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Ben Meisellis
Wayfair every style, every home. Welcome to Ben on Breaking news. I'm Ben Meisellis and this is your breaking news. Let's just start with the facts. Not hyperbole, no exaggeration, just the damn facts right now. Okay, let's talk about the Strait of Hormuz. Who controls it, the US Or Iran? Answer, Iran, Bob. El Mandab, straight Red Sea. Who effectively controls it? Right now there's some more traffic going through the Bab El Mandab than the Strait of Hormuz. Virtually no tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz right now. Bab el Mandab, the Houthis part of the axis of resistance with Iran. What's going on in Saudi Arabia right now? I mean, as we speak, right? There are three major refineries that still remain on fire. The biggest refineries in Saudi Arabia and a pipeline that connects eastern Saudi Arabia with western Saudi Arabia. And then there is a refinery that's slightly south of the one all the way on the east by the Red Sea. All destroyed by the Houthis after Saudi Arabia destroyed the Sana' A airport in western Yemen. And the Houthis said they were going to respond. They did indeed respond. Our strategic petroleum reserves. I know I sound like a broken record on this. At an all time low right now. I mean, that's, that's not good. You take a look at the treasury yields right now, right? The 10, 20, 30 year, 30 years over 5%. The 10 and 20 year aggressively approaching, you know, new highs. But 5%, people can't afford things here in the United States. That's objectively what is happening right now. There is no deal with Iran. There's no deal. We're not close to doing a deal. As you know by now. We've been on this beat now for weeks and weeks and weeks. The United States basically ran out of munitions. Those precision munitions, in particular the Thad, the Patriot interceptors dwindling significantly. And the US Bases that are in the region, in Jordan, in Kuwait, in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Syria, those were getting clobbered by Iran. Clobbered by Iran. The US Shut down any private companies that put out satellite footage. The US Asked European companies to do the same, to shut down its satellite footage of the Middle east because they didn't want us to see what was actually happening with the US bases. There still was the Sentinel 2 satellite. It's European in scope, where we could see a lot of the bases that were being blown up by Iran. We can see the containerized barracks where our troops would be staying. Containerized like containers that you see on the back of trucks. That's where our troops stay. And you would see 12 of them demolished. And what Iran was also really striking also was the early radar detections, radar systems, hangars. Seems like they were destroying a new MQ9 Reaper drone a day. Apaches, you could literally map out the different bases that were being destroyed by Iran. That's what we were reporting on. We know that the Trump regime is now claiming that the injuries are now up to 650 or so. 624, 644. But the latest round of injuries from the past three weeks of escalation, those are now moved to a new category called overseas operations. Not epic fury according to the Trump regime and centcom. These lying, disgusting propagandists. Sad that I have to say this. Sad that they lie like this. Anyway, they said we won epic fury. Now we've moved on to, quote, overseas special operations. Right? It's like right out of the Putin playbook. It's a special operation. That's what this is. And so hundreds of new injuries from the special operation, not epic fury. That was done, of course. And I still believe the United States military is certainly undercounting the casualties. I believe the casualties are probably closer to, I don't know, 3 to 5x what they're saying. I would not be surprised if the real number was somewhere in the range of 3,000 or 5,000 actual injuries. I, I, I, I don't know. In terms of they say that the Death toll is 18 killed in action with the latest four from special operation, Not Epic Fury, but I probably think that they're undercounting that number also. But certainly the injuries. And you know, the Trump regime is claiming traumatic brain injuries are minor concussions. And let me be very clear, as somebody who used to be a litigator in catastrophic injury cases, there's no such thing as a minor concussion. Especially when you have Shahid drones and you have ballistic missiles striking right next to you. The sound alone will go and get you a traumatic brain injury. So I start off by saying these are the facts that the United States, on its own, no deals. No, Iran's not involved in negotiating anything. Iran denies reports that it's in direct Talks with the U.S. iran is in talks with Oman because Iran is working with Oman, as it stated they would in the Memorandum of Understanding, in order to have control over the Strait of Hormuz and to administer it. Oman has an area. If you look at a map of where Oman is, it's on one side of the Strait of Hormuz. On the other side is Iran, although the entire Iranian coast, if you look at a map, goes all the way through the Persian Gulf. And obviously, you know, it juts out in the Strait of Hormuz, very narrow passage. So you have Homan, you have Iran kind of right there. And part of that area is in the territorial waters of Oman, part of the Strait of Hormuz in the territorial waters of Iran. And so, you know, Iran just says, look, we're going to administer it. Oman, you're not allowed to allow the United States or anybody to go through a southern route closer to you for free. We're going to collect some form of tolls. And so Iran and Oman have been working towards what that toll system is like. Is it per ship, is it a voluntary fee? Is it an environmental fee? Is it an annual fee? Is it in the form of insurance? What's it going to be? And then the US Is like, oh, well, we're speaking with the Sultanate of Oman about this deal. And so we're involved in negotiations with Iran. Iran's like, no, you could be talking to the Sultanate of Oman. That's fine. But you all decided to re escalate this war against us. You ran out of munitions like everybody knew you were going to in the past two weeks. We're not going to back down. And then, as I've been reporting as well, you then have China getting involved in, I think, a bigger way than we saw before. We saw Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting that just took place in the SCO met with Aragi, the foreign minister of Iran, and China publicly made it clear, as they've done before, Iran is our strategic partner militarily, economically, and politically. This isn't like some secret thing. So when Trump's like, I don't think they're helping. No, I mean, they are. They're allies. They're very clear that they are helping. They say that they're helping. And then you had the Zelensky strikes on an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea. Right. The Caspian Sea links, as a sea, but it by boat, by ship links Iran with Russia, areas of Russia. And so that's where a lot of the weapons would get into Iran, and Iranian weapons would go to Russia. And they'd say it's cargo ships. But, I mean, I think we, we have a high degree of probability. I'm sure some were cargo ships. I'm sure some are weapons. Let's not be, let's not be naive. But Ukraine hit the Iranian cargo ship or weapon ship, tanker, whatever, whatever you want to. Whatever you want to say right there. Right? And then Iran said, all right, well, we're going to strike Iran directly. I mean, Iran, Iran's going to say, we're going to strike Ukraine directly. Iran has already, of course, been providing its shah heads to Russia the drones that it uses, which are used against Ukraine. But the direct strike from Zelensky on the Iranian ship has Iran saying, okay, well, now we're gonna. Now, the. Now the war is all drawn into one world war. What do you call that thing when there's a war involving the entire world all at once? And again, I don't want to veer into hyperbole, World War iii, World War iii. But I think objectively, when you step back and you look at the facts and you saying, well, there's war in the entire Middle east, every country. There's a ton of proxy wars going on right now in Africa, which no one pays attention to but us. You know, I mean, by other independent news, I'm not trying to. You know, it's not BBC. You know, there are. There's some corporate news. I mean, there's some international news that does a decent job and independent news does a really good job. Right. You have Donald Trump engaged all these war crimes off the coast of Venezuela. Right. I did. Did a story as well that. Well, let's be clear, who did drop site had an incredible reporter who broke the story.
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Okay.
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Ben Meisellis
Got to give, Absolutely give credit to courageous reporting where it's due and we covered it. They got the scoop. And in Ecuador, numerous individuals who survived. There's like close to 300 people the Trump regime has killed off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean. And there have been survivors, though, from these ships. And Ecuador has a dictatorship, the Naboa dictatorship. A Miami billionaire who Trump put as his basic puppet to lead Ecuador. And this is what Trump's doing throughout the Western Hemisphere. This is, you know, the 51st day talk, taking over Canada. Trump's running CIA operations in Mexico and also trying to flip people in Claudia Sheinbaum's government, the president of Mexico, against each other, turn them into informants against each other. But massive CIA operations in Mexico. The Trump regime is supporting secession movements inside Canada and Alberta and other areas and trying to, and, you know, trying to tariff its way to make Canada submit. Canada goes elbows up, Maple midas, what's up? And then, though, in Central America, South America, you got Trump doing these things like working, you know, Dely Rodriguez is his puppet in Venezuela, Authoritarian extension of the Maduro regime. $13 billion, maybe more, has been made
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Ben Meisellis
oil money, apparently since the United States took over Venezuela. And no one knows where the money is. Like, where the hell's the money? Like, Trump took the money.
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Ben Meisellis
We. No one knows where the money is at all. But Trump's working very closely with Dele Rodriguez there. He's got Naboa in Ecuador, who he's working closely with. And we're running, we have ground troops in a lot of these countries. The new leader of Colombia is a Trump backed, wealthy guy, lawyer, puppet of Trump. We're going to be running ops in Colombia soon, obviously Argentina, El Salvador as well. We have ground troops. And under the idea that they're going after narco terrorists. It's, you know, Putin saying he's going to denazify. Trump says, I'm going after the narco terrorists. And so in Ecuador, the main prosecutor on a case involving the subsequent torture of survivors of some of these boat ships, that the Trump regime tried to kill him and didn't kill some people. A prosecutor was investigating the claims of torture when the survivors came back. And threats to kill the survivors were when they came back to Ecuador. That prosecutor was killed. Her security detail was removed. And, you know, again, you have, you have these kind of operations going on all throughout the Western hemisphere. Okay. You have China obviously allied with Russia and North Korea and supporting Iran. And one of the reasons why Trump backed out of the massive escalation that he threatened was China saying, well, we're going to get involved. If you open the gates of hell like you say you're going to open the gates of hell, then we're going to go and we're going to support Iran. That's not being reported the way it should be. It's mostly being reported in a way that's still humiliating for the United States that the US Ran out of its munitions, but we ran out of munitions where if China were to step in. The United States right now is incredibly vulnerable. The US allies, or I should say former allies in the, in Southeast Asia are very vulnerable right now. You have Taiwan is very vulnerable right now. You have Japan. The Prime Minister there, Takaishi, who used to have a lot of support in Japan, has basically lost all of the, you know, has lost all of the support. And she's making these very deranged late night posts about how she doesn't get sleep and she gets three hours of sleep. And it's a whole thing going on there, you know, in, in, in, in Japan right now. And so this is what's caused by a deranged lunatic like Donald Trump right now. And this is what's going on in the world. All of the things that Donald Trump and Maga tried to fear monger about what was going to happen if Biden were to get another, you know, if Kamala was in office. It's literally happening, it's literally happening right now. So with that as background and literally with the, you all hear this background, I'm in a new location, but they got like, like the loudest background noise in the world. You know, I gotta adjust now knowing that they're gonna do that. I'll close the window in a sec. Oh, you can't hear it good right now. They're doing like, they have like a whole, a whole crew out there, like drilling. But if you really can't hear it, that's good. Here's what Trump said though, when he went to Michigan. So he went to Michigan, he was called to pedo. He was, he was called the pedo protector by somebody there. They were, there were data center protests taking place. And Donald Trump's speech with everything I gave you as background was that in 18 months we've turned everything around and everything's going great. Here's what he said. Let's play this clip.
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Donald Trump (quoted clips)
Billions. In just 18 months, we've turned this country completely around and it's still, we're going to do still better. But we have a turn where we're hot.
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Ben Meisellis
Close the window right there. Then he described the Iran war as like playing a banjo. It's like playing a banjo.
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Donald Trump (quoted clips)
Here, let's play this clip down faster than at any time in the last six years when, when the fuel comes down, which it did for a little while. Then they didn't behave and I had to go back. And now they're behaving again. You know, it's like playing a banjo, but every day we're fighting to put more money.
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Ben Meisellis
It's like playing a banjo. Sending our service members into harm's way with multiple service members over 18 getting at least 18 getting killed, at least 600 injured. It's like playing a banjo. And again, could you re. Could you imagine if Obama or Biden or anybody refer to a war as like playing a banjo? And then Donald Trump to this death cult that attends these events, says to them, I'm better than your parents. I am better to you. Remember, I've done more for you than your parents ever did for you. I mean, again, this is some sick cult stuff right here. Let's play it
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Donald Trump (quoted clips)
down faster than it have. Mary, I hate to say you wouldn't have an auto industry right now if they got elected. You wouldn't have an auto industry. But I don't know what happened to the guy. Somebody said he got fired. But I can tell you, the people that count, those people love Trump, because I've done more for you than your parents. Okay? Your parents are good. I'm not going to knock your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents, that I can tell you. And they would agree with me. Wherever they may be, they would agree today. I'm proud.
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Ben Meisellis
You know, there are people in the back laughing at that. It's, I mean, it's truly the most deranged stuff. And why am I even showing that to you? I'm never going to normalize that behavior. And I, I truly don't even understand how corporate news just will be like, yeah, that's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. Look, that Donald Trump being Donald Trump while he's out there saying those things, the American people are deeply, deeply suffering right now. And, you know, if you take a look at even what, you know, former MAGA supporters are saying, you know, Trump's base, the UFC guys, you know, the people who Trump had shoulder to shoulder with him, I mean, you look at what they're saying about Donald Trump right now. UFC fighter Sean Strickland going on one of these right wing podcasts. Here's what he just said here.
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Sean Strickland (quoted)
Let's play it But I will say, dude, like, it's. It is kind of crazy, dude, how mainstream that, how unpopular Trump is. Because I'll go to places like, I went to Florida. I met a Texas guy. Like, when we're talking about, like, hardcore Republicans, and even these guys are like, I just, I can't do any more Trump. I just, like, I feel betrayed. And like, Trump, to me, everyone's like, like, I was talking to this, like, really wealthy guy about, like, Iran, and he was like, ah, it, Whatever, I don't care. I'm like, dude, you don't care because, like, you've. You're a million. You're a multi millionaire. I was like, dude, you got to think about, like, every other American and more Florida, Texas, that are making, like, what is the average? Like, I think it's like, 50, $60,000. So you take somebody making $60,000 and now you add 5, 4% inflation, a metric ton of gas, you're adding thousands of dollars a year to their, to their life. Like, you are, like, crushing families. But it's like the people that have voted you, that rallied around you, like, you actively just spit in their face for what, dude?
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Ben Meisellis
Yeah. You know, and I, I think about that. I remember I've been highlighting. I've been highlighting what's been going on in places like Pennsylvania. I want to share this with you as well. Right here. You all know Pennsylvania 7th congressional district, MAGA Republican Congress member Ryan McKenzie. He's out there again putting and pushing forward Donald Trump's horrific and horrible agenda. And you see the people in a place like Pennsylvania 7th, like everywhere else, who are just getting absolutely screwed right here, who are getting destroyed. I mean, you have the Puerto Rican diaspora community there and, you know, Latinos across this country, but people across this country in general. Trump promised him the world. He promised him everything. Let me share this video with you right here. Let's play it. The latest inflation report confirms what many Americans have surely been feeling, that prices are rising fast.
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Donald Trump (quoted clips)
You know, we've already solved inflation. We've solved prices. Oil is way down. Energy is way down.
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Ben Meisellis
Powerful, powerful video right there. Powerful video. I want to go back and talk a little bit more about that video, and I want to talk about what's going on after we come back from our first quick break of the show. I want to talk about that and affordability. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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Ben Meisellis
Welcome back. Shout out to the fine folks at Fight for Progress who produced that last video right there. Make sure you subscribe to their YouTube channel and go watch the full video over there and tell them that Ben sent you and that Ben says, hi. I want you to watch the full video as soon as this is over. And I think it's important that we highlight stories like that. And yes, look, I talk about the fact that Donald Trump will go on an AI posting spree. He'll post 100 deranged AI images. He'll post himself destroying Carg island and civilian infrastructure or being a pirate and taking over Iranian tankers and said, my ship now. My ship now. Or he'll, you know, post AI images of himself with John F. Kennedy, and he'll be like, look, you know, hundreds of these. He'll post the whole. The whole day. And the point of me commenting is not, oh, look, he did something crazy today. No, it is to point out that he's unfit for the office and that the behavior is not normal. But it's also to point out that he's doing that while he's burning down the world. And I'm not saying that in a hyperbolic sense. I mean, dude is burning down the world. The world is at war. And he's one of the main contributing factors to the global war that's taking place right now. The American people are suffering. They don't want any part of this unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran. And he's out there memeing away, and he thinks this is all one big game. These are people's lives. You know, the White House account posting AI slop cartoons of him frolicking around the White House. Hop in. The best dimension yet. While Border Patrol gropes and, like, assaults literal aliens. And it says, hop in. Best dimension yet. And it's the Customs and Border Patrol. You know, you think about it, it's
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like,
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Ben Meisellis
you can't do a deal with that person. You can't negotiate. I mean, it's literally. Could you imagine if another world leader ever behaved like that? I mean, one of the closest we came, I thought, growing up, you know, was the stereotypes of Kim Jong Un in North Korea growing up, that south park used to mock, you know.
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Yeah.
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Ben Meisellis
Or, or, or the idea. Or like a Saddam Hussein. Ain't nothing like what's happening in the United States of America.
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Ben Meisellis
There's no, There really is no historical parallel to having a literal psychotic madman in charge of any country like this, like, at this level of psychotic behavior. And this is the United States. This is the United States of America. I mean, just think about it this way, too. You had Netanyahu in the Oval Office today. You had Zelensky in the Oval Office today. Separately. Separately. No cameras inside the Oval Office at all for these press conferences. Like, we all know that Netanyahu was there to get Donald Trump to blow up bridges and power plants. I mean, Israel's Defense minister, his name is Israel Katz. His name is Israel Cats. And he was saying that today, too. You know, we want to blow up their power plants, we want to blow up their bridges. We're trying to get Donald Trump to do that. That's, you know, Trump's worried that it may trigger more of a global oil crisis. But that's what, that's what we want to do. I mean, they made it very clear what the purpose of this visit for Netanyahu is. But Donald Trump kept this one secret. You know, he brings in. Just think about it.
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Ben Meisellis
He'll bring in the prime minister
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Ben Meisellis
Iraq, say how handsome he is. He'll bring in the prime minister of Syria. Right. Brings in the prime and starts spraying cologne on him and sniffing him. You know, he'll bring in the president of Lebanon and, you know, he'll, you know, say things about the president of Lebanon, you know, to, you know, show that IUN is a puppet, to show Jelani. Syrian president puppet. You know, he'll show the Iraqi Prime Minister, Al Zahedi as a Puppet, although Al Zahedi has to deal with being pulled in lots of directions because they're very close to Iran. And you saw the Shiite community there in Iraq for Komene's funeral. And that was done intentionally by Iran to send a message about the Shiite support for Iran and for the Ayatollah in Iraq, but notably for Netanyahu. No cameras there, no press conference, arguably of all of the, of all of the world leader meetings, wouldn't that where, isn't that the one where we would want questions to be asked by the press? What the hell's happening? Why is Netanyahu here eight, nine times? What's the status of this war? I mean, the two people who got us into this catastrophic and unlawful war are there. That's the one where they go, you know what? We're not going to do that one publicly. We'll do all the other ones. So Donald Trump can feel like a tough guy while he, you know, behaves in this, you know, bizarro a demeaning way to the other Arab leaders who kind of have to take it. I mean, look, the president of Syria, Jelani, he wants all of the sanctions removed, the designations removed to open up Syria to the world markets. So he asked, you want to spray me with cologne? You spray me with cologne. You know, I mean, that's, you know, he's there. You've, you know, and, and the US Threats in the region are significant. Ayun, the president of Lebanon, you know, was there, you know, who, who basically admitted that what Or Sergio Gorka, one of those right wing extremists in the Trump regime. He was saying that he taught Ayoun, the president of Lebanon studied under him is in shocking. Sebastian Gorka. Yeah, Orca, you know, Zaidi of Iraq, you think about all of the, you know, oil deals, all of the US Controls the pipelines there. And so Zaidi has to do this balancing act. But Netanyahu shows up, that one's not going to be in the press note. And you know how you can kind of see what's really happening here. And, and when Donald Trump actually is afraid of people, he doesn't want it to be done. When he feels intimidated, he doesn't want that to be done publicly. Right. I mean, you think about it, think about how short the presser was with Putin. Right? It was in, in, out Zelensky previously when Trump thought that he had the car, when Trump thought Trump had the cards. When he did it, he would have Zelensky there and try to like embarrass Zelensky publicly. He would try to put Zelensky through the, you know, through the Oval Office humiliation ritual. You go back to February 2025, perhaps one of the most historic meetings ever held, where Donald Trump was saying, you don't have the cards. You don't have the cards. And Zelinsky's like, this isn't a game of cards. One day you're going to need me and you're going to be flailing. You all remember that one. But notably, Zelensky's meeting today was not done publicly, and they kept that one privately, which tells me also there really is a power dynamic shift there, that Trump didn't do the Zelensky one publicly. Right.
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Donald Trump (quoted clips)
That.
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Ben Meisellis
That's kind of a signal there because I think Trump thinks that if he's there with Zelensky, that the same way he thinks if he's there with Netanyahu, it'll expose how weak Donald Trump is. I'm kind of, you know, look, I am. On the one hand, you think, well, it's a positive development that Donald Trump is out there helping Zelensky, you know, or at least showing more positive language towards Zelensky than before. And could that mean the Patriot Interceptors get expedited or the licenses are given to Ukraine? You know, I also have a, you know, I don't want to say it's a contrarian viewpoint, but I think that experience shows that also everything Trump touches dies. And I think a lot of the strength that Zelensky and Ukraine has been able to build has been done without Trump. And so the reality is, is that I think when people like Trump and Loomer and who's the guy who wears the beanie? Was that guy's name the, the, the right wing podcast dork guy who wears the beanie?
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Sean Strickland (quoted)
Tim Pool.
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Ben Meisellis
Right. All of them all of a sudden are like, they went from, like, Russia to Ukraine. You know, when you're like, oh, my God, oh, like that crew's now there, you know, and also the way the corporate news, like, right away, like, ignores everything they've done in the past. And then they, like, glorify these people who were never on the right side because it seems transactionally they're on the. They're now saying things that are different because it seems now, I don't, you know, whether that feels more aligned with their views towards Israel or their, or, or whether, you know, they are now having different resource structures given to them for their position changing, if you know what I mean. I don't Know, but this is not the cr. That's actually not the crew that you want on your side objectively. Right? Like, like, this is the crew that tends to lose all. And, and so, you know, I just, I, I throw that out there. But while Donald Trump, while Donald Trump was closing the Oval Office to the press, you know, it's like, well, what, what is he posting? What is he doing? It's all close to the press, close to the press, close to the press, close to the press. I did a video before about that deranged funeral. I can't believe I'm calling a funeral. Like, how could you have a deranged funeral, right? The deranged Lindsey Graham funeral. And you go to, and you, you ask yourself, you're like, okay, deranged funeral. It was like the most deranged thing. Trump spoke there, Sean Hannity spoke there about obliterating Iran at the funeral. Trump was like giving tic tacs day, like every sleeping and then giving tic tacs to everybody. You remember what he's previously said about tic tacs too. And so that's what he was doing there. He spoke there, but then closed the Oval Office to the Zelinsky meeting and the Netanyahu meeting. But he was posting things like this. This was a real post from Donald Trump. While those Oval Office meetings are going on, he posts Trump on TikTok. 425 billion all time views of hashtag Trump. TikToks number one most followed and watched leader on TikTok, not Tic Tacs. Tic Tacs is what he gave. This is TikTok and it says 1 billion views. He's bragging Trump's Iran peace deal, 1 billion views in just 48 hours. I mean, just think about how deranged this is too. You're bragging about getting 1 billion views over a peace deal that doesn't exist right now. As you've been escalating this catastrophic war and you ran out of munitions, so you had to stop escalating. You're making social media posts bragging about TikTok views and then going to a funeral and passing out tic tacs. But he apparently also, these aren't like views from his account. These are like people who are talking about the deal or Iran. It's not like directly even related to his own post. Because if you look at his post, they don't have those level of views. And like he's doing that. And then you have like Iran's leadership out there saying, we're not negotiating with Them, don't believe them. They're deranged. You want to see how the Americans negotiate? Just look what they did with Saudi Arabia. One day they announced they're doing a civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. And the next day Donald Trump says, actually, Saudi Arabia, you've got to be allied with Israel through the Abraham Accords. And they change it up. Iran's like, you see yet another US deal. Can't even make it 24 hours. Now, look, this idea that Donald Trump is involved in quid pro quos and giving civilian nuclear capabilities to Saudi Arabia was deeply alarming in and of itself and completely incongruent with the position that Saudi Arabia should be able to have civilian nuclear weapons, but civilian nuclear power. But Iran can't have civilian nuclear power, especially when Donald Trump does business deals with Saudi Arabia. Also, it's clear Donald Trump doesn't understand the way enrichment works, that even for civilian nuclear plants, you have to, other than some that are in Canada, but by and large, you have to have enriched nuclear material. It's just not weapons grade. But Trump's like, it's not enriched, no enrichment. Okay, well, that's. How do you think most civilian nuclear plants work? There's some level of enrichment. It's just not a weapons grade amount. But if you can down blend, you can upland.
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Interjecting Commentator or Interviewer
Okay.
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Ben Meisellis
And so that's one of the, it was one of the issues and concerns about giving Saudi Arabia, you know, this program or having a view that Saudi Arabia can get this, UAE can get this. But then Donald Trump changed up the terms the next day. He's like, actually, you've got to join the Abraham Accords. And we know Saudi Arabia is not going to join the Abraham Accords. And it's like you've got Trump out there posting weird AI slot memes of himself as cartoon characters and bragging about TikTok views and then making posts head for an eye. Like, head for an eye. Rubio says Iran begging us to make a deal. Adds, Trump's policy is head for an eye, not eye for an eye. It's head for an eye. What we get. Who are these warmonger crazy people saying these things? I mean, like, literally, the United States sounds like Nazi Germany. Head for an eye. We're gonna blow up your bridges and obliterate you and destroy every aspect of it and all 90 million people. I mean, it's, it's really tough to be an American who cares about humanity and to live in the country where you have this authoritarian regime bragging about war crimes, all of the time every single day. And then. And then the level of bragging about war crimes and then we got a deal. And making up fake deal conversations.
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Ben Meisellis
It's like loser behavior. Open up the gates of hell, and these idiots run out of muni. Open up the gates of hell, but then run out of munitions. And then Trump goes, I've got more munitions than anybody. More munitions than ever. Except it was Biden's fault that we ran out of munitions. Giving it to Ukraine. We should never have given it to Ukraine. But now I'm meeting with Zelensky right here. But I think Putin is a great guy. It's just. It's just psychotic behavior. And while we all know that Trump doesn't control the Strait of Hormuz, you know, he's out there. This is what he was doing this morning before this funeral, and Trump was like, iran doesn't control the strait. I control the straight. I. We control the. We don't control the straight it for moves. When you say things like this, not that we have any credibility left at all, but whatever's left is not just shattered. It's like, do you all feel that pit in your stomach when he says things like this? Despite we all know we despise him? It's just like, stop, man. Just behave normal, please. Can you behave normal just for a day? He can't. He's incapable of it. Here, let's play this clip through, get through.
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Interjecting Commentator or Interviewer
Iran doesn't control the Strait. We control the Strait. Now, they can drop a couple of mines in there and screw things up, but we control this.
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Ben Meisellis
We don't. We don't control the Strait. They can do more than drop a couple of mines in there, okay? They have fast boats. They have ballistic missiles. They have drones. Their allies, the Houthis, have ballistic missiles and drones, and they were able to destroy right away three Saudi Arabian refineries after Saudi Arabia struck Sana', a, the airport over there. Why are we pretending that, you know, why is he pretending that Iran are a bunch of cavemen and cave women who dwell, you know, in these. In their caves and just scream Allah Akbar all day. This is a sophisticated society that also is a religious society, is a sophisticated society that has the best engineering in the world. They've prepared every step of the way for all of these moves that, or lack thereof, that Donald Trump is making right now. They're never going to allow these Strait of Hormuz to not be under their sovereignty and their control.
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Ben Meisellis
They will. They will fight to the end. For that proposition while Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and the worst possible human beings are running the United States into the ground. I got more I want to share with you including a deranged funeral. A deranged funeral. Let's take and I want to give a legal update as well because there have been some major updates in the David Hearn Reflecting Pool case regarding the grand jury there, the Comey Motion to dismiss on First Amendment grounds there, and Katie Fang big updates there with her fight under the Epstein Transparency Act. Let's take our last quick break of oh, did everybody get WTF America? Pre order WTF America? By the way, if you pre order WTF America now, it it's very helpful. It comes out in October, but if you pre order it now, we want to see where we should be doing book tours and it helps us for the actual day of when it gets released in October that we have the pre sales now. So if you are able to pre order, please scan the QR code. Wherever the QR code is, put in the comment section right now. Put in the chat WTF if you've pre ordered or if you plan on pre ordering today, put WTF right. Let's take our last quick break of the show.
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Ben Meisellis
Welcome back. Shout out to all of our sponsors. They support this show. Support our sponsors. Good audience here today. Great to see the crowd. I was looking through the chat. It's really great to see familiar names, new names all here. When we left off, I showed you Donald Trump saying that we control the straight of her moves. Everything's amazing. Full control. Iran doesn't control it. Let's talk about what else. Let's talk about what else has been going down. You had on state, regime, media, you had Brian Kilmeade saying, okay, Donald, you claim you're having these negotiations with Iran. You claim you're in discussions with them. So who, who, who are you talking to? Who are the people in Iran that you are speaking with him? And by the way, you all know we do a very detailed job here on the Midas Touch. Now, we're talking about who the players are in Iran, right? I mean, we can say the Iranian speaker, parliament leader, MB Gallaboff, used to be in the Iranian military. He's a PhD. Are you speaking with him? President Possesskian, the president of Iran. Are you speaking, you're speaking with him? Foreign Minister Aragchi, you speaking with him? Deputy Foreign Minister Gargabani. Are you, are you speaking with him? Are you speaking with. Obviously, we know he's not speaking with the ayatollah, but are you speaking with Ayatollah Komane? You see Mojaba, you know, are you, are you. The way you speak, you were speaking with Lindsey Graham. Was, was the old ayatollah, you know, speaking to you? Who's the ghost of Komene? I mean, who are you talking to? And do you even know who these people are in Iran? Right? Because Trump and Fox, you know, they'll say, oh, Iran, you know, they don't even speak to each other. We don't. They don't even know who's in charge right now. And it's like, yeah, we do. We actually really do know who's in charge. We know at the civilian level, you know, it's Mbgalaboff, who's probably the most powerful civilian person. There's President Pazewskian, cardiovascular surgeon, renowned cardiovascular surgeon before becoming the president. You know, Aragchi, we know who they are. Aragchi speaking with Wang Yi, the minister, foreign minister of China, and Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia. You speaking with those people? I know when they all speak to it, there are readouts. When other world leaders, even like Russia to China, there are readouts we can see that they are converse that that's the way this has always worked before. Are you speaking with the irgc? Are you speaking with the army? The IRGC and the army actually technically different groups in Iran. Are you speaking with their Supreme Judicial Council all the way up to the ayatollah, who are you talking to? So Trump is asked let's watch what he says. Let's play it there is on Iran.
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Guest or Interviewer
But Iran has come out publicly and
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Ben Meisellis
say we're not talking to the U.S.
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Interjecting Commentator or Interviewer
we are talking a little while ago because so could you tell me who you're talking to? Mr. President, for some reason, for some reason we can be in the midst of a beautiful discussion and they'll come out and say we're not talking or we didn't discuss nuclear. Well, that's all we discussed discuss because they'll never have a nuclear weapon. They understand that. And we, we have had some very good talks and very interesting with Lindsey. He was very much a hawk, as you would say, on Iran. And over the last few weeks, I would say that he became like, if you could make a deal, it's better that better making a deal in this
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Ben Meisellis
case that I'm sure Lindsey Graham said it's better to make a deal. But like now that we've run out of munitions, just think about what a sicko this guy. And by the way, Lindsey Graham was an absolute sicko as well. I mean like Lindsey Graham was a horrible person. I mean I just being objective, you know, I, I, you know, he, he lived his life to kill people and then he died all alone, dead. But he invoked Lindsey Graham's name to talk about a peace deal because the United States ran out of munitions. And then he lies and he's like, well, actually Iran just came out with a statement and said they were talking. No, they don't. I mean it's just the most ridiculous propaganda. It's just dumb propaganda from the United States. The Iranian press conference this morning was we are not talking with them. We do not want to talk with them. If Trump says we're talking, we are not talking with them. Do you see how humiliating that makes us look? And we actually are when that's what the United States has become. And one of the points I emphasize in the videos that we are doing is that the security umbrella in the Middle east has completely shifted. The United States security umbrella is done. China is moving in and this is China's security umbrella right now. And the Middle east countries are welcoming China's involvement right now because Far more predictability and stability and normalness than the way Trump's behaved. That's, that's where we are historically right now, is that one security umbrella is out. A new security umbrella is, is moving in. That's, that's, that's what Donald Trump has. That's what Donald Trump has done. So you go to Lindsey Graham's funeral, and Donald Trump sang about Lindsey Graham's funeral. I think I know where he is. I think he's up there. Let's just play this constant opponent.
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Donald Trump (quoted clips)
Our nation needs more men and women like that great person sitting, laying, wherever he may be. I think I know where he is, and I think he's up there. I think he's watching us. I'm pretty sure of it.
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Ben Meisellis
Sitting, laying, like, dude can't be normal. I mean, he can't even deliver the most basic eulogy for somebody in his warmonger crew. He can't just till he can't do it, he can't. He's incapable of doing it. Then he says about Lindsey Graham, he was hawkish. Never saw war. He didn't like, always loved war, loved killing people. So what Trump says at the eulogy, let's play.
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Donald Trump (quoted clips)
He was extremely hawkish. I will tell you. He never saw a war that he didn't like. Only his true friends would understand that. But he wanted it for the good of our country.
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Ben Meisellis
Then you had Hannity speak, and Hannity described Lindsey Graham's heaven as being Mar a Lago, which may be hell. So there may be some truth to that. But he describes it as Lindsay. This is like, what a. I mean, just think about this, this cult, right? Like, this is some crazy. Because it's like some crazy stuff. You know, you got entities. Like Lindsay is probably in his heavenly version of Mar a Lago. Like, if you told me that this was a Jim Jones thing or I'd be like, no, I don't buy it. That's too crazy. But watch for yourself here. Let's play it there.
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Guest or Interviewer
Ye may be also Lindsay. Mr. President, I would argue in my mind, probably has a heavenly version of Mar a Lago. It may even be a little bigger. He may have a little more gold in the Oval Office in his mansion in heaven. And I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You, Mr. President,
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Ben Meisellis
straight up the most psychotic stuff, all of these people. But by the way, you now know why the title of the book is called WTF America? Because, I mean, I just think, you know, I know we have so many international viewers and listeners, and they watch this stuff and they're like, dude, what the hell's happened to your country? Wtf?
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Kiana
Yeah.
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Ben Meisellis
These are all, like, psychotic human beings. These are, like, just the least normal people imaginable. Oh, and then he uses the funeral to call for the annihilation of Iran. And you have Netanyahu is there, and so you have Hannity with Netanyahu over there saying, and what. And what Lindsey Graham would have wanted is for Iran to be fully annihilated.
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Kiana
Thank you.
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Ben Meisellis
Here, watch.
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Guest or Interviewer
My perspective was Lindsay had moral clarity. He understood right from wrong, good from evil. And he knew, as President Trump knows, as Israel knows, as I know, there can be no path to peace until evil is defeated. Evil, in this case, embodied in a death cult, an ideology. The world's number one state sponsor of terror, thanks to the partnership of the President, the Prime Minister, and many other allies. I pray their days are numbers. And I pray that Lindsey's dream of a lasting peace becomes realized soon. I see President Zelensky is here. His.
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Ben Meisellis
By the way, J.D. vance is like, 6, 2. He looks like a head taller than Donald Trump right there in that photo. And also JD Vance keeping his distance from Netanyahu there seems pretty intentional. Lindsey Graham's dream of a lasting peace through the annihilation of the Iranians. We shall hope that. I mean, what are you doing? What in the world are we even doing here, folks? Israel, Israel, Israel.
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What are we doing?
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Ben Meisellis
The United States and Israel. That's what Lindsey Graham would have wanted, demolishing the Iranian civilization. I see Mr. Netanyahu right here. Let's do it. More war crimes, dude. And the American people are like, we just want health care. We really just want health care. And we want to be able to pay our rent and afford our homes and stop sticking SpaceX into our 401ks. Like, we don't want SpaceX stock. We don't want Trump accounts where you throw the oligarch companies into mutual funds for our kids. If. If you want to. If you want to do a account, you don't need to call it Trump accounts for our kids, because everything Trump touches goes bankrupt. There's a way to do that account the right way. Also, they. They took something that, by the way, the tr. The concept of the Trump account, setting aside its name, where a thousand dollars or so was put into an account for kids when they're born. And then it's in. In that it's invested in a certain way. I mean, there, there could be a way to run a program like that. You know, that, that may make sense. There could be, but what it's actually being done for is what we saw yesterday, and I talked about it this morning. So you had like the CEO of SpaceX, as that stock is crashing, donating the SpaceX stock into the Trump Kit accounts, and then Trump posts SpaceX, SpaceX, SpaceX. Great work, SpaceX. And so in my opinion, the way it's being used under the Trump regime is basically for Trump trying to pump up the stocks of people who bend the knee to him. And that, that's. Oh, it's a way to take a tax deduction for a company that wants to, you know, get government subsidies for being, for bending the knee to Trump in the first place and then taking a fraction of the money that they get in the government subsidies, like in the case of Micron and others, and donating that in a way that I believe is probably tax deductible to the accounts that then invest back in your company to try to pump up your stock. Like, isn't it pretty obvious? In my opinion, like, that's what, that's how they're using these Trump accounts. Seems pretty clear what the scheme is. I think we need to call it out more. Let me just talk very briefly about some of these cases. I'm going to do a bunch of hot takes with Harry Lippman, where I'll go over a lot of these. James Comey filed a motion to Dismiss regarding the 86 Seashell case, arguing that dictionaries, context, precedent and common sense all make it clear that 86 simply means get rid of or reject and has no violent connotation under the First Amendment. Dismiss the complaint you have in the Reflecting Pool case right over here. David Hearn pointing out that in their investigation, the only witness who went before the grand jury had no evidence at all of any damage that David Hearn actually did to the Reflecting Pool. Attorneys for the Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearnson, in a filing yesterday, the only witness to testify about damages to his grand jury could not identify any additional cost caused by David Hearn's alleged conduct. And one of the things that you have to prove that the grand jury would have had to have found probable cause was that Hearn caused damage of more than $1,000. Not that he put his hand in. He put his hand in. He didn't rip anything off. You have to show $1,000 in damages or more. So the question is, did that you know if the witness has no evidence of what the actual damage caused. Was what was the instruction given to the grand jury? Or is this yet another example where the grand jury was given false instructions by the Trump's DOJ in order to indict? And we've seen all throughout the country false grand jury instructions being given. Is that, is that what we're seeing over here on the Midas Touch Network? I don't need to play this clip, but we've had, we've been breaking the stories here on the Sunday show with Jack Cucciarella. Shout out to Jack. Everybody watch his Sunday show. It's great. He had Congresswoman Ansari on Saturday. I had Ansarion on. He had, it's called on Sunday. It's not on Saturday. I had Ansarion on Saturday. He had her on on Sunday. And she talked about subpoenaing Barron Trump. And where's Baron? Friends with the Tate brothers, involved in some of this crypto stuff. World Liberty Financial. We all want to see Baron have his deposition taken. So we'll be following the developments there if and when Democrats take control of the house. Baron, Baron, Baron, Baron, Baron. Also Eric, Don Jr. Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Josh Kushner, Jared's brother. The Kushner family apparently working with FIFA right now. Infantino, Gianni Infantino, to sell the World cup to private equity. Yeah, the Trump, Infantino, Kushner's, they want to take the world Albanian islands now they want to take the World cup from us. They want to take. What do you think all this plan was? It was a money grip. So now what Infantino wants to do, working with the Kushner's apparently, is to create a Holdco, a holding company that will essentially acquire the FIFA World cup and then sell off pieces to private equity. That's what they're, that's what they're scheming right now. But by the way, if you've been following the Midas Touch Network, we've been talking about how private equity equity has been buying up children's sports programs, kids sports programs, and they've been just making it inaccessible and unaffordable to parents and people who just want to play like soccer or tennis or baseball or softball or whatever, you name it. Private equity, hockey. Private equity buys up these leagues and then raises the price so that people can participate in children's sports. By the way, they're doing that with FIFA right now. What I just told you with Gianni and Fontino. Pay attention there. The Kushners, the everything they do. They just want to screw up everything for all of us. These Epstein class people. That's all they want to do. And then you've got Katie Fang, heroic Katie Fang. Everybody subscribe to Katie Fang's YouTube channel. Everybody download the Katie Fang audio podcast. What an honor to have Katie Fang on our channel, huh? Katie Fang, Midas touch host. Makes me so proud, though. I'm so honored. I'm so lucky to have Katie Fang be a part of this network, huh? And everybody else. I'm not. You know, I could go down the list of the Scott McFarlands and the Popox and the Aaron Parnises and the Tennessee brand. I got everybody. Every. Everybody's great. Katie Fang right now, though, is particularly heroic in leading the charge to get the Epstein files released. And as she said on her channel, well, let me just let Katie say it for herself in her fight against Todd Blanche.
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Ben Meisellis
Let's bring her in.
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So not only has Judge Sullivan found, as a matter of fact, any matter of law that Blanche has violated the Epstein files transparency act, his ability to order Tom Blanche to show up to chambers with the unredacted documents and with proof supporting his claims that these are victims that are having their identification. Identification redacted. The order itself also says that the court has, quote, inherent authority to review materials in camera in cases in which sensitive materials may be in issue. The court has inherent authority to review such material ex parte in camera as part of its judicial review function. I have faith in Judge Sullivan's ability to be able to weed through the bullshit that Tom Blanch will likely try to shovel. And it's okay if I'm not there. I knew. I mean, was hoping I could be there.
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Ben Meisellis
So grateful. So grateful, everybody. Thanks, everybody, for watching. We had that nice little loud noise that I had to contend with. I like this background I'm gonna be on. I like this background better than my. Than my home office right here. But, you know, it's lighter. I think it's. I think it suits the reporting a little bit better. And did you all see when I had this? You all remember when I started, I didn't realize that I had, like, this
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Ben Meisellis
And then everyone was like, you have. It was like, back there, and it looked like I had a mohawk. And everybody's like, you look like Sideshow Bob and whatever.
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Ben Meisellis
there you go. Thanks, everybody, for watching. Been on Breaking news. We go and watch the full video. I did, by the way, on the deranged Lindsey Graham funeral check that out. It's on the feed right now. Get your copy of WTF America right now pre order right now. Hit the QR code, wherever the QR code is. It helps so much to do the pre orders and get your friends. You could get your friend copies too. Pre order it right now. Put in the chat wtf. Or in the comment section, wtf if you pre ordered. All right. Thanks everybody for watching. We appreciate you. We'll see you next time on Ben on Breaking News. Shout out Midas Mighty.
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