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April 5 — A false report claiming former President Donald Trump was seriously ill and hospitalized spread rapidly across U.S. social media on April 4 local time, igniting widespread speculation. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung clarified: "Over this Easter weekend, President Trump has been working tirelessly at the White House and Oval Office." After Trump’s social media account posted about a "missing pilot being rescued," Cheung added: "Let those disgusting reporters who disgracefully question the president’s whereabouts see what he’s actually doing." The White House also pushed back against online rumors via its official account: "When President Trump goes 12 hours without a media interview, these mentally deranged liberal figures start fabricating absurd conspiracy theories. (Yet when Biden can go 12 days without a media interview, they say nothing.) Don’t worry! President Trump has never stopped working." It also slammed accounts spreading the "Trump hospita

Fox News reported on April 5 that former President Trump says he believes he can strike a deal with Iran by Monday, with U.S.-Iran talks currently underway. Trump adds that if no deal is reached soon, he’s considering blowing up key targets and seizing Iran’s oil. Additionally, he claims the U.S. provided guns to Iranian protesters via the Kurds earlier this year—but contends those weapons were left behind by the Kurds.

April 5 – A Peninsula TV analyst said Trump’s latest post shows there’s clearly no progress in U.S.-Iran negotiations, nor any effort to bridge the gap between the two sides. Combined with the Iran Revolutionary Guard’s remarks in the past few hours that any attack on civilian infrastructure will trigger equal retaliation, we’re at a critical moment. Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants, while Iran has also threatened reciprocal retaliation targeting civilian infrastructure in the Gulf region and Israel.

On April 5th, Reuters reported that the OPEC+ committee raised concerns during its Sunday meeting over attacks on energy assets amid the U.S.-Israel and Iran conflict, noting repairs to affected facilities are costly and time-consuming—hitting supply. In a statement, the committee stressed the critical importance of safeguarding international maritime routes to ensure uninterrupted energy flows. It also voiced concern about strikes on energy infrastructure, adding that restoring damaged assets to full capacity is both expensive and time-intensive, weighing on overall supply capacity. Per PolyBeats monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket, the probability WTI crude oil closes above $130 in a single day has climbed to 51%, while the chance it exceeds $120 has risen to 80%.

April 5 (Wednesday) — Michael Saylor, founder of Strategy, again released information related to the Bitcoin Tracker, stating, "?ack to Work." Per past patterns, Strategy typically discloses its Bitcoin accumulation details the day after sharing such related news.

April 5 — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced early on April 5 that its Navy and Aerospace Force jointly executed the 96th wave of the “True Promise-4” operation. In a statement, the IRGC said it launched fierce attacks on the Haifa refinery (which supplies fuel to Israeli warplanes), destroying its core facilities. It also targeted ExxonMobil and Chevron gas facilities in Habshan, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and a petrochemical plant in Ruwais, UAE, with missiles. Additionally, multiple petrochemical facilities in Sitra, Bahrain, and Shuwaikh, Kuwait, were struck by drones and missiles. Those sites were fully shut down, and large-scale fires broke out. Source: CCTV News