# The Daily Herold: 6/18/26 - Iran Deal Fallout, Tucker Flips & California Fraud Ceiling

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-06-18T19:32:58+00:00
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## Resource

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with plenty to say about the people who are saying plenty. The MAGA hawk crowd that spent months cheerleading US military involvement in the Middle East is now loudly attacking Trump over the Iran deal, and Jon finds the shoe-on-the-other-foot energy deeply satisfying. JD Vance ran the White House press conference and delivered one of the most pointed defenses of Trump's Israel positioning Jon has heard from anyone in the administration. Tucker Carlson, who spent months calling Trump a slave to Netanyahu, is now posting clips calling the deal a betrayal, and Jon asks whether Tucker is running an op, just being inconsistent, or both. California's US attorney announced he expects election fraud charges while simultaneously explaining that proving outcome-determinative fraud requires charging thousands of voters, which Jon calls the real headline. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to limit the federal government's power to disarm marijuana users. The federal probe expanded to America Votes, a major NGO funding the Ohio voter mobilization network, and Jon is genuinely enthusiastic about going after the NGO money trail. Jon also casually reveals he built a fully functional AI news aggregator that posts automatically to Twitter and has some other projects coming soon.

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