MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/31/26

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What are Donald Trump's recent claims about negotiations with Iran?

Ben 0:00
Donald Trump's disastrous, unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran continues to spiral out of control. It's Monday, so it's market manipulation day. But Donald Trump's ability to manipulate the market by claiming he's been involved in negotiations with Iran just ain't really working. anymore. In fact, the Iranian leadership is now saying, don't listen to him, do the opposite of what he says. He's just going to try and manipulate the market. And they, in Iran, continue to mock Donald Trump and his regime. Donald Trump, again, started pretending that he was having all of these negotiations with iran he said that they agreed to most of the 15 points in the 15-point negotiation plan then iran quickly countered and said we're not agreeing to any of these terms we put forward our non-negotiables a while ago we're not even talking to the intermediary that the trump regime
Ben 0:56
is trying to use they want to use pakistan and yes donald trump rushed to pakistan to convey a message to iran which was delivered but iran said we've made our position very clear publicly of what would be required to end this war there has to be full reparations we get to control the strait of hormuz we

How is Trump accused of market manipulation in relation to Iran?

Ben 1:16
never will talk about ever disarming when it comes to ballistic missiles and Shahid drones. We need to make sure that there are firm security guarantees for Iran, for Hezbollah, for the Shiite militias in Iraq, for the Houthis and other proxy groups of Iran. And we want American and Israeli military bases out of the region. Unless those threshold matters are agreed to, we have no interest in even having a negotiation to begin with, and we're not engaging at all with Trump's 15-point framework. It's a fiction. We're not talking about it. And then Iran continued to retaliate from the strikes against it by the United States and Israel by targeting areas in Iraq, in Erbil, by targeting the UAE, by hitting an oil depot in Haifa in Israel and other areas in Israel.
Ben 2:08
by hitting Bahrain and Kuwait, a desalination and electrical facility in Kuwait. And so Iran still has a large portion of its ballistic missiles and Shahid drones intact.

What are the implications of Trump's threats against Iranian infrastructure?

Ben 2:24
And the war continues. So all of Donald Trump's claims, hey, we're right about to end it, we're about to You know, things are about to get better. No one believes him anymore. He's a total and utter liar. We're hearing from a lot of world leaders right now, like the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who says that the effect of the Iran war on Germany and Europe will be as serious as the COVID-19 pandemic. if it expands and obviously it is expanding italy's defense minister uh went on the record to say i'm forced to know things about what could happen in the coming week and the effects it will have on the economy and our daily lives that no longer allow me to sleep similarly south korea's president said today the world is in turmoil over the energy crisis the situation is so serious that it has even kept me up at night
Ben 3:11
The immediate problem is grave enough, but the outlook ahead seems even more unstable. The situation is worse than expected. We'll talk a lot about what's going on in Trump's disastrous and catastrophic war in Iran.

How are European allies responding to Trump's actions in Iran?

Ben 3:26
We'll also talk about the fact that in the United States, while people are psychologically tortured living paycheck to paycheck, if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck in the first place, while inflation right now is surging, By all accounts, we're already in a recession and perhaps a great recession or something even worse. We're definitely in a jobs recession. No jobs are being created. People can't afford things. People can't afford their rent. We have some of the highest credit card delinquency rates, student loan delinquency rates. mortgage foreclosures in many, many, many years. We have the lowest consumer confidence. While all of that's going on here, Congress has decided to go and take a recess.

What challenges are faced by Karoline Leavitt in defending Trump's statements?

Ben 4:05
MAGA Republicans control the Senate and the House. They dipped out, by the way, we see lots of photos of them right now on vacation. I mean, I think we saw Lindsey Graham in Disney World with like a bubble wand and like partying it up over there.

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