{"id":68265,"date":"2026-06-18T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68265"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T22:56:33","slug":"the-great-deception-grand-distraction-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68265","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE GREAT DECEPTION &#038; GRAND DISTRACTION OF 2026<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68284\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hq720-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hq720-1.jpg 686w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hq720-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Submitted by\u00a0<em>An Armchair Political Analyst<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68265\">SOTN<\/a>\u00a0Exclusive<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll make this one very short, simple and sweet.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, Trump is in a world of hurt for many reasons but especially because of his cataclysmic unprovoked war of naked aggression against Iran.\u00a0 Then there is his proven complicity in the Epsteingate scandal hanging over his head.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>KEY POINT:<\/strong> Just like President Richard Nixon was taken down by the cover-up and not by the Watergate scandal itself (btw, he did not even know about the break-in beforehand as it was conducted as a US Intel Community black op to destroy his presidency), Trump will be taken down by his extremely desperate and highly organized cover-up of the Epsteingate scandal. See: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68295\">\u201cBury the Epstein Files!\u201d: PROOF OF AN ACTIVE CRIMINAL COVER-UP BY PRESIDENT TRUMP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In view of this very precarious predicament, Team Trump has been compelled to use the utterly fake Iran War peace process to do two things:<\/p>\n<h3>#1 &#8212; <strong>GREAT DECEPTION<\/strong>: Run out the clock until Election Day while deceiving the electorate that a bona fide peace process is taking place; it&#8217;s not real because it cannot be as long as Israel is hellbent on advancing their devastating <em>Great Israel<\/em> project.\u00a0 The Netanyahu junta simply will not stop until the Levant is conquered.<\/h3>\n<h3>#2 &#8212; <strong>GRAND DISTRACTION<\/strong>: Create as much captivating drama so that the &#8220;Epstein files&#8221; will fade into the background between now and Election Day.\u00a0 In 2026, &#8220;world war&#8221; trumps &#8220;sex scandals&#8221;, so Trump will maintain the specter of an apocalyptic Mideast war as long as possible to overshadow his extreme culpability with regard to Epsteingate.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68285\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-mou-doesnt-get-done-in-60-days-threatens-to-resume-bombing-if-iran-doesnt-comply.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-mou-doesnt-get-done-in-60-days-threatens-to-resume-bombing-if-iran-doesnt-comply.avif 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/if-mou-doesnt-get-done-in-60-days-threatens-to-resume-bombing-if-iran-doesnt-comply-300x169.avif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An Armchair Political Analyst<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68265\">State of the Nation<\/a><br \/>\nJune 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>SOTN Editor&#8217;s Note<\/p>\n<p>What better way to thoroughly captivate his global audience than for Trump to issue his latest in a series of mortifying and odious ultimatums like this one.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68395\"><b>LISTEN: POTUS THREATENS TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES\u2013AGAIN! \u201cIf \u2060I don\u2019t like it, we\u2019ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head,\u201d<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Then there are Trump&#8217;s extremely embarrassing attempts to convince the entire world community of nations that his &#8220;Epic Failure&#8221; clusterfuck was somehow a necessary invasion of Iran to prevent them from producing a nuclear weapon they vowed never to do. See: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68373\">G-7 Speech: Trump Explains His Horrible Decision To Invade Iran For Israel in a Rambling &amp; Egomaniacal Speech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All of which means that Drama Queen-in Chief Donald Trump will be starring in this White House <em>Theater of the Absurd<\/em> right up until Election Day.\u00a0 Because if the GOP loses both majorities, Trump literally goes to jail for the rest of his life after multiple impeachments by the House and convictions by the Senate (all justifiable unlike those of his first term).<\/p>\n<p>As for the current melodrama being calculatedly staged by both the Netanyahu camarilla and the Trump regime, there is only one explanation as follows: <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=68489\"><b>If you\u2019re wondering how VP Vance just got away with the most public thrashing of Bibi\u2019s junta and the U.S. Jewish mafia in Israel\u2019s history, read this spot-on analysis after\u2026..<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68265"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68516,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68265\/revisions\/68516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}