After the morning magazines of private television channels picked up on Margarita Robles' video, which the PP disseminated accusing her of supporting Trump, it was interesting to see if the midday news programs would repeat the thesis. It was necessary to check if the PP was capable of setting the journalistic agenda. In the midday edition of Telediario on La1, they denied the PP's version by offering the Moncloa version of the "I am comfortable". On La Sexta noticias, Helena Resano warned that the confusion had been intentional. And she added: "The hoax, the lie, was spread that Robles was with Trump. But Defense confirms that what she says is that she is comfortable. The Popular Party didn't care and bought the lie that she was supporting Trump".

Thursday morning, the Popular Party leaked a video to the X network of Minister Margarita Robles rebuffing the United States ambassador. The sound was very poor, but the tweet claimed that the Minister of Defense was saying “No, no, I’m with Trump...”. They added the transcription of the phrase over the image to reinforce the statement and show that Robles contradicted Sánchez’s “No to war.” Shortly after, Moncloa warned that it was a manipulation of the narrative. It provided the fragment of the video with more context to confirm that Robles was talking about the heating of the room and that she was actually saying “No, no, I’m comfortable”.The case is interesting to see the journey of a lie and understand how fake news spreads. The PP's tweet with Robles's video was posted online at 10:52 AM. Curiously, eight minutes earlier, at 10:44 AM, Ana Rosa Quintana warned that the PP had disseminated this video and announced it with the caption “Controversy. Latest news” on screen. A reporter from the program explained that, while the PP claimed Robles was saying “I’m with Trump”, the minister's team claimed that she was actually saying “I’m freezing”. They then invited viewers to judge: “Judge for yourselves”. They provided the images, but with the subtitles of the PP's version, thus conditioning the audience: “No, no, I’m with Trump”, it said at the bottom of the screen. The following minutes of Quintana's talk show were dedicated to delving into this comment by the Minister of Defense. The PP's lie was already beginning to spread.On Espejo público they were already pointing, from very early on, to Robles's contradictory spirit: “Margarita Robles had no problem eight months ago with the use of bases after the United States attack on Iran”. At 11:10 AM, eighteen minutes after the PP's tweet, a reporter raised the alarm about the video. They did not cite the PP, but rather presented it as their own discovery. They explained that they had analyzed the images of the meeting between the minister and the United States ambassador and had detected a comment. They broadcast the video with the translation: “No, no, I’m with Trump”. After showing it, the reporter insisted with bravado that we should watch it again: “Let’s listen to it again so that everyone is clear”. And they repeated the images with the subtitles according to the PP's version, without explaining that Robles's team had denied it. Susanna Griso received that discovery with great enthusiasm: “Excellent what you just showed us, Javier!”, and the entire panel of commentators reacted with shock to the socialist government's supposed contradiction. The PP's lie went from being a falsehood to being considered “a journalistic controversy” in a few minutes, intended to foster confusion among the audience. The political manipulation had worked. But the charade was just beginning...

What would have happened today, in the midst of European and Spanish rearmament, if a workshop for repairing and adapting military vehicles had positioned itself as a candidate to reindustrialize the old Nissan factory in the Free Trade Zone? The project was put on the table in 2021But the Catalan government, then under the leadership of Pere Aragonès, quickly shelved the proposal. This was the official reason given for the failure of the Tess Defence consortium's proposal, which was backed by the Ministry of Industry. Headlines at the time reported that the Catalan government rejected this option, but, as ARA has learned, it was the Minister of Defense herself, Margarita Robles, who had already sealed the fate of that investment in the Zona Franca.

When Margarita Robles took over the Ministry of Defense in 2018, there was no ammunition—in her words—but seven years later, with the left-wing coalition government of the PSOE and Sumar, military spending rose for the first time in 2024, reaching 1.4% of GDP. And it has reached 2% in 2025, as the minister argued this Wednesday at a colloquium of the Círculo de Economía (Economy Circle) in Barcelona. "Investment in defense is here to stay," she made clear in her opening remarks—which began in Catalan—and explained that the Spanish government is working on a kind of industrial belt so that all autonomous communities can develop business projects in this area. Catalonia, too.

A Spanish military aircraft with Defense Minister Margarita Robles on board suffered GPS interference while flying over the Russian city of Kaliningrad, a key enclave between Poland, Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea. Specifically, it was about 60 km from the Russian region and at an altitude of 40,000 feet, according to military sources told Efe news agency.. The Spanish Defense Minister was traveling to Siauliai, Lithuania, where she held a bilateral meeting this Wednesday morning with her counterpart, the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania, Dovilë Sakalienë, as part of a visit to Spanish air and space personnel at this base. Spain has eight Eurofighter aircraft in this area, which are part of NATO's enhanced air surveillance mission to protect its eastern flank from the Russian threat.

On Monday, Netanyahu recorded a video to explain to the Israelis why he was allowing food trucks into the Gaza Strip, and he made it clear: allied countries are calling him to tell him they can't bear the images of starving children.

New installment in the series of the WhatsApp between Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos. The World revealed this Monday the outbursts of the secretary general of the PSOE with the men dissidents of her party, this Tuesday she will be receiving the current Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles. In the conversation, from November 2020, Sánchez and Ábalos comment on an interview with Robles on La Sexta, where the minister responded to some complimentary statements by the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, about her and the work of the army during the pandemic. Robles replied that those good words were for the armed forces, who "did a priceless job." And that's where Sánchez and Ábalos mock the minister: "Above good and evil. National heritage," says Ábalos. "She sleeps in uniform [...]. She's a bird", says Sánchez.

Far from making clarifications, Margarita Robles kept all questions open around spying on the independence movement and members of the Spanish government, including the president and herself. The Spanish government said the Minister of Defence would give explanations over Catalangate in her appearance, but she has not given the details expected by much of parliament. In fact, some paties, such as Unidas Podemos and ERC have been particularly forceful in demanding her resignation. "You know what you have to do. Not only for the sake of your own dignity, but for the government's dignity," said Unidas Podemos spokesperson Pablo Echenique.

In July 2021, a consortium of 17 media outlets published a list of over 50,000 phone numbers in over 45 countries that had been potentially flagged for Pegasus surveillance by, they noted, authoritarian regimes. The Guardian was one of these media, and this Wednesday it has published that, in the case of Spain, the selected mobiles were over 200, by a client, it adds, which could be Morocco.

The current Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, allegedly gave 60 million pesetas a year in cash from the State's secret funds to the royal family while she held the second most important post at the Ministry of Home Affairs, between 1994 and 1996, under Felipe González. According to newspaper Abc, Robles handed over five million pesetas a month in cash to "leave no trace". This information was allegedly revealed by former Socialist minister Antoni Asunción in a conversation with former director of the Superior Center for Defence Information Emilio Alonso Manglano in December 1994.