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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

Trump’s AI ‘attack’ on Kharg Island should worry Congress. Mike Johnson won’t allow that

If House Speaker Mike Johnson hoped for a relatively calm week back in Washington after the August recess, President Donald Trump disabused him of that notion.

Over the weekend, the president posted a very realistic-looking AI-slop video on his Truth Social account showing the U.S. military attacking Kharg Island as part of its war in Iran. That sent the military scrambling and forced Pentagon sources to say that the key strategic island had not been set upon.

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