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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Donald Trump just blew up the peace talks taking place in Switzerland before they even began. He's destroyed any chance of these negotiations succeeding. He started to attack the Iranian leadership who was there to negotiate by saying he was going to kill them before they returned to Iran. He then said that the United States would take over the Strait of Hormuz and start charging a toll.
This caused the Iranian leadership that was in Switzerland to lodge a formal protest against the United States. Iran made it very clear they will not be talking about the nuclear file at all at these discussions in Switzerland. Iran will only be discussing how the United States intends to
restrain Israel to implement a full ceasefire in Lebanon as required by Article 1 of the Memorandum of Understanding and to release all sanctions and provide all necessary waivers to Iran. The head of the IAEA wasn't even attending these talks in Switzerland. Then Donald Trump had
Lindsey Graham and other MAGA stooges go on the various networks this morning to also threaten Iran and say that the United States would take over the Strait of Hormuz and start charging tolls. Lindsey Graham also told the people of Lebanon, don't you worry, help is on the way. The same message that Donald Trump told the Iranian people
in January, which again, I interpret as yet another threat by this Trump regime. The status of the Strait of Hormuz right now is that it is closed.
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Chapter 2: What did Donald Trump say to blow up peace talks in Switzerland?
Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is able to move its oil tankers out from Karag Island, and it has been able to move out somewhere in the range of 20 to 30 million barrels Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to the United States and to other countries at this time.
The Iranians also refused to pose for the photo op that JD Vance, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, who were in Switzerland on behalf of the United States, wanted. I've never seen the United States look so weak and pathetic on the international stage before. So what happened was there was a press conference that was taking place before the negotiations were set to take place in earnest.
And at the same time, Donald Trump started threatening to kill and destroy Iran and kill the negotiators who were there in Switzerland. The United States was there in the room first, which is always a sign of weakness in the negotiation, waiting for Iran to show up. And then Iran's like, we're not going to take photos with J.D. Vance and Wyckoff in them. So they can do it on their own.
And so just the level of weakness to see the U.S. on the international stage. We're also getting a statement from M.B. Goluboff that was just released in response to Donald Trump's threats to kill him and to kill the entire Iranian negotiating team. Goluboff just wrote this. Don't they think to themselves that if their threats had any result, they wouldn't have reached today's desperation?
We do not take the Americans' threats into account at all. It would be better for them to watch their statements carefully. Our armed forces are ready to respond to them in a different way. No matter how much they talk, it is we who act. This is what the United States has become on the world stage under the Trump regime incredibly weak.
And the Strait of Hormuz remains closed right now as a result of Israel continuing to strike inside of Lebanon, killing over a hundred people in Lebanon.
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Chapter 3: How did the Iranian leadership respond to Trump's threats?
And it was innocent women children and people who were a lot of the casualties that have been there, by the way, in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Netanyahu says that he has no interest in ever leaving Lebanon. Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, says, nope, we're going to keep on blowing up Lebanon right now. And so Israel is saying, we don't care about your memorandum of understanding, Donald Trump.
We're going to continue to move forward and continue our invasion of Lebanon. And here's what Donald Trump posted. Let's just go bring out the receipts. Trump writes, Iran must immediately stop their highly paid proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don't, we will hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week. only harder, Donald J. Trump.
This, again, has the Strait of Hormuz closed right now because of Israel strikes inside of Lebanon. And Donald Trump posted that right as the negotiations were supposed to take place in Switzerland. I mean, Donald Trump seems intent on causing a global depression, right, and destroying these negotiations. Donald Trump then called up state regime media, which calls itself Fox.
And then Donald Trump told one of the Fox correspondents the following. He said, you close the Strait of Hormuz, you ain't gonna have a fucking country, Iran. You hear me? I mean, Donald Trump is so unhinged. Here's what he said. Let's play it.
President Trump tells Fox News he spoke with Iranian officials overnight and said you close it and you won't have a country he went on to tell these officials you won't even make it back to your effing country
Then Donald Trump told the Fox host, we're gonna bomb the shit out of you. I'm gonna blow the shit out of them, you understand? I mean, just think about Donald Trump. He's in Camp David right now, panicking around the room. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. We're about to hit tank bottom on oil, and he's out there cursing to a Fox host. Here, play this clip.
An important point here is what the president is leaving on the table as it relates to the Strait of Hormuz. He says, we may take over the Strait, If we have to, I'll blow the S out of them.
Then Donald Trump said, you know this deal, this MOU, it's not even a deal at all. You see, it's an option. And after 60 days, I think I'm just gonna go and return to blow the shit up out of them. This is what Donald Trump is saying this morning.
And by the way, the optics of what's going on in Switzerland tells a very different story right now about the weakness of the United States, but let's play this clip.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Strait of Hormuz being closed?
Here, play this clip.
I spent four and a half hours with President Trump Friday. Here's what I think will happen next. If this deal fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz over by force. The United States will control the Strait of Hormuz. We'll charge a fee for all those who go through to pay for the operation. And we're going to expand the Abraham Accords in calendar year 2026.
We're going to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, which is the biggest change in 5,000 years in the Mideast. And if Iran contests control of the Strait of Hormuz by the United States, we'll obliterate them.
Also, Lindsey Graham keeps on fantasizing about Saudi Arabia and all of these countries joining the Abraham Accords with Israel. None of these countries want to engage in the Abraham Accords with Israel while Israel's engaged in genocide in Gaza and while they're blowing up Lebanon, Lindsey Graham. And then Lindsey Graham's like, everybody join with Israel, join with Israel, Arab nations.
This catastrophic war that you and Netanyahu and Trump got us into pushed people further away from Israel. It's actually what's happened, Lindsey Graham. And then Lindsey Graham goes to the people of Lebanon, help is on the way. Here, let me show you what he said. Let's play this clip.
To Saudi Arabia. Now is the time to open negotiations yet again for you to expand the Abraham Accords, for you to join. I think this is going to happen in 2026, and it can't happen until Iran's in a box. If we get a deal, if we get a deal, Iran will be in a box. If we don't get a deal, Iran will be in a box. To Lebanon, to the people in Lebanon, help is on the way.
Hezbollah has been terrorizing your country for a long time. That's about to end. Senator, I have other questions.
And then on ABC's This Week, you had Donald Trump's energy secretary, Chris Wright, you know, spewing regime propaganda to which Jonathan Karl of ABC said, yeah, but... Donald Trump said that if this deal falls apart, and he seems to be making it fall apart right now, that we are days away from global economic depression. That's not my words.
That's what Donald Trump said when he was in Versailles and when he was at the G7 in France. Listen to what Wright says as he just kind of stutters and mutters. Here, let's play this clip.
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Chapter 5: How does Trump's rhetoric reflect on the U.S. international standing?
I was always the one I didn't wanna be.
I mean, what he's saying there, he has said a few different times, is that if we go back to a state of war with Iran, we face the risk of global depression.
Is that not true? Look, the president, No, well, look, the president has been advised all along, despite the media proclamations, that there was enormous risk to energy flows to engage the Iranians on their nuclear program in a military fashion. But he simply was unwilling to leave to his successor in nuclear armed Iran.
There's just no greater risk to energy prices to the economy of the world than a nuclear armed Iran. He knew he was gonna drive up energy prices in the short run. He had the courage to take the action
As I noted before, the Iranians said, we are not discussing anything of the nuclear file today. Today is just about Israel out of Lebanon. You remove sanctions from us. And also, how do we know that the head of the IAEA wasn't even there? So we could just factually observe what's taking place and we could factually observe what's going on in the room. J.D.
Vance and Witkoff and Kushner looked like the three stooges there. I mean, they look like the most incompetent and unqualified people because they are. They were thirsty for a photo with M.B. Ghalibaf, Foreign Minister Araghchi, and Iran's negotiating team. Iran's negotiating team was like, we're not taking these photos with you.
And then the Trump regime wants to push out all this stuff to American regime media like we're somehow like this is tough and this is America strong. No, this is America never being weaker. Objectively, based on, I'm just giving you the receipts right here. It's why we need a healthy media diet.
And I often get asked, Ben, where do you get your news from to do these presentations, to provide these fact-based news reports? And I tell people, you know this, that I use Ground News.
Ground News is an app and a website that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organizes them to show you how it's being reported on the left, how it's being reported on the center, how it's being reported on the right, how it's being reported internationally, how different media outlets are framing stories differently
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