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We've got a lot to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. We'll talk about the latest inflation. readout, hotter than expected. PPI at. 6.3%, 1 percentage more than what was. anticipated. We'll talk about the impact. on the economy that the Trump regime. continues to deny. We'll talk about the. Trump regime's latest attack on Zalinski. and Ukraine. Iran striking more tankers.

in the straight of Hormuz. 30 tankers. have been destroyed or disabled by Iran. since October 1st. We'll talk about. Ansarala, the Houthis strikes within. Yemen on the presidential palace in. Aiden. Also, their strikes in Saudi. Arabia. We'll talk about Donald Trump's. deranged rallies as he traveled the. country, whether he was in Arizona or. Montana or Alaska. I mean, the behavior. just so utterly despicable and odd and.

weak. We'll talk about the Trump new. press secretary, Katie Zakaria. The more. that comes out about her, again, the. more bizarre and dangerous and perhaps. even criminal it is. I'll give you my. opinion as a law professor about what it. means when she says she practices law, when she's not a licensed lawyer. Also, there's like a 10-year gap in her resume. where she claims that she was like. selling shakes. And then the shake. company says that they don't have any. record of her working for the comp. What.

in the world is going on over there? Paulo Zampoli was apparently fired. today. He's the guy who introduced. Donald Trump and Melania at the KitKat. Club. Paulo Zampoli I've been reporting. on for many, many years. He had this. modeling agency in the 90s where he'd. bring in young Eastern European girls. and women and one of them was Melania. And then they would have these meetups. at the KitKat Club where the young. models would meet the wealthy Manhattan. businessmen at the KitKat Club. That's.

where it went down everybody. Zoli said. that you're you haven't made it unless. you're on the Epstein list. That's one. of the things that he actually said or. words to that effect. We'll talk about. the Trump regime apparently hiring a. bunch of aliens. Um like not really sure. who these people are that are being. hired. And we've got 19 days to go until. the midterms, folks. It's right around. the corner. That's the only Elliott. reference I'm going to give right there. So you if you missed it, you missed it.

You're not going to get a deeper dive. right there. >> Quick quick flash. That's that's a. lesson first lesson of this episode of. the Mightest Touch podcast. Always be. paying attention because you never know. what might fly. >> You never know when a segment will last. one second. >> We'll last Yeah. about a half a second. Uh it's good to be here, Ben. Good to be. here, Jordy. Good to be here. Might as. Mighty. You know, it's been a uh a. really uh cool experience this week. because I started to see uh our mentions. and I started to get emails from people. letting us know that the WTF America.

books have started to ship and people. who have pre-ordered them said that. they're arriving on Tuesday. At least a. lot of the pre-orders are arriving on. Tuesday on release day. and it's just so. awesome. If if yours is arriving on. Tuesday, let us know in the comments. right now if you're watching live with. us. Um I'm curious. Um and and check. your order status if uh if you you know. pre-ordered it. And if you haven't. pre-ordered it, pre-order it now. Um. we're so excited for this folks. And uh. you know a lot of the stuff we talk. about um is in this book including uh. you know in our Epstein chapter we do.

speak about uh Paulo Zampoli and we. speak about all the Epstein connections. and do a deep dive on the Epstein. connections and you know not just the. facts of the various Epstein cases and. and the various ties of Epstein. affiliated individuals but about the. people that fight back as well like our. own Katie Fang. um we speak about her. case, how she's taken on um the federal. government as a private citizen, as a. private journalist. And shout out to. her. A lot to discuss today. So, let's.

get into it. But first, you know, I got. to toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, what's. the latest brothers? Mighty, I'm so. excited to be here. I have a little bit. of a cold. I'm just I'm prefacing. I I. know it's really important for Ben that. I say that at the upfront. I might be. sneezing throughout this episode. Brett's really good at cutting me like. when I'm doing weird things and like. going full screen on Ben. I'm getting. ahead of it. That's what I'm doing right. now is I will probably sneeze once or. twice during this episode. I'll be on. mute when I do. So, don't worry. But it. might happen. >> Well, you look great, Freddy. You You. look great. You sound great. And we're.

happy that you're here with us. >> Thanks. Because I definitely have a. cold. Benji, where are we starting off. today? Big bro. Here it is right here. WTF America, the way out of this hell. and back to democracy. So, we start off. by saying WTF, the inflation report this. morning for PPI, which is like. wholesaler inflation, the producer price. index, came in hotter than expected. Bad. hot. You don't want inflation to come in. hot. The expectation was 5.3%. It came.

in at 6.3%. That could be heading to 7 and a half, 8% by the end of this year. >> Trump said it'd be hot. >> CPI is 3.7%. That's the consumer price. index. Obviously, because the. wholesalers and the producers pass on. those costs to consumers, that gives us. kind of a future-looking metric of where. the CPI is heading, which I believe will. be over 4% or 4 and a.5% by the end of. this year, which is where I always.

predicted it was going to be. But Donald. Trump is going around the country, the. pi piper of lying. He was in Montana. once again talking about how the MAGA. Republican male senator was very. good-looking, how he was attracted to. him. It's what Donald Trump thought the. people of Montana wanted to hear. Also, Trump said, "If you elect Democrats, you'll all get eaten by animals because. you won't have guns and all the animals. in Montana. They're going to eat you.". That's what he was saying. But after. that, Donald Trump spoke with a reporter. and Trump said that everything is Joe.

Biden's fault. Nothing is my fault. You. have to blame Biden for everything and I. deserve zero blame. Let's play that. clip. >> We inherited the worst inflation through. Biden in the history of our country. And. we have that down now very down low. But. it's going to really it's going to come. even lower as soon as we finish the war. >> Everything he said is false. When Trump. speaks, all he does is lie. They didn't. inherit the worst inflation in history. When they inherited the economy, inflation was right around 3%. It was. heading to 2%. Right now it's at 3.7% 3%.

Biden 3.7% Trump which is higher. Sure. under Biden there were times when. inflation was significantly higher than. that. He inherited a mess from Donald. Trump's catastrophic not handling of. COVID. But Biden did hand over the. country to Trump in a better position. That's kind of how you rank someone when. you watch a game. Whether you're. watching a football game of four. quarters, whether you're watching a. baseball game of nine innings if it ends.

on the ninth inning, if you're watching. a hockey game of three periods, whatever, whatever it is, >> keep doing more sports, soccer, >> two halves, you do two of football, you. know, just, you know, here once you're. in a flow, once you're in a flow state, you just go. But usually it's like, you. know, when the game is over and the team. gets a result that you're like, "Okay, that's a pretty good result." You don't. go, "Oh my god, though, but did you see. the second quarter? It was the worst. second quarter." I mean, look, when.

you're in the second quarter, yes, it's. fair to comment on the second quarter, but when you see the body of work, you. comment on the body of work. Well, let's. not also forget like in this analogy, the second quarter was a disaster. Like. the like there there are no good cers. It just got worse and worse and worse. and worse and worse. And they're trying. to now point back to a time in this. current Trump presidency where there was. a golden age where there was something. great happening where everything was, you know, just going gang busters. And. this Donald Trump came into the Oval.

Office and just bulldozed everything. immediately. >> Point I was making just. >> go go go. Sorry, I got lost in the. sports analogies. >> The sport. You got so ready to make fun. of the sports analogy. You lost the. thread of the analogy. the thread was. about Biden and that the Trump regime. wants to attack Biden second quarter and. not the fourth quarter that was handed. to Trump where Trump could have moved it. in a better direction but took it back. to the second quarter when he was. responsible based on his mishandling of. co that's that was the broader point I.

was making by naming every sport. imaginable. >> could you just imagine the justosition. between the two I'm just gonna quickly. just move on from I don't know so so. President Biden who actually. um like inherited a complete mess with. Donald Trump's mishandling of COVID. Could you imagine if every single time. he took the stand or he took the. microphone from a reporter and he's. like, I I don't know. I don't know. It's. all Trump's fault. Trump 1.0. It's it's. it was his fault. What can I do about. it? I'm just the president. Could you.

imagine if he just so said, oh, it was. Trump 1.0 fault? Every time Donald Trump. is asked, "Hey, man, things aren't. getting better." The excuse simply can't. be. Although we see it to be time and. time again, IT WAS BIDEN. I INHERITED A. MESS UNDER BIDEN. And then to just. really to to to thread the needle on. these sports analogies, like in a hockey. game when you're on the advantage, right? When you get when you got the. power play. Exactly. Donald Trump is on. the power play in theory, right? He. controls all three branches of. government. >> Lead do something, right? You could pass.

your entire agenda. What are you gonna. do, Donnie? Ballroom. I want. >> Also, here's the thing. >> I want an endless war. That's what I. want. That's what I wanted. He has. nothing to show for it. >> and his priorities are all screwy like. like like you're saying and you you know. when you just look at the data like the. data doesn't lie you know inflation now. even though Donald Trump tries to claim. that inflation was 19% when Biden left. office or whatever stupid lie that he's. saying and Donald Trump tries to falsely. claim that inflation is 1.9% today. Also.

just an egregious lie. Inflation was. around 3% as Ben said when Biden left. office. It's 3.7% year-over-year today. Nominal wage growth was 4% under Biden. It's uh 3% today, but real wage growth, which is an important metric. That's, you know, after inflation is factored. in, was plus 1% under Biden, minus.7%. uh under Trump right now. So that means. even if the the average raises that. people have got and the wage increases.

have been not only entirely eaten up by. the inflation caused by Donald Trump, but goes beyond that and now people are. actually learning less. Gas when Biden. left office was $3.13 on average. Today. it's $4.33. I bet it's uh you know a lot. more where a lot of you live. And I. could go down the list, you know, everything, the debt, the deficit, uh. GDP, mortgage rates, defense spend. I I. could go e every single line of data and. it's all significantly worse now. Donald. Trump was actually handed a nice smooth.

landing. It's why there were so many. publications at the end of uh Biden's. presidency like in the Economist and. Wall Street Journal you saw headlines. like the Biden economy is the envy of. the world. Was it perfect? Absolutely. not. There were a lot of issues with it. But Biden was in fact handled a bad. thing and he had every right to complain. about what Donald Trump gave him and he. actually took a little bit and then he. stabilized things. He put the United. States on a steady course and then. Donald Trump came in and he bulldozed. everything and that's why we're here.

where we are today. >> Look, after that weird Montana event, he. then gave that interview that we were. showing you over there and he said, "We're going to have Iran defeated very. quickly." He said very, very quickly. Play this clip. >> yesterday called for federal diesel. taxes to be suspended. Is that something. you support? >> It is something I may support, but we're. going to have it fixed very quickly. We're going to have Iran defeated very. quickly. And as soon as that happens, oil and diesel will be falling like a. rock. It's going to be coming down very.

fast. But it's something I may do. anyway. >> Very, very quickly. I mean, you've been. saying this now since March, four to six. weeks. Very quickly, it's right around. the corner. This is what he does. It's. what he's always going to do. He doesn't. have a plan. His plan is just to lie. Just lie over and over again. He's a. Ponzi schemer. And he covers up one lie. with another lie. And it just gets worse. and worse and worse. When he was on the. tarmac heading into Qatari Air Force. One, he said uh basically the same.

thing. It's going to end very soon, but. we're in the golden age. Enjoy it. He. said he said enjoy it. Isn't everybody. really happy? Enjoy this. Play this. clip. But I will tell you, I think. there's a great thing happening and the. people see what we've accomplished where. there's never been. It's a golden age of. America. And the Iran war will end very. soon. It's going to end very soon. Soon. as I want it to end, it'll end, but it's. going to end very soon. They'll never. have a nuclear weapon. And oil prices. will drop like a rock. So, I hope you're.

enjoying it. But what's happening is. something that. >> like a real sicko. I hope you're. enjoying it. Really quick for the audio. listeners, I'm so sorry to interrupt. your flow, but the hat Trump is wearing. is ridiculous. Like it it it is seven. sizes too big. It just you watch that. like that's the president of the United. States. He looks ridiculous. >> Yeah, it looks like one of those. carnival hats that are like extra size. and like look like a I mean but he is a.

clown. And as I said before, we need to. be a serious nation. like at a bare. minimum the floor needs to be are we. serious and that should not be a. difficult threshold to meet as a country. right I know for like a Trump reality. show or his failed businesses being. serious is a reach but for the United. States of America which was once a. superpower like let's be serious then we. can be competent then we can be. sophisticated and then we can talk about. a lot of what's the best way of doing.

things and how should public service. really be carried out like we're not. even serious. We're unserious and we're. very dangerous. But also notice, remember like in this weekend, Donald. Trump was like when it comes to Russ. maybe said earlier this week with Russia. and Ukraine, there's a ceasefire because. I said it and when I say it, it. happened. And the same thing here with. this catastrophic war. It's going to end. because I say it will end soon. That's. not the way the world works. I know he.

likes to bend reality and create this. alternative fake world where, you know, the biggest issue facing the people in. Montana is getting eaten by animals or. the biggest issue facing people in Maine. is that they may be on a boat that has. batteries and you can get electrocuted. and eaten by sharks. Like I know he. creates these fake worlds. In the real. world, a ceasefire amongst nations at. war is a deeply serious thing. When you. go into war against a country like Iran,

you shouldn't be surprised after. slaughtering children in Manab and La. Mer that Iran is going to fight back, you may want to analyze all of the. issues in the region as well and then. quickly realize not only will Iran take. over the straight of Hormuz, which they. did, but also there can be regional wars. that spread, which we see right now. between the Houthis, Ansarala, and. Yemen, the Saudi back PLC government and. Saudi Arabia. I mean, we see the war. spreading between Russia's and Russia's. invasion of Ukraine. I mean, there were.

multiple ships that were struck off the. coast of Romania this morning. Two. tankers in an economic zone of Romania, which is a NATO member. You also had. tankers that were struck yesterday in. Bulgaria, also a NATO member. All of. these things are very predictable. And. when Donald Trump's just out there and. saying, "Ah, this is the way it's going. to be." and he behaves like a gangster. and he behaves mafioso or whatever the. hell he's doing and other people don't.

bend to his will. There are consequences. and multiple layers of consequences and. Trump's response is to just lie and say. everything's amazing when it's not. I. mean look here he is in that speech that. he gave last night and he was saying. tariffs don't cause inflation, they. cause wealth. So you have nothing to. worry about. Tariffs don't cause. inflation, they cause wealth. Let's play. this. But we don't have inflation and. tariffs don't cause inflation. You know. what they cause? Wealth. They cause. wealth. We're richer now. We're making.

more money there than we ever and we. have more jobs than ever before. Remember that. >> Can say remember that, but that's just. false. That's not the seals clapping by. It's just really incredible. I'm not. sure if you guys saw any of these, and I. won't play him, but some of these. interviews with the Trump supporters at. these rallies. There was one interesting. one which I think Ben played on on one. of his hits of a guy who is actually. anti-Trump at the rally and whatever. MAGA station was Real America's Voice. interviewed him and the guy was like. basically just saying that his friends. dragged him along but he hates the guy.

and like actually gave a great rebuttal. against Trump. But 99.9% of the people. at those rallies are like just they just. echo exactly what Donald Trump says and. you could see like oh how does this guy. get elected? Because there are a lot of. these people that still exist in this. country who go, "Donald Trump will end. the war when he wants and we're all. going to get rich and then the price of. oil will come plummeting down and it's a. sacrifice I must take for Donald Trump.". And it's like, in what world do you live. in? What are you talking about? We're. also running like the biggest trade.

deficits ever right now with, you know, that this whole tariff thing was. supposed to supposedly solve that. Uh, in fact, right now we're running more. trade deficits, uh, which Donald Trump. has criticized past presidents for, like. everything he does. And, and he might. increase the deficits also because now. he's trying to get Canada to give the. United States more energy to try to bail. us out of our issues. Kind of ironic, right? And it's that energy that is the. reason why we even have a trade deficit. in the first place with Canada. There.

would be a surplus if not for us needing. Canadian energy. something that Donald. Trump and his minions will never tell. you. And ironically, what Donald Trump's. actions are going to lead to is an even. greater trade deficit with Canada. >> Yeah. And then his plan is, well, Canada. has all this potach. They have all this. diesel. They have all this, you know, product that we really need, right? So, let's attack our top allies, our very. close neighbors. let's destroy all of.

our alliances because we got involved in. a catastrophic war in Iran where Trump. and Netanyahu went it alone in this war. of choice and then lost. Then Trump does. a diesel deal with Russia even though. Russia probably doesn't even have. surplusage of diesel to begin with. So. it's possible we're actually importing. Iranian diesel that's finding its way. into Russia. But regardless, then we. then the Trump regime threatens Zalinski. not to strike the Russian refineries.

The Trump regime shuts down or severely. throttles uh Ukraine's ability to access. Starlink or the military version Star. Shield like the way you know your. internet can get throttled over certain. speeds which we all hate when which. shouldn't happen when internet providers. do that. The Star Link. >> you're not speaking from personal. experience are the Starlink or I. wouldn't go there. The Starlink or Star. Shield system is now saying that if. Ukrainian drones go over certain miles. per hour or kilometers per hour. At.

first I heard the numbers were as low as. like 45 to 55 or 60 miles per hour. Then. I was told it was like 100 miles per. hour regardless. Ukrainian drones and. interceptors go faster than that. It. basically disables the drone. So the. drones don't hit their targets in Russia. and the drone interceptors don't work. That's in addition to the Trump regime. not utilizing the early warning. detection satellite systems that alerted. Ukraine of when Russian ballistics would. be launched in the first place. So that. even though the Trump regime promised.

interceptors to Zalinsky, then didn't. deliver them and didn't even give an. interceptor license. At least Zinsky can. alert the people of Ukraine when the. ballistic is going to be launched to. tell people, "All right, now is the time. to go underground." The Trump regime. disabled that and blamed it on weather. And so you have all of this happening at. once. Trump praises Kim Jong-un and. North Korea. They were doing ballistic. and cruise missile tests from their. submarines showing their nuclear. capabilities, you know, earlier today.

You have the war spiraling out of. control between, you know, Russia and. Ukraine with Russia with Russia's uh. invasion. You know, Zalinski is out. public talking about the Trump and Musk. betrayal. Musk is posting that or. reposting that Zalinski is an ingrate. and needs to be removed and and then you. have Musk directly posting Zalinsky. needs to be removed. I mean, you have. all of this happening all at once and. it's important that we cover it and just. break it down and say here's what the. reality is. We'll come back. We still. have a lot to talk about, you know,

what's happening. I want to hit the. Paulo Zoli story more about Zakaria. We'll talk about Kimberly Gilfoil. could. even talk about Alina Haba and her new. billionaire husband. They're going after. Rick Grenell in the Kennedy Center and. saying that he took donations from. Haba's billionaire Turkish husband who. has the Venezuelan concrete contracts. and Grenell saying I didn't take the. money and they're all they're all. fighting each other and then is Susie. Wilds going to be fired? There's an. issue of she's going to be you know.

fired is Hexith going to last after the. midterms. They're withholding the um. report on the slaughter of the children. in Manab until after the midterms. Hexit's refusing to release the report. because it could be damaging. We all. know what happened. The Trump regime and. SenCom and Hgsith launched these. tomahawks and slaughter little children. That's what happened. They slaughtered. them and and and they are war criminals. and they want to hide and cover it up. So, we got a lot more to talk about. Um. WTF America is our book. Put in the. comments WTF. If you've pre-ordered the.

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always asking questions. I'm always. trying to bring out the receipts and. make sense of this craziness and give. good sport analysis while I can as well. like I've watched the sport. I think. I've watched. >> that's what people come to the Midas. Network for. >> That's what they wanted me to be there. >> By the way, I would love I our audience. may know I would love nothing more than. to talk sports and and fantasy football. and and movies and but alas, here we. are. >> Maybe another podcast. People can let us.

know in the comments if they want to. join. >> Should we do a sports show? That'd be. pretty cool. The funniest thing about. the brother, quick tangent, the funniest. thing about the brother sports knowledge. is. >> I feel. Brett's like abruptly ends after the 90s. after 1999. I don't think Brett knows. maybe any sports stuff. I'm not. It's no. shade. It might sound like I'm being. mean. I'm not. And then Ben kind of like. surprises me every now and again where. he'll like say something very like. specific like a specific stat from a. player. I'm like, "Whoa, where did where. did that come from?" So just various. levels here of of how the brothers are.

plugged in. >> So So people very targeted on the. knowledge I can bring in on sports. because I only have a finite amount of. space. So once I dig into the team, I'll. become an expert at it. But if the team. has let me down consistently, they will. not get space in the head with all of. the stuff that needs to be in their. head. All right, people like, "All. right, dude. Just shut up and just give. me the freaking news. Okay, I'm not. coming for this." All right, it's all. right. You know, some we we we talk. about though in WTF America how Midas. touch network started and how three.

brothers with no political experience. were, you know, helped build this. network with with you and you're a major. part of this book. All right, Donald. So, like what's the Trump regime with. all this stuff going on? Uh 30 tankers. struck in the straight of Hormuz since. October 1st. Another tanker today, another tanker yesterday, two tankers. the day before, four tankers before. that. Multiple tankers off the coast of. Bulgaria and Romania. Likely targeted by. Russia, Romanian, Bulgarian NATO. members. They don't mention it's Russia. because if they did, they may have to.

invoke article four or five. They're. afraid to do that because they know the. Trump regime probably won't honor. article 40 or five despite the fact that. you had one of the supreme allied. commanders of NATO uh General Grinkerich. in Warsaw Poland saying we got you. We. got your back. Well then Russia. responded by doing that I think timing. the Warsaw security summit with when. they were going to uh do those strikes. You have North Korea doing its ballistic. missile test. You have Trump sending. troops to Panama and sending troops to.

Colombia, 600, 900 march. You know, we. have a lot of ground troops right now. all throughout South America. We have. troops and mercenaries that are all. throughout Africa right now trying to. steal resources from the people there. Same thing that we're doing uh in South. America. You have both Trump and. Netanyahu looking for a national. security event before the respective. elections. Netanyahu is trailing in his. election. Trump and MAGA is trailing in. the election here. The Israel elections.

few weeks away in late October. The US. election follows and we've been seeing a. lot of chatter on the kind of version. that they have in Israel of Fox and here. in the United States too of like. conversations between the Trump regime. and the Netanyahu regime to resume this. catastrophic war very soon. Iran is. preparing for it. Iran has done five. days of ballistic missile tests. Like. Iran has all of the they have more. ballistics now in my view than they did.

even before the catastrophic war. started. They just did uh five days of. tests of ballistic missiles, cruise. missiles and drones where they shot at. least 30 ballistic missiles. So if. you're running low on ballistic. missiles, you don't shoot 30 ballistic. missiles in a test. and they were. demonstrating some of the new. capabilities that these ballistic. missiles have. Um, they don't just go to. point A to point B. They move in the. air. They're faster. The drones have. better technology. It's that guarant.

technology that Russia did to upgrade. the Iranian drones. Russia's making. about 36,000 guarant drones now a year. The US can only do about 2,000. interceptors uh a year. You have the. Houthi Ansarala striking the main. presidential palace in Yemen's capital. of the PLC. So the capital for Ansarala. the Houthis is Sana. Aiden is the. capital of basically the Saudi back.

forces the PLC. Yemen's Houthi forces. struck the presidential palace killed a. few people while I think the leaders. were there. They didn't get killed but. they basically hit the main kind of. presidential palace. Um, and they've. also been targeting other areas. Ansural. and the Houthis have been advancing over. there. They also struck the Aramco. facilities all throughout Saudi Arabia, including the headquarters where the CEO. of Aramco is like his office was.

destroyed. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasar's. office was destroyed after an Onsurala. attack in Dan. I mean, the precision of. these strikes is next level. Um, you. know, and so you, and I'm again, it's. not like, oh, well, you're just. promoting, you're promoting them. No, I'm just telling you the objective. facts. I think we've been right and. accurate about all of these. I think the. real damage and danger is when Sentcom. does their posts and they're like, fact, truth, false. And it's like all lies.

that the Iran says they control the. straight of moose. They do not control. the straight of moose. Iran says that. one of the tankers hit a mine. False. The tanker was struck by an Iranian. missile. Okay. Okay. Yes. You control. the straight of Hermuz, but tankers are. getting hit by missiles and you're doing. a fact check to say that it wasn't a. mine, but that it was a missile. Oh, okay. More oil is getting out of the. straight of muzz than before the war. That's just it's just false. Like it's. not it's not like as I've always said, I.

believe it's around I want to be honest. It's not no oil. It's about 7 to 10. million barrels we're getting out with. this shipto- ship transfer scheme that. was being used where smaller ships would. pull alongside the VLCC's, the very. large crude carriers, pump it into the. VLCC's. The VLCC's would be outside of. the Gulf of Oman. They wouldn't be in. the Straight of Hormuz. You take the. smaller boats, you hug the coast of. Oman, you pull up alongside the VLCC, you put the oil in there, and you try to.

get it out. Then the VLCC charged $1.5. million a day, whereas before the war. started, it was $30,000 a day. That risk. premium was then priced into the barrel. of oil, adding like $33 to each barrel. of oil, which even if you were getting. out more oil, the cost would still be. higher based on that scheme that I just. told you, but it wasn't. And that's why. we're drawing down the strategic. petroleum reserves here, that's why. we're drawing down the strategic. petroleum reserves in Europe. And.

remember when Trump entered into. theouou, he said that if he didn't do. theou when he did it, we would be in a. catastrophic zone where the entire. world's economy can be destroyed. We. pass that zone right now. So right now. we're kind of in this abyss. I'm not. trying to say this to scare you. We just. we're past that point. So from here on. out it's blame. Even if the war resolved. tomorrow, which it won't. The war is not. going to end during Trump's term. Let's.

just be blunt. But even if it ended. tomorrow and on great terms, we wouldn't. get out of the Trump caused disaster. until 2029 if it happened today. So. every day that passes, just move that to. 2030 to 2031. That's just that that's. just the reality of what's being. created. So Trump and MAGA, they're in. blame mode. That's a realistic picture. of the world right now. And it just. really you really feel kind of the panic. behind all of Donald Trump's moves now. He's not that he was ever acting from a.

place of intelligence or strategy. Um. but now more than ever he's just. throwing things out and trying to see. what sticks. And as his back is against. the wall. He's making more and more. erratic decisions. And that I think is. behind a lot of his actions that he's. been taking against Ukraine lately. Basically blaming Ukraine for the. Russian invasion. Uh calling for a new. leader for Zilinski to be ousted. doing. whatever the hell he and Elon Musk did. with Starlink and Star Shield um to uh. slow down the connection um that they.

need in order to protect themselves, stopping the information sharing because. Donald Trump now he's looking at the. situation. He's trying to find. shortcuts. And so he's thinking, what's. my shortcut with uh Ukraine? How do I. get out of this thing? Well, I could try. to actually negotiate deals and try to, you know, actually make things work and. and support Ukraine and and do the right. thing and show American strength or I. view Ukraine as the weaker of the two. and I know that they rely on us in order.

to survive and so let me just pull all. my resources. Let's let them uh. surrender. I'll lose the war. Let's let. them all get killed and then the war. will end. Poof. Done. That's an easy way. to solve it. And that's the sick and. deranged way that Donald Trump thinks. through all of these things. I think one. of the one of the most kind of dystopian. aspects of our modern society that we. live in today is just how many people. kind of support that mindset and how. many evil people there are out there. that don't care about morals, that have.

no moral clarity, that look at the world. like a zero- sum game. And whether it's. Trump or Musk or any of these autocrats. who they deal with, you see kind of. these same patterns. And the stuff that. Elon Musk has been saying lately to me. has been horrifying. And Ben mentioned. it earlier, but when you look at Musk. and he's writing, and I I'll pull up one. of his posts right here. Um him. responding to the one of the ones that. Ben was saying before um an anti. >> It was It was the Steve Cortez. I.

remember it. It was. >> This is a This is a different one. though. But the one you're talking about. is the ingrates one. >> Great. Um, and this next one is he's. responding to a post of somebody saying. that Zalinski's fear is ending the war. because he doesn't want any elections in. the country. And then Musk responds, "And so the slaughter continues." Dot. dot dot. Time for Zilinski to go. Elon. Musk is saying that stuff. And Elon has. a lot of power. Elon controls the. Starlink. He controls the social media. platform that all the world leaders.

communicate on. Sadly, he controls this. platform that information spreads to all. these mainstream sources from and he's. putting his finger on the button in. order to spread this disinformation. about Ukraine. Not saying time for Putin. to go, but saying time for Zalinski to. go. And when you look at all these. people, it to me it's just pure evil. that we're witnessing right here like. like demonic evil stuff that we are. seeing from people who people who have. kind of traditionally put a lot of uh.

you know kind of respect on you know. someone like Elon Musk was a pretty. wellrespected person you know like a. decade ago before all of this. But now. you look at him and you're like who is. this guy? This is this is awful. This is. horrifying stuff. How could you use a. platform to try to beat down on a. country like this that got invaded? How. can you take away their connection to. the internet that they are using not. even for an offensive posture, but to. protect themselves from being attacked. and being killed? The it's just it's. really just a horrifying network right.

now. This kind of cabal of billionaires. out there. And it's frankly why we. should never allow these people to amass. that amount of wealth or power to begin. with. And it's why, frankly, the US. government and all these other. governments should never be putting all. of their eggs in one basket because. right now Ukraine is wholly reliant on. Elon Musk for their survival. Let's face. it, there's right now they're basically. reliant on Elon and Donald Trump. That's. not the people I would want in my corner. if I need to survive and I'm being.

Ukraine. The United States, our entire. defense apparatus, so much of it is. wrapped in Elon Musk. It's how he makes. all of his money. US contracts, money. going to Elon for his software and. services and Starlink and everything. And I think one of the things a future. president needs to do is really. diversify. You know, I mean, I would cut. Elon out completely because he's shown. to be a bad actor, but you really got to. diversify and make sure that you have a. lot of options, a large arsenal of. options, and aren't reliant on some uh.

billionaire egoomaniac who could decide. who lives and who dies. >> Absolutely. And more important than than. than anything and everything of where we. currently stand is we need a president. at this time that can actually lead. And. I have absolutely zero faith seems with. thousands and hundreds of thousands and. millions and millions of Americans in. the way that Donald Trump continues to. lead. He's leading us straight into a. dumpster fire more and more as each. passing day goes by, but a dumpster fire.

that he's so willing to continue to jump. in. He's treating all of these wars like. they're his failed casino businesses or. his failed Trump stakes businesses. Now, the issue really is is and it's obvious. is well, there are really high stakes. with what's happening right now. There. are people's lives on the line and. Donald Trump can't just simply get bored. and have the lawyers do his bidding as. as he used to do when he would get into. all these lawsuits after he would stiff. his contractors back in the day in New. York City. He can't just get bored and.

turn an eye. We actually need a stable. leader who can navigate us out of these. very complex situations that Donald. Trump has so haphazardly got us into. It's frustrating to see, you know, play. out day in and day out is just from like. a human standpoint just how many. countless lives need to be lost under. just such utter buffoonery. And like. sure we could chuckle at like the big. hat and like all of that ridiculousness, right? that we're able to kind of gleam. some sort of I don't know slight humor. from here and there but deeprooted.

issues you know present themselves that. this guy Donald Trump is an absolute. maniac and an absolute unhinged human. being if you can even call him that has. gotten us into these very complex and. horrible situations and these endless. wars that we need help to get out of and. he is too stubborn to admit that even he. needs help to get him out and the people. whom he surrounded himself with just. want to say yes to him. So, it's just a. failure of epic proportions that we're. continuing to, you know, play out and.

it's only going to continue to get worse. until the man's out of office. >> Look, there's a concept in international. affairs called strategic ambiguity, right? You don't reveal your hands. because strategically creating a sense. of ambiguity. creates an ability to maneuver multiple. sides and multiple times. Strategic. ambiguity. Donald Trump has idiotic. ambiguity or weak ambiguity or just.

ambiguity. Ambiguity because there's no. plan, unserious ambiguity. And so the. reality is is that he doesn't even know. what he's doing because he doesn't. surround himself with experts. He. doesn't look into it. His view, as we. talked about in the first segment, is. there's a ceasefire because I say. there's a ceasefire. the war ends. because I say the war ends. This is what. I'm gonna do and this is what's going to. happen. And his entire life, despite all.

of his bankruptcies and failures, people. have gone along with the fraud. They've. allowed this to perpetuate rather than. say enough is enough and just stop this. crook that throw him in prison, right? I. mean, throw this hold this idiot, this. this this vulture, this predator, hold. this individual accountable. So you look. at what's happening in the straight of. Hormuz and what's happening with this. catastrophic war in Iran. The reality is. is that nobody knows because he doesn't.

know. And all it demonstrates is. weakness. They'll say things like. operation economic outcast. But then. they'll immediately brag about their. relationship between the United States. and China and Russia, the strongest. allies of Iran. and Iran will do bigger. deals and strengthen its relationship. with bricks and with the Shanghai. Cooperation Organization and at other. conferences and then economic outcast. flounders very quickly. I mean the Trump. regime will say we have the tanker.

fortanker policy. You strike one of our. tankers, we'll strike one of your. tankers. Well, Iran strikes 30 tankers. in the straight of Hormuz and the Trump. regime hits one fishing boat looking. thing which they claimed was a scouting. boat that was providing some of the. coordinates to the IRGC about where the. tankers were. So then they they don't do. that. And so the message ultimately sent. again I don't think we should have been. involved in this catastrophic war in the.

first place, but the overall message is. is that Trump is weak. He doesn't know. what he's doing. He's a loser. He's a. failure. He he does he's an idiot. And. that's, you know, and what he is good. at, and I mean this in a very bad way. What he's most comfortable at is going. around from, you know, this city to that. city and that city, lying to people and. telling people whatever, telling people. the most outrageous lies that are so. divorced from reality that people are.

like, "Oh, maybe I will get rich. Maybe. I will. No one would just say that to. me. He would because he's evil. Because. he's a scumbag. Because he's stealing. from you. Because he hates you. Because. he thinks you're stupid. Like when he. goes and speaks in front of, you know, uh he gave an award to like Elon Musk. and the guy from Nvidia and other. people. He's like, "Finally, I'm. speaking in front of a high IQ crowd. I. don't get to speak in front of high IQ. people." He told the audience in one of. his speeches, "I can say the stupidest.

stuff and you will just laugh at. whatever I say." He has such contempt. for the people who are there. You see it. in his speeches, how he looks at the. people. And yet he'll say, "I love you. I love you. I love you. You're going to. get so rich. I promise you hope is right. around the corner." And for whatever. reason, the human pathology, the human. psyche amongst a lot of people are wired. to like be okay with that. And. fortunately, when you look at the. polling, his approval is at record lows. not just modern presidential history.

like Herbert Hoover like even before. modern polling he's like worse than that. if it's even possible and so. overwhelmingly he's the most despised. president by far at this point in the. presidency in history especially heading. into the midterms but you watch this and. he's most comfortable you know speaking. to the crowd oh we're going to do this. we're going to do that we're going to do. that and meanwhile we're just everything. is frozen I mean you talk about the. catastrophic war you Just think about. what was happening. Zalinsky in Ukraine.

says they just shut off Starlink and. Star Shield. We can't use it. Then the. Trump regime blames Musk. Musk blames. Trump. They don't give any statements. Oh yeah, we're supporting him. We're not. supporting him. Idiotic ambiguity, dumb. ambiguity, fatal ambiguity. You give it. the name, you know, and it's not even. like Trump doesn't even have the courage. to go out and just say what it is. I. mean, if if you're going to be this. traitor and betray NATO, then go out and. say it. Then go out and do it. Then go.

out and say it. You shouldn't do it. But. if that's your behavior behind the. scenes, then man up or person up or. whatever it is, do it. And he doesn't. and and he's just so weak and he. shouldn't do that. Let me be very clear. And so he's in this constant state. And. then it's just for him going in front of. crowds and lying is his therapy. Like he. loves this. This is for him because he. gets to go. There's small crowds, but he. just does spew lie after lie after lie. All right. When we come back though, I.

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worked really hard on it and also we. want you guys to really enjoy it. So, >> speaking of Kimberly Gilfoil, the Trump. and MAGA donor, ultra MAGA guy, a guy. who like held MAGA conferences and I. mean this guy was MAGA MAGA MAGA um. inner circle. That's how he was friends. with Don Jr. and Kimberly Gilfoil. His. name is Eric Deeders. those text. messages that came out that allegedly. show Kimberly Gilfoil asking that her. Amex bill of over $100,000 be paid off.

that was sent to Eric Deeders. There's. been more reporting that she asked other. wealthy Greek businessmen as she was. appointed to be the ambassador of Greece. to also pay that ammex bill. There's. been a number of other scandals. involving Kimberly Gilfoil and whether. or not she threatened um and caused the. Romanian government to dissolve and a. more pro-Russian Romanian government. come into power in their parliament over.

there. And she was alleged to be running. around with this 39year-old. Greek lobbyist and directing contracts. to this guy's company. And people. thought that this 39year-old guy was her. chief of staff and because he was always. by her side, you know, normal normal. stuff. Um, I'm not sure if it's still. where the Greek ambassador lives. It's. like this beautiful mansion. Looks like. this beautiful like Mediterranean style. like lush pool and everything. And it's.

like they put her there because they. obviously wanted to have Don Jr. to be. able to marry the lady who they ended up. having the Russian oligarch sponsored. wedding and her dad was the Epstein. banker. So they had kilfoil pay my. 100,000 MX bill out. Epstein banker daughter in Russian. oligarchf funded wedding that's 2.0 I. know that's Trump. >> Like look at this twisted like. succession kind of stuff that they do.

though, right? Like can you imagine like. shipping the ex fiance of your son off. to another country, giving her a job. essentially in order to keep her quiet. in my opinion. That's why she was sent. there. Then you give her this cushy gig. where she lives in this beautiful place. She's living in Greece. She can. basically do whatever. Do nothing. Like. literally no responsibilities. And then. like every month it's a new scandal. every month it's like her threatening to. like overthrow a government or her. hitting up Trump donors promising them.

access allegedly if they give her pay. off her $100,000 uh MX credit card debt. but you got to do it quietly. Honey, please do this for me. Please just wire. the money directly to American Express. Nothing shady. Just please wire the. money direct so no one sees it. And like. you just fumble that bag so badly. And. you know, I think the the sad and almost. like tragic part about it is like this. is clearly somebody first. There's no. good people in this story. All right? Like because I think I think we'll play. the deers clip. This Trump donor guy not.

in my opinion not a good person as as. well. Not a trust not a not a guy I. would trust with just about anything. Um, but interesting to see him on the. other side of these things, but when you. hear him talk, it kind of sounds like uh. blackmailish uh to me, the stuff that. he's uh saying to them in this in this. video, which uh you know, we we'll get. to shortly. Um, but you know, you you. just see how Kimberly Gilfoil was. really, it seemed like, kind of trying. to keep up with the Joneses, so to.

speak, and was trying to live this. lavish lifestyle as if she were a. billionaire because she was basically, you know, as part of the Trump family. and and had access to infinite wealth. for a long time and was trying to live. this lifestyle, you know, overseas, probably clearly spending a ton of money. if she had a $100,000 credit card bill. and all these other expenses. that she. need to pay and she didn't have the. money clearly and so then she has to. shake down these Trump donors for cash. like the whole thing like and just kind.

of con her way through it. It's really. uh it's it's sad. It's obviously I I. obviously don't have any hard uh you. know I don't really feel bad for her but. but the whole situation it just so. desperate. I mean it's it's just it's. kind of pathetic honestly. >> Absolutely. And look, I I think you know. speculating here, but like obviously. using the receipts and all the data that. we've seen. This is someone Kimberly. who's appears to be a very toxic person. and the proximity to the Trump family.

proved to be quite toxic for her. So. what were they trying to do? Go to. Greece. Just get the hell away. We'll. make you happy. Go to Greece. Enjoy. It's like it's like a vacation. It's. like it's like a vacation. Everyone. wins, right? You're out of our hair. You. get to do whatever you want in Greece. just keep it quiet and then we'll just. move on with our stuff because that's. the only language the Trump family knows. is is let me do you a favor so in turn. you do me a favor and like that that's. their love language like these quid. proquo type deals where you go over. there and then I'll go over here and. then. >> because it runs like a maf it runs like.

a maf so you know we're talking about. this a lot so why don't we play the Eric. Deers clip remember this is the Trump. donor um he says that he has information. he says this might bring down the. ent entire Trump administration when he. reveals all the dirt on Kimberly Gilfoil. and the Trump family. He posted this on. his own personal Facebook today. Watch. this. >> This might just bring down the entire. Trump administration. An administration which I have supported.

from day one whose policies I still. support. It also may end the JD Vance Marco Rubio. ticket after you hear the phone call. that I'm gonna play tomorrow. I have a. major news announcement. today. This morning, the defamation lawsuit against Kimberly. Gilfoil has been filed in Kenton Circuit. Court. This lawsuit will allow me to.

conduct discovery, take depositions, including a Kim Gilfoil and Donald Trump. Jr., issue subpoenas, and fully explore. the defamation against me. Kim Gilfoil. and her lawyers claimed my allegations. were false, and they would defend the. allegations vigorously. They can now do so in Kentucky. While I. have spoken on countless shows and. signed statements under oath, Kim cowers. and avoids the music. I possess a solid.

grasp of Greek mythology. Kim's Greek. goddess match is a potty, the goddess of. deceit. The defendant's public apology. apologize to me. Ad admit the texts are. fake. Admit I did not blackmail her. Admit I do not owe Kim money. And with. the payment of $1 million, President Trump and the defendants can. do the right thing or pay the price for. not doing so by virtue of my neverending.

symbol bang banging. This litigation. will include subpoenas and document. >> Yeah, look, it's in the context of a. litigation demand. So, to be fair, you. know, he's obviously actually probably. more knowledgeable than Katie Zakaria is. on this. So the way he framed it was, here's my lawsuit. I'm reading the. allegations. And so if they were to. argue, well, are you doing blackmail or. are you doing that? He would say, no,

I'm not. I'm reading you what the. lawsuit says and what the litigation. says, and here's the demand that I put. in the lawsuit because Trump and the Gil. foils and the Gilfoil lawyers put out. statements that said that he was lying. about that. But you are right, B. I. mean, like there's no good people, you. know, in that story. But we could we can. go on and on. Like that guy's MAGA. Like. this is MAGA on MAGA violence right. here. But like also look at this one. right here. So Alina Haba, uh, her new. husband is this 29-year-old Turkish.

businessman, purported billionaire named. Turan Mildan, who's made a lot of his. money from Venezuelan concrete contracts. and the Maduro regime. And so when. Maduro was out, this Turkish guy, this. Turkish businessman, Tron Mildan was. about to lose his access to Venezuela. And then when he married Alina Haba, Deli Rodriguez kept him in there and. stopped doing the audit she was going to.

do on his company and then he became the. kind of preferred state concrete vendor. In any event, Alina Haba alleges that. Rick Grenell, who used to lead the. Kennedy Center board, Rick Grenell was. an ultra MAGA guy, MAGA through and. through. Haba accused Grenell and Haba's. husband accused Grenell of taking a $5.6. million donation that Tran Milild gave. to the Kennedy Center and keeping it for. himself. And then Rick Grenell denied.

that. But you've got Haba and Grenell at. war and her new Turkish billionaire. husband. They're all at war with each. other. Then you have that other layer. that his a lot of his money came from. the Maduro regime and when he married. her, Deli Rodriguez allowed him to keep. his state contracts for a lot of money. uh over there. And so you have that and. then you have Katie Zakaria, the new. press secretary who's been representing. that she practices law. I'll just show.

you a super cut that was made. So you. can see all of there's like thousands, not thousands, but hundreds of examples. of this. So obviously you don't need to. see three minutes of this super cut, but. let me just show you the first example. of this uh super cut here so you can see. for yourself. in China. I had already pre-registered. to take the bar and I didn't want to. withdraw from that. And we knew we would. be moving out to China. And I was.

obviously incredibly I know distracted. and overwhelmed and excited for finally. being married to someone who had been. long distance from for at least a year, a year and a half when you include the. engagement. and we just said, "Let's. let's take this time and I'll take the. bar and see what happens. The results. are somewhat inconsequential because I. knew I wouldn't need the bar in China.". And um and we left. I'm a lawyer. I went.

to Pepperdine Pepperdine Law. I. practiced corporate law. I was a. corporate lawyer. Um I practice. corporate law and practice law as a. corporate lawyer. practice corporate. law, especially as a as a lawyer and a. former corporate lawyer. I mean, I am a. lawyer and I'm a rigorous researcher. >> Okay. I'm a law professor. I actually. am. Okay. I'm actually a lawyer. I'm. licensed. You can look up my bar number. I passed the California bar exam. I took. it around the same time probably she. took it and failed. I don't judge her or.

anybody for failing the exam. It's a. very difficult exam. When we took it, it. was three days, six hours each day, 18-hour exam. It's a very hard exam. You. have to study. You can't just wing the. exam. I think the passage rate in. California is like 35 or 40% around. there. Um, but you don't go and. represent that you practice law. If you. don't practice law, practice law means. that you have a license. And she's been.

going around saying that. She held. herself out as an associate, which also. implies that she's a licensed lawyer. And she said that she was a general. counsel. If you're a general counsel, you have a license to provide advice to. the organization that you work for. And. so, in my opinion, generally speaking, the unauthorized practice of law is a. crime. It's not something that you just. go, "Oh, well, who even cares about. that?" There's a deeper issue which is.

how did nobody vet her? How did nobody. even look into this even for a second to. realize things that were just so utterly. obvious about her? And then she has a. 10-year gap in her resume where she says. that her job was actually not being an. associate and not being the general. counsel, which she later said, but that. she worked at a gym shake company that.

was also embroiled in a lot of. litigation. And she said she worked. there. She did not work there. Then she. said I was kind of like a multi-level. marketing thing and that she was brought. in by a friend and that she would do. these influencer videos of herself. barely wearing clothes and these very. small bikinis to sell the shakes and. that that's what she said she did for 10. years. There's another issue of what her. husband was doing in China and there's.

allegations that he would do business. with North Korea or his company was. doing business with North Korea while. they were in China. The China firm that. she said she worked at said we don't. hire Americans to be lawyers here. Maybe. she held a job to provide like cultural. advice, but she's not an associate or a. lawyer. There's never a lawyer in China. And you know, and then you see it, you're like, what do like what are you. doing? Like what do you like? Why? Why? What? There's, you know, and if you're. doing this, we expect that this is the.

team. This is the brain trust that's. going to figure out the situation in the. straight of Hormuz. This is the brain. trust that's dealing with Putin and. dealing with uh all these. They don't. know what they're doing. They're they're. just, you know, at some point it's just. like these people, these Trump regime. people, they're just they're dumb. They're idiotic. And all they have is. fraud. And then it's all these layers as. they're attack each other. We we we get. the point. But that's what I wanted to. show. >> Yeah. You see, they're all con artists.

and eventually that catches up to you. when you're put in a position where you. have to actually show your knowledge or. you actually have to do something that. your expertise is supposed to assist you. with. And I have to say on a human. level, I actually did feel for her up. there uh in the press briefing room uh. unable to speak and answer questions. You know, public speaking is hard. It's. a it's a hard gig. It's hard to get it. up in front of people and have all the. press yelling questions at you and to be. able to respond. But that's why you're. supposed to have the prerequisite. experience to do something like that. That's why you don't just step into the.

gig without any experience whatsoever. That's why you don't pretend to be a. lawyer. That's why you don't pretend to. be a spokesperson. I mean, that's that's. the issue. And and that's the issue for. Donald Trump elevating her to these. positions, plucking somebody who has no. business whatsoever being there, you. know? So like on the human level, I I do. feel for her because that's a human. thing, right? To have sort of like stage. fright like that and be unable to I I. get that. But that's why you don't put. yourself into these positions. That's. why you don't pretend to be a lawyer. That's why you don't pretend to be an. expert at X, Y, or Z. Ultimately, if you.

lie on your resume to get your job, your. job's going to make you do the thing. that you lied in your resume for. It's. like pretending like say I said I speak. fluent Chinese or something and I got a. job because I speak fluent Chinese and. then they put me in front of a a Chinese. audience to give my Chinese speech and I. would be like uh okay whoops I lied. and it's the fraud that runs through the. entire government. They do that in every. position. They put the worst people who. are frauds in every position. You can.

look at who runs health and you say, "Oh, RFK, fraud, fraud. Pete Hexath, fraud, fraud." You look at anybody. All. of these people are frauds and they're. running everything in our government and. they're actors. They are pretending to. be experts at things that they don't. even know a little bit about. >> So well said, B. And I think what you're. what you're getting to at the very end. of that, too, is so astute. It it's a a. pattern of malicious uh choosing of.

people to represent these institutions. and fill these jobs. It's intentional, right? It's not a mistake that she's up. there unable to speak. That's how Donald. Trump orchestrated it. Like I'm I know. you weren't doing this, but also like. we're not giving the benefit of the. doubt to Donald Trump here. Like he knew. who he put up there. Like she didn't. pull a con over Donald Trump. They did. their research. They knew all of her. qualifications or lack thereof. They. know exactly the person that they want. to put to represent them to America.

because that's I'm gonna Could I gently. push back at you there? >> Yeah. >> I think that when Trump found out about. the China like he did a double take. He. was like. >> I I I I think that that Yes, Jordy. The. maliciousness, this is where I disagree. with you. Yeah. Is in their. carelessness. >> Yes. >> As Trump says, she was central casting. what was central casting, beautiful. blonde, bathing suit, bikini model that he could. have around her that that fit a.

prototype of what he viewed in that. position. He picked that. So that was. the extent of the vetting of it. They. saw her do some Fox hits and do some, you know, where she. >> By the way, can I can can I read a a. quote from her that she said today about. the Fox hits and the other hits? This is. something that she said. And by the way, the first public uh appearance that she. did outside of the press briefing room. um like for an interview was it was with. Jack Pobiac, who is like the PE one of. the big Pizzagate guys back in the day.

And she was a believer in the Pizzaggate. QAnon conspiracy. And so interesting. first choice uh for her to go on this. individual's podcast. And she said the. following quote, "If Trump sees me on TV. and he likes me, then I will be. recruited for the job. So I tracked. every news hit to be in accordance with. what he was pushing forward on Truth. Social. So she was literally trying to. get booked on shows that she saw Donald. Trump posting on Truth Social and say.

she would say nice things and flattering. things about Donald Trump in hopes that. Donald Trump would pluck her and give. her this position. And that's exactly. what happened. In a lot of ways, she. outsmarted Trump uh you know with. something like that. And it also shows. you how easy I mean think about if if. Katie Zachariah who um you know pretends. to be a lawyer um and is really bad at. her job if she's able to fool Donald. Trump by just looking at what he posts. on Truth Social and going on those shows. and manipulating him. Imagine what a. trained KGB agent like Vladimir Putin is.

able to do. >> And and that's why look when we talk. about Katie Zakaria people may be saying. move on. Who cares? She's a loser. She's. a low life. We get it right now. On the. one hand, there is the story of Katie. Zakaria, but then there's the broader. issue of all of that entails that this. is a mindset by the Trump regime that. leads to catastrophic wars that leads to. the destruction of our government and. systems that actually worked and a.

rules-based order here and abroad. When. we talk about the reflecting pool, yes, it is a story about the reflecting pool. and the length to which the Trump regime. would go to cover up their own failures. How obsessed and weird he gets about it. How he thinks you can just cover it up. by painting it blue. How they frame. somebody a two-time Olympic canoist. Like, doesn't that just tell you. everything too of all the people like. the way karma works? They try to frame a. two-time Olympic canoist who represents. the country, you know, in the games uh.

for being a felon. and the case gets. dismissed. But it's more than just the. reflecting pool. It's about this is the. Trump regime's plan. Everything is you. blame Obama or Biden. You think you can. paint it blue and just lie about it. It. It is It is a poison. It is a cancer. It. is a defect. It is RFK Jr. blamed Dr. Fouchy for measles today, saying that. Dr. Fouchy is the reason why people. aren't getting vaccinated enough, which.

I don't even know how that comports with. his antivaccination stance. Like they. they will just they will say anything. >> Yeah. And and and that is kind of. something that we have to fortify. against and we have to talk about it and. we have to build the institutions in. order to block. I want to get back to. that point to close out. But let me make. two other quick points though. Paulo. Zoli out. He had some like position.

where he was this envoy over special. events. He got into, you know, fights. with everybody in the Trump regime and. he was the guy who introduced Trump in. Melania. He was the guy who said, "If. you're on the Epstein files, that shows. how great you are." Words to that that. that effect. I mean, you know, this guy. seems like a vile vile thing. you know, we've been doing lots of reporting on. him. He's out. He did a statement that. he's like, "Well, that shows that um, you know, Donald Trump told me that I.

should go into business now, and I think. that I'll be great in business." And so, I'm sure we'll hear about his next. grift. Also, Christy Gnome, there's a. story about her that she's no longer the. ambassador to the Shields of America. And people like, what do the Shields of. America? What do you even talk? What was. her role even after being out as the. Department of Homeland Security. Secretary? She's no longer runs the. Shields of America. Apparently, she has. another job. That's something around the. Shields of America. >> She did great work while she was. >> great work. Great work at the Shields, by the way. But this brings me to the.

last point about Fortify. Um, and I I. made this observation this weekend where. my baby girl, two years old, cute as can. be. She wanted, we were at a restaurant. and she wanted to uh, and everybody. knows how the twos are. She's a little. bit over two. She wanted to watch um. Miss Rachel. and the moment we put Miss Rachel on, she was watching it. We don't have that. much TV time or YouTube time and we we. try to regulate it, but her eyes were.

transfixed and and she looked hypnotized. by Miss and I like Miss Rachel. I think. Miss Rachel does great stuff. And she. was, you know, and and I saw the smile. and it was almost the hypnotic smile. that was captivating my baby girl as she. was watching Miss Rachel. And then I. said to my wife and her family, I said, "It's wild." Like she gets hypnotized. I'm just like, "Look, look at the way. she looks at that. Like I've never seen. the eyes, you know, on that like that.".

And then my wife was like, "Yeah, I mean. it's like when we look at Tik Tok or. when we look at our phone and when we. look at that and and I think to myself, you know, it's so right. I mean, the way. people have been hooked on the. algorithms and hooked on their phones. and hooked. It's actually we look like. that. We look like the two-year-old. Fortunately, Miss Rachel's teaching good. things, I believe, and things that help. my baby girl. >> Big fan. Big fan. big fan. Let be very.

clear. Big fan of Miss Rachel. Um, but I. think about the power of the, you know, of of the devices, power of the. algorithms, power of all of this. And. when you don't have role models, and I. think good people like Miss Rachel, but. you have people injecting the. disinformation every day, and then you. have vested oligarchical interests that. control algorithms that get into your. home, that get into your eyes, that get.

into your brain, and they pump this. stuff at you nonstop. It is hard to. fortify ourselves against that attack. And that's what it is. It's an attack. And so what we try to talk about in WTF. America and I think we capture this. though is we have to think yes elections. are important but we have to think in. terms of generational. institutional fortification.

international to stop this and to then. replace the fire hose of disinfo with. the fire hose of truth. And that. requires generational building, not. simply one election cycle or the next. election cycle. It requires. international connections. It requires. building a healthy media environment. So. that what we're actually replacing this. toxicity with in this poisoned.

information environment is with a. healthy information environment that. promotes leadership and empathy and love. and peace over war and supporting each. other and health and prosperity for all. That's what we need to be talking about. We're we we built a network on those. principles and we're going to keep on. doing it with you. So the book is called. WTF America: The Way Out of This Hell. and Back to Democracy. That's the stuff. that when you said Jordy, when you said.

you have an inquisitive face, that's. what's always on my mind is how can we. do better? How can we build this network. out more? And you know, we credit you as. being kind of the secret ingredient. behind all of this because it truly is. about empowering the people. And once. you empower the people, the people will. always at the end of the day deliver. And we're very confident in that. So, we're grateful for you. Get the ebook, get the hard cover or the audio, order.

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