hundreds of military officer nominations for months in the Senate when Biden was in office.
When a new coach is hired, they get to pick their team. It’s that simple. 77 million Americans PICKED President Trump to lead our country. And yet, radical Democrats continue to BLOCK over 150 of his nominees. RIDICULOUS. It’s time we buckle up and get @POTUS’s team confirmed.
SCOOP - Trump administration told #Taiwan's President @ChingteLai he could not transit #NewYork en route to Central America. Lai then cancelled the whole trip. ft.com/content/21575b…
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service in 2022 as Ukraine retook territory from Russia, @Reuters reports. reuters.com/investigations…
When I was bleeding to death on a dusty field in Iraq, I didn’t care if the troops rescuing me were trans, gay, straight or anything else. If you’re willing to sacrifice for our country and can kill the enemy with lethal precision, you shouldn’t be denied the chance to serve.
NEW: Battle over transgender troops reignites on Capitol Hill rollcall.com/2025/07/24/bat…
How the Air Force is paying to refurbish Trump's "free" Air Force One is tied up in a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects w/@SangerNYT nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/…
Can confirm the New York Times report today that Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director of the Joint Staff, had a promotion to four-star general seemingly secured and then pulled back by Secretary Hegseth. Sims seen in Pentagon by most as nonpartisan, straightforward and bright.
The White House has added a @potus signed copy of the court decision allowing the barring the Associated Press from the press pool to the walls of the White House press gallery.
NEW: Battle over transgender troops reignites on Capitol Hill rollcall.com/2025/07/24/bat…
share of americans who think the government is covering up evidence about jeffrey epstein dems: 89% ind: 81% gop: 73% (finally, something to bring the country together) -yougov
SPLASHDOWN!! On July 24th, 1969, we landed softly in the vast Pacific Ocean – and after eight humanity-changing days, our mission was complete. The great crew from the legendary @USNavy USS Hornet (CV-12) was there to see our prompt extraction from the deep! 56 years hence,…
.@jkbjournalst on Maxwell: 'the concern is that the DOJ might cut some kind of a deal in order for her to provide them with information. So this could very well be another sweetheart deal, similar to the one that Jeffrey Epstein got in 2008.' wbur.org/onpoint/2025/0…
The reason why Ukrainians are free to protest peacefully in Kyiv (in this case about a law just passed by parliament) is because they haven’t “ended the war” by surrendering to Putin and abolishing their democracy.
Huge protests erupt in Kyiv against Ukrainian President Zelensky as he is a dictator and refuses to make a peace deal and end the war. Good for the Ukrainian people! Throw him out of office! And America must STOP funding and sending weapons!!!
Obama should have said: "Russia worked to influence the 2016 election, but did not successfully manipulate ANY VOTING MACHINES." We cannot know whether Russia did or didn't manipulate any VOTES by its pro-Trump clandestine operations in 2016, but likely it moved at least some.
A problem that could be solved if European countries prioritized sending their actual existing Patriot batteries they have to the European country suffering nightly barrages of missiles. Ukrainian lives > bureaucracy of backfilled military aid.
NEW: How Congress is working to reduce the chances of a recurrence of January's deadly collision over the Potomac River between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet. With @valerie_yurk rollcall.com/2025/07/23/hil…
