Trump Loses it as Russia Enters War

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2:09Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is losing it as Russia is now helping Iran attack the United States interests in the Middle East as Donald Trump's war against Iran is spiraling out of control. Multiple reports suggest that Russia is providing critical logistical support to Iran, providing the coordinates where American military bases, personnel, and assets are located for Iran to target with its Shahid drones and ballistic missiles and Russia providing other defense support to Iran. In addition, we are learning that China is also helping Iran, according to multiple reports. Now, Donald Trump and his chief propagandists were confronted about this moments ago.

2:53Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump was confronted about it by a reporter from state regime media, which calls itself Fox. You all know him. Peter Doocy asked Donald Trump about all of the reports that Russia is now helping Iran attack the United States in the region. Donald Trump then attacks Peter Doocy for asking the question and says, you know, I had a lot of respect for you, but what a stupid question you're asking me about Russia. Why would you ask me that question? Watch this interaction as Donald Trump held a press conference moments ago. And if you're wondering, So is the press conference addressing the war?

3:32Ben Meiselas:Well, he was asked that question, but no, the press conference was involving Donald Trump trying to stop college athletes from getting paid for their name, image, and likeness. Watch this interaction here. Let's play this clip.

3:46Donald Trump:Thank you, President Trump. It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans now. That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here. But can I be honest? It's just I have a lot of respect for you. You've always been very nice to me. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else. Can we keep this maybe a little bit?

4:15Ben Meiselas:Go ahead, please. Next, I'll share with you what Peter Doocy said after Donald Trump's press conference was over. Here's Ducey on Fox saying that I tried to ask the question about whether Russia, whether he's aware and what's his response to the fact that Russia is helping Iran attack the United States and attack Israel's interests and attack other interests in the region. What's your response to that, Donald? Watch what Ducey says. Here, play this clip.

4:44Donald Trump:And he took a couple of questions. I asked him about this report that the Russians are, and you'll excuse me, I just ran out here. I asked him about this report that the Russians are helping the Iranians target Americans. And the president, who wanted to stay on topic, said he thought that was a stupid question. Brett. Nice job jogging to the camera. I know how that goes. It was more of a sprint. Jogged at my breath.

5:12Ben Meiselas:It was a sprint. Here's the Washington Post report. Russia providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say. The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East. Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating, even indirectly, in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence. The assistance, which has not been previously reported, signals the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America's chief nuclear arm competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities.

5:54Ben Meiselas:Since the war began last Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including, but by the way, not limited to warships and aircraft, said the three officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter's sensitivity. Reached by the Washington Post on Friday, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, declined to comment. This is what the White House spokeswoman, Anna Kelly, said. The Iranian regime is being absolutely crushed. Their ballistic missile retaliation is decreasing every day. Their Navy is being wiped out. Their production capacity is being demolished.

6:33Ben Meiselas:and the proxies are hardly putting up a fight. That's Trump regime propaganda right there, because we know, and we've been reporting on the fact that Iran is still sending its Shahid drones and ballistic missiles to attack neighboring countries, neighboring Arab nations, where the United States has its interests. We still know the Strait of Hermoz has been closed, essentially. We still know that the price of a barrel of oil is going up significantly, right now. And gas prices have spiked in a short period of time significantly. We know that this is a rapidly expanding war that's spiraling out of control.

7:16Ben Meiselas:Enough of this Trump regime propaganda. Well, Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, was asked about it. This is what she said about the reports that Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to help them target the U.S. She goes, whether or not this happened, it doesn't really matter. And as Republican Congress member Don Bacon says, it doesn't matter. I, in most Americans, raise the BS flag on this. It doesn't matter if Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to kill Americans and to attack. Really, that doesn't matter to this regime? Here, play this clip. Having me. I wanted to start you off this afternoon because we have confirmed reports from U.S.

8:02Donald Trump:officials that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to help it target U.S. assets in the region. I'm sure this is something that does not please the president whatsoever. Has he spoken to Putin about it? Well, look, I'll leave that to the president to answer himself. But what I will tell you, John, we don't comment on intelligence reports that are leaked to the press. Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter because President Trump and the United States military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime.

8:32Ben Meiselas:Folks, not only does it not matter to this regime, but you had Treasury Secretary Scott Besant yesterday removing Russian sanctions or removing United States sanctions against Russia and United States requirements with India to allow Russia to sell its oil to India, which was a massive windfall for Russia, especially as the price of oil skyrockets. That's going to make Russia huge amounts of money. And then Treasury Secretary Scott Besant moments ago said, you know what we're thinking about doing? Not only removing sanctions and allowing India to get Russian oil, we're also going to maybe do some more unsanction.

9:18Ben Meiselas:He goes, we're going to unsanction. We may unsanction other Russian oil as well. You may unsanction other Russian oil as well. now that we know Russia is a do you work for Russia? I mean, seriously, does this Trump regime works for the answer is yes, apparently. Right. That's how they behave. At least watch this clip.

9:37Donald Trump:The Indians had been very good actors. We had asked them to stop buying sanctioned Russian oil this fall. They did. They were going to substitute it with U.S. oil. But to ease the temporary gap of oil around the world. We have given them permission to accept the Russian oil. We may unsanction other Russian oil. The other thing Treasury can do here, Larry, is there are hundreds of millions of sanctioned barrels of sanctioned crude on the water. And in essence, by unsanctioning them, Treasury can create supply. And we are looking at that. We're going to keep a cadence of announcing measures to bring relief to the market during this conflict.

10:29Ben Meiselas:And as Fred Wellman writes, we had multiple reports that Russia is aiding Iran and targeting our troops. And these idiots are easing sanctions. What are we doing here? Who are our service members risking their lives for. And more from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent here, talking about the way the military campaign is going to look tonight against Iran. Tonight will be our biggest bombing campaign. Here, play this clip. You know, the Iranians are fighting on two fronts.

10:56Donald Trump:They're fighting a losing military battle where they're being overwhelmed. As Secretary Hegs of the General Cain and the president have all said tonight, tonight will be our biggest bombing campaign and will do the most damage to the Iranian missile launchers, the factories that build the missiles. And we are substantially degrading them. And our campaign has been overwhelming.

11:28Ben Meiselas:So by now, you know that we've been reporting a whole lot on the Trump administration scrapping the endangerment finding. This is something that we can't just let drift out of the news cycle. so give me a minute to highlight some important info. So I want to flag a new analysis from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on why this all matters so much. The endangerment finding was the legal and scientific basis that allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Back in 2009, the government determined that gases like carbon dioxide and methane threaten public health and future generations.

11:57Ben Meiselas:That decision gave the EPA both the authority and the responsibility to limit pollution from vehicles and power plants. According to Harvard's climate and health experts, removing that foundation could mean more fine particulate pollution from burning fossil fuels. That's linked to higher risks of asthma in children, chronic heart and lung disease, and premature death, especially in communities near highways, power plants, and industrial sites. And long-term, the health impacts grow. Hotter days are tied to more hospitalizations and preterm births. Warmer conditions worsen ozone pollution. Wildfire smoke increases respiratory illness and mortality.

12:31Ben Meiselas:And climate-driven storms can disrupt access to medical care. So yeah, this is a massive, massive deal. Harvard researchers warn that this rolling back puts real health protections at risk. Cleaner air has been tied to longer life expectancy and fewer asthma attacks in kids. So for all those make America healthy again people, this totally flies in the face of that promise. This is why it's so important that we keep making noise about this and push for future administrations to restore the finding. So I want to hear from you. Leave a comment. Tell us what you think about this decision by the Trump administration.

13:02Ben Meiselas:I want to hear your thoughts on these reports that we're doing on climate issues, how Trump's destruction of climate policy has affected your health, your electricity bills, jobs in your communities. I want to hear all of it. So again, make your voice heard in the comments now. Ben, back to you. As I'm recording this, you see the footage of extensive U.S.-Israeli airstrikes hitting Marabad International Airport in Iran's capital of Tehran. I mean, take a look right here at what that looks like. Caroline Levitt was asked at that press conference also, is Donald Trump satisfied with the pace of the United States investigation into whether the U.S.

13:42Ben Meiselas:military hit the Iranian school, the elementary school? So we know right now this happened. It's a fact. The U.S. attacked a little girl's elementary school in Manab, Iran, and killed over 150 little girls and boys and like 175 people in the elementary school. So what's the latest on it, Caroline? Well, we're still investigating that. Here, play this clip.

14:09Donald Trump:The president satisfied with the case of the investigation into whether the U.S. military did hit that Iranian school? Is the White House concerned that this was the United States? Again, as I said at the briefing two days ago, I don't have any updates with respect to the investigation. I would expect those to come from the Pentagon. Sure, Haley.

14:28Ben Meiselas:Now, as I mentioned earlier in this video, the press conference that Donald Trump had earlier today technically had nothing to do with the war, the disastrous war. He still hasn't addressed the American people formally yet to explain what the hell is going on. But what the press conference was on was, again, not paying college athletes for their name, image, and likeness. And Donald Trump starts talking about how he wants to sign an executive order himself. He's going to come up with an executive order so that college athletes don't get paid money right now. Here, play this clip.

15:00Donald Trump:All right. So I think he qualifies, right? But I'd like to sit down with some of the very talented people in this room and we'll pick them out if you'd like to volunteer, volunteer. And I'd like to sign an executive order that I'll write myself based on common sense. And it'll be something that people will be sort of happy about. some will be sort of happy others will be sort of happy and maybe that's a good thing there'll be a few people that won't like anything but i'd like to write an executive order based on some of the

15:40Ben Meiselas:very great talent in this room so a reporter says okay well if you're not answering questions about the war against iran will you answer a question about i don't know what was ultimately behind your decision to replace Kristi Noem with Mark Wayne Mullen. You want to talk about that because Americans actually have questions for you about things other than your desire to make sure college athletes don't get paid. Here, play this clip. Now you're into a brand new system. Yes, ma 'am.

16:09Donald Trump:Hi, Mr. President. Thank you. Could you tell us what went into your decision to replace Secretary Noem with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen? Is it possible to stay on this subject just for once? You know, just for once. Boy, oh boy.

16:24Ben Meiselas:So then a reporter's like, okay, if all you're going to do here is now talk about not paying college athletes, why did you not invite a single college athlete here? Why would you not have one college athlete representative to be here? Did you think about that? Here, play this clip. The judge.

16:41Donald Trump:Maybe we'll get a wise judge. You're a wise judge, too. We got some very brilliant wise judges. Maybe we'll get lucky. Why are there any new athletes in the room? Why aren't there any student athletes in the room?

17:00Donald Trump:Do you want to answer that question? Randy?

17:08Donald Trump:We've made it clear, and I thought I said it before, that we have agents here. There are a lot of student athlete groups. There's a limited room here. And after this meeting, we intend to talk to all of the interested student athlete groups to get their input because this can't be done without them.

17:29Ben Meiselas:Now, going back to Caroline Levitt right here, she's asked an important question. So earlier today, Donald Trump said Iran must do an unconditional surrender, demands Iran's unconditional surrender. So what does that mean, Caroline? And then she goes, it means when Donald Trump says they surrender, when Donald Trump decides they've surrendered, we say they surrender, regardless of what they actually do. So as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski writes, so even if they don't surrender, Trump will call it an unconditional surrender and declare victory. And I think as gas prices continue to go up, up, up, up, up, Donald Trump's getting closer to doing that here.

18:08Ben Meiselas:Play this clip.

18:08Donald Trump:What does the president mean when he calls for unconditional surrender? Is he saying that the regime has to fully relinquish control? What the president means is that when he, as commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces, determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has been fully realized, then Iran will essentially be in a place of unconditional surrender. Whether they say it themselves or not, frankly, they don't have a lot of people to say that for them because the United States and the state of Israel have completely wiped out more than 50 leaders of the former terrorist regime, including the supreme leader himself.

18:47Ben Meiselas:Now, as we've learned about Russia's involvement in the war, as the Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammed Baggar Ghalibaf says the following, Americans will come to understand that the fate of dear Iran, which is more precious than life will be determined solely by the proud Iranian nation, not by the Epstein gang. Donald Trump is now seriously considering ground troops in Iran, NBC reports. Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying a limited number of U.S. ground troops inside Iran for specific strategic missions, though no decision or orders have been made, according to multiple U.S.