Chapter 1: What escalated tensions in the Middle East following Trump's announcement?
A sudden and massive escalation in Donald Trump's unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran. The Trump regime threatening to send a Navy forces into the Strait of Hormuz, which then leads to Iran striking nearby targets in the United Arab Emirates, the port of Fujairah, as well as two ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a UAE tanker, as well as a South Korean ship.
uh donald trump then tries to say well you know those places have nothing to do with us anyway and uh i think the naval blockade is still working meanwhile there is a massive ramp up of uh military assets right now by the united states and israel
in the middle east we're going to keep you posted on the developments there also pam bondy apparently trying to avoid having to sit for a deposition the trump regime's uh latest position working with james comer on the house oversight committee mega republican james colmer is that pam bondy will not sit for a deposition instead she will provide an interview and it's going to not be under oath and they don't want it to be
videotaped and they want to have a top DOJ official, Harmeet Dhillon, be the personal lawyer of Pam Bondi while she's the top DOJ lawyer. I mean, Harmeet Dhillon's like the number three person there.
Chapter 2: How did Iran respond to U.S. military movements in the Strait of Hormuz?
And they're saying, well, because it's no longer a deposition and it's an informal interview, not on videotape, we think we can do this right now. I mean, folks, this is... Red flag city right here, we'll break that down. Also, we'll talk about Donald Trump and his regime trying to blame everyone but themselves for this horrible economy.
As Spirit Airlines declared bankruptcy over this weekend, officially, the Trump regime rushed to blame Biden. You have the Agriculture Secretary, Brooke Rollins, blaming Biden for beef prices going up. I mean, it's just blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, the opposite of leadership. We'll talk about all of this and more in this episode of the Midas Touch podcast.
I'm Ben Myselis, joined by Brett and Jordi. We've got a lot to discuss. I mean, over the weekend, folks, Donald Trump announces on a social media post that American naval forces are going to be going into the Strait of Hormuz, escorting ships there.
And then he says this is part of something called Project Freedom, which they announced last week, something by that name as well, which wasn't actually sending our Navy into the Strait of Hormuz. Right. It was working in a defensive way to just coordinate and provide information to like insurance companies that are insuring ships in the region. And So, but Trump said, we're escorting ships.
And then so CENTCOM kind of had to like get behind that and said, yeah, that's what we're doing in a defensive way. And, you know, it was just creating this escalatory ambiguity. And I think Iran saw certain ship movements from the United Arab Emirates, two ships, the South Korean ship and a UAE ship tried to test Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz.
So Iran knocked out these two ships, which was initially denied by the Trump regime. Then I think there was an attempt by the U.S. to maybe bring some of its Navy ships in. Then Iran responded with warning strikes, and then the U.S. Navy ship pulled away.
And then Iran hit UAE's Porta Fuggera, where there's like an oil pipeline there that was being used by the UAE to try to send oil around the blockade. And so we have a video of what it looked like right now, that Porta Fuggera. So that's where we're at right now. And of course, we'll keep everybody posted as there are more developments happening.
Trump's calling this a mini war and saying the blockade is the single greatest military maneuver in American history. That's what he told Fox. The single greatest military maneuver in American history, bro. Move over D-Day. Donald Trump has all the cards, and this blockade is the best military maneuver the world has ever seen, ever, ever, ever.
Just a clown show, day in, day out, and it's so incredibly dangerous. First, I want to say, hey, what's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty?
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Chapter 3: What legal challenges is Trump facing related to Pam Bondi and the Epstein files?
It's so great to be here with everybody today, breaking down all the news. You know, I think one of the funniest comments that I saw came from our own Midas Touch editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski,
who, when Donald Trump was posting these ridiculous memes throughout the weekend, saber-rattling with Iran, like this one where he showed a handful of UNO cards with wild cards, and he said, I have all the cards. This is an AI meme that Donald Trump posted. Ron Philip Kasky noted, UNO, when you have all the cards, that means you're losing. That means you're losing the battle.
And so Donald Trump clearly not one to really have any sort of self-awareness with these issues. I just think back to during the Biden administration when every day, I remember last episode, we were speaking about how they would constantly be screaming fire and it was, you know, aliens and this and that, there'd always be a distraction of the day.
But also, do you guys remember that they would constantly be saying, this is World War III. World War III is happening. World War III is starting. World War III would trend on Twitter like every day when the tiniest things would happen. And now there's a major global incident every day. Donald Trump just lies about it.
We spent the entire morning trying to get clarity on what the hell was happening with these American ships and Iran firing on American ships. And the CENTCOM and the United States government denied it for hours and hours and hours until finally admitting that Iran did indeed fire on the ships and the US ships fired back.
It's really such a shame that we can no longer trust anything coming out of the US government. But, you know, I think it's our responsibility here at the Midas Touch Network and as a community to do what we can to break through all the noise. And so that's what we're going to do as best we can. Jordi, it's great to see you. What's the latest on your end? Brothers, great to see you.
Midas Mighty, great to be here. Pumped to get into tonight's show. Look, this guy, Donald Trump, he's an absolute putz. I mean, there couldn't be a worse person, quote unquote, in charge, if you could say he's in charge, in charge of this right now. In this moment of history, in this moment of time, he is absolutely the worst person to be at the helm, to be steering this ship.
and i i just i i'm like genuinely fearful of what's going on you know i said this weeks ago i say it a lot during these shows it's like it's going to continue to get worse continue to escalate in ways that i don't think we could even comprehend just yet and i'm not here you know to make predictions especially with something so serious but i'm just reacting to the data that we're continuing to see every day and it's deeply troubling a lot to get into a lot of news today pump for the show brothers might as mighty let's do this benji where do you want to start off today
when donald trump says the naval blockade the single greatest military maneuver in american history so your plan to open the strait of hormuz was to further blockade the straight of hormuz and you view that as the greatest military maneuver
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Chapter 4: What led to Spirit Airlines declaring bankruptcy?
There was no response.
Turn your ship around. Evacuate your engine room immediately. And you see all these guys running out of it. Now, they're five miles away. And one shot into the engine room blew up the engine room. The ship stopped.
Chapter 5: How is Trump blaming Biden for economic issues?
They used tugboats, and then we landed on top of it. On top of everything else, we then land on top of it, and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It's a very profitable business. Who would have thought we were doing that? We're like pirates. We're sort of like pirates.
But we're not playing games because, you know, for 47 years, Iran has been pushing everybody around.
Iran takes that video and they say, ha, look, you see, he's admitted that they're pirates. And they show that to their people and say, look, this is what America's bragging about, piracy. I mean, the words of the United States president matter. It's one of the things that when King Charles visited, he actually said in the joint session of the House and Senate,
It was a message directed at Trump, which is the words of the United States still matter. And so words need to be picked very, very carefully. And Trump is so reckless with his words, his behavior, his conduct.
Chapter 6: What controversial statements did Marjorie Taylor Greene make recently?
It is such an utter lack of leadership right now that it is causing this massive global realignment in a very short period of time. of time. It's on fast forward.
So then today, Donald Trump crashing out in the White House after all of the updates that I've talked about, the massive escalation taking place, right, from over the weekend, Trump talking about this Project Freedom thing and that we're going to be sending the United States Navy to escort ships. And, you know, then U.S. officials always have to like
They go to the press and go, actually, this isn't what this is about. What this is really about is just helping insurance companies and ships find out the latest updates about when the Strait of Hormuz might be open. And then there was, again, this escalatory ambiguity because Trump's words are so reckless and careless. And Trump says, we're going in.
And then CENTCOM publishes that we have ships that are in the Strait of Hormuz. And that didn't happen. But they say we've got ships in the Strait of Hormuz and we were escorting ships out and things are going great. And so Iran sees this. Iran sees some movements happening from the UAE.
And that's why Iran says, OK, I guess, you know, we're going to strike the port of Fajara because if you're making moves there, we got to make sure that, you know, that we neutralize any way to circumvent the naval blockade. Two ships challenged.
the block you know to iran's control of the trading removes that's why iran hit the south korean ship and uh and and the uae ship so a lot of very serious things happening iran's leadership are sending stern warnings you know basically saying we control it you know we're going to unleash you know a things like you've never seen before in the war. We're ready to go, we're ready to go.
I mean, you have over here, for example, the head of Iran's National Security Commission and the Iran parliament literally saying, warning, any American interference in the new maritime regime of the Strait of Hormuz will be considered a violation of the ceasefire. The Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf would not be managed by Trump's delusional post. No one would believe blame game scenarios.
than one of Iran's other top military leaders and spokespeople were saying. The element of surprise is no longer a secret. It has become a reality knocking at our doors. Expect an earthquake that will wipe out years of arrogance in a matter of hours. Tonight, perhaps a new chapter of power will unfold, one the adversaries have never witnessed before. Now, so that's what they're posting.
Let's show Donald Trump's post as unlike, you know, at the end of the day, these are just like other companies. countries. It's South Korea. Maybe South Korea needs to be the one who steps up and they should maybe join the war with us. South Korea, this is an opportunity for you to join Trump post. Iran has taken some shots at unrelated nations with respect to the ship movement.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Trump regime's actions on the economy?
You know, one of the things I said is that we should have, in my opinion, anybody running for president or vice president should take a cognitive test. No president has ever taken one except me. I've taken three of them, and I've aced each one. One in the first administration, two over here. And whenever they get a little sassy, like, does he still have it? Does he still have what it takes?
I say, all right, I'll take another one. And they are hard. There are many people in this room I know that are smart. They're not going to ace them. There are many people standing back there, the fake news media. I'd like to have them.
You know, the first question is very easy, and they always show the first question is, you have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a, what's another good, a squirrel, okay? Which is the squirrel? So they show that question, and then the first four or five questions, they get a little more difficult. By the time you get to the middle, they're tough.
All right, we get the point. But just so you know, he's been doing, since, we always know he talks about the cognitive exam stuff, but when he was in Florida, In the two speeches, he brought it up multiple times. Today, it wasn't just that one instance. There was a good seven minutes of this speech, maybe longer. He was talking about cognitive exam.
I'm just going to show you a brief portion in Florida, just so I can bring the receipts. So, you know, this isn't any sleight of hand. This isn't like, this is what he's been talking about consistently. I'll just play it for a short clip of it. It goes on and on and on. But here, just in Florida, what was he talking about? Let's play it.
I took three of them, aced all of them, by the way.
Okay, we don't need to hear any more of that. And they clap for him. They laugh and they clap for him. You know, both in the White House, they thought that was like funny. And then over there, you know, in Florida, his crowds are much, much smaller. I mean, he's playing small high school gyms at this point. But he's packing small high school gyms of about 400 people.
And they like, they like love it. They like, cognitive exam, everybody. I mean, Ben, it's hard, though. I mean, could you identify a squirrel out of all those animals? I mean, that sounds like a very difficult thing. Which one's the tiger? Which one is the elephant? Which one's the squirrel? This is very hard. Why do they keep giving me these exams? I don't know.
It must be because I'm so smart that they're giving me the exams multiple times a year to test for dementia. That must be it. Have you guys heard my plan, by the way, to lower the national debt? because I think this is a pretty foolproof strategy.
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Chapter 8: How does the podcast analyze Trump's rhetoric and its impact on public perception?
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