'Deceased' - President Donald Trump Administration Confirms The Worst
The U.S. Navy has provided a major update on its search for a missing crew member.
The crew member vanished after an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea.
The U.S. Navy has tragically announced that it has concluded a rescue effort that lasted more than 102 hours and scoured more than 14,000 square miles of open water.
The sailor was never discovered. Four other crew members were rescued from the water and survived.
The missing sailor, whose name is being withheld until relatives are notified, is the 14th American service member confirmed killed in the escalating war with Iran, the New York Post reported.
The helicopter was based on the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier.
It went down around 3:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, July 1, in waters within the area of responsibility of U.S. Central Command.
There is no evidence that hostile action was involved in the emergency landing, although the cause is still under investigation, military officials said.
The U.S. 5th Fleet issued a statement confirming the conclusion of the search. The language was spare and official.
“The efforts concluded following an extensive search by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility,” the statement said.
A second statement from the fleet command described the scope of the operation: “For more than 102 hours, an extensive and coordinated search and rescue effort spanning over 14,000 square miles was conducted.”
Equally remarkable is what the Navy didn’t say.
No cause has been given for the emergency landing. There is no explanation for the loss of one crew member and the recovery of the other four.
The sailor’s name is being withheld for now. This is the standard protocol for informing families of military casualties, but it leaves families and the public waiting for answers that could take weeks or months.
Fox News reported three of the four recovered crew members were in stable condition on the USS George H.W. Bush.
Three sailors were injured in the emergency landing itself.
The loss raised to 14 the official American toll of war dead in the fighting with Iran.
The number has slowly risen as U.S. forces operate across a volatile theater that stretches from the Arabian Sea through the Strait of Hormuz and into the broader Central Command footprint.
There have been harrowing episodes already in this conflict.
President Trump had previously promised to jail a leaker who disclosed a live rescue operation of a downed pilot in Iran, an act that highlighted the peril for American pilots and the security threat of unauthorized disclosures during active missions.
The campaign has seen flash points in the Arabian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. naval forces have had multiple encounters with Iranian forces, including the sinking of Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz as the administration warned Tehran of rising consequences.
Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. still wants a diplomatic solution, while President Trump wants to make a deal with Iran.
But diplomacy hasn’t stopped the operational tempo or the casualties.
It is worth noting the scale of the rescue effort. More than 102 hours of searching non-stop. 14,000 square miles of ocean.
The Navy and Air Force both committed assets to the operation. That’s no token gesture. That is a military that does not abandon its people without exploring all reasonable options.
The MH-60S Sea Hawk is a workhorse of naval aviation, performing combat support, logistics, search and rescue, and special operations.
It is not a delicate airplane.
Whatever forced the helicopter to make an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea before dawn will undergo a formal investigation.
Herridge Exposes ‘Deep State’ Figures Who Plotted Against Trump
President Trump spent his entire first term fighting political forces – seen and unseen – who didn’t want him in the White House because he was a legitimate outsider.
Over the years, there have been reports exposing who some of those players were, but now, thanks to ace investigative reporter Catherine Herridge, we are learning even more about who was involved in subverting Trump and his agenda, and which government agencies.
Herridge reported during an appearance on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight” last week that a senior member of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group, known as the DIG, described a pattern in which intelligence community officials acted on the belief that they needed to protect a globalist perspective by limiting certain information provided to policymakers, including Trump.
Herridge’s comments came amid discussion of recently declassified federal documents related to intelligence assessments from 2020 concerning China’s election influence operations.
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Those records, which were released in connection with a primetime address by Trump the prior week, included internal communications indicating that some intelligence reports had been edited to remove references linking China’s activities to the 2020 U.S. election.
One email dated Nov. 20, 2020, from a Strategic Intelligence Analyst specializing in China and North Korea assessments stated that officials had “deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President’s Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election.”
Herridge said she reviewed the declassified materials and found they were consistent with earlier whistleblower allegations that intelligence regarding China’s alleged multi-domain influence campaign—described as efforts to hinder Trump’s reelection and portray him negatively as a candidate—had been suppressed or altered.
During the interview, she also linked those findings to broader observations shared by a source within Gabbard’s investigative team.
“In the last week, I’ve been speaking with a very senior member of Director Gabbard’s investigations team known as the DIG,” she said.
“And what they told me is that they did see a pattern where there was a sense or a feeling in the intelligence community that they just knew better,” she added.
“They had to save President Trump from his own instincts, from his own tendencies, and that there was very much a globalist view. And they had to preserve a globalist view,” Herridge continued.
“So, whether it was downplaying or suppressing intelligence about the threat from China, whether it was giving a pass and calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation, there was this level of a bureaucracy, a kind of conspiracy that was making decisions about the kind of information that should be reaching policy makers and ultimately the commander-in-chief,” the former Fox News and CBS News correspondent noted.
The DIG, established during Gabbard’s tenure, examined a range of issues, including the origins of COVID-19, Crossfire Hurricane, Anomalous Health Incidents—commonly known as Havana Syndrome—and domestic surveillance practices.
Gabbard’s team also reviewed several intelligence community assessments produced during the Biden administration, concluding that some contained analytical shortcomings, including the selective exclusion of information and an overreliance on limited sourcing.
According to Herridge, her source said the DIG identified similar patterns across multiple investigations, suggesting that decisions about what intelligence was presented to senior government officials followed a consistent approach.
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Herridge also highlighted additional details from the declassified materials involving Nikki Floris, who at the time was a senior FBI official overseeing counterintelligence matters related to foreign influence operations.
The records included instant messages attributed to Floris that described internal discussions and dynamics within the FBI.
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