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Bombs Iran. Posts "PERFECTLY." Loses Alabama. Rewrites the Vote. Launders Through a Braque.

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FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev
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May 26, 2026
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Summary

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Iranian officials told Washington Monday to ignore Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts about a peace deal. They are, in the words a Tehran back-channel briefing used and the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Axios, Reuters and Al Jazeera later confirmed, “political theater for a domestic audience.” By Tuesday afternoon that read covered every story on Fivestack. The president walked into Walter Reed and walked out posting one word in all caps. He pulled his full cabinet to Camp David for tomorrow because the strike he ordered Monday collapsed the talks he had claimed Friday were nearly done. He demanded eight Sunni states join the Abraham Accords on one phone call and the line went silent. A federal court in Birmingham — two Trump-appointed judges on the panel — told Alabama its gerrymander was not “particularly complex or close.” And our own investigation published this morning showed where the money funding Jeffrey Epstein’s operation came from: a 1911 Georges Braque still life, a $30 million round-trip wire, and a bank that sat on three sides of the same table. Theater up top. Machinery underneath. 5️⃣ Walter Reed — Trump’s “PERFECTLY” and Nothing Else Donald Trump walked into Walter Reed Tuesday and walked out posting one word in all caps on Truth Social: PERFECTLY . That was the entire disclosure of the fourth publicly disclosed medical exam of his second term — the third Walter Reed visit in thirteen months. He turns eighty in June. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, Dick Cheney’s former personal physician, went on CNN and laid out what the camera shows: hand bruises covered with makeup (the White House said “handshakes”; Reiner called the explanation “not credible”), severe…