Trump ‘slapped’ by US voters,
‘real winner’ was Iran:
Leader’s advisor
November 4th, 2:15pm GMT
(PressTV)
Mohammad Mokhber says Donald Trump “did everything
possible” to secure victory for his Republican Party
but was “slapped by his own people” in the
midterm elections.
Demonstrators protest against US President Donald Trump
as he delivers a speech marking the end of the midterm
election campaign at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting
Pool in Washington, DC, on Nov 2, 2026. (By AFP)
A senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has
said the “real winner” of the US midterm elections was Iran,
which has successfully shifted the costs of war.......... onto
US soil, as Democrats swept both chambers of Congress
in a major rebuke to President Donald Trump.
Mohammad Mokhber, wrote on X, that Trump “did everything
possible” to secure victory for his Republican Party but was
“slapped by his own people” in the midterm elections.
“The real winner of this arena was Iran,
which transferred the cost of the war
into America,” he said.
The senior Iranian advisor warned Trump ----- that continuing
with his “failed policy” would squander what remains of US
credibility “thanks to the blood of the martyrs and by the
hand of the Iranian nation and the Resistance Front.”
Democrats won control of both the House and Senate in
Tuesday's midterm elections, with the party flipping
Senate seats in Republican strongholds including
Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa, Ohio
and Maine.
The US media reported that voters’ frustrations over high
energy prices and inflation, caused by the war against
Iran, contributed to the Republican defeat in the
congressional elections.
President Trump acknowledged to US media that
the war against Iran had “a certain impact” on
his party’s performance.
Other Iranian officials also weighed in. Parliament
Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that
US citizens had said “no to war” through
their votes.
“Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO
WAR, and we endorse this message,” he posted on X.
Qalibaf, who is also Iran’s top negotiator with the US,
warned... that if Washington betrays the US public’s
warned... that if Washington betrays the US public’s
will, it will learn that “NO comes with a Nightmare.”
The Democrat control of Congress, is expected to constrain
Trump’s legislative agenda and open the door to intensified
oversight of his administration ....during his final two years
in office.
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Trump announces halt to $4 bn in aid
to Israel ....on midterm election day
November 4th, 5:10am
(RT.ru)
Public support for continued US assistance to the
Jewish state has been in decline, according to a
number of surveys.
The US will stop providing $4 billion in annual military
assistance to Israel starting next year, President
Donald Trump has said. The country does not
need the money and the issue is exploited
by the left to generate bad publicity for
the US government at home, he told
Fox & Friends on Tuesday - as US
citizens headed to the polls for
the midterm elections.
Trump said he reached an agreement on the issue with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According
to the president, the prime minister raised the issue.
“We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer
need it. We’ve been doing it, for years. I’ve been doing it,
but Israel is a very thriving country. They don’t need it,”
Trump said, in a phone interview with Fox. “We made a
deal months ago that we’re stopping” he said, adding
that Washington would “keep it going” if West
Jerusalem still needed assistance.
‘Bad talking point’
Trump was referring to the sum provided by the US as part
of the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding reached
between Israel and the administration of then-
President Barack Obama. The White House
called the deal for Washington to pay a
total of $38 billion to the Israeli
military over 10 years “the
largest single pledge of
military assistance in
US history.”
The agreement was due to expire.. in 2028. By the time
Trump announced the end of the scheme.. the annual
tranches were to be spent entirely on US-made arms.
The president acknowledged... that his decision has
a political dimension. “The left uses the $4 billion
payment that everybody knows about… as a
signal of unfairness, and we can’t allow
that to happen,” Trump said. “Why
should we suffer the slings from
lunatics like an El-Sayed, when
they don’t need it? It’s a bad..
talking point.”
The president was referring to Michigan Democrat
Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who fiercely
criticized US military aid to Israel during
his campaign.
Support for Israel in decline
Various opinion polls published this year also suggested
that US public support for Washington’s aid to Israel
was declining. According to a survey published by
the Chicago Council on Global Affairs last month,
56% of US citizens said that military assistance
to Israel should be either decreased or stopped
altogether, up from 38% in 2012. The same
number of respondents also stated that
Washington should not take a stance
in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A July poll by AP-NORC suggested that 40% of US citizens
considered the US to be too supportive of Israel, up from
37% ..... in early 2024. The general view of Israel and its
government among US citizens has also been steadily
declining over the past several years, according to a
Pew Research Centre report that same month.
As many as 62% of US citizens -- viewed the Israeli
government unfavorably in 2026, up from 43% in
2022, it suggested. The number of people
viewing it positively... fell from 47% to
32% over the same period.