Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Secrets of Trump War Market Manipulation Finally Exposed

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

Trump’s pulling a “Nixon” and trying to bomb his way to higher approval ratings and political viability will lead to the doubling or tripling of Gas Prices, as he calls his voters and independents “fools” for being upset with $7 or $8 dollar gas prices because he started a ill-conceived war with Iran, and as our alleged Middle Eastern “allies” puts the screws to Trump and the American people by turning off the spigot of oil production. Popok dons his Wall Street lens and explains how, among all his failings, Trump’s Iran war and its cutting the fuel line to the US Economy is political suicide. Tushy: Over 2.5 Million Butts Love TUSHY. Get 10% off TUSHY with the code LEGALAF at https://hellotushy.com/LEGALAF Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. Donald Trump got us into a war intentionally in order to distract attention from all of his failings at home. And now he's looking at his voters at MAGA at the electorate, talking down to them once again and calling them fools if they're not willing to suffer at the gas pump up to six or seven or eight dollars a gallon in order to avoid nuclear war with Iran. I thought that's the reason we bombed Iran over the summer was to avoid nuclear war. realized that that was a down payment on taking over a country of 90 million people and spending half a trillion dollars to do it. And the impact on the economy on Michael Popak, you're on the Midas Dutch Network and Legal A.F. I'm putting on my Wall Street experience now to talk about what's happening

in the markets, financial markets, now that Donald Trump has effectively cut the fuel line between the American economy and energy, gas, electric, and the rest. And don't you know it but are supposed allies that Donald Trump's been currying favor with, the ones that he's invested in and has taken investments from for his family business, those very same OPEC oil nations are putting the screws to Donald Trump and the American economy. And that's why a barrel of oil, which started out in the 70s, $70 a barrel of oil in February before the war in Iran is now touching $110, soon to be $120 a barrel.

That means gas prices are going to go up 50%, 5-0% in the next several days. And the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, alleged friends of America are taking advantage and extorting America with these pricing. Now, Trump came into the war with Iran, which he hopes all of these global impacts, his exporting of chaos, would distract attention and make people forget about his failings at home. You know, the taxes through tariffs on American goods, the inflation, the joblessness of his economy. I mean, it doesn't create any jobs. He thought, well, I'm doing terrible at home. let me pull a Nixon and let me start bombing overseas and see if that improves my political fortunes

as you're in my economic fortunes flush go down the drain. That's not working for him, not when you have approval ratings that are hovering in the 30 percent range when people hate your immigration policy, hate what tariffs did to prices, hate the inflation, hate the fact that their friends and family aren't working in this Trump economy, And so when you're bombing, you're not just bombing randomly. He's taking over and bombing and roiling the oil and energy markets already in the Trump administration. Your percentage of your own family budget that goes for energy, that means a gas at the pump, electric, heating oil, you know, all of the things that go into just fueling your day

is a larger percentage of your budget than it was when Joe Biden was president. and not by a little, but by a lot. So you're already paying more, okay? That was when gas was hovering at $3, $2.99, and something like that. Now go look at the gas prices. $5, $6, $7, and I'm not talking about just California. And that's in the court. Look how quickly these things went up.

Just to give you an idea, as we headed into the war in Iran at the end of February, gas, oil, which is how we measure what you're ultimately going to pay at the pump. What is the light crude oil? They call it the Brent, B-R-E-N-T, Brent oil barrel price. Comes from an oil field in the 70s that had amazing crude oil. It's basically extinct now, depleted, but we still call it the Brent oil barrel marker. It was $70. It's now $10, $10, $10, $10, $10, $10, $10, $10, $1,000 on the spot market. That happened $70 before February 28th by March 3rd after the war started, it was up to $80 a barrel. It then went on March 8th to 100, touching 110, and now beyond. What does that mean for you? That means that 50% higher, 60% higher gas

prices at the pump in the next several days. What do you think that's going to do to an economy that was already reeling? Before the war started, we already got the economic report on jobs. not only did Donald Trump not make one job in the month of February, didn't make one job in the month of February, in an economy of 330 million people. He lost almost 100,000 jobs. 100,000. So it's not even net zero.

Like, it would be abysmal. It would be grounds for instant removal and impeachment, the way he's running the economy into the ground and beyond. To say that this economy made no jobs, but to lose 100,000 jobs in the month of February, what he thinks is going to happen in March now that he's cut the fuel line between the American economy, the global economy, and energy. How do you fuel the economy if you don't have power? You don't have power without energy.

You don't have energy without oil and electric and hydroelectric and all the rest of that. So let's just look at what's happening because of Iran. Again, an attempt to bamboozle you, right, to distract you from his failings at home. That's all it is. whether you can you know we can make a list you know the top 100 reasons people despise Donald Trump's policies you know and I haven't even talked about the layers of scandal right the stench of scandal the indelible scar of scandal that marks this administration Epstein leading it how many sex scandals can this can one administration commit in just a term

We're a year, we're 15 months in. There's three separate sex scandals going on within the Trump administration. The Labor Secretary, the Epstein, the Epstein child sex trafficking cover up, and Christine Nome's alleged affair with Corey Lewandowski and her playing footsie in a one-bedroom suite on a Gulf or a Boeing jet that you and I paid for. Bathroom, comfort, and hygiene are things most people, they don't think about it, until something isn't working the way it should. That's where Tushy comes in.

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legal AF at checkout. That's 10% off at hellotushy.com with promo code legal A.F. Put that aside, what did that do? Do you know that 50%? sorry, one-fifth, sorry, one-fifth of all oil in the world. 20% comes through one location in the Middle East. It's called the Strait of Harmuz. You know what ships are getting through the Strait of Harmuz right now?

Iranian. Everything else, it's a giant parking lot. Donald Trump says, we're going to start escorting ships to get through the Strait of Harmuse. You know, this is like policy on the fly. Somebody asked me over dinner over the weekend. What do you feel about the Iran War? I said, look, if it were in the hands of mature people that I believed had a plan for the aftermath, you know, the old Powell doctrine, once you break it, you bought it for 90 million people in the oil fields and the security and the area so it doesn't tip over and just become a raging inferno through the Middle East, I'd feel better. If it were competent people, but how can you possibly, sure, any monkey can bomb, any monkey can push a button.

We used to send them up in NASA in rockets to bomb people. But what do you do in the aftermath? The reason we're watching erratic policy behavior by Donald Trump every day saying, we're going to do something different. We're going to let the people pick the leader. No, I'm going to pick the leader. There's no consistency here because he is erratic, and he is in the throes of dementia,

and the rest of his administration know it. So, no, in the hands of Donald Trump, I did not want regime change or bombing war in Iran or boots on the ground. Not with this administration. And who's going to pay the price now? For all of the, the fact that all of the Middle East is inflamed in inferno.

You know, when you see the map, it's not just the, here's the 75 places the Americans bombed today in and around Iran. It's here's the other 40 places that Iran bombed, including our allies and military bases. Were we prepared for this?

Do you think Pete Hanks at? This is rhetorical. Do you think Pete Hegsef has the brain power, the intellectual horsepower to be making these decisions? Look what they did with the economy and the brain trust around the economy. And we're going to trust them with a war effort and what its impact is on the global economy? I don't think so. And now Donald Trump is busy calling his own followers fools. He posted on social media.

Only fools would think, would oppose my policy. Only fools would be upset with higher, higher, higher, higher gas prices in return for nuclear security. Is that what we just obtained? Or did you just obtain what you thought was a way to step on the news cycle and give yourself some points at home for politics? Because that's what we think you did. And look at the cost sucked out of the American economy and think what we could have done with this money. It's going to be a half a trillion dollars by the time we're done in a wrong. and Venezuela. I haven't even added Cuba into that. Half a trillion dollars. That would educate a lot of

people, wouldn't it, with free scholarship? That would pay for a lot of health care for people who can't afford it. That would make affordability a lot easier in America. That would pay for a lot of down payments for home mortgages, wouldn't it? Yeah. No, instead, the only one that's making money right now is the military industrial complex and companies that make weapons and resupply weapons. They're giddy. You know, if you can afford to be, you know, invest in Lockheed Martin or Boeing, I guess you're doing okay. The rest of the world is not. So when you're so desperate that you're Donald Trump who attacks his own voters and calls them fools, talks down to them, right, disparages them, patronizes them, patronizes them because of his erratic policies that have now made oil

up to triple the price, what did he think was going to happen to the economy? Not a strong economy. Economy there was a jobless economy to begin with. We haven't even gotten the full pricing baked in yet for his original tariffs. Now that the tariffs have been struck down, he reimposed new tariffs that are being challenged, still collecting ill-gotten money that doesn't belong to him for the American people, stealing our money. no job creation. Inflation going to tick up one, two, three more points because of oil.

Oil going to double in pricing up to $140 a barrel, no doubt in the next quarter, your gas prices are going to double. Did you like the $3 gallon of gas? It's going to be six now or seven or higher. So we're going to continue to follow it all right here. If anything, Epstein scandal, the economy, Donald Trump's willful blindness to the suffering of the American voter in this economy. If anything tears him down, it's going to be him thinking he could start wars all over the

world, spend our money to do it, undermine our economy and how you and I are able to afford things like health care, things related to education, groceries, the gas pump, that he'd be able to get away with that. If anything is going to tear down his political viability, it's what we're watching right now with the Iran War. I'll continue to follow it. You're here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal A.F. Come over to Legal A.F YouTube channel.

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