Judging Freedom - Max Blumenthal : Why Laura Loomer Hates Me!

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unadulterated investigative journalism. I think anyone who's been watching Judge Napolitano's judging freedom or the Gray Zone knows that while I was reporting from Iran and producing some journalism that was very inconvenient for the U.S. Israeli Epstein Coalition, showing the war crimes that they committed from the ground and being one of the very few English language or American reporters to have done so. I was targeted by Laura Lumer on behalf, probably of one of an array of crime bosses from New York to Tel Aviv to Kiev sporting gold chains with Mugendavides on them. And she was demanding my arrest.

That I'd be hauled off the plane on my way back, that I'd be raided at 5 a.m., swatted, you know, everything short of death. And when I returned to Dulles Airport, my phones were seized by customs and border protection. Subsequent to that, I filed a lawsuit with the American Arab Antibati discrimination committee and its president jean unis to get my phones back they immediately gave me my phones back they need to give the data any data they got off that back that's and that was expanded into a first amendment lawsuit against department of homeland security secretary mark wayne mullen

which is uh seeking an injunction against further unconstitutional seizures that violate my my Fourth Amendment rights, my First Amendment rights. We had a federal judge actually declare that she saw this as a violation of my Fourth Amendment rights. And she framed it in terms of the Trump administration's attacks on press freedom, suggesting it's a First Amendment case as well. So we have that lawsuit now sitting in a federal court. And the lawsuit succinctly lays out Laura Lumer's role in pressuring the administration for retaliating against me for my journalism. and then taking credit for what took place. Is she a named defendant in the lawsuit?

She's not a named defendant, but it lays out the case about her pressuring the administration. And, you know, there are many potential consequences for this if this goes forward. So when the, what I call the Tel Aviv 3 of Randy Fine, Randy Weber and Keith, introduced a letter on congressional letter had a defamatory lie-filled letter demanding that the Department of Justice and State Department investigate me for some unspecified crime or transgression released through Laura Lumer's Twitter account. Ironically on Shabbat, you know, Randy, Randy Fine shows up everywhere with a keep on, but I don't know. I guess Laura Lumer was the Shabbas Goy they had released this.

they were deflecting. It was an obvious deflection from the lawsuit that I had filed in retaliation for that lawsuit that I had filed. And to me, it shows fear of where that lawsuit could actually go. It also is further, it's an escalation of the attack on my First Amendment rights because it's going after me explicitly for my journalism, not just for the journalism I produced from Iran, for example, for a documentary that I produced in-house called Uncaptured about Jews in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Like an entire paragraph in this letter is dedicated to that documentary showing what life is like for Jews inside Iran. Obviously, it was a threat to Israel's global propaganda about Jews being in danger everywhere,

and Iran being this anti-Semitic hellhole. But also single-examination. me out for the journalism I produced after October 7th, showing how Israel had fabricated and atrocities and manufactured stories to generate consent for genocide, for example, not just 40 beheaded babies, but the Hamas mass rape hoax. All of my reporting on the Hannibal Directive on how Israel actually targeted its own citizens to prevent them from becoming political collateral and maybe killed hundreds of them. It singles me out for my journalism. For journalism that no one can dispute that is factual. So this is an explicit attack on the First Amendment. And it contains blatantly false libelous statements. Randy Fine and the Tel Aviv

three accused me of having been cultivated. They say I was cultivated by an agent of influence, as an agent of influence by a foreign terrorist organization and current military adversary. I mean, that's textbook defamation. And I don't know if it's covered by congressional immunity. And then just a few points about the congressional authors of this letter before I talk about Laura Lumer. Randy Fine, when he was in the closing days of his campaign, was filmed on a home camera rummaging through someone's mailbox, a private citizen's mailbox while he was on their porch. This is a federal crime. And it's the second time he's been filmed committing a federal crime. He was also filmed voting for a lawmaker who was absent on one of the bills that his Zionist crime bosses wanted

him to get passed. He's been filmed committing two federal crimes. Journalism is not a crime. And so it's deeply ironic that he accuses me of a crime. And then you have Randy Weber. Who is this guy? He replaced Ron Paul. down in texas this is especially tragic randy weber has been filmed has filmed himself strutting through the halls of congress sporting an israeli tie an israel flag tie he has an i stand with israel banner hanging outside his congressional office he has said that israel can do whatever it wants when asked about starving children in gaza and he has said that the united states should attack Iran and join Israel's assault on Iran because Israel is the apple of God's eye.

So these are fanatics. These are absolute fanatics. They, you know, managed to get some of the worst people in the world all under one letterhead to call for my investigation. And I really wear that as a badge of honor. And it's not a coincidence that Randy Fine today showed up at the Republican Jewish coalition, basically to hold out his hat and panhandle for money from Israeli warlords and Zionist crime bosses like Miriam Adelson, boasting that he got Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massey kicked out of the GOP on behalf of Israel and declared if Thomas Massey needed a reason to hate the Jews, well, we gave him one. This letter came with money behind it from

Israeli warlords. I'm not sure which ones, but I assume they are the same people funding Laura Lumer who has operated as a political prostitute for every Zionist crime boss between Washington,

New York, Tel Aviv, and Kiev. Wow. Here's Prime Minister Netanyahu boasting about his influence amongst people like those trying to torment you. Number five, Chris. I am involved in this matter. I have been against Iran for nearly 40 years and you need to identify the danger and you need to be able to bring. It took me a long time to get our security

establishment to deal with Iran itself and not just its proxies. And that is what we did in the end when this unity government I spoke of was formed and it also took a long time to bring the United States to that realization. I could do it because I had, I don't want to say thousands, but close to a thousand hours on American television with the ability to influence in the United States, with intimate knowledge of all its leaders, both those who support us and those who do not support us, the ability to navigate this field, without which, without which, what are you? Before you even respond, here is Congressman Fine saying what you said, he said earlier, Number six, Chris.

Jew hatred is simply the gateway and companion drug to a broader societal collapse. In your Republican Party, though, since I last spoke to you in October, we have had some extraordinary wins. One year ago, I told you I served with two anti-Semites in the U.S. House of Representatives. And today, I am proud to tell you I will soon serve with none. We ran the quitter Marjorie Taylor Green. out of Congress. And if Thomas Massey needed a real reason to hate the Jews, well, we gave him one in May when we kicked his ass. A year ago, before all of you, I declared Tucker Carlson was not MAGA. People were shocked. He actually called the Speaker of the House to complain before I left the

stage. But thanks to President Trump, one year later, we have expelled him and his filth from the Republican Party. Is this what the Republican Party has become in South Florida? This is what the Republican Party under Donald Trump has become in the United States. And so let's leave out the Israeli election for a second. This is about U.S. politics. And this is why Donald Trump is now historically unpopular. This is why?

Because he's allowed MAGA to become a cow pasture for the Likud Party. his approval rating now according to a UMass poll that just came out today is 32%. Only 14% of voters strongly agree with Donald Trump. And I would assume all of them belong to Laura Lumer's bot farm. Even among Republican voters, only a tiny minority strongly approve of Donald Trump. Four out of five voters say that the Israeli directed war on Iran, which Donald Trump joined and is now claimed as his own war, has increased food and gas prices.

And so they hate the war. This is all about the war. This is all about Miriam Adelson and a bunch of tech lords who are running 100,000 flock cameras across the country and building data centers on people's land, sucking up their water so that Larry Ellison can establish a data dictatorship and Sam Altman can produce strange, lab babies. This is all about them taking over the Republican Party through Donald Trump's

corruption network and crony operation. This is all about Israel taking over the taking over MAGA and Randy Fine is boasting about it. This ogre-like figure is now central to the controlled demolition of MAGA, forcing out the popular figures who helped Donald Trump become what he was. And he's boasting about it and he's boasting that it's causing people to hate Jews. He's actually boasting about the increase in anti-Semitism. What better advertisement for anti-Semitism could there be than Randy Fine? I mean, imagine if you had never met Jews before and had never gotten to know them. And Randy Fine was all you knew of Jews or Judaism.

Oh, good Lord. be ready to sign up for the American Nazi party. And he's boasting about it. And he's boasting about it at an event that is run and directed by an Israeli, who even Donald Trump has said doesn't care about anything but Israel. And that's the Israeli warlord Miriam Adelson. And then you have Benjamin Netanyahu boasting in his reelection campaign that he spent a thousand hours on U.S. television to convince the American leadership that they needed to go to war on Iran, a war that has been disastrous for American national security, that has been disastrous for the global economy and the American economy that most Americans oppose. And where were those thousands of

hours spent? They weren't spent on Judge Napolitano. They weren't spent sometimes on the Sunday shows, but mostly on Fox News, the network that Donald Trump watches, mostly at the pleasure of Rupert Murdoch. This is all about Donald Trump. He's boasting that he controls the U.S. administration in Hebrew to Israeli voters. And that's his main pitch to Israeli voters is basically I took over the government in Washington. And what he's saying is true. What role does Laura Lumer play in all this? Well, I'll quote what an administration insider told the New Yorker in an October 2025 profile, which I think is one of the better profiles of Laura Lumer. using loomer is vindictive i'm going to sick this psychotic dishonest woman on you it's not honorable

she has the power to the extent that she's willing to transgress any normal boundary of human behavior um so if you you know if you just read laura luma's own autobiography from 2021 loomered you know she's turned her own last name into a verb to mean something terrible happening to someone that destroys their life? I mean, what kind of person would transform their own family name into something synonymous with the destruction of another person's life unless they had the personality characteristics of a serial killer or someone who is extremely prone to self-harm as she is disclosed in her book,

someone who sleeps maybe four hours or less a night, who is functionally psychotic and is operating not on any normal human plane, and is therefore extremely useful to people who are seeking a political axe murderer to take out their foes. And so that could be MAGA donors, for sure. It could be, you know, Zionist crime bosses like Robert Schillman, maybe even Bill Ackman, who hates me. It could be Miriam Adelson, but also pretty much anyone who's willing to pay. Laura Lumer just offered her services to the flock company that everyone in America, left and center hates because they're stealing their personal information because, you know,

rogue cops are now using flock cameras to get revenge on their ex-girlfriends. She apparently provided services to forces that were seeking to remove sanctions on Venezuela under Maduro. I think it was under the watch of the billionaire Florida oil magnet, Harry Sargent. And this is a socialist government. She says she's against socialism, but she was trying to get sanctions removed on a socialist government. So she doesn't really actually believe in anything. You just have to pay her firm and she will try to destroy your enemies. She's done this for Big Pharma to take out a Trump official called Vinay Prasad. And we also saw her take out several National Security Council officials in the Trump administration claiming they weren't loyal to

Maga. One of them was the son of Douglas Fyth. And I kind of was like delighted at the time because we know Doug Fythe is one of the premier neocons, his son, I think is David Fyth, was a complete neocon as well. So why should he be in the NSC? But the real reason he was removed, according to the New Yorker, was that he was not providing, he was opposing export licenses to the United Arab Emirates. So was the UAE paying her to do this? It's entirely possible.

then we just saw her go to Ukraine. I mean, I've seen Laura Lumer's name come up on Ukrainian kill lists in the past that I was also on. She was a contributor to RT. Suddenly she's taken out to Ukraine and she is appearing in kind of in PR photos, photo ops,

at energy plants for an energy company called D-Tech, D-T-E-K. Very weird. It looked like when Evelyn Farkas went to go promote Burisma when Hunter Biden was on the board. And she's wearing like a helmet for D-Tech. Who owns D-Tech? It's Rinaud Akhmatov, who is a Crimean, Tatar, billionaire crime boss in Kiev, who had recruited Jeffrey Piot to his board. Remember Jeffrey Piot? He was the guy who was handing out cookies with Victoria Newland and the Idaun. Another totally corrupt energy company.

And then she goes to meet with Andre Boletsky to try to sell the biggest Nazi in Ukraine, who said that he will wage a racial holy war against the Semite-led Untermension, who was the founder of the Azov Battalion. She goes off to interview him. There are many rumors that Ahmedov is funding him as well. So it looks like she's just up for the highest bidder. And then when she returns to the U.S., she was calling for RT to be taken off of Twitter. And to be, you know, lobbying Elon to censor RT and all Russian-affiliated media.

So this is basically where Trump world has gone. She, if you look at the corruption that she represents and the fact that she isn't guided by any clear principle other than maybe maniacal anti-Muslim Zionism, this is where MAGA has gone too. She's driving MAGA off the rails on a complete crazy train. And Donald Trump, I think, has lost any control over the agenda. And they only have two months left. And one more thing, Judge. She is called a Democratic primary winner, Angie Nixon in Florida, a black ghetto bitch. A ghetto black bitch.

She said that about her. She's a complete racist. She said this about Candace Owens as well. Where is the congressional black caucus to denounce this? Where is Hakeem Jeffries to denounce this? Good point. Jeffries actually denounced an AI ad made by Dan Bilzerian against Randy Fine and practically endorsed Randy Fine.

Hakeem Jeffries has denounced Hassan Piker, who is supporting Democratic candidates. All they talk about in the Democratic Party is Hassan Piker, and none of them will touch Laura Lumer, which shows you how the Democrats are not that different from where MAGA is right now, at least the Democratic Party leadership of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer, who calls himself Chuck Schoemer. Shomare is the Hebrew word for protect to protect Israel, and Hakeem Jeffries, who we now know as Apak Shakur. I want you to speak a little bit about the other election this fall,

the one for the Knesset in Israel and thus for the prime ministership. Well, it's blood for votes. I mean, when there's the opportunity to slaughter Palestinians, during an election season, then every candidate is racing to clamor for the highest level of child casualties and family liquidations in Gaza. And now we see the security minister of Israel, Idemar Ben-Givir, introduce one of the most grotesque, but I think illuminating ads about the state of Zionism and the state of Israel today,

in which he's basically boasting about transforming the Israeli prison system into a Buchanwald-style archipelago of Nazi-style concentration camps. We have that ad and we'll run it. We had to remove Ben-Gavir's music for copyright reasons, but everything else is in the original. Can we run it now? Yes. All right, we'll try.

I think here we go. Do we have it, Chris? Okay. Well, this is truly, truly repellent. This is an ad actually run on Israeli television intended to get people to vote for him. Yeah, I barely even need to say anything just to illustrate the point of it,

except what we need to understand here, Judge, and what the audience needs to understand is many Israeli Jews see that ad in a community. completely different way than we, members of humanity do. They believe that when Palestinians are arrested, many of them, by the occupation, that they see the prison system as a university where they can get fat and organized together and get an education. And that Ben-Govir is changing that and he's punishing them.

And Ben-Govir routinely goes into the Israeli prison system to humiliate Palestinians. Palestinian prisoners to scream at them. He recently filmed himself with a female prisoner who is complaining about the horrible conditions, cockroaches, not enough food, horrible sanitation, no hygiene. And he said, well, sorry, but you're not in a hotel. This is not a hotel. And so this is his appeal, is that I will torture Palestinians in a concentration camp. The great Israeli, one of the few great thinkers to come out of Israel, who was actually a moral and decent man, was an Orthodox Jew named Yeshiyahu Leibovic, and he was actually awarded the Israel Prize in, I believe, 1991. Leibovic had warned since the 1950s that Zionism and its violent relationship towards the indigenous Palestinian population. would eventually collapse the Israeli state and do irreparable harm to Judaism across the world.

By the late 80s, after the First Intifada erupted, he was warning about what he called a Judeo-Nazi mentality in the Israeli leadership, and he was warning that Israel would establish concentration camps before long. He actually had his Israel Prize rescinded. He was pushed out to the margins as an old man, and basically put into the political wilderness. Israel Prize is like the highest prize you can receive in Israel.

He was right. Yeshiahou-Leibovic has been proven right about everything through Idemar Ben-Givir, but through basically the Jewish-Israeli public. And no matter what happens in this election, whether Netanyahu wins or someone like Gaddi Eisenkot, who doesn't come out of the Likud Party, who is considered sort of a left-wing figure, isn't really left. No matter who wins, the Palestinians and the region loses because the Israeli

leadership will be absolutely genocidal to its core. As I mentioned last week, Gadia Isankad is the former Israeli chief of staff who, when he was the northern commander in the IDF, conceived a doctrine of genocide called the Dahlia doctrine, which calls on the Israeli military to punish wound and kill as many civilians as possible until they turn on their political leadership. It was named after the district in southern Beirut that was completely destroyed by Israel in 2006 under his command. So that's going to be the result, no matter who wins. As we speak late August, early September, about a little more than a month before the election, Does it appear the Lakoud will be forming a new government or does it appear Netanyahu will be out and his political woes will be, his legal woes will be regenerated?

I mean, if Netanyahu, almost everyone in Israel except in the Israeli political sphere who has a chance of being prime minister either comes out of the military or Likud or both. And the last time Netanyahu was out of the prime minister's office, there was a power-sharing agreement between a former military chief of staff and Naftali Bennett, who comes out of the Likud Party. And it's possible that we could see that again in order to just piece together a coalition. If Netanyahu comes back in, you're going to see, once again, a very narrow, extremely fascist coalition, which will expose the, reality of Zionism today. I think if there's another kind of power sharing weaker coalition that features someone like Eisencutt, you're going to see the global Israel lobby rejoice. It will be very good at least initially for Israeli PR until they get into the next war. And what I've always found up until October 7th, you know, I kind of, I learned this in many conversations I had with

Israeli political insiders who I wouldn't really necessarily describe as leftist who have been watching Netanyahu for a long time, is that when Netanyahu is strong politically, domestically, it's actually less likely that Israel will get involved in a major war. And that Netanyahu had traditionally avoided getting into huge wars as he was building for the U.S. to wage a war on Iran. He always wanted the U.S. to do his dirty work. And then when you have these kind of late labor-involved coalitions or weaker power-sharing agreements, it's more likely that Israel gets in major wars. And we have to look back to the first major wars on Gaza, to the hideous massacres that took

place in the West Bank throughout the second intifada. That was often under the watch of Ehud Barak, who comes out of labor, who was the most decorated military figure in Israeli history, and who was easily. either defense minister or prime minister throughout that entire period and was always kind of on the defensive politically against Netanyahu and Likud. So what I'm saying is removing Netanyahu will not solve the problem and in many ways it could actually cause greater bloodshed. Wow. Max, thank you very much. Great, great analysis on all of this. I'm sure your adversaries, Lumer and Company will fall on their faces because you are a champion of the First Amendment,

and hopefully the government will recognize that. I'll be traveling, but I hope we can hook up during my travels in the next 10 days. Thank you, Max. Thanks a lot, Judge. Safe travels. Thank you. All the best. Coming up later today at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Professor John Mearsheimer at 5.30 this evening,

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