Trump’s Iran and Immigration Pivot Sparks MAGA Civil War
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What recent attacks have heightened tensions in the U.S.?
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And I also think the longer that DHS is shut down, the more it's in the news. So I actually don't think it's going to go away for them. And I also think it's not going to even work among their own base. Their base voted for that. Like, that's what they want. Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Jessica Tarliff. And I'm Aaron Parnas. In today's episode, we're going to be discussing the latest terror attacks on American soil, why MAGA is furious over Trump's Iran war and his latest immigration pivot, and why James Clyburn is bucking calls for generational change. As a reminder, Raging Moderates is five days a week with new episodes dropping every weekday evening on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere else.
In addition to being five days a week, Raging Moderates is now on Substack. Subscribers will get ad-free episodes, live streams, and a place to engage with me and Scott and other listeners. It's a very fun community. Find us at ragingmoderates.profgmedia.com. And this weekend, we're going live on Substack from South by Southwest with James Tallarico at 3.30 p.m. Eastern. We're super excited. Make sure that you tune in and subscribe. Let's start with the attack on a Michigan synagogue. A man drove a truck straight into a synagogue outside Detroit on Thursday, crashing through the doors of Temple Israel before being confronted by security guards in an exchange of gunfire. Authorities say the suspect, Ayman Ghazali, a 41-year-old restaurant worker who entered the U.S.
in 2011 and, according to early reports, got married to a U.S. citizen for immigration purposes, died at the scene. A security guard was injured but is expected to recover, and more than 100 preschool students were inside the building and were unharmed. Erin, what else do we know so far? I mean, that's kind of it. We don't know too much. We don't really know the motivations behind why he did it. What we do know, though, is that that security guard, I mean, was a hero. Without that security guard, a lot of kids would have died. Because I think the CNN was reporting that there were explosives found in the car as well. And thankfully, those explosives didn't go off. And ultimately... the security guard was only injured and will make a full recovery.
So it's a very scary situation, but I think a lot of, and you know this as well as anyone, Americans are right now are, I feel like everyone has such heightened tensions right now, right? Like what's happening overseas and like, the possible threats here at home. I know there are a lot of people who are worried about homeland attacks, also worried about so-called false flag attacks. I mean, there are a lot of issues that are circulating. And I mean, this doesn't make anyone's nights any more kind of restful, if that makes sense. There was also a shooting at Old Dominion University, a 36-year-old named Mohamed Baylor Jala, a former Virginia National Guardsman and a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone, who pled guilty in October of 2016 to attempting to provide support to ISIS.
He was sentenced in 2017 and released in December 2024, which was five years early. One angle on this that I think is really important is, is the spike in these seemingly Islamic terrorist attacks on American soil and also the fact that President Trump has said that there are a bunch of Iranian terror cells and that he knows where all of them are.
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