Leo Hohmann – Leo’s Newsletter April 21, 2026
President Donald Trump was said by a former CIA analyst to have requested a nuclear code during a heated exchange in a White House meeting with top national security aides on the night of Saturday, April 18.
The original source of this report, Larry Johnson, appeared on an April 20 podcast hosted by former Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano. You can watch the video below in which Johnson made the claim (fast forward to the 4:35 mark).
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Let me start by saying, this is a very serious allegation from a very serious person.
Larry Johnson is not just any podcast schmuck whose claims can be summarily dismissed or ignored.
He’s a former CIA analyst who later served as deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism from 1989 to 1993.
Two days after the fact, Johnson’s claim is still being talked about and passed around online. When a bombshell story the deep state doesn’t want out goes viral like that, a legacy media outlet can always be counted on to run an article saying it was baseless and false. Nothing to see here, move along.
Enter Newsweek. It posted a nearly 600-word article today, April 21, in which it quoted a “White House spokesperson” saying Johnson’s claim was false. As if any White House spokesperson would corroborate such a story even if it were true. If they had confirmed the story, I can guarantee you they’d have been fired immediately, and then crucified in the media to the extent that they’d never get another job in Washington as long as they lived.
Johnson should have cited his evidence for such a claim. I don’t like it when things are just thrown out there, with no citation. But who knows what types of consequences he faced if he had said anything more specific than what he said in that April 20 podcast.
Interestingly, Newsweek did confirm that a high-level meeting of Trump’s national security team did take place Saturday night at the White House. And the look on General Caine’s face as he exited did appear dire. But exactly what was discussed at the meeting and whether there was an intense moment over whether nukes should be used against Iran, we may never know. Or perhaps we will find out the truth about the April 18 meeting some years after Trump is out of office, or even deceased.
One thing specifically mentioned in the Newsweek article that I disagree with is that the military has no ability to stop a president from giving an order for a nuclear strike. While technically this is true, it’s the military that holds the cards and it’s the military that has to execute the president’s order, so if the military officers believe they are being given an illegal order, they absolutely have the right, and the duty, to disobey.
Remember, we are dealing with a president who just two weeks ago threatened to end an entire civilization, a threat that many took as a reference to nuclear annihilation. This same president’s mental capabilities have been widely called into question in recent days since that statement and other bizarre statements have come from Trump’s mouth and keyboard.
There was also a mainstream media report last week, from the generally pro-Trump Wall Street Journal, that Trump had to be physically removed from the White House situation room during the downed-pilot rescue mission over Iran on Good Friday. He “screamed at aides for hours” and was then “kept out of the room” while his team was given minute-by-minute updates, according to the WSJ report.
Does this sound like a man who would hesitate to order a civilization-ending nuclear attack on a country and people that have frustrated his efforts to conquer them at every turn?
Again, I’m not saying this controversy happened. I wasn’t there. And the source of the story did not give verifiable details. All I am suggesting is that Newsweek is not a reliable source to investigate the validity of Johnson’s statement.
But this much I do know: Larry Johnson is not known for spewing lies or outright fabrications. I’ve been watching him for years in interviews with Napolitano and others and found him to be an extremely reliable and credible source.
If it comes down to his word against some anonymous White House staffer, it’s no contest as to who I would believe.
And the fact that a major legacy (read lapdog) media outlet like Newsweek had to run cover for the deep state to “debunk” this story tells me it is more than likely true.
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> President Donald Trump was said by a former CIA analyst to have requested a nuclear code during a heated exchange in a White House meeting with top national security aides
1. He’s saying “President Donald Trump” to back up the idea trump (and all of them) have some kind of right to control you.
2. “former CIA analyst” – there’s no such thing as former cia anything. If he exists, then he’s still cia.
3. “requested a nuclear code” – LOL. Imagine the scene: “I want the code”. “You can’t have it until you eat all of your carrots”. It’s BS to make you believe he has access to “codes” – be afraid, be very afraid.
4. “during a heated exchange” – to make you think every time your “leader” gets angry he’ll launch a “nuke”.
5. “top national security aides” – rothschild runs every country, so these people are vapor too.
In short, that’s one futha mucka of a loaded sentence. Memorise it and be happy.
Scare tactics folks.
Chernobyl — reactor 1986. Where is all of the “nuclear fallout”?
Hiroshima 1945 — where is all of the “nuclear fallout” ??
Nagasaki 1945 — where is all of the “nuclear fallout” ???
The SATT ( scum at the top ) want us afraid – very afraid. So how better than to say they have a doomsday weapon that can destroy the world? As if the SATT would destroy the world and themselves in it. Stupid and makes no sense, so therefore it’s a lie.
Since the war of aggression against Iran, I have listened to Johnson, Ritter, and other “experts”. My opinion has changed about them WRT their sincerity. While previously I had summarily dismissed them because of the non-existence of “nukes” and believing them conscious disinformationalists, I now see them like intelligent medieval theologians. All belief systems are axiomatically drive. Just like intelligent Churchmen “deriving” worldview from their religion, these pundits are within their own reference system, iron logicians.
Religious beliefs – nay beliefs that are held close to people hearts – are unreachable by reason. Indeed, the founding axioms are the basis for “reason”…
Of course, the same critique could be made of those of us denying the existence of “nukes”. For my own part, I once believed in them as is the “default” setting for the majority. By the same token, I was confirmed at twelve in the Church of England; it was what my environment informed me was right… “When I was a child I thought like a child,” so to speak…
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The interesting question – that can be applied to other secrets as well as “nukes” and “Jesus” – is how compartmentalisation works. Specifically: Is Trump “in the loop”? does he believe in “nukes”?
As we know “real government” is not invested in the puppets in Parliament and Congress. The issue of secrets – nay myths – is therefore related to the nature of governance itself. We are told that higher levels of the masons – or related hierarchies – continually reveal “truths” to the initiates…
Returning to the liked of the featured “expert”, I don’t believe this sincerity can be faked. So, yes, the substance of “what government REALLY is”, naturally flows from a consideration of the nuke hoax… Just as the talking heads are best when they are uninformed narcissists – whether they be Trump or Icke – the geopolitical theologians unwittingly serve the system best when they are true to themselves by not questioning the underlying metaphysics…
I don’t believe we know of the specific people that form this transnational government, but I know the Rothschild syndicate will be there at the top. But yeah, on the other side of the bulkheads of withheld deep secrets believed by most resides those who really govern…
This interview needs to be force-fed to the pro-Trump fake media in the UK – GB News and Sky in particular – that deliberately and selectively cherry pick Zio presstitutes to make sure there is zero factual opposition to challenge those in-your-face 100% lies masquerading as ‘’news’’!
Johnson may well be a reliable source but then again he is also a firm believer in the official 9/11 narrative and has said many times how ‘Islamic terrorists’ and Bin Laden were responsible for bring the towers down – so what are we to make of that? Well – he’s either as dumb as a box of frogs or he’s pushing the agenda for his own agenda. Its one or the other. In which case i think we have to be careful when taking his other arguments into account
Nuclear weapons are looking and sounding more and more like a Trojan horse every day.
Do they exist?
Only to bomb those counties whom America claims are trying to build them…
The Iranians have said Trump is asking to extend the ceasefire while they are not, and it looks like when the ceasefire deadline ends Iran will continue the war. They say it’s a ploy by Trump to give the US time to get up to something else, all while saying he tried for peace but Iran didn’t want it, all while he refuses to withdraw his illegal blockade as though this act of war is a big fat nothing.
Trump’s playing politics with words to call his war a US win.
LJ is a “former cia” bullshitter, and still likes to misdirect. Has cia stamped on his forehead. Furthermore there are No nukes. It’s a fraud, a major lie told to children for years and years. But trump, whichever version of his that sits and drools at his seat in meetings probably believes in the myth of A bombs, while his military advisors know full well and just dont have the heart to let DT in on it. The man might scream or something.
British-born man accused of ‘pure evil’ shooting spree dies in jail
Story by Dave Clark • 9h •
A British-born man, suspected of killing three people in the US state of Georgia, has died in jail.
Olaolukitan Adon Abel, 26, a US Navy veteran, was found unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday evening,
look at his name, how can he be British ?
its nonsense like this which is so offensive to real british people
Maybe it would be a good thing if the American and Israeli assholes actually used their nukes, because it would only be a short time before the Iranians were able to retaliate in kind, taking out Wall Street, the US capital, the Pentagon and Israel. But, how could there be such a “leak” as this unless it was deliberate, and intended to be another existential threat against Iran, in the fakery and hollowness of the Trump bargaining tactics.
The US and Israel know full well that if it did use nukes on Iran that it would only be a matter of days or even hours in which some nation would give Iran enough of them to hit US and Israeli targets with their supersonic missiles. Short of that scenario, every other nation would heed and apply UN total boycott resolutions against those two nations despite US and UK veto powers, or any other veto power.
We have to ask ourselves if it is only an actual nuclear war, or the threat of one, which will bring the people to their senses and to wake up to the fact of the absolute criminality of the lords of power and their appointed ruling classes, and how and why it is that the worst of the worst who are always able to fix things to gain various powers and privileges in order to plunder and exploit the less powerful – looting the weaker people everywhere of their basic rights, lives, property, security, health and homes.
The truth about the US is reflected by its very capital. Nothing which comes out of it can be trusted. It is a place where money and special interests rule, and that is why the international Jewry has been so successful in completing its corruption and taking over the entire nation. In the manners of their prodigy nation, Israel, and their controls over the US, they have placed themselves above and beyond all time-tested, universal moral limits and conventions, not to make the world a better place, but for the extension of their criminal extortion, plundering, exploitation and murdering rackets.
The underlying philosophy of the US is still “pragmatism”, and it is not the pragmatism of Willian James which was tempered by the Christian faith on the basis that “it worked”. Later on in the 20th century, and in the complete abandonment of that faith in exchange for the might-makes-right side of things with money, bribes, extortion, and intimidation being the tickets to power, all tempering of their designs with honesty and the traditional virtues which were supported by that faith also fell by the wayside.
Outside of their exceedingly corrupt capital, which is nothing but a whorehouse of special interests, the actual character (or what is left of it) for the average American is now seen in their relativistic and dissociated views based on what they believe in which to them there is as much validity in fantasy as their is in the truth, with most of them so dumbed down and fragmented that there is hardly a consensus on anything but the image of their flag, regardless of the charlatans, liars and buffoons waving it – leaving the worst of the worst in charge of everything to do what they deem as “necessary” – with absolutely no moral limits – which “coincidentally” is exactly the same as the situation in Israel.
If anyone is really interested in how and why crooks and gangsters such as Trump and Netanyahu are in the top appointed positions of power, they ought to get a copy of Victor Thorn’s spectacular exposé – “The New Order Exposed”, pp. 399-404 – the section entitled “The CIA & Organized Crime – The Two Sides of the Same Coin.
NUKES do NOT exist…
Nuke codes?? go ahead and push that ol launch button….( crickets ).
NUKES have NOT been tested above ground..its all (((Special Effects ))).
No way to accurately calculate the blast zone.
What if Iran gave up its Uranium ?
Then what ?
Peace on earth ? Goodwill to all men ? bwhahahahaha !!!!
Ir’s a red herring ..just like K*Kes invasions of Gaza and Lebanon ((( Hamas ))) and Hezbollah to kill hundreds of innocents to get the imaginary terrorist/s.
“…..Hey look he might be hiding under that pop can ….send in whats’ left of the Markov Tanks . OY!!! ”
((( BONUS ))) = kill Non Jews children because they may/will grow up to kill Jews.
Call K*kes bluff…shite or get off the pot..
…..that IS their main fear ….MOSSAD ….” War via deception.”
Once exposed ??? = Toast !!!
LOL..
‘Larry Johnson’.. which means that ‘intel’ are stirring the pot of horseshit..
I wonder why..
lolo
The inability of the ignoranti to identify the obvious, that nukes are hoax, allows ZOG to continue using the illusory threat as a psychological weapon, instilling fear in the minds of the plebs and as a Casus belli which is currently being used to justify attack on Iran, which allegedly has been ‘on the verge’ of possessing nukes for 40 years. It also allows Ziostan to bluff the world with their phony ‘Samson option’ using a non-existent technology as a retaliatory threat against any coalition of countries that might wake up and attempt to excise that cancerous growth of a country.
Here’s a laugh:
https://rense.com/general98/Most_Photographed/
In that, you get absolute groundbreaking world shattering monumental life altering proof that saint kirk was… something or other.
I particularly like this at the bottom:
“Social media thieves continue stealing our groundbreaking work,
none more heinous than someone named ‘Val’ who is clearly a
zionist or working for them.”
What’s “groundbreaking” about 300 copies of the same photo? Adding a gay “pride” arrow? Anyway, wasn’t our saint “killed” from the right? No! Now it’s the left. Right vs left. Do you see it? It’s the one party system!
I don’t care what the “videos” show. It doesn’t matter. I’ve seen a video of dump, nutjob and putin partying together. They picked up saint kirk on a blanket and tossed him in a van, which is exactly what you’d do with someone shot in the (insert wherever you think the bullet went). Not.
Then there’s all the other crap from mrs saint and the nonexistent kids.
And for the cherry on top: dump, vance, nutjob, putin, starmer, macron, merz, rutte and god knows who else all “paid tribute” to this guy no one had heard of before he faked his death. Did they ever mention him before? Have they since? (Dump does because he parties with the mrs.) Mr “my ear, my ear”!
FFS. Come on…
mercury Amalgam Set to Be Phased out by 2034 to Reduce Toxic Mercury Exposures
Health & Environment 11/11/20
While 50 countries, including the European Union’s 27 member states, have already phased out dental amalgam, typically a mix of liquid mercury and silver, many countries, including the United States, continue to allow the use of the amalgam in dental procedures. Mercury is a highly toxic element and exposure to even small quantities of it can cause developmental delays in children as well as affect the nervous, digestive and immune systems,
IF you spill Mercury on the floor they will send outa team of men in one piece suits to did it out of the floor boards,
yet they put it in your mouth ?
If you eat hard food say nuts, the mercury released vapours which by way of the brain stem, dumb you down and lower your intelligence
The expression ” mad as a hatter ” comes from the hat makers who used mercury in the hat making process, affecting them badly.
Some years ago the mercury mines were almost redundant, but that nice mr Rothschild made the decision to fill peoples teeth with it.
The Mercury Amalgam in your teeth expands and contracts, and will crack your teeth needing the tooth to come out.
It was one of the most evil things to put one of the most toxic elements in the world into peoples teeth.
most young people would never fight for Britain
Story by Daniel Martin • 11h
Officer cadets at Sandhurst last week. most of those polled, who were aged 16 to 29, said that ‘under no circumstances’ would they go to war – Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
most young people say they would never take up arms for the UK, a poll has found, as its not worth fighting for
Asked whether they would be willing to go to war for Britain, almost all of those aged 16 to 29 said that “under no circumstances” would they go to war.
Only a few said they would do so “under some circumstances”, while the rest said no
It is the latest survey to suggest that Gen Z is much less willing than older generations, and exposes the feeing that what has the government done for us, filling the country with migrants, giving our jobs and homes to them, the covid scam and allowing 1400 white girls to be abused continually, multiculturalism was a total failure
most said they felt the political system was racist treated UK folk unfairly.
Why fight for a country that isn’t fighting for you?’ and replacing us with migrants
“The idea that the next generation will have it better than previous ones has been a founding belief for decades,” he said.
“Today’s poll shows that the majority of this generation of young people no longer believe it to be true. And it reveals their loss of belief is collapsing at speed.
“Locked out of the housing market, pinned down by low wages, loaded by student debt, and increasingly worried about the rise in AI, young people today feel a growing sense of racism and unfairness from government
The impact of migrants on jobs was ranked as the top threat by most young people.
Most believe immigration has destroyed their communities, and migrants should be put into the services for the coming war or sent home
The number of young people who said they preferred the present dictatorship to democracy has fallen compared to last year, from 27 per cent last year to 17 per cent this year.
Cardigan
https://www.unz.com/article/is-there-a-way-out-of-the-iran-war-w-john-mearsheimer/#comment-7592139
“How this ends. Trump will continue to attack Iran because he is a willing whore of Israel. Trump will attempt to us nuclear weapons to blow Iran off the map, but his own generals won’t allow him. A crisis between the executive and military will escalate. The generals will go along with more bombing, but it will accomplish nothing as Ryan Dawson patiently explains, there are no negotiations, Trump is just making shit up in preparation for war, Trump will blame Iran for failure of negotiations (which don’t exist).
RYAN DAWSON ARGUES THE WAR WILL RESTART
Ryan Dawson Apr 21, 2026
Video Link
Trump only exists to prosecute this war for Israel. Trump was put into power by Netanyahu, Trump’s entire cabinet was handpicked by Netanyahu. Trump’s assassination attempt was hoaxed to put Trump in so he would do the bidding of Israel. The idea that Trump is negotiating to stop this war is ludicrous. The MSM war narrative has nothing to do with reality. Trump is building up forces for another attack. Peace/cease fire/negotiations is total utter bullshit. Israel wants Iran destroyed, but so far war whore Trumpenstein has failed his masters.
Note how warmonger Evangelical loon Hegseth was picked to run the war department. Netanyahu needs real villains to run the USA and get his war on – he wants Iran completely fractured and destroyed for the Greater Israel project. But that won’t happen, Iran has a spiritual calling to win even under extreme duress, by not collapsing, it is Israel that falls, not Iran. This is already happening, it is Iran’s destiny IMO.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODl_bqGecRI
pay close attention, Ryan Dawson says Japan and China are going to coordinate selling Treasury bonds
remember what I keep telling you, interest rates are going to the moon
see the charts I posted here:
https://www.unz.com/runz/will-donald-trumps-iran-war-crash-the-global-economy/#comment-7590375
I am far more concerned that Us & Israel have nuclear weapons than if Iran had them. Forgetting this story entirely, trump is clearly unhinged and compromised. And he has access to nuclear codes. The world really has gone mad that it allows it.
dilambert@live.com bury st edmonds – He may be British but, he definitely isn’t English.
NUKLEAR bombs exist in many nations and those
dening it here are shills or something else like keeping
the people sleepy in CIA/Mossads interests !
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