A political strategist and journalist linked to the government of the United Arab Emirates has taken to social media almost daily to criticize President Trump’s strategy in the war with Iran, irking Mr. Trump’s allies who wonder what the Middle Eastern nation is doing.
Amjad Taha has been photographed with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and, according to a document reviewed by “Seen, Heard & Whispered,” was paid more than $5 million by a government court.
Those in the Trump orbit say Mr. Taha’s criticism of the U.S. war against Iran is being orchestrated by the UAE government.
But Mr. Taha’s criticism strikes a dissonant note for a nation that is usually seen as a U.S. ally.
A source close to the White House said the UAE should shut down Mr. Taha.
“President Trump and Vice President [J.D.] Vance are negotiating a peace deal to end the war. It is shameful that a top paid attack dog for the UAE president is undermining that peace by publicly attacking President Trump. If the UAE is a serious ally of the United States, they should stop funding Taha and publicly condemn him for his attacks on Trump and the U.S. peace deal,” the source said.
In his posts, Mr. Taha has said the Iran war is sapping U.S. credibility and enhancing the prestige of Iran’s mullahs, the theocratic leaders who are resisting Mr. Trump.
“Out of 8.2 billion people on Earth, Trump and JD Vance are the OnlyFans of the Islamic regime in Iran,” one post reads. “Trump promised America First but delivered MIGA: Make Iran’s Regime Great Again.”
In one post, Mr. Taha criticized Mr. Vance for defending negotiations with Iran.
“To JD Vance: No one is offering Iran a bad, humiliating deal except you. So stop blaming everyone else, naming other countries, and making excuses to justify your own historic mistake. You want nations to coexist with Hezbollah? Well, a big NO is the answer,” another X post reads. “Tehran understands [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio’s language, or even Hebrew, far better than it understands yours.”
Article III Project and Foundation to party this month in Iowa
Mike Davis’ Article III Project and Article III Foundation are famous in conservative circles for their packed parties in Washington.
Now the conservative political strategist is taking his show on the road, heading to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines later this month for a private bash.
Mr. Davis, who is from Iowa, planned the Aug. 20 event to celebrate the expected confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general and to fete Sen. Charles E. Grassley, who has represented Iowa for 45 years.
Mr. Davis worked for Mr. Grassley on the Senate Judiciary Committee, helping confirm President Trump’s judicial nominees such as Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
He also clerked for Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
Could an ’invasion’ thwart the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling?
Sen. Jim Banks, Indiana Republican, has a plan to counter the Supreme Court’s “generational error” in its ruling this summer that the Constitution grants automatic citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants in the U.S.
His answer: Declare illegal immigration as an “invasion.”
The high court said the grant of birthright citizenship has only a few exceptions for those who fall outside the “jurisdiction” of the U.S., such as babies born to diplomats and occupying armies. Those exceptions have been recognized for more than 125 years, dating back to an 1898 Supreme Court decision.
Mr. Banks’ bill, the Citizenship Act of 2026, would equate an illegal immigration invasion to an occupying army and declare that “children of invaders are not entitled to birthright citizenship.”
He figures that there is support for the idea among some members of the Supreme Court.
Justice Clarence Thomas said in his dissent in the birthright case that there’s a “consensus that citizenship would not have been granted to the children of invaders.”
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