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The Daily Herold: 6/16/26 - UFC Plot Foiled, Ghost on Israel's Endgame & Newsom Probed
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- Badlands Media
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- Jun 16, 2026
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Summary
Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a hectic kid-shuttling day with a story that immediately raises questions. The FBI says it disrupted a terror plot involving explosive drones and a staged sniper attack targeting last weekend's UFC Freedom 250 event, with five suspects in custody and 23 more identified, but Jon notes none of them were arrested in Washington DC and wonders how surveillance happened just days after FISA 702 expired. Ghost joins for an extended breakdown of the Middle East endgame: Trump's strategy of simultaneously escalating and deescalating to box Israel into a corner, the bombshell that Naftali Bennett sabotaged the 2022 Russia-Ukraine peace deal while serving as mediator, and the prediction that Arab nations will drift toward Iran while Israel becomes politically isolated. JD Vance pushed back hard on claims Iran gets American money in the new deal, insisting not a single taxpayer dollar moves. Gavin Newsom announced he and his family are under DOJ investigation and called it political, though Jon suspects the real story runs through his wife's finances. The Supreme Court also rejected Carter Page's surveillance lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds, and Jon has thoughts about who that rule actually protects.