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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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the united states and israel's war in iran rages on and things are going from uglier to catastrophic for the united states right now what you just saw there at the beginning of this video are some big u.s and israeli strikes in tehran and no doubt the us and israel is striking tehran and iran significantly lots of targets of the islamic revolutionary guard also
lots of civilians in iran dying as well but iran is striking back hitting u.s interests in neighboring countries and hitting the interest of neighboring countries that support the united states as well we have some updates to report right now we are learning that there was a United States F-15E Strike Eagle that was shot down over Iran.
Fortunately, the US pilots were safe and they managed to make it out, but a direct hit on an F-15E Strike Eagle over Iran. In addition, one of the things that we're learning about is that CENTCOM,
is asking the Pentagon right now to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida, to support the operations against Iran for at least 100 days, but likely through September. And so what that means,
What we're able to glean is that the Trump regime sees this war against Iran and this war that's now engulfing the entire Middle East and perhaps even reaching beyond, lasting at least 100 days or through September, probably longer, probably into 2027.
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Chapter 2: What recent events have escalated the conflict in Iran?
And Trump just had a feeling He felt it wouldn't happen. An oil tanker has been hit by a large explosion in the waters off of Kuwait yesterday, resulting in a massive oil spill. And this is in addition to the news I gave you about Qatar. China's government ordered their largest oil refineries to suspend diesel and gasoline exports amid the Strait of Hormuz closures.
So that's what's going on right there in the Middle East. But if you said, hey, can it get any worse than that? The answer is that it can. And if you look at what's actually happening on the streets of Iran, It is not looking good. Donald Trump and his regime turned a very unpopular Ayatollah Khomeini, who was 85 years old, who the people were turning against, even his Shiite supporters.
He was a, she's a Shiite spiritual leader. We may not like that because he's a terrorist and he was an authoritarian. He was a religious leader, not just for Iranians, but for the Shiite community in the region. And again, bad person, terroristic, hateful, all true, but was becoming unpopular. Now all we did was empower a more far right wing extremist version of that Ayatollah.
The new Ayatollah Machaba, it's his son, was the one responsible for the protest massacres. So you just got a worse Ayatollah basically than a very, very bad Ayatollah. And I'll just show you what's going on in the streets right now in Iran. It's not the protesters who are out there saying, throw out the regime, because they're terrified.
The last time they did that, the last time they went out there, Trump said, I got your back and didn't have their backs and allowed them to be massacred. Also, if you were a pro-democracy protester right now,
and Donald Trump and his regime is out there saying that they don't support democratic leaders in Iran and they support someone else from the Islamic Republic who would be friendly with the Trump regime, why would you go out and protest?
If you did, you would say, well, I'm gonna do this, and the Trump regime's gonna throw me under the bus, and they're going to, and I'm gonna get killed by the new Islamic Republic leader, because Trump's gonna just hoist up an Islamic Republic leader. So Trump's plan is so awful for all of those reasons and more. So now,
The demonstrations that you see are not people asking for democracy, even though we know they're there. They're terrified. We know they're there. And our heart goes out to them. Let me be very clear. That's where my solidarity and heart goes out to. Most importantly, my heart goes out to Americans. I mean, but I'm a citizen of the world, so I hope everybody in the world is OK.
But I want to make sure that American people here get health care and that American people are taken care of. And American people are having health care ripped away. So let me be clear about that first. As Donald Trump's out there engaging in this war, apparently because he said Israel was going to strike first.
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Chapter 3: How is the Trump administration responding to the war in Iran?
What the hell is Trump doing here? And just so you see who's out there, who's emboldened by all of this, this is what Trump has caused. Here, play this clip. Then Donald Trump held that bizarre press conference yesterday where he couldn't even like he struggled to speak and he was trying to say electric, your electric bills are actually coming down.
He was like, I didn't even understand what he's saying here. Play this clip.
So your electric bills will actually come down. It'll take a little while, but not long.
Then Donald Trump once again admitted yesterday that if the United States didn't attack Iran first, then Israel was going to attack, and then Iran would have attacked the United States. So that's why we have to do it. Trump said it again. Here, play this clip.
They've been killing our people and killing people from all over the world. And I think we have great support. And I think if we didn't do it first...
they would have done it to israel and give us a shot if that was possible and for all of donald trump and his regime now trying to claim they don't need war authorization from congress because it's not a war it's a special operation the same language that putin uses well here's donald trump yesterday at that press conference saying it's a war it's a war you
And on a scale from 1 to 10, the success of this war, Donald Trump says, is a 15. It's a 15. Don't you understand? It's the same demented playbook he used with COVID. Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. There's only going to be one case. How would you rate your handling of COVID? An A plus on a scale from 1 to 10. I give it an 11. This is what he does. I think in COVID, he gave it an 11.
Now he's giving the war against Iran a 15. And we're now preparing for September. This is going to be a never-ending war. That seems pretty damn obvious. Even if it stops a little bit, you're going to have Islamic Republic leaders in there who are going to be out there more emboldened and more entrenched and declaring victory. Like, do we get what's happening here?
Here's Donald Trump saying that. Play this clip.
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Chapter 4: What internal conflicts are emerging within the Trump regime regarding Iran?
How have you dealt with the ballistic missiles? And Zelensky's like, okay, I showed the video. I don't need to show the video again. But Zelensky's like, we're happy to help you. America wants our help, but you got to help us against Russia. You got to help us in the war that Russia has inflicted against Ukraine. So you have him saying that. And I just want you to think about this, right?
Right now, in terms of wars, you have a war against Afghanistan and Pakistan. The entire Middle East is now engulfed in war with Trump invading Iran. You have Trump doing a military operation in Ecuador right now. We have boots on the ground in Ecuador as the MAGA president of Ecuador and Trump are doing whatever the hell they're doing there, which is probably just out to enrich themselves.
You had Donald Trump's invasion of Venezuela. You have Taiwan, which has never been more vulnerable than it is right now. And you saw what happened in Venezuela yesterday. I was trying to make sense of the story, and now it totally made sense. So remember the reporting that was out there? Reuters broke the story that the Trump regime was preparing an indictment against Delcy Rodriguez.
the leader of Venezuela from the Maduro regime, who is basically a Trump stooge there, so Trump could take the oil money from Venezuela, sell it to his right-wing oligarch friends, put it into Qatari bank accounts, and then the Venezuelan community in South Florida and elsewhere in the United States are like, Dude, she's, Delcy Rodriguez is worse than Maduro.
So you just kept the Maduro regime, you kept the Chavistas in there, worse than Maduro? What the hell are you doing, Donald? And so there was this interesting story where Reuters said that the Trump DOJ prepared a draft indictment against Delcy, which then the Trump DOJ denied right away.
And Todd Blanch is like, completely false from Reuters, not sure how such fake news makes its way to publication. which, of course, I don't believe the Trump regime. The fact that Todd Blanch said that made me believe even more that Reuters had good sourcing on this. But then yesterday, here's what we learned about Venezuela. Trump has brokered a gold deal between the U.S.
and Venezuela, per Axios. Venezuela's state-owned mining company, Minerva, agrees to sell 1,000 kilograms of gold destined for US markets. Trafugera will shepherd the gold to US refineries under separate arrangements with the US government. The contract calls for 98% final gold content sources say. The deal could be worth more than $150 million.
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Chapter 5: How are the Kurds involved in the U.S. strategy in Iran?
The US is eyeing Venezuela's gold. So not only are we taking their oil and shipping it to Qatari bank accounts that Trump controls, apparently now we're doing the same thing with gold. So I believe you put these stories together that now what Trump does is he holds this indictment over Delcy's head. I want your gold. You know how Donald Trump loves like gold nuggets and gold bricks.
I want your gold or I'm going to indict you. She gives him the gold. And then Donald Trump posts on social media yesterday. Ah, Delcy's great. Delcy's a hero. Things are fantastic with Delcy. That's what he posted. This is all what he... And he's making the whole world less safe with this crap to enrich himself. Do we all see what the hell is happening here? It's happening in plain view.
I want to touch upon one or two more things just before we go. So you're fully informed of all the developments. By the way, that's why make sure you subscribe, right? We're almost at 7 million subscribers. We flew past 6 million, almost at 7 million subscribers. So you may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. Here's what I wanted to mention before I went.
Pam Bondi, subpoenaed by Congress on a bipartisan basis, House Oversight Committee. She's gonna have to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Epstein. The whole hearing will be on Epstein. The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Bondi 24 to 19. Five Republicans joined with Democrats, Burchette, Boebert, Cloud, Mace, and Perry.
She will be subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee right now, and that is going to be a big deposition. One other fact about Laura, about that I want to mention, and this didn't really get a lot of attention yesterday at all. The DOJ has tried to put forward a rule that any DOJ attorney who is under state bar investigations in any state
can invoke the DOJ's help so that the DOJ blocks state bar ethics investigations into their DOJ prosecutors because they're all getting sanctioned now and may lose their licenses for engaging in all this unlawful conduct before federal judges. So what Bondi's scheme is under the supremacy clause of the constitution is she's saying the DOJ gets to review
any state ethic complaints against DOJ lawyers for an indefinite period of time before the state bar gets to look at it. So what the plan is, is to use this review process of the state bar claims in any of the states to delay and stall and stop state bar license removal proceedings against DOJ lawyers who behave unethically. Again, I don't care what political party you're from.
If you are okay with that, look in the mirror. You've got some problems right there. So there you have it. We covered a lot this morning, a lot this morning. There was a lot to cover. Now hit subscribe, help us get to 7 million subscribers, and thanks for watching. New Midas merch? Head to store.midastouch.com today and get yourself the best pro-democracy gear and show your support.
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