Trump Panics as War Backfires and Cripples Term

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1:33Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is panicking as his war against Iran is spiraling out of control right now in Tehran. There are massive crowds actually welcoming the selection of the new Ayatollah and condemning the United States. They're out in the street there. So if this is what Donald Trump wanted to provoke right here, well, look what you've done, Donald. Look at what's going on right here in the revolutionary square in Tehran right now against Trump's war. So you can see it for yourself. Here, play this clip.

2:17Ben Meiselas:And this, as we've learned, that the U.S. has intercepted encrypted communication believed to have been originated in Iran that may serve as an operational trigger for sleeper assets outside the country. According to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies, Iran may be activating sleeper terrorist cells in retaliation for Donald Trump's invasion. But folks, The Trump kids are loving this. Donald Trump's sons are backing a new drone company, as the Wall Street Journal exclusively reports, targeting Pentagon sales. It's a company called Powerous Startup, 50 employees. and as the U.S.

3:03Ben Meiselas:is now asking Zelensky for help with how they've dealt with drones in Ukraine, it looks like the Trump kids want to get in on that action too, maybe take some of that technology, maybe make some profit off of it as well. Don't you see that that's what this is all about right there and they will screw over Zelensky yet again? But the Trump kids, boom, war, let's make a ton of money right now while the American people are suffering, while our markets are tanking, while the price of oil is absolutely surging right now. They've now joined a drone company after doing Bitcoin companies. I mean, so pathetic.

3:42Ben Meiselas:What is Donald Trump posting about this morning while this is all taking place? By the way, while Bahrain's top oil company just declared a force majeure in order to terminate some of its contractual obligations because its facilities are under attack. Bahrain's state oil company declared force majeure following an Iranian attack that set its only refinery ablaze. You can see right there the Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO, near its capital in Manama right there, you see under attack and And they're not able to fulfill any of their contracts. But here's what Trump's posting. This is all by design to make Trump and Republicans look bad for the midterm elections.

4:29Ben Meiselas:Ah, that's what this is all about. America needs to clean house from these leftist agitators. All they do is create havoc in America. They proved it with Biden's disaster for years. Enough. That's what Donald Trump is posting this morning. a repost of Adela Mo 86395091. Then Donald Trump posts a meme from Juju Marie 1 of AOC and Schumer and others wearing devil horns. And the repost from Trump says, I've seen a lot of stuff in politics, but I've never seen people who hate their country nearly as much as the current Democrats. And with Donald Trump, it's always projection and confession. We know that he and the MAGA Republicans quite literally hate our country, and they show it every single day with their actions and with their conduct.

5:22Ben Meiselas:Also, Donald Trump is now demanding asylum for the Iranian women's soccer team, or if you're a broad football team from Australia. Yes, Donald Trump, who is taking Iranians from the United States and has been sending them back to Iran to be killed. And Donald Trump has been doing this with frequency here in the United States now, because it's a way that he can attack Australia this morning, uses asylum as a way to attack Australia when we know that he's been preventing Iranians in the US from getting asylum. Just think about that. Here's what Donald Trump Post this morning. Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran national women's soccer team to be forced back to Iran, where they will most likely be killed.

6:09Ben Meiselas:Don't do it, Mr. Prime Minister. Give asylum. The U.S. will take them if you won't. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump. Oh, and then Donald Trump does another post using the image of the Iranian women's soccer team. And he says, asylum! Exclamation point. Really? Asylum? Then you have state regime media, an arm of the Trump regime, which we call, it's called Fox here in the United States. I call it state regime media. But you have Brian Kilmeade and the hosts on Fox basically saying to all those shippers out there, to all of the captains of those big tanks, those big shipping, those big ships stuck in the Strait of Hermose.

6:52Ben Meiselas:He goes, here's what you need to do. Show your patriotism by going through that strait. Take your ships and go through the strait. That's the way you'll show you're patriotic because the Strait of Hermose is effectively closed right now because of the U.S. initiating this war. Play this clip. If they could get the prices of oil up that the president would have to draw from the conflict. So just careful, guys. And he said they just go to the Strategic Oil Reserve. That's what Joe Biden did to get prices down without a crisis. The administration announced$20 billion maritime reinsurance plan. So he's saying, hey, guys, even though we get the oil, the markets flush.

7:31This is fear. I'm still going to insure your ships. So go through the strait. And, you know, that's just part of it. If you want to diminish the Iranian threat, if you want to make sure that this ends up with complete Iran capitulation, capitulation, sow some guts and go through that straight and do it. Knockoffs might look the same at first, but we all know they never hold up. LeafFilter isn't just another gutter guard. It's a trusted name that's built to last with years of relentless engineering behind it. Don't settle for a knockoff. Protect your home with LeafFilter and save up to 30 % off your entire purchase at leaffilter.com slash Midas.

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9:52Ben Meiselas:And then later on state regime media this morning, you have the United States Deputy UN ambassador Tammy Bruce saying, well, even if Russia is helping Iran target the U.S. troops and target U.S. interests there, they're not doing a good job because we've decimated Iran. Iran is decimated. Well, I showed the video before. Yes, you are decimating areas of Iran. Yes, you are dropping big bombs on Iran and you are blowing stuff up. No doubt about that, including elementary school where over 150 children died, 185 people in total. Yes, you're blowing lots of things up. Israel's blowing up oil rigs.

10:36Ben Meiselas:Lots of things are being blown up in Iran right now, no doubt about it. But I'm not sure it's decimated because you've turned even people who are sympathetic to the United States potentially and against the Ayatollah, you've turned them against us now. This couldn't have backfired more. Here, play this clip. and that. How important is it to the U.S. that China and Russia not just stay out of it, but but we don't they don't feel like we've drawn them into it? Well, obviously, I won't speak for the president or the White House. We also I know the administration's not going to comment on intelligence, whether it's true or not.

11:14That's been leaked. What we can say, of course, is that if that ends up being true or anything that disturbs what we're attempting to do, The president has relationships with anyone and would address that directly with Russia himself. That is what the people voted for when they voted for him again. Two times they voted for him is that this is a man who's going to do things differently, who's taking charge, who knows everyone, who wants diplomacy first, who wants negotiated solutions first. He clearly, in order for us to be able to function, he must speak to everyone, whether it's China or Russia.

11:48and now my being in a multilateral environment, 193 countries across the street from the U.S. mission is that the world, you've got to talk to them and they begin to understand and want leadership. That is what President Trump offers the world. They see the difference. And this dynamic right now, clearly, no matter what is going on or if anyone's helping Iran, they're not doing a very good job of it because they're decimated at this point. Now it's a matter of the way forward. And Donald Trump will decide what that way is.

12:20Ben Meiselas:You know, and speaking of how it's backfired more, I've read you some of the writings of this Emirati billionaire from the United Arab Emirates, his Emirati billionaire a few days back. He runs the Al-Habtur Group. And here's what he writes this morning after hearing what Lindsey Graham's been saying on all the morning shows and how Lindsey Graham's been, you know, shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump saying these things. Khalaf Ahmad Al-Habtour says the following. I heard the statements of Lindsey Graham, in which he calls on the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to enter this war, saying that we are also under attack and that we must join the fight.

12:56Ben Meiselas:And I say to him clearly, we know full well why we are under attack. And we also know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his allies in the region. We thank God and we thank God that the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries are doing well, and we have no need for someone who claims he came to the Middle East to save us. The truth is that hasty American decisions are what embroiled the region in a war whose people were not party to its decision making and its local allies were not consulted before it was launched.

13:32Ben Meiselas:We do not deny the Iranian threat to the region, which has become clear in recent days. We do not trust Iran, but this is a dirty game in which several powers clash at the expense of our region with no honor in it and no transparency. In this scene, Iran, Israel, and the United States all move according to their own interests, not according to the interests of the peoples of the Middle East and Arab countries. And for this reason, we say it clearly. We will not enter this war to serve the interests of others, nor will we sacrifice our sons in a conflict that could have been avoided through diplomacy and political solutions.

14:10Ben Meiselas:We value the lives of our sons and we do not treat their souls as collateral damage as some do. Nothing in this world is more precious than the lives of our sons, and no alliance with any country in the world is worth risking these lives. If President Donald Trump and Senator Graham are prepared to risk their country and the lives of Americans for Israel's interests, that is their choice. As for us, we will not do the same. Senator Graham says they are the Arabs' allies and that we need and benefit from U.S. protection. And I say to him, we do not need your protection. All we want from you is to keep your hands off of us.

14:45Ben Meiselas:He also says we sell you weapons as if that were a service the United States provides us. The truth is, this is no favor from anyone. We invest in our security and pay billions of dollars for these weapons. And it is a massive trade and industry built on these deals. In fact, the United States itself is now turning to buy weapons from Ukraine to supply its allies in other wars. This is an industry that thrives on wars and arms sales, not a charitable endeavor. And the clearest example, and the clearest thing of all, is what Senator Graham himself said when he spoke about oil. He stated that Iran and Venezuela together hold 31 % of oil reserves and that the United States could establish a partnership with this share of the world's oil and that it would be a nightmare for China.

15:32Ben Meiselas:He even added that if the regime in Iran changes, there would be a new Middle East and the United States would make a lot of money. And then he goes on to say, it's obvious that this is what it's all about right here and we're not being used for that purpose. Very wise words indeed. And so that's what's going on this morning right now. Over here, you've got J.D. Vance out there not calling this a war. He calls it a conflict with Iran. Play this clip. In the dignified transfer of six American soldiers who were killed overseas in this conflict with Iran. And you've got Tom Emmer, MAGA Republican Congress member who's in Doral, miami right now because all the republicans are at a retreat with donald trump they're spending all their money at trump's resort of course and he said uh you know this is just a short term this isn't a war he says we're in a short-term experience right now let's play this clip i believe uh it is uh already uh being extremely successful and i believe it'll be over in short order that uh that that would be obviously the the best case scenario over in shorter because the if the GOP had a problem or if it was trying to address affordability and the president addressing that with oil over$100, that suddenly it becomes, you know, the war in Iran as well as what happens domestically with prices.

17:02Yeah, yesterday I think a barrel of oil was at$105. So your point's well taken. As the president has said, this is a short-term experience. this is a short-term cost to literally deal with the chief sponsor well there you have it folks

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