Chapter 1: Why is Donald Trump panicking about damage control?
Donald Trump is panicking this morning as his administration goes into damage control and as allies that Donald Trump believed he was counting on in the Middle East and elsewhere turn out not to actually be wanting to help Donald Trump as he's threatening to invade Iran also you have Secretary of State Marco Rubio talking about possibly another invasion of Venezuela
as he says that Delcy Rodriguez and the regime in Venezuela is not doing everything that Rubio and Trump want them to do, and they're not able to control it the way they thought. Let's talk about what's going down this morning as you have Kristi Noem, who Most people on Capitol Hill right now are calling for her impeachment and her ouster.
She is blaming Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and the Border Patrol for calling Alex Preti a domestic terrorist and saying that Preti was there to massacre the Border Patrol, Gestapo. Everyone saw how awful Kristi Noem has been every single day of this regime and, frankly, her entire life.
And now she's trying to throw Donald Trump and Stephen Miller under the bus, essentially invoking the Nuremberg defense already. And as Shannon Watts says, a reminder to all that acting under superior orders does not relieve you of international responsibility if a moral choice was possible. Yeah, the Nuremberg defense right there.
Christine Ohm says, everything I've done, I've done at the direction of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller. They're the ones who told me what to say. In addition, you had Homeland Security top official Tricia McLaughlin go on state regime media this morning and do the various shows.
And she was asked about referring to Alex Preti as a domestic terrorist and how all of the things that Kristi Noem was saying turns out to be false. And obviously, America is livid at how the Trump regime has defamed Alex Preti in his death and how they defamed Renee Nicole Goode. Watch what Tricia McLaughlin says right here. Play this clip.
Secretary Noem accused Alex Preti of being a domestic terrorist. Is the administration standing by that language?
So initial statements were made after reports from CBP on the ground. That was a very chaotic scene. We know that our ICE law enforcement are facing rampant violence against them, a highly coordinated campaign. So that is why this investigation is so important so that we can get accurate facts to the American people.
Would you use that expression again, domestic terrorist?
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Chapter 2: What accusations are being made against Kristi Noem?
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And so when people watch that video and the government tells them, well, he was assaulting the police officers, Nobody with any objectivity watches that video and believes that's what's happening. As the man retreats with each altercation, he retreats and then the woman is thrown violently to the ground. He's thrown to the ground. No American believes that he was assaulting the officers.
In fact, the opposite appears to be true. So we have to get some rules of the game and we can't have the government justifying this type of behavior because the vast majority of Americans think this was unfair what happened.
The also the the intimation or actually the explicit call to say you don't have a Second Amendment right to carry arms in a protest really flies in the face of most of our Second Amendment community. I can tell you I've been to dozens and dozens of rallies and or protests where people are visibly armed or have concealed carry. So
the people are saying this we need to get this straight so we can have some kind of awareness if people go to a protest they know what the rules of the game are if videoing somebody is an assault which most people don't believe it is but that is assault then people need to know that that if you video someone you could be shot and so we need a clarification on all of this and i'm a reserve judgment on the secretary for now but we need to hear from all of the people involved with this
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Chapter 3: How is the Trump administration responding to allegations of terrorism?
Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce as part of AI push. Stocks plummet. Citigroup to lay off more employees in March. ASML plans to cut 1,700 jobs after feedback. It's too complex. Those are the excuses being given. Turning to our economy to international affairs.
As I mentioned earlier in this video, Marco Rubio is now saying that the US is prepared yet again to use military force in Venezuela to ensure its cooperation. We now have armadas that left the coast of Venezuela that are now headed towards Iran because Trump is threatening attacks on Iran as well. which he said he was going to do in early January.
But now he says he's going to do it right now if Iran doesn't make a deal with him, Donald Trump says. He posted, they have to make a deal with me. If they don't make a deal, I'm going to strike them harder than I did last year. But now we're threatening Venezuela again, threatening Iran. And when it comes to Iran, what's notable is all of the perceived Gulf allies of Donald Trump
The key Gulf allies say they're not going to aid the United States in an Iran strike, limiting Trump's options. Saudi Arabia and the UAE says that the USA can't use their airspace for a military operation against Tehran. Saudi Arabia on Tuesday ruled out the use of its airspace and territory for a potential US attacks in Iran, complicating the Trump regime's options.
And I think you're going to see a lot less cooperation now with the Trump regime in that region. We'll keep you apprised there. You have Prime Minister Keir Starmer taking a state visit to China right now. We saw Prime Minister Carney do that about three weeks ago. As Carl Quintanilla says,
more pivot to china coverage as starmer becomes the first british prime minister to visit in eight years a year into trump's presidency pivot to china gathers pace and i don't know if you've seen this chart yet but this is a chart of reputations of countries right here that's done by reputation labs every year you can see that the united states reputation in the world has dropped precipitously
We are the United States reputation is worse than Kuwait. It's right around Kazakhstan right now. And it's far worse than Egypt, Vietnam, Argentina, Mexico, UAE, Romania, South Africa, Turkey, Qatar, India, Algeria and Kuwait all have better reputations across the world than the United States. But everybody, with all of this going on.
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And so as Melanie D'Arigio says, so rather than giving a toy for a birthday or holiday, parents can invest in and boost the stocks of companies and oligarchs who donated large sums of money to Donald Trump's campaign. It's all a grift. Here, play this clip of Besant.
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