The Daily Herold: 10/8/26 - Trump’s Obama Remarks, the Microsoft H-1B Crackdown & Fauci’s Diary

Jon Herold goes solo on Thursday's Daily Herold, opening with a laugh at a White House post that pushes "superintelligence" over "artificial intelligence," then playing Trump's statement that the U.S. will not attack Iran before the midterms, a denial Jon predicted on the Power Hour. He covers RFK Jr.'s new NIH initiative to study vaccine injuries, new Fauci diary entries disparaging Trump, and the State Department's decision not to host OSCE observers for the midterms, while chat debates Marco Rubio's speech in Greece and a Rubio-versus-Vance future. The heart of the show is Trump's remark that he could have gone after Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama but held back out of respect for the presidency. Jon reads it as a change in rhetoric on accountability and hopes he's wrong. He then walks through a list of Trump's accomplishments, separating what Trump did on his own from what Congress passed, like the Laken Riley and HALT Fentanyl acts, and highlights the administration's $6 billion science push and its move against Microsoft over H-1B hiring. He closes with new charges against Nicolás Maduro and the economy's role in a tough midterm outlook for Republicans.