Trump Blinks as Iran Conflict Enters a New Phase

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2:26With the past, he's basically bankrupted the United States military. The U.S. air bases near Iran ran out of Patriot interceptors. And that interceptors, the United States, has run out of other ammo if the U.S. was going to further escalate its catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. And then Donald Trump, through administration officials, leaked out yesterday that they're not going to escalate. And they're going to see if they can do a deal with Iran. That, according to the New York Times, that, according to numerous Israeli news sources that say that they've been in communication with the Trump regime, because, of course, the Trump regime reaches out to the Israeli sources.

3:04First, it was 48 hours ago where Donald Trump posted on his social media platform, open the gates of hell. Trump orders CENTCOM, open the gates of hell after U.S. troops were killed and Trump launches strikes in Iran. He went from, open the gates of hell, I'm going to destroy the power plants, the bridges, all of the infrastructure. I'm not done playing with you. I'm not done toying with you. Remember the horrific and disgusting war criminal things that war criminals said?

3:34Ben Meiselas:Well, now Donald Trump is saying, I think we're going to do a deal. We're going to work really hard. I'm working with the Omani mediators. I mean, the writing was on the wall, right? Donald Trump sent Zaidi, the Iraqi prime minister, to try to do a deal with Iran. And Ron's like, we don't want to do. What are you talking about? We have no interest in doing the memorandum of understanding. You want to open the gates of hell, Donald? We have a proposition for you. Get the hell out of the region. And then there could be peace here. And so we'll see what Donald Trump does. Iran's not going to want to make a deal.

4:06But Donald Trump capitulating and instantly blinking and running out of ammo, the New York Times reporting.

4:14Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran, with particular concern that intensifying the war could dangerously drain the Pentagon's already diminished stockpile of Patriot anti-missile interceptors and other air defense munitions in the Middle East. the threat to interceptor stockpiles, is one of the many considerations that have made a return to major combat operations, a hugely risky endeavor, administration officials say. Also, Donald Trump has tarnished all of the United States' relations with our allies, or I should say, former allies in the Middle East, as this one account, Just Dario, says.

4:53Ben Meiselas:So I'm just trying to get this right. You have Saudi-sponsored militias began fighting with the Houthis in Yemen. The Houthis in Yemen responded by blowing up two Aramco refineries in Saudi Arabia. The Jazin refinery is still burning right now. Ukraine hit an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea, but all's quiet in the Strait of Hormuz right now where crossings remain zero. Iran controls the straight of Ramos, the Houthis controlled the Bab el-Mandab straight. The U.S. has run out of ammo and somehow in the media in the United States, this is being framed as positive and this is going to manipulate the markets right now.

5:39Ben Meiselas:And all of a sudden, the rich are going to get richer over this. This is supposed to be a good sign right now. What in the world is going on right here? You have all of these kind of warmonger people and people who thought that Donald Trump was going to further escalate. They're posting messages like this. Jason Brodsky posts, if the Trump administration has truly decided to set aside a more aggressive military operation against Iran's regime for now, I don't think it's wise to be disclosing stockpile concerns publicly. That won't make a deal more likely. Mark Levin over on State Regime Media says, honestly, if true, this is exhausting regarding the United States running out of ammo and now Donald Trump wanting to make a deal.

6:25You did. It was called the JCPOA under former President Biden,

6:29Ben Meiselas:a deal you broke. It was the memorandum of understanding, a deal you instantly breached. What the hell are you even doing? Mark Levin also attacks the leaks to the New York Times about the Trump regime strategy of not launching their further escalations. I don't think we needed those leaks, Mark Levin, if you just followed what was happening rather than your own propaganda, you would have seen that Iran was successfully striking all of those U.S. bases in the region, hitting the interceptors, hitting the early detection radars, hitting the containerized barracks, hitting lots of equipment and planes.

7:06I mean, there were hundreds of pieces of equipment that were destroyed by Iran. All of these bases, whether it was in Jordan or Kuwait or Bahrain or Al-Yudid was abandoned in Qatar, in Erbil, Iraq, massive hits there. I mean, all of those bases were hit hard by Iran, including the base in Iraq. But Mark Levin goes, damnable leaks. That said, more of a reason to enlist Israel's support and arm the Iranian people. It might also be time to look for a few additional generals like George Patton. I mean, these people, the dumbest people ever, blaming the leaks and saying we need a new general like General Patton right now.

7:50And that might be time to look for additional generals. And now it's a time that we need to do more deals with Israel is what Mark Levin says. How utterly ridiculous. Really? Netanyahu, the war criminal, got us into this mess with Donald Trump, the war criminal. got us into this mess. Lots of these people are now attacking J.D. Vance for this. Apparently, it's J.D. Vance's fault. The problem for Vance isn't controlled opposition. It's that he has a record now and his ideology did not survive contact with reality. He defended the MOU so relentlessly that Trump ended up asking why Iran couldn't have missiles.

8:31This is what these like neocons are saying. All while Iran used the pause to reconstitute, rearm and threaten the again. And tariffs, another Vance-shaped policy layered on top of an oil shock and voters now have outcomes to judge, not abstract theories to admire.

8:50Ben Meiselas:Lots of comments like that coming out. So what's the Trump, what was Donald Trump doing? Trump was golfing yesterday. He was with Natalie Harp as human printer yesterday. Today, his schedule is nothing close to the press. He called the lid at like 5 p.m., 6 p.m. yesterday meeting. He was making social media posts at midnight, of course, but he called the lid, kicked the press out yesterday pretty early. This is what he was posting at midnight last night. The all Republican senators terminate the filibuster, which the Democrats will do as soon as they get the chance and pass the Save America Act and everything else, including the budget and upcoming debt ceiling.

9:37Ben Meiselas:Do it now before it is too late. DJT. Go to sleep, man. You're posting this at midnight. The all Republican senators. What do you, the all call? What are you trying? You're trying to say call Republican senators, the all Republican senators. Also, you had the White House posting this bizarre propaganda. Thanks to Trump's working families, tax cuts, working class Americans have experienced a paycheck bump. Really all experienced a paycheck bump? Everybody feeling the golden age right now? No, the cost of living right now is prohibitive. People can't afford anything right now. While Donald Trump says affordability is a word the Democrats made up.

10:18No wonder Democrats are up 11 points in the generic Emerson poll, in the state regime media poll. Democrats are up in generic ballot by seven to eight. And Democrats have been overperforming in the special elections because they're not generic. They often have been fielding pretty good candidates that go into the communities and speak to a lot of the important issues

10:38Ben Meiselas:that are facing communities. Democrats have been overperforming by 10 to 15 points. And so MAGA, Trump, all of these people are panicking about what's gonna happen in the midterms. Meanwhile, you have Netanyahu visiting the United States on Tuesday. And according to Israel broadcaster News 12, Prime Minister Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, where Netanyahu says he will present intelligence, claiming that Iran is once again racing towards nuclear weapons and accelerating its actions. There, here we go again. He's going to come here and do the exact same thing over and over again and try to get Donald to go back and escalate this war and drag the United States into this global economic catastrophe yet again.

11:27Ben Meiselas:And so with Donald Trump instantly blinking and capitulating to Iran, running out of ammo, the interceptors, running out of having our bases destroyed by Iran, which the Trump regime and CENCOM was trying to cover it up, but we were reporting it on it here. What do they do late last night? What happens last night? Well, they bring out Caroline Levitt, the chief propagandist. And she goes, communism never worked. Communism, Democrats, this is what the voters care about. Us fear-mongering and saying Bolsheviks and communism. Dude, what the heck are you weirdos talking about? You are quite literally fascist.

12:07Ben Meiselas:There is a fascist regime. And you want to talk about communism? You have all taken over the means of production of companies like Intel and other things. Trump handpicks his oligarchy. Trump says, makes all of these promises and lies. I mean, you want to go actually look at, it's you look in the damn mirror and you do it for your oligarchs while you screw over the rest of us. Here, play this clip. Fox News polling shows that Democrats have a favorable opinion of socialism over capitalism by a large majority, as opposed to Republicans who have by about 50 points more favorable view of capitalism over socialism.

12:48What do you make of those numbers? And what would your message be maybe to independent voters who are looking at these two parties as we head towards the midterms? You have one party, the Republican Party, obviously capitalists, you know, free market people who want you to be able to keep more of your own money. Then you have the Democrats on the other side who basically are taken over by socialists. Totally. The Democrat Party has totally capitulated to the communists within their ranks. Communism has never worked. And it's very scary that a major political party in this country, the Democrat Party, is being controlled by communists.

13:23Ben Meiselas:More from Caroline Levitt right here. And she goes, I understand. Affordability is an issue, but it's Biden's fault. Even though we've been in power for two years and inflation is much higher, affordability is much more of a problem right now. We're going to blame Biden. Y 'all are a bunch of freaking losers. This is how losers behave. You've been in office for two years now. Y 'all said that you would fix this on day one. Everything would be great. And you've made things significantly worse than where Biden left it for you. When Biden left it, he had fixed the crap that Trump did during During his first term, it was rough for two years.

14:04Ben Meiselas:It was under Biden, under inflation. He brought it down, down, down, handed it off to, handed it off right here to Trump. 3 % inflation, it was heading to 2%. Now everything is higher and everything is worse. But here's what Caroline Levin has to say. Let's play it. They all got me up to speed pretty quickly and now we're back out at the podium. Well, speaking of the midterms, we know the tradition. The party that has the White House typically has an uphill battle for the midterms. And when you look at the top issue among voters right now, it seems to be the cost of living. So what steps have been taken by the White House to really address that?

14:45Because that's gonna be important as we head towards November. Yeah, well, the president and the White House, we fully recognize that. And I would remind your viewers and the American people of who caused the affordability crisis in this country. It was Joe Biden and it was the Democrats in this city when they were in power. And President Trump took immediate action on day one to fix that with his overall economic formula of tax cuts, deregulation, and energy dominance. That's what this administration has been working on every single day for the past year and a half.

15:17Ben Meiselas:And then finally, Caroline Levitt says, people ask me, what do I love about this job? It's that he's so great. He's so upfront. He's so transparent. No one asks you that. What we want to ask you is how do you live with yourself? Seriously, how on a day-to-day basis do you live with yourself knowing that you've aided and abetted the most despicable regime in United States history who has caused hundreds of thousands, millions of deaths across the world and you're an enabler of that? How do you live with, that's what we all wanna know, Caroline, is how do you go to sleep at night? How do you live with yourself?

15:57How do you do it? How do you go there and lie every day so viciously and so disgustingly? How do you exist in such a disgusting way? That's what we all want to know. How is it even possible? Play the clip. But thankfully, you know, working for the president, people always ask, what's it like to be, you know, his spokesperson? And he makes it very easy because he just tells you like it is. And he's so accessible, not just to me, but to all of his staff here. And so it just.

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