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Independent News Commentator
Yes, the same Monday.com Donald Trump just surfaced and he surrendered again. The same cycle, folks. He rushes to Barack Ravid over at Axios who's Donald Trump's chief outside propagandist. And Donald Trump leaks the following to manipulate the market only to have Iran deny it and then have the oil markets go back up, which is not where you want it to be going, cuz that means higher gas prices for you. And it turns out what Donald Trump did this morning is a utter farce and more global humiliation for Donald Trump. So he rushes to Barack Ravid over at Axios, and here's what Ravid post. The White House believes it's getting close to an agreement with Iran on a one page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations. So not a deal, a framework for potential negotiations to eventually discuss a deal. Ravid described it as a 14 point plan. This is something that they were saying months ago, but here they are saying it again and look at what happens immediately. You see oil prices drop dramatically and then it all of a sudden starts to skyrocket again. Hmm. What happened? Well, then Donald Trump, after the markets get manipulated, he makes a post which I'll tell you about in one moment. But Ravid wasn't done pumping the market, in my opinion, yet. Here's what he then says after his scoop. The US Expects Iranian responses on several key points in the next 48 hours. Nothing has been agreed yet, but the sources said this was the closest the parties had been to an agreement since the war began. Yes, but U.S. officials have expressed optimism about a deal at several points during previous rounds of negotiations and during the current war, but have yet to reach one. So now he starts to hedge a little bit. And then Donald Trump posts the following. Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, just think about that sentence. Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, what the hell does that sentence even mean? First off, assuming, so it's hypothetical, agreed to give what has been agreed to by who? Who has agreed to such things? You. Are you just imposing unilateral terms? And then Trump goes on to say, which is perhaps a big assumption, the already legendary epic fury will be at an end. Assuming they do this, which is a big assumption, then epic fury will be at an end. Do you see the utter con right here? And the highly effective blockade will allow the Hormu Strait to be open to all, including Iran. If they don't agree, the bombing starts and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump. And then Barack Ravid, the stenographer of Donald Trump, quite literally a stenographer. We get the siren emoji, everybody. And then he just repeats what Donald Trump says. And then since Ravid is Also the stenographer for Netanyahu. He then posts the following. Do you see what this guy's doing right here? I just want everybody to be alert to the scams and schemes of corporate news and why independent news is so important. And I think it's important that we all open up our eyes to what the hell is happening here. So then Ravid post senior Israeli official. The Americans did not surprise us. Prime Minister Netanyahu is in continuous contact with Donald Trump and they hold almost daily conversations. There is direct communication between the Prime Minister staff and the President's team. Another senior Israeli official It was made clear to us in the discussion that Trump is standing by his red lines, foremost among them the removal of nuclear material from Iran. The Prime Minister has instructed the IDF to be prepared for all scenarios, including a return to fighting if required. Oh, very interesting. Donald Trump and Netanyahu coordinating this every single step of the way. Well, what's Iran saying about this? Well, instant rejection of this whole scam. A senior Iranian member of Parliament directly calls the Axios report on the US Iran agreement more of an American wish list than reality, with Iran rejecting several clauses of the US peace memorandum as unacceptable. We could have told you that two months ago when Iran gave its 10 point negotiating framework and Iran said here are our non negotiables and Iran has it moved from those goes Iran says the Axios report is speculation and that Axios serves as a tool for the White House market manipulation. That Iran has heavily rejected such proposals in recent days and the current discussions are about ending the war, not the nuclear issue, which will make any deal impossible as long as the US demands to discuss nuclear. If you've been watching the Midas touch network, you know Iran has said now a new non negotiable after Donald Trump escalated his threats is no discussion at all about nuclear. The pure discussions are just about ceasefire long term security guarantees. Then Donald Trump tells the New York Post it's too soon to prepare for an Iran peace signing with Israel not even being aware of the proposal and Israel says it's ready to resume fighting. So if you're like Ben, these all seem like contradictory statements. Well, they are and they are intended by Trump to manipulate the market. Iran's MB Golubov, that's their parliament leader, then said the following to Iran state media the enemy in its new plan with a naval blockade is seeking economic pressure and media propaganda to destroy the country's cohesion and force us to surrender. Of course we do not rule out the possibility of a military attack especially terrorist attacks. But the part of the enemy's plan that relates to society is to weaken Iran from within. The enemy is placing great hope on economic pressure and it is clear that they have again been giving false reports based on which they have made wrong decisions and these wrong decisions will cause hardship for everyone. You Iranians abroad with great capacities you have, you can be the greatest pillars in defeating Iran's army.
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Independent News Commentator
Foreign Minister Aragji, who has been meeting with China's foreign minister before Trump shows up to China, said the following Our Chinese friends believe that Iran after the war is different from Iran before the war. Its international position has improved and it has proven its capabilities and its power. Therefore, a new era of cooperation between Iran and other countries lies ahead. In other words, Iran believes it won the war because it won the war. Any objective viewer says Iran won the war. Sure. The US blew up a lot of buildings in Iran and blew up Iran's conventional navy and blew up a lot of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps buildings and killed a lot of leadership and also engaged in lots of war crimes, killing little girls in Manoba. Yes, the United States did those things. The United States claimed its goal was regime change, getting all of the nuclear material out of Iran and getting rid of their conventional weapon shield, the ballistic missiles and the Shahi drones. The US Achieved zero objectives. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. So if you just do a basic objective analysis of that, you want to say who comes out ahead? I don't know the side that got more and didn't lose more. I'm just. Call me old fashioned, but that's how I interpret this. Let's take a look at the market manipulation now, shall we? The Kobiasi letter does a good job describing what went down. According to their analysis, $920 million worth of crude oil shorts were taken 70 minutes before an Axios report claim the U.S. and Iran were near a 14 point deal to end the At 3:40am nearly 10,000 contracts worth of crude oil shorts were taken without any major news. This is equivalent to 920 million in notional value, an unusually large trade at 3:40am Eastern Time. At 4:50am Eastern Time, just 70 minutes later, Axios reported that the U.S. is close to a memorandum of understanding to end the Iran war. By 7am Eastern time, oil prices had fallen over 12% with these crude oil shorts gaining approximately $125 million. Minutes later, Iran launched what it now refers to as the Persian Gulf Strait Authority. In addition, Donald Trump announced assuming and it's a big assumption. Well, then oil prices surged to 8%. What just happened? It seems like clear and present market manipulation. Part of this manipulation is Trump then sends his sycophants on regime media, which is Fox, and they do their regime media thing. Carlos Jimenez MAGA Republican from Florida, says imagine how bad it would be under Biden right now. Play this clip.
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Carlos Jimenez
Why? Because we need to go on offense against the Democrats. Can you imagine what oil prices would be today if Joe Biden were actually in office and the Straits of Hormuz were being were being closed by Iran? We were now energy independent and we're energy dominant under him. We were energy dependent and so the world would be in a much worse place if Joe Biden and the Democrats were in power.
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Independent News Commentator
Tom Emmer, MAGA Republican Congress member from Minnesota who seems to hate his state of Minnesota, says Donald Trump has never been stronger. Okay, here, play this clip.
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Tom Emmer
All of these polls that try to suggest that Donald Trump's influence is waning are completely false. Donald Trump has never been stronger, especially with the Republican base. And you saw it last night in Indiana. It's. He is a. He's become more than Donald Trump. He is an icon of the ages. And when he speaks, people listen. And I know the left doesn't like to hear that, Stuart, but it's fact. And you saw it last night on display in Indiana. Yes, the MAGA held together and supported
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Independent News Commentator
the President on this.
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Tom Emmer
I think his political fortunes may be on the upswing just a little.
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Independent News Commentator
We shall see, Tom. Then, as the manipulation continues, Donald Trump goes to his usual posts. The posts like this top DOJ official predicting the Supreme Court will declare AR15 rifles legal everywhere.
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Tom Emmer
Yay.
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Independent News Commentator
AR15s for everybody with no AR15 regulations. Put em by schools, put em by churches, put em by religious centers, put em by hospitals, AR15s everywhere. That's exactly what Americans are saying that they want the same type of weapons that our military needs to get training for war and our military needs to take tests and handle with responsibility. Proliferate the AR15s. We'll take away your healthcare. Weapons of war everywhere. What else are they? What? What else are they doing? Oh, the Trump regime. The ballroom, the White House ballroom. I'm not even gonna read this post. The greatest thing, everybody needs a ballroom. Donald Trump says. And then finally this morning, we see the authoritarian regime in action. And the Trump regime raids the top Democrat in Virginia who was behind the redistricting plan that got Democrats a 10 to 1 majority in, in 10 to 1 congressional delegation in Virginia. Luis Lucas, the Virginia Senate pro temp. Her facility, her office was raided. Fox was there. Fox got tipped off. They were right there when the raid was taking place. And they seem to know everything about this raid. Um, and here's how Fox reports the rate of the top Democrat in Virginia who successfully did the redistricting plan. This was her, you know, part of, you know, her map, her plan that she pushed forward. Senator Luis Lucas, State Senator. And now she gets her office rated. You know, obviously, you know, we need to learn more details. I don't know the facts, so I'm not going to rush to judgments or conclusions or anything. However, we know what this Trump regime does over and over again. So play this clip.
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Bloomberg Announcer
Very influential Democrat from Virginia State Senator Luis Lucas is at the center of a major FBI corruption investigation right now. In fact, agents are executing search warrants across the Commonwealth including her office. Alex Hogan is in Portsmouth, Virginia. Alex
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Alex Hogan
hi Harris. So the FBI here telling us today that these are court authorized criminal search warrants that they are issuing and they're going into the building behind me. This is the office here in Portsmouth of State Senator Louise Lucas. You can likely see some of the FBI agents behind me. All of the staffers inside this building were told to come outside. I could hear them saying that they were not allowed back of the building. Throughout the last hour we've been seeing the FBI come and go carrying boxes out of the building. Now just across the parking lot next to where I am, there is a cannabis area dispensary. We know that the state Senator is associated with several cannabis locations and dispensaries and what we're seeing there a completely different scene. Carrying out SWAT teams arrived with their weapons drawn telling anyone in the building to come out of the building with
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