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Corporations resisted as well.
Trump 2.0, we knew that it was going to open up the floodgates to autonomy, to autocracy, because they all went and kissed the ring.
And this is very common in authoritarian takeovers.
And so when industry titans do not stand up for their consumers and then the American public doesn't stand up for their rights, you see this obeying in advance.
And then you see the Democratic leadership
Lots of them that obey in advance, that vote with Trump, allow DHS funding, allow him the funds to be this lawless.
And there's a billionaire from the United Arab Emirates that has more courage than Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries could ever conjure up.
He has more courage than any American oligarch and billionaire could ever conjure up.
He gets onto Twitter and he posts the following to Donald Trump.
The tweet goes, prominent UAE billionaire, Khalaf Ahmad al-Habtour just published an open letter to Trump and it's brutal.
Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran?
Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?
Al-Habtour's a major figure, billionaire, former diplomat, outspoken political voice in the Gulf.
When he talks,
uae leadership's listening his questions for trump was this your decision or netanyahu's pressure did you calculate collateral damage before firing you placed gcc countries at the heart of danger they didn't choose your board of peace initiatives were funded by gulf states now we're getting attacked
Where did that money go?
You promised no wars.
You've conducted operations in seven countries, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Venezuela.
658 airstrikes in your first year back equals Biden's entire term, which you criticized.
War cost 40 to 65 billions for operations, possibly a $210 billion total.