# FiveStack: Trump Surrenders; Melania's First Lady Scandal; Vance Bombs On The View; Bibi Loses It in Court

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Published: 2026-06-16T21:24:57+00:00
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Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Donald Trump spent Tuesday losing. He lost a Vice President’s defense on live daytime television, lost his closest foreign ally in an Israeli courtroom, lost a court fight over his immigration freeze, and — on the show’s biggest story — signed away a decade of American pressure on Iran in a deal he admits he hasn’t read. On The Fivestack, Zev Shalev and Dean Blundell counted five stories down from five to one, and every one of them pointed the same direction: a regime running on cover stories, and an opponent who keeps winning in court while the President signs surrenders abroad. 5️⃣ Vance Wanted the List. Now He Buries It. JD Vance went on The View to sell a memoir about faith and walked into an Epstein buzzsaw. He told the hosts “we’re not holding anything back,” then spent two minutes explaining why two and a half million pages remain sealed. He called himself “kind of a conspiracy theory on the Epstein stuff,” waved off the New York Times report that he ran Situation Room strategy on the files, and kept reaching for the same alibi: “I was inside the room.” Ana Navarro did the work the Vice President would not. Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act under duress, she said, only after Republican women — Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene — refused to fold, and after he dragged Boebert into the Situation Room to break her. “That’s all true,” Vance conceded. As the team has reported, Trump has since spent months destroying the four Republicans who forced those files open. Two of them are the women Navarro named. 4️⃣ Netanyahu Loses the Room While Vance defended the President, Benjamin Netanyahu was losing in a Jerusalem courtroom. On the last day of cro…

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