The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Cover-Up in Qatar US Base Gets Exposed

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s cover up of a successful Iranian strike of the US Military Base in Qatar finally being exposed. Go to https://Ground.News/MTN to cut through misinformation, critically analyze the news shaping our lives and hold the media accountable. Save 40% off unlimited access to Ground News with my link or scan the QR code on screen. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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 The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Another massive coverup by Donald Trump in Iran that we are able to expose here at the Midas Touch Network. Do you remember that after Iran launched a retaliatory strike against an American military base in Qatar launching 14 ballistic missiles at this al-Yudhid Air Force base that America has in Qatar that Donald Trump said that all 14 ballistic missiles sent by Iran were shot down successfully by the United States of America. He said, we shot them all down.

Well, now we're learning that that is false. At least one of the ballistic missiles was able to strike its target at the Al-Yudid Air Force Base in Qatar, controlled by the United States and it hit a geodesic radar dome that houses very sensitive communications by the United States military. It was a direct hit and the Trump regime tried to cover it up. We've been following the satellite images and we've been comparing and contrasting the images

on June 23rd when Iran launched its retaliatory strike against the United States following the US strike against Iran. So if you take a look right here, look close, you can actually see the area where the ballistic missile hit from Iran into this Air Force base. Now you take a look at the left side,

look at the split screen here, the before and after shot, before and after shot, take a look right here, and you can see where that geodesic dome, that radar dome was again, that houses all of this very critical communication infrastructure for the United States

at this base, cost at least $15 million. It was, there was a direct strike there by Iran. And again, this was covered up. And why do I say it was covered up? Well, here's Donald Trump in one of his recent pressers. And here he is basically saying, well, look, Iran told us they were coming.

They said that they told us what time. And we shot down every single one of their missiles. You now can see that that is 100% false. But here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it. And you know, we were at the end, missiles were shot, and every single missile was shot out of the air.

It was pretty amazing. That was sort of the end. And they told us they were coming, and where they were, and every single missile was shot out of the air. It was pretty amazing That was sort of the end and they told us they were coming and where they were and what time they were coming And they said if you'd like to have a different time, we'll do that and that's respect when they do that I appreciated that they did that there was no surprise. We got the soldiers out of The base in Qatar in this case, but they knew they were coming. 14 missiles were coming. And here's what Donald Trump said at a rally that he did in Des Moines, Iowa. Play this clip. And you saw that just the other day where the missiles are being shot down one after another. You know, they called me to tell me they have to take a shot at us. This was Iran, very respectful. That means they respect us because we dropped 14 bombs. They said, we'd like to take 14 shot at us." This was Iran. Very respectful. That means they respect us. Because we dropped 14 bombs.

They said, we'd like to take 14 shots at you. I said, go ahead. I understand. They said where they'd do it. I said, good. We emptied out the fort. It was a beautiful military base in Qatar who treated us really fantastically well. And they said, sir, one o'clock, okay. I said, it was was fine we could make it

later and we had nobody but four gunners we had for they call them gunners and they shoot the Patriots they shoot the missiles up it's hard to believe and here was Donald Trump giving a speech about what went down and Donald Trump talked about how he spoke with someone from Iran and they coordinated it together to hit an American military base. I mean, could you imagine if former President Biden, former President Obama was out there saying, yes, we invited Iran. We said, sure, go and attack our military base.

Here play this clip. Team missiles were shot at us the other day and they were very nice. They gave us warning. They said, we're going to shoot him. Is one o'clock okay? So here's how some of the intelligence observers are reporting this as well The Pentagon has now had to confirm for the first time today Since the attack occurred that at least one short medium-range ballistic missile fired by Iran was able to evade air defenses and impact the al-yudhid airbase in Qatar during the Iranian attack against the base on June 23rd. In a statement to Air and Space Forces magazine, Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell stated, one Iranian ballistic missile impacted Al Udeid Air Base on June 23rd, while the remainder

of the missiles were intercepted by the U.S. and Qatari air defense systems. This report goes on to say, after he said that, it goes on to say, while not directly denying any impact, US officials in the days and weeks after clearly attempted to downplay the Iranian attack lightly in an effort to not disrupt the swift ceasefire, and this is where, no, because Donald Trump lies about everything. That's why the United States downplayed it, because the United States systems did not fully work as planned, and they should have been honest with the American people right

away is what should have went down. By the way, remember the Pentagon spokesperson was also the person who was saying, what, a few weeks back that Iran would indeed be able to rebuild its nuclear program in about a year to two years. Remember, he's like, well, I think the thinking that we think that we think is, you know, the problem when you tell lies all the time like the Trump regime does, it's hard to keep your lies straight. Just a reminder, here's what he said here. Play this clip.

You know our assessment of the battle damage around four dough Nantes and is to find remains unchanged. I mean we we believe in certainly all of the intelligence that we've seen have led us to believe that Iran's those facilities especially have been completely obliterated. The interesting kind of side point about this, Tara, is that all of the conversations that we've had since Operation Midnight Hammer with our allies all around the world, but certainly also in the region, they say a couple of things. They share our sentiments about the degradation of Iran's nuclear program and the fact that we have degraded their program

by one to two years, at least Intel assessments inside the department assess that, and I think their intelligence shares that conclusion. Do you think these current assessments by this department think it's been degraded or delayed by one to two years? I think we're thinking probably closer to two years, like degraded their program by two years.

And folks, I wanna go deeper into the cover up from the Trump regime as well. But I think it's important that we have media literacy, right, and that we understand our sources of news to make sure we're getting accurate news. I mean, I'll just give you an example right here. The State Department is gutting like 15 percent of its workforce, somewhere between 1300 to 2000 employees are going to be fired No one on the right wing is talking about this at all zero right-wing media sources or 15% right-wing media sources are Talking about as they attempt to downplay Trump dismantling our security infrastructure

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All right. Going back to the videos right here as well, I think it's important to also mention one of the things that we've learned from Israeli intelligence. This is from Israel's intelligence, just so you know, right? So we know Europe's intelligence says that Iran's able to build a nuclear weapon again pretty soon if they want to do. We knew our own intelligence suggested that the United States strike on Iran's bases like Fordow and the other two were not as successful as Donald Trump and the regime claimed it

was going to be if it was to, it wasn't obliterated, set back, damaged, degraded shore, but the regime Trump used the word obliterated, they're done, right? And Donald Trump's like, well, there's nothing to see here and do here. We won. The war's over. We won. And it's like, that's just simply not what happened. Israel's intelligence agencies have concluded that some of Iran's stockpile of near-bomb

grade uranium survived the American strikes. That's according to Israeli officials. Now, I want to talk about this other cover-up in the region as well involving Iran. So Iran funds the Houthis in Yemen, the terrorist group, the Houthis, which has been destroying all of these commercial ships and has really been terrorizing the Red Sea and preventing commercial shipments in that area. And so you all remember that, remember Signalgate, which the Trump regime's like, it's okay. Those weren't classified war plans that involved America strikes on the Houthis.

Remember we lost what six to eight Reaper drones. We lost two fighter jets, hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. And then remember Donald Trump said, I've entered into a ceasefire with the Houthis. They're incredibly brave and great people, these Houthis. Great great people. Big fans of them. Remember he said that? And I was like, what the hell is happening here?

This was back in May when he said, when he was congratulating the bravery of the Houthis here, watch this. We had a very good outcome with the Houthis and we honor their word. They made a commitment and we dealt with other countries that were close to them and their surrogates and we honor all of their words. We'll see what happens, but I think, you know, I believe that hopefully that's over with and they'll leave but I think, you know, I believe that hopefully that's over with.

And they'll leave the ships alone, you know, just leave those ships alone. But so we do, we take their word for it. It was, you know, we hit them very hard. They had a great capacity to withstand punishment. They took tremendous punishment. And you know, you could say there's a lot of bravery there. It was amazing what they took. But we honor their commitment and they gave us their word that they wouldn't be shooting

ships anymore and we honor that. Well, just even over the past 24 to 48 hours, we've seen the Huthis attacking multiple cargo ships in the region. Fourteen Filipino sailors are still missing, 48 hours after the Houthis fired on the Greek-owned Magic Seas cargo ship with sea drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Four sailors already confirmed dead, on track to be the worst Houthi Red Sea massacre to date. Yemen's Houthis also released a video showing what went down. And then at least four crew members from another ship, the Eternity Sea, were killed and 15

others are missing as well. Multiple ships, multiple deaths going on right now in the Red Sea. And this is after, remember what the Trump regime said about the Houthis in Yemen, totally obliterated, degraded, cargo ships are going to be able to freely pass through the Red Sea, not happening another cover-up. And you heard what Donald Trump said there. So I'll remind you of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's testimony and Democratic Congress member Moulton really

put him in his place here. Play this clip. You talked about the success of the Houthi operation. About how much money did it cost? How much money did you spend on missiles shooting at the Houthis? Well you'd have to compare that with what it cost. I'm just asking how many how much did it cost? Deferred our shipping lanes around. I'm told it's several hundred million dollars maybe close to a billion dollars. How many US flag commercial ships have transited the Red Sea since your so-called successful operation? Well, thankfully, unlike the previous administration...

The answer is zero. Military vessels transited... No, no, no. I didn't ask about military vessels. I asked about commercial vessels. Well, which would be the precursor for... How many commercial vessels? It's been several weeks.

How many commercial vessels U.S. flagged have transited the Red Sea? Well, would you, Mr. Congressman, put civilian would you mr. Congressman put civilian ships the questions are not So more military sector there to you. We have responsibly put military. The answer is zero. I reclaim my time So it's important that we know the facts folks We give you the facts here at the Midas touch network do with them what you want but that's the facts you see the geodesic radar dome the radome just You see the geodesic radar dome, the radome just clobbered and that was covered up and now the Pentagon had to admit it. And we hit subscribe, let's get to 6 million subscribers.

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