Marc Caputo

U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile Preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon is one of Trump's stated war objectives.

🇺🇸🇮🇷☢️U.S. weighs sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile. @barakravid.bsky.social
and I write for @axios.com

www.axios.com/2026/03/08/i...

Under threat, Iraqi Kurds resist pressure to Iran war "The Kurds must not be the tip of the spear in this conflict," an Iraqi Kurdish official told Axios.

Tehran threatened “massive” attacks Friday on Iraqi Kurds if they helped Iranian Kurds attack

But Iraq’s Kurds tell @axios they just want to stay neutral & believe an invasion —pushed much more by Israel than the US— could be disastrous

w/@barakravid

www.axios.com/2026/03/07/i...

How the ice finally broke under Kristi Noem "She burnt up a ton of goodwill," a Trump adviser said. "It was everywhere. It was everything."

It wasn’t 1 thing —it was everything that led Trump to fire Noem

Like the nearly $300m plane deal and the way she & Lewandowski allegedly enticed the First Lady to fly on one of the luxury jets as an “insurance policy” to justify it

w/@brittanyagibson

www.axios.com/2026/03/06/k...

Scoop: Trump officials broker massive U.S.-Venezuela gold deal The arrangement shows the tightening commercial bounds between Venezuela and the U.S.

Scoop: Trump officials broker Venezuela oil deal to bring as many as 1,000 kilograms of gold bars to the U.S. market

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who met with Venezuela's acting president, helped shepherd the contract along

www.axios.com/2026/03/05/t...

Exclusive: The Trump-Netanyahu call that changed the Middle East The call answers the question the world has been asking since Saturday: why now?

Last Monday, Netanyahu gave Trump a stunning tip: the ayatollah could be killed in a Tehran sneak-attack

The CIA confirmed it

Trump ordered the strike Saturday, altering the Middle East

The inside story of this historic week w/@barakravid

www.axios.com/2026/03/03/t...

Scoop: Trump calls Kurdish leaders in Iran war effort The Kurds have thousands of soldiers along the Iran-Iraq border.

Scoop: Trump calls Kurdish leaders in Iran war effort
w/ @barakravid.bsky.social

www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

Two months, two tracks: How Trump chose war with Iran In the end, Trump's ambiguity was itself a strategic asset.

💥🇺🇸🇮🇷Two months, two tracks: How Trump chose war with Iran. @barakravid.bsky.social and I write for @axios

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Scoop: US citizens were on stolen boat in deadly shooting with Cuba's coast guard Four people were killed and six injured in the incident Wednesday.

Scoop: US citizens were on stolen boat from Florida Keys in shooting with Cuba's coast guard that left 4 dead & 6 injured

One citizen dead, another injured

Rubio’s State Dept wants access to the 6 injured to find out what happened

www.axios.com/2026/02/26/u...

JD or Marco? Trump asking advisers about 2028 Trump has a new parlor game he's springing on advisers and guests.

Trump's 2028 Vance-Rubio straw poll

www.axios.com/2026/02/22/v...

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com

It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

Trump's Iran options: "Token" nuclear enrichment to taking out Khamenei "One scenario takes out the ayatollah and his son and the mullahs."

From “token” strikes on nuke sites to blowing up the ayatollah and the mullahs, Trump has a range of options for attacking Iran

“What the president chooses no one knows. I don't think he knows,” an adviser tells @BarakRavid & me

www.axios.com/2026/02/21/t...

Exclusive: Rubio's secret squeeze on Raul Castro's Cuba The talks show that the Trump administration sees 94-year-old revolutionary Raul Castro as the communist island's true decision-maker.

Rubio & El Cangrejo:

The Secretary of State has been holding secret talks with Raulito Castro who is the grandson & caretaker of Cuba's aging de facto dictator, Raul Castro, as the U.S. puts unprecedented pressure on Havana's regime, insiders tell @axios.com

www.axios.com/2026/02/18/m...

Rubio outlines MAGA's foreign policy doctrine in Munich His message dovetailed with Vice President Vance's address at the same conference last year — but was softer in tone and better received.

Rubio’s Make the West Great Again speech in Munich dovetailed with Vance’s a year ago

It’s another sign the 2 are on the same page and likelier than ever to run together in 2028 as Trump’s torchbearers

www.axios.com/2026/02/15/m...

Scoop: Cuba hardliners ask Trump's DOJ to indict Raul Castro It would be the latest move by his administration aimed at pressuring Cuba's struggling government to change its communist leadership.

Scoop: Cuba hardliners ask Trump's DOJ to indict Raul Castro for ordering the 1996 shootdown of the Brothers to the Rescue plane, killing four men

www.axios.com/2026/02/13/c...

Inside the "complicated" relationship between Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer Schumer and Trump have each other's numbers, both literally and figuratively.

INSIDE TRUMP-SCHUMER RELATIONSHIP

One of the only Dems who can work with Trump, Schumer makes it work by leaning on shared New York ties and familiarity from a long ago alliance between the men.

w/ @stephen_neukam

www.axios.com/2026/02/13/t...

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

Scoop: FBI chief heads to Tucson as Trump pledges help to find Savannah Guthrie's mom Trump said he's "directing ALL Federal Law Enforcement" to be at the family's and local law enforcement's disposal "IMMEDIATELY."

Scoop: Kash Patel heads to Tucson to search for Savannah Guthrie’s mom

AG Pam Bondi, who has known Guthrie for 25+ years, spoke to her on the phone today & is getting constant updates, @Axios has learned

And Trump has pledged support

w/@BecFalconer

www.axios.com/2026/02/05/s...

Trump tries gunboat diplomacy after wavering on Iran strikes "He really does not want to do it," a Trump adviser said of bombing Iran.

On Friday, Trump heads into talks with Iran bearing significant leverage: A massive military buildup in the Gulf that presents a credible military threat, and an Iranian regime left weaker and more isolated by massive protests

@barakravid.bsky.social & I

www.axios.com/2026/02/03/t...

Scoop: Epstein files include "hung like a horse" message to Clinton email "Sorry to hear that the Belzburg stuff is bad … I could not help myself," Maxwell wrote.

For the second time since he was impeached in 1998, questions about Bill Clinton’s penis are part of the national news cycle —this time due to a “hung like a horse” message sent by Epstein’s co-conspirator to the former president’s email

www.axios.com/2026/01/30/e...

Trump gets shy about firing his own There have been no high-level firings during Trump's second term.

You’re fired? Not so much this go around with Trump

3 reasons why w/@nrothschild3

www.axios.com/2026/01/29/t...

Scoop: Trump expecting favorable Panama Canal ruling to further "Donroe Doctrine" Removing Chinese influence in the canal zone is key to Trump's Western Hemisphere strategy.

Scoop: Trump expecting favorable Panama Canal ruling to further "Donroe Doctrine.”

www.axios.com/2026/01/29/t...

Update because I can’t edit the above: after this story posted, Miller called to make clear

1) that the information about the shooting was based on what Customs and Border Patrol told the admin at the time

2) CBP had not followed crowd-control protocol prior to the shooting

You remain a moron and a stalker

Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser

The man behind the Minnesota 'massacre' misinformation: Stephen Miller

Noem is telling others she feels hung out to dry and was just following WH direction

www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

"It was a mess": Inside Trump's pivot on Minnesota "It's f**ked, and POTUS knew he needed to unf**k it," an administration adviser told Axios.

“It's fucked, and POTUS knew he needed to unfuck it:” What we know about Trump’s Monday Minnesota moves

w/@brittanyagibson

www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

Gun-rights group says Noem, Patel are "fundamentally wrong" on Minnesota law Second Amendment and other allies are pushing back.

'Fundamentally wrong:' Gun groups, Republicans condemn Noem, Patel statements on right to bear arms in Minnesota

www.axios.com/2026/01/25/n...

Lewandowski back for another year as DHS's part-time power broker Despite being listed as a temp, Lewandowski exerts singular influence in day-to-day operations at DHS.

At an airport gate last week, Lewandowski loudly talked on his phone about contracts from DHS vendors last week for all to hear

It’s a sign he’s still the full-time power broker while working under as a part-time volunteer

w/ @brittanyagibson @axiosalex

www.axios.com/2026/01/23/c...

Vance's Minnesota trip to show "unwavering support" for ICE The administration isn't backing down from its controversial immigration raids and stops.

Vance is in Minnesota today, and he's not planning any peace offerings to Twin Cities officials and protesters opposed to the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.

w/@toreyvanoot

www.axios.com/2026/01/21/v...

Air Force One turned around en route to Switzerland and is heading back to the U.S. with the president aboard due to “minor electrical issue,” the White House says

Trump will board another plane and then continue on to Davos

Trump heads to Davos more aggressive and ambitious than ever A senior U.S. official said Davos attendees should prepare to be insulted.

Trump sees his Board of Peace as a NATO alternative, and he might draw that contrast in his speech in Davos

But there’s a giant Greenland-sized wrinkle in all of this…

@BarakRavid & I

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