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Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mecelis and this is your breaking news. as we predicted and frankly as the. Iranian negotiating delegation stated. they would not be going to Qatar and. Doha to have further negotiations with. the United States. They said look you. guys attacked us on Friday and Saturday. after the markets closed. There's really. nothing for us to talk about. you know, we will just play out these 60 days in. the memorandum of understanding. You can.

do the things that are set forth in the. memorandum of understanding as it. relates to the US removing sanctions, unfreezing funds, and uh you know, good. luck. You want to use the uh shipping. route closest to Oman without the. consent of the IRGC. Even Oman says. they're going to need to uh charge a fee. with the IRGC. So, do it. We'll shoot. the ships. There's no ships that are. using that Oman route right now. And the. foreign ministry of Iran, by the way, we.

have like the data like we know that the. ships are all now going through the IRGC. route, not the Oman route. Fascinating, too. I'll maybe get into it later in the. show. Uh the uh the crack spreads right. now between the Brent crude price uh as. compared to uh the refinery prices, right? You know, Donald Trump's like out. there ranting and raving and saying, "Look at the retailers and the. refineries. You're charge you're price.

gouging." First off, bud, aren't these your buddies? Like, aren't. isn't this your crew? Like, aren't these. the people who you plan the invasion of. Venezuela with? So, like, why are you. posting on social media? Um, but pull up. that chart one more time, Jeremy, and. people can see the crack spreads right. there. Uh, no, no, that this this one. over here. Um, here are the gasoline. spreads right here. They're sometimes. referred to as the crack spreads. And a. crack spread refers to the delta or the. difference between the price of Brent. crude, which it appears our Treasury.

Department is shorting the hell out of. to bring the price down and to. manipulate the market. So, it's like $69. a barrel or $71 a barrel. And the crack. spread refers to the delta or difference. between that and what the refineries are. actually charging, right? Think about it. as like the dough or flour that goes to. make the cake or the cookies versus what. the actual cookie costs. And in a stable. market, the crack spreads aren't that. kind of far apart. But right now they. are because the refineries don't really.

buy what the price literally and. figuratively what the Brent crude prices. because they see I think what we'll see. which is it does appear that there's a. concerted effort to manipulate the. market but not recognize Brent crude. those futures W that's different than. what the refinery prices. So Donald. Trump's out there shouting on his uh. social media platform and I guess that's. the uh that's that's that's the American. policy right now. But any event, Qatar. uh supposed the Donald Trump posted over.

the weekend to manipulate the markets. Look, uh the delegation from Iran is. going to show up in Doha. These are. going to be great talks. And in Iran, they were like, "No, we're not going to. do that." I mean, look, the the markets. were baked, man. The markets were. manipulated. I mean, yesterday they did. very well. Today the markets did very. well um after having a really bad week. last week with massive drops. Um the. thing is this ain't helping you. This. ain't helping the American people afford.

homes. This ain't helping the American. people afford gas or afford groceries or. afford anything. I mean this is helping. Donald Trump's billionaire buds is his. friends make a lot more money. And you. were looking at the end of last week. You were seeing the market tank, market. manipulation. Boom. Monday, Tuesday, we see we we we see what's happening. right now. But at the end of the day, you know, uh we're seeing just the. systemic breakdown of of the economy as.

it works or doesn't work for most. American uh people. So you have Witoff. and you have Kushner and Qar. I mean, does anybody doubt what's really going. on in those meetings? I mean, Kushner's. out there raising another $5 billion. fund, right? You know, he's bragging. about his returns on his last fund. We. did 15 to 25% returns on Kushner Fund. One. Well, I mean, you have all the. insider It's not hard. It's not hard.

when you're doing when you get all the. insider information about what the. hell's going to happen and you're the. ones, you know, seemingly manipulating. this whole system right here. So, so I'm. surprised it's not more than that to be. honest with you. But now they're out. there in DOA. What do you think they're. talking, you know, to uh the people in. Doha about? I mean, they're probably. Whit's got business interests. You've. got Kushner's got business interests. over there. Um, and, you know, the there. was this purported conference call that. took place with Rubio and Witoff and.

others and members of Congress yesterday. where they were asking, this was like. their briefing that they were going to. be having uh, regarding the memorandum. of understanding. And when Democratic. Congress members were asking Witoff and. Rubio basic questions about like, okay, what's Witoff even doing there? Like, who is this guy? Why is he there? Uh, Witco's like, don't you dare. That's a. dumbass question. Don't even talk to me. about that. We We'll show you We'll show. you all of that. We'll show you that. While the Trump regime is pretending, just think about what like losers they.

make us look like, right? Let's talk. about the losers they make us look like. abroad and at home, okay? They're. literally cosplaying a negotiation with. Iran abroad. Like they're the p once. powerful preeminent dominant United. States of America, right? is in Doha, Qatar. Okay. Begging the Qataris to go along with a.

fabrication that the Trump officials are. mediating with Iran when Iran is not. there. Like y'all realize that like. Qatar knows that this is a farce and all. the other Middle East countries and all. the other countries in the world, you I. mean they're like I mean what do you. think like a French president Emanuel. Mcronone or um you know Zalinski I mean. what what do you think uh said to them.

is like what do you think like Xi. Jinping thinks they're like like what's. he doing like could you ever imagine. think put it this way take a step back. could you Ever imagine Xi Jinping of. China. rushing to say I don't know pick a. country Bahrain. to say to say that he's sending his. foreign minister there to say that they. were having a meeting with I don't. Usbekiststan.

and Usbekiststan's not there and they're. [clears throat] asking Bahrain to go. along with it. Could you ever like what. would we think of Xi Jinping? Think. about what the other they just think. we're fools. So anyway, we're we're. we're we're at a foreign policy level. making up today that there are. conversations taking place. Do do we. have also the Qatari foreign ministry. spokesperson Jeremy and what the Qatari. foreign ministry spokesperson said that.

yeah the United we've got Whitoff and. Kushner here but um Iran isn't here and. so those those discussions aren't. happening. I mean they're just they're. just mocking us like like why would we. be cosplaying a fake mediation? Oh it's. manipulate the markets here. Play this. clip. indirect discussions through. mediators. >> as I confirmed uh a while earlier the uh. US envoy uh Mr. Steve Wkov and Mr. Jad. Kushner are here in DHA to meet with the.

negotiators with the mediators sorry. meaning with the Qatari officials and. the talks will be around uh all regional. issues which are of concern including of. course negotiations with Iran but also. including Lebanon and other files in in. the region. So they are not here for. direct negotiations with uh the uh the. Iranians or or um or related uh meetings. as as we have made clear in the past. that the high level meetings will only. happen in the technical meetings uh are. producing results for them to to take. place and the technical meetings are.

ongoing uh between the the parties. whether they are direct or indirect. keeps moving in and out you know. according to the logistics of it and the. discussions and the way they are. progressing but I can confirm that the. technical meetings are are still. happening and the mediator s are working. as go-betweens between the the parties. uh in the time being. We're not. expecting any high level Iranian. officials at uh at the moment, but as I. said, the technical meetings are ongoing. as since Lagen, they haven't stopped. since then. Uh,

by the way, have you seen. one. American media outlet, not independent. news, because there are some independent. news that I think are sharing this in. addition to Midas like Dropside and. Zetto and and a few others. Okay. But so. out outside of the Midas Touch Network. though, have you seen any news just. showing that or do they just regurgitate.

the propaganda from the regime that. there are talks happening? talks aren't. happening like like. we've become Baghdad Bob, you know, to. which you have uh Treasury Secretary. Scott Besson say, "Oh, they're Tron. They're Tron." Okay. Well, who's who's. in Doha? Okay. Let Let's put aside then. what's Iran saying? Put aside what the. US is saying. Okay. As I've always kind.

of come back to, what's the mediator. saying, right? What is the Qatari. mediator? Well, you just heard it. Iran. didn't show up and the US sent its two. top envoys. They shouldn't be our top. envoys, by the way. Wise Kushner and. Woodoff are our top envoys, but we sent. our two people. Iran didn't. I mean, that's and the president of the United. States, you know, this isn't supposed to. be some uh, you know, just some like.

some troll, you know, some troll. It's. supposed to be, you know, someone who. was always viewed as the leader of the. free world. uh you know someone who is. supposed to be you know not not just on. par with like a Xi Jinping you know in. terms of leadership in a global world. order but I mean I'm talking about like. you know the president the president. just makes up lies that we're having. conversations that aren't happening and. and you heard there for yourself the. Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson.

says we had not planned any meeting with. the American side at any level over the. next few days so there's nothing for us. to cancel. [laughter]. We weren't going there's nothing for. we're not showing and just think about. like I don't know and I I don't. I'm trying to think about how how best. to to to structure this this argument. I. I I'll I'll just I'll just say that.

for. what was once viewed as a superpower, the United States, superpower, that should mean something, right? I mean, superpower. It was undis. indisputable, undisputed fact that. that's how the US was viewed. internationally in a postworld global. world order. But just think about how. it's been so diminished. So diminished. where you have an Iranian foreign. ministry spokesperson putting the.

president of the United States of. America in his place by saying, "We. don't want to be around your people. We. never were going, so there's nothing for. us to cancel.". And then to have the mediator in Qatar. confirm, yeah, the Iranians are not here. and are not coming. And yet we go. through this farce that it's that it's. happening. I'll show you uh believe the. guy's name is Michael Nolles from the. Daily Wire.

I heard I heard that the Daily Wire is. uh they they think that they're a two. billion dollar company and Ben Shapiro. thinks he's super popular now. So they. want to I they want to IPO apparently. and I guess because Shapiro's. popularity is waning. I think that's an. understatement. They want to keep. pumping out like Michael Nolles as the. face as the face of this Daily Wire. thing. Um so they bring in JD Vance and. like JD Vance's whole shtick is that he.

doesn't like I don't I don't I'm just a. guy from Appalachia. I don't really understand. He's like Far. Gump. I'm just a guy from Appalachia. Stupid is a stupid does. I'm just a JD. Vance man. I don't know how diploma. It's very confusing. You know these. Persians, they're just very complicated. with their negotiation style. I don't. get it. I don't understand the nuances.

of diplom. Dude, you're the vice. president. What What is this? What is. this weaponizing. ignorance stupidity? Hi. What do you. want me? Oh, shucks. I'm just JD. I'm. just little old JD from from Appalachia. From Appalachia. Stupid. It's the It's the stupidest. government. It's the stupid It's the. stupidest and most dangerous government. at the same time. So JD goes on Michael. Nulls. I'll show you what went down. Let's play this clip. >> I'm not saying they're going to, you. know, I can't predict, of course, the.

future, but so one, there are talks. There were scheduled talks, really. technical talks building on the. negotiation that we've already had. Those are definitely happening tomorrow. One of the things I I find just. fascinating and frustrating about the. Iranians is they'll say, "No, no, there. aren't peace talks ongoing, but there. are technical talks between the United. States and Iran about the peace deal.". It's like, okay. So it it's it's a. Persian negotiating tactic and a Persian. rhetorical device that I I I don't.

understand. But that is that is the way. that the Iranians have done have done. this. >> A Persian rhetorical device. Oh, those. Persian rhetorical device structures. I'm not not sure what you don't. understand, JD. There's a memorandum of. understanding that has 14 points to. them. You understand? Then it states. that in 60 days there's going to be a.

final agreement. The final agreement. isn't supposed to conflict with the 14. points. The technical talks are not new. negotiations. They are implementations. of the 14 points. Donald Trump said that there would be. negotiations taking place in Doha. The. Iranians, are you following me, JD? The. Iranians. did not show up to Doha for the. purported negotiations that Donald Trump.

claimed are happening. The Iranians are. saying there's no need for new. negotiations. Why would we be showing up. in Doha? It doesn't make any sense. Sure, there could be technical. conversations in terms of drafting of. the final agreement, but that's not some. new fangled negotiation taking place. And why do we need to show up in Doha. for it? So JD, why would Whitito and Kushner be there.

and lie and say that they were talking. to their counterparts? Do you know where. foreign minister Arachi is? Do you know. where the deputy foreign minister is? Do. you know what's happening in the region? Foreign Minister Iraqi got a hero's. welcome in Iraq despite the United. States helping the Iraqi government with. American tankers launching essentially a. silent coup in Iraq in order to try to. round up politicians in Iraq who are.

sympathetic to Iran. That that would. somehow deter foreign minister Arachi. over there you have foreign minister. Arachi there with a Pakistani foreign. minister and uh an Iraqi minister and. when I say that Aragchi. got a hero's welcome in Iraq I mean you. would think that you were watching the. Beatles at their prime showing up in.

America is what it looked like when. foreign minister Arachi was in Iraq. rock. I mean, you're talking about. everybody was out there surrounding him. and [clears throat]. you know, you could see that the uh the. level of respect for him that the Iraqi. foreign ministers have because they view. this is the guy who brought this this. want to know what the world thinks the. perception of the world is that that's.

the guy along with MB Galab and some. others who brought down and slave played. the United States. That's how the world. perceives it outside of our propaganda. media here in the United States. Now, whether you like what I'm saying or. don't like what I'm saying, that's kind. of besides the point. It's the truth. about the geopolitical. framing of things right now because.

Trump lost this war that we should never. have been involved in in the first. place. Another. notable dynamic going on which if you've. been watching the Midas Touch Network, you know I've been talking about this. now pretty much right after the. memorandum of understanding and I saw. some of the comments thought that I was. being conspiratorial. that Marco Rubio's goal was to undermine. JD Vance's role in negotiating theou.

But I said, "No, Rubio is going to the. Middle East as Netanyahu's proxy, representing the Neocon and Warhawks, who don't like the JD Vance kind of. faction of things, which is more. critical of Netanyahu and Israel. And JD. Vance is going to undermine the Iranou. that JD Vance negotiated. Rubio was. going to undermine the Vanceou.

Rubio did anou. with Lebanon and Israel with Netanyahu. and the United States, which at its core, the goal is to. destroy Iran's. diplomatic access inside of Lebanon. That was the goal. And the goal of it is. to basically codify.

indefinitely. Israel's claim to territory in southern. Lebanon, which Israel calls a security. zone. And not only that, it extends the. security zone by two pilot zones. And if. you pay attention to what's happening, it purports to act like the pilot zones. reduce the control of Israel of the. security zones. But what it actually. does is adds to the security zones and. says, "Leban, you take over those areas,

which Israel has not yet been able to. take over." But Lebanon, you take these. pilot zones because Israel realized. there's a lot of Hezbollah in those two. pilot zone areas. So, put the Lebanese. army in the pilot zones and have them do. what Netanyahu couldn't do and we'll say. that we are removing ourselves from. those areas, but we're never in it. So, it adds to the security zones. And then. it says basically at the discretion of. Netanyahu, he gets to stay in southern.

Lebanon. Now, that directly conflicts. with the Iranou in Article One, which. says the exact opposite of that. And. then if you recall at the Switzerland. talks that JD Vance attended, folks, I'm. just giving you the objective data. This. is just the reality of of of what it is. So So how you want to internalize it or. not internalize it, go for it. But I'm. just telling you what what's going on.

So that when they met in Switzerland and. Rubio wasn't there, he wasn't there on. purpose. Why? Because Rubio was going to. be doing the work of Netanyahu. the week. after. So JD Vance does a further. basically addendum or joint statement to. the 14point. memorandum of understanding that says. the deconliction cell in Lebanon. This. is the exact language of a joint.

statement the US approved. The. deconliction cell meaning reducing the. conflict in Lebanon would be made up of. Qatar, Pakistan, Iran and the United States. So. Iran would be involved in that. And then. the deconliction cell in Rubio's. was basically Israel and Lebanon and the. United States. So they're in direct.

conflict and Iran knows this. The world. knows this. If I know this, they know. this. And you know this, they know this. But it tries but the deceit is that the. US pretends they're complimentary. when they're already breaching theou. with Iran. And if you think about it. like this, I'll give it to you in sports. terms because there was some LeBron. James news about, you know, what team. he's gonna go to, where's he going to go.

next, right? So imagine LeBron James. does a deal with Nike, right? Whatever you think about Nike, one way. or another, let's just he does the deal. with Nike and then a week later, he does. a deal with Adidas that specifically. says, "We're now obligated to attack. Nike. seven times a year and do an anti- Nike. ad campaign.".

That's essentially what the situation is. when it comes to the Iranou with the US. and the Lebanonou with the US. You know, at some point you can't honor both. because both are in direct conflict with. one another and that was the intention. of the Lebanonou. Now you could say, "But Ben, [clears throat]. why would we do the Iranouou then?". Okay, well then don't sign it. I don't. know. You know, you don't need to go to.

you don't need to go to Versailles and. sign the document. You you Trump has. never viewed contracts as things that. need to be followed his whole life. Go. read, don't read it. But the art of the. deal where he said a contract is. something that's not actually something. you follow in good faith. It is a. starting point to manipulate to further. get what you want. That's not the way. principles should work. That's not some. Persian rhetorical thing. J D Vance, that that's frankly a framework that.

whether you're Persian or non-Persian, we should say if you enter into a. contract, you honor the contract, right? Regardless of what you think or don't. think about theou, what you can't. dispute with me is that theou was. executed by the United States and it was. executed by Iran. the same way the JCPOA. was an actual agreement unlike the. memorandum of understanding which is a.

14-point but you know these are deals. that happen you know when you talk about. the USMCA. right or KUSMA as it's called in Canada. the Canadian US Mexico agreement it's a. deal Donald Trump wants to rip it up and. break it he doesn't want to follow the. deals if you go to when Donald Trump. says I brought in $21 trillion notice. that there no written deals there all. these frameworks and then they come up. with new language, right? I I don't need. Persian rhetorical flare to counteract.

what this Trump regime is saying. They're using the language, the Trump. regime of like fraudsters, right? Like, you know how you never get a straight. answer like from a fraudster like a. Bernie Maidoff or an Enron or the con. artist. They'll always like come up with. some excuse. Well, actually that's. there's technical details and there's u. you know we'll get you your money but we. just have to you know wait to see how. the indices and the indexes are working. and then we're going to you know maybe. we'll we'll cross-pollinate it with this.

and I I'll you know pursuant you know. they start saying these things and and. it's no you know you got to honor your. deals you know you put a deal on paper. you honor it you follow it you act you. exercise good faith in the deal and. that's something that's totally divorced. from uh Donald Trump and and and and his. regime. By the way, I showed you Michael. Nolles there interviewing JD Vance. That. took place after Michael Nolles was the. main attraction earlier today at the.

so-called Great American State Fair, which as you know is the biggest. disaster imaginable. I I can't even. believe this thing's going to go on for. several more days at this point. uh. leave it to the Trump regime to take. something that was such a light lift. The Smithsonian on a nonpartisan way was. ready to do a beautiful event. We would. have had entertainers and we would have. had beautiful festivals. It would have. been grand and great and it's it's. really a sad thing that such a a.

beautiful thing was turned into this. grotesque strange Trump. You know, I. showed a video earlier in the day where. yesterday's big event, right? The. mainstage big event was, you know, some. quack. doctor or something talking about. women's root canals and breast implants. and giving a speech about breast. implants and root canals and and and and.

having graphs and charts on on implants. Like that was the main stage because it. was Maha Monday. Maha, you know, there's. like 12 people. There's like 12 people. there. Today's main event of the Great. State Fair was Michael Nolles debating a. 10-year-old girl. about the merits of burning ladies in. the Salem witch trials, but pointing out.

that procedurally, while unclear. if the ladies were truly witches who. deserve to be burned, Michael Nolles. argues what may needed to have been. changed to create more validity. in burning the ladies to death is having. less random judges. That's what they. were disc that's what they were debating. with a 10-year-old girl on the main.

stage. That's what that that was the big. event. You don't believe me here. Uh. Maline Peltz posted the video of what. went down here. Play this. But the one. area where the sale of witch trials went. a little far is I would say they weren't. organized enough. So you had these like. random judges, you know, kind of burning. these ladies. I'm not I don't know if. they were guilty or not. But I think. more if it were more formalized, built. up a little bit more, maybe with like an. a grand inquisitor or something, that. would have been a better way to do it. I.

am so impressed. I. >> see for a second you probably were like, "Come on, Ben. It's not actually what. they were talking about on the main. stage of the great Yeah, it was probably. worse. I probably underplayed it, right? I downplayed it. Just show the other. video there, Jeremy, so people can see. what the crowd looked like. Here, play. it. >> Why? >> Because. well, um I think it was Fabers or Jackie. Robinson that said um baseball. I mean,

they're truly having a 10-year-old girl. on stage with a MAGA hat. Listen to the. filth out of that guy talk about how. ladies. in the Salem witch trials, we don't know. if they were guilty or not guilty, but. the real problem is we didn't have a. grand inquisitor. You know, that's the. thing. People are like, "Ben, why don't. you go on that why don't you go on that. CNN debate show or why don't you go on. why don't you debate these people?" I.

don't know. God bless Mockler for having. the patience to talk to those people. I. I just I truly don't have the. patience or desire to to really speak. with these psychopaths. I just don't I. mean how come what are you supposed to. what are you supposed to say to that? You know, you're to me even having a. conversation with that guy, you know, was like what would you even say Grand. Inquisitor? Uh come on, man. like you. just get pulled into these discussions. that are so devoid and divorced of what.

the American people are experiencing and. feeling. And the thing is, as we get. closer and closer to the midterms, one of the things that MAGA is going to. do and Trump is going to do is just make. politics. so freaking gross and disgusting. that it just makes everybody go, "Gh, I. don't even want to pay attention to it.

I don't even want to look at it." Then. election day happens and maybe from your. regime media and your local news, you. know, you get a little bit of bits and. pieces when they sanitize all of this, but they want to repel you from all of. this and just gross you out. So you just. stay away and they'll talk about. communist this and you know and the. biggest threat even a bigger threat than. 911 is rent stabilization.

Prove me wrong. prove me wrong. You. know, I saw um I saw that uh you guys. see that I showed a video of it. The. person on Fox who was approaching Thomas. Massie, you know, and got the orders. from Trump and Maggan Mike to go after. Massie and like try to have Massie like. prove a negative like you try to. disprove right now, you know, all these. things about you. And then Massie turned. the tables on the guy and the guy just. like lost it. But they want to make. politics so gross and so disgusting and.

and and bel. beneath all of this. But what should be. above all of this is. what Trump is calling a big yawn. A big. yawn. Affordability, housing, health care. That's what he. said yesterday. This is a big yawn. But. more than a big yawn, that's also part of Trump's fraud. You. see, for Trump, housing and.

affordability, he hates it. He hates it. Why? Because. his whole life was a slum lord and a. fraud and the leader and representative. of the Epstein class. And for him, everything is a zero sum game. Quite. literally everything is a zero- sum. game. So when you take a look right here. of the amount of money that Donald Trump.

and Steve Ratner posted this that Trump. made in crypto since he's been this is. this is a fraction of the billions of. dollars that he's made since he's been. in office. So according to Reuters in. Trump's crypto ventures alone, he's made about $2.29 29 billion. And do you want to guess how much money. his investors made? Huh? Do you think his stakeholders and.

shareholders. shared in that $2.29. billion value? Nope. You know how they say the American. economy is a K-shaped economy? Zero sum game. Take a look at that chart one more time. That's a K-shaped economy. That looks a. lot like when they say our economy is a. K-shaped economy. Trump makes $2.9. billion. Look at the red right there.

Look at the basically vertical line down. or 90 degree angle forming going down or. whatever, right? Uh that right there is. Trump's investors. They lost $2.29 29. billion. lost. That looks a lot like our economy. where the rich get richer and become. trillionaires. Trump manipulates the. markets. His friends, his family makes a lot of.

money, but most people, 99.9%, they're out there losing the money. And. Trump views it as a zero- sum game. You. know, I'm not anti- business. I'm for fair. business. I'm for fairness, not rigging the rules. so the billionaires always win. Heads I. win, tails you tails you lose type of. mentality. for for for fairness. You. know, there's a way and there was a way.

in our country when it came to business, for shareholders, for workers to share in the value, in. the sacrifice that they made where a. CEO's salary didn't have to be thousands. of times what the worker was making. Everybody in a common enterprise, a. business, an association can benefit. And sure, the CEO and certain executives. make more money, but it's not so wildly.

out of control that the workers who are. sacrificing and who are the engines of. your business can't even afford basic. necessities to live. But that's what. it's become. The whole economy looks a. lot like a Trump crypto scheme right. now, right? That's what our economy. looks like and that's what his crypto. scheme looks like. They call it Kshape. I call it fraud. I call it looting and.

pillaging from the people. in order to. fund the fact that they need 25 to 30. yachts, 25 to 30 mansions, 25 to 30. private jets. But that's not good enough. Those. yachts, those private jets, they need to be tax writeoffs. [laughter]. The sports teams that they buy, did you.

know that when these billionaires buy. sports teams, they can deduct. the purchase of the sports teams, a full. deduction over the course of the next 15. years. So, not only does the value of. the sports team appreciate in value, but. then every year the money they put into. the sports team, they write that off. They deduct that from the money that. they've made in that given year over a. 15-year period. Did you know that? That.

was something that they did. You're. paying more taxes, not even as a. percentage that a lot of these. billionaires pay. And that's where we're at right now. That's what's pissed people. And Trump. wants to now say, "Well, anyone fighting. for the common man and woman, the. worker, you're a communist and you're a. bigger threat than 911.". That's pretty telling also, isn't it? Because that tells you that for Donald.

Trump, someone who's never sacrificed, and for his Epstein class friends, the. mere idea of trying to make things more. affordable, of trying to help workers is a bigger. threat to them than 911, of World War. II, of World War I. That's what he said. So, you go back to the housing issue. Trump sees housing as zero sum. If you're going to give housing.

to firsttime homeowners, you must be. taking it away. from Trump and his buddy and the. slumlords and the Epste. You must be. giving homes to them. It doesn't it. never you could share collectively in. the value of a company with people who. are I get executives and CEOs making. more money but it doesn't have to be. wildly out of control. You can build. more homes. That doesn't mean you're. taking away homes but that's Trump's.

mentality with everything. And that's really where we're at right. now. That's why he hates the rent. stabilization. Oh, you're going to screw over the slum. That's what's going to create the. squalor. No, the squalor exists now. The. squalor exists now. And what Trump has turned America into. is what his fair looks like, a failure. Okay, let's take our first and only.

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Representatives, telling people, "Go. home. We're not going to come back until. July 4th. Why? Because the House of. Representatives. couldn't pass what's called a rule. When. you can't pass the rule, you can't. engage in debate or do your work. Passing the rule, kind of like writing. your name on an exam. You know how they. say you get the first few hundred points. on the SAT after you put your name. the.

idea of not being able to pass a rule. It's unheard of pretty much be not. totally unheard of, but very rare that. you wouldn't be able to pass a rule, but. under Magamike that is very, very. common. And one of the reasons that they. aren't passing the rule is because. Donald Trump having a baby temper. tantrum. No offense to babies. Okay, here my little baby sleeping in the.

background or just waking up rather. So. I never would want to conflate Trump's. behavior to the maturity of actual. babies as compare in comparison to. Trump, but Trump threw the temper. tantrum over the housing bill, a. bipartisan bill. You know, I often get. asked, is there anything nice, Ben, you. can say about Donald Trump? Can any No, there isn't. There really isn't. He's. horrible. He's really horrible. But I. would say, but this is what I said. I. said, when I heard the housing. affordability bill pass,

I would have said, "Wow, that was a. bipartisan achievement. Trump signed it. I agree with this." That's what I would. have said. You know, he wasn't really. the he wasn't behind it, but you get you. get it done. I would have said something. nice about it. I that's what I said the. night before. I said, "Okay, housing. affordability bill that he's going to. sign." I said, "If he signs it, that. would be great." I think it could have. went much further, but you know, it's. good work by Elizabeth Warren and Tim. Scott, different sides of the aisle by.

far. Okay. And they came up with this. agreement together. What Donald Trump. do? I'm not signing it. He's, you know, he'll he's a baby. You know, there's the. But what I will do is I will put an. eagle with 11 stripes that represents. the Confederate flag. And I will and it. looks like the Nazi eagle. I'm going to. put that. over the White House and I'll do it as. an AI cuz I'm such a troll. Don't you. love a a trolly president? Oh, look what.

I'm doing. Nazi eagles on the White. House. You know, it's stupid, man. It. was really stupid. Just like grow up and. behave like a grownup. Behave like a leader. Behave like an. adult. despite just act like one. like pretend. it's, you know, a movie or something and. just he can't he can't do it. He's. incapable of doing it. As much as I despise him in this regime,

I don't. root for America to look bad or foolish. because it makes all of us look bad and. foolish. And it hurts the people of our. country more importantly than how it. makes us look. I I tr I wish he could go to the G7 and. behave like a normal guy or like at. least do a shtick do like an acting like. it behave normal. Of course he can't. None of these people. can because they're actual psychopaths. They're actually deranged and demented. malignant narcissistic like.

Like they're just they're horrible. They're horrible in every single way. You take and and and they all are every. one of them. You take a look right here. as I saw more breaking news. over the commercial break. Trump has. just reported earnings of $635 million. in royalties linked to his memecoin. You. know, the Trump memecoin that crashed. $635 million in royalties he made while.

people got screwed. I saw this one. during the commercial break. Steve. Ratner with another post. It's not just. the Lutnik Sons cashing in on Trump's. family's White House self dealing. World. Liberty Financial, the crypto venture. Don Jr. and Eric launched with Steve. Witov's sons, Zach and Alex, has netted. a fortune for both families of at least. $1.1 billion. Here's a graph. World. Liberty Financial, the Trump family's.

pump and dump. Take a look right here. You can see it's public trading opening. on September 202th. Then you can see pre-sale insiders and. the Trump family, the tokens that they. were able to sell um and the proceeds. they were able to make. Public buyers. since September 2025 launch are down. 75%.

June 2026. down 76%. from its peak. Do you see this chart. right here? This is how all Trump charts look. like like going back to his businesses. or whatever you want to call them in the. 70s and the 80s. This is the Trump. chart, the meme coins, the this. business, the casino. Look, look there. Look, these are all of.

his bit the Trump graph is the Trump. family and the insiders, they're at the. top. They're at the top. The investors, the shareholders, the stakeholders, they're at the bottom. That's you. That's us. That's where the American people are. when they talk about Kshape. We're we're the ones. who have been dumped in the pump and.

dump. And it just it fascinates me. It's an interesting word choice by me. because I feel more stronger than that. that there could be people who were so. obviously dumped. while Trump and his right-wing oligarchs. were pumped. And the people who were dumped can still. go around him even though the events are. like 300 people now or 400 people now,

but they just like it. They're good with. it. They're cool with with being dumped. Like I I despise Trump's right-wing. oligarch crew. At least they're they made they're. making money, you know? They can't. satiate their greed. They're horrible. scumbags. But I see why they at least. like it. [laughter]. They're making they're making they're at.

least making a lot more money and. getting a lot of tax breaks and they're, you know, in their zero sum game. They're screw they're screwing you over. But I don't get how people on the bottom. run. But then you see what they do. They. see what they do. They're eating your cats and dogs. It's the Haitians. It's the Somalians. That's who's doing it to you. It's the. immigrants. Think about what the the.

hearing on Capitol Hill today. I think. we've got the video of Democratic. Congress member Jamie Rascin. He was furious because MAGA Republican. Congress member Mike Lawler. was invited to join this hearing just to. introduce somebody. And then Lawler. started defaming Alex Prey and Renee. Nicole Good and started attacking people. who were peacefully protesting ICE and.

Border Patrol. And I'll show you what this looks like. because Lawler. starts shouting and yelling and saying, "And the Democrats are the reason why so. many people have died because the. Democrats have open the floodgates for. the killer immigrants and they've been. killing everybody here in this country.". And then Jamie Raskin steps in and he's. like, "How dare you? I You're supposed. to just introduce the witness. Why are. you grandstanding and using this to.

attack immigrants and to attack Renee. Nicole Good and Alex Pretty? Watch what. went down. Let's play it. >> in this country. >> I do feel that outrage. YOU DO NOT. BECAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU WOULD NOT. SUPPORT. >> YOU FEEL THE OUTRAGE ABOUT ALICE. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. YOU DON'T BELONG. IN THIS COMMITTEE. You should get the. hell OUT OF HERE. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. the rules of the committ. You don't. understand the constitution of it. Mr. an absolute disgrace supporting the. party. >> Say one word about get rid of sanctuary.

>> I did. I WROTE A WHOLE NEW YORK TIMES. OPED ABOUT IT. You should be absolutely. yourself. opposing sanctuary POLICIES THAT. RESULTED IN THEIR daughter's death. >> Okay. Now, I give. a lot of credit to Democratic Congress. member Jamie Rascin for fighting back, for punching back, for going on the. offense. But I also want to reflect upon. the fact.

that the MAGA Republicans inject so much. poison into the political process. And. there was a right way we could have had. a discussion about immigration with. strong borders, making sure criminals. are prosecuted and making sure that the. deportations. focus on truly individuals who have. violated the law. Right? There was a.

bipartisan immigration bill and that. would have dealt with strong borders, expedited immigration proceedings, due. process, compassion, pathway to. citizenship, funding so border patrol. can actually just be on the border, not. invading our cities. Donald Trump and. MAGA said, "No, no, no, no, no. We can't. solve the problem. We need to fuel the.

problem because we need to run on these. issues. We need to run on these issues. That's why when Mike Lawler's out there. yelling and chatting, they'll never talk. about the bipartisan immigration bill. that Trump and Lawler and all the MAG is. killed because they want to run on that. and be divisive. Now, the issue is when. a lot of people watch what I just showed. you, when you see people yelling at each. other, a lot of the reaction from people.

is just to say this. I'm leaving. I don't why I don't want. Why are you yelling? Ah, I I gotta I I'm. gonna I got to take care of my daughter. I gotta I I'm I gotta go eat lunch. I'm. gonna go I'm gonna go watch Netflix. I'll watch the the watch watch watch a. show. I'm gonna I I I can't I don't I. don't want to watch that. Right. [snorts] I mean a and. you know it's it's hard.

sometimes, especially where the. right-wing has a trillion dollar media. landscape. to. decipher sometimes the yelling and to. say, "Okay, wait a minute. So you're. telling me that we actually had a. solution that dealt with the border. responsibly, strong borders, compassion, it would have solved the problems. What. could we talk like that? Can we can you. explain that? Yeah, we should be able to.

talk. But you know, you have to. understand these people who just care. about power for the sake of power. These. maggas, they're going to shout and. scream because pull up the K-shaped. charts right there. They need to convince the people who are. on the bottom of those K-shaped charts, the type of people who lose 76%, the people on the bottom of of the. K-shaped graphs, the people in the pump. and dump who are dumps, in this case 99%.

of Americans, you you have to keep. people really angry at the other because. the moment people realize that you've. just screwed them and picked their. pockets and stole from them and you're. supporting a right-wing oligarch and. you're laughing at them, they're going. to turn against you. So, you got to keep. them angry and you got to keep the venom. in this all and you've got to keep the. division and you've got to keep the the. communists and the.

that's what they do. That's what they do. and that's what we'll see a lot more of. as we head closer to the election. because they. the pumpers. don't want a politics that benefits the. dumped. They want to keep on dumping you. and dumping you and dumping you and then. when you when you when you're treading.

water when you're treading water, right? And they'll say, "We'll help you. We'll. help you." Dunk. We're hop treading. Please dunk. I'll say, "Well, I'll get. you back." Dunk. That That's what they. want to do to you. That's who these. right-wing Epstein class oligarchs are. And people like Mike Lawler protect. them. If you think about the chess. board, right? They're the front line of. defense against the oligarchical kings. and queens. They're positioned there to. do the blocking and tackling for the. Epstein class. that is screwing you,

that is pickpocketing you, that is. harming you, that is crushing you, right? And then they have their people. show up like uh Russ Bat, the architect. of Project 2025, and with a level of arrogance and. disgust, they get off. They get off the way Christy Gnome's. husband, we won't go there. We won't go.

there, but they get off on the pain and. suffering of the American people. Take a. look at Russ's vote right here being. cross-examined by Democratic Congress. member Poke Khan. And Congress member. Pocahan is asking some very basic. questions like uh will you acknowledge. that people have died as a result of. cuts to US aid? Let's watch it. You. know, many of us disagree with the first.

time in 250 years history of the. country, the unified executive theory. So let me drill in one area to ask. Do. you concur that multiple studies have. shown that people both adults and. children across the globe have died. because of cuts to programs like USAD? >> I do I do not concur with the validity. of those studies. They are based on. >> Do you agree that people have died. across the globe because of our cuts? >> I believe these studies that people are. banting about. >> My question is do you believe people. have died because of the cuts to USA ID?

It's simple yes or no. >> I do not believe that the administration. >> anyone's died. Let me finish the. question. No, no. It's a yes or no, director. It's really simple. Do you. think people died or not? >> Cuts are aimed at. >> All right. You're not going to answer. it. I would claim my time. I thought you. were going to be a little more helpful, director vote, but that's fine. Um, so. this is Boston studies, Lancet studies, others have said hundreds of thousands. to millions of kids and adults will die. because of this. Uh, one of your. co-conspirators, Elon Musk, recently has. been going nuts trying to claim no one's. died. Uh, and he has to name names. So,

let me mention a few people. uh who've. died because of these cuts. Uh Roina. Naboi in Kenya, her little daughter Jane. uh died of starvation in a refugee camp. because we cut back on their food and. the food rations. She got sick and died. Uganda Balama Nigeria USAD funded uh. program babies of special nutrition. nutrient-dense paste uh to avoid. malnutrition. She had twins 6 months. old. The program ended abruptly because.

of cuts to US ID. Two weeks later, one. of the twins died. I've got a bunch. more. Are you familiar with any of these. stories? >> 13.4 million for civic engagement. >> Are you familiar with any of these. stories? There's no number involved in. that answer, director voteing. Are you. familiar with any of these stories? I. just gave you two examples. Are you. familiar? It's a yes or no. Don't dance. You're not a tap dancer. Are you. familiar with the stories? It's really. that simple. >> I am familiar with the press that you. are citing. The reports that you are.

also referring to are I take my tie. back. You're clearly not going to answer. questions today. I thought you came to. answer questions. You're not. So, >> and I'll leave you all right here with. uh the latest from the lead negotiator. from Iran, MB Galab, who gave a lengthy. televised interview moments ago. and uh. he offered what is probably the clearest. explanation so far of how Tyrron sees. the post-warou.

and where the process now stands. MBalafagan, Iran's lead negotiator, he. says negotiations are over. According to. him, the trip to Switzerland was not. about negotiating a new agreement but. about discussing the implementation of. theou. It's what I said before. He says. Iran will not move to the remaining. provisions of the agreement until the. five have been implemented, adding that. article 13 will only be pursued. afterwards. He describes the US. commitment to end the war in Lebanon,

enable the return of displaced. civilians, and restore Lebanese. sovereignty as one of the biggest. achievements of theou. He says a joint. committee involving Iran, the United. States, and Lebanon has been established. to follow the implementation of the. Lebanon file with Iran's ambassador. serving as Thrron's representative. He claims the US naval blockade has now. been fully lifted. He says Iran has.

exported more than 40 million barrels of. oil since the blockade ended. He claims. Iranian oil is now being sold at or. around 20% higher prices with payments. reaching Iranian accounts. He says the. 60-day period of toll-free transit. through this straight of Hermuz is. temporary while insisting that Iran and. Oman retain responsibility for nav for. managing navigation there. He argues. that Hormuse should become busier, safer, and cheaper for commercial.

shipping, saying Iran's strategic. advantage comes from making the straight. function efficiently rather than keeping. it closed. He reiterates that Iran's. missile capabilities, the resistance. access, and enrichment are not. negotiable. while warning that Thrron is. prepared to respond militarily if theou. is violated. Overall, Galibbah appears. to be reinforcing an official narrative. that theou is now entering its. implementation phase. The repeated.

emphasis on oil exports, higher. revenues, the lifting of the naval. blockade, and developments in Lebanon. seems to be intended to demonstrate that. Iran is already reaping concrete. strategic and economic benefits while. preserving military leverage if. implementation falters. And by the way, folks, that's not some, to use JD. Vance's term, some Persian rhetorical. trick, like a racist statement. Persian.

rhetorical trickery. What are you. talking about? Um, that is strategic. Makes sense to me and it seems to be. what's taking place. When you observe that Iran is not there. in Qatar, there's nothing for them to negotiate. anymore. we did theou. do your obligations then theou says once.

you hit your obligations at that point. we then begin discussions on the nuclear. file we'll have those discussions once. you go through and do your obligations. it was tiered like a ladder the US has. to climb the ladder and when it climbs. the ladder then Iran has nuclear. discussions so I saw former President. Obama he was asked What do you make of. this deal? Obama Obama's Obama in kind of textbook. Obama fashion goes, I won't do the Obama.

voice, but he goes, I did a deal. The. JCPOA. was a deal that specifically addressed. removing nuclear enrichment capabilities. of Iran to weapons grade. And it was. hundreds of pages that dealt. specifically with the nuclear file. That's what the JCPOA was. And it was a. template to do similar non-nuclear deals. with North Korea and others. And.

according to all international agencies, including Israel, by the way, and all. international agencies, Iran was. complying with the JCPOA. until Donald Trump ripped it apart. The. 14point. only deals with the nuclear file. beginning negotiations. on Iran, their responsibilities regarding nuclear.

enrichment, downgrading, down blending, etc. That only begins that portion once. the US meets its commitments in theou. that includes full durable ceasefire in. Lebanon. That includes $300 billion. dollar fund to Iran. That includes. unfreezing sanctioned money to Iran.

That includes removing the blockade. You. do all of those things and then in the. future we can begin the discussion. basically of the JCPOA but a weaker. version sometime in the future. That's. what theou actually is. So that's that's where we that that's. where we are right now.

As much as I despise this regime, I want to see theou complied with. I. don't know how we're going to comply. with it because already the Lebanon. is directly in conflict with the Iranou. and the Switzerland deconliction. statements. Already you have the Arab. nations saying that Rubio didn't discuss. anything about a $300 billion fund and. that the Arab nations they've never been.

consulted with and have no clue where. the money is coming from because they. ain't paying the money. So the US is. essentially a guarantor of it. Where. where where is that coming from? And. then the Lebanon file where you have. Netanyahu today. walking in Lebanon. cosplaying like he's a soldier in the. so-called security zone. He took that. trip to specifically say to Iran,

we will not allow there to be Iran's. involvement in the deconliction process. And Netanyahu, he bombed Syria the other day. He. continues to bomb southern Lebanon. and obviously continues to um bomb Gaza. and Netanyahu by being there is sending. a very intentional message.

I'm going to drag the US back into a war. with you. I showed you if you watched my. morning videos what they were saying on. Israel's I24 news where you had the. former console in Los Angeles and you. had all their people saying for Israel. Their view is that Netanyahu and Trump. go back to war with Iran in November. after the midterm elections and that. it's a foregone conclusion that the. third Iran war as they call it in the.

Netanyahu regime that that will be. taking place that they will drag us back. in. around November. and try to hope for a ground invasion. And I mean, you see him there with his. grin, with his. um. provocative act right there. essentially saying. we ain't leaving. So. what happens?

What happens next? And the reality is is. that in the best case scenario, let me. paint the bestcase picture. We go. through 15 cycles of 60 days of the. charade and farce of thisou existing. and then the problems get dumped. on a new administration.

and then all of these Republicans. start to say, "Ah, you did it. We had it. all set up for you. It was going to be. perfect.". Pick the person who you think will be. the Democratic president, whoever the. name is. Now, you've destroyed us. You've screwed us. We had it perfect. Trump was tough. We set it all up. We. arranged it in this perfect thing. No. No. You're a bunch of frauds. and.

the US in whatever the next election is. You can't have someone who just is like. ah kumbaya. let's go you know let's treat this as. normal. You can't. The stakes are too. high. You have to be able to very. strongly. explain. where the problems are coming from. because they have to be fixed. The. surgery to our country has to take.

place. But that means. you have to be able to diagnose people. You know how Trump says don't do the. testing because then you'll see that. people was were sick. Remember that in. CO people are sick by not doing the. testing. You're just covering up the. sickness. So when you come in and you. have to diagnose the sickness, you can't be conflated for the virus. That's what happened with Biden. That's what happened with former.

President Biden. and the the toxic media environment. promoted that idea. Anyway, the good. news is we've got a new media. environment. I think we all get it. and we'll just keep grinding every day, getting the truth out, huh? That's what. we'll keep on doing. All right. Thanks. everybody for watching. Subscribe to the. Midas Touch on audio. We appreciate you. We're grateful for you. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers.

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