Max Blumenthal on His Iran Trip, Being Detained by Trump & the Globalist Chokehold on American Media
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What led Max Blumenthal to be detained at a U.S. airport?
Max Blumenthal. Thank you for doing this. So I guess it shouldn't surprise anyone that if you're a journalist and you've been Taking a position and reporting on stories that are in direct contradiction to the official story in Washington that at some point You know, someone's gonna get Heavy with you. And so um I want you to just describe if you don't mind. A couple of things that have happened to you recently So everyone knows what the stakes are. So you got detained at a US airport recently. Can you explain what happened?
Yeah, and this wasn't the first time the Trump administration had gotten heavy with me over my reporting. Um I was actually arrested and jailed on first false charges that were dropped quickly uh during the first Trump term. That's a long story, but we reported on it at the gray zone. And uh I was spent
a couple days in jail.
Spent a couple days in DC jail over completely false bogus charges. Uh my house was essentially raided by like the police surrounded my house, took me out into a wagon and took me to jail for completely false charges that I had assaulted a woman who was an ally of Juan Guaido at the time. That's like to make the long story short. And You know, I wish I had had uh legal representation that encouraged me to sue at that time because it was just completely fake. Uh right after Trump came in in January, I was stopped coming back from a vacation abroad with my family and shown a list of names and asked, you know, basically, do you know these people, which is far beyond the scope of authority of customs and border protection.
And I said
did they pull you out of customs line? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, they were waiting for me. Mr. Blumenthal, and they said, uh, we've been watching you on uh Judge Napolito. I've when I watched your last appearance on Judge Napolito, referring to Judge Andrew Napolitano, but kind of like, you know, a tap on the shoulder, like Big Brothers watching. And I remember those names, I actually didn't recognize them. Um until afterwards, one of them was Susan Benjamin, who ha which happens to be the birth name of Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin. And then the other names were like Arab names or Muslim names. And I think one of them might have been Mahmoud Khalil, who is now was like arrested and was one of the Columbia students who was arrested and they tried to deport him and put him in an ice facility for a long time.
Um I didn't know but it but it signaled to me that Once it started it started to all make sense once I saw what they were doing. Israel's in charge now and they want some they want a crackdown. They want to criminalize activism and even journalism that contravenes their objectives. So, you know, the war breaks out. in Iran on February twenty eighth. It doesn't break out. Trump executes Israel's wishes and Netanyahu's greatest fantasy attacking Iran. Um, we can talk about why that happened later. But I was observing it closely, reporting on it. I, you know, as as you were as well. So I wanted to go there. And I had gone the year before without any incident coming back. I participated in a public media festival.
I in Iran. In Iran. I did a documentary on Iranian Jews and what life is like for them in the Islamic Republic. Um, I did reporting, I interviewed negotiators, like top negotiators. Um As the negotiations were about to collapse, this was a Uh a uh a month before Israel launched its first war on Iran, which ended with Operation Midnight Hammer. So anyway. The the the the the major war, Operation uh Epstein Fury or Epic Fury breaks out. And I'm observing it very closely. So I wanted an opportunity to go. I got that opportunity because Iran's foreign ministry was giving out press passes to mainstream reporters, uh, you know, from NBC, from CNN, as well as uh quote unquote influencers who wanted to go and cover.
the funeral of the man that Trump assassinated on February twenty eighth, Ayatollah Ali Khameni. And it was going to be the largest funeral in history. And indeed it was. Um, I witnessed it as a reporter. I covered a lot of things there.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What led Max Blumenthal to be detained at a U.S. airport?
0:05–17:45
2
How does Blumenthal describe his reporting trip to Iran and the funeral he covered?
17:45–1:07:11
3
How does Israel’s influence manifest in the UK’s legal and political systems?
1:07:11–1:19:49
4
Why did Trump follow Netanyahu’s agenda and what were the consequences for the U.S.?
1:19:49–1:41:12
5
What sparked the anti‑Trump protests in Iran after the funeral of the former leader?
1:41:12–2:00:56
6
How are Christian‑Zionist groups like TPUSA shaping American politics and media?
2:00:56–2:11:40
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