Chapter 1: What are the implications of Trump's war in Iran?
The United States of America is at war, or I should say the United States has been forced into an unlawful war against Iran by a fascist leader in the United States. There is no end in sight. The entire Middle East is engulfed in war right now. Donald Trump and his regime are referring to this as Operation Epic Fury. We refer to it here as Operation Epstein Fury or Jeffrey Epstein's War.
The timing clearly seems to distract from the Epstein files and the fact that 1600 Pennsylvania is the center of this cabal of this Epstein class. There is no end in sight of this war. There appears to be no plans of what to do next with this war. The death toll continues to rise with American soldiers killed and injured.
It's unclear if we're even getting accurate data regarding the death toll and the amount of people or the amount of our soldiers who have been injured. We're trying to decipher the truth where you have a Trump regime that lies, an Iranian regime that lies, a Netanyahu regime that lies, a Russian regime that lies, and the United States has lost all credibility abroad right now.
Everything that our top generals and admirals warned would happen if the United States struck Iran is not just happening, but it's far worse than I think even our top generals and admirals had warned against.
All the while, Donald Trump is saying that he's surprised that Iran engaged in these attacks against the neighboring countries and specifically in those Air Force bases and areas where Americans
uh have troops uh donald trump is also not ruling out american boots on the ground he said that other presidents were afraid i'm not afraid to do that and then he's just making weird social media posts as though we're not even at war he's posting articles about nixon
and saying how it's a fascinating piece about Nixon and how he was the victim of a deep state plot so complex and enormous he cannot fathom. But Trump is smarter than Nixon, purging his enemies before they purge him. Donald Trump posting 2020 election conspiracies free Tina Peters. He's posting photos of Fannie Willis, Fulton County's district attorney, posts about the
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Chapter 2: How does Operation Epic Fury relate to Trump's political strategy?
Kennedy Center, which he's randomly posting about, and then just reposting stuff from the State of the Union and right-wing influencers saying, an absolute all-time close from President Trump. Everyone on the right should enjoy this while they can regarding the State of the Union. Oh, and then he keeps on posting that he was endorsed in 2024 by Lady Gaga's dad.
This is what he's doing right now while America's at war, while our embassies throughout the Middle East are under attack, while Trump has now provoked some of these sectarian violence across the Middle East that has resulted in so much death in the past, and now it's all right there at the surface. talked about that.
We'll also talk about the deposition of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton finally being released by the House Oversight Committee. It took them several days to release it when it was supposed to be released immediately. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton wanted it to be done in public. They wanted a public hearing. That was refused.
And now we see, as we predicted here on the Minds Touch Network, why the MAGA Republicans refused to release these deposition, these video depositions right away. By the way, we're going to put the full video depositions for you to watch here on the Midas Touch YouTube channel. I mean, it was really bad for Donald Trump.
And the fact that these MAGA Republicans rushed to do these press conferences after the depositions and say, Bill Clinton exonerated Donald Trump. It was the perfect deposition for Donald. He's totally exonerated. It's just these Putin tactics that we see over and over again.
rush lie repeat and then hope you frame the story that people don't care when the video depth is when the actual facts come out because you've already programmed people with the lies we'll actually show you clips from that deposition so you can see for yourself i've been my cellist this is the midas touch network and we have been non-stop 24 7 reporting on the war
every detail every update we've been uh we've been on the we've been there covering for everybody brett and jordy good to see you good to see you too ben good to see you jordy good to see you might as mighty and i want to thank everybody who's been tuning in uh day after day or should i say hour after hour watching all of our various updates on the war i know ben was live within seconds of us learning of these attacks this disastrous decision but i want to thank everybody for being with us every step of the way in this this has to be
the most dangerous and irresponsible foreign policy decision that I've ever seen in my life. And that's saying a lot given that I grew up with Iraq and Afghanistan, which I did not think could possibly be topped. But right now we have utter buffoons in office.
pick your buffoon, I mean, whether it's Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth or Marco Rubio, this cast of characters who kind of think everything is like some B movie, some like B action Hollywood movie that made the phrases they use, the way they speak, the way they lie, the way they, just everything about them. But this isn't some B action movie.
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Chapter 3: What are the consequences of misinformation during wartime?
I'm excited to get into tonight's show. I have a lot to talk about. Excited to get into it. Benji, where do you want to start off?
Let's talk about what Donald Trump said to the New York Post. This was one of the first statements that Donald Trump made earlier this morning. He said regarding the war and boots on the ground, quote, I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground. Like every president says, there will be no boots on the ground. I don't say it.
I say probably don't need them or if they were necessary, I don't have them. I don't have the yips. I don't have the yips. The yips. I don't have the yips. I mean, that's your statement to the, as more of our soldiers abroad are being killed and seriously wounded, that's your statement. But let me just show you more recently what Marco Rubio said.
Marco Rubio held a press conference and Rubio was asked, what was so imminent that we needed to go to war? right away when we did? What was so imminent that it had to happen at that hour on Friday? That's when it had to go down. Wasn't there... I mean, let's be clear. The United States picked a mediator. I just want everybody to know the process.
The United States picked the foreign minister of Oman to mediate the dispute between the United States and Iran. Wasn't like this guy from Oman randomly came into the picture. He was the US pick. the foreign minister of Oman goes on TV early on Friday or mid-afternoon and says, hey, we have a really good update. We've made great progress.
All we have to do now is iron out some of the technical stuff. with the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday to implement the deal. But we've got a deal where Iran has agreed to basically all of the demands as the mediator that I wanted and this is a really, really big result.
And then what he tried to even say is this is even far stronger than the deal that Obama got because obviously the foreign minister knows who he's dealing with in Donald Trump. But he said, we've got a deal basically, but we have to wait until Monday, right? I mean, you know, still the holidays, still, you know, let's iron it out on Monday. And then the strikes happen then.
the strikes happened like with a few hours a few hours after that so marco rubio was asked what was so imminent and he goes let me explain to you what was imminent he said what was imminent is that israel was not going to stop its plan to strike iran so if israel was going to strike iran iran was going to strike us So we had to strike first because Israel was going to strike Iran.
Folks, I'm not even like, you're like, come on, is that what he really said? That's literally like verbatim what he said. So let's play Secretary of State Rubio explaining what he believed was imminent and why we had to attack on Friday. Let's play it.
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Chapter 4: How did the depositions of Hillary and Bill Clinton unfold?
their images and their speeches into Iranian television after they hacked into it as though they're gonna be greeted as welcoming heroes You think that you're welcoming heroes? You think that the people of Iran want a Netanyahu and Trump proxy to lead Iran?
So you've turned off your natural allies, you betrayed them last month, and you've now further entrenched and empowered the most extremist elements of the Islamic regime. Just so everybody knows, that's what's actually happening.
Truly a worst-case scenario situation that we are in right now, and we're being led by idiots. And I want to be clear that this administration, the Trump administration, they're lying about everything. They're lying about the justifications. They're lying about... That argument by Rubio right there was one of the most circuitous, absurdist...
most gaslighting explanations that you could even like come up with. If he wrote that to Ben's point, if he wrote that in a TV show, people would be like, that makes no sense. That's a little beyond the pale here for him to say it's preemptive because if they were attacked, they would have attacked back. Yeah, obviously. Then you could justify any military action.
You could justify any war under that theory right there. And these are the same people who brought us into Iraq. These are the same people who brought us into Afghanistan. They're getting the band back together, folks. I mean, and if you look at the people who are pushing this, and Ben just named a few, right? Rubio, Lindsey Graham, who, like, gets horny for war when he's on TV.
It's a very bizarre thing to watch Lindsey Graham speak about war. And then you see somebody like a Scott Jennings, who is the Trump Spox on CNN, who CNN pays, and he goes on there, and he lies to the American people. And he says, we had to do this because they had missiles pointed at the United States and they were about to start bombing U.S. military bases. So we had to act.
Well, that was a lie. But you expect that from the guy who is the same person who pushed the weapons of mass destruction lie back in the day. And now the same people are pushing the same crap. And now they have these kind of MAGA propagandists online who are far too willing to go along with it, even though they just spent the past few years going, America first, America first, no new wars.
Kamala wants to send your kids into war. Kamala's gonna get your kids killed in war. You're doing exactly that. These people are masters of projection, and it just shows how big of frauds they are.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the MAGA Republicans' response to the Clinton depositions?
And I really think that Trump thought that he could just go in there, kill the Ayatollah, everything would be great, greet it as liberators. Doesn't that sound familiar? He could exit, leave them to deal with the mess. He'll deal with the next kind of... you know, next in command in Iran and go on with his life as if nothing happened.
But now there is a full-scale regional war unfolding that is extending, as Ben said, virtually to the entire world at the moment. And you could tell that Trump has no idea what the hell he's doing here by just listening to Donald Trump speak. He speaks to all, he's like talking to all the networks right now. He tells each of them a different thing. He says, one, this is going to take two weeks.
One, this is going to take four weeks. It's probably going to take at least six weeks. I'll take as long as I want. Then he said to, I think it was the New York Times or CNN, he said that, he said this to CNN, he said that the biggest surprise so far of this war is that Iran began to attack Arab countries after the United States and Israel attacked Iran.
This was like Iran's whole thing that they said they would do if the United States or Israel attacked them because these other Arab countries host United States bases where a lot of this is coming from. And so the fact that Trump is surprised by that action shows how unprepared that he was for what's to come here. This is just...
I just can't stress how irresponsible this is and the lies that we are seeing from this regime. And I'm talking about the Trump regime here. I mean, could you imagine here at home if we were under attack and you turn on your TV and you have Vladimir Putin or the Ayatollah going, now's your time. Take to the streets.
I don't think everyone's going to be like super psyched to see Putin on TV saying I'm your new leader. And Trump thinks that he and Netanyahu are going to be the people who are going to mobilize the Iranian people. I know instantly we saw a lot of videos, you know, a lot of imagery and a lot of it was also pushed out of Iranians celebrating.
And obviously they're going to be excited that the Ayatollah is gone. But now we're seeing the other side of things in Iran, which are millions and millions of pro-regime protesters taking to the streets, chanting death to America. And this is happening in countries throughout the region, right? We're seeing groups in Iraq attacking Americans and American consulates in Pakistan.
We're seeing this spread right now completely out of control. And Trump has been completely caught flat-footed. footed. And he's really risked the United States' national security here. He's put our troops at lives at risk. He's put us at risk. And he's put everyone in the region, frankly, at risk.
Absolutely. Absolutely. And to me, Brad, that's it right there. The scariest part of this entire war so far, in my opinion, is there is no plan. There's no plan. The entire war right now with Iran, it lacks any clear exit strategy or transition plan at all.
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Chapter 6: How does the current conflict impact U.S. foreign relations?
And unlike any regime changes in the past when the U.S. interfered, and I'm not saying in all cases it was
it was previously right or done correctly but at least there was a clear successor this time around it's just simply the destruction of infrastructure and mass killings without a road map for what comes next remember there there are 90 million people living in iran and our plan is like all right y'all figure it out amongst yourselves now Then you have the financial burden of all of this.
And to put it lightly, like these missiles aren't cheap. War isn't cheap. I think in the first 48 hours of of Operation Epic Fury, I mean, it's all just so embarrassing. But analysts that estimate that there there have been
about 600 million dollars spent in those first 48 hours in the first day alone between the use of the stealth bombers the hundreds of cruise missiles and then the intelligence operations and then beyond the financial cost which is a biggie the cost of war that's being completely ignored by trump and maga and actually almost in fact glorified in like a really sadistic way is the cost of human life
According to the latest reports from the U.S. Central Command, there are multiple service members that have already been killed. Who knows if we're getting even the accurate data, but we already know there's a handful that have already been killed. And what's Trump's stance? President bone spurs himself. It's a direct quote here. Sadly, there will likely be more. That's the way it is.
There will likely be more before it ends. As he posts away from his hotel in Florida. How weird is that? He's at Mar-a-Lago filming videos and posting away. And he's telling you that more casualties and deaths for U.S. soldiers are expected. Just expect that. So much for the peacetime president, right? What a farce that was. I know we never fell for it here.
We, the collective, we had the Midas Touch Network, but that was all such bullshit.
so look between the economic fallout the casualties we're seeing and are going to keep seeing and the clear lack of any actual plan the american people have to be furious this has been a complete disaster for the trump regime ben you know he treats all of this like a reality tv show and he picks people not for their intelligence or their planning
picks them either the most vile person, but who he views to be central casting. He used that term when he was speaking with Fox today as well. He's speaking with Bret Baier. After this horrible press conference by Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Kaine, Donald Trump said, right out of central casting, those two. They look right out of central casting.
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Chapter 7: What are the economic ramifications of the war in Iran?
how much more of a dangerous world we're going to be in. I really think of Trump bringing us closer to World War III. And Brett, I know I said I'm going to show us, you know, the Clinton depots, and I will in a second, but I just wanted to point that out.
No, it's true. It's a dangerous world, and Donald Trump has made it more dangerous. There's no doubt about it, and we're in a very strange place.
I'll show you some of the depositions. Let me show you a portion of this deposition, which I think was one of the main reasons that MAGA Republicans wanted to cover up. Remember, they rushed out and said Bill Clinton exonerated Donald Trump. It's always a sign, by the way. What did he say?
Always when they rush out to try to change the narrative before something comes, that's always a sign that whatever happened was not flattering to Trump. Then they're trying to get ahead of it. Remember like what they did with Bill Barr back in the day? It's the same playbook that they run every time.
Right. I mean, they literally posted this like from Comer's social media account. And then they gave the press conference. Folks, Bill Clinton exonerates Donald Trump.
totally is a total exoneration so you went from attacking bill clinton to now he's your character witness of donald trump that should raise your red flag number one right like when donald trump's all of a sudden like i like that guy i'm upset he's being deposed i wish he wasn't going through that okay
like what what's this guy really going to say what what what did you tell bill clinton and it's exactly what we've been saying in the epstein files we've been talking about this for the last five years what have i been saying i've been saying focus on and this is all connected by the way it's connected with iran it's connected with russia it's connected with all this stuff i said focus
on the real estate transaction where Trump outbid Epstein in 2004 for this mansion in Palm Beach that was in a foreclosure sale after this guy named Abe Gossman, who was a rich guy, went bankrupt. He had to sell his property. Epstein was going to buy it for $32 or $33 million.
he brought trump over to the property in 2004 asked trump for advice about what he should do with the pool the foreclosure sales the next day donald trump rather than helping epstein with the pool they were best friends trump outbids epstein and does it and and doesn't all cash offer for 41.5 and it was a blind bid so epstein's like how did i lose i had this thing said i was gonna win
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Chapter 8: How does the public perceive the Trump administration's actions?
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