The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 7/31/26

Episode Date: July 31, 2026

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needs to be invoked. Well, you have war spreading everywhere. We have strikes on a port in Egypt. We have attacks in Sana'a in Yemen. We have attacks by the United States on Iran. Iran responding attacking Bahrain and Kuwait and Jordan. You have U.S. Saudi attacks in Iraq on Iranian militias. You have big strikes by Russia in Kiev. They hit a major weapons drone depot recently as well. And a U.S. manufacturing plant was hit in Ukraine. You've got Ukraine hitting these wildberry logistical facilities in Russia, which is like the Russia version of Amazon. You have Russian ballistics actually going through Poland, and one fell in Poland's territorial. regional region. We'll talk about that. On the domestic front, you still have Midas Touch host, Katie Fang pushing forward with her lawsuit and preliminary injunction for the release of the Epstein

files. Federal judge reviewing some of those files in camera, meaning the judge is viewing it with nobody else in the room. That's taking place today. Todd Blanche, who Katie Fang sued for the release of the Epstein files. His nomination right now is being stalled, at least as of this recording, well, I have no faith even in these Republicans, John Cornyn and Tom Tillis, to ever do the right thing because they never do the right thing. They're at least saying until there's a written document voiding Trump's settlement with the federal government to give himself a super pardon regarding no tax audits, no criminal investigations into his taxes going back basically forever.

They're not going to agree to Todd Blanche. Donald Trump then said, well, then I'm going to pull Todd Blanche. Blanche's nomination and we'll wait until after the elections. That's how important it is for Donald Trump, apparently, that there's no written document that says they're voiding the settlement agreement. So Blanche said it in hearings and Blanche said it. DOJ officials said it to the federal judge. The loophole that Cornyn was able to expose during his question of Blanche was that in order for you to void the written agreement between Trump and the federal government, you need a written an instrument to overturn the written settlement agreement.

And so that's why they don't want to put anything in writing. And that's been fully exposed right now. So much so that Trump will push the nomination, he says, until after the midterms. But that just makes the midterms also an indictment on the Epstein files and this level of corruption. That's important to note. Bad GDP numbers came in today, 1.5% annualized rate. the Trump regime promised by now there would be 6% growth.

Of course, they're fraudsters. They lie about everything. One of the big pushes this week is Dr. Fauci apparently, and they had a hearing with Dr. Fauci. And because things are so bad right now in the United States, our economies being crushed by the unlawful and catastrophic war in Iran, which is to distract from the Epstein files that the Trump regime now wants to distract with talking about the pandemic again. and again, how bad things were then to distract from how worst,

I don't know, bad things are now. You're smarter than me. You tell me what the plan is there. And then we should be paying attention as well to what's going on with FIFA, where Gianni and Fontino working with the Kushners and Trump, trying to create a hold co, a parent company to sell off FIFA's World Cup to private equity, 20% to one of Kushner's brothers company. thrive or whatever the hell it's called.

Uifa, the European Football League, Conca Cuff, the other major conference, they're all saying, well, there won't be a World Cup if you do that. We're boycotting it. So the fact that you have Uifa, Conca Cuff, all saying, no, no more World Cup. It's like, really, Trump regime? Like, you're destroying everything. And we got a glimpse of happiness through all these dark days of the World Cup, not because of Trump and Infantino,

but because football internationally, or we call it soccer in the United States, bring people together. And they're like, how do we ruin this thing? Let's take it over with private equity. And fortunately, and, you know, UEFA and Kunkab and these major football associations are like, nope. And that may now be the undoing of Infantino.

And hopefully this is no confidence and we get this sicko the hell out of here. We got a lot to discuss. How are you doing? So much corruption, so little time. But we're going to do our best to go through it, Ben. It's good to see you, Ben. Jordy is not going to be with us tonight.

Jordy's on daddy duty. But shout out to Jordy. We know Jordy is fan favorite here at Midas Touch. You know, things are bad, as you said, Ben, when they are trying to distract from the Epstein files and the war to cover it up and the crashing economy by directing everybody's attention to the glory days of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ah, those wonderful years of 2020 where we couldn't leave our homes, where everybody was scared of getting sick and where we had a president telling us to inject bleach the good old days. It really does frustrate me, though, that it seems like so many, even in the kind of legacy media and people who kind of consider themselves

to be kind of, you know, straight shooter, I'm a moderate type people. A lot of people have just memory hold how bad COVID truly was. I think the experience was so, traumatic for so many people and we lost so many loved ones and so many people are still living with the consequences of the pandemic that I think when there are moments of such extreme trauma, people even as a kind of coping mechanism and a survival mechanism kind of try to memory whole,

things like that. And I feel like we've seen that. And now you see, I feel like the Republicans and MAGA, Donald Trump, they're trying to kind of use that trauma that they created. and the memory hole that so many people have kind of done with COVID now in order to exploit that, to distract from their endless failures, to distract from the Epstein files, to distract from the war, high prices. But like we said about COVID back then, the reality hits you, you know, at some point. The reality hits you hard. It cuts right through the propaganda. And while Donald Trump could say that everything was okay, people saw people dying every day. They saw they were losing their family members. They were getting sick. Today, people are going to the grocery store. They're seeing their

prices are higher. They're going to the gas station. They're seeing they're paying more at the pump. They're seeing that we're losing soldiers overseas. You could only lie to people for so long before it catches up to you. That's where we are right now in this Trump regime. And that's why the bottom is falling out again on Donald Trump's approval rating. You know, I'm watching some of this state regime news like Newsmax and Fox. And I want to understand, like things are are really bad. So like, what are they, what are they doing? What are they trying to push for their viewers, you know, as it's a dwindling and dwindling base? And I constantly see myself or hear myself out loud saying, WTF, like, what in the F is going on? I mean, so, you know, earlier today,

you had Maga Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. And he was like, you know, with Fauci, one of the big issues, he fear mongered with COVID, just like he fear mongered. with AIDS, you know, AIDS and HIV. Well, he acted like that was a big deal. He just wanted to get on TV for AIDS and HIV. And I'm like, what are you saying? This is your platform going in general, who cares if it's going into the midterms

that AIDS and HIV also was nothing, was a nothing burger? What the hell? Here, play this clip of Johnson. The injection injuries, the economic devastation, it never should have happened, that it all happened because the St. Fauci, fear mongering, scaremongering, just like he did with AIDS. If you remember that, he's, you know, AIDS,

it could be, you know, household transmission. No, that's not it. But he did that same way because he wanted to get a vaccine. Again, he's the vaccinologist. He admitted it in October 2019 and Milken Institute panel. I know, while the House of Representatives is shut down, you've got Magu-Republican Congress member John McGuire, who's like, you all, you all remember the human fetus burger?

You remember those? The human fetus BLT sandwiches? They're like, yeah, I'm like, what it? The human fetus BLT sandwich, what are you talking about? People are having their healthcare ripped away. Trump and then Yahoo are in a never ending war. People can't afford, you talk, BLT fetus burgers? And what are you saying?

It's just, it's crazy. I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich using human fetus baby parts. Yep. the vaccine when they could have used ivermectin okay these people are freaking nuts and and i don't i don't understand ben it's that there is so many think pieces and so many so much endless conversation like are the democrats too radical are the democrats weird are the democrats crazy like this is a constant refrain that you hear from people who write like opeds

in the washington post and and you know obviously people on fox but people on other other mainstream kind of networks as well. These Republicans are like the most bat-shit crazy people. And I think this is like such an op by all these people in order to cover for just how freaking nuts these people are. Ron Johnson was one of the biggest disinformation spreaders of the pandemic. And he is specifically saying stuff like that, ironically, accusing Fauci of wanting to get on TV so that his clips get played on Fox so that his clips get played on TV and that they're

shared. That's why he's doing it. So it is again another form of projection. And also, did you all notice Laura freaking Ingram in the background, speaking of Fox, the freaking drama, the drama that we are seeing, you have Laura Ingram in the background, just making faces at Dr. Fauci the entire time, acting so distraught. Oh, woe is me.

I'm Laura Ingram. And then there was this moment where, you know, they had this plan thing with one of the, the senators in the hearing where he's like, now I want to do something serious. I want everybody in this room to stand up. If you feel like you were shamed by Dr. Fauci, stand up. Stand up now.

Show yourself as if they're like the Epstein survivors or something. And then like Laura Ingram stands up looking somber and all those people behind him who they had fill the seats. They end up looking like somber. Oh yeah. Dr. Fouchy hurt me. me, Dr. Fauci. And meanwhile, it's the biggest gaslighting.

You have the people who were lying about the pandemic, who caused mass death accusing the one guy who was just trying his frickin best to figure this thing out as it was evolving. Like the whole thing, the whole scene is absolutely crazy. And I would say, give Laura Ingraham an Oscar, but this acting was really shitty. I mean, give her maybe a razzie or something.

This is just F acting, terrible acting. Laura Ingram, shut up. Why does she make $30 million or $45 million? She's a victim. She was shamed by product of that child. Turn around and face them. Laura, Laura, face them. Face them.

Face them. But look, we need to, let's also face reality. So with all of their crazy behavior, are they helping out the economy? You know, they told us there would be 4% GDP growth, 5% by now. Actually, by the end of last year, they promised us all of these things. So what's the reality? State regime media, Fox. What was the second quarter GDP?

What did it come in at? State regime media? Watch Fox business give their report. Let's play it. In line with estimates. Let's get to GDP. This is the first look we're getting at second quarter GDP. The first read is 1.5%, 1.5%.

One and a half percent. The estimate. was a gain of 2.1%. So we're coming in a little bit light on this first look at second quarter GDP. And the markets go crazy. A little bit light. By the way, did you see that propaganda technique? It's like in the, you know, like in the drug commercials and the prescription drug ads

while they're saying like, you know, this drug may cause death, vomiting, diarrhea, do-da-da-da. They always have people like frolicing in a park and they're like on the beach and they're smiling and they're happy, right? You put the happy visual with like the worst news ever over. it with the audio. That's what Fox is doing right there. They're putting the stock market being green, and they're making sure that that is full screen while they're talking about something completely different because they just hope that their audience misses the reality that the economy has slowed to a crawl when these Trump officials for the past few years keep saying 6% growth, it's coming

next year. It's coming right around the bend. Right. I mean, the fact that Trump is judged by a participation trophy. If Biden had these numbers, I mean, you would see the markets crash and things would be absolutely, you know, horrible. But like, you get a very horrible GDP printout right there, objectively, like bad, right? Especially relative to the promises that they were making. And then the market manipulation is just so crazy. All right, we're not negative. We're not negative. It's a good day. We haven't yet bombed Iran today, even though, if you look, at what's going on, Saudi Arabia did bomb the Houthis and the Houthis say that they will be charging tolls in the Bob El Mondeb straight and we're not really sure what happened in Egypt anymore.

Iran's blaming it on Netanyahu trying to do a false flag. We believed it was Iran that was striking this Damiatta port in Egypt, but now Iran is saying that it was Israel, whatever, but we know that it was struck by a drone. We have footage of it being struck, but the market's like, all right, okay, okay. Should we manipulate this one today? You know, Trump creates the dips from like bad. And then it's like buy his own dips everybody. It's ridiculous.

So what else is going on? You've got Bessent, Treasury Secretary. Let's talk about what he previously is it. Just so we have the receipts. This was Treasury Secretary Bessent. This was what he was saying, December 3rd, 2025. This was his prediction for GDP growth. So I think we could be at 4% inflation.

excuse me, 4% real growth, and then inflation trending back towards targeted two, so 6% nominal growth. That's not true, although you got the inflation part. He had it right. He had right the first time. He nailed it the first time with the Freudian. What about Kevin Hassett July 1st, 2026? What do you predict Hassett? Let's play it.

So you're cruising at about three, and again, I expect the second half will cruise about four. Four percent growth in the second half. That's right, yeah. It's an embarrassing. Even Bartaromo is like, uh, 4% growth. Okay, okay. You know, but she goes along with it. I mean, she's in Ingraham also.

Then you've got Lutnik. He goes on CNBC, which has basically become a Trump propaganda network with a lot of their hosts. Not all of them. They get some good host. And this is what Lutnik said, September 11th, 2025, what he said about the first quarter. Let's play it. So now everybody knows their taff, right? So now you're going to see factories been built in America at,

at a scale that you have never seen before. Okay, more than $10 trillion of factory build coming. All right? And so there's huge amount of construction jobs. So I would say the first quarter of next year will be the best quarter of construction jobs this country's ever seen. And that's going to roll all the way through 26.

So I think you're going to see GDP growth next year over 4%. You do, 4%. 10 trillion over what period of time, Secretary? Mr. Donald, James. Trump, the President of the United States during his term. Okay. And the way he did Mr. Donald J. dude, that is Bernie made off nuclear version like Khan artists.

The worst. Here, I'll just show you one other clip of Lutnik before we get back into it. This was him on the all in. This is like the finance bro. All in. Yeah, if you want to know what's really happening with the markets, watch the All In podcast. Let's go all in. Let's go all in, everybody.

And then he also does the creepy Lutnik voice from the Epstein Files voice where he said that there was no, you know, that he never visited Epstein Island. And it's the same way, no, you know, when he was asked about it. Like, did you ever go and see him after that first visit? He was disgusting. Of course I didn't. He was gross.

Okay. But now we learned you were there with your children. Exactly. That makes it worse. I never said, you said you weren't there after you saw him one time. I never said I didn't go there with my kids. Yeah. It went worse than you going there is you with your kids is double bad.

I don't see it that way. I know they don't believe in pronouns, but this is what he says about GDP, about on this all in podcast that he'd said last year. Let's play it. Fives. You're going to see fives in the greatest economy in the world. You're going to see five. And people think you can't, you can't.

You can't. I mean, 5% GDP on a base this big is just, it's enormous. We have a $30 trillion, so 5% is $1.5 trillion in growth. And if we cut rates, you'll see six. And people do not, would never, before Donald Trump walked into that office, they would, don't think that's possible. And what's six mean? Let's just put six in context.

Yeah, I'll put it in context. Your liars, your frauds, your con artist. I'll put it in perfect context right there for you. I could smell the cigarettes off. his breath, but it's the way he speaks, can you? A few observations. Number one, there's something about these guys also in wearing shoes that don't fit them.

Like, if you just look at it, it just looks like their shoes don't fit. I know, it's a stupid observation. Well, there's the thing where Trump bought them the shoes, with guessing their size and shoes and that are size bigger in purpose to make them feel that they can't fit into the size of their shoes and that they'll wear shoes that don't fit them. But also, they mix up all of their fraud schemes, right?

because didn't they say they brought in $19.2 trillion also? So they're saying that the GDP growth from $1.5 trillion additional dollars would net us a 5 to 6% GDP growth. While Donald Trump said that he's brought in $19.2 trillion. So based on that analysis, shouldn't our GDP growth have actually been 70? 70%? 70, 75, if they lower interest rates of 75% growth, because that's essentially what it would be if you brought in $19.2 trillion. All right, let's take our first quick break of the show, a reminder.

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commander in chief, though we have a commander in thief, but, blah, blah, you would hope that he would discuss what the hell, seriously, what the hell's happening, you know, with this war. I mean, I'll show you right, and the wars across the world right now. I mean, just to show you a little bit of what's kind of going on right now, this is some of the video coming in from Egypt as you have a drone striking the Damiata port right there. Let me show you this footage. Let's play it. Okay, I'll direct our attention right now to Russia's war against Ukraine. I'll show you Penza in Russia. We're a wildberries factory.

That's the logistical facilities. Like, it's their Amazon. There's like 20 of them in Russia, and like 10 or 11 of them have been destroyed at this point by Ukrainian drones, those long-range FP1 and FP2s. Let me show you Penza right here so you can see it. Let's play it. Russia striking in Leviv, Western Ukraine, and as part of these Russian strikes, they also struck, or there was an area in Eastern Poland where a ballistic missile landed, and these sirens over Lublin, which is in Eastern Poland, were going off. Zelensky was in Lublin yesterday.

In Poland, first let me show you, Leviv. This is Ukraine. Let me show you. just so we could all see it. Let's play it. Also, today in Kiev, there was a U.S. manufacturing plant that was hit by Russia and intentionally targeted by Russia right there. I got to say, makes for a great audio podcast. A Russian ballistic missile destroyed a Kiev drone factory owned by a U.S. registered company, terminal autonomy, marking the first known Russian strike on a the U.S. own company in Ukraine.

Attention. I mean, there were other one. Remember, there was like candy factories and other factories, but this is the first, you know, U.S. owned weapons company. The factory produced AI guided attack drones. No one was reported killed, but, you know, this war is spreading. Notably, when I heard about the Lublin attacked, you know, Poland's response was very reminiscent of what the Arab nation responses are when the drones.

strike or the ballistic missiles from Iran strike these bases, right? What is, what are they? It's always the interceptors were always 100% effective. And then if there were damage, it was the like drone residue or the, you know, whatever, the debris, it's the debris. They say the debris hit it and it's like, okay, stop. The debris, yeah, it becomes debris once it hits. Then it becomes debris.

But the drone or the ballistic missiles is not debris before it hits. So I wasn't, I'm not trying to get consistent. It's spiritual. I just think that Poland knows that if it invokes Article 5 or even Article 4, which is consultation, Article 5 is the Mutual Defense Pact of NATO, that the United States isn't going to abide by it. I think Russia wants to test the resolve of NATO. Will they invoke Article 5? And that's why Poland's pretending that, you know, look, fortunately, it didn't kill anybody as far as we know. And it just kind of hit an open area. But, you know, I think it's being downplayed personally. So any event, with all of this taking place, by the way, as it relates to the Egypt strike in Damiyadh, right now Iran through both Mbighalabha and Aragchi are saying, this is actually Israel that did it, false flag from Israel, in order to try to blame us to draw Egypt in a bigger way.

It's conflicting reporting there, but I want to give you at least the latest of what they're saying in Iran. But in any event, like, and by the way, Netanyahu is in the United States right now with Hegsseth. And so what Netanyahu stayed. He's like parked himself here. Like he was supposed to be in and out. But he's like, no, I'm just going to stay because I think he realizes that he's going to have a lot more influence face-to-face with a Heg-Seth, with a Trump, by being here. And he could actually dictate the terms of the war. Because I think what Netanyahu is acutely aware of is something that we've kind of known about Donald Trump for a while, is that.

that oftentimes his opinion and his actions are based on the last person he spoke to. And so I think Netanyahu knows, well, I could speak to him on the phone and probably persuade him to increase a bombing campaign or do something. But then if somebody comes in the room right after I do the phone call, what was that? MBS or MBS his brother. Yeah, then they say, chill, chill, chill, chill, and that is going to be what sticks with him. But if I'm there, if I'm always around, then I'm going to be able to kind of, get around that. I'm going to be able to tell Donald Trump exactly what needs to be done here.

That's why MBS sent his brother yesterday also to the, did you notice that? I mean, and it's like, well, why would you personally, you can't just pick up the phone? No, because Netanyahu's not leaving. So that's why MBS sent his brother to the United, who happens to be the defense secretary. The Arab nations are run like the United States. It's like the brothers and the sons. I was going to say, it's so sound familiar. So the brother shows up and speaks, speaks with Kushner who tries to take over FIFA. We'll get to that one in a moment. But any event, look, so Trump is asked, you know, he's at this press conference.

He did this like anti-immigrant press conference where immigrants can't be truckers because they don't speak the language is what he says. It's midterm guys at the time. They're bringing up the greatest hits. We're going to have the greatest hits. You can't have immigrants as truckers. It's got to be veterans. Like, why can't it be both?

Why can't veterans be truckers and why can't immigrants? speech, well, we don't, let's, let's be, it has to be one or the other. For Trump, it's always a zero-sum game, right? But in any event, he's asked, I'll show you him like running away, like where he's asked the question, you know, so we're going to be in this war forever? Like, what's the status? Very much. Bye. Thank you. So, you know, if you heard the questions, the questions are, how long are we going to be

in Iraq? How much, I'm Iran or Iraq. I should, I should, I could say it's a Freudian slip, but it isn't because the, you know, the, you know, it's a Freudian slip, but it isn't, because the US and Saudi Arabia struck in Iraq. And it should also be noted that the US basically controls the Iraqi army, I mean, through the funding, but then you have an Iranian militia embedded within the army, which is who the US and Saudi Arabia struck, and they killed IRGC people. And so you have this, the short of it is you have this massive regional war. And Brett, do you remember growing up when the type of footage that we're showing though there,

you know, the strike at Damiata, the strikes in, you know, Russia, the Russia strikes in LeVos, Like when we grew up, war was covered. You know, and it was ugly. Some kind of nonstop. You'd have the people there with the hats the same way they covered weather. You know, and we'd get the information. And now you have Sencom out there publishing things like the straight of her mood. Do we have this post of SendCom?

I mean, just so people can we see how ridiculous it is. Sendcom, it's a social media post, but Sencom was doing it's like true false. And the false is the IRCC says it's dangerous to go through the straight of Hormuz because the IRGC will potentially shoot your tanker if you use the Oman route. And they have that as false. Not that one. Not that one.

Not that one. Just keep going. Just keep shuffling. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one.

Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. Not that one. It's one of them. But it's the send-com graphic that, you know, we'll show later. And then the CENTCOM also says the U.S. strikes did not hit, or that Iranian strikes did not hit certain air bases. Muafik, salty in Jordan, Faisal in Kuwait.

And it's like, we have the surveillance. We have the satellite footage. Like, we know these bases were hit. You know, and it appears that the F-35s were hit. It appears, you know, that these hangars were indeed hit. There it goes. 17th time is a charm. Not worship it, bro.

This is just how you know this how Sencom has zero credibility. And it's sad to say this, right? This is what Sencom says. First claim by Iran. False. The IRGC again claims free and open routes through the Strait of Hormuz are dangerous for commercial vessels. False. Fact.

The immediate dangers posed to commercial. vessels and their civilian crews are the IRGC's verbal threats and attempted attacks. Well, first off, that's a threat. Okay. Second, they've knocked out like dozens of tankers that we've seen. So if you're going to start off and say that it's false, that it is a false claim for the IRGC say that going through the Strait of Hormuz is not safe, I don't need to read on anymore. You're just Trump fraudy level, and that's what's then come.

It's sad. I think we should send Trump through. I think Trump should go through. It's safe. It's a show everybody. Lead by example. Let's send him through the Strait of Hermuz. Brett, a Qatari LNG tanker.

I just want to tell people the facts. A Qatari LNG tanker, right? Because Qatar is suffering right now. They're struggling. I mean, not suffering like, you know, I mean, I think America people are suffering more, but But Qatar struggling. Qatar sent its first shipment of liquefied natural gas through the straight of Hermuzon weeks using the Iran designated shipping corridor.

They negotiated this with Pakistan. This is interesting because before they were trying to use the route closest to Oman, what would happen to those tankers? They would be shot. They would be hit hard, right? And so now they're using the other route. So, like, we need to focus on the facts. So now when you tell me,

the casualty number is whatever, and you tell me the, you know, the killed in action. I don't believe anything you're saying. This is CENTCOM. If you can't agree right now that at a bare minimum, the straight of Hormuz is dangerous. If you think that's, then it's just enough. Everything you're saying is false. And Brett, we have a war and wars involving the world right now. It's deeply problematic.

What do you make of it all? I think it's deeply problematic. And I think it goes against everything that Donald Trump. said from the beginning of since before his term. I mean, he, like his big promises, think about every single promise Donald Trump made, that everything was going to become affordable in day one, prices were going to be cut in half, your electricity bill was going to be cut in half, the war in Ukraine was going to end within 24 hours, there was going to be no new wars, the Epstein files would be released. Like, you go through every single aspect of all of Donald Trump's promises,

and he's failed on every single one of them. And not only failed, but he's made all of these things worse by his own doing. And you know what Justin Wolfer's when we had it on, our chief economist here at Midas Touch, who's, we're working with his platypus economics. He's doing, you know, platypus. He's doing amazing work. I mean, he's brilliant, Justin. And, you know, Justin, what really stuck with me from the last time you guys did a hot take together was he was saying, you know, normally I, you know, nine times out of 10 or 99 times out of 100, you know, the economy really isn't attributed to the president, you know, himself. Like he's maybe one piece of a larger puzzle. But this time, you could definitively say that Donald Trump is to blame for all the chaos that

we're seeing right now. You can trace everything back to his war, to his tariffs, to his coercive actions. Everything right now stems from one man, all the global chaos, everything that we're seeing, indisputably so. Right. You take a look also what's going on Iran's army before we went live, says it struck the U.S. Sheikh Issa Air Base in Bahrain with attack drones targeting power generators, navigation systems, and support buildings. It claims the strikes cause significant damage to U.S. military capabilities in the region. It's striking these U.S. bases without much resistance at this point because the U.S. interceptors have been depleted. the pack threes and the thad.

They're different systems. Their acronyms and the PACs are the Patriots. The THAAD has a whole long acronym. But the thads are 12.5 million each. Okay. And what Iran would do is it would send its Shaheed drones or even decoyed ballistics. And it would have three of these thads would shoot up. And it was like even if they struck the ballistic of Iran or the Shahid, that was a big win

for Iran because it's like you just spent $50 million on our $25,000, $50,000. It's asymmetrical warfare and it's what everybody's warned about. It's why Ukraine has been able to do so well going up against Russia because they've been employing the same strategies in so many ways. Except ballistics. Yes. Ukraine needs the interceptors for they don't have any capability on their own because that's what patriots are supposed to be used for, are the ballistics. Now, they say we need

immediately. I'm concerned. I really have a deep, I know there's a prevailing narrative of Ukraine is, you know, is hitting all of these things. They are. They are. But what concerns me is also what the prime minister of Poland said today. The next one is what he said. The next 100 days are going to be decisive and determine the course of the war. And it depends on Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Okay, that is a concerning stake. When I look at that, I go red flag, that's a worrisome concept to me. And I don't trust Donald Trump pretending that he may give Zelensky things. To me, it's all part of Trump's manipulation where this doesn't work, that doesn't work.

So now you kind of love bomb. I'll lure someone in. I'll say I'm going to give you the Patriots. But then what does he do? This is my opinion. Then he calls up Putin, I'm sure. I'm giving you my opinion and says, hey, you know what we talked about? To me, that is a more likely scenario than Donald Trump helping great.

One more thing, Breton, I'm sorry, I'm blabbering. You know, even that Lindsey Graham legislation, the sanctions for Russia, I saw some people say, well, there's some Democrats who aren't supporting sanctions on Russia and they give the list. What the hell's wrong with these people? If you actually read the legislation, it gives Trump the discretion to decide if he's going to impose the sanction, which he already has now. And what it does also is, if Trump claims that you could be aiding and abetting Russia in his own mind, he could tariff you or sanction you while not sanctioning Russia. So Trump has the power if he wants to do with the legislation, but the legislation

makes it discretionary. So the people who didn't vote for it, it's not that they didn't want sanctions on Russia. It's that they didn't trust anything that gives Trump the discretion on his own and opens up a path for Trump to do more tariffs, which is a more likely scenario than sanctioned. That was the issue with that. And have you guys seen the reporting also about this Trump erupting in meetings with his own aides about these wars? I mean, to me, this is probably the most concerning kind of piece of evidence

that we have about this whole war, and frankly, confirms everything we've been reporting, that Donald Trump is indeed. panicking about this war. Donald Trump is panicking behind the scenes. He may get up to the cameras and he may say, we're going to beat the FNS out of them or all, you know, whatever he's telling Fox, Trey Yinks over at Fox, right? He may try to act like a tough guy, but behind the scenes, he's rudderless. Behind the scenes, he doesn't know what the hell to do. And behind the scenes, all of his aides have disagreements with the approach. And it's a very precarious situation that we're finding

ourselves in right now. You know, General Dan Kane, Raisin Kane, who Donald Trump calls him, He has one kind of view of the war. There's the Admiral Cooper guy who had sentcom. He has a different view of the war. Kane has been very worried, according to this NBC news reporting, about the dwindling amount of interceptors and Patriot missiles that the United States has, even though Trump, every time he gets on his social media app and stuff goes, we have infinite, we have an unlimited amount.

It's like a video game. We have unlimited amounts of interceptors. Well, Kane is like trying to tell Trump, like, we are running. out fast. Like, this is not a good situation right now for us to be in. And that's leaving our troops in great harm in the region. And then you have Cooper just trying to kind of trying to get a word in with Trump. Apparently, he's not even speaking to Trump all that much. And you have Trump freaking out. The official who was giving, who is the source, one of the officials, who's one of the sources in this piece, described Donald Trump as exasperated, exasperated. They said that he erupted

during the meeting on his aides. He doesn't know what to do. He is incredibly frustrated. His back is against the wall. He really, in his heart of hearts, apparently believed that he would be in of this and out of this and that everything would go great and he would be fine and he'd be able to topple this regime. And now he's living the reality of what everybody warned him. And he's still trying to gaslight his way out of it. But this is how you know that he really does know the truth. The fact that you're actually getting this reporting that, yes, he is panicking behind the scenes. Yes, he is screaming at all of his aides behind the scenes. Yes, he doesn't know what the F to do right now.

And that's why he's lashing out to Fox reporters going, I'm going to beat the FNS at him because he doesn't know what to do at this point. That's why I say he's panicking. I don't know he's panicking. I know it's obviously. That's why he says I'm beating the Fing S out of you. We'll talk about that and more when we come back also updates on Todd Blanche, a new poll from Fox, state regime media.

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supporting the show, support our sponsors. You know, what says panic more than giving a phone call to state regime media Fox and telling them, here's what I want you to put out. Here's what I say. I'm going to blow the F&S out of them. I'm going to blow the F&S out of them. You're calling up Fox going on the record,

Isn't like on background or off the record? You're on the record with a media and regime media. Like they can package this for you in a way that's regime. Donald Trump says that he, whatever. No, I mean, this is the message that you want out there on your regime media. President Trump tells Fox News about Iran. We are going to beat the effing S out of them. He went on to say we'll be hitting them hard.

They're going to get a beating. So clearly the United States is going to. to respond to what the president described as a surprise attack. Just think about, and by the way, the surprise attack framing, you know, I think, and I apologize if I even went surprise attack and perhaps could have been a little more nuanced with it. It's surprise in the sense that usually the pattern is Trump strikes, Iran responds, then we see, then Trump claims fake deal, and then Trump strikes and then Iran strikes. So this was Trump strikes, Iran strikes, and then Iran strike.

So it had a perfect fifth, perfect fifth, perfect fourth, perfect third. You know, it had a little, that was from my class. It added in a perfect third. It had a little bit of a different rhythm, you know, to the normal kind of back and forth strikes. But the reality is that Trump's doing fake negotiations. So why if Iran has a target of opportunity and it sees a radar, or this or that, you know, it's going to go by Donald Trump's derange views of like,

you know, like, I guess Trump's just counting on like, you know, if he doesn't do anything, they won't do anything. It's like, you're still in a war. You violated the MOU, and the MOU isn't a thing anymore. And so you're an active war. And, you know, this was one of the big disputes in that NBC news story that I was talking about, that was talking about Dan Kane. And I was speaking about Admiral Cooper, the who leads sentcom.

And one of the things that, you know, Cooper was saying, is that, you know, he's starting to think that these limited strikes that we're doing aren't really doing much. There have also been U.S. officials who have been saying, you know, telling the press that exactly what we've been warning about from before these strikes even began, all these kind of different bad strikes, that the more Donald Trump does these things, the more he's actually going to make it more difficult to achieve his objectives in this war, whatever the hell those objectives even are at this point, aside from opening the straight of Ramos,

because all he's doing is he's strengthening the regime and he's building support behind the regime and he's really not doing any damage to the regime but he is killing civilians which is only hardening the power of the Iranian regime and is also bringing the people in Iran closer to the regime so everything that they're doing is actually having uh is actually having the opposite of effect and one of the conclusions unfortunately that it seems like admiral cooper drew from all this is that that's probably because we're not hitting them hard enough we got to We got to bomb them harder. If only we now bomb, if we did, I'm telling you, Donald, if we did one big, massive bombing campaign for a week that we would end this.

And that's just not going to happen. I don't think there's ever been an instance in history, ever, ever in history where an air bombing campaign alone wins a war. It's never happened before. It's not going to happen here. And I don't know why they keep thinking that they could bomb their way out of the situation. Well, even their strikes yesterday in Kesham, apparently. killed a family over there, you know, an innocent family. You have M.B. Ghalabov making a social media post before talking about, look,

you just killed another innocent family in Keshim, and you are, Brett, to your point, I mean, constantly committing these war crimes over and over and over again, which, regardless of, you know, the fact that it's even rallying people to the Ayatollah and turning public sentiment against, and there's no public sentiment that wants this war. Even in the United States, nobody wants this. Why Trump's approval is not like all-time lows. Nobody wants to be in this with Netanyahu and then Mark Levin. But it's a war crime.

You know, when we blow up the ships in Venezuela, those are war crimes. Those are war crimes that are taking place. And we covered the drop site scoop about the prosecutor from Ecuador who was assassinated, who was investigating the U.S. war crimes off the coast, which involved also people from Ecuador as well. When you look at Donald Trump's polling lately, I mean, it's as low as you can get across all of the major polling. It's 33, 34, 32. When you look at the subset of non-college white voters, that's Trump's crew, right? Plus 24 back in February of 2025, negative eight right now. That's a new low. He's net negative on white non-college voters right there.

But basically, you look at all vote. I mean, independence, he was like net negative 22 on every issue, gas, net negative 58, net negative 50. I mean, his polling is as bad or worse than after the January 6th insurrection right now. As I told you, there was a Fox poll before James Tolariko up three on Ken Paxton. You know, I mean, I guess the, you know, the old MAGA playbook of TalaFrico and vegan, And six genders, six, six gender. I just think, you know, I mean, Ken Paxton's a guy who's a crook.

He released child sex abusers. You know, he got impeached by his own party. You know, he's been indicted. You know, he's like the worst human. Like he's Trump's- He divorced them on biblical grounds. No, he's he's trying. He's Trump's crew.

But you know, it's interesting about those attacks. I'm not saying they don't work, because I think they do have an impact for sure, you know, when they do the, you know, the culture war stuff. They do it for a reason. But I think the ironic thing about those attacks is they work a whole lot better when the economy is actually better, when things are actually better, when things are running smoother. And people actually can be redirected into those culture war games. But when the world is quite literally on fire, when the GDP is slowing to basically nothing, when in front of the world, inflation is going through the roof. I think people look at you trying to do Talafriko and transgender this, transgender that, and they go, shut the hell up. Like, stop. We're all being beaten down by you,

stop like trying to beat down, you know, other communities as well. Enough, enough of this crap. And ironically, it worked, you know, and during Biden, because actually things were recovering and people were able to get a little bit of a breather at that point. Yeah, well, look, and I don't want to paint the rosiest picture. Biden had to deal with Trump, right? And so there was high inflation the first, you know, years. That was a big problem. And Biden had to deal with it. And there was recovery from COVID. There was a lot of things that were going on that had to be deal with. But there's a difference between dealing with problems and the house affirmatively being on just total fire. And if you think about, Brett, to your point, again, not to, you know,

glorify, you know, that everything was great and rosy and amazing, but you didn't have like a full house on fire. And so you were able to basically get in there into the house and shout to people, hey, I got a nicer house for you. That's that house, but it could be better. You want the bigger house. You want the nicer car. You want to, I alone can fix it. I can do it. I can do it. And that's an argument that may appeal. Once people are like, oh, let me see. What house is that? The moral allow, you know, the, maybe you're promising me all of these things. Electricity bills are going to be half as much. Gas is going to be under $2.

Housing is going to be affordable. There's going to be no wars. Oh, that sounds like a, maybe a better house than the house I'm in. But right now, the house is on fire. The house is on fire. People know who the arsonists are because they're burning the house right now. I mean, we see Trump meeting with Netanyahu. We see, we know who's doing it.

We know where it's coming from. And then while the fire's taking place, the arsonists are going in and going, you who you, hey, everybody. What do you think about the transgender people? Okay, what do you think about Talafriko? What do you think about communists? What do you think about? And people like, dude, shut up.

You're burning that. Take your freaking fire hose and put this thing out. We don't want to hear any of this crap. That's the moment that we're, you know, that's the. the moment that we're in. And also on the Democratic side, people I think don't want to even like here, you know, well, are you gonna move me three point two points

to the center or two point two points to the dis? And are you gonna people like, where's your fire hose? Where the hell is your fire hose to put out this fire? And don't direct that fire hose up in the air. Direct the fire hose at the firehouse and show me you're gonna get in there. And I don't care. Yeah, it's dangerous to get in there.

Yeah, you may get hurt getting in there. But show me you're going to get in there and put out the damn fire. Because if you're not going to do it, I want to know who's putting out the damn fire. That to me is the moment that we're going through right now. And who is out there fighting? Who is up there rolling up their sleeves calling out the corruption, the criminality, and everything that's going on in plain view right now? And one of the things that I think we need to, you know, talk about, first off, Todd Blanche should not be confirmed, period, full stop, forever, unethical, hard, the worst.

The worst. Todd Blanche, in my opinion, shouldn't have a bar license for what he, that's like, that's generous. That, to me, that's heaping praise if the, if saying he shouldn't get a bar license, because to me, it's far worse, the damage that this guy has done. He's way worse than Bondi. He's frankly, he's way worse than I think Gates would have been, right? In any event, you have the two Republican senators who Trump screwed over, Cornyn and Tillis, they're holding out and saying, we're not going to confirm you until you put something in writing

that you're going to void Trump's collusive settlement with the government where Trump gets a super pardon, voiding, where Trump gets a super pardon. So there's no tax audits and there's no criminal investigations into his tax evasion and Trump gets a free pass and, you know, gets to not have, not have any investigations into a mayor. And then there's a January 6 slush fund for $1.776 billion. And Blanche and D.O.J. They've said, look, they've said, well, we'll make the oral representation that we're not going to enforce the settlement agreement. But Cornyn was a former Texas Supreme Court justice

before becoming a United States Senator, he knew what was going on. I mean, I guess I would give him a little bit of credit, but certainly not give him lots of credit. So he was like, got it. So the reason you're saying you'll make an oral representation, but not a writing, is because in the settlement agreement

between Trump and the government, Trump and his individual has it, it says the only way this gets overturned is if there is a written instrument. So you're preparing Trump to have the no written instrument loophole, no written document loophole. Oh, they made the oral representation, but there was nothing in writing, so therefore this agreement was still enforceable.

That's a gimmick. That's a Trump stunt. That's so Trumpy right there, right? That was their plan. Cornyn identified. And Cornyn's like, look, just put it in writing. Just put it in writing. You say you're not going to enforce it.

So put it in writing that you're not going to enforce it. And Blanche is like, as far as we know, Blanche is like, well, there's nothing I can do about it right now. And Cornyn and Tillis are like, well, what's going on? They also want to like, they're like, somebody in Trump's or. orbit, maybe it's Trump. Maybe it's Trump in Trump's orbit is the one telling Blanche absolutely not. Maybe, I don't know, Donald Trump made a post this morning saying that, well, we're not going to, maybe we won't even have Blanche confirmed until after the midterms where Trump suspects that

Republicans will control the United States Senate still, and then we'll get his confirmation done after the midterms once Tillis and Cornyn are gone. Well, at least with Tillis, it seems pretty clear that Tillis is going to be replaced by former. Governor Cooper, and you'll have a Democrat in that seat now in North Carolina. And it's possible Cornyn after Trump endorsed Paxton is going to be replaced by Tolariko based on the current polling. And if you look at, you know, places like Iowa, Josh Turrick, great ad that he just had with Obama. I've had him on. Really, really good. Incredible. Paralympian basketball player, incredible guy. He's up. Sherrod Brown's up in Ohio. Assoff's up. And then these people have

pretty significant leads as well. You know, so the craziest thing, though, is you look at the polling, right? And I know. I know what people feel about polling. I feel the same way. You never know what the polling, right? But you look at polling, you look at the environment that it appears that we are in on these generic polls where you're seeing Democrats plus 12 or more on a lot of these polls.

Like nightmare scenario for Republicans when you look at the data. But then you turn on the news. And I feel like all of the news is like just constant stream. of Democrats in disarray, democratic catastrophe, what are these Democrats doing? Look at all this infighting. And like you said, like direct your fire hose where it's supposed to be, okay? We got a freaking fire burning in front of us right now. How about we pay attention to the fascist threat that's in front of us beyond a threat,

the one that's all consuming right now? How about we pay attention to these various fraudsters, these corrupt individuals who are continuously trying to take over our government? And how about we actually look at the data at what's going on and acknowledge the fact that this is actually quite a good environment right now heading into the midterms for the Democrats? And it's the Republicans right now who are actually in a very, very bad position. We'll leave you on that optimistic note. WTF, huh? WTF. WTF.

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Every, you know, sometimes we've been on a two-hour cadence, but every 90 minutes, two hours, we got new videos. Check it out. Oh, I'll just quickly talk about FIFA because I didn't say it. You had the hold code that was being formed by Gianni Infantino with the Kushner's to bring in a 20% sale of the FIFA World Cup. You know, this is just another kind of Trump Kushner scam. You had UEFA in Europe, Concaf, as well in North America, Central America, you know, all of the kind of. of Western Hemisphere. You have, 41 countries in Konkakoff, Uifa, all the member countries in Europe, the U.S. football program, all basically saying hands off. It's a no confidence vote for Gianni Infantino as well. He may have to go now, you know, with this scam. And yet again, it was just something where it was, you know, not because of Trump or Infantino, they made this World Cup weird, but the best parts were when people could just enjoy sports.

And it brought people together in spite of Trump and Infantino and Giuliani trying to screw it up. But then they're like, how do we ruin this good thing even more? How do we ruin it? It's like, let's sell it off to private equity. And it also is important to note they're doing this with kids sports as well. These right wing MAGA extremists, I'm sure you're seeing raising up the price of children's sports to make it inaccessible. Sick. You know that's sick.

Housing. That's who they are. They want data centers in your back. They want to take away children's sports. These are real things. It's not fear mongering. They're telling you they're doing it. They want to take away.

They're like, you know, men and women's, they're taking away children's sports. They're taking away. They're taking away. We'll leave you on that note. Thanks, everybody. Hit the QR code. Appreciate you. Shout out Midas Mighty.

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