The Young Turks - Donny's Tall Tales - March 23, 2026

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

Donald Trump claims the U.S. and Iran have held “productive” negotiations even as critics argue market swings tied to the conflict are being used as part of a broader economic strategy. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna blasts Lindsey Graham for pushing escalation around Iran’s Kharg Island, while JD Vance’s Middle East adviser steps down amid internal turmoil. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt Check out Pocket Hose and use my code TYT for a great deal: https://www.getcopperhead.com If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — check out plaud.ai Explore opportunities in more than 60 countries and apply at http://PeaceCorps.gov/serve Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Jordan Uhl SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Let's go. Thanks, Jake Huger, Jordan Yule with you guys today. So, big show ahead, Jordan. So we've got to talk about, oh, we're in negotiations with Iran and the war. Or are we?

Here, spoiler alert, we're not. Trump's lying. But why is he lying? Is it about the stock market? Is it about other things? And how is he lying? There's three preposterous lies. So we'll get to that in a minute.

And then J.D. Vance, oh, no, secretly he's against this war. Is he? That's a pretty good, well-kept secret there. And then turmoil within the Democratic Party, there's still very significant Democrats, full tilt defending APEC. I mean, why are people picking on poor A-PAC? Which really well-known senator said that? You'll find out later in the program.

All right, Jordan, what are we starting with? Well, President Donald Trump has backed off his threat of committing war crimes in Iran. Now he's claiming that the negotiations are going swimmingly. However, the Iranians are stating that no talks have even taken place. And you've got more of a jank. Who do you believe here? Yeah, I don't believe Trump 1%. and there's excellent reasons behind it.

He's going to do three preposterous lies here that Jordan's going to tell you in a second. So already you know who's not telling the truth. The Iranians are very adamant in a way that you will see that they are actually not interested in a ceasefire at all. And then later we'll get into, why is Trump even doing this? What's motivating him to tell this outrageous lie or series of lies? Go ahead, Jordan. On Saturday afternoon, Trump wrote the following on Truth Social. If Iran doesn't fully open without threat, the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point in time,

the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plans, starting with the biggest one first. Thank you for your attention to this matter, and he signs his name. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, that is considered a war crime. Iran did not comply with Trump's demand this morning, Trump stated, I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had over the last two days very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period. to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions. Now, the Jerusalem Post reported that according to an anonymous source, the Trump administration was negotiating with Iran's parliamentary speaker.

But that individual came out and denied the report. Writing here, Iranian people demand complete and remorseful punishment of the aggressors. All Iranian officials stand firmly behind their supreme leader and people until this goal is achieved. achieved. No negotiations have been held with the U.S. and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the U.S. and Israel are trapped. And we'll have more on allegations of market manipulation in the next story. In the meantime, let's talk about the other absurd claims that Trump is making. In the span of just one day, Trump stated that he achieved his goal of regime change in Iran, proposed that he could control the Strait of Hormuz, and claimed that Iran has abandoned their nuclear ambitions. Let's watch.

Mr. President, Iran's foreign ministry says you're not telling the truth when it comes to productive conversations. They're going to have to get themselves better in public relationships. We have had very, very strong thoughts. We'll see where they'll see where they're going to have to get themselves. They call, I didn't call, they called, they want to make a deal. And we are very willing to make a deal. It's got to be a good deal. And it's got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore.

They're agreeing to that. Any of that stuff, there's no deal. You said you got to get the enriched uranium. How are you going to get the enriched uranium? How are you going to get the enriched? Well, it's very easy. If we have a deal with that, we're going down and we'll take it ourselves. They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. That's number one. That's number one, two or three.

They will never have a nuclear weapon. They've said yes to that. What about the straight-up war moves? Who's going to be in control of that? That would be open. They're very soon if this works. How soon? And who's in control of it? Well, Iran still be able to control the flow of oil? Be as jugely sure. By who? Maybe me. President went on to say or insist that this is regime change because it's totally different.

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But according to a drop site news contributor, Steve Wickoff and Jared Kushner are in, Islamabad for talks with Iranian officials. That's according to their sources. And they add, I don't mean to imply here that the Iranians are talking with them. If my sources are correct, then it looks like these two have parked themselves in Islamabad waiting for someone from the other side to take the bait. So, Jenk, are they just sitting around in a hotel hoping someone shows up to negotiate? That is actually possible. Yeah. So, Look, let's talk about what we know and what we don't know, right? So first, there's three major lies here that you alluded to.

Let's explain this. Your US is currently negotiating with Iran, Trump says. Well, not only are the Iranians denying that in every way, but Trump's team and Israel seem to imply that he was negotiating with that guy from the parliament that George on radio tweet from, he's saying, no, we look forward to delivering devastating consequences to you guys. We're not interested in negotiations. That's been our government position from day one.

And there is no one across from Whitkoff and Kushner in Pakistan. So the facts seem to speak for themselves. Now it's not impossible that they went to Pakistan for some sort of secret negotiations. That does happen from time to time. So it's not out of the question, right? But it certainly doesn't appear that Trump is telling the truth there. based on all available evidence. Okay, but when you get to the other parts,

it becomes clear who's the pathological liar here. So as you saw in that clip, maybe we'll jointly control the Strait of Hormuz. And maybe it'll be me who controls it. That's not a thing. So we have nothing new with the Strait of Hormuz. We don't have a country near it. We don't have the right to control it.

Iran is saying we don't even wanna negotiate with you guys, let alone get to a piece deal, let alone get to a piece sale where we give up the most valuable thing we have, which is control over the Strait of Hormuz. This is all fantasy land, 100% made up by Donald Trump's mind. And then let alone, yeah, Iran, which is super pissed and has a strategy for this war to extend further. And we'll tell you why in a little bit, is suddenly going to give up that strategy and go, But you know what, we got a great person to lead the straight of hormones.

It's Donald Trump. Like if you believe that, you will believe literally anything, right? That isn't within a billion planets of true. So then Iran has decided to give up all of its nuclear, really? Then the war, I guess, is over. Iran has said no such thing, no such thing at all. So all three of these things, negotiating with Iran decided not to, Iran has decided not to pursue nuclear weapon or energy.

Trump could control the straight of whore moves, but to preposterous lies. So Jordan, we're going to get into different possible reasons that he's saying this. The markets are obviously a huge part of it. This news comes out on a Monday morning right before the market's open. Oh, we got this thing under control. And guess what he said, how long it would take for them to wrap up the negotiations? Five days until the market's closed again, right? So we'll get more into that in a second, but Jordan, I mean, this is embarrassing.

And are we supposed to debate this? Or like, what do we do with this? Like I'm sure I'm gonna be forced into a debate on it. I'm gonna go on Pierce Morgan or somewhere else and they're gonna say, okay, is it possible? Like, I'm gonna have to try to prove that no, the Iranians didn't secretly say Trump should have the straight of Hormuz, right? So like, what do we do when our president is not attached? reality and is it because it's embarrassing is it the markets or are his

advisor telling him things that aren't true and he's too stupid to realize it? Well I mean we see a lot of parallels here that we saw in Gaza. Any attempt at diplomacy was undermined especially there by Israel and we're seeing the same thing happen here. I mean they're bragging about the the number of people in Iranian leadership that they have killed. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a similar pattern of, oh, talks are progressing, suddenly Israel swoops in and kills the negotiating officials. I mean, I don't think we reach a diplomatic conclusion, especially in such a short time frame when you have, I mean, right before

we went live, Netanyahu put out a statement in Hebrew, a video saying, they're pressing on. So it's two totally different messages, but we know who's really calling the shots. It's Netanyahu. And he's not going to just take orders from Trump. He might, you know, publicly grant deference to Trump. But no, they do their own thing. We saw it in Gaza. Any attempt at a ceasefire deal was undermined by them deliberately. We'll see the same thing here. But yeah, it's, we'll get into it in a more substantive fashion later on in the show. But it's very clear. He's sent. one thing when the markets are closed and another when they're open. It's baffling to me that traders and people on Wall Street are kind of believe seems like they're believing him or at least acting

like there's some substance to his markets open language. It just seems totally transparent what he's doing here. Yeah. So look, that one's the easy explanation. People on Wall Street are way, way dumber than people realize. That is why the market keeps crashing. Crash 2000, 2008, it's about to crash now. Why? Because the idiots in Wall Street

are always like, oh, everyone's buying? Buy, buy, buy, buy, everybody's selling. Sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. Utter morons. Lemmings. They just happen to be in finance. That's where the money is, and our media kisses their ass like there's some sort of masters of the universe.

No, to believe Donald Trump on this shows by definition you are not bright, okay? And am I saying that about almost all of Wall Street? Hell, yeah, I am. That's right. They are not masters of the universe. They're generally not that bright. They go with the crowd every single time, and they're making a massive mistake here.

Oh, did I say that when the Dow was over 50,000, as Pam Bondi screamed. And I said, no, it'll go down. And what happened? All the geniuses on Wall Street said it'll go up. Well, it's now at 46,000 some odd and dropping. So they lost three, four thousand off that high, and there's a lot more to go. Okay, but last thing's here. Yeah, the Israelis kind of panicked to the Jordan's point.

And bunch of Israeli government officials leaked to or talk to the press here in America. They're like, no, no, no, no, there's no negotiations. We have not allowed negotiations. America shut up and get back to the war, right? And then apparently that didn't work well enough. So then Netanyahu had to do it in Hebrew and tell everybody, don't worry, America's still on our reach and we're still going with this war. And I didn't give him any Trump, that idiot, any permission to do any peace negotiations.

Oh, well, thank you for the clarification on what's actually happening and who actually runs things. So as you'll see here, Netanyahu is right, Trump is wrong, there are no negotiations and the war will continue because Israel wants it to continue. Yeah, I mean, there was reporting also in the public. and maybe this will be covered tomorrow, but intelligence officials are saying that there's no real outcome here that results in a clear win with these plainly stated objectives from the Trump administration. They're privately expressing doubt that they can ever completely

remove Iran's nuclear capabilities. They're saying at best, maybe there is some resolution. resolution and it results in freedom of movement to borrow a phrase from the Trump administration in the Strait of Hormuz, and then the Trump administration sees that, finds it sufficient, and declares victory. But they're not like you said, it's clearly like regime change. No, it's all the same people. You mean, you're seeing the same thing in Venezuela. The government over the weekend, or late last week, officially recognized Delcee Rodriguez as a leader of Venezuela,

and that has some of the more hawkish conservatives in Congress upset. But all they did was just take out the figurehead. And again, we're seeing a lot of parallels here. They take out one person or a group of people. The government still remains intact. And they're like, oh, we did it. What that results in, as we've seen time and time again, is an emboldening of people. And incites even more hatred and anger toward the United States, which manifests sometimes

in violent retaliation. So I don't know what they think is going to be the end result here, but I can assure you, none of it is good. Yeah, lastly for me then. So look, Israel made the goals perfectly, purposely impossible so that you could never end the war. So this is the same thing they did with Gaza. Okay, oh, they have to all surrender.

They have to return all the hostages, including all the dead hostages that we bombed, Israel bombed, and buried into the ground. But okay, somehow they miraculously did all that. Now they have to give up all their weapons. How do we know when all their weapons are gone? We can't ever know that said the war is permanent, right? So in Iran, they set up impossible goals that we have to get every single piece of enriched uranium out of Iran. How do we know when we got all their enriched uranium out?

Then they tried this absurd goal of we have to get rid of all their roadside bombs. What roadside bombs? There's not even any ground troops yet. What are you talking about? So they make it purposely impossible so that the war is endless. Now, Donald Trump being an absolute schmuck plus indebted to the Israelis for a number of reasons went along with that. But since he's so infinitely stupid, what he doesn't understand is, yeah, but brother, when

you state the impossible goals and you have to leave, it's gonna look like you lost. And the Israelis are gonna dangle that over your head? Oh yeah? If you leave now, we're gonna have Mark Levin and Jake Tapper and Axios and everyone say, loser weak, couldn't accomplish the goals, or you're weakling, you better stay in there longer, you better put in ground troops. So that's the game that's being played. And Trump is either a willing participant in that for a number of reasons or the very

useful idiot. And look, if you want to know a constructive answer for how to get out, it's super easy. We make a deal with Iran. Don't attack us. Don't attack any of our allies in the Gulf. open up the Strait of Hormuz, you're free to go on about your business. You deal with Israel anyway, you like, Israel deals with you anyway, they like. Not our war, not our problem.

Hey, we opened up the Strait of Hormuz. We're back in business. Let's go home, okay? Easy peasy. The only people who don't want that are the warmongers in Israel who think America haven't paid a big enough price yet for them to destroy their neighbors. You know the hardest part of starting TYT? It wasn't being on camera.

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slash t-y-t. That's Shopify.com slash t-y-t. Let's get into our next story on market manipulation here, starting with this. The concern is that Donald Trump is trying to protect the markets. In the meantime, this is all misdirection. It's not just about the markets. It's that the U.S. is gearing up for major escalation in Iran. Maybe not. Trump has consistently said, no, no, no, no, we're going to wind things down. In the meantime, the actions have spoken much, much louder. All right. So what is actually driving Donald Trump? Is it the markets? Is it a delay to get further into this war as the ground troops are on their way? As simple. references there? Is it because Donald Trump actually wants to create more excuses to stay in the war?

Israel isn't done yet. There's so many possibilities here. But the markets seem like an overwhelming part of the reason. Let's show you the evidence. Jordan, tell us about it. Well, today, Tim Poole argued that President Donald Trump is lying about talks in Iran in order to juice the stock market. Over the weekend, while the market was closed, Trump stated that the U.S. was prepared to strike Iran's power plants. This morning, before the market opened, Trump claimed that the U.S. and Iran had begun negotiations. So those strikes were called off. To give you an idea of what that announcement did to the stock market at 7.4 a.m. Eastern today,

Trump said the U.S. and Iran have had productive discussions to end the war. By 710, the SMP 500 surged 240 points, adding $2 trillion in market cap. 27 minutes later, Iran completely denied all of Trump's claims and said there has been no contact with the U.S. By 8 a.m., the S&P 500 had fallen 120 points, erasing $1 trillion in market cap. That's a $3 trillion swing in 56 minutes, just. in the SMP 500. With that, here's more from Tim Poole.

Now I got to tell you, my friends, if you had information pertaining to Trump's announcement, you just got rich. That's just, there's no question about it. I mean, you put a couple million bucks in, you see a massive spike, get paid, baby. Now, maybe not super rich, but let me give you the story first, and then I want to show you what's really interesting here,

And that is a day or so ago, I noticed, or everybody did, there was a tweet. Polymarket insiders, apparently, were making a big bet on an Iranian ceasefire by March 31st. They bet massive amounts of money. And then we get this message. This is not Trump on a whim. This was pre-planned messaging for Monday morning, probably over the weekend. And insiders knew. Now, Timpull isn't the only one who's suggesting that Trump is rigging the markets.

An anonymous Israeli security official stated, I'd approach Trump's announcement cautiously with a grain of salt. It's early Monday morning in the U.S., the start of the trading week. Markets opened higher, largely as expected, following the weekend reports on the negotiations and the latest statement by Trump. For now, it appears Trump has bought a few more days roughly into week four until the Marines arrive and, complete their initial deployment and organization phase. In a substack piece, Matt Stoller pointed out more instances of what appears to be market manipulation. The war began in the early morning of February 28th. The administration had 36 hours of uninterrupted strikes before the Asian markets and U.S.

futures opened the next Sunday evening. On Monday, March 9th, Trump said the war would end very soon in that they were ahead of schedule. The SMP was down on the day when he made these comments. It immediately jumped to a gain. Last Monday on March 16th, Scott Bessent went on to the morning show squat box before the markets opened and claimed and claimed that more oil is flowing through the Strait of Formoos. Again, the markets jumped and oil fell. Chank, what a clear scam. What do you make of this?

Yeah. So I think that it's multifaceted. Is it about the markets, indisputably? Because he's doing all this timed exactly to the markets. Matt Stoller is right about it, but really anyone with eyes can tell, right? So as soon as the markets close on Friday, they deliver all the bad news and they do the huffing and the puffing and the threatening. And right before the market's open, they're like, oh, and everything's fine, we're about

to have a piece deal any second, any second now, right? And so people know this about Trump in the markets when it comes to tariffs, and they call it Taco, right? Trump always chickens out. And so I don't know if the traders in Wall Street are too ignorant to understand how the impossible it is to quote unquote win this war based on the goals that Donald Trump has suggested, taking out all the enriched uranium in Iran, we would need a massive amount of ground troops, there's almost no way to find it, et cetera, we're reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but that actually was not even in the goals initially because the strait was open before we needlessly attacked, right?

But the idea that the regime, everyone in the regime is going to surrender and we're going to get someone that is not in the regime, like purposely impossible goals that Israel has set so the war never ends. But a lot of people on Wall Street probably don't know that. They figured out Donald Trump is lying about tariffs, but when it comes to war, maybe they're knuckleheads and they still think like, oh, yes, Donald Trump is telling the truth about this. I bet he knows a lot about war and strategy.

Guys on Wall Street aren't that bright. So it's entirely possible. But it's definitely going to stop working at some point. I mean, as George W. Bush famously said, fool me once. Shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again. Right? So like after he's tricked Wall Street 211 times, they're going to catch on and go,

all right, the war is not ending, we should continue the panic, right? So could he end the war if he wanted to? Of course, which leads to the other issues here, which is that, no, this war will be over on a couple of possibilities, right? One is Israel says, okay, we have destroyed our neighbors enough. And in the meanwhile, we took southern Lebanon, as we ordered the American media, they completely ignored it. As we ignore the, as we ordered the American politicians, distract everyone, go kill a bunch of Americans in Iran,

destroy that country so that we have no opponents in our regional superpower goals, let alone as Zanyahu said, global superpower. So do all of that. And then we will give America permission to leave the war. Okay, so once you start seeing tea leaves from the Israelis that they want to end it, okay, that's real, right? Until then, Donald Trump thinks Jordan that he can manipulate the markets long enough. He doesn't know when the war's going to end. He's waiting for his orders from Netanyahu. And then he thinks also on top of this, oh, USS Tripoli is going from Japan, USS Boxers going from California, and the extra ground troops that Netanyahu is ordered in are not

there yet. In his infantile mind, he thinks, I'm tricking their radios again. They think we're doing a beast deal. But I'm sending a ground truce to attack him and a surprise. We all know, idiot. We can see the ships moving. We know they have ground trips in him, right? And I'm tricking the markets.

Well, that one he's kind of right about because they're so stupid. They still believe in Donald Trump, at least half the time. We'll see how it turns on the next couple of days. So he thinks he's checking off a bunch of boxes with these moronic lies. But, Jordan, as you know, reality has a way of catching up with you. Yeah, I mean, this. The insider trading or betting, all of this stuff, I think we have to see through the lens of another upward transfer of wealth. You have people connected to the elites who apparently have insider information, placing large bets, and profiting.

I mean, that money is people who aren't in the know, who are purely speculating and losing. And then you're seeing traders potentially, like, not that I want to give him credit, someone I don't care for. But as Tim Poole points out, if you were to make futures bets on the performance of the S&P, for instance, you would benefit from Trump's actions, his statements. If you're in his inner circle or have a source in his inner circle, again, you're benefiting from people who are. are not in the know. And I just, when you have a multi-trillion dollar swing in an hour, this guy is a lunatic. I mean, not that I really care about the bottom lines of Wall Street firms or day traders, but just in general, that's an unhealthy sign for an economy that a president making an announcement or making a threat or making a false claim can send shock

waves through an already volatile market. But again, I can't lose sight of the consequences here. The result of this action is higher oil prices for us. And we'll get into more later. This is something that J.D. Vance fully acknowledged in those signal groups that Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic was in. He knew it was a possibility. He knew going in when we were attacking the Houthis in Yemen, even just being in the straight of Hormuz would cause higher oil prices. So they knew this was a consequence and they know ultimately deep down it affects us, everyday people, and they don't care. Yeah.

So last two things here on this story, because I think they're really interesting and surprising. So Donald Trump then tried to browbeat the oil companies. Hey, you know what, the oil prices are high. It's hurting the markets. And so that's it. I told you drill, baby drill. I want you to drill more. So then the oil companies were like, yeah, but bro, you're telling us the war's going to be over in a couple of months.

And then all the gas prices are going to drop. All your, everybody on TV is saying that. And it takes a long time for me to drill. So if I start drilling in Venezuela or more in America and then you're right. And the war does end soon and the prices do drop, then I'll lose money on those rigs and those wells. So I don't want to do that. In fact, an anonymous oil and gas executive, Graphics 8 here, told Politico, Church Secretary Scott Bessent says oil prices will fall in a few months.

It takes several months to stand up a rig and drill from scratch. Why would I expand my drilling campaign? Now if prices will fall. So there's two things in that statement. One is what Trump is asking me to do is irrational. So as an executive, I'm not going to do that. not going to voluntarily lose money for my company? What, for patriotism or something?

No, my answer is hell no, I'm not gonna do it. Secondly, they're beginning to realize, oh, Donald Trump might not have any idea what he's talking about. It could last a couple of months, it could last a couple of years, but I don't know which one, and what they're not going to do is take outsize risks. So that is a giant part of the business community is knowing how to contain your risk. By the way, did you guys know after all that drill baby drove? There's actually 39 less wells this year than there were last year in America.

Because a lot of the oil companies were like, thank you very much for the higher prices. We don't want prices falling, so we don't want to drill more, because that'll create more supply, and have the prices fall. So we'd rather just take the oil and we have now, and even less, and drive up prices. So that's what's actually going on the ground. But wait, Jordan, this happened right before the show started too. Trita Parsi has been excellent in covering Iran more so far. Had this amazing post on X about how Iran is profiting from this war incredibly.

And that's why they also don't want to stop. Let me break it down for you guys here. Or let me let Trita break it down for you. He says, energy industry insider in Iran tells me the following. And it is stunning. Before the war, Iran produced just shy of 1.1 million barrels of oil per day and sold it at $65 per barrel minus $18 discount. So that's $47. Today it produces 1.5 million barrels a day, so 400,000 more and sells it at $110. So that's a hell of a lot more than $65 with only $2 to $4 discount.

And this does not include petrochemical sales that not only have increased but are now being sold. to a larger set of customers compared to before the war. Moreover, Iran is receiving payments through new mechanisms that bypass the UAE, which are set up after the June war. In essence, this is really important to understand. Trump and Israel's war has ended up delivering Iran de facto sanctions relief. This means that Iran is all the less incentivized to end the war unless the agreement provides Iran with formal sanctions relief.

So for the folks who don't know it, I just want to flesh it out. just a little bit more before I hand it back to Jordan. So guys, we had these deep sanctions and all prices were a little bit lower. So Iran is having a lot of trouble making enough money. But now because oil prices are so much higher and they don't have to worry about the sanctions, this is the amazing part. Because we were so panicked about oil prices that Trump was like, yeah, let Iran sell a lot of their oil.

And the Russians, they could sell the sanctioned oil on the seeds as well. So Iran's like, wait, now the sanctions are basically de facto off of us. We make so much more money from the oil. What are you nuts? I don't want this war to end. Iran's getting richer or not poorer. They've blocked the strait of Hormuz. They're in control of the battlefield in a shocking way because of that.

They're doing damage to Israel. They don't want anyone to attack them again. So now they've lined up so many incentives to not stop this war. I'm not sure you could bungle it any worse than this, Jordan. Look, I love my yard, and I wanted to look good, just like the next guy, but I absolutely hate dealing with the tools, especially the hose. You know what I'm talking about? I drag it out, it immediately kinks, gets tangled in the bushes,

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Like, we can never rule that out. But not to scare people even more, the Texas Tribune did a story today about how Corpus Christi, which refines about 5% of the nation's oil, is potentially going to be facing a water shortage within the next two months, which would impact output there. which would even further strain the oil supply, driving up the prices across the board, and especially jet fuel, diesel, which makes the cost of goods higher because of transport, which makes it harder for people to travel. I mean, you could basically say goodbye to summer vacation for a lot of people,

thanks to the Trump administration. I mean, the thing is, they ran on gas and groceries, and those are higher, and they're getting even higher now. After the first year, saying be patient, we have a plan after their tariff policy made everything and more expensive. Now their war is adding another level to this component. I mean, I would be shocked if it's not a complete and total bloodbath come November. Yeah, so super last thing.

Guys, Trump is promising to hit Iran's oil energy and electric grids. So then Iran then threatened to hit our Gulf country allies, oil fields, gas fields, and electric grids. Do you know what happens to the price of oil when that happens? I don't think we've ever seen it in our lifetimes. We warned you about $100 per barrel. Then at $120, it looked like it might be, as some analysts were saying, total economic destruction. At one point, we reached $119 per barrel. Now I saw an analyst today talking about if they destroy each other's oil fields, we're

talking about oil at $250 to $300 a barrel. That is worldwide pulverizing of the entire global economy. So that's, we're on the brink here of utter madness brought to you by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. And this is before the ground troops and the ground troops are on their way. It's disaster on top of disaster. Yes, the only positive silver lining and gain out of this is that Trump and his allies will be utterly routed in November.

I mean, they will live in shame for as long as anyone can remember after this. The only way that Trump could possibly get out of this is just cut his losses right now and say, hey, Israel, it's your problem, and utterly leave the battlefield and go, hey, we reopened up the strait of hormoos, we made a deal with Iran, we're out of here. If he doesn't do that, these dominoes that Jordan and I are talking about are pretty much inevitable. So everybody buckle up and brace her impact. All right, we've got to take a break here. When we come back, well, here comes the ground troops. All right, right back.

We just keep bombing our little hearts out. Shut up, boo. All right, let's start with Twitch randomly. Queenie 9, 93, 36 says gas is almost doubled here in Virginia. People are gonna have to start carpooling to work. NDH 101 says our government is completely worthless. That's for sure. Microgram says the insiders are the same thing betting on Venezuela, attack a few new accounts with little to know history, made six figures profits.

So now we go to our members on t.y.com. Little Mac Macchee says, Iran won't take that deal, jank, the one I'm talking about where we leave and basically say open up the straight of Hormuz, stop attacking our allies other than Israel. And he's saying Iran won't even take that. Iran's not just going to let us walk away. Now you add to that deal that we will cease any and all aid to Israel, then Iran might take it. That would be amazing? And man, would I do that deal at a second flat? And I'd love to see the Israeli supporters cry about, oh, but we're owned by America. No, we're not, we don't know you, a goddamn thing. Peter Zizi Zee says Iran will never change his position on Israel.

They see it as an illegal occupation, so do all the Arab countries behind closed doors. So how does that perception ever change? Well, they got, brother, this is super simple. Make it peace deal with the Palestinians and the occupation. But Israel doesn't want to do that. They want to murder them and take their land. So as long as we have a murderous, fascist regime in Israel, the wars will never end, never end.

And Israel has to want peace and they don't right now. They want fascism and terrorism. So that's what we're living under. We'll be back. We just keep bombing our little hearts out. Shut up, boo. We're back on T.YT chain, Jordan, the Umakaram gifted 20 memberships. We appreciate you.

Happy Warrior gifted one membership on YouTube. We love you guys for it. I forgot to tell you we have a poll up on t.yt.com. Who do you believe Iran or Trump on whether we're negotiating or not? I mean, as one of our members here on t.u.t.com, little Mac McChese said, it's a very sad day when I 100% believe Iran without question before my own government. That is a very, very sad day. Our government should be 10,000 times better than that, but unfortunately often they're not. All right, Jordan, what's next?

Take a look at this. Mr. President, take Karg Island, this war is over. We did Igima. We can do this. The Marines, my money is always on. the Marines. It's been reported that the U.S. is allegedly gearing up to launch a ground invasion of the Iranian island of Karg. It's Iran's primary hub for oil exports. And while most people see this as a terrible move, Warhawks like Lindsay Graham are egging it on, even if it means sending our servicemen on a potential suicide mission. We've got more, but, Jank, you're two cents here. I mean, look, it's so frustrating to debate with these people. If we take Karg Island,

he said, the war is over. Who thinks the war is going to be over once we put in ground troops? Only a dishonest Israeli would say that. And that's who Lindsey Graham, he works through Israel. He's their servant, and he wants to drag us deeper into the war, get more Americans killed. So as benefactors like the defense contractors and the Israeli government will get their goals at the expense of the American people. That's why that demonic Lindsey Graham is trying to get more of our guys killed by pushing us into this nonsense. And when he's wrong about that, and it'll be the 200th thing in a row that he's wrong about, will we stop listening to him? Will news anchors say, hey, moron of morons, didn't you say everything like this about Iraq?

And you were wrong about every single thing you have ever said. So why don't you shut up already, you stupid traitor? Okay, but my guess is our news anchors will be like, oh, that's fantastic. More war for Israel. Thank you, Lindsay Graham. And so far, that's all they've done. And wait, we haven't even gotten to, unfortunately, Trump is of course going to listen to him because he speaks for the Israelis. So you're going to be forced into the slaughter at Cargaylan.

So Jordan, tell us about it. Well, according to the Jerusalem Post yesterday, senior U.S. officials have informed their counterparts in Israel and other nations in recent days that it appears there may be no alternative but for the United States to launch a ground military operation to seize the Iranian island of Kark, to compel Iran to stop blocking vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. A source told the post that the military has already accelerated the deployment of thousands of. Marines and Navy personnel to the region. The deployment includes the USS Boxer Amphibious Readiness Group, featuring the Amphibious Assault Ship USS Boxer, which functions as a light aircraft carrier alongside the amphibious transport docks USS Portland and USS Comstock.

These three vessels carry approximately 4,500 Marines and additional combat personnel. Now, Lindsey Graham was thrilled about this during his appearance on Fox News yesterday. Here's what I tell President Trump, keep it up for a few more weeks, take Carg Island where all of the resources they have to produce oil, control that island, let this regime down a vine. Is this going to, though, take Carg Island? Is it going to involve U.S. troops on the ground? Let me just read you something from the Atlantic does an assessment on that. They say U.S. troops may well take Carg Island. We believe their ability to do so. but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support.

The result could be a grinding war of attrition. They talk about how far away they would be from resupply. I'm sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback, and this has been amazing military operation. God bless the fallen. But it's a difference when we talked about troops on the ground. I trust the Marines, not that guy. I trust DOD.

We got two Marine Expeditionary units, sailing to this island. We did Eogima. We can do this. We already know Lindsay Graham has no soul, but that appearance made it evident for some of his Republican colleagues in Washington, including Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who posted to X, I am deeply upset at the lack of respect for life Senator Lindsay Graham is displaying when talking about our troops. He's acting as if they are expendable cattle. This is unacceptable in dark. There were over 26,000 American casualties at Iwo Jima. Now, Iwojima is considered one of the bloodiest battles in the Marine Corps history,

lasting for 36 days in an effort to take control of the Japanese island during World War II. And yes, well, it was an American victory. It was at high cost. Nearly 7,000 Marines were killed. Another 20,000 were wounded. So clarification on some of the numbers in that tweet. However, Graham went on to argue, taking control of the island would be for, Israel's benefit, not America's.

Today we control that island, this regime, this terrorist regime has been weakened. It will die on a vine. And here's what I want to do. I want to get with Chris. I want to sprint to peace. As the war winds down, I want peace to ramp up. The reason we don't have Saudi Arabia and Israel making peace is October the 7th, 2023, Iran through Hamas, attacked Israel, stopping normalization.

I want to take up and complete what Biden started. As soon as we get Iran defang so they can never do another October 7th, I want to start up peace dogs between Saudi and Israel. This year, I want a peace deal between Saudi and Israel normalizing, ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It's been going on for 2,000 years this year, and you can't do it with a lethal Iran. So we're weeks away from this Iranian regime, not having the capability to stop peace. The thing is our servicemen don't want to die for Israel.

An anonymous veteran and reservists stated, I'm hearing out of service members mouths, the words, we do not want to die for Israel. We don't want to be political pawns. Huff Post spoke to several active duty soldiers, reservists, and advocacy groups, and they're reporting, quote, vulnerability, overwhelming stress, frustration, and disillusionment to the degree that they may leave the military. A military official who is treating service members evacuated from the Middle East to Landstool Regional Medical Center in Germany amid Iran's retaliation, said troops are suffering from inadequate force protection and planning and already reporting a severe

destabilizing toll from Iranian ballistic missiles and drones that have been repeatedly striking American military facilities. They added, a ground operation would be an absolute disaster. We don't have a plan for that, the official said earlier this week. We can't even fully defend a single land base in the theater. There's currently 1.3 million military personnel in the United States, and while there's no indication of a mass exodus, troops are looking at other options, including filing to be a conscientious objector, someone who refuses to serve in the armed forces due to moral or religious beliefs. Mike Prisner, the executive director of the Center on Conscience and War said his group would in past years

here from between 50 and 80 troops annually. The month of March has seen a 1,000% increase, he added, saying at least one new service member now contacts the organization daily. On Friday, he wrote on X that his group is handling expedited objector applications by Army, Navy, and Marines personnel who were told they will be deploying this week. weekend. Jank? Yeah, so a number of things here. Lizzie Graham starts with, I mean, we took Iwo Jima, and 26,000 Americans died, but 26,000

Americans is a small price to pay for Israel feeling a tiny bit better about being a global superpower. So, you know, Israel has given Lindsey Graham millions of dollars are disgustingly dishonest He says it hasn't affected Lindsey Graham at all. Back here in the real world, we all know that Lindsay Graham works for Israel. And in fact, you don't have to take my word for it. He just told you. We showed you that video.

And he's like, we have to take Car Garland because that's going to help Israel dealing with Iran's threat. And then October 7th about Israel, Israel, Israel, and then that's going to help the Saudis make a deal with Israel. And then Israel is going to get to not keep their, going to keep their occupation and annex. So Len, he didn't say that part. But we'll get to Arab Israel peace deal. Brother, you're the senator from South Carolina, not from Tel Aviv.

But he doesn't care. None of our politicians care. The Democrats don't care. The Republicans don't care. They all work for Israel. It's super obvious. What did Biden do? Oh, I am so worried about the Palestinians.

Here's $21 billion. Israel continue to slaughter them. And at American taxpayers expense, China, we'd like to borrow 21 billion more to pay for Israel's genocide. Shut up Americans, you're going to pay for that. Your children are going to pay the interest. Your grandchildren are going to pay the interest. Bounda Israel. And so Biden said it, Trump says it, Lizzie Graham says it, everyone on TV says it.

So now we're going to have to go die on Carg Island for Israel. Okay, so that's just baked in. Nothing in the world is going to stop that. The ships are already on their way. Once they send in the ships to do whatever those guys need to do, those ships are designed for, they're going to do it. It's not a bluff. It's not a strategy.

It's not leverage. Okay, and they're bringing in all these ground troops about 2,500 to 2,200 per ship. Three different ships are on their way. So of course we're going to put in brown troops. Israel already ordered it. We don't have a choice. All our politicians work for them. More on that later.

Should people declare themselves conscientious objectors from this war? Of course they should. That's not even close. Muhammad Ali did it with Vietnam. And he said, my religion does not allow me to kill innocent people in Vietnam. That's not just true of Islam, that's also true of Christianity, of course. And by the way, there's also Christians in areas that we bomb. And Christians all over the West Bank, and there were in Gaza until Israel murdered them.

There's still a couple left. They bomb churches all the time, but we're all told, no, no, no, everybody bow your head to Israel. And we don't care about your stupid religion, whether it's Christianity or Islam. Well, make them care. Your religion does not allow you to prohibit, does not allow you to kill innocent people on the behalf of a different religion, by the way. And by the way, Israel doesn't represent that religion either. They just pretend to represent that religion. So, yeah, this is not close.

They're definitely going to force us into ground troops. It's definitely going to end very poorly. And you'd be nuts to die for Israel. Absolutely nuts. There's zero American interest, none whatsoever here. We already wiped out their nuclear facilities. We already killed their top 49 leaders. We've already decimated their entire military.

And they couldn't possibly reach us if they tried. The only way they could possibly reach us is if the Israelis make us bring our troops in as sitting ducks so that they can pound them on Carg Island or wherever we put them. So when more Americans die, it is 100% because of Israel. And don't you forget that? Because if you forget it like you did in the Iraq war, oh, whoa, the media told us, oh, we've learned our lessons from Iraq, have you? Fake weapons of mass destruction again.

And we have to listen to Israel again. We have to do another war, giant war in the Middle East for no goddamn reason. Again, what lesson did you learn? You don't learn a goddamn thing, you work for Israel, man. I'm so sick of everyone in power in this country, demanding that every American work for Israel, every ground troop, no, that's it, go die, go die for Israel. You're nuts, no way should you die for Israel. When you sign up for the military of this country, you signed up to protect the United

States of America. Any other country not Bolivia not Kazakhstan not freaking Israel okay and yes all of our religions prohibit the kind of genocide death and destruction that Israel continues to demand every single day of us so of course you should object to the senseless slaughter that Israel is ordering America into that is obvious all right back the Dow is over 50,000 dollars I don't know why you're laughing All right, guys, one way that you can help the show is ring the bell, okay? Keep track of the show.

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He's going to gain more power. Plus, Israel gets the exact order that they ordered. Schumer can't believe his luck, right? And Hakeem Jeffries is the same exact thing. I mean, he's still counting money from APEC. He's like, oh, where is it? I got more money from APEC, everybody, more money. Yes.

Oh, I am technically against this war. I will do nothing to oppose it. Anyway, we've got more on that later. Old Woodman 53 says, Russia is gaining $150 million to $600 million per day from oil exports. And as the war with Iran continues will likely increase, current estimates suggest Moscow has already received the windfall between $1.3 billion and $1.9 billion from oil export taxes

following the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which drove up demand for Russian oil from India and China. Brought to you by the morons in the Trump administration. And the Israelis who are like, who cares? All other countries are irrelevant. It. Russia is benefits for it. Who cares? Holy Israel. Right? And I see all of them, the Mark Levins and the Laura Lumas all over our media, let alone every single cable news anchor. ALC 7701 says, isn't it amazing that we export most of our fossil fuels to other countries?

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Drill baby drill doesn't help you, it only helps oil companies. And more and more people are finding that out. Now they should have known that from day one, except everyone in mainstream media is a liar, and they kept that incredibly important fact from the American people to help. the donor class. Anyways, we on the other hand try to help you guys. So if you're starting your own business, at some point you're gonna need a shop. We have shoptyt.com.

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possible? Do you think that'll happen? So I don't think that this glass is tall enough. I need a taller glass of shut up juice for J.D. Vance. If he doesn't publicly say something about how deeply he objects to the Iran war right now. If he's going to come during the election and tell us, oh, secretly, I was against the war as I helped the war go further and further in, and ground troops went in and they got slaughtered. But secretly, I was against it. Yeah, that crap's not going to fly, okay? Go tell that to stupid people.

But I got a lot more where that came from and why they're doing this strategy right now. Jordan, give us the facts first. Well, with all of this is a backdrop, one of Vance's advisors on the Middle East, was Hassanen just resigned. Bloomberg government reported that his exit from Vance's team on Monday. His departure comes as Operation Epic Fury enters its fourth week, and his questions loom about how enthusiastic Vance has been about the operation,

with Politico reporting earlier this month that the vice president was, quote, skeptical about military strikes. That Politico report, stated Vance, who has long questioned U.S. intervention abroad, has publicly defended Trump's Iran operation. But White House officials reveal that the vice president made his opposition known in the lead-up, pulling the curtain open after months of speculation about Vance being far more tepid about military action than Trump. Vance is, quote, skeptical, is, quote, worried about success and just opposes the war on Iran, A senior Trump official said via text message, the official was granted anonymity to speak about the vice president's views.

This wouldn't be the first time that Vance privately expressed doubt about Trump's foreign policy decisions. In March of 2025, when the Trump administration was attacking the Houthis in Yemen, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic was added to a signal group accidentally by now ambassador to the UN, Michael Walls. In that group chat, Vance blasted the strikes as a, quote, mistake and added, I'm not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with this message on Europe right now. There's a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I'm willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there's a strong argument for delaying this month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, et cetera. Now, as the war with Iran enters its fourth week, the co-founder of the American Conservative

is publicly calling for Trump's removal from office. Scott McConnell here posted on X, my advice to advance. Announce your support of 25th Amendment transition, say Chris Murphy, or similar will be Veep, announced you will not be a candidate in 28, use your position, access to the media, to explain why this is necessary, don't resign. Unsurprisingly, his followers were baffled by this suggestion, perhaps in part because he co-founded the outlet that published this piece that we covered two years ago, arguing that Trump should serve a third term. Jank, what do you make of this? Yeah, I have a different theory in the American conservative.

I'll do that one first real quick. Look, I don't know about them in particular in this particular writer, but I do know that the donors like stability, right? One of the reasons that Israel preferred Ron DeSantis during the primaries in this cycle, and you could tell by who Apex is giving money to, the Israeli lobby is giving money to in the primaries. Once Trump wins, and then they load up on him in the general election anyway to cover their bases. But guys like Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio are more predictable. So you bribe them, they stay bribed, they don't have an independent judgment, They're not wild erratic characters like Donald Trump.

So one of the reasons why some on the right might want to get rid of Donald Trump is, well look, we got the nice orange buffoon to start the war for us. So but you never know, maybe you'll get rattled and want to pull out. And Israel has not given permission to pull out yet. So maybe we replace them with a more reliable robot, right? And that might be J.D. Vance. So now, wait a minute, how does that make sense? JD Vance, according to these stories, appears opposed to some of Israel's wars.

There's no chance that's true. There was a huge story when the war began that explained how Trump got pushed into the war. When there was a critical moment when he asked J.D. Vance. And J.D. Vance actually said to him, according to that story, go big and go fast. He talked Trump out of smaller limited strikes against Iran and instead talked to him into a full-scale war. So which one is it, JD, when he thought the war was going well? Leak, leak, leak, oh, I'm totally in favor of this war. I was a hero who said, go big and fast.

War is going poorly. Oh, remember, leak, leak, leak, leak, I am against the war. I am the true America first. Hold on Benjamin. I'll get back here in a second. Ben, come here, you crazy dog, we'll be drinking. Yes, oh, I am against the Israelis and the war. You can trust me.

Well, connected source my ass. It's probably literally J.D. Vance, but it's calling these reporters. But it doesn't matter who it is in his office. Bottom line is he's a giant liar. He's not at all against this war. But you could tell one thing from this news story, which is the war is not going well because the rats are trying to leave the ship, Jordan. Yeah, I think that's part of it.

I mean, you were going to see some weird posturing, especially after the midterms as they start to gear up for 2028. I don't think Vance is going to be able to shake this. We saw how Gaza really plagued Harris in that election. It didn't help her that she refused to break from Biden. But now, like, you can plainly see it's a difficult spot to be in. You're trying to play to both crowds. She was cowardly. Vance is cowardly.

He's not going to do that either. Also because unless something happens, Trump will be around to weigh in, to throw his support behind a 2028 nominee or candidate. Maybe they go with a coronation and just try to do what folks did with the Biden and just say, nope, this is our nominee. We're not having an open primary. Maybe.

But if Donald Trump is still alive, he's going to want, Vance will want his endorsement. So publicly breaking with him over what will be a major piece of Trump's second term, that just it wouldn't help in that regard. So this will dog him and all of the allies in the kind of manosphere, independent media world that J.D. Vance had sought to ingratiate himself with. They're not going to be on his side. They all, they're all opposed to this.

Yeah. So last couple of things here. Because we're, we don't have to worry about any of this. So I'll tell you why in a second. But first, let's give JD Vance a benefit of the doubt for one second, okay? Say that he was privately against war. Does it count if he's thinking it in his head, but never actually saying it to the president, never saying it publicly, never actually trying to stop the war?

No, of course it doesn't count. Why do I care what weirdo, private thoughts are in your head if you're not doing anything about it. So trying to get credit for that is super cheesy, next level cheesy. Secondly, well, if you're such a great statesman and you were so against the Iran war, then why didn't you convince Trump not to go into the war? Why don't you convince him now to leave the war? Why don't you convince him to use Israeli troops instead of our ground troops? Why don't you convince him to use Israel's $200 billion instead of our $200 billion? Oh, you're an utter failure, You're a complete loser who can't get a single objective accomplished as vice president.

Because you can't have it both ways. There's no question, either you're a giant liar working for Israel or you're a useless hack who can't get anything done inside the White House. There is no option to see. So finally, the reason why none of this matters, Jordan, is because, look, maybe I'm past my skis here and I've made these predictions before. and they've come true. And so I'll do another one for you.

And then people can call me crazy, and then let's see how it turns out. I think the first candidate who doesn't grovel to Israel wins each primary easily. Okay? And if there's only one candidate who doesn't grovel to Israel, then they win the presidency. Super easy. If these idiots in Washington think they can still pull off the same tricks and go in there and go, oh, there's a really for you. Oh, no, but I sent them a strongly worded letter to, like, slaughter only half the Palestinians.

Now, of course, I sent all of your paychecks over to them, and I started seven more wars for them. But you know what, but Israel, beloved Israel, but vote for me. That's not going to fly at all. You're going to get slaughtered in the Republican primary. you're gonna get, I hope to God, you get slaughtered politically in the Democratic primary. So go ahead, ask kissers. Get out there and be loud and proud, smooch for Israel, so we can eliminate you from the ability to be president in 2028.

And by the way, don't worry, though. I'm sure my predictions are all crazy and wrong. So go out there and kiss Israeli ass and ignore me and say, yeah, but Jake, you don't understand. I got millions from APEC, that's going to help me win. Go ahead, go ahead, do it. Do it. Don't listen.

Of course I don't know what I'm talking about. Keep groveling, get on your knees, get all the way on the ground, lie flat for Israel. Let's see how it turns out for you in 2028. Oh, by the way, if you're not doing that, you're secretly against Israel, you should do it really privately and whisper it to yourself, because I bet that counts later.

All right. Okay, we gotta go. By the way, so far in the race, in the race, potentially in the race? Is there a single candidate that has said, no, no more money to Israel, and I'll stand up to Israel, no wars for them? So far only one, Rokana. And that's why the media is like, Rokana, no, no, no.

It has to be somebody totally establishment. He's an outsider, has very little chance. Yeah, my ass, let's see how it turns out. Anyways, we gotta go. Jordan, you're awesome, thank you brother, appreciate it. Okay, when we come back, there's a senator saying that we're going to gain so much from backing Israel. You'll never guess who he's taking money from. Okay, that was kind of obvious.

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It wants to say about war in Israel, he's likely to be right. That's a little bit later in the hour. Democrats selling out to Israel, of course, a little bit later in the hour. But Sharon, what do we have first? We'll begin with no confidence, Jenk. Well, it's a lot of money, but it's going right into rebuilding our stockpiles, our own munitions. It's in America's best interest that we resure all of these defense manufacturing jobs in the United States of America and make munitions and weapons at home rather than rely on China and other countries around the world. So the $200 billion is going to go to America first priorities.

It's a big price tag, but every dollar will be spent on America first priorities. We'll see about that. That was Indiana Senator Jim Banks claiming that Trump's request for $200 billion for the Iran war will go towards America first priority. So that statement we should tell you is true. It's true if you believe that fighting a war on behalf of Israel is an America first priority. Let's get to how much pro-Israel money, Senator Banks gets in a moment. But Jen, initial impression, your two cents. What do you think?

Yeah, so look, the fact that Senator Banks is a prostitute for Israel is obvious. We'll show you how much he got to sell you all out in Indiana and make sure that your money goes to Israel instead. But I think that that's the smaller issue here. We're gonna show you how what we could do with that money instead. But most importantly, I have an idea for how we can help Israel so much more. And I don't want you to miss that. So Sharon, tell us the facts here first. All right, let's talk about that money.

How much you asked? Senator Jim Banks has received close to $1 million from the pro-Israel lobby. Data recorded in February clocked him at $926,321 bucks. Remember, the $200 billion request is in addition to the department's annual budget of $838.7 billion. As a reminder, here are a few things. It also equated to close to $200 billion or less. 175 billion total savings from Doge Kutch, which included massive reductions in U.S. 4 and 8. 2025, the government spent 100 billion on food aid for lower income families.

2025, a failed one-year extension of health insurance subsidies would have cost $35 billion, America First. Republicans have been fighting about how to approach the $200 billion request. In Tara Pomeri's exclusive piece on Substack, she claims to have spoken with Republican sources in D.C. who tell her this, there is major anxiety about wider escalation across the region. No clear plan to exit the conflict. Oh, and Republicans really do not like Pete Heggseth. It's groundbreaking. One Senate source put it bluntly, quote, there's zero confidence in Pete Heggseth. Everyone regrets that they had to vote for him. He's a bigger regret than RFK, an anonymous Senate source. Okay, so they're loud with it, but I'm not sure how much they're really saying here, Jank. The uncertainty is worse than going in with a plan, I think, and nobody wanted us to go in with a plan.

Yeah, so let's break it down. So on Hegsith, the Republicans who are privately complaining about him, I give them zero credit. As Anna would say, no cookies for you, okay? So if you're gonna complain about him, use your mouth in front of a camera, then I might begin to believe you, otherwise tall glasses, shut up, juice. Your leaks to your buddies in Washington doesn't help you at all. And oh my God, it was a mistake. Oh, well, then why did you make that mistake?

Oh, because you're a craven coward who did everything Daddy Trump told you to do. By the way, I mean, look, the disparity is insane, right? You take it as perfectly smart, progressive host. Remember, Hegs of his just a weekend host on Fox News. That he, you know, at this point, he wouldn't make the top 200 podcasts. So take someone who's actually successful in media, crystal ball, and perfectly legitimate in every way, et cetera. and the idea that somebody would make her secretary of defense, every Democrat would vote, no.

They'd be like, how dare you? That is online media. No way. It has to be someone who's totally a supportive of Israel and has been doing corruption for 40 straight years, right? But Republicans, you can take a hobo off the street. It just got off the train. He's got his little sack and stuff.

They're like, oh, you worked on Fox News for two and a half minutes? Yeah, come on in, right? And all the Republicans are like, We bow to Trump, we've out of Trump. Now you'd like to get credit for saying that you privately are worried about Hegsef? No, no, you're all losers. You're all cowards. And until you say otherwise, you voted yes.

That means you love Hegseth and the dumbass wars he started with. So that's an albatrosser on your neck. Enjoy it. You get no kudos for things you say behind the scenes, which are worthless. Okay, now on to Jim Banks. By the way, the million dollars that he gets from the Israeli lobbying group that's already tracked in public is at a minimum. The dark money and the super PACs give a lot more. As we know from Marco Rubio, he only has about a little over a million that shows up on track A pack.

But we know through the emails that DropSight News got another time one other person, Larry Ellison, at a bare, minimum, put it $5 million into a super PAC. and track APEC can't track that. So these guys have a mountain of money from the Israel First crowd that is backing them. That's why they say absurd things like, oh, when we spend $200 billion on Israel's war, oh my God, that helps us so much. In fact, you'll see this asinine talking point all over media. At least time you see a politician or a media figure using it instantly disquished. qualify them, understand that they're an Israeli asset, and you should never, ever believe

them on anything. So what's the talking point? Well, when we give money to Israel, well, that's not for their benefit. That helps us. It helps us immeasurably. It goes to our defense contractors, it goes to other parts of our economy. Is that right? Well, then I have a great idea for Israel.

Why don't they give us the $200 billion? That we will be helping Israel. That's Israeli logic, right? When you give money to someone else, you are the main beneficiary. So Israel, great news, you give us $200 billion and you will be the great beneficiary. And while you're at it, you can pay $200 billion for this war that you started and no one else wants. And while you're at it, you could return to $300 billion we gave you.

I don't want to be unfair, getting all the benefits from the $300 billion we gave you. Why do you give us $300 billion and you get all the benefits? from giving us money. Oh, right, while you're at it, how about the $8 trillion global war on terror, which turned out to be a global war on Israel's neighbors and nowhere else, you could return that $8 trillion,

and then you'll be swimming in all the positive upside that you get from giving us money, just like you tell us we're swimming in the upside of giving you all this money. Oh, all of a sudden you don't want to do that. Gee, I wonder why. Okay, so the next time you hear somebody say, oh, us giving money to them is actually helps us. Israeli asset, literally.

Sharon, back to you. Yeah, and so when 60% of Americans disapprove of this military action, this war, and then you have Mike Wals go on, face the nation this weekend and say things, well, yeah, you know, 100% of MAGA loves and approves of this war, which it just seems like silly season all over the the place and Americans are hurting so much, Jank. Are people really buying this? Because it doesn't even seem like when I hear these conversations on mainstream media, that they're even at that passionate. They're delivering the talking point from the lines, but they're not that passionate about it because nobody believes this stuff.

Yeah, none of this is going to matter because Israel's not going to let us out of this war. And we're about to send in ground troops. And when that happens, oil is going to skyrocket in ways that are unimaginable. And when that, let alone the fact that American troops are gonna die. I know no one in American media cares at all. Take the same number of people that die in Israel and all of a sudden it'll be the greatest new story, the biggest new story in the world. Real human beings have died Israelis.

Americans come home in caskets, who cares? It's good for you. It's good for you to die like that for Israel. So that's what we hear from our disgusting media 24-7. But even they're not gonna be able to stop it. All the propaganda in the world, everybody, you have to love Israel, and if you love Israel, that means you love America. All that garbage is totally going to stop working in 2026.

Because if it hasn't stopped working today, which I think it has begun to stop working in a grand scale, and it's moving faster than anyone has ever seen an issue move in America. Only 13% of Democrats have a positive view of Israel, and the Republicans are headed in the same direction at enormous speed, right? So by the time that we put the ground troops in and oil prices rise even more disastrously, in 2026, Israel and A-PAC and all these things that propelled all of these deeply corrupt politicians are going to be albatrosses around their necks, and they're going to be wearing it like, you know, it's something that's going to be like a scarlet letter, basically.

Like A is for A PAC and it brings you deep, deep shame and soon the hatred of the American people. And for guys like Senator Jim Banks, and honestly, for 94% of Congress that is funded by the Israeli lobby, they greatly deserve that shame and dishonor. Okay, we got to take a break here. When we come back, Democrats selling out to APEC and in the usual sick, cravenly matter. I don't care about you. I just want you vote. Hey guys, don't forget our podcasting network. Check that out wherever you get your podcasts. And help us out with ringing the bell or tell us about yourself. TYT.com slash you. We want to know we're members and non-members in your case.

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this war if Biden or Kamala had been elected? First of all say, I'm happy birthday, brother, and thank you for being a member all that time. And number two is no, as Craven as Biden and Kamala Harris are, they would have given Israel infinite amount of money, they would have done everything that Israel ordered except this war. This war is too stupid. And other Democratic Poobas would have said, no, this will actually hurt Israel, not help Israel. And they would have found a way around it, right?

And that would have been the wiser way to go. But it's not like they would have defied Israel in any other way. Don't get me wrong. But I don't think they would have gotten this far. All right. Michelle Moody says on YouTube member section, I live in Bangkok, Bangkok, and there are major gas shortages. And some of the small towns don't have gas at all. I'm so ashamed to be an American right now.

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TYT.com slash you, t.t.com slash you. We just want to know more about our audience, that's all. All right, Sharon, who's next? What's next? Question, APEC who? 20 years ago, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker was donating to the IDF. And now he's running as far away from APEC as he can. Jack, your two cents on this one? Yeah, Pritzker is a little bit of a question mark.

We'll get to details on right or wrong with him. He certainly has been connected to APEC in the past, but how does he view things now? But honestly, the Cory Booker part of this story is devastating. So don't miss that part. Yeah, you're going to want to pay attention. But we'll tell you a little bit more about Pritzker at the time. It is incredible because recently we've been seeing him heavily foreshadow, the 2028 presidential run. Watch this.

We as Democrats, if there's a lesson, it's that there should be a project 2029 for Democrats. I mean, he's 100% running in 2028, don't you think? Yeah, I think so. And you're running some old photographs of him there now. If you saw him now, he's the sure sign of a candidate who's running for president is the person who's lost a lot of weight. All right, so he's in fight and shape. As Pritzer gets ready for the campaign trail, he's starting to get a feel for what Democrats want to hear and what they despise. And that includes APEC.

As we've recently told you, Democratic voters' view on Israel has shifted, not positively, by any means. According to an NBC news poll from earlier this month, 57% of Democrats have a negative view of Israel, up 22% from 2023. So there you see the views. Finally, it seems like some politicians might actually be listening to the voters because we are seeing more and more Democratic presidential hopeful start to distance themselves. from groups like APEC, and that includes J.B. Pritzker. Now Pritzker, who is Jewish, has previously been very close to the group. That's according to Axios. The Pritzker Family Foundation donated to APEC, affiliated in pro-Israel organizations when Pritzker

was president and director of that charity. Foundation gave 82,000 to friends of the Israel Defense Forces from 2005 to 2010, per tax filings, reviewed by Axiote. 2008 to 2016, Foundation contributed about 1.7 million to the American Israel Education Foundation and AAPA-affiliated charitable group that supports trips to Israel for members of Congress. Now, Pristker left the foundation in 2017, and according to his team, the Foundation hasn't given the group money since 2020. But apart from that, he's also been calling them out. Listen. You used to also be on the board of APEC, the pro-Israel lobby group, and you since sort of distanced yourself from them.

And last August you also endorsed a Senate effort to block U.S. arms sales to Israel. You said it sends the right kind of message. And it made me wonder if you're undergoing a sort of personal evolution on this issue. Well, I abandoned APEC more than a dozen years ago. it was an organization that had at one time being a bipartisan in nature and really all about preserving a strong relationship between the United States and Israel. But about that time a dozen years ago, the organization began to lean much more to the right and much more pro-Trump, who had then become a candidate for president. And that disturbed me greatly because once again, APEC back then was not a PAC, I might add. It was a public affairs council, as called APEC, but it didn't have a political action committee that was giving money to candidates.

All right, so Pritzker got his talking points down there explaining himself. While Pristker has been critical of Benjamin Netanyahu and his leadership and is supportive of a two-state solution, Axios pointed out this. Prisker has tried to walk a fine line, breaking with APEC over its affiliation with Trump rather than Israel actions, focusing mostly, his criticism on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rather than on the country itself. So what about this issue? Is it picking up momentum? Will in the potential 2008 campaign presidential run candidates be able to just explain it away? one interview or one question really, and then we'll move on to other issues. Because to me it feels like this is not going away. It's only getting more momentum. So Washington is completely removed from the rest of the planet, right?

So in their world, and that includes governors like J.B. Pritzker, they're in that Washington mindset of the establishment. So they think that they could finesse this issue. I don't think so. I think that the only candidate that has a chance of winning in 2028 is one that strongly denounces not just APEC, but Israel itself, the government of Israel that has done so much damage to this country. So I don't think they're anywhere near it.

When it gets to Pritzker, which we'll get to in a second, is kind of obvious and over the top. The groveling is vomitous. And so guys like him are totally eliminated from the presidential conversation, we'll get to him. But for Pritzker, it's a more nuanced and interesting story. First of all, the story comes from Axios about him, and Axios is like, let's just put it this way.

They have excellent sources inside Israel and seem to often give Israel's perspective down to a T. So they might be attacking Pritzker because they think he's not sufficiently loyal to Israel. So like Washington is a dirty, dirty place, and our media is. filled with non-reportors, they're doing nonstop propaganda everywhere, right? So when you see a story like that, it might be the opposite of what's happening. So then you have to really dive in and see what's right and not right. So did the Pritzker family and the fund, trust, et cetera, give money to A-PAC and a bunch

of other causes, including friends of the Israeli defense forces? Like in other words, charity to IDF? Yes, they did, right? Now, but at the same time, is Pritzker tip towing away from APEC? Yes. Is he doing it a little bit more aggressively than the average person seemingly running for president on the Democratic side? Yes, although now there's a little bit of a competition to do fake distancing yourself

from Israel. We'll believe it when we see it. The fact that he's Jewish, I don't think hurts him 1%. If he's right on the issue, it might even help. them because it's harder to call him an anti-Semite and someone who's a Jewish American can I think more easily not be cowed by the Israeli lobby, okay? But all of that is dependent on does he have the right position or does he not have the right position?

So then when you look at that, he's saying that he's inching away from APEC because they're too right wing and they help Trump too much. But that's not the main problem with APEC. That is a huge problem with APEC, but not the main problem. The main problem is they're getting American politicians to serve a different country, and that country has recently done a genocide and forced us into a disaster sworn in the Middle East. That's the actual problem, right?

And there, Pritzker is of a Washington mindset. I'll criticize Israel, one, if I'm being super bold, 2%, right? No, brother, you're not anywhere near it, man. He's like, you got 98% to go. So maybe he'll wisen up and maybe all these politicians are whizzen up and even pretend to be against Israel, but they've got a mountain of doubt to overcome to get there. So how do we know if someone has actually held Israel to account? You look at their track record.

So right now, the only person that has any shot of being in the race that has held Israel to any kind of account is Rokana. everyone else's utter posers. But like, hey, I kind of, slightly objected to APEC a little while ago, kind of a little bit. No, no, that's not gonna really do it, right? I'm not angry about it, I like that Pritzker's going in the right direction, and maybe it'll encourage other people to go in the right direction, but is this good enough for me to go?

Yeah, I'll take a chance on a guy who won't really criticize Israel significantly and doesn't say anything about the rest of the Israeli lobby. And his main objection to A-PAC is that they're a little too right way. Nah, I mean, I encourage you to go, keep going, right? But that's not enough to win anybody over. Yeah. So while some are dipping their toe in the anti-AAC, holding Israel accountable bucket, others are doubling down.

Not all Democrats breaking with A-PAC or the Democrats bought by Israel. Listen. This of course leading the charge here, and there's a lot of focus on Chuck Schumer right now. The Wall Street Journal reporting that there's growing frustration with Chuck Schumer, which spurs talk of replacing him. Senator, do you want to replace leader Chuck Schumer? Well, I think we are united right now as a caucus. There's always a lot of focus on Senator Schumer and leader Jeffries.

Those are very hard jobs, especially at a historic moment like this. That's not a yes. Well, no, we are united as a caucus right now. Let me just be clear about that. We are united in ending this war. We are united in reining in the lawlessness of ice. And we're going to be united in winning the election this November. Now, Murphy, who's taken $1.2 million from the Israeli lobby, didn't mention APEC,

but it's clear to see he's not following Pritzker's lead. Seen as both Schumer and Jeffries have taken massive amounts from the Israeli lobby, fellow APAC money ruler, Corey Booker even defended the group, according to the Hills, Caroline Vackle, asked by Lisa Kaczynski about the shift of opinions on APAC

among Democrats, whether he personally would reject money from the group. Cory Booker says, quote, first and foremost, there is a singling out of APAC that is troubling to me, says there are Iranian Americans, Turkish Americans who bundle money adding. There are a lot of ethnic groups that bundle money and often for things that I don't agree with,

but somehow APAC seems to be drawing a lot of attention and that's problematic to me, he says. Goes on to say he doesn't think anybody should be accepting PAC money from anyone. Let's just lump it all in one big bucket. As a reminder, and it's an important one, and that's just APAC, that's just APAC, That's all pro-Israel lobby groups and their donors. So, I mean, you can see the numbers for yourself. Look, he's out of touch massively. And sure, he's gotten a lot.

I mean, that's a lot of money here. But to be so far removed, like once APEC captures these politicians, particularly in this climate jank, there's nowhere else to go. Your hope as you eloquently laid out of winning something that young people, others are going to get out to vote for, believe in, not go out against you. You're done, you're toast. You've all that money, but nowhere really to go if your goal is seeking a presidential run and perhaps even staying in office at some point. What say you? Yeah.

So first, Chris Murphy, look, he's inching away from Chuck Schumer. He's saying, oh no, we're united behind the Israel loving Chuck Schumer and the Israel loving Hakeem Jeffries. But he didn't quite say that he would back Chuck Schumer after the elections. In Washington, that's considered like, whoa, Chris Murphy, only bowing to Israel 98 to 99%. So okay, but again, I'm not angry there. He's headed in the right direction, I'll take it overall, right? So for Cory Booker though, you guys catch what he did there?

He just accused all of you of being anti-Semites. Oh, why singling out A-PAC? Ha! Okay, what that means is, oh, I guess you're just doing it because they're Jewish. See, all the Democratic voters, they hate Jewish people for no reason. Disgusting Democratic voters, I support Israel. Okay, thanks for letting us know, Cory Booker. So you don't support us, you support a different country.

And in fact, you kind of hate us. You just called all of us anti-Semites. Why are we singling out APEC? Well, good question, I'm glad you asked Senator Booker. Do you see the Iranian lobby controlling this country? I mean, are you a joke? What is that, was that a ha ha, there's Iranian lobby and a Turkish lobby? Did the Turks convince us to attack Greece?

Is that costing us one to two billion dollars a day? Did that cost us 13 American lives? Did we attack Armenia on behalf of the Turks or the Russia or somewhere else on behalf of the Turks? Did we allow the Turks to do a genocide? No, they did it on their own earlier, but we didn't support it. The only country that does a genocide and we give them 21 billion from your beloved Joe Biden while they're in the middle of a genocide is Israel.

The only country that's gotten $330 billion for us is Israel. The only country that's gotten us to fight all of its wars for us, in the so-called global war on terror that costs us $8 trillion is Israel. Did the Turkish lobby, whatever they have, give as much as the Israeli lobby, which was $100 million in just the last election cycle? The number one donation to members of Congress of any lobby? No, of course not. And do we say when Turkey's caught doing something wrong, as an example?

They tried to apparently bribe Eric Adams, the mayor of New York. Did people go, oh, well, Joe, you're antique Turkish. How could you possibly say that about beloved Turkey? No, everybody was like, hey, what the F, right? You should punish Eric Adams, and you should punish anyone from the Turkish government trying to bribe our officials. See, that's because we're unbiased. But when it comes to APEC in Israel, that's giving you $6 million in bribes, all of a sudden,

you're like, beloved APEC! Why are you signaling them out? They're the victims. Look, I told you, Cory Booker is a fraud. I've told you that for 20 years. But it's not about Cory Booker at all. All of these people are actors. The biggest frauds of all are the traditional media

pretending that they're not actors. You think Gillibrand isn't an actor? You think the other senators, Chris Coons, Carp or whatever, Clobet, you think they're not actors? They're all actors. They don't believe a single thing. They believe what they are bribed to believe. The idea that APEC and Israel are the victims.

Right now is the most preposterous thing you could possibly say. But in Washington, they're like, oh yeah, oh yeah, the people giving us millions and millions of dollars. They're the victims. The people that we then funnel trillions of dollars to. Not, of course, not Cory Booker's money. Cory Booker's stealing from you. So is 94% of Congress that gets bribe, legally bribed by the Israeli lobby. That's the actual number from a Guardian story.

They all steal from Americans to give to their beloved Israel because they got bribed to steal from you and to betray you. Those are stone cold facts. They could try to pretty it up like Dick Cheney did with torture. Oh no, that's just enhanced interrogation. Oh, the $6 million I stuffed into my pockets so that I could get more power and more fame and more wealth. Oh, no, that's not a bribe.

That's a campaign contribution. Oh, us giving trillions to Israel. No, that's to help us Americans. What a bunch of pathetic liars. And by the way, Cory Booker absolutely celebrated in Washington. This will get me banned from everything in Washington. How dare you? The beloved Cory Funker, he's such a good Democrat.

You know he did that filibuster for 25 hours? Hey, what was the filibuster about? Nothing. What do you mean nothing? There was no bill that was being debated. He just did that for peacocking. He's like, look at me, I'm such a good Democrat. I stand for 25 hours and talk about nothing for the cause of nothing.

I'm a good Democrat. Well, these days that's all they have, these establishment Democrats, and you elect somebody like Cory Booker, they will rob you to the end of time, along with their pal, Lindsey Graham from the Republican side, and almost all the Republicans other than Massey, grandpa's on the fence, whatever, right? But 94% of Congress doesn't work for you. They work for Israel, they all get bribed by them, and anyone telling you otherwise is a giant liar and propagandist and works for Israel to try to trick you.

out of your money and these days in this war out of your life. So put that in your pipe. Senator Booker and go cry to your best friend. He said the guy who runs A-PAC in a different thing is like my best friend and they text to each other. Oh, how many Palestinians did you help murder today? Oh, I said so much money to help murder Palestinians. Oh, you organized everyone to help murder Palestinians? I want a good Democrat you are, Corey Booker. Okay, that's how I feel about you, and that's how everyone watching, every Democrat should feel about Senator Cory Booker, who has betrayed you to no end. And the minute you put him back in office, he will only work for Israel and his other donors

and never for you. That's what I think about the current state of the Democratic Party. We'll be right back. Tucker Carlson, a terrible friend. All right, so let's go to Super Chat. The Umakaram, who gave 20 memberships before. Thank you. said, Jenk, how can you reach independence, even right-wingers with what you discuss here?

T.YT is great, but we all are mostly all agree with you. Pears Morgan Panel, not enough. Having a big debate with Ben Shapiro shutting his mouth up, maybe. Look, brother, I've had debates with all of them, including Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter, Dinesh, just whose, you name it, I've debated them, okay? Are we going on more shows? Yes, next month, where I'm going to go on one of the largest shows in America. Did I go on Tucker Cross?

Yes, I did. Will I go on all the other shows? Yes, I will. I will fight and fight and fight until we get to justice and we free America from the Israelis. So, but thank you for caring. Thank you for wanting to know more about it. And yes, I'm going on independent shows and right wing shows to try to reach more of those voters and get them on our side. I think it has been a spectacular success about being honest. But some people say, no, don't. Don't go on right wing shows or independent shows and try to convince them to be against the war. No, hate them. Drive away our allies.

The Palestinians don't need help. The Middle East doesn't need help. Drive away right wing allies. Otherwise, you're not a good progressive. Yeah, I see those people. And those people have betrayed America. They've betrayed Muslims. They've betrayed the Middle East.

All for their personal brand. Okay, I know you're so clean. No, I'm gonna go on every right wing show and every independent show that'll have me and make the case against this war, against Israel's control of America, and against Israel's slaughter of Muslims to no end. That's a vulnerable community you should care about, but I know your brand has to be sparkling clean. All right, back on TYT, Jenkins Sharon with you guys. Let's go to our next door. It starts with the video. It's reprehensible for anyone to say that about someone who had the life of service that Robert Mueller had. Even more reprehensible for somebody who is the commander in chief, for the military. To say what the president said about Bob Mueller just shows you how completely self-consumed the president is.

Because that's what it comes from. It comes from his own sense that the only thing that matters in the world is him. way he did that. And by the way, the child does, John. Not mincing words there on ABCs this week. Robert Mueller died Friday. He was 81. A decorated Vietnam vet, FBI director, of course, after 9-11, and the special counsel who led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. And that goes to the heart of why the president is so defiant. With those credentials, an American president would typically offer condolences, show some basic human decency, but not.

Donald Trump will put it up on the screen because this is your president on truth social. Robert Mueller just died. Good. I'm glad he's dead. He could no longer hurt innocent people. President Donald J. Trump in all caps. Jenk, give us your two cents. You know, it's not surprising.

No one would be surprised by this kind of thing. But every time he does something like this and so quickly, maybe it's the speed of it, the intensity, it does, actually. make me kind of just take a deep breath and say, really? Again? Yeah, I think two things are interesting. One is that our president is a sociopath and the other is people's reaction to that. So I'm gonna have a reaction to it, but we're also gonna show you other people's reactions and whether they found it to be perfectly normal or disgusting like any decent person would.

Okay, so then let's move on to the network that exists to just do Trump's bidding. Of course, it's Fox News. They did cover Mueller's death. But according to CNN, Fox mentioned Mueller at least six times on air, but never once, never once quoted the president's post on television. But they did it on their website. They led with Trump's words. TV though, again, silence. And said Fox and friends quoted George W. Bush, a more typical president in light of the current one.

Think about that, they spent years villainizing Mueller as deep state operative. But when Trump celebrated his stuff, even Fox News couldn't repeat the disrespect out loud. But their long time Fox Newsman, Britt Hume, did break with the network. He posted that Trump's response was the kind of thing that makes people not just oppose him, but hate him. And when Jonathan Carle noted that Trump's response was instantaneous, you heard that he heard Chris Christie had to say. But there's bigger picture here.

This is by no means an isolated moment. This is a documented pattern. He lives for this stuff. Just today, Trump was asked about Joe Kent, tired, Green Beret, whose wife, Shannon, Navy intelligence officer was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria in 2019. Listen.

It was a man that I met at Dover. He came and his wife was killed. he remarried fairly quickly. His wife was killed, and I felt badly for him. He ran for Congress, he lost. He ran for Congress again, and he lost. I said, you know, he's a guy, nice guy. He seemed like a very nice guy.

I bet him he was pretty heartbroken. Pretty. So I told my people, reach out to him, give him a job at the White House. This is the thanks I get. He calls you a nice guy. He's about to cut you off with the knees. Trump. This is the same playbook, of course. He ran on Congressman Thomas Massey. His wife, Rhonda, died suddenly, might recall in 2024 after 31 years of marriage. And this is what Donald Trump

posted at the time. Did Thomas Massey sometimes referred to as Rand Paul Jr. because of the fact that he always votes against the Republican Party get married already? Boy, that was quick. No wonder the polls have him at less than 8% chance of winning the election. Then he, you know. He goes on to say the new wife is stuck with a loser. Trump mocked him for remarrying. Also referred to Massey's new wife as, quote, question mark. Man married three times, Donald Trump mocking a widower. Chuck Schumer boiled it down to something you've heard before.

Pruilty is the point. Simple but true, but it's the sociopath stuff. It's the silence from most people. You're Brigham, okay, in the Fox orbit. And then, of course, a couple of Democrats doing what is expected. But nobody, nobody who worked with new, paled around with Robert Mueller or any of these other people speaks up and says much of anything, Jank. Yeah. So I remember what happened after Charlie Kirk died.

So some people on the left said some unfortunate things. We were certainly not among them. And we were heartbroken because as a young man who had a lot of life to live, who had young kids. And most of us did the right thing. So they found some people who did the wrong thing. And they went nuts over. And then one of the people who did that was Donald Trump. Can you believe that anybody would say anything badly about a person who just died?

Then he comes out and says that he's glad that Robert Mueller is dead and good that he's dead. So what happened to all that don't speak ill of the debt? Well, now, I'm leaving other folks out of this. This is just about Donald Trump. So obviously Donald Trump didn't mean it, right? And Donald Trump, and look, guys, there's people like Dick Cheney, they got a lot of people killed, hundreds of thousands of people killed, right? You say, well, you know what? I'm not shedding too many tears over that one.

Robert Mueller, he did an investigation Trump doesn't like. But at the end of the investigation, he said that Trump didn't collude with Russia. Thereby doing Mueller a huge favor, I mean, Trump a huge favor, right? And his cause, et cetera. Robert Mueller was largely a Republican in his whole life. So, but nothing is good enough. Nothing is ever good enough for Donald Trump. So he's glad this man is dead.

And I guess that, you know, his family, he doesn't care about them at all. This is how a sociopath talks, okay? So now on to the marriage thing. Why does he keep saying that? Well, I mean, Donald Trump is pure as a German snow, right? He's only been married once and he believes in the American family. Guys, you all know this, right? Married three times.

One time, Melania, a reporter is interviewing them while Melania is pregnant. Melania goes upstairs. Donald Trump shows the reporter around the house, female reporter, and he does exactly what he described in the Hollywood Access tape. According to the reporter, he pinned her against the wall and grabbed her genitalia. So he, in a different instance, obviously, with E. Jean Carroll, he was sued for that. And they said, yeah, that's what he did to her as well. And of course, he's on tape bragging about how he grabs women by the genitalia.

And because he's famous, he could just sexually assault them and get away with it. In fact, his own wife, Ivana Trump, that was his first wife, said that she gave him a suggestion on a hair transplant when it didn't go well. He was in a rage afterwards, he grabbed her by the hair, dragged her on the floor, and then raped her. So I didn't say that, his wife said that at the time, okay? So but to return the favor or add on more pain to her, after she passed away that Donald Trump married now married to his third wife, took his first wife's body and buried it on one of his

golf courses so that he could get a tax cut from the state of New Jersey. That's who Donald Trump is. Meanwhile, he's talking about how other people married, remarried too quickly for his taste, because he's such a classy guy. Sharon, I mean, have you seen anyone more despicable than this? And he's our leader? That's deeply embarrassing. Deeply embarrassing and I think about people my daughter's age and I was, you know, talking to the team as I was waiting for hour two about just how cruel some of this middle school stuff is.

They're learning from their leader. I've never seen anything like it so widely accepted. Now we have put up with it for so long now, good number of years for the kid. That's all they ever know. They'll never know what we grew up with, even if it was, you know, the facade of what a press. is supposed to be, but the fact that this is so normal, it's stunning to me that this is, I don't know how we can ever go back to basic decency. I mean, look at the things he's saying.

He is the things that he's saying about other people and he gets away with it every single time. I don't hear it. Correct me if I'm wrong. I haven't heard any apologies over the course of so many of these just gut-wrenching insults. Yeah, I mean, you see me call out Democrats, I don't know, like a couple of minutes ago when we did the last story about Cory Booker, right? So a person of principle does that and doesn't let partisanship get in the way. So some Republicans have done that, Chris Christie criticizing him in the first video we showed you.

We're at Hume around the edges, right? But do you see a lot of Republican senators out there going, this is disgusting? No, this doesn't represent me and this doesn't represent our voters. Oh no, but they're worried. What if the big orange man then yells at them and says that, you know, charges them with all these different allegations and lies? Okay, I mean, that's proof completely that our politicians are cowards. So in this case, it's easy for the Democrats to criticize them.

It would take like just an ounce of courage for Republican politicians to denounce them. And 99% of them have not found that ounce of courage. Oldest lesson in the book, I think anybody who was chased home by bullies with a grandma standing in the front door, turning them around saying, look, you got to face it, you got to face it. And yet here are politicians elected. Millions of people go out to vote for these clowns and they cannot. They cannot do the, this is like the easiest thing. You don't have to study for this test. Nope, that's it. Yeah, they can't, they can't get to the bare minimum level of decency. Can't get there. All right, we are out of time. Sharon, you're awesome.

We appreciate you so much. And I didn't get to read a ton of comments, which said likewise from our members. So we'll see you again soon. And guys, everybody stick around. There's going to be two things that are happening. Number one, we're going to do the revolution. A couple of people join the anti-war movement when we return. And I don't want you to forget this and miss this on Thursday.

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