President Donald Trump is promoting a chilling Alan Dershowitz opinion piece that argues the war in Iran is necessary to stop Iran from obtaining and detonating a nuclear bomb — and to avert the possible deaths of millions of people around the world.

Calling Trump’s war a “preventive military action,” Dershowitz writes at The Hill that had a similar effort “been taken against the Nazi regime in the 1930s, it might have saved as many as 50 million lives.”

“If the military attack against Iran succeeds in preventing it from developing a nuclear arsenal, it too may prevent millions of deaths — we will never know how many,” says Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus.

He warns that if the war is successful the world will never know how many lives it has saved — but if it fails, we will learn the costs “the hard way.”

Dershowitz offers a comparison, saying that had Great Britain and France been more proactive in the period before World War II, and destroyed Hitler’s Nazi regime, thousands of people would still have died. The nations who engaged in such a preventive war “would have been condemned,” rather than “praised for preventing the millions of deaths that ultimately followed, however, since we would never know about them.”

He also blames them for not taking such action, saying they could have prevented World War II.

Dershowitz makes the same argument in favor of Trump’s and Israel’s war against Iran, and asks, aren’t the U.S. and Israel “entitled,” or “obligated” to “eliminate or at least reduce that risk by preventive military action?”

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An election expert told a federal judge that the witnesses the FBI relied on during its investigation that led to the seizure of ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, misunderstood elections.

Former U.S. Election Assistance Commission official Ryan Macias, “testified that the list of irregularities the FBI identified didn’t represent a crime and that the witnesses the government based their investigation on appeared misinformed,” NBC News reported.

The witnesses the FBI cited “use contradictory terminology and it represents a misunderstanding of how elections work,” Macias said.

Macias also told a judge that the evidence the Bureau used to justify the controversial seizure of the ballots “doesn’t make sense.”

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Fulton County officials submitted a sworn declaration from Macias, who had advised the county during the 2020 election, the Associated Press reported. He said the Justice Department’s affidavit contains “a multitude of false or misleading statements and omissions” and offered explanations for the alleged “deficiencies.”

Fulton County is suing to force the return of its election materials. Its attorney, Abbe Lowell “criticized the government’s witnesses and information, which were laid out in a since-unsealed sworn affidavit that is ‘full of inaccuracies,'” NBC reported.

Lowell also argued that the government’s witness list couldn’t be trusted because it included “someone who was sanctioned twice by the courts for lying about elections.”

The person Lowell referred to, NBC reported, was Kurt Olsen, “a Republican who tried to overturn the 2020 election results. Olsen was appointed by President Donald Trump to investigate the 2020 election from within his administration.”

Lowell also told the judge that there was no crime because there was no proof of intentional wrongdoing.

“The only element that turns normal election irregularities into crime is intent,” he said.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appeared to contradict the commander-in-chief on Friday, speaking on the administration’s war efforts in Iran.

“We’re going to destroy their navy, we are going to destroy their air force, and we are going to significantly destroy their missile launchers so they can never hide behind these things to get a nuclear weapon,” Secretary Rubio said, according to CNN. He also insisted the U.S. military is “ahead of schedule” on these goals.

But according to President Donald Trump, those goals were already completed.

“We’re having, by the way, a tremendous success, as you know, in Iran,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “We had one in Venezuela, and now we’re having one in Iran.”

“They have no Navy left. They have no Air Force left. They have no anti aircraft equipment left, no radar left, no leaders left. The leaders are all gone,” he said.

“Nobody knows who to talk to,” Trump continued, despite having also insisted that he is in productive negotiations with Iran. “But we’re actually talking to the right people and they want to make a deal so badly. You have no idea how badly they want to make a deal.”

Iran has publicly denied it is negotiating with the United States.

CNN also reported that Rubio said “that the US can achieve its objectives in the Iran war ‘without any ground troops,’ as more than 1000 extra service members have been ordered to deploy to the region.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP: We’re having tremendous success in Iran. They have no navy, no air force, no anti-aircraft equipment, no radar, no leaders left.

You have no idea how badly they want to make a deal and we’ll see what happens. pic.twitter.com/VXD0fokxxw

— Department of State (@StateDept) March 24, 2026

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