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We've got a lot to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. As. you know, Donald Trump escalated the. catastrophic war in Iran. A few days. back, Iran responded by striking back. hard, hitting US military bases in the. neighboring Arab nations. Thereafter, Donald Trump huffed and puffed and said, "We're going to go after you." But as of. this recording, Donald Trump has gone. silent. We also learn that the Trump. regime attacked a wedding in southern. Iran in Syria, killing five and injuring.

74. This adds to the long list of Trump. regime war crimes in this catastrophic. war against Iran and elsewhere during. the horrific regime's uh reign. We'll. talk about that. Uh, in addition, nobody. on the MAGA Republican side, even some. of the most ardent MAGA Republicans, want to attend Donald Trump's so-called. Trumpa midterm convention on September. 9th and 10th in Dallas, Texas. It's like. a parade of excuses from these MAGA.

Republicans who don't want to be on. stage next to him. And they're each. like, I can't do this. I got my kids. football game. I got to go to this. I. got to do that. I'm going to actually be. doing this. I'm going away on a. vacation. They're each making up excuses. because they know that Donald Trump has. the lowest approval in modern. presidential uh history. We'll talk. about what's going on there. This is why. Donald Trump wants to, of course, cheat. for the midterms. Donald Trump's biggest. uh cheating effort is in the form of. having the United States Postal Service.

change barcodes on ballots based on a. Trump voting list that Trump says, "Here. are the people who are authorized to. vote." and to empower the postal service. to destroy tens of thousands of ballots. at a time if a single ballot doesn't. match Trump's list. This is part of the. rulemaking. The Trump regime tried to. push through. Trump filed an emergency. appeal to the United States Supreme. Court trying to jump over even the.

circuit court to get the Supreme Court. to approve of his election day scheme, which is to create chaos. and then say, "Ah, all of the ballots got lost, so I. guess the election doesn't count." Take. it very, very seriously what he's doing. We'll cover the latest filing moments. ago that was made by Trump before the. Supreme Court. Maggami Johnson has now. announced that he's going to be shutting. down the House of Representatives yet. again soon. In about a week, they will.

go into recess again and then they will. all go home and then they won't return. to work until after the midterms. Maga. Mike previously promised that they were. going to be here all throughout. September. You know, Thomas Massie, the. former the Republican Congress member. soon to be former Republican congress. member said, "No, I know that Magamike's. going to send us all home because he. wants to cover up the Epstein files and. my discharge petition." So that's one of. the main reasons he's going to send us. home because this new Epstein files.

petition is gaining steam to empower the. survivors to bring private causes of. action against the Trump DOJ. And Maggam. Mike's like that's ridiculous. I'm not. going to do that. What did Magga Mike do. today? He announced recess time. He's. like this was the go we were so. productive. We did so much work that we. are we're all we're done. We finished. all our work. All our work is finished. Amazing stuff. I mean, the only work you. did was cover up child sex trafficking. and cause Americans to suffer even more,

make things far more expensive, you. sickos. And meanwhile, Donald Trump has. spent the past 24 hours either whining. and calling media that says the US is. losing the war traitorous and. treasonous, or he's attacking Spain, he's attacking Canada, he's attacking. the UK, he's attacking all the United. States former allies while he continues. to help Putin and Xi and Kim Jong-un. And it's very clear where Donald Trump. is in all of this. He thinks that he's. their bud. He thinks that he's their.

friend, but they are laughing in his. face that Donald Trump has ripped to. shreds the postworld War II architecture. created by the United States. And um you. know, Trump's that guy in the party who. who he's he's with the party of Xi and. Putin and Kim Jong. He thinks he's. invited, but they're like, "All right, who's this guy? All right, all right, you can stay over there, but can you get. me some potato chips, please? Can you. get me some pretzels?" He's that guy. Brett, welcome to the Midas Judge. podcast. Brett, good to good to see you.

Crazy stuff going on in the world. A lot. to cover. >> Good to see you, too, Ben. Jordy, right. now, don't be alarmed. It's not baby. time yet. It could be, but it's but it's. not yet. Jordy is stormed out. There's a. little like a storm where Jordy is and. his power was completely knocked out. And so, uh, maybe he'll pop in, maybe. not. But, uh, you know, we'll send Jordy. our regards. And, uh, we're still on. baby watch any minute now. Any minute. now. Man, Donald Trump, this entire. Republican party. I mean, just how. pathetic. All these people are such.

weasels. Just the way that they lie as. easily as they breathe. It is just such. a disgrace watching Magamike. And I. rewatched the clip because I did a. report on our Instagram a couple days. ago when Thomas Massie sounded the alarm. and he said, "I'm hearing rumors. I'm. hearing rumors that Maggamike, he. doesn't call it Magga Mike, but I'm. hearing rumors that Mike Johnson is. going to send the Congress home, gonna. send the House home because he does not. want to be forced to vote on a new. discharge petition for this new Epstein.

Files Transparency Act. And Mike Johnson. was cornered, out of all people, Mike. Johnson cornered by the woman who does. the news, I use that term very loosely, for Lindell TV. Mike Lindell, the pillow. guy who got uh just totally destroyed uh. in his election, Lindell TV. And she. asked him, "Is this true?" And what did. Mike Lindell say? I mean, what did Magga. Mike say? Mega Mike said, "No, [laughter]. no, that's not true. That's that's so.

stupid. He's stupid. He's stupid. And. that's nonsensical. Stupid. How could he. possibly think that?" Well, not two days. later is that actually coming true with. Magamike sending people home. And it's. just a pattern and these people are so. duplicitous. We see it with everybody. We obviously see it with Donald Trump. every day. We see it with JD Vance when. he gets up to that elector and he just. lies about everything. Oh, we're not. even in a war. Actually, what war? What. war? While Donald Trump himself is. calling it a war. We saw it with Howard.

Lutnik this week where he was like, you. know, the data centers, they don't even. use water. They don't even use a little. bit of water. And you go back to what he. was saying, I don't know, a year ago. with the same guy. These things suck up. water like you've never seen. It's like, how how could these how could you be so. shameless? Like, don't these people just. feel like dirty and slimy? Because I. feel dirty and slimy just looking at. them. We're going to cover it all. Lots. of news today. Ben, where do you want to. start? >> Lutnik also said there has been no.

American service members who died in the. war. And then Donald Trump's like, "Oh, he was talking about Venezuela. Wasn't. talking about the Iran war." It's like, "Okay, just stop. Just just stop." I. mean, every day with these people, it's. lie after lie. Talking about Maga Mike. Johnson there for a moment. Brett, let's. take a look at a couple of days ago. where Maga Mike Johnson mocked Thomas. Massie for suggesting House leadership. could keep Congress out to avoid the new.

Epstein Files Transparency Act discharge. petition, calling the idea stupid and. nonsensical. Let's play. >> Mr. Speaker, Thomas Massie, Mr. Speaker, Thomas Massie is now alleging that you. are going to hold the House in recess. until after the midterm elections due to. the Epste Files Transparency Act. So, let me tell you how stupid Thomas. Massiey's comment is. If he would come. to our House Republican conference. meetings, as we had this morning, he. would have heard me say privately, as. I've said publicly, Republicans are here. to work, we have a schedule, a calendar.

that's been out for a year, we are. abiding by that calendar. I I we are. going to work all the way through. September and every day that's on the. calendar so long as people like him. don't stop the progress. So, that is a. nonsensical statement by someone who is. not participating as a full member of. the of the Congress. And it's really sad. that he doesn't. >> know. Then we have a team on Capitol. Hill at the Midas Touch Network and. Pablo Monriquez. Pablo reports asked. MAGA Republican Congress member Van. Oran. So what are you paying more for.

now that you were two years ago than you. were two years ago? a question on the. fact that Americans are suffering right. now with things being way more expensive. as a result of Trump's trade war against. the world, his tariffs everywhere, and. as a result of Donald Trump's. catastrophic war in Iran and his other. reckless and malicious policies. I want. you to watch what this MAGA Congress. member says to Midas Touch uh host Pablo.

Monriquez. Let's play. Congressman, real. quick before you guys go out, uh, >> what are you paying more for right now. than you were two years ago? >> Patience so I can deal with your stupid. questions. >> Got it. Thank you, Congress. >> Really, I don't think it was that stupid. of a question. American people are. suffering right now with a cost of. living crisis. Things are far more. expensive, and that's what they just. think. They think uh the American people. are stupid. Well, what about when Pablo. Monriquez asked MAGA Republican Congress. member Troy Nells if he wants to sign on.

to the new Epstein Files Transparency. Act? And we know that this is a major. reason why the MAGA Republicans are. shutting down the House yet again and. sending it into recess as they did. before where they literally shut down. the government over the Epstein. Transparency Act before at Donald. Trump's orders. Watch what Nells says. Let's play it. >> Mr. those real quick. Do you think uh. you'll sign on to the second uh Epstein. what. >> do you think you'll be signing on to the. second Epstein pilot is over with? It's.

over with. I think that uh listen uh the. DOJ, everybody's getting to the bottom. of it. We need to focus on other things. and everybody wants to bring Epstein up. and the Democrats want to bring Epstein. up. Some of the anti-Trumpers want to. bring Epstein up because we're what two. months away from a a general election. So, uh Epstein we let's just we got. other things to focus on. They declared it, Brett. The Epstein. stuff is done. He says, "It's all good. The DOJ months, right? We're done with. this. It's over. >> We're done with this. We're done with.

this.". >> Meanwhile, today we had uh Leon Black, billionaire, who used to run Apollo. Global Management. Leon Black uh had to. step down from his role as CEO of Apollo. Global Management when the Epstein files. were released. His close confidant of. Donald Trump, was very close with. Jeffrey Epstein, paid Jeffrey Epstein. more than 56 million in the span of just. six years. Some folks say that he spent. upwards of $180 million paying that to.

Jeffrey Epstein. Some people some folks. saying even more than that when you. actually parse all the numbers. But Leon. Black, he was supposed to be uh he was. scheduled this morning for a deposition. before the House Oversight Committee. Did not show up. No show. And not only. did he not show up, but he then decided. to sue the House Oversight Committee, calling it a fishing expedition and. saying that he would refuse to answer. questions. So now you have Robert.

Garcia, the ranking member of the House. Oversight Committee, and you have other. folks on the House Oversight Committee. calling for Leon Black to be held in. contempt. So this Epstein story is not. going away. It continues to escalate and. the people who are most closely. connected to it are still evading. responsibility at every turn. >> And it's important that we cover it. One, because it's sick and disgusting. that our government at the highest. levels is the Epstein cabal. The people.

who accused others of being the cabal. They are the cabal. They are the Epstein. class. on its own terms, it is depraved. to have a government led by people who. are covering up like pretty obviously a. child sex trafficking ring. Like they're. there, they're doing it. It's obvious to. every American who cares about this. issue or who cares about people that our. government's covering up a child sex. trafficking ring. And it's also one of. the main reasons that Donald Trump got.

involved in this catastrophic war in. Iran. It was to distract from the. Epstein files and that's one of the main. reasons he started this war with. Netanyahu and when Netanyahu saw Donald. Trump flailing and by the way I mean. Donald Trump has his own agency. He's a. sicko war criminal who needs to be tried. at the HEG. But you know Netanyahu has. been trying to convince president after. president to do this and no one else did. it. But Donald Trump was out there. flailing over Epstein and Netanyahu was.

like let's do it. We're going to do it. no matter what. We're going in Donald. It was the same thing that Netanyahu. tried to pull with Biden and with Obama. and with others and and uh and Trump. said, "All right, I'm going in with you. We're" and then they slaughtered little. girls in Manab and La Mer. And just the. other day in a the Trump regime. slaughtered people at the wedding in. Sirk um killing five, injuring 7475. few weeks back, they killed a family at. a private residence in Keshum. A bunch. of sicko war criminals right over there.

But okay, we we'll we'll we'll talk. about other issues that h are occurring. right now that the American people are. uh suffering from. Uh the price of crude. right now um nearing about to hit $100 a. barrel. Both Brent and WTI both very. high. The spot price of diesel if you. were to buy diesel from the refineries. um sold like you know how it's actually. purchased not the paper crude price,

right? You have to sell the crude. The. crude is then refined. The crude then is. refined into gas. It's refined into. diesel and jet fuel and all of these. other things. It's called a 321. 3 to1 crack spread is the delta between. the price of the crude and the price of. say you know the diesel for example and. that's record highs. But the price of. diesel right now uh spot price 255 a. barrel. So when Trump's like it could. have been 255. $300 a barrel. It is it is that's what. that's what the price of diesel is which.

is used in freight and farms and all and. so much agriculture and business. generally uses diesel and that's also. adds to inflation surging right now. But. I wonder with all these farm. bankruptcies taking place with Donald. Trump undercutting our ranchers by. saying he's getting this mystery frozen. meat from foreign countries that are. going to undercut our ranchers by 25%. and all this market manipulation stuff. Brook Rollins, agriculture secretary,

what do you think about what should we. be talking about right now? What's your. plan, Brooke, in order to actually make. things more affordable here? Play this. clip. >> That no one has fought harder for these. ranchers than has President Trump. I. want to talk just for a second about. what a President Camala Harris would. have looked like for farmers and. ranchers. Ranchers would have been. imprisoned. Just ask Heather and Charles. Ma of South Dakota over things like. fence line and and [clears throat]. pivots. Um there was a massive push.

under the last administration to eat. less meat. Could you imagine? Don't stop. eating meat. There was a massive push. under the Democrats to eat fake meat and. lab grown meat. They were working to. regulate under waters [clears throat] of. the USA every pothole, every ditch on. every American farm and ranch in. America. You you contrast that to. President Trump and this administration. opening up 5 million uh grazing lands, opening up the markets around the world. Uh Japan, UK, Australia, amazing new.

trade opportunities, not just for. ranchers, but for all Americans. >> See, they're all con artists. Like. they're all despic every one of them. >> It's it's really it's truly. psychopathic. that that that's why like when it comes. to covering these people that's why you. can't equivocate and you can't be like. well she has some points there do you. want to address those points uh maybe. the answer is somewhere in the middle. like these people are just like the. gaslighters of the highest order they. are just complete and total to borrow a.

word from Donald Trump scum and it's. this is their new tactic they create. these fictional worlds to try to uh. distract from the problems that they. created so the entire world is in. turmoil. We're at war. Farmers are getting. absolutely crushed. It's like, well, Kla. Harris would have killed you if you let. her in. So, you should be happy with. your scraps right now. You know, that's. what they do with every situation, right? With the energy prices we keep. seeing. What's like the horrific.

messaging that we're seeing from Donald. Trump and JD Vance? Well, it could be a. lot higher if Kla Harris and Joe Biden. were there. Your prices would be much. higher. I mean, this is the con game. that they're playing. anybody who's. falling for this right now. I mean, it's. kind of on you at this point. >> Then you had James Comr. Good old James. Comr. Uh he House Oversight Committee. chair. Surely James Comr, you're going. to be going to Trump of Palooa, the. midterm con convention September 9th and.

se September 10th. I get that some of. these MAGAS and competitive districts. aren't going to be going, but you're the. chair of the House Oversight Committee. from Kentucky. This should be relatively. safe for you. Aren't you going to be. there? The first ever midterm convention. for Republican Congress members. You're. the chair of the House oversight, so. you're going to show up, right? Listen. to what he says. >> Next week, Congressman, um the midterm. convention in Dallas is being called. Trump of Palooa. Uh, but it comes as.

President Trump's approval rating is. underwater and at least 45 Republican. lawmakers have told Politico they're. going to skip it. Will you be there? >> I had stuff already planned in my. congressional district or I would be. there but uh got got a lot going on back. in Kentucky. So, uh, my time's needed. there. >> What? >> Okay. These people are avoiding him like. the plague. I wonder if like Trump. probably not because it's all about. himself anyway. I wonder if he regrets.

setting up this whole kind of, you know, midterm convention, which hasn't really. been done before. And I I gotta say like. the DNC, they get a lot of crap. They. were very smart for not trying to like. do their own convention to compete with. this ridiculous convention. Just let. Donald Trump have his ridiculous Trump. aooa, have all the Republicans run away. The whole thing is embarrassing. All. they're doing is reminding voters of all. the chaos of Donald Trump. And you know, everything in there is going to be about. Trump. I mean, I saw his first ad that. he released. Trump Trump has over $400.

million in his pack that he virtually. controls, this MAGA, Inc. pack. And you. would expect now with under 60 days. until the midterms that you'd be. unleashing some of that war chest on ads. on supporting candidates. Donald Trump. is MAGAPAC has cut one ad so far, which. I saw yesterday, and it's all about. Donald Trump. Doesn't even mention. anything else, just how amazing Donald. Trump is. So, like their midterm. strategy right now, I don't I don't even. know what it is. Uh, but they're in. complete and total shambles. And you.

actually see even people high up in this. party not wanting anything to do with. Donald Trump and going for any excuse to. get out of this event. >> Well, look, James Comr was asked in that. same interview by News Nation, hey, Trump's MAGA, Inc. has only spent $21. million since 2025. And a lot of that has been on stuff for. Trump, not for like uh candidates. And. then there was, I think, a little bit of. a spend for Darlene Graham. Um to to in.

a primary um but not actually for. Republicans in the midterms itself. Um. and so James Comr was asked, "So what do. you think about that?" James Comr's. like, "Well, I sure hope he spent some. of that money because a lot of that. money we could have raised ourselves, but people wanted to give it to Donald. Trump and not to us. So, he hoarded it. for himself." So, we we hope he's going. to be spending it. Watch what COMR says. Let's play. >> Republican lawmakers and donors alike. are calling on President Trump's MAGA, Inc. Super PAC to unleash its $400.

million war chest ahead of these. elections. Um, according to finance, you. know, campaign finance documents, only. 21 million has been spent since January. of 2025. Why don't you think more has been spent. at this point, sir? >> I don't know, but I I can verify that uh. a lot of members of the House are hoping. that that money is put to good use. We're going to need every penny of it. Uh that's a a large amount of money. A.

lot of our donors have donated to that. Uh a lot of the individual members. online donations are down because more. of the small dollar donors have. gravitated towards that MAGA Inc. That's. a lot of money. And again, >> yeah. And did you see also that like. countries and we saw uh a lot of. European countries do this as well but. like Netherlands I saw France did this. you know somewhat quietly a few months. back but Netherlands remove their gold.

that's in the United States and they. moved it to the UK because they're like. we can't keep gold around he's going to. steal our gold. So, billions of dollars. worth of gold that was stored in the. United States. And they cited the. geopolitical tensions and Trump. threatening trade wars against Canada to. remove their gold. I just want you to. think about that because they're like, he's going to he's going to steal our. gold. And they're probably right. Well, I sure hope that Donald Trump doesn't uh.

take our money. I mean, our voters, you. know, they gave that money to Donald. Trump thinking that he was a good actor. and that he would be giving it to all of. us for the elections. Surely Donald. Trump would never do something like that. when he's got $400 million in a bank. account. The whole thing, it's like, what the hell do you think was going to. happen? What did you think was going to. happen here? The guy is a con man. And. the more you kind of watch this, the. more I'm kind of seeing the makings of, you know, that Lindsey Graham tweet that.

he said, you know, Trump will destroy. the Republican party. I think that will. postumously uh come true a at some point. because you see that Trump does not give. a crap about this party. You even see it. in what he's saying about the midterms. right now. You have Trump going out on. the one hand he's hedging. So he's. saying like, you know, I'm not on the. ballot. So, you know, if uh if they lose. the midterms, listen, they love Trump. They love me. They love Trump. I'm the. greatest. I'm the greatest. It's them. that they don't like [clears throat] the. Republicans throwing the Republican. party under the bus. At the same time,

you also have Trump contradicting. himself and saying the opposite. You. have Trump and his surrogates going out. there and saying, "I want you when. you're in that booth to imagine that. Donald Trump's name is on that ballot.". Which is also something the Republicans. absolutely don't want people imagining. as people are being crushed in every. direction by this regime. >> Yeah, look, former senator, still. senator, but he'll be the former senator. soon. John Cornin of Texas also posting. Donald Trump has 403 million in his MAGA.

Inc. pack and you know they're out there. saying look I mean his point is you put. Paxton as our candidate right now who. looks like the worst candidate like ever. and okay you you took me out I was going. to be you know look we don't like Cornin. but he probably would have won. re-election I mean he's a popular guy in. Texas whereas Paxton's completely. despised you know by most people and.

Taler Rico is a likable guy despite all. weird stuff that Trump and MAGA says. about him. The the newest crazy one that. Trump didn't want to play it, but. Trump's like, "Teller Rico is talipo. He. eats he eats meat, but then he hates it. So then he goes outside and he vomits it. on himself." And I'm like, "Dude, what. are you talking?" Trump literally said. that out of he vomits the meat up on. himself. I'm like, "You're sick. You You. think these things like in your mind, but the point from court is, okay, you. break it, you pay for it. This is what. you want. you should be spending a. hundred million dollars in Texas because.

Pollar Rico's got like a hundred million. dollars that he's raised and and so. really you're gonna you're gonna meddle. with this and then you're not going to. put money for Paxton. And then Trump's. comment about Paxton. Did you hear what. what Trump said about Paxton? He's like. >> glow glowing review. He's like, Ken, a. lot of people say that you look. horrible, that your clothes are awful, that you speak bad, that you don't have. friends, that people don't like being. around you, but you've helped me. So, uh, let's vote. Ken, that's literally. >> lot of people say to you, you s you.

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>> That's usually the Jordy. >> I Oh, I you know I was thinking the. whole time, you know, I was in my head, too. I was like, am I going to do this. when we get back? Is Ben going to do it. when we get back? >> We both were uh whatever. [laughter]. >> Shout out to our sponsors for those just. tuning in. Uh Jordy is not uh on uh. dealing with the baby situation right. now for a lot of those asking, but he's. in the midst of a storm on the East. Coast and it's knocked out his power. Could also the baby thing could happen. at the same time, too. Who knows? We. haven't heard from him because the. power's been out at his place. But.

thanks to our sponsors. Uh Jordy does. gets great deals for you all for the. sponsors. Links are in the description. of the podcast. Check them out. Let them. know you support the show. Ben, that JD. Vans press conference. What the heck? Or. should I say WTF was that? >> WTF? Well, look, it follows the. escalation started by Trump yet again. Iran. Trump attacks the coastal cities. of Iran. The US targets a wedding in. Sirk in southern Iran. That's an area in.

southern Iran. There was, I guess, a. telecommunications tower nearby, which I. still don't make still don't think that. made the telecommunications tower a. military target. Um, but it was near a. residential facility as you all a. residential area. As you know, the Trump. regime through Pete Hegsith and others. cut back on all of their programs to. protect against civilian deaths in war. They gutted those programs in the. military. And the Trump regime used a.

slammer, it's called uh missile uh which. are very uh precise missiles too. And. they targeted not the telecommunications. tower, maybe the telecommunications that. was part of it, but they targeted the. residential area. And they killed a lot. of innocent people. At least five were. killed in the wedding. 75 were injured. Lots of people were brought to that. Manab hospital which already dealt with. the trauma of the other war crime where. the Trump regime slaughtered 168 little.

girls in Manab. Then of course early in. the war the Trump regime slaughtered 17. children at a sports hall in La Mer. little girls in volleyball practice. Uh. later on the Trump regime killed the. family in Keshum using a like massive. massive ordinance to just kill this. family that was there. Early in the war. II, the Trump regime used a submarine to. attack a defenseless Iranian naval ship,

uh the Denna, um which was leaving an. Indian parade that the US was also. invited to as well. As part of taking. part in the parade, you had to remove. all of your weapons and prove to India. that you didn't have weapons. But the US. had a submarine hit this uh Iris Denna. Navy ship. And then when the uh Iranian. Navy people were drowning in the water, uh the Trump regime got an order from.

Hexath and Trump to show no quarter and. to make sure everybody drowned to death. The Sri Lankan Navy was able to save. some of the Iranian uh naval officers. who were and sailors who were in the. water drowning. Um but a lot of people. died in that incident and there have. been numerous other um war crimes but. the latest was in Syriak. So the Trump. regime attacks then Donald Trump post. basically do not retaliate or respond or. else we will destroy your civilization. or words to that effect. Iran.

immediately responded striking military. bases in Jordan and Kuwait and UAE and. Iraq and Bahrain. And then last night, Iran also struck US bases in Kuwait and. the United Arab Emirates, notably too in. I believe it was in Kuwait. It seems. that Iran struck a uh condo area that it. was targeting of a military officer. Uh. also, we're getting no word from Sentcom.

about if there were casualties or what. the consequence was. The silence from. SenCom following those strikes is. certainly noticeable. Um the US did not. right away engage in strikes against. Iran. And also, I mean, from the. satellite images, Iran really hit some. of these bases hard. They hit a new base. in Jordan, Camp Titan, which Iran claims.

that their surveillance showed was being. reconstituted as a logistical facility. since the Bahrain facility was. destroyed, which was the main logistical. hub. So then we had to make a logistical. hub in Diego Garcia which is far away. from the Arabian Sea where our aircraft. carriers are which is why these aircraft. carriers aren't getting the food and. supplies and uh the kind of basic. necessities that they need. If you look. at the photos I mean Camp Titan was. ripped to shreds by these Iranian.

strikes and some of these other bases. look like they were hit pretty hard but. no word from SenCom. Like SenCom lies. about everything now that Admiral Brad. Cooper has demonstrated himself to be a. real clown. I know top people in the. military who were so disappointed in. this guy because he used to be a. somewhat serious guy, but I put an. emphasis on used to be a somewhat. serious guy. And so that's kind of where. we're at right now. I wanted to frame. kind of what has occurred in the past. few days. Also, Iran struck some more. MQ9 Reaper drones, $30 million each.

They've already hit like 35 to 40 MQ9. reapers since the war began. And also. Iran was able to strike multiple other. tankers in these straight of Hormuz. And. Iran claims that mines hit these. tankers. And then we get confirmation. usually late from that UK MTO. organization about these uh tankers. being hit, but Zencom never tells the. truth about it. And then UK MTO is. usually 48 hour. They used to be the.

moment it happened. Now it's like three. days behind. And Iran has usually been. accurate. When it says it hits a tanker, it ends up turning out they hit a. tanker. >> Yeah. And Sentcom's communication has. just been abysmal by design. And even. when they do post, it's just it just. lies. Like they'll be like, "Fact check. The United States attacked, you know, X, Y, and Z." And they'll say, "False. The. United States did defensive strikes.". It's like, "Okay, so you attack them. So. you you attack them. That's not That's. not false. you're you're putting a a.

your own spin on what the attacks were. and it's honestly just disturbing and. shame on everybody over at Sentcom and. you know anybody who is going along with. these lies and gaslighting people. especially while Donald Trump is having. you commit these horrific war crimes. If. you looked at the missile manufacturer's. website of those weapons that hit this. wedding in Syirk, near Sirk, um it it. specifically says one of the selling. points is this is like the most accurate. weapon, never misses its target, will.

always get exactly where you want it. So, you could take for with that what. you will uh with the fact that they hit. a wedding with this, killing innocent. people, uh injuring a ton more people uh. in this and it just war crime after war. crime after war crime after war crime. And we saw what they did with the last. casualty numbers. So like as of now, we. don't know if there were casualties in. the past few days with all these strikes. because Sentcom hasn't provided any. updates whatsoever. And Iran has been. claiming that there have been a lot of.

casualties. So right now we we don't. have the data uh when it comes to this. specific issue, but we can remember what. Sentcom did last time. They hid the. casualty numbers and then they quietly. updated the numbers of of the injured on. the website uh hoping that nobody would. see it and then they took them off and. then they said that those actually. didn't count towards the war. So when we. hear JD Vance speaking about this war, and yes, it is a war. Um I I think the. language that he is trying to use in. saying that this isn't a war, I it has a.

lot of other implications, of course, congressional approval and all of that, but also in my opinion, it's to hide the. deaths because they're going to say, "Oh, well, these aren't war deaths. These are just, you know, it happens. when you're in the military." Like. they're actively trying to cover up what. is actually going on overseas. And if. you look at Manab, if you look at La. Mer, Sentcom, Trump regime, they come. out with statements. What do they say? Iran used the tomahawk. Iran used this. new pellet weapon that was used in the.

La Mer one. And it's like, they shot. their own people. They did it. And then. it's like, okay, that that's not true. And now everything you say is just like. an an utter lie. And what do they say. here in Syk? They were like, Iran shot. their own people. It was like we can see. the Boeing markers. I mean the slammer. weapon is Boeing. You can see it. New. York Times BBC verified it as well. Um. you it's it's very clear like it's like. very clear it's an American weapon. And.

you know when the Trump regime lies like. this all the time about this stuff, it's. just like. >> same thing they did at the school. They. they and Trump said at the end I think. it was one of their weapons when they. don't literally don't have those. weapons. Uh same thing that Israel's. been doing with Gaza from the beginning. Oh, they bombed their own hospital. actually. And it's like how many times. could you just feed people these lies uh. be before you feel like a little like. dirty and and ashamed by it. I'm ashamed. just as an American that my tax dollars. are going towards these horrific war. crimes. And I think everybody probably.

should feel some level of horror that. that's what's happening with our tax. dollars. the fact that they just lie. about this, Donald Trump constantly, you. know, making up fake numbers about uh, you know, the Iranian protester deaths, all of these things that they're pushing. out there is straight up propaganda. And. yes, Iran has their propaganda and it's. extreme their propaganda. We have our. propaganda, too. And a lot of people, I. think, don't realize that the American. people are so propagandized right now. into believing things that simply aren't.

true, that aren't happening. And they're. being these things are being hidden from. the from regular people. One of the top. things I see as a comments on as. comments on your videos, Ben, is I. didn't see this on the nightly news. I. didn't see CNN report this. I didn't see. XYZ report this. I can't believe this is. going on. And I I think that's by. design. There's sort of like a blackout. and there's so much happening at any one. time that they don't know uh, you know, kind of what to cover or how to cover. it. And then what they end up doing is. they will just show you the comments.

made by Donald Trump or JD Vance lying. about it without giving the proper. context of the bombings that have. occurred, the war crimes committed, the. true atrocities that are kind of that. are underway right now by our own. government. They kind of hide that to. the side, let the regime speak for. themselves. And that's a problem. >> Look, all countries have propaganda. I. think though a distinction is most. countries propaganda is propaganda in. the national interest right propaganda.

is in the Trump in interest individually. Trump right regardless of if it. undermines the American interest. So the. propaganda doesn't even work to help. America, [laughter] you know, like. that's the difference. Like you could go. lots of different countries, but we'll. talk here about the Iranian propaganda. is still propaganda to bring people of. Iran together and to rally people and to.

try to bring solidarity and resistance, but it's done in a national interest. for Trump. It's like Trump Trump and and. and it harms the United I think as a. general organizing principle as well. The thing is is that we've never really. before in the United States history. We've had bad presidents before, but. never have we really had someone who. doesn't do the job for [snorts]. a national benefit, for a national.

interest. for Trump, the concept of. nation, of national interest, of doing. things for the country, that's so. foreign from him. It's all about Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. And so when. you have a loser brand already, the. Trump loser brand against nations, the. national interest of Canada, the. national interest of Iran, the national. interest of Cuba, the national interest.

of you name whatever country it is of. Denmark and Greenland. um the national. interest united, people united against. Trump wanting to extract and take things. for himself when Trump is actually. working counter to the American. interest. Our national interest here, if. Trump cared about our national interest, is get the hell out of Iran. Nobody. wants you there. Literally, other than. the small group of neocon wararm mongers. with outside influence, nobody wants us.

in this catastrophic war in Iran. And I. can give you the control versus variable. group right here. Because the moment. Trump signed anou where objectively. theou was a surrender document and. United States lost, Trump was in a way. rewarded for it by just getting us out, right? Prices started going down. He had. a very very slight uptick, you know, in. the rapidly sinking numbers that he had, you know, and he was getting rewarded.

for do for being the arsonist, which. wasn't a good thing. But Americans. wanted out of of it, and he couldn't. help himself. He needed to get back in. because he's a psycho. And it's all. about him and his ego and him and and. everything is just him and him. So, he. brought us back in. You talk about. Canada. No American wants this trade war. against can. We love Canada. We like. Canada. The things that he says are so. bizarre about Canada and so dangerous. No one feels this way at all in the. United States except Trump and his. weirdo cabinet who are like, "Yeah,

they've been treating us so badly." No. one in America's like, "You know who's. treating us badly? Canada." But for. Trump, it's about him, not the national. interest of the United States. And. someone like Prime Minister Carney acts. in the national interest of Canada, of. their sovereignty. And that concept to. Trump, sovereignty, national interest, people in a he he doesn't it's it's not. something that registers because for him. it's take take for Donald for Donald.

Not for America, for Donald. And that. drives Trump crazy. And that's why he. always says, "Oh, Canada's being so. disrespectful." Like he just expects. people to fault to him at all times. He. legitimately doesn't know what to do. when people actually stand up to him. Whether that's Canada, whether that's. Iran, whether that's Greenland, I mean, you name it. Trump is a sitting duck. when that happens. All he could do is. threaten and bluster and use AI to. change names on maps and do whatever. weird stuff that he does. And now we're. kind of circling back to a few months.

ago into stories that we also saw a. while back where the Wall Street Journal. has been reporting that Donald Trump is. now considering basically quiet quitting. the Iran war. Donald Trump basically. thinking, you know what, maybe I just. leave. Maybe I just go and I hope that. like a miracle everything will fix. itself and we'll just get out and uh. we'll just pretend, you know, it's like. the Seinfeld episode uh with George. Castanza where he uh just, you know, quits and uh says, "What do you mean?".

Like [laughter]. I've been here the whole time. I It's. insane. And but you know what? In a. weird way, like I prefer that like like. I don't want to be there. I don't think. we should be there. Get the hell out and. whatever you want to whatever you want. to call it. Want to call it a win? I. don't care. If you want to surrender and. leave, goodbye me. We should not be in. this illegal war. No more of this. imperialist ridiculous behavior. Um, and. I think it's really opened a lot of. people's eyes to what, you know, Trump. and the United States is doing overseas.

Uh, when we when we do these wars and. you know, as we said before, he's really. united uh the Iranian people in a way. that we haven't seen uh, you know, in a. long time against the US. And he's also. pissed off all of our closest allies in. the region and pissed off all of our. closest allies in our region in North. America, pissed off Canada. He's pissed. off every country. He's pissed off the. UK. He's threatening Spain. He's. threatening everybody. So at this point, you look at the map, you're like, who. are your friends? Even you have Donald.

Trump cozing up to people like Kim. Jong-un, but Kim Jong-un does not feel. the same way about Donald Trump. He's. happy to be building his nuclear weapons. and and doing all that to be left alone. by Trump. But I'm sure he doesn't have. the same level of affection for him. Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump keeps. saying, "Oh, I trust Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin promised me that he was. going to help me with Ukraine." And then. everything that Vladimir Putin actually. does is against Ukraine, against the. United States. And so this is a guy who. is both simultaneously presenting this. false bravado is backing all these.

dictators and authoritarians but while. all that is happening all these people. are taking either uh just like. completely humiliating him on the global. stage or they're taking action that is. generational in its destruction to the. US because of Donald Trump Canada taking. billions and billions and billions of. dollars out of the United States econ. economy. There was a report today that. something like 6 and a half% of exports.

no longer going uh to the United or or. imports no longer coming from the United. States. Canada is looking elsewhere. They're they're buying products from. overseas which and those have spiked. their imports from other countries, but. they're not buying American anymore. That's going to be something that really. sticks with you, especially as the parts. that they're using and their. manufacturing and stuff as all these. other aspects are coming from other. places and not the United States. They're getting rid of their dependence. on the US. That's going to have. long-term ramifications that extend far.

beyond the Trump regime. >> Yeah. And that's why we focus a lot on. international developments. And while. someone like a Darlene Graham will say, "We don't care about Taiwan in here. Well, you know, the average voter. doesn't care about Taiwan. Well, the. international developments are the. reason why someone in South Carolina or. North Dakota or Alaska or Idaho or Iowa. or Texas or New York or Maine or Florida.

or any of the 50 states. Why there is higher prices? why this is. all connected. And rather than brag. about ignorance at a leadership level, you should read up and be knowledgeable. We should understand what took place at. the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. meeting in Kyrgystan. We should know. where Kyrgystan is on a map. We should.

know about the city of Bishkek in. Kyrgystan, where the Shanghai. Cooperation Organization meeting took. place. We should know that Xi Jinping. took a trip after the Bishkek Shanghai. Cooperation Organization meeting to. Egypt to meet with Elsissi, the. president there, where Xi Jinping. announced publicly a new security. architecture in the Middle East rooted. in Middle East countries asserting their. sovereignty. The clear implied subtext.

here being with the United States. security umbrella destroyed with China. as an ally, not a protector or. guarantor, but as a major ally to help. sovereign Middle East nations fight back. against the United States. We should. know what happened in the G20 finance. meeting where Treasury Secretary Bessant. invited the Russian finance minister to. Asheville, North Carolina this past.

week. At the same time, Russia's. president Putin, Russia's leader Putin. met with the president of Iran in. Bishquek and talked about economic. cooperation, especially in the areas of. nuclear capabilities. They're saying it. out loud. um in Iran while Xi Jinping. met with Putin at that Bishkek as well. While Iran was viewed heroically at the. Shanghai cooperation, Iran getting far. more respect and you know like when you.

know someone who you didn't expect to. like beat up the bully, you know, shows. up and everybody's like clapping for. that person. That's Iran right now. Iran. shows up and Iran gets standing ovations. and they get treated with levels of. respect and treatment that they never. had before. I'm not I'm not I'm just I'm. telling you what's happening this I'm. not debating you like you know oh no. that's that's what happened. Go watch. for yourself what happened in Bishquek.

Watch what happened in the NOAD games. afterwards. Watch what's going to happen. at the BRICS meeting in New Delhi that's. about to be coming up. And then we have. our idiots here in in our stupid cabinet. with Bessant and these people. Our. meeting with Russia was very good. You. know, they may not be fully aligned with. us when it comes to Iran, but well then. you threatened economic D-Day two weeks. ago. Bessent, the words you used were. D-Day. Economic D-Day that you would. annihilate countries that had economic.

relationships with Iran. All these. countries not only have economic. relationship with Iran, they just did a. conference where they bragged about it. And what does Bessant do? Invites the. Russian finance minister to North. Carolina and treats this guy way better. than he treats the finance ministers and. people from Canada and and our and other. NATO allies. All right, let's take our. last quick break of the show. Don't hold. it against me that I didn't show you JD. Vans clips. I you really want to hear JD.

Van? I maybe I'll show you a JD Vance. clip or two just to confirm the. craziness when we come back. But um. reminder, WTF America, pre-order it. right now. It's the book I wrote with my. brothers. And in addition to WTF. America, pre-order it now. Subscribe to. this YouTube channel and subscribe to. the Midas Touch on audio. Put in the. chat if you've ordered WTF America. already. and uh let me know if you need. to get it as a gift for somebody. Also, let's take our last quick break of the.

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unlimited amounts? And what a stupid. thing to say. What about how about this. one? The people in media outlets that. keep harping. You're going to use the word harping. really of all of all words to pick. harping. Okay. The pe Natalie harp. The. people in media outlets that keep. harping on the fact that we have no. ammunition and they are 100% wrong are. actually treasonous. It's the other one. bread with a smaller shorter one. And. then he posts there it is. That's where. he says harping. Then he posts this. graph like as though like we've we've.

replaced actual graphs and charts that. convey meaning to whatever this is. [laughter]. Hormuz oil volumes are back. A photo of. the straight of Hormuz in an AI cartoon. form. A barrel of oil in AI that appears. to be sprouting out some oil. Then a bar. that says from like a bar chart that. says 20 million barrels per day. And. then another one says before that says.

before. And the new one says 18 million. barrels per day. Now, okay. Well, we're. not getting 18 million barrels a day. You know, the salt caverns in Texas are. so low. This is a real issue. They can. collapse. Like, it's an actual salt. It's a cavern. And if it gets low and it. dries up the way it did and it's so low. and it doesn't have the, you know, the. the the right amount filled up to where. it normally is, it can literally based. on the the pressure that it's used to.

where like it could collapse in on. itself. >> That's what Trump was saying about Iran. and the. >> what Trump was saying in April, right? Is exactly what Trump said in April that. they were just think about this folks. I. mean, how ridiculous this is. in April. You all remember the line? It was like. late April, mid to late April. Trump was. like late April. Was like Trump was like. Iran has three days left. Left to what? Left to exist. How? Explain it to me. The blockade is so successful, he said, in April that in three days the pressure.

was going to build up in the pipes, whatever that means, that it would. explode and all of Iran would explode. and be destroyed. We're like, I don't. think it works that way. And then after. three days of Barack Ravid posting about. it at Oxios and all of that, they just. move on to the next one. I guess what. are you talking about? It's going to. blow up. But it's the same thing that. just think about it. In three days, it's. going to blow up. What does that remind. you of? COVID, right? It's three cases. That's it. It's going to go away by.

Easter. We'll bend the curve. By summer, it'll get too hot. It'll kill it. Inject. yourself with beach. He's never going to. end this catastrophic war in Iran. Brett, to your point, I hope we get out. The sick the sick thing about theou like. and just shows you still like we've got. real issues as a country is is that we. should have signed theou. It was the. right move. But Trump was actually being. like rewarded for it. Like most good. move like yeah like okay we're out of. that. Okay. Like people ignored like the.

same way people like just erase COVID. from their mind too and they were like. oh whatever. Okay, Biden. Like they were. going to give this guy the benefit of. the doubt again. Also, I. >> I'll give you this comparison right. here. Right. Say tomorrow, miraculously. there's a decree. The straight of Hormuz. is now fully open and it's legit. Fully. open. Transit. The media would hail the. guy like a hero. They would go, "He did.

it. He I'm like, what did he do? Restored things to the way they were. before this all happened. That's what. we're That's what we're heaping praise. on this guy for. And that is what they. do. They like they they the markets do. it. The news media does it. They're. always praising the guy for fixing his. own problems. And most of the time he. doesn't even fix his own problems. He. just destroys and destroys and destroys. And by the way, you want to know the one. way, one simple way that you know that. this idea that all of a sudden all this. oil is flowing through the straight of.

four moves. You want know how it's BS. and how it's BS when Donald Trump said, "I got all this oil from Venezuela and. the prices are about to come down fast. They're going to come down very quickly. You're going to see it soon. Gas prices. down. Oil prices down." Well, if that's. the case, then why is Brent crude up up? Nearing $100 a barrel. Why did diesel. today hit an all-time high all-time high. US average for diesel? And by me here in.

California, it is even way more. expensive than the all-time average that. that it says there. And diesel because. it's used in trucks and things like. that. That flows through the entire. economy. That's going to contribute to. additional inflation and everything we. buy because it's going to control. everything that's transported. And this. trickle effect is is going to continue. That's why you see the Fed right now. being so wary and you see even Donald. Trump's pick Worsh over at the Fed uh. implying and he's not giving these. forward uh looking uh analyses that.

they've normally done historically in. the Fed, but he agreed between the. lines. He's basically saying we got to. get this under control. It's very bad. and we may have to raise rates. And I. think that's been, you know, what people. have kind of thought throughout this. process. When you look at that 10-year. yield, which continues to rise every. single day, I think that right there, I. think that's what's really freaking. Donald Trump out. I think that's what's. freaking Scott Bessant out. They put on. this bravado, right, when they're in. front of the cameras or on on social. media or whatever. But I can assure you,

these people are panicking behind the. scenes. And I think that's why that. story leaked about Trump saying that he. was thinking of just quiet quitting this. war because he's seeing the signs right. now and like everything just like the. data, right? I don't know about how the. data ends up getting reflected in. reality right now, but when you look at. the data and you add up the yields and. everything else, it's bad. It looks very. very bad uh for everything. And you. know, I Bess's a smart enough guy where.

he should certainly know that. >> Yeah. And it's also why they rushed to. announce this deal with Venezuela. That's not really a deal, right, with. Deli Rodriguez for 65 billion barrels of. natural reserves underneath. And then. Trump rushed out to say, "And we will. immediately fill up our strategic. petroleum reserves with the natural. reserves with the oil that we'll be able.

to drill from Venezuela. will be able to. fill up our strategic reserves. This is. going to be huge for the United States. And it's like I'm not going to go do my. whole oil stick here because you. probably are sick and tired of me saying. it, but just to be very simple about it, the Venezuelan oil is sour, viscous, tarry. It doesn't mix into our strategic. petroleum reserves without an investment. of tens of billions of dollars in new.

infrastructure in order to try to. convert it to a type of light sour or. other grade that could then go into our. strategic petroleum reserve. Quite. literally, it would destroy our it's. mixing the wrong thing into our. strategic petroleum reserves. There's. not really 65 billion barrels. That's an. exaggerated number. If you look at what. they say, it's like potential. Even if. it was, you'd have to build out hundreds. of billions of dollars of infrastructure. in order to extract it and then refine.

it. How do I also know there's a lot of. issues around it? Most American private. businesses didn't want anything to do. with this. And the ones that did were in. the low billions, nothing hundred. billion. So the defense departments. with Donald Trump created a Trump oil. company essentially within the defense. department to do a deal with a guy named. Alejandro Bentor who is what they. referred to in Venezuela as a bully.

chico a shaveista who made his money. basically it's alleged ripping off the. people of Venezuela through a horrible. electricity grid and stealing or taking. or extract this is allegations against. him which he denies but he was under. investigation by a lot of international. organizations for this and and other. things as well. He denies it. Um. extracting uh lots of profits from the. electrical grid there. We all know the. electrical grid there is horrible. And.

ultimately all this does is cement Deli. Rodriguez as the authoritarian for life. because if they ever had elections there. this is against Venezuela's. constitution. It is a clear exploitation. of the people. If you brought in the. opposition party, this is going to be. voided immediately. And so there's never. going to be an opposition party. So the. incentive is to keep Deli in power. forever. Working with this Alejandro. Bentacort and his purported private. company that has all the deals with the.

public company that's owned by Venezuela. to try to get around Venezuela's. constitution to do this deal with the US. Defense Department. And this was the. headline from Reuters Venezuela. White. House says oil from Venezuela deal could. hit US reserves in November. White House spokes spokesperson Anna. Kelly on Wednesday told Fox News America. reports that oil from a deal struck with. Venezuela will probably hit reserves in. the United States in November. It's like.

literally impossible. Anytime you see. White House says you just need to draw a. line and cross everything out. afterwards. Like it it doesn't. White. House official says, "US officials tell. me XX.". It's literally not going to happen. But. why do they pick that date? Doesn't. Isn't the plan obvious? The plan is help. Donald Trump, not America's interest. Why would this be in America's interest. to do this deal with Venezuela? By the. way, China and Russia previously had. deals with Venezuela. How'd that work. out for them? They're not loving, you.

know, their relationship because that. that the oil is not a great oil grade. By the way, Trump previously said that. Venezuela has tar unusable oil, which. you know is, you know, he is partially. true. The issue is is that it can be. used not to substitute for what we have. right now. Um, and also it takes. hundreds of billions of dollars though. to convert the tar substance and refine. it and it's very difficult to do it and.

very expensive. And then there's all the. geopolitical issues of the Deli. Rodriguez regime. But they push that. stuff, Brett. And and it's just lie. after lie as the price of crude goes up, the crack spread because the price of. diesel is so high. The delta between the. crude price and the diesel now is still. very very high. You know, you know what. I'm wondering and and you might have. some insight. We saw Nicholas Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan leader uh who.

Donald Trump ousted uh he filed his. motion to dismiss. And in his motion to. dismiss, he's claiming head of state. immunity, saying that you can't arrest. head of state. It's just not something. that you could do. The Trump regime is. saying that he was their argument is. essentially that he's an illegitimate. leader. Um, and his government was. illegitimate, which then would make Deli. Rodriguez illegitimate, thereby uh. making that entire agreement that he. made with Venezuela void. But let's even. forget that part about it. Let's go back.

to the Maduro part. What if he does get. his mo what if the case is dismissed? What happens? Does he fly back to. Venezuela, take control of the country. and uh avoid this entire document? Like. like what what happens after that? >> Yeah. Well, you know, it's a it should. be a slam dunk immunity claim. It's as I. I'm not rooting for him to get out on. immunity. Let me be clear. Um, nor was I. rooting for the United States to invade.

Venezuela and do any of these things. But, you know, here here we are. I I I I. think the charges against Maduro in. general if you support the Maduro regime. are bizarre charges to bring. I mean, you're charging him essentially with. narco trafficking and laundering machine. guns. Like, his vice president's running. the country right now, right? So if he's. doing it, all most people viewed Maduro.

as a figurehead and that the people. pulling the levers were the people. behind the scenes, the technical. chistas, and that Maduro was the guy you. see in the photos, like you know, the. guy who's doing the dancing, the. figurehead, you know, the guy who came. up through their, you know, um, you. know, shaveista labor movement, you. know, and that was kind of his that was. his stick. But like people always viewed. the real operators as people like Deli.

and and others. So you're charging him. with that. Why would she not be charged. with that? And how could he be guilty. and she not be guilty and you say she's. very well respected? Just assume this. assume it doesn't get dismissed on. immunity. Who would be the witnesses? I. mean, you have Donald Trump saying. Deli's well respected. So his vice. president's well respected. You could. just use Donald Trump's words in that. trial against him pretty easily. And. then how are you even going to do the.

trial? Could you imagine all the CIA. involvement in Venezuela and all of the. stuff that Maduro knows that the Trump. regime is never going to produce these. documents that would show all of this. type of meddling the United So it's it's. not it's hard to even fathom what this. trial is going to look like. But his. immunity claim is there's something. called head of state immunity. I if you're making the argument that I'm. illegitimate, you can't say my vice president is. legitimate and I'm illegitimate. The the.

Trump a normal argument would be the. opposition party Maria Machado is. legitimate. Maria Karina Machado is the. legitimate and the election was stolen. This is what the argument would be by. Maduro and Deli and so they can't get. head of state immunity when they stole. the election. Like that's, you know, when when the the opposition party won, when Machado's party won. But that's not. what Trump's saying. Trump is saying. actually Deli's the rightful president.

So if she's the rightful president, he's. the rightful president. So that that's. what his argument basically is going to. be. Now the it puts the judge Albert. Alvin Alvin Hellerstein he's 92 years. old he's in a bad position because what. is he supposed to do you know I mean if. he followed the law he's supposed to. release Maduro but then Trump regime is. going to blame this guy who happened to. be a judge in other Trump related cases. who ruled against Trump. So I think part.

of the plan over here is give Maduro a. great immunity argument. dumped this on. Helerstein's lap, who Trump doesn't like. anyway, and kind of set up Helerstein. But anyway, pay it. The point I wanted. to make immediately, and I think we did. a good job at the Midas Touch Network. doing it when the Venezuela deal was. announced to let you know that it's a. fake phony thing. It's a part of Trump's. fraud. And I think that people. understand it right away. And that to me. shows the strength of new media, independent media getting out in front.

and calling this stuff out. I I I want. to leave with this though, which is. Democratic Congress member Nagus, and I. thought his cross-examination here in. the rules committee was brilliant. As. one person said, people need to. understand what Nagus just masterfully. did there. After speaking about the. evils of socialism, the Republican. Congress member was asked if the. government should own grocery stores. A. fast no from him on that. But when Nagus.

asked him about Trump's government. owning the parent company of the grocery. stores, watch this exchange for. yourself. Let's play it now. That. cutting about 5 minutes of my question. there. So going back to you, Mr. Style, socialism owning the means of. production, right? >> That's a piece of it. Yeah. >> Okay. What would you call the Trump. administration acquiring a 10% equity. stake in Intel, a 15% stake in rare.

earth producer MP materials, and a 10%. stake in lithium Americas and tril. trilogy meals metals? Excuse me. >> It's an American first policy to make. sure we can out compete China. >> Do you believe that the government. should own grocery stores? >> Uh, no. >> That would be socialist to you. >> I think that would be a type of. overreach of the federal government. Absolutely. Would that be socialist to. you? >> That'd be a former socialist, man. >> Okay. And if Donald Trump announces. tomorrow that he's going to take a 20%. equity stake in Kroger, would that be.

socialism to you? >> I'd want to see the details. >> Oh, you want to see the details? Understand? >> No, but understand. the difference. Socialism 50%. >> for for the folks watching at home, watch the slight of hand because I think. this is. >> slight of hand. >> I'm asking an honest question. I YOU. SAID IF government owns grocery stores. that would be socialist but if of course. Donald Trump were to announce an equity. stake in a grocery store well I'd have. to really see the details because we all. know the play Mr. style. If I'm policy,

Donald Trump a different way. as you please not interrupt. >> What about if the defense secretary. mocks high school students in Canada. cadetses and tries to shame them? What. do we think about that? What do we think. about when the defense secretary, his secretary of defense order book, which they've now deleted from the.

classified database because there was a. leak to the Washington Post that the top. generals and admirals other than Sentcom. all said this war is catastrophic and. and it should end and they didn't do not. concur. What happens? Well, if Donald. Trump did it and if Donald Trump did, you know, the person there, that MAGA. Republican who was being cross-examined. by Nagus in many ways when I think about. a term that was used um about Hitler, um.

the benality of evil, the benality of. evil. I I I often pondered about that. term and its meaning, but you have evil. and then you have the benality of evil, the the normalization of it that becomes. almost so entrenched that someone like. that can go up there and endorse. anything that Donald Trump says, regardless of how sickening,

anti-American, disgusting. war crime time, whatever. It doesn't. matter. It's they have a furer, Donald. Trump. And if he says it, that's what. they that's that's what they do. Except, of course, when it comes to this midterm. convention where they don't want to be. on stage with him. They think that that. is that that's the thing. If they don't. go near him, then they could avoid all of this. That. the American people will somehow go, "Ah, they're not there at the midterm.

convention. They're not there being. photographed at this thing." Too late, bud. Too late for that. Brett, anything. you want to say before we go? >> No. They treat him like he's got some. like physical like I don't know, something that they're going to like. give to him now. You're already stuck. with whatever you got. Okay. You you've. already got this MAGA MAGA disease and. it's and it's on you and there's no. escaping it. Uh that was brilliant, Dynagus. Great questioning. And really, honestly, that's that's their entire. policy. That right there is a microcosm. of the entire Republican party and.

everybody who works uh for this Trump. regime. Brett, I got to make two. updates. I apologize. I said I was going. to do the court updates. I forgot my. court. >> Sure. All right. Do the court updates. quick because this is good news. Big. news. >> Okay. Well, the good news first in the. Missouri Supreme Court, the Missouri. Supreme Court struck down the. gerrymandering uh that was taking place. over there. And so what Brett, it was. going to be a 71 after the gerrymander. Republican. Now it's going to be a 62. And so that's a big update. They were. trying to manipulate the uh.

congressional seats over there and the. Missouri Supreme Court struck it down. Donald Trump ranting and raving like a. lunatic a little bit earlier before we. started the show. The Missouri Supreme. Court ridiculously ruled in favor of. changing the maps back to what they were. a long time ago. It's called ancient. history. You know, just again, this. guy's psychotic. >> Just a psych. And then though, the Trump. regime has rushed to the Supreme Court. after a district court blocked their.

implementation of the United States post. office rule that basically creates a new. barcode system for election ballots. where the barcode links to. uh Trump's voter list. And if you're not. on his list as matched by the barcode, then the Trump regime has the discretion. to destroy like 10,000 ballots at a. time, even ballots that match the Trump. list. But like, what the hell is the. Trump list in general? And this was.

apparently rushed out in June defying. the court order to begin with to. implement this barcode system. a. whistleblower reached out to Senator. Blumenthal and sent this whole letter. about this this horrific scheme. And uh. and so you may remember previously the. Supreme Court ruled that the that the. lawsuit to block what the Trump regime. was doing was premature until the injury. happened. But the injury has happened. because the rule finally went through.

and it went through when the Trump. regime was not allowed to actually do. the rule. which is why the Supreme. Court's ruling I was warning about. because Trump doesn't follow orders like. he you can't give him an inch, he takes. your life. You have to pay attention to. what he's doing. But any event, a. district court immediately blocked this. rule from being implemented once the. rule was passed. So then the so-called. injury took place based on what the. Supreme Court did. So the Trump regime. is now rushing on an emergency. this. emergency Supreme Court, you need to.

block the district court immediately. because they're blocking us from. implementing this new rule that needs to. happen before the election. That's. sloppy. It's not prepared. It's going to. result in ballots being cancelled and. lost. And so, the Trump regime is trying. to jump over the circuit court to get. right to the Supreme Court, which you. have to normally go through a process. They're saying, "Supreme Court, help me. out before the midterms. I'm about to. lose." So, we're going to pay attention. there. The last Supreme Court ruling was.

not based on the merits of the rule. It. was based on them saying there's no. standing. There's no justility because. the rule wasn't passed. Well, now the. rule is passed. So, the question is, what's the Supreme Court going to do if. they enable this rule to go get passed? You know what Trump's going to do? He's. going to lose everybody's ballots. He's. going to lose everybody's ballots and. he's going to say, "Oh, I guess uh it. was a Democratic scheme. and then he's going to blame the state, you know, the state uh leadership and.

say they are the reasons it got lost. So. the whole plan is to destroy the mail. who uses like and again this is because. going back to what we said he doesn't. care about the nation. All he cares. about is enriching himself and stealing. from us which by the way go check out. the interview I did with Congresswoman. Ansari. She's talking about this uh. concept that David from talked about in. the Atlantic about how after this Trump. regime is over, Donald Trump should have.

to have all of the money that he stole. from the people and that his family. stole from the people disgorged, taken. back, restitution to the American. people. So, I think that's a good point. actually. All right, that's all I got. Brad, anything else you want to say. before we go? >> I'd say check out our new series, our. climate focus series, In Your Backyard. Luke Rael hosting an incredible series. First episode is focused on a really. important topic, data centers. You can. find it on the Midasouch podcast audio. feed and on our Substack at.

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