A week of victory for Trump, but his war with the deep state rages on
'We've had a big week. We've had a lot of victories this week,' Donald Trump boasted on Friday as he made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room after securing a win in the Supreme Court towards ending birthright citizenship. It capped off, a grinning president explained, a great week for his administration.
On the list of achievements: a ceasefire between Israel and Iran after American strikes on Tehran's nuclear sites and Mark Rutte, the Nato chief, calling the president 'daddy' for getting EU leaders to finally cough up on defence. 'We're cooking. In the first few weeks, they hadn't got their sea legs. Now they've got their sea legs,' one member of the administration said.
Yet there is one thing raining on 'daddy's' parade — is Trump's Iran success quite what he says it is? This is the debate dividing Washington after the White House was left furious by a leaked preliminary intelligence report by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that assessed the American strike had merely delayed Iran's nuclear ambitions by a few months. The findings were in stark contrast to the US president's claim in his address to the nation last Saturday that the nuclear programme was 'OBLITERATED'.
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