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President Trump on Tuesday said Iran was "very close" to having a nuclear weapon, despite March testimony from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that Tehran was not building one.

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Driving the news: When pressed on Gabbard's assessment by reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump replied, "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having" a nuclear weapon.

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Gabbard, during her opening remarks at a House Intelligence Committee hearing in late March, said that "[t]he IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/trump-gabbard-iran-nuclear-weapon-testimony

In good news, he has been released now after large push-back but absolutely BS to have arrested him in the first place

If they get him on state charges, only the Minnesota Board of Pardons can do that. Which consists of the Governor Tim Walz (D), Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (appointee of Walz), and Minnesota Attorney General (D)

Looking at the Crowd Counting Consortium data it's a little higher than 2017, but much less than 2025. At 140 days into office Biden's total was at 8150 (with 1020 of them taking place before he took office)

I believe days into the term which started on Jan 20th. Otherwise we'd be at 160s instead of 140s

This isn't the first large nationwide protest of his second term and it won't be the last. For instance, the Hands Off ones in April were number 6 on that list. They're getting larger and there is already planning for the next nationwide ones. Or more broadly, here's the cumulative number of protests including smaller ones too

Alt National Park Service's estimate:

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lrmce3muts2c

EDIT: also organizers within 50501 estimate at >11 million (50501 is one of the groups involved in the No Kings protests) https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3lrmozcmqx223

If you right click on the imgur link and then click "copy video link", you can make the link more direct. You can use that to embed the video in the body text with ![alt text describing the video](copied video link ending with .mp4)

which will look like

I think you are equating those with disruptive. Peaceful doesn't necessarily mean non-disruptive. Peaceful and disruptive protests can certainly still make people in power sweat

Strikes are peaceful and disruptive

Shutting down freeways can be peaceful and disruptive

Boycotts are peaceful and can be disruptive

Sit-ins are peaceful and can be disruptive

etc.

Not that 3.5% is necessarily an iron-clad guarantee

There were over 2000 protest locations alone. Thousands would mean that an average of 1-5 people showed up at each location which you can find plenty, plenty, plenty of photos to prove otherwise. For instance, you can find places with hundreds turning out in deep red small towns

One group's estimate is least 11 million, which is at the 3.5% figure and they are still counting! Been rising hourly by millions as they continue to count the thousands of protest locations

The 3.5% is not necessarily the full iron clad guarantee it's touted as, but the high turnout is encouraging. Keep the pressure up!

All 50 states along with Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam have protests. Intentionally not one in DC this time with the parade going on there (unlike previous nationwide protests) but there are nearby ones just outside of it in. There are also planned protests outside the US as well

Many multiple per each state as well. Even Wyoming, which is the state with the smallest population and one of the most conservative in the nation, has protest planned in 13 cities