Trump Cover-Up in Qatar US Base Gets Exposed

0:00You want to know what quality sounds like? It sounds like a Ford Super Duty towing up to 40 ,000 pounds before the sun comes up. It sounds like a Ford Mustang doing what a Mustang does. Ford, J.D. Power's number one in initial quality among mainstream brands. Ready, set, Ford. When properly equipped, max towing varies based on cargo, vehicle configuration, accessories, and number of passengers. For J.D. Power 2026 U.S. initial quality study award information, visit jdpower.com slash awards. Awards based on 2026 model year. Newer models may be shown. Amazon Health AI presents Painful Thoughts. I, um, I can't stop scratching my downtown.

0:38Yeah, but I'm not itching to go downtown and tell a receptionist I'm here to talk about my downtown. Some things you'd rather type than say out loud. There's no question too embarrassing for Amazon Health AI. Chat your symptoms and get virtual care 24-7. Healthcare just got less painful.

1:00Ben Meiselas:Surprise, surprise, another massive cover-up by Donald Trump in Iran that we are able to expose here at the Midas Touch Network. Do you remember that after Iran launched a retaliatory strike against an American military base in Qatar, launching 14 ballistic missiles at this Al-Yudid Air Force base that America has in Qatar, that Donald Trump said that all 14 ballistic missiles sent by Iran were shot down successfully by the United States of America. He said, we shot them all down. Well, now we're learning that that is false. At least one of the ballistic missiles was able to strike its target at the Al-Udid Air Force Base in Qatar, controlled by the United States, and it hit a geodesic radar dome that houses very sensitive communications by the United States military.

1:58Ben Meiselas:It was a direct hit, and the Trump regime tried to cover it up. We've been following the satellite images, and we've been comparing and contrasting the images on June 23rd when Iran launched its retaliatory strike against the United States following the U.S. strike against Iran. So if you take a look right here, look close, you can actually see the area where the ballistic missile hit from Iran into this Air Force base. Now you take a look at the left side, look at the split screen here, the before and after shot, before and after shot, take a look right here, and you can see where that geodesic dome, that radar dome was, again, that houses all of this very critical communication infrastructure for the United States at this base, It cost at least$15 million.

2:48Ben Meiselas:There was a direct strike there by Iran. And again, this was covered up. And why do I say it was covered up? Well, here's Donald Trump in one of his recent pressers. And here he is basically saying, well, look, Iran told us they were coming. They said that they told us what time. And we shot down every single one of their missiles. You now can see that that is 100 % false. But here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it.

3:45coming.

3:46Ben Meiselas:And here's what Donald Trump said at a rally that he did in Des Moines, Iowa. Play this clip. And you saw that just the other day where the missiles are being shot down one after another. You know, they called me to tell me they have to take a shot at us. This was Iran. Very respectful. That means they respect us because we dropped 14 bombs. They said we'd like to take 14 shots at you. I said, go ahead. I understand. They said where they're doing. I said, good. We emptied out the fort. It was a beautiful military base in Qatar who treated us really fantastically well. And they said, sir, one o 'clock.

4:23OK, I said, it was fine. We could make it later. And we had nobody but four gunners. We had four. They call them gunners and they shoot the patriots. They shoot the missiles up. It's hard to believe.

4:35Ben Meiselas:And here was Donald Trump giving a speech about what went down. And Donald Trump talked about how he spoke with someone from Iran and they coordinated it together to hit an American military base. I mean, could you imagine if former President Biden, former President Obama was out there saying, yes, we invited Iran. We said, sure, go and attack our military base. Here, play this clip. Teen missiles were shot at us the other day. And they were very nice. They gave us warning. They said, we're going to shoot him. Is one o 'clock okay? They said, it's fine. and everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn't get hurt except for the gunners.

5:16They call them the gunners.

5:18Ben Meiselas:So here's how some of the intelligence observers are reporting this as well. The Pentagon has now had to confirm for the first time today since the attack occurred that at least one short medium-range ballistic missile fired by Iran was able to evade air defenses and impact the Al-Udid air base in Qatar during the Iranian attack against the base on June 23rd. In a statement to Air and Space Forces magazine, Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell stated one Iranian ballistic missile impacted Al-Udid air base on June 23rd, while the remainder of the missiles were intercepted by the U.S. and Qatari air defense systems.

6:04Ben Meiselas:This report goes on to say, after he said that, it's on to say, while not directly denying any impact, U.S. officials in the days and weeks after clearly attempted to downplay the Iranian attack lightly in an effort to not disrupt the swift ceasefire. And this is where, no, because Donald Trump lies about everything. That's why the United States downplayed it, because the United States systems did not fully work as planned. And they should have been honest with the American people right away is what should have went down. By the way, remember the Pentagon spokesperson was also the person who was saying, what, a few weeks back that Iran would indeed be able to rebuild its nuclear program in about a year to two years.

6:52Ben Meiselas:Remember, he's like, well, I think the thinking that we think that we think is, you know, the problem when you tell lies all the time, like the Trump regime does, it's hard to keep your lies straight. Just a reminder, here's what he said here. Play this clip. Our assessment of the battle damage around Fordow, Nantes, and Istephan remains unchanged. I mean, we believe, and certainly all of the intelligence that we've seen have led us to believe that Iran's, those facilities especially, have been completely obliterated. And the interesting kind of side point about this, Tara, is that all of the conversations that we've had since Operation Midnight Hammer with our allies all around the world, but certainly also in the region, they say a couple of things.

7:39They share our sentiments about the degradation of Iran's nuclear program and the fact that we have degraded their program by one to two years, at least Intel assessments inside the department assess that. And I think their intelligence shares that conclusion.

7:54Ben Meiselas:Assessments by this department think it's been degraded or delayed by one to two years? I think we're thinking probably closer to two years, like degraded their program by two years. And folks, I want to go deeper into the cover up from the Trump regime as well. But I think it's important that we have media literacy, right? And that we understand our sources of news to make sure we're getting accurate news. I mean, I'll just give you an example right here. The State Department is gutting like 15 % of its workforce. Somewhere between 1 ,300 to 2 ,000 employees are going to be fired. No one on the right wing is talking about this at all.

8:31Ben Meiselas:Zero right-wing media sources or 15 % right-wing media sources are talking about it as they attempt to downplay Trump dismantling our security infrastructure, diplomacy infrastructure. I use Ground News to do my research. It's an essential tool to help me see through what's really going on in the media ecosphere. Go to ground.news slash MTN or scan the QR code. We're giving our viewers 40 % off of Ground News' top tier vantage plan is what I use. That's how I do my research. It'll give you unlimited access to everything I use. Ground News is subscriber funded. They don't rely on ads that can introduce bias and subscribing to Ground News supports our channel.

9:12Ben Meiselas:And it supports our independent work that we do here. Go to ground.news slash MTN. Again, I think it's important that you know the research tools that I use. Ground.news slash MTN. Get that 40 % off. All right. Going back to the videos right here as well. I think it's important to also mention one of the things that we've learned from Israeli intelligence. This is from Israel's intelligence, just so you know, right? So we know Europe's intelligence says that Iran's able to build a nuclear weapon. again pretty soon if they wanted to. We knew our own intelligence suggested that the United States strike on Iran's bases like Fordow and the other two were not as successful as Donald Trump and the regime claimed it was going to be.

9:55Ben Meiselas:It wasn't obliterated, set back, damaged, degraded shore, but the regime, Trump used the word obliterated, they're done, right? And Donald Trump's like, well, there's nothing to see here and do here. We won. The war's over. We won. And it's like, That's just simply not what happened. Israel's intelligence agencies have concluded that some of Iran's stockpile of near bomb-grade uranium survived the American strikes. That's according to Israeli officials. Now, I want to talk about this other cover-up in the region as well, involving Iran. So Iran funds the Houthis in Yemen, the terrorist group, the Houthis, which has been destroying all of these commercial ships and has really been terrorizing the Red Sea and preventing commercial shipments in that area.

10:45Ben Meiselas:And so you all remember that, remember Signalgate, which the Trump regime's like, it's okay. Those weren't classified war plans. That involved America strikes on the Houthis. Remember, we lost, what, six to eight Reaper drones. We lost two fighter jets, hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. And then remember, Donald Trump said, I've entered into a ceasefire with the Houthis. They're incredibly brave and great people, these Houthis. Great, great people. Big fans of the memory said that. And I was like, what the hell is happening here? This was back in May when he said, when he was congratulating the bravery of the Houthis here.

11:24Ben Meiselas:Watch this. We had a very good outcome with the Houthis and we honor their word. I mean, they made a commitment and we dealt with other countries that were close to them and their surrogates. And we honor all of their words. We'll see what happens. But I think, you know, I believe that hopefully that's over with. And they'll leave the ships alone, you know, just leave those ships alone. But so we do we take their word for it. It was, you know, we hit them very hard. They had a great capacity to withstand punishment. They took tremendous punishment. And, you know, you could say there's a lot of bravery there.

12:05It was amazing what they took. But we honor their commitment and their word. They gave us their word that they wouldn't be shooting ships anymore. And we honor that.

12:16Ben Meiselas:Well, just even over the past 24 to 48 hours, we've seen the Houthis attacking multiple cargo ships in the region. 14 Filipino sailors are still missing 48 hours after the Houthis fired on the Greek-owned Magic Seas cargo ship with sea drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Four sailors already confirmed dead on track to be the worst Houthi Red Sea massacre to date. Yemen's Houthis also released a video showing what went down. And then at least four crew members from another ship, the Eternity Sea, were killed and 15 others are missing as well. Multiple ships, multiple deaths going on right now in the Red Sea.

13:04Ben Meiselas:And this is after, remember what the Trump regime said about the Houthis in Yemen, totally obliterated, degraded. Cargo ships are going to be able to freely pass through the Red Sea, not happening another cover up. And you heard what Donald Trump said there. So I'll remind you of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's testimony and Democratic Congress member Moulton really put him in his place here. Play this clip. You talked about the success of the Houthi operation, about how much money did it cost? How much money did you spend on missiles shooting at the Houthis? Well, you'd have to compare that with what it cost.

13:38I'm just asking how many, how much did it cost? our shipping lanes around. I'm told it's several hundred million dollars, maybe close to a billion dollars. How many U.S. flagged commercial ships have transited the Red Sea since your so-called successful operation? Well, thankfully, unlike the previous administration, military vessels transit. No, no, no. I didn't ask about military vessels. I asked about commercial vessels. How many commercial vessels? It's been several weeks. How many commercial vessels U.S. flagged have transited the Red Sea? Well, would you, Mr. Congressman, put civilian ships through the The answers are not to me, Mr.

14:08Secretary, they're to you. We have responsibly put military ships. The answer is zero. I reclaim my time.

14:12Ben Meiselas:So it's important that we know the facts, folks. We give you the facts here at the Midas Touch Network. Do with them what you want. But that's the facts. You see the geodesic radar dome, the radome, just clobbered. And that was covered up. And now the Pentagon had to admit it. And we hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth Over Lies collection at store.midastouch.com. All 100 % USA union made.

15:03get$200 in rewards within 21 days. Includes all markets. That's code Spotify in partnership with DraftKings. The crown is yours. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER, 1-800-MY-RESET. Connecticut, call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org. On behalf of Boothill Casino in Kansas, FedTax pass-through may apply in Illinois. 21 and over. Void in Canada. Bet with DraftKings Sportsbook to get bonus bets that expire in seven days. Or trade with DraftKings Predictions to get predictions dollars that expire in one year event contract trading involves risk of loss predictions offer void in new york non-withdrawable rewards issued as 50 click to claim every seven days for 21 days terms at dkng.co slash offer limited time offer nationwide based on sports book predictions and free-to-play sports contest availability varies by state what if you can see what's happening inside your body pre-nuvo's whole body scan screens for hundreds of conditions including many solid tumors as early as stage one all in under an hour and now you can go beyond imaging with 80 plus blood biomarkers that help complete the picture this labor day save 300 off your scan when you book at prenuvo.com that's p-r-e-n-u-v-o.com save 300 now through september 8th at prenuvo.com terms and conditions apply still waiting in line again that's time you'll never get back.

16:25Save time and money with Stamps.com. Over 4 million businesses have skipped the line with Stamps.com. Join them to save up to 90 % off carrier rates from your computer or phone right now. Print postage for certified mail, registered mail, and packages in seconds. Then schedule a pickup right from your home or office. For a limited time, go to Stamps.com and use code PODCAST for a free welcome gift. Taxes and fees apply. Starting a business can seem like a daunting task unless you have a partner like Shopify. They have the tools you need to start and grow your business. From designing a website to marketing to selling and beyond, Shopify can help with everything you need.

17:03There's a reason millions of companies like Mattel, Heinz, and Allbirds continue to trust and use them. With Shopify on your side, turn your big business idea into... Sign up for your$1 per month trial at shopify.com slash special offer. Queen Carvania stood haloed by the morning sun. An army hung on her every word. My champions, I have sold my chariot on Carvana. It was a lovely SUV, an inexplicably queenly offer. They're even coming to the castle to collect it. Tonight, we feast. An offer you can feast on. Sell your car today on Carvana. Pickup fees may apply.