Trump Panics as US in Full Retreat

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is losing all control this Wednesday morning, ranting and raving like a lunatic on his social media platform as we are learning about U.S. embassies in the Middle East permanently shutting down. We've already reported how multiple U.S. bases in the Middle East have been evacuated. Also, we are learning from military families who are going to military times and to other military-related outlets that there have been numerous incidents of sailors aboard those supercarriers that Donald Trump says is part of their amazing blockade who are attempting to actually throw themselves overboard and tragically end their lives because of the torment and psychological issues that are being inflicted upon them by the Trump regime.

0:51Ben Meiselas:And they don't want to be complicit in war crimes. And also, it appears that they feel they're never going to come home again. But Donald Trump this morning is screaming out, praise Allah. He says, praise Allah, We own the Strait of Hormuz. He is a complete and utter lunatic, a complete and utter psychopath. And I'll show you the Iranian, one of Iran's top generals just gave an interview with PBS where he was calling out Donald Trump, not just for being a complete and utter psychopath and not just saying that Iran has no intentions of ever possibly even doing a deal with Donald Trump because Trump's incapable of doing a deal.

1:30Ben Meiselas:But the Iranian leadership also recognizes the market manipulation scheme that's taking place. And even Iran's generals are saying, the US, you should look into the stock trades of Kushner and Whitcoff and Trump and Trump's family members because this entire war, they go, it's all about enriching Donald Trump personally. And this morning, we learned that the Treasury Department is now officially removing any requirements that beneficial ownership in LLCs and corporate structures be disclosed. A massive win for Russian oligarchs and money launderers. And also the Treasury Department will be deleting its database of beneficial ownership in order to allow and promote money laundering, to promote it.

2:19Ben Meiselas:We'll talk about, we'll connect all of these in just a moment. So here was Donald Trump's post earlier this morning. Here's what he writes. The U.S. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I think we will keep it. Our naval blockade is being called by everyone a wall of steel and there is nothing Iran can do about it. They have no Navy. They have no Air Force. Their remaining soldiers are unpaid. The IRGC is decimated and fleeing and their leadership is uncertain at best. They have no money. Their country is, quote, shot. All they have is fake news and 300 % inflation and getting worse. Iran is all talk and no action.

2:58Ben Meiselas:The bully of the Middle East no longer. Praise be to Allah, Donald J. Trump. It should be noted that as of today, the national average of gas prices is the highest it has ever been ever in the history of the United States at this time. So while Iran controls the Strait of Ramoos, as the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve hits tank bottom in the real world, not in Trump's delusional, psychotic, lunatic riddled world that he wants to bend reality and destroy the entire United States. And what Americans are paying for gas right now is the highest ever in the history on a national average at this time and this period of time in August in American history.

3:45Ben Meiselas:Now, as I noted at the outset of this video, the U.S. is preparing prolonged diplomatic drawdowns across the Middle East as the Iran war continues. The U.S. has retreated from its military bases in the Middle East. And basically, the only place we really have a lot of our equipment right now is in Israel, where they have the Iron Dome. But the Arab Dome has fallen. The U.S. has run out of weapons, patriot interceptors, attackums. And the Arab nations have formed their own alliance, the Mecca Pact, which I can't stress enough what a big deal the Mecca Pact is moving away from the U.S. security umbrella, a regional alliance, the Mecca Pact, and then China moving in as well.

4:30Ben Meiselas:Also, Iran forging additional diplomatic ties with the BRICS block as the U.S. dollar becomes weaker and weaker and will be generationally as a result of Donald Trump's conduct. You have the BRICS block rising, right, Brazil and Russia, and you've got South Africa, and you've got China, and you've got India, and you've got all of these nations that stands kind of as a rival to NATO and a rival to the G7, if you will. But Iran having additional monetary ties, Iran will join the BRICS New Development Bank, securing memberships in the BRICS established new development bank as Tehran seeks alternative financial mechanisms outside of the U.S.

5:18Ben Meiselas:dollar system, while the U.S. embassies are now either operating with fewer staffs or just shutting down their embassies altogether in the region. Turkey's President Erdogan just said the following on the Mecca agreement, which right now is Turkey, It's Saudi Arabia. It's Pakistan. Qatar praised this alliance. Even Iran suggested that this alliance was a good thing where Arab nations take control of their own destiny. We'll see if Egypt joins. Saudi Arabia seems on the fence about allowing Egypt to join given the rivalry with the UAE, but we're focused on and we'll be following that as well. Turkish President Erdogan says, our vision is to eventually bring all the countries in the region together under this framework if possible.

6:03Ben Meiselas:This agreement is not directed against any country. Its sole purpose is to promote peace and stability in the region and the well-being of our peoples. And again, as noted at the outset, I'm going to do an entire video on this. Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployments. Their families are saying that the situation is horrific right now on these supercarriers. America has run out of weapons and munitions. Our stockpile of crude is at an all-time low. We've hit tank bottom, and we've hit tank bottom on morale as our supercarriers have these extended stays.

6:42Ben Meiselas:We're not feeding our sailors enough food. The showers don't work. The toilets don't work. Welcome to the Trump hellscape where he has bankrupted every damn thing he's touched his entire life. But if you just listen to him, praise Allah, we control the Strait of Hormuz. We own it. He says the ceasefire in Lebanon is working, but no, it's actually not. It's actually a complete killing field where Netanyahu continues to slaughter people in Lebanon. Southern Lebanese residents say Israel's continued occupation and movement restrictions have turned the area into a prison despite the fake ceasefire.

7:24Ben Meiselas:The same way there's a fake ceasefire in Gaza. and you have Netanyahu and you have Israel Katz, the defense minister saying, we will never leave these territories. They belong to us and we will continue to demolish cities and demolish settlements in these areas. I mean, real horrific stuff. I am so excited to tell you about our sponsor, Avocado Green Mattress. Their certified organic mattresses sleep, cool, relieve pressure and support your body so you can enjoy deep restorative sleep. They don't use polyurethane foams. Instead, every mattress uses healthy, natural materials. They're even handmade.

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8:56Ben Meiselas:We're learning more also about the people who Donald Trump tucked away with him on that catering truck as he abandoned the old Air Force One and went on to the military plane because he was purportedly scared that Iran was going to strike down the Air Force One, but he let the press stay on it. I also think, and I'm going to do a video on this as well, and how Sparks mentioned this as well, I think that there's also potentially some medical issues that were going on and that this story, while embarrassing for Trump, may also be covering up health issues and perhaps there were medical professionals on the other plane and that this entire kind of elaborate ruse within a ruse was also dealing with Donald Trump's health issues.

9:45Ben Meiselas:And also, you know, he looked a little different when he came back from Turkey, too. I mean, the different hair, other stuff. Well, I'll do a whole video on that, but let's just flag that right now for everybody. Now, Iran's General Mohammed Reza Nakti said the following on the Trump regime. He goes, they don't work for even the benefit of the American people. He goes, all these Trump regime, Donald, Kushner, Whitcock, all they're trying to do is manipulate the market. We've learned that all this is, is a stock manipulation scheme. He goes, I bet you, if you look into their portfolios, you will see, and Iran claims they've looked into their portfolios, you can see the manipulation happen.

10:23Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip on an interview he just gave with PBS. Let's play it. Not only do these people not work for the benefit of humanity, they don't even work for America. They work for their own interests. As soon as the stock market closes, they start hostilities. When the stock market opens, they send positive messages to raise stock prices. All the while, they are buying and selling the stocks themselves. Iran's General Mohammed Reza Naqdi also says, We've gained so much damn experience from this war, And we've learned that the United States under Trump is far weaker than what we perceive.

10:58Ben Meiselas:We're surprised by actually how weak they turned out to be. Here, play this clip. No, we have not yet reached our final objective. This is clear. Up until now, we are victorious. In the future, we will continue to be victorious. The longer this war lasts, the more experience we gain. We had never seen a real war to gain real experience, to learn how to fight with America. In these five months, we have learned how. We have also seen how the American military is weaker than what we perceived. More from Iranian General Mohammed Reza Naqdi. He says, here's the thing. Even if Iran runs out of ballistics, which we're not even close, he goes, for every time you see a ballistic missile that's shot, we produce many more that day.

11:41Ben Meiselas:For every Shahi drone that gets launched, we produce more that day. But where the real danger is for the United States, if we run out of our weapons, we know where all of your economic interests are in the region. So if that were to ever happen, that's when you should be most afraid. But he's like, we know that you ran out of your weapons. We have an abundance of weapons. And the Shahi drones cost$100,$150 ,000,$200 ,000. Some of those Iranian ballistic missiles cost hundreds of thousands, whereas the interceptors cost$4 million, 5 million. The THAAD interceptors are$11 million each, and they have to fire two for every one Iranian drone or one Iranian ballistic.

12:26Ben Meiselas:And so that's why the U.S. ran out of its interceptors. Heck, during one evening in Jordan, the U.S. launched at least 50 to 60 interceptors, literally 200 to$300 million, probably more, gone like that. And three U.S. service members were killed and the Iranian ballistics have now developed midair direction alteration so it could avoid our interceptors as well. I mean, you give Donald Trump, you give someone who's supposed to be the commander in chief charge of what's supposed to be the strongest military of humankind. And this is what this pathetic fool does, where he has to crouch in damn catering truck.

13:06Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. Rest assured, even if this war lasts for years until the last day, Iran's rockets will be launched. I will make this point, and this is more important than missiles. If there comes a day when Iran has no more missiles left, that's when we will be even more dangerous for America. How would you be more dangerous? Because America has thousands of economic interests throughout the world, and all of them can be easily destroyed. More from Iranian General Naqdi over here, talking about the importance of attaining deterrence. Let's play this clip. Look, we have to attain deterrence so that the enemy never dares to attack us so we can live with security.

13:46One way is to prolong this war until we get to the next term of the presidency and cause attrition so that if anyone else wants to attack Iran, they will know there is a cost.

13:57Ben Meiselas:And then back on the homeland here, as we know about all of those doge cuts to the health industries, the agricultural, I mean, the health departments, the agricultural departments, all of these things, It seems like every day there's a story like this. More than 3 ,200 pounds of pastrami and corn beef are recalled over possible listeria contamination. City Foods issued the recall after routine inspection found possible listeria contamination. How many times, you know, are you going to have stories like this? And by the way, you know, this stuff's just the tip of the iceberg where all of the checks that we had to try to stop these things have been destroyed by Doge and Elon Musk and Russ Boat and the whole gang of criminals right there.

14:41Ben Meiselas:Speaking of the gang of criminals, speaking of market manipulation, this was announced this morning from the Treasury Department. Today, the Treasury Department issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information. today the treasury department also announced that it will delete previously reported information by u.s persons from the beneficial ownership information database why would you delete the information one why would you make a rule like this to allow money laundering and then why would you delete the information of prior beneficial ownership as tom milanowski a former member of Congress who helped shepherd this law that was bipartisan, that Republicans equally supported as Democrats, is what he says.

15:30Ben Meiselas:I helped pass this law in 2020. Its purpose is to prevent drug traffickers, Russian and Chinese kleptocrats and other international criminals from setting up anonymously owned companies to hide their money in the US. Trump's Treasury Department is doing this to help criminals. Beneficial ownership is just a record of who actually owns a company. That's all that was being reported here so that we didn't have LLCs in Delaware laundering millions of dollars through the U.S. into offshore banks on behalf of totally anonymous people. The Treasury deleting the beneficial ownership info it already gathered is utterly crazy.

16:08Ben Meiselas:This database was not public. It was just for law enforcement to use in investigating crimes. It's like Trump ordering the deletion of the FBI's fingerprinting database. base. But who knows? They probably have done that already too. What do you think happens when you have criminals running the government? These are damn criminals. That's who they are. Call them out. This isn't normal political times. We have criminals. We have crooks. We have war criminals. We have sexual predators in charge of this government. And they are behaving exactly what you would expect them to behave like. They're awful things.

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