Trump Has Disaster Morning as War Explodes

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0:36Ben Meiselas:four children have just been killed in ukraine 16 overall people have just died russia is striking kiev and other cities right now across russia with ballistic missiles and shahid drones we're learning that the european union mission has been hit by russia the british council building has been hit by Russia, both in Kyiv. Russia is clearly targeting European United Kingdom buildings to send a message following Donald Trump's weakness right now. French President Emmanuel Macron is responding 629 missiles and drones in a single night over Ukraine. This is Russia's idea of peace, terror, and barbarism.

1:24Ben Meiselas:More than a dozen dead, that number right now at 16 total with four children. Residential areas and civilian infrastructure deliberately targeted. The offices of the European Union delegation and the British Council have been hit and damaged. France condemns these senseless and cruel attacks in the strongest possible terms. Full support to the Ukrainian people and deepest compassion for all of the grieving families. Ukraine has now declared a day of mourning for August 29th as a result of these massive terrorist attacks in Kiev and throughout Ukraine. Donald Trump has not acknowledged them at all.

2:06Ben Meiselas:Instead, this morning, Donald Trump has been posting messages like this and sending emails to his supporters like this. Do you want a Doge check? Tell me here. Do you want a Doge check? We all know that Doge was a failure and didn't save any money. You're still doing the fraud about Doge dividend checks. I mean, how pathetic can you be? Rebate check poll. I only need you to answer one question, and it's a very important one. I'm only sending this poll to my most trusted 1%. I'm even providing you with a two-hour extension. Should bonus revenue from tariffs go back to the American people via a check signed by Trump?

2:52Ben Meiselas:Are you getting your frauds confused right now? While you're not addressing the fact that last week, Russia hit an American factory in western Ukraine, the Flex factory. Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, admitted to doing it. And J.D. Vance, your vice president, said that's war. That's just what happens. No condemnation of that. Now Russia's striking the British Council building and the European delegation building. And you're talking about those checks and you're confusing it with your other fraud of your tariff rebate checks as you destroy the American economy. And then you also post this, no tax on social security.

3:36Ben Meiselas:Ben, I got no taxes on social security passed. I signed it into law. That's not in the budget bill. There is a$6 ,000 deduction for Social Security recipients that expires in about two and a half years. That's in the bill, if we want to be honest. But there's nothing about no tax on Social Security. No wonder if you look at the new generic ballot from The Economist that just came out this morning. Right now, Democrats lead Republicans by plus 26 in 18 to 29, plus 26. So for all of those people out there who want to sow these narratives, oh, the Democratic brand is tarnished and it's never going to be plus 26.

4:28Ben Meiselas:And by the way, you want to look at real elections like Senate District 1 in Iowa that we covered, where the Democrat outperformed the Republican candidate in a plus 11.5 Trump district by about 20 points or so and went on to win. Y 'all remember that we covered that. Because if you want to talk about real waste, fraud, and abuse, just think about this. Alligator Alcatraz at this point, remember that concentration camp? It was so poorly run, so poorly managed that literally they're shutting it down. They want to try to keep it open. They're fighting in court to keep the concentration camp open, but they don't know how to run it.

5:13Ben Meiselas:How Trumpian is that? Fighting to keep a concentration camp open that you're even incapable of running. That like sums up Trump so much. A federal judge basically said that this concentration camp is entirely unconstitutional. But even setting aside that judge's order, the Associated Press got their hands on an email that was sent from one of the concentration camp leaders to a local rabbi in the area saying that we're going to be down to zero prisoners soon. And basically, there's no need to provide religious services at all for any of the religious leaders there because we're pretty much shutting it down anyway.

5:53Ben Meiselas:So as Democratic Congress member, as Democratic Congress member says, Frost says, and just like that,$450 million of your taxpayer dollars are going down the drain. That's why our national debt right now is surging. And with it, our deficit is surging. There's been more government spending under Donald Trump by far than ever before. This isn't fiscal conservatism. This is Trumpism. And go back. There's a reason why he's bankrupted business after business after. He's the worst businessman ever. And I'm not just saying that because I don't like him. Just objectively go back. If there was a Guinness Book of World Records for like the most bankruptcies for casinos and other businesses, Trump would make a good run for being at the top of that list before he ever went into politics.

6:45Ben Meiselas:He just had this fraudy image of, oh, I'm a businessman. You're fired. You're fired. The whole thing was a fraud. Come on, people, wake up. I'll tell you who's waking up too. Foreign countries are waking up. Japan, I reported on this this morning as well. Japan has canceled its meeting with the White House. Same thing, Prime Minister Modi of India not returning. Donald Trump's phone calls. Foreign leaders are just learning it's easier. You just ignore the guy. He comes back and begs because he's a little pathetic weasel. That's how you have to treat him. You can't, it's like little, it's like, I don't want to, I was going to say like little children, but little children are far more mature than Donald Trump.

7:25Ben Meiselas:But like, you just have to, you can't appease it. You just have to ignore it and just say, shut up. No, go away. And then he comes back. You just have to ignore the guy. And so Japan was supposed to come back this week to talk more about that fake trade deal. Remember, we told you it was a fake trade deal with Japan because Donald Trump was like, Japan will give me$550 billion. 90 % of the profits will go to the United States, 10 % go to Japan. Japan's like, we never agreed to that. That's the stupidest deal. Why would we ever agree to that? And Trump's like, nope, it's a signing bonus. They've paid me$550 billion.

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9:28Ben Meiselas:It's the same thing with all these other countries. Now, Prime Minister Modi is preparing his big meeting with Xi Jinping next week in Shanghai. All these world leaders that the United States worked decades and decades, generations to build relationships, to make America the strongest, richest, most powerful nation in the world. America just screwed it all up. America's screwing it up. In other news, we know that Donald Trump has been just firing everybody in order for his dictatorial ambitions to be pursued. So we've reported, and you know this by now, Lisa Cook, the governor at the Federal Reserve, whose term expires 2038.

10:11Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump maliciously and falsely accused her of engaging in mortgage fraud. Trump has that guy who runs the Fair Housing Administration, Bill Pulte, and Bill Pulte gins up these mortgage fraud allegations against Trump's political enemies like New York Attorney General Letitia James, Lisa Cook, Congress member Schiff, and then Trump uses that to fire people. So Trump did that with Lisa Cook. She's like, I'm not fired. I'm not leaving right now. So she just filed a lawsuit against the Trump regime. And I think she'll end up winning that lawsuit. Susan Monterey, she's about to file a lawsuit against the Trump regime.

10:49Ben Meiselas:She's the head of the CDC. She was just appointed by Donald Trump to be the head of the CDC. She was outspoken against RFK Jr.'s plan to prevent Americans from getting vaccines. RFK Jr. basically has prevented people from accessing vaccines. He's dismantled the vaccine board. He's dismantled the COVID, you know, and making the COVID vaccine accessible. We as adults can't make decisions for ourselves and our families. You RFK Jr. who looks, your face looks like, I saw somebody saying this, a 100-year-old baseball glove. You're going to be the one who's going to tell me what I can and can get for my family that's accessible in the United, you're preventing me from getting that for my family?

11:38Ben Meiselas:F you. I mean, who are these freaking people? F you. By the way, if you don't want to get the vaccine, don't get the vaccine. But now you're forcing my family not to get it or we have to go and we have to what? I mean, it's the most ridiculous. Anyway, so Susan Monterey was pissed at that as the head of the CDC. The Trump regime wanted her to resign. She goes, I'm not resigning. And then last night they said, OK, you're fired. Well, She's like, OK, well, then we're going to sue you, too. And so she's preparing that lawsuit. Susan Monterey is right now. You've had mass resignations at the CDC as well.

12:11Ben Meiselas:Horrific, horrific stuff. And by the way, I want to remember this guy right here, Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump intern who was appointed to lead the counterterrorism and threat prevention at the Department of Homeland Security. You remember this guy, Thomas Fugate, as Adam Cochran writes, you know, this guy gutted the entire department that deals with addressing domestic terrorist threats, stopping future school shooters. It's basically been gutted by 75 percent. You have this 22 year old intern who's leading it with zero experience in this field at all. And one of the things we know about that shooter in Minneapolis, this person was posting publicly over and over and over again.

12:56Ben Meiselas:And as the Trump regime has gutted the FBI, gutted the CIA, gutted law enforcement, defunded law enforcement and the police, that's objectively what they've done so that they could fund ICE to go after hardworking migrants on farms and factories. That's what their focus is. Going after hardworking migrants, not criminals. It's hardworking people if their skin is brown. That's what their focus is on. When do we need to have a conversation about how much more dangerous we are? And could things like this have been stopped? I mean, just think about Texas. What corporate media has moved on. They don't want to talk about the Guadalupe River flash floods that resulted in hundreds of children dying.

13:44Ben Meiselas:Hundreds. A catastrophic event where hundreds of children died. It was preventable. FEMA stopped urban search and rescue teams from doing their jobs. The FEMA head didn't even show up for like two weeks. Was Kristi Noem like taking a vacation that weekend? What the hell was she doing on that 4th of July vacation weekend? All of the local Republicans in that area refused to take the money that Biden wanted to give them to put in emergency warning systems. and they took the money though to use for like bonuses for themselves so they wouldn't have to give it back even though it was supposed to be used for emergencies them it was a four minute walk for those children to get to the top of the mountain and they wouldn't have died and what we don't talk about that anymore than hundreds of children died and by the way we're going to of course keep talking about Donald Trump's cover up of the Epstein files he thinks that just goes away they turn over 33 ,000 files that have been produced before and they think that we're just stupid and we just go away from it.

14:39Ben Meiselas:This is the most incompetent and despicable regime. But frankly, we also have a media that normalizes this behavior. I mean, this is the front page of the New York Times today. Front page New York Times today. Trump takes power quest to new level. Attack on Fed officials likely to test justices. A power quest? What is this like Zelda ocarina of time? A power quest? You're going to travel for power? It was like the Hobbit? I mean, Lord of the Rings, a power quest. We're going on a quest. What are you talking about? The guy's behaving like a dictator. He's ripping to shreds our constitution. He's destroying the United States of America.

15:20Ben Meiselas:Just put that in your freaking headline. Is that so hard? Because objectively, that's what's going to happen. But even look at AFP. Trump stamps dictator chic on Washington. Dictator chic? The F are you talking about? Dictator chic. Oh, you know, he's just doing the styles, a little bit of Hitler, a little bit of Mussolini. It's dictator chic. He's destroying America. He's destroying our alliances. He's empowering Vladimir Putin. The European delegation building in Kiev has been freaking blown up. So too has the British Council building. They blew up an American factory yesterday. But Trump's doing dictator chic.

16:04Ben Meiselas:Have you seen? He's doing Kim Jong-un style photos on the buildings in Washington, D.C. as we have the National Guard everywhere picking up garbage. The hell is going on here? The hell is going on? What are you talking? Are all these people so brainwashed? Sometimes I feel like I'm in like a zombie movie and I haven't been bit by the zombie. You know what I mean? walking around. You're like, hello, what the hell is going on? But I know that there's more of us than them. That's the thing. I just don't get how the them is writing these things. That's why we, the people, need to reclaim the power.

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