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Episode Summary: Trump Panics over His Fatal Error in War!!
Podcast Details
- Podcast Title: The MeidasTouch Podcast
- Hosts: Ben, Brett, and Jordy Meiselas
- Release Schedule: New episodes every Tuesday and Friday morning; breaking news updates daily.
Episode Overview In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses Donald Trump's mismanagement of the Iran War and its devastating consequences both regionally and globally. He analyzes Trump's public statements, the ongoing military conflicts, and the broader geopolitical implications of Trump's actions.
Key Topics Discussed
- Trump's Misleading Claims
- Trump asserts that the U.S. has "won" the war against Iran, claiming that Iranian military capabilities have been decimated.
- Ben contrasts Trump’s optimistic proclamations with reports of ongoing Iranian attacks on shipping vessels in the Persian Gulf.
- Current Military Situation
- The Strait of Hormuz is currently considered unsafe for shipping due to Iranian attacks.
- Oil prices are surging as a result of these conflicts, with Ben discussing the potential economic fallout.
- Context of the Conflict
- The episode highlights various incidents, including attacks on vessels and a significant cyberattack against U.S. medical technology company Striker by Iranian-linked hackers.
- Ben elaborates on how Iranian leadership has threatened to control oil shipments, exacerbating tensions in the region.
- Trump's Public Appearances
- Ben critiques a recent Trump interview where he downplays the severity of the situation, including a bizarre comment about the safety of the Strait of Hormuz.
- Trump’s dismissive responses to critical questions about Iran's actions are examined, showcasing a disconnect from reality.
- Geopolitical Implications
- Discussion includes the collaboration between Russia and Iran in the context of the war, with Trump’s administration allegedly facilitating meetings that undermine U.S. interests.
- Ben points to a potential alliance forming against U.S. interests involving Iran, Russia, and China.
- Public Response and Accountability
- The episode concludes with Ben expressing concern over the implications of Trump’s decisions on global stability and U.S. security.
- He calls for increased awareness and accountability regarding U.S. foreign policy and its ramifications.
Key Takeaways
- Mismanagement of War: Trump’s decisions are portrayed as reckless, leading to increased instability in the Middle East.
- Economic Consequences: The rising oil prices are seen as a direct result of the conflict, impacting global markets.
- Need for Awareness: The episode emphasizes the importance of understanding the geopolitical landscape and the risks posed by current U.S. leadership.
- Call for Action: Listeners are encouraged to stay informed and engage with the political discourse surrounding U.S. foreign policy.
Conclusion Ben's commentary reflects deep concerns regarding the current state of U.S. foreign policy under Trump, particularly with the ongoing conflict in Iran. The episode combines serious political analysis with the podcast's characteristic humor and brotherly banter, appealing to their audience's desire for both entertainment and insight into pressing political issues.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Panicked Response to Iran
2:51 to 5:00
Discussion on Trump's claims regarding the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz.
“Donald Trump is panicking as his unlawful war against Iran.”
Analysis of Trump's Interview
5:00 to 8:13
Analysis of Trump's interview and statements about the Iran conflict.
“They are pretty much at the end of the line.”
The Russia-Iran Alliance
8:13 to 12:04
Exploring the collaboration between Russia and Iran in the conflict.
“And as we take decisive action to stop the threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran with Operation Epic Fury.”
Iran's Cyber Attacks
12:04 to 13:20
Discussion on Iran's cyber attacks against U.S. companies.
“Isn't it just so dang obvious what is going on here?”
Impact on Oil Prices
13:20 to 14:00
Examining how the conflict is affecting oil prices globally.
“So we can expect that to expand as well right now.”
U.S. Oil Strategy and Its Implications
14:00 to 16:46
Explore the U.S. oil release strategy and its potential impact on the market and geopolitics.
“what the the pins are iran i guess and they say we won't stop making nuclear weapons and like they They think that this is supposed to be funny right here.”
Iran's Position and Demands in the Conflict
16:46 to 18:27
Understand Iran's stance in the ongoing conflict and their demands for peace.
“Pazeskian says he conveyed the message during talks between leaders of Russia and Pakistan, because that's the damn alliance, Donald.”
Trump's Legacy on Global Stability
18:27 to 18:49
Discuss how Trump's actions have reshaped global order and weakened U.S. influence.
Transcript
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2:51Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is panicking as his unlawful war against Iran. It is beyond out of control at this point. While Donald Trump claims the United States has won the war and has totally decimated Iranian capabilities, and Trump said, I want all the businesses to know the Strait of Hormuz is safe. Let's use it. Go out there. We've saved the day. You've got the Strait of Hormuz all to yourself right now. We are seeing ship after ship being hit by Iran and Donald Trump is creating a false sense of security, telling them to go and they are being hit mercilessly right now by Iran. I mean, last night I learned that the UK Office of Maritime Trade Operations reported an Iranian attack on another container ship in the Persian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates.
3:50Ben Meiselas:earlier yesterday. Remember, there were those three ships that were hit in the Strait of Hermoz. And then the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy leader said, we warned you not to cross. And we said we were going to do it. And you didn't get our permission. So we're striking you down. The Strait of Hermoz is effectively shut down right now. It is shut down right now. The price of oil right now is surging. By the way, off the coast of Iraq, there were these ship-to-ship transfers taking place with a Malta-flagged Greek ship and a Marshall Island-flagged U.S. ship that were doing this ship-to-ship transfer.
4:39Ben Meiselas:Those were hit by an Iranian unmanned vessel. I mean, is rolling out all this equipment right here. I mean, think about the devastation to the area as well with the sheer amount of oil that was, you know, that was there. That's likely in the water right now. You have that taking place. But with all of this going down though, late last night, Donald Trump gave this bizarre interview after that disastrous speech he gave in kentucky and in this interview he was like i want all the businesses to know you're great you're doing well like go use the go use the straight of her moe's things are great right now he said the straight is in great shape what do you mean the straight is in great shape the the straight could not be what couldn't be in worse shape here play this clip
5:29Donald Trump:treasury department buy oil futures as a means to keep the oil prices down The President's head is in a very good shape. You see what's happening. They are pretty much at the end of the line. It doesn't mean we're going to end it immediately, but they are — they've got no Navy, they've got no Air Force, they've got no anti-air traffic anything. They have no systems of control. We're just riding free range over that country. And now we're going to look very strongly at the Straits. The Straits are in great shape. We've knocked out all of their boats. They have some missiles, but not very many. I think we're in very good.
6:08Donald Trump:We're in very good shape.
6:10Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump is asked, well, what have you heard? By the way, Peter Doocy of Fox asked this question. What have you heard about the bulletin that Iran may be plotting revenge in California with drones? And Trump's like, it's being investigated. You've got a lot of things happening. You have a lot of things happening. That's your answer. What's wrong with this guy? Here, play this clip.
6:35Donald Trump:President Trump, what have you heard about this bulletin that some law enforcement put out about a possible Iran revenge plot in California where there would be some kind of a boat offshore launching drones towards the... It's being investigated, but you have a lot of things happening. And all we can do is take them as they come. The war itself is being prosecuted. as well as anybody has ever seen. And this is other countries telling me too. Big countries, powerful countries. They said they've never seen anything like it. And they also agree with what I'm doing. They say it's an evil country and it's been for 47 years that way.
7:13Ben Meiselas:What about sleeper cells, Donald? Have you been briefed about sleeper cells? And he goes, we've got our eye on all of the sleeper cells. You've got your eye on the sleeper cells? What does that even mean you've got your eye? You're just going to let them let them just chill. What are you talking about? Play this clip.
7:33Donald Trump:And it's been for 47 years that way. And if they try to hit us that, have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the U.S. right now? I have been. And a lot of people came in through Biden with this stupid open border. But we know where most of them are. We've got our eye on all of them, I think. They came in through the open border policies of sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst, the worst president in the history of our country. And we've got our eyes on all of them. But the war itself is being prosecuted at a level that nobody's seen before. It's pretty.
8:13Ben Meiselas:Then to remind you, Donald Trump was in Kentucky earlier yesterday where he was out there saying that we won the war and that the name Operation Epic Fury is a great name and we won the war and it's over and we're the greatest. Play this clip.
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8:35Donald Trump:And as we take decisive action to stop the threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran with Operation Epic Fury.
8:54Donald Trump:Is that a great name? well it's only good if you win you know you can only do and we've won let me say we've won you know you never like to say too early you won we won we won the bet in the first hour it was over
9:09Ben Meiselas:so yesterday also there was a meeting taking place in miami between trump's regime and putin's regime Yeah. In Miami. Was it secret? No. So Russia is helping Iran try to kill Americans, destroy American assets and win the war. Russia through Putin is out there saying publicly we have, you know, complete and utter support for Ayatollah Monjabi, the new far more extreme Ayatollah, if that was even possible, and far more deadly one. even according to the Jerusalem Post, far more deadly than the old Ayatollah, right? Putin's praising the guy. And so what does Donald Trump do? After all, our intelligence shows that Russia is helping Iran in this war, which is not a shock.
9:59Ben Meiselas:They're allies with each other, Russia, China, Iran. What do you think that is happening in Ukraine? Donald Trump, his regime hosts the Russians in Miami yet again. What do they meet in Miami every other week? And again, they're not hiding it. Steve Whitcoff, the individual, the thing who botched the mediation, the whole Trump regime botched it. There was no good faith to begin with it. Let's just say that with Iran, where the Oman foreign minister had a deal in principle that was reached that then that night the US struck Iran because we believed Israel was going to strike first. Here's what Whitcoff said.
10:38Ben Meiselas:Today in Florida, the Russian delegation led by special envoy Dmitriev met with the U.S. delegation, including special envoy Whitcoff, Kushner and White House senior advisor Josh Greenbaum. To which Kirill Dmitriev, Russia's envoy to the U.S. says, thank you, Steve, Jared, and Josh, for a productive meeting. Wow, very productive meeting between the U.S. and the Russians. while Zelensky is trying to help the U.S. with anti-drone technology and help our allies, or perhaps we should call them at this point, our former allies in the Middle East. Zelensky has the technology because the Shahid drones from Iran and those ballistic missiles have been used because the alliance is Iran, Russia, China against Ukraine.
11:28Ben Meiselas:and Zelensky realizes this is a second front of a world war, essentially, that's now been opened up in the Middle East because of Donald Trump with Russia and China helping Iran against the U.S. and against U.S. and NATO interest in the Middle East. So can I help you, Donald? Well, maybe you could help my son, Eric, who is doing a drone company, who would love some of that technology and would love that IP for his technology. Zelensky's like, what the hell is going on here? And then Donald Trump's holding meetings with the Russians to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty. Isn't it just so dang obvious what is going on here?
12:08Ben Meiselas:By the way, more black smoke can still be seen from Bahrain's international airport strikes there. The port of Salal in Oman, their main petroleum facility, utterly destroyed by Iran. What about cyber attacks by Iran? Yep, they're doing that too right now. Iran expands its war with a major cyber attack against the U.S. company medical technology giant called Striker. The logo of an Iranian link group appeared on devices of employees of Striker. Yep, U.S. medical device maker Striker was hit with a cyber attack from Iranian activists who remotely wiped employee devices. Many employees have had their devices and data wiped and cannot access their accounts.
12:57Ben Meiselas:Striker makes surgical imaging equipment defibrillators. The hackers say they targeted Striker in retaliation for U.S. bombings of the all-girls school in Iran. They say they have wiped more than 200 ,000 Striker systems, servers, and mobile devices, install 50 terabytes of critical data, forcing striker offices in 79 countries to shut down. So we can expect that to expand as well right now. So what's the White House posting? How are they dealing with this? As here are the countries that were hit on day 12 of the Iran war by the US, Oman, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, iraq iran israel lebanon and the strait of hummus right this is a regional war this is a massive massive in scope right now right so what's donald trump posting he's posting videos like this on the white house account strike doing bowling videos where the pins are uh we won't stop making nuclear what the the pins are iran i guess and they say we won't stop making nuclear weapons and like they They think that this is supposed to be funny right here.
14:12Ben Meiselas:I'll tell you what's not funny, that the Iranian military spokesperson says that we will make sure that oil is$200 per barrel. Not a single liter of oil will pass through the Strait of Ramuz if it benefits the United States and Israel. How about this? According to a release from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the multilateral effort to release 400 million barrels of oil to stabilize the market, Donald Trump authorized the Department of Energy to release 172 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve beginning next week. According to the release, it will take approximately 120 days to deliver.
14:52Ben Meiselas:So how is that helping oil? Well, crude oil is surging to over$95 per barrel after that announcement right there. Because look, it's a 40 % reduction in the current supply of crude oil. held by the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So it's basically cutting it in half. That's why oil's surging 8 % or more after hours, pushing$5 diesel as more likely and$4 a gallon gasoline, likely going to see that sooner. Out here in California, it's like already$6 or$7 or gasoline. As Gregory Brew, who covers this stuff, says, so the U.S. is releasing 172 million barrels from the strategic reserves. It will be done over 120 days, so 1.4 million barrels per day, though they will have trouble putting out more than 1 million barrels per day.
15:45Ben Meiselas:So the strategic reserve will be left with approximately 240 million barrels per day left. Do I get this right? This is really something. By really something, he means stupid because the amount of petroleum, the amount of barrels per day that's needed, is over 20, between 20 and 30 million a day is what's needed. So 1 million is not going to make a dent, but over the course of 120 days, it will deplete our strategic reserves. So like, like quite literally, what the hell are we doing right here? And if you wonder, wondering, well, is Iran going to surrender? They have no interest in surrendering.
16:20Ben Meiselas:They know that this is a war of attrition. They know that they actually have Donald Trump by the little tiny marble things that may or may not even be there at this point or never were there. Iranian, sorry for the visual, Iranians President Pazeskian outlined what Iran views as a path to end the war, saying it must include recognition of Iran's legitimate rights, payment of reparations, firm international guarantees against future aggression. Pazeskian says he conveyed the message during talks between leaders of Russia and Pakistan, because that's the damn alliance, Donald. And I know you threw India under the bus for Pakistan, but guess who's talking?
17:02Ben Meiselas:Your buddies over in Pakistan. Yeah, I know they gave crypto money to your World Liberty Financial. So you had their chief general over as well because they lied and said you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, by the way. Remember that Nobel Peace Prize? I stopped eight wars. Oh, my God. My God. But here's what Pakistan's president wrote. Talk to the leaders of Russia and Pakistan. I reaffirmed Iran's commitment to peace in the region. The only way to end this war ignited by the Zionist regime in the U.S. is recognizing Iran's legitimate rights, payment of reparations and firm international guarantees.
17:43Ben Meiselas:And so what Iran is doing, by the way, just so you know, and this is what Russia is guiding them on, is the language that Ukraine is using firm international guarantees, these types of things. Iran is now using that language at the behest of Putin to try to create moral equivalence as well, to also undermine any effort of Ukraine in order to bring peace to the region. And again, this is part of a global, Donald Trump has brought about a global reordering that will make the United States the weakest ever. And again, I think we put this out on our Midas Touch account, which is we're seeing in real time just how Donald Trump was able to bankrupt all of these casinos over and over again, except instead of casinos, it's us.
18:42Ben Meiselas:And it's just happening in real time. We can see it. Sad. But those are the facts. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. And thank you all so much for watching. Thanks for watching. Be sure to add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts for new updates every single day.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s fatal error in the Iran War that has now caused utter devastation and chaos in the entire region and world and that has destroyed the remainder of his term as well.
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