The Last Word On The US: Trump Backs Down On Plans To Charge Fees In Strait Of Hormuz
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Welcome back. It is Will O'Callaghan in for Matt Cooper. It is time for us to talk the last word on America. We'll be talking particularly about the bombing campaign around Iran in a moment. Kyle Thomas, Mary McKeown are with me. Marian, if I can kick things off. Thursday, Donald Trump, the US President, is going to be giving a speech. Our understanding is... based on some documents that have been declassified, that he'd be claiming that the voting machine vulnerabilities were the reason that he had won the election in 2020. And he's going to claim that, once again, that he beat Joe Biden. This is what we understand he's going to say on Thursday, Marianne.
Yeah, pardon me if I sound a little fatigued by all this. It's like, you know, really get over it. It's astonishing that he is in power and that the Republicans are in control of both houses of Congress and he is still beating this drum. But I think what he wants to do this time, that there is an additional twist, if you will, in that he's targeting Georgia in particular, which was, of course, where the Secretary of State back in... In 2020, Brad Raffensperger refused Trump's exhortation to find an extra 78,000 votes or whatever he wanted and also released Trump's request to the Washington Post, I believe. Now he's going after the two Democratic senators for Georgia. John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
Now, it was really unusual back in 2020 to have two Republicans. Georgia's a deep red state and you had two Republican senators who were replaced by two Democratic senators. Really, you know, surprising to a lot of people. And now Trump wants to say that the only reason this happened was because the voting was rigged. And of course, this would then discredit John Ossoff in particular, who's seen by many as a leading light. for the Democrats' hopes in 2020 and, you know, is also running for re-election in Georgia in the midterms to hold on to his Senate seat. So we'll see what Trump says. You know, he's got that quack Bill Pulte apparently claiming they found new evidence. There may also be a twist, Will, in that there's been a lot of speculation that Maduro, the former Venezuelan president, is going to make a plea deal in New York.
And as part of that, he would say, oh yeah, Venezuela was involved in rigging voting machines. You know, obviously, Fox News had to pay nearly $800 million for defaming one of the voting companies by saying that. But I'm very sceptical about this and whether it'll go anywhere.
Cal, your take on this? Is this a case of making a very clever political play, particularly with the Congress elections coming up at the end of this year, that you put that doubt into people's minds about the Democrats and use this politically for the Republican Party later this year?
What is the current US-Iran confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz and how did it start?
Or is this about Donald Trump's ego and him saying, I definitely won in 2020?
Well, there's a lot to unpack there, Will. First of all, I've covered a lot of these speeches. They're never done until they're done. Nobody knows what the final speech is going to look like, probably not even Trump. If he sticks to the script, it could be something completely different than Reuters is reporting, which is the only source on this. I can't imagine that he would go back to that at a major national televised address. I know he does it a lot at rallies. I know he does it at interviews that he does, many of the interviews. But I think people are fed up with that, frankly, as Marion was suggesting. They don't want to revisit the past, especially that far back.
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