The Young Turks - Netanyahu Baits Trump - March 23, 2026

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

Behind-the-scenes diplomacy reportedly drives Donald Trump’s sudden shift on Iran, even as sources claim he approved military action after arguments for a joint U.S.–Israel plan to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader. The human toll mounts rapidly, with UNICEF reporting more than 300 children killed across Iran and Lebanon since the war began. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://go.tyt.com/shopifytyt 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 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

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Here's to West Jetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at Westjet.com slash 30 years. War, it makes me pound it very hard. Begha! All the Young Turks, I'm your host, Jake Huger, going to do the solo hour first, and then yeah's going to join me in the second hour. So a lot of our allies appear to be confused, including the Saudis. They say, well, look, we want you to end the war.

In fact, they're part of the negotiations that end the war, but at the same time, we want you to escalate the war. Now, the Israelis are not confused, they want only escalation. But at the end of this story, I'm gonna tell you what the real goal of the Israelis is, because it wasn't clear until Joe Kent started to talk about it. The New York Times has now confirmed it. And this story's also gonna tell you why getting out of this war is going to be very, very difficult. The two sides are so far apart from each other.

So an enormously important story, by the way, on Thursday's Young Turks program, at 7 o'clock Eastern, going to interview Joe Kent and talk to him about all this as well. But first, let's start with the theoretical peace negotiations. So our allies, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, they got together in Pakistan to launch the negotiations. And they invited the Americans. The Americans are like, yes, great, wonderful. We'd love to do it. We've got to get out of this war. One slight problem, they forgot to invite the Iranians. They're the other side of this war. so those negotiations are unlikely to go anywhere without them. So I'm of course partly kidding.

They didn't forget. They tried and the Iranians largely said no. Now there is talk of a backdoor channel to the Iranians. So let's talk about that. Let's talk about the role of the Saudis and then get to, unfortunately, how getting out is near impossible. All right. So what do these allies want? Well, the Wall Street Journal explains during the back channel discussions last week.

Arab leaders were especially focused on opening the Strait of Hormuz. They called for the straight to be overseen by a neutral committee that would allow safe access by all ships. Now, that makes a lot of sense. Of course, they all want that. Their oil is blocked and can't get through the Strait of Hormuz. Their oil fields and gas fields are being bombed in the Gulf, so they have a very high incentive to get this thing wrapped up.

But in a way that works for them, because there's a giant bogey for them that came after the war started. We're going to get to that in a second. Western General continues, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard replied that Iran should collect fees from transiting ships, just as Egypt does now with the Suez Canal. Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs. So therein lies the up, guys. Before we started the war, everybody could go through the Strait of Hormuz.

Now Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz and no one can go through it unless they have permission from Iran. And some do. We have allowed some of the Chinese ships, et cetera, to get through. Why? Because we're worried about the price of oil. And so now Iran realizes after the war, wait a minute, apparently we'd totally run the straight of Hormuz, why don't we charge a toll like the Egyptians do with the Suez Canal? Now the Saudis, the folks from the UAE and many other countries like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

now we have to pay more to get our oil out and we have to give it to Iran, who is oftentimes our enemy, yeah, maybe you shouldn't have started the war. Maybe you should have listened to some of us who said this is a disastrous idea. Now, to be fair, the Gulf countries, they didn't really want this war in the first place. But now that it has started, the Saudis have changed their minds about how to end it. Get to that in a second. Now, meanwhile, Qatar, Oman, France, UK all say, please, let's negotiate, okay? We've got to get out of here.

This is terrible for the whole world. Asterisks except Israel who loves it. So Wall Street Journal reported that Trump, after he was informed of these negotiations, and this is the part where it's a little dicey. and you could tell that the administration's happy about these leaks. I'll give you a quote from Caroline Levin in a minute to prove that. But they say Trump's shift followed a series of closed door discussions through Middle Eastern intermediaries that U.S. officials gave them hope and agreement to settle the conflict was possible.

It also reflected a growing desire by Trump and some of his advisors to bring the war to a close. So now that's important a couple ways. Number one, our press is saying, and rightfully so there's in a rare case, It might have been about the price of oil and the stock market. Only some in the press are saying that. But whoever it is, credit where credit is due, that's closer to correct, right? This is kind of a halfway leak from the administration to cover their own ass and to go, I mean, it wasn't just about manipulating the markets.

And it's not because we're desperate. It's that Oman asked us to come to these negotiations. And we thought, Oman, Oman, how could we not go? And that's why Donald Trump gave this five-day buffer. All right, yeah, sure, sure. But also, it's important to note that the Americans do want this war to be over as quickly as possible. Not just the American people, that's already baked in. But now the administration realizing, oops, we screwed up here.

So now let's go to the New York Times. They explain the Saudi motivations. They say crown prince, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been pushing President Trump to continue its war against Iran, arguing the US Israeli military campaign presents a quote historic opportunity to remake the Middle East sounding like the Israelis there. So wait a minute, how could the Saudis want to get to a peace deal but want to remake the Middle East and continue to go with Iran? Because at this point the Saudis have realized not the other Gulf countries that I mentioned,

just the Saudis, yeah, it's too late. Now if America leaves, we're at the mercy of Iran because they've been. been bombing us to no end, and we got barely any defenses. We're huffing and puffing about, oh, we got this big military, we could do a lot of damage, but we can't stop a damn thing. And the straight of whore moves is closed, and I got to pay taxes on it now. Now that we started, we've got to go all the way in. So how do they want to remake the Middle East? Uh-oh, back to New York Times. Trump has at times seemed open to winding down the war, but Prince Mohammed has argued that would be a mistake. People briefed on the conversation said, and has

pressed for attacks against Iran's energy infrastructure to weaken the government in Iran. But wait, if you thought that was bad, and it is, get a load of the next sentence. Prince Mohammed has advocated ground operations in his conversations with Trump. Okay, so look, let's pause here. First of all, oh, the Saudis would like us to expend American soldiers for their benefit and more American. dollars for their benefit. Well, I have the same answer to them as I do to the Israelis. Go pound sand. Not my business, man. You have this war with Iran. You say you didn't want it? You chose the wrong alliances. You chose Israel, and that's who the Saudis have been working with this

whole time. UAE's totally in bed with Israel. Oh, it turns out Israel screwed you. Who could have seen that coming? Me and every analyst, but you schmucks didn't see that coming. So now you want us to fix. your problem with American ground troops? Hell no. Now of course our answer is going to be yes, because our leaders are corrupt and don't work for us at all. They work for the highest bidder. The Saudis will dangle some money in front of Trump, and the Israelis are dangling everything

else in front of Trump. And Trump was like, help the Saudis and the Israelis, I love it. Like where's America first? Okay, here's a simple idea, not talking in the press at all, because discussing it is anti-Semitic. Why don't we use Israeli troops for the ground invasion? Why don't we use, okay, is this Islamophobic? Why don't we use Saudi troops for the ground invasion?

If the Saudis and the Israelis want ground troops so bad, why don't you use your own army? I mean, all your armies that you constantly brag about. The Saturday's like, they better not let us get into the war. Okay, who's stopping you, big guy, okay? And the Israelis, oh, IDF. Yeah, the IDF is fantastic at murdering women and children who are totally defenseless. But when it comes to around, they're like, no, no, no, no, that's a meat grinder, send in the Americas.

The schmuck Americans, we bought all their leaders, and we'll drive them into the meat grinder. And that is what's happening. Later in the show, you'll see the Israelis are talking about taking more land, including Lebanon and Syria, big parts of Lebanon and Syria, because they figure, well, America's going to pay for it. Why not expand our empire? What's the latest trend in hiring? Skills-based hiring, which actually emphasizes capabilities over education and direct experience. According to experts, this leads to faster hiring and better job performance. Well, if you're an employer who's adopted skills-based hiring, the best way to ensure that your

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Arab at the Arab officials said, but they're also angry at the realization they aren't able to exert much influence on the Trump administration. decisions despite being security partners and investing heavily in the relationship, they said. Oh, you schmucks thought that Trump was going to prioritize you over the Israelis? Man, look, you have to remember, these are like eighth generation, 18th generation, like interfamily married royals. Okay, like they don't know anything in the world. They're like, oh, golly, gee, we gave a lot of money to Donald Trump. I bet the entire infrastructure of the United States that supports Israel will turn around immediately. God, you guys know nothing.

Wall Street Journal continues. Arab states thought they had successfully lobbied the US to prevent such attacks. After an earlier Israeli strike on fuel depots in Tehran, that's earlier in this particular war, not the June war. Instead, the US allowed the strike on South Pars to go ahead after receiving advance notice from Israel. American and Israeli officials said. So they're like, well, Trump promised us. And we've given them, you know, all this deals and Kushner,

billions of dollars, his son-in-law, that, you know, he wouldn't bomb and he would keep the Israelis from bombing the oil fields. Because if they do, or the gas fields, then the Iranians are going to strike back and bomb our oil fields and gas fields. So a good thing, we got Trump under control. And Trump's like, oh, the Israelis asked for something. Right away, sir, I'm so sorry, Benjamin for not doing it earlier. So he's like, yes, let's bomb their fields.

And the Saudis are like, what? You said you weren't going to bomb the fields. Hey, schmucks in the Gulf. America works for Israel. How did you miss that? How bad is your intelligence? They bought 94% of our Congress. They've given Trump $337 million, let alone the fact that our entire media is like,

poor Israel, the victims are victims doing self-timacy. You didn't notice any of that, that our media and our politicians are totally in the tank for Israel? They're so blind and ignorant. All right, so Trump seems prepared, they say, to pursue a deal. Telling reporters Monday that some Iranian leaders could usher in a better era of U.S. Iran relations. So this goes into the delusion of Donald Trump. He thinks, we got this, man. They're going to surrender any second.

Here's what Trump said. We're dealing with some people that I find to be very reasonable, very solid. Maybe one of them will be exactly what we're looking for. Look at Venezuela, how well that's working out. See the Israelis, and this is a story a little bit later in the program, convince Trump that this was going to be easy. Oh, it's just going to be like Venezuela. You're going to go in and murder their top leaders, and then you're going to find someone very

reasonable. His name is Reza Pahlavi Jr., the Shah, who's just going to be like Venezuela. who works for Israel, right? So that plan didn't work. So then they're like, I don't know, find someone else. But wait, Israel has a plan B that is way worse apparently. So and Trump, the moron believed it. And so he's constantly looking for, who's gonna sell out?

Who's gonna sell out the regime and the entire Iranian people and be our puppet, who is it? And our intelligence guys keep going back to him and go, there is no such thing. The Israelis made it up. Again, partly why Joe Kent came out, he said, the Australians are giving us a intelligence, that isn't close to true, okay? But Schmuck Trump doesn't know that, so he's still waiting. So now wait, is all this a real leak? Like is it like, oh my God, Wall Street Journal got it?

Or did the Trump administration secretly want to leak this to say, we're not doing market manipulation, and the war is almost over, and everyone's on our side. And look at the Saudis want to go in deeper too. So here's a quote from Caroline Leavitt. There are sensitive diplomatic discussions and the US will not negotiate through the press. This is a fluid situation and speculation about the meetings should not be deemed as final until they're formally announced by the White House. Now you might say, Cenk, why did you even read that to me?

That's like a standard PR thing. No, that is a non-denial. That means, oh, you wanna run that story about how all of our allies want us to go deeper into the war and that we really had this wonderful peace deal, but it's all Iran's fault for not stepping up, exactly what we want you to print? Sure, print it. I won't deny it and maybe it'll be confirmed later. Okay, so when you read things like that guys, you begin to get a sense of who's doing the leak,

who's bringing you this story because you have to know that motivation because the press doesn't let you know, they help scam you guys. So back to the Wall Street General because now we're getting to the disaster. So now we're wondering how's this war going to end, right? Well, as a condition of any deal to end the war, they explain, is Iran is demanding that the the US and Israel pledge not to launch future attacks. Tehran is pushing for compensation for damages sustained during the war. So not only is Iran demanding a solid promise from America to never invade again,

well, that promise from the Israelis would be hilarious. It wouldn't be worth the paper and printed on. They'll attack the very next day. So, but for the Americans, we're unlikely to make that promise, but we can make a general promise. That's not the harder part. The harder part is we're gonna give Iran reparations for a war we started. Now there's logic in that, but do you think that the Americans are gonna do that? Yeah, like inconceivable.

So what Iran is asking for, like why don't you pay us for this dumbass war you started as reparations for your mistake and we'll take an apology with it is unlikely to come to fruition, but wait, there's only one group that's more unrealistic, and that's us. The US still wants what it's sought from Iran before the war started. The dismantlement of Tehran's nuclear work, a suspension of its ballistic missile program, and a stop to its support for proxy militias. So this is the same load of totally undoable horse crap that Israel talked Trump into in the first place.

Not only do you want to end all of their nuclear enrichment, let alone nuclear weapon program, let alone the fact that it doesn't exist and it's been destroyed, but they have to give up every single missile they have. And they have to give up their own foreign policy and let America and Israel run their foreign policy. Which country would agree to that, let alone a country that at this point, because of the massive damage to the markets, the closing of the Strait of Hormuz is doing, they're kind of And they're kind of winning.

Like, they're, yes, their military is destroyed, but apparently it's not destroyed enough for us to open up the straight of Hormuz. And we're the ones looking for a peace deal, and Iran won't even show up to the peace negotiations. You think those guys with that amount of leverage are gonna go, oh yes, of course, sir, we will surrender completely to you and grovel at your feet, Benjamin Nanyahu, and give you all of our missiles and all of our guns and all of our children and whatever else you like. No, that means we are nowhere near the end of this war. The two sides, American side is as unreasonable as it has ever been.

The Iranian side has become more unreasonable. Well, or they've gained more leverage. So no, if you hear stories about the war is almost coming to an end, they are utter garbage, not remotely true, no one's moved off their totally intractable positions. Now, while the Saudis want to open up the Strait of Hormuzla as the rest of the world, Israel has a different objective for this war. And it is devastating. Joe Kent actually talked about this in his interview with Tucker Carlson.

He's gonna be again on the program on Thursday. Make sure you check that out right here on YouTube. But now the New York Times confirms what Joe Kent said. They say analysts say Israeli officials would probably view a failed Iranian state that is too caught up in internal turmoil to menace Israel as a win, while Saturday Arabia views have failed state in Iran as a grave and direct security threat. So on that one, the Saudis are right. If you have a failed state in Iran, it's gonna affect the whole region.

You don't know who's gonna win, maybe the most radical guy wins. And you don't know what they're gonna do with their military. They weren't offensive before, maybe they'll turn offensive now, right? So meanwhile, Israel goes, oh, we would have loved to have a puppet in there that reports directly to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. But barring that, let's go with chaos where we destroy everything and everyone is distracted. Well, we take southern Lebanon, Western Syria, we further decimate Iran and they have no defenses. They're in a bloody civil war where they're killing each other instead of defending the Palestinians. Perfect, a recipe for death, destruction and chaos.

And by the way, guys, that's the New York Times reporting Israel's objectives. That's not me saying, hey, I think, in fact, when I first heard Joe Kent say it, I thought, that seems uncharacteristically dumb of the Israelis, because in the long run, that's not going to help them either. You don't want chaos in the Middle East, that's crazy. But then the Israelis are so radical now, and they're so wild-eyed, they can't see straight either. They're like, yes, we want to have our kid in the Middle East.

Muslims kill each other, kill each other, yes, right? Yeah, but you crazed radicals, you freaking terrorists. That kind of chaos winds up blowing up on everyone, including your beloved Israel. But they can't see straight, so they're rooting for chaos. And these are our allies? These are the guys who are doing the war for? And these are the guys who pretended, oh my God, we're so concerned about the Iranian people. We're worried the Mullahs are going to kill them.

We have to go in and save the Iranian protesters. And after the war starts, the New York Times confesses Israel's plan is to have as many Iranians kill one another in a disastrous and deadly and catastrophic civil war. That's Israel in a nutshell for you guys. And that's the guys that we are following loyally, blindly, and cannot disagree with. So we're in for a world of hurt. This is nowhere near over. You know when you're building something from the ground up, the to-do list never ends.

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So Shopify.com slash t-y-t, shopify.com slash t-y-t. All right, now let's do the next story. Okay, working, getting worked up. All right, so now we find out that Benjamin Netanyahu had a call with Donald Trump right before we started this war in Iran. And it turns out Netanyahu convinced them to go into this war. Now I'm gonna show you the different strategies he had, the different mind tricks he played on Trump and which one worked.

But there's also something you gotta keep in mind in this story, which is that a lot of people think, hey, you know, Israel controls our politicians because they give so much money through the Israeli lobby. And that is definitely true. There's no question about it, that is an empirical fact. Anyone who does, tells you that that's not true is actively lying to you, okay? Which is almost all of mainstream media. Okay, so now on the other hand, so a lot of people have a theory that Israel might also be

blackmailing Donald Trump. Again, if mainstream media is like, oh, dare! Oh, you can't say that about our beloved Israel. Okay, Mr. Objective, we can say whatever we like and the guy is acting super weird. This story, though, could show you that maybe it isn't blackmail. Maybe that Donald Trump is so mentally weak, they were easily able to trick him into the war. So let's find out together. So this is from Reuters.

They explained that this call mounted to the Israeli leader's closing argument to his U.S. counterpart, Trump. So what did they go with? They say, there might never have been a better chance to kill Hamene and to avenge previous Iranian efforts to assassinate Trump, anonymous sources said. Those included a murder for hire plot allegedly orchestrated by Iran in 2024 when Trump was a candidate. Now, wait, what? So the Israelis told Trump, oh, remember how the Iranians are trying to kill you, you should

kill them first. Now, that's preposterously dumb for reasons I'm about to explain to you, but that's not going to work, is it? Well, we're going to find out that then which of these arguments work. Why did I say that's preposterous? Well, I looked into it because every once in while you hear Mark Levine or some other Israeli first guy, and they never present any proof or anything. So I was like, okay, let's find out what this nonsense is. So they have accused two different guys, one's an Afghan, the other one's a Pakistani guy, of trying to organize a hit on Donald Trump. So let's find out if that's true.

The Justice Department has accused a Pakistani man of trying to recruit people in the United States in the plan meant as retaliation for Washington's killing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps top commander, Qasem Soleimani. We're still on that. But we killed Ayatollah since that. But anyway, maybe it's a state claim slightly older plot. Okay. Potential targets of the 2024 scheme included now President Donald Trump, then President Joe Biden, and former president. presidential candidate and ex U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley. Wait, what?

I thought this was like, they're radians are out to get Donald Trump. And then you look into it and it's some bozo rando who's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna kill Trump, yeah, that's it, and then I'm gonna kill Nikki Haley, yeah, and then Biden, and then maybe do caucus. So it was not a plot against Trump. It was a plot, a non-plot, by the way, the only people that the Pakistani guy talked to was FBI agents. Okay, they're like, oh, you want to kill more Americans?

Tell us more. Tell us more. And the guy's like, oh, then I like to kill bugs money. They're like, we got them, right? So then in August, how about the, let's stick with the Pakistani guy. In August, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged the Pakistani man, suspected of plotting on behalf of Iran to kill high-ranking U.S. politicians or officials, including perhaps Trump. Wait, now we're at perhaps Trump.

Definitely Nikki Haley and Joe Biden, but perhaps Trump. This is the dastardly plan of the Iranians. This is total horse crap, okay? But wait, we're not done. How about the Afghan guy? In September and October of this year, according to prosecutors, Shakari, while located in Tehran, he's Afghan, but went back to Tehran, apparently, participated in a voluntary phone interviews with the FBI.

Wait, what? So some guy says he's calling from Iran and saying, well, I was going to kill Trump. But now I'm in Iran. And I decided to call the FBI anyway. Oh, the number says Tel Aviv. Okay, I'm kidding about that one. But really, a guy who escaped Iran called later, said, oh, but. By the way, FBI, I'd like to fill you in on my plans.

Okay, you'd have to be a mainstream media reporter to believe that. But to be fair, no, no, seriously, most of them don't believe it. That's why you almost never hear about this story, because everybody knows it's total garbage, right? But apparently the one guy who didn't know that was Donald Trump, because Netanyar's like, they were going to kill you. Are you going to let them get away with it? Did you hear about the Pakistani in Malaysia? Who made a call to the CIA?

All right, whatever. Okay, so we'll see in a second if that worked. So now they went on to make other cases. Trump could make history, they said, by helping eliminate an Iranian leadership, long reviled by the West and by many Iranians. Nanyahu argued Iranians might even take to the streets, he said, overthrowing a theocratic system that had governed the country since 1979 and being a leading source of global terrorism and instability ever since.

So this is his argument for, look, you've always wanted to get rid of Iran, did you? I think you always wanted to get rid of Iran. That's been Nanyahu's goal along. And he says, but don't worry, people are going to take to the streets. Well, they did take to the streets. We showed you videos of that earlier. They all rallied around the flag. Again, just like Joe Kent said that they would back when he was in the government.

He's talking about it now. He'll be on the show Thursday at 7 o'clock. You know Monday through Friday, 68 PM, young Turks right here, YouTube and wherever else you watch. So our intelligence was like, they're not going to take to the streets unless it's in opposition to Israel and America. They're not going to take to the streets after we bombed their children. And they say, yay, Israel, right? But again, Netanyahu knows who his target is, Donald Trump's IQs in the single digits. So he's like, oh, they're gonna like Donald Trump?

The Iranians are gonna like Donald Trump? They're gonna be the, I wonder if you told him, they're gonna chant Trump, Trump, Trump. Trump probably would have believed it. Anyways, as you see now, not exactly how it unfolded. And now as I reported in the last story, the Israelis are saying, actually we kind of prefer civil war in Iran where they all kill each other. from the guys who told you, we're doing this for the Iranian protesters. Okay, but every mainstream media reporter is like, oh, Israel, beloved Israel,

yes, they're doing for the Iranians, 30,000 dead. Israel cares so much about Muslim people. Okay, anyways. So next argument, not long after, during a February visit by Nanyahu to Washington, the Israeli leader brief Trump on Iran's growing ballistic missile program pointing out specific sites of concern. He also laid out the dangers of the ballistic missile program, including the risks that Iran might eventually get.

the ability to strike the American homeland, said three people familiar with the private conversations. So if I'm the president, I go, really, Iran has a ballistic missile that's going to reach America? Show me. How in the world is it going to reach America? But Trump doesn't know anything, has never done any homework, has never listened to his presidential daily briefings. Remember those stories from his first term where they had to draw in pictures and say Trump, Trump, Trump, to get him to read one page. So he doesn't know that, Iran's ballistic missiles can't possibly reach the United States. So Netanyahu takes that as an opportunity.

Oh, yeah, they could hit Albuquerque, Donald. Oh my God, what if they hit Mar-a-Lago? Oh, okay, I'll go to war for you, Israel. Okay, that's who they're working with. So here's another one. The possibility of regime change, they said, was one of Netanyahu's arguments in the call shortly before Trump gave the final orders to attack Iran. So the people briefed on it.

That view was not held by the Central Intelligence Agency, which had assessed in the weeks prior to that, Hamané would likely be replaced by an internal hardliner if he was killed, as Reuters previously reported. Trump repeatedly called for an uprising after Hamanai was killed. So he believed the Israelis over our own CIA, and that was shocking that our CIA is independent enough to give him that intelligence, but they did in this one case.

And so, but since he believed the Israelis after the war started, that's why you see Trump constantly going out there and going, who's gonna be the next leader? Who's gonna replace Hamidane and work with me and let me run the straight of Hormuz? Who is it? Because he really thinks that's going to happen because the Israelis told. Oh God. So which of these work the best though?

We're getting to that in a second. Trump has also been briefed. There's a lot of arguments they threw at Trump to get him to attack. Trump has also been brief that there was a chance, even if small, that the killing of Iran's top leaders could usher in a new government in Tehran that was more willing to negotiate with Washington and said to other people familiar with Rubio's briefing. So they're telling him, oh, they're going to work with you. The minute you attack them, they're going to immediately surrender and say, what can we do for you like they did in Venezuela? That was very persuasive to him. Now, Israel says, oh, all of this is hogwash. Yeah, we made all those arguments.

But Donald Trump is a mental genius, a very stable genius. So we couldn't possibly influence him anyway. In fact, Nan Yahu just said the other day in a news conference on Thursday, dismissed as quote, fake news claims that Israel somehow dragged the US into a conflict with Iran. Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do? Come on. And this is an argument you see Israel first making here in America all the time. Can I see someone telling Donald Trump what to do?

Yeah, easily. Like when Qatar gives him a $400 million plane, all of a sudden he's a lot friendlier to Qatar. When Adelsus gave him $337 million for his three campaigns, he literally said on the air, well, Sheldon gave me a lot of money. And he wanted Israel to take Golan Heights and move the embassy. So I did it. I gave him Golan Heights and I moved their embassy for Sheldon. Can someone get Donald Trump to do something by offering him money or persuade him in

In some other way? Of course, of course they can. It's the easiest thing in the world. So, okay, now we get to, okay, but what was decisive? The reporting shows that the Israeli leader was an effective advocate and his framing of the decision, including the opportunity to kill an Iranian leader who allegedly had overseen efforts to kill Trump was persuasive to the president. So he believed that nonsense story about, oh yeah, there's a dude somewhere in the world,

calling and pretending he was going to kill you. He's like, oh my God, are they going to kill me? Oh, I'm going to cut them first. Wait, you think I'm exaggerating? Hold on, hold on, I got quotes for you. So is it true? Well, Defense Secretary Pete Higgsith in early March suggested that revenge was at least one motive for the operation telling reporters, quote,

Iran tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the last laugh. Did he? Because I feel like Netanyahu got the last laugh. We can miss this schmuck that you, oh, the Iranians are out to get you. Now, well, okay, you're gonna say, well, that's Hegsson. That's Hegsus. I mean, do you have it from the horse's mouth? The Trump said, last quote for you from Donald J. Trump, U.S. president, about Ayatollah.

I got him before he got me. He is that stupid. So the Israelis just played him like a fiddle. And for a fool. And they're like, oh, yeah, Donald, you're going to be greeted as a liberator. The Iranian people are going to be out in the streets chanting your name. It's going to be easy. And they're going to have somebody come up and go, Donald, please run our country.

And you're going to be considered a hero. And we cover this in our previous story. And if you don't participate in the war, you're going to be, quote, a spectator to history. You're going to be a loser weakling looking on while we in. Israel get all the glory? Oh, you're gonna get all the glory by doing all the fighting for us? Oh, golly, gee, Donald, you did it again, and you're gonna strike back against Ayatollah before he gets you? Oh, Donald, you're so smart and brave. That's our leader, a total sucker for falling for nonsense arguments like that. And now American guys are dying, 13 dead already, five planes shot down, endless damage.

price of oil sky high. And now Israel say, yes, so what? Maybe chaos in Iran works better for Israel. Oh, it didn't work well for you guys. You're all paying higher gas prices in America and the rest of the world. Not too late. Now you're stuck in a quagmire. There's nothing you can do about it. And by the way, Net Yahoo is ordering in American ground troops. We'll be right back. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything. Like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I Remember 988 Canada's suicide crisis helpline. It's good to know just in case. Anyone can call or text for free confidential support from a train responder anytime.

98, suicide crisis helpline is funded by the government in Canada. So in the 23 days since the war in Iran began, how many children have been killed? Well, 206 children killed in Iran and 118 children have been killed in Lebanon. But wait, Lebanon, our press almost never talks about Lebanon. But what's what's going on in Lebanon? The Israeli empire expands. So they're a fascist empire. The whole point of starting all these wars is not self-defense.

It's a giant lie and Israeli propaganda told by most of the American media. And I'm gonna prove it to you in this segment. Because we actually have the facts and we have the truth on our side. All they have is propaganda on their side. So the reality is, while everyone else is distracted, Israel is invading southern Lebanon. And we're gonna tell you they're in terms of their entire. with their own words. And so they've killed over 2,000 children have been injured, according to UNICEF's

Deputy Executive Director Ted Chibin. And in Lebanon alone, 2,000 children overall, Lebanon alone, almost 400,000 children have been displaced thanks to Israeli evacuation orders. So they're evacuating, they're telling the Lebanese that you have to evacuate everything south of the Latani River, because they're planning to take that for greater. Israel. It has nothing to do with self-defense. It has everything to do with growing their empire. Again, the quotes are going to prove it in a second. And if you don't know, they've already killed a thousand people in Lebanon and displaced a million people in their new ethnic cleansing

campaign in southern Lebanon, because that's what fascists do. And that is unfortunately, very tragically, the current state of the Israeli government. So let's prove it. Israeli finance Minister of Basel Smotrich casually suggested that perhaps Israel's borders should be changed. Oh, really? Smokshar told in an Israeli radio program that the military campaign in Lebanon needs to end with a, quote, different reality entirely with both Hezbo decision, but also with the change of Israel's borders. Of course, they need breathing space. Oh, I'm sorry, that was the Germans.

They need a buffer zone. That's what they're going with. same kind of word play and the same kind of land expansion for a fascist empire. So Smotritch continues. And I say here definitively, in every room and in every discussion, too, the new Israeli border must be Latani. Okay, so you guys remember everybody in Washington pretended to be outraged and heartbroken over the saying from the river to the sea, they even got me to say, hey, that's a bad idea,

because it sounded like people here in America were so offended. Of course, the second half of that statement is from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. And that, of course, is the most offensive thing to the Israelis. They're like, how dare you? Those are our slaves. We're keeping in those camps forever. By the way, totally factual. They have already voted in the Knesset overwhelmingly.

never let the Palestinians go. They voted, they'll never gonna have their freedom. You can call them slaves, hostages, whatever you want to call them. You can call it occupied territories, open air camps, or maybe even concentration camps. But there is no question that Israelis say we will brutalize the Palestinians forever and ever. They voted on it. They voted on it. And almost every member of, in fact, literally every Jewish member of the Knesset that voted, Yes, crush the Palestinians, never give them their freedom. I say it like that because that is the intent of that action to say they'll permanently be inferior to us, beneath us.

And as you're gonna see here, this is the American press, this is the light version of the quote. I had to go to the Israeli press to find the full quote of Smoterich. And I'm actually gonna show you somehow of some of how the American press protects the Israelis so you don't find out how fascist they are. Because if you knew that they were taking land, you might not want to pony up $330 billion. You might not want to fight their wars for them. You might not want to have your son or daughter killed in their wars if you find out what it's about. So from the river to the sea is actually a different river and sea. But in this case, the Latani rivers in Lebanon.

So Netanyahu has said that Israel is going to take everything from the river to the sea. And that isn't about anyone being free. Netanyahu flat out said they're gonna do land acquisition. So the thing they said the Palestinians were so murderous, terrorist over, that chant of from the river to the sea, Netanyahu said, oh, no, it's not about freedom. For us, it's about slaughter, genocide, and taking your land. And the American press is like, I didn't hear it.

Well, well, or I'll write it once so you guys can know it, but I'm never going to talk about it. Cable news anchors, never mention that. Pretend Muslims are the real problem. Okay, so now the Latani River is not even. In that river, it's in Lebanon. So what the hell are we talking about here? Well, let me show you the Latani River in Lebanon. You see down there, southern Lebanon, southern Lebanon, and you see there's a river that cuts off the arrest of Lebanon. That's the Latani River. So that is squarely in Lebanese territory. And if Israel drew their new border at the Latani River, well, they would literally be stealing Lebanon's land.

Oh, that's uncomfortable. Because American media told you they were the victims, that they were doing self-defense. So why did they line up all their troops on the Lebanese border if we're in the middle of a war with Iran? Why isn't Israel sending ground troops? Why do we have to send our ground troops to Iran? Because Israel's busy doing their actual mission, which is to take a part of Lebanon for greater Israel. And the job of the American media is to lie to you and distract you so you don't notice them taking more land. Later, they'll put in our history books, oh, poor Israel was attacked by Iran and Lebanon.

And they had no choice but to take their land for self-defense. Okay. So, well, is it just Smoltrich? I hear from the American media all the time. Oh, Smote Rich. I mean, he's a pivotal character in the cabinet, but we're going to pretend he's not a big deal. In fact, I got more on that. No, it's not just him.

It's their entire cabinet. So defense minister Israel Katz said earlier this month that Lebanon could face quote loss of territory if it did not disarm Hezbollah. So of course, how do you know if they disarmed Hezbollah? It is a purposely impossible standard. So even if the Lebanese army somehow disarmed Hezbollah, Israel would say, nope, we think that there are seven guns left out there. Well, that's why we had to take all of your territory up to the Latani River. But wait, did you have to do that? Or were you already planning to do that?

Because both Smotrich and Katz already told you that that's their actual motivation. So I'm not quoting speculation, I'm quoting actual deeply important Israeli ministers. So now let's go to more on this. Over the weekend, but yeah, but are they doing this? Well, over the weekend, Israel struck a main bridge linking South Lebanon with the rest of the country after ordering its military to destroy all crossings, over the Latani River and to step up the demolition of homes near the southern border. So as their ministers promised, they're going to do to southern Lebanon what they did to Gaza. They're gonna destroy everything south of the Latani River, say that's now part of greater Israel,

and rebuild it with their settlements and their condos. And they'll build those condos on top of the dead Lebanese children and their graves, Just like they're planning to build condos in Gaza over the graves of Palestinian children that they murdered. That's how a fascist state operates. Now, if you're watching American media, and this is your first time you're getting the truth, you're like, whoa, wait, Jake, you're saying that they're going to build condos in Gaza. I heard from ABC and CNN that they were doing self-defense, that they didn't have a choice. They're only staying there temporarily, they're going to leave.

They did this on behalf of the Palestinians, I hear, who were being oppressed by Hamas. Well, now we bring you to Heretz, an Israeli paper where they actually tell you the truth. And there's a great irony there. The reason why the Israeli press is so much better than the American press is number one, they don't have to worry about, oh, what if schmuck Americans find out what we're up to? And number two, they can't be called anti-Semitic. So they give you a full quote. So Basel al-Motrich, Israeli finance minister says the current campaign,

in Lebanon must end with a fundamental change of situation. The Latani must be our new border with the state of Lebanon. Like the yellow line in Gaza, and like the buffer and the crown of Mount Hermon in Syria. Did you know that Israel's occupying Western Syria? No, you never heard that on cable news, right? They are occupying it, and Smotruch just told you they're gonna keep it. What's the yellow line? That's the yellow line that has 53% of Gaza blocked off on Israel's side.

And Smotrich just told you, yeah, we're gonna keep that. We're gonna keep Gaza, we're gonna keep parts of Lebanon and Syria. Because it's an empire. They have maps of it, it's in their Knesset, it's in their cabinet of greater Israel. And Benjamin Nanyahu was also talked about the glory, of greater Israel and how he is going to set that up. Those are all facts, these are quotes brought to you by, there's no question he said it. I say that because the American media will gaslight you from here on out and go, well,

I mean, Smotech, he's a minor character. In fact, that brings me to showing you the duplicity of American press. So Reuters, in the middle of reporting half of Smoterich's quotes, says this, I'm going to go down to graphic aid here. Smotrich, leader of the small far right party and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet, often makes comments that go beyond official Israeli policy. So that is Reuters saying, oh Smokritch, he's a minor small figure, and he's way beyond Israeli policy.

Now they're the Israelis aren't really gonna do that. Wait, why are you running cover for him? Why are you making excuses for him? Now here's the reality that Reuters is actively hiding from you. Smoterich is not a small part of the government. Smotrich and Ben-Gavir run the two parties that tip the balance. If they leave the government, Netanyahu loses the government and has to go to an election right away.

So Smotrich and Ben-Gavir are absolutely critical. And by the way, has Netanyahu disagreed with Smotrich or Ben-Gavir on any of the fascist things that they have said? No, he's never publicly rebuked them. He never says they aren't true. In fact, he then backs them up by saying, we're fighting to kill Amalek, and that's But then yahoo said that. Amalek is a quote from the Old Testament about how the Israelis have to murder every man, woman,

child, animal, wherever they go. They have to murder all of their opponents, including the children. Net Yahoo said that. Nanjahou said from the river to the sea. Nanjahou backed up everything Smotrich and Ben-Gavir is saying. And by the way, is it true that he's ahead of Israeli policy? Well, you could say he's a little ahead of it. Did you check if after Smartrich says something, does Israel actually do it?

Or is he just a gadfly, a small little guy that's not that relevant? Well, we checked and covering the war for the last three years, every time Smotrich says something, Israel does it. And in this case, it's not in question, they're already bombing the bridges so people can't come back down to the south from the Latani River. So he says we're definitely doing it, and then the government of Israel is doing it, and we We all see it with our own eyes and Reuters goes, but he's a minor character, tiny little thing and Israel probably won't listen to him.

Because if you know that Smote Rich is actually in charge with Ben Kabir and Nanjahou, then you'll realize what fascist terrorists, the Israelis are, and we can't have that. We have to pretend that they're the victims, okay? So I got one more piece of framing for you guys, because this is not just about this story, guys. I want you to know the framing, so when you read a story in mainstream media, you know how to pick out their lies. So Graphics 7, they say, Lebanon was pulled into a regional war on a regional war on

March 2nd when Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel. Huh, since then Israel has ordered all residents to leave the area south of the Latani River, as it pummels the area with airstrikes, viewing it as a Hezbollah stronghold. Wait, you just said they cleared out everybody that was south of the Latani River. Then you said it's a Hezbollah stronghold. So which one is it? They have to add an, it's a Shenzuela stronghold, self defense, self defense, okay? Well, were the million people that they evacuated north of the Latani River part of

Hezbollah? No. Did you talk about how that's an outrage? No. And then in the beginning, they said, Lebanon was pulled into a regional war when Hezbollah fired missiles. Okay, guys, so Hezbollah and Israel signed a ceasefire. Now, long time ago, you remember the Pagers blew up, they had a back and forth,

then they signed a ceasefire. Do you know how many times Hezbollah fired bombs and missiles into Israel since the ceasefire and before the Iran war? Zero. Do you know how many times Israel fired bombs or missiles into Lebanon violating the ceasefire? Zero, right? Over a thousand. They just ignored the ceasefire entirely. A thousand missiles into southern Lebanon with absolutely no missiles coming to other direction.

Israel is doing an offensive war. They are being aggressive and invading Lebanon. And then after the Iran war, Hezbollah was finally like, well, we already got hit with a thousand missiles after the ceasefire. And now they're attacking Iran, so the war has started, so we'll join the war. But Reuters frames it as after Hezbollah, the disgusting Muslims attacked poor little Israel. They had no choice but they go and take their land and ethically cleanse a million people. No, no, our press is disgustingly biased in favor of the genocidal government of Israel,

and our press is deeply racist. To them a Lebanese life, a Christian or Muslim Lebanese person, they're Arabs, who cares if you killed hundreds of their children, or in the case of Gaza, tens of thousands of their children? Do you know about October 7th, they say? Well, brother, we're all brokenhearted about October 7th. Then, Israel did 70 October 7th in Gaza alone. Are you broken out about that?

I mean, we're slightly concerned, slightly concerned. But hey, don't criticize Israel too much, okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you see the propaganda and you see the reality. There's no question. Israel is going to try to take southern Lebanon for itself. This war has nothing to do with self-defense. Fascists are in charge of the Israeli government, and they are on the march.

And what sickens me to my core is that the American government, not because of the American people, American people totally against the war in Iran, we were against what happened in Gaza, the Democrats who were against it from day one, independence turned against it pretty quickly, and now even the Republicans have turned against it. The American people are good-hearted, and they don't want to do these things. But our leaders are deeply, deeply corrupt, both political leaders and media leaders. They work for a foreign country and they drive us into these wars. They drive us to finance genocides and they do it by tricking you into thinking that Israel is

your ally and your victim. Meanwhile, in Israel, they're laughing their asses off going, the Americans are such suckers. How many hundreds of billions of dollars are they gonna let us take from them? How many wars and trillions of dollars are they gonna spend on our behalf? How many times are they gonna say that we're the victims when we take Golan Heights, West Bank, Sinai, and now southern Lebanon and western Syria, and attack seven of our neighbors. But we'll get the dog American politicians and the dogs in American media to pretend that we're the victims. Now you see with your own quotes, with your own eyes, no, Smokers is saying, we're not the victims.

We're going to take their land, we're going to slaughter them, and we're going to ethnically cleanse them. That is Israel's plan from Israel's ministers, Mao's. So don't let American media lie to you. There is no question that's what their plan is, and that's no question that's what they are executing right now as we speak. So Gavin Newsom seemed like he was gonna be a little bold for a second. In fact, it's quite taken aback by, I couldn't quite believe it the other day when he said that Israel was an apartheid state.

I thought out of boy. Look, it's easy to say, ha, how we told you earlier, you know me, I'm not in that. I can't, I take yes for an answer. So if he's coming our direction and he's now going to be a little bit more representative of the American voters instead of the donors, great, love to have it. Except he just talked to Politico and walked it back. Say it with me. Of course, of course.

Gee, I wonder what happened between those two events. Well, if you don't know, I'll tell you in a second. But Jonathan Martin, oh my God, this interview in political was hilarious. Because before they got to Israel, it was like, page. page after page of ass kissing. Are you gonna run? Oh my god, in your book, you're so handsome and rich and poor at the same time. How do you do it?

Like you read the interview, it is comical, right? So when it comes to someone who's an outsider on the right or the left, the press is vicious. Well, we got these pictures from 1987. Is this you doing this? You dirty outsider radical? Jonathan Martin runs into Gavin Newsome. He's like, oh my God, you're with the Gettys and you grow up so, and then you're an aunt dated a Hollywood star and your mom dated someone else and you're so clever and amazing.

Plus, though, I hear that your mom was a single mom and you grew up in hardship. Tell us about your hardship as you were parting with the Gettys when you were growing up. This is the comical mainstream media in America. All right, so they finally get to Israel. Marnas, do you consider yourself a Zionist? Let's pause there because that is such a weird question. Imagine someone's running for president and they're like, do you consider yourself a Peruvian nationalist? Like, what? No, why would I be a nationalist for Peru?

Oh yeah, do you consider yourself a Malaysian nationalist? You'd be like, what on God's green earth are you talking about? I'm running for president of the United States, not of a different country. But every reporter in America thinks this is a normal question. Are you a Zionist? Do you serve Israel? Do you swear an allegiance to Israel? Because if you don't, it's gonna be a real problem.

It's gonna be, are you an anti-Semite that you won't swear allegiance to the nationalism of a different country and religion? What? Okay, all right, but I know how I'd answer, okay? But here's how Gavin answered. Do I consider myself a Zionist? He always does a question to buy himself done. I revere the state of Israel.

I'm proud to support the state of Israel. I deeply, deeply oppose Bibi Net and Yahoo's leadership, his opposition to the Tuesday solution, and deeply oppose how he's indulging the far right as it relates to what's going on in the West Bank. So, so number one, that's it he walked it back. Not apartheid. Instead, he's back to, I revere Israel.

Please donors, I didn't mean it. Please keep the money coming. I can't win without your money. Are you going to pretend if you're in mainstream media that this isn't about the money? That this isn't about the donors? That Gavin went home and meditated for a while and had a change of heart. You know what? I say it's apartheid, but is it really?

Oh, you're gonna give me a couple million dollars? No, I thought about it. No, it's not apartheid. He's got more on that in a second. But also I wanted you to notice that he said like, now I'm trying to thread the needle here. I'm splitting the baby, right? Remember, I deeply, deeply opposed that. Yahoo. Oh, you do? And then he says, well, he's falling under the far right influence.

Wait, you're taking agency away from BB Netanyahu and you're saying, oh, he's being, what, tricked by the far right in Israel? So now apparently you're not even deeply, deeply opposed to poor Netanyahu who's being tricked by Smaltrich and Ben-Gabir. Jesus Christ, man. Okay, yeah, I'm sure this will work in the primaries. Yeah. No, no, no, I mean, I deeply, deeply oppose a tiny little thing. By the way, he said West Bank, not Gaza. Gaza's where the genocide was, okay? So it's deeply, deeply, but at the same time, I love Israel, I love your Israel.

Yeah, good luck with that strategy, good luck. So then Martin asked, do you regret using the word apartheid to describe Israel? Also a funny question. The assumption is you have to regret it. It isn't, hey, are you doubling down on calling it an apartheid? Hey, sounds like you're not calling it apartheid anymore. or any other way of framing. No, the framing is, do you apologize?

Do you bow your head to Israel? Do you regret it? Do you regret calling apartheid? It's the most obvious apartheid in the world. So what are the five and a half million Palestinians? Jonathan Martin, what are the five and a half million Palestinians? Do they have full rights in Israel? Is it really a democracy?

Can the five and a half million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip vote? No, they can't vote. Or can they be murdered at any time by the Israelis? Yeah, and we just saw it. They just murdered over 72,000 of them, including a stadium full of women and children, 30, 40,000 women and children. Okay, so no, but no, it can't be apart. Of course it's apartheid.

Can the Palestinians and the West Bank and Gaza Strip vote? Can, do they have any rights? Are they completely and utterly controlled by Israel? Of course they are. But in Jonathan Martin's mind, Gavin Newsom's mind, and almost everyone in Washington, D.C., those aren't real humans. Those Palestinians are worthless. I mean, if something happens to the Israelis, that's important.

Those are real people, okay? So but do you apologize to the people committing the genocide for calling it apartheid? Again, you know what I would answer. Let's see what Gavin Newsom answered. Does he regret it? I do in this context. I said it and I referenced why I use it. A Tom Friedman article, by the way, a Jewish American commentator for a

New York Times who loved Iraq war, who loves every war that Israel starts, coincidentally. But he's saying like, no, no, no, I was just quoting Tom Friedman. Just quoting, and he's Jewish. It's okay. It's okay. I'm quoting a Jewish. Do you, I'm begging you. I'm begging you. I'm begging you. Come back, donors. Okay. Tom Friedman article, he says, in that same sentence where Tom used it in the context of the direction that Bibi is going. So the direction that they're going, quoting Tom Freeman. I didn't mean a part that. I'm deeply regret it. Israel, I will serve you.

Thank you for the notification, Gavin. We appreciate it. But Martin's not done. He keeps pressing and pressing. He needs, I mean, Gavin at this point is on his knees. He needs them fully flat on the ground, groveling to Israel, right? So he says, not the current state. Huh?

Okay. So Gavin says, correct. Not the current state of Israel, correct. And that is a legitimate concern I have that I share with Tom that that direction, if that vision and that direction of the far right that BB is indulging, that if they see the full annexation of the West Bank, then that's not something. That's a word you may hear others use. Wow, that is a profile and courage right there. So I take back apartheid. I apologize for it.

I call myself a Zionist, I revere the state of Israel, and but someday in the future, not me, but others might call it apartheid. Have I split the baby, fine? No, you haven't, Gavin, and you're never going to be able to split this baby. And so look guys, now I'll do a prediction for you guys. So all of these corporate Democrats, and you'll know them by how much they defend Israel, no matter how gruesome Israel's actions are, and no matter how unpopular it is in the Democratic party.

Look, only 13% of Democratic voters view Israel positively. What kind of a moronic politician would go with the 13% instead of the 87%. And by the way, that poll was done a while back, that number is probably lower now. So why in the world would you choose to lose? That's because they think, oh no, I'll trick the voters. I'll trick the voters with the money that I'm collecting from pro-Israel donors. And then I'll lie to them, just like every Democrat does and every Republican does. And the media will help me, and they will paint me and Israel as the victims, and the Palestinians,

the Lebanese, the Iranians, et cetera, as the dirty terrorist savages. And so that way our racism will work and will trick all the Democratic voters with all the gobs of money I'm collecting from these donors. So the prediction is it's not going to work. Guys, by the time we get to the 2028 primaries, this Iran war is going to have been an absolute disaster of epic proportions. Israel trying to take southern Lebanon is going to turn into a disaster, let alone the AI disaster, that's an economic one.

So, but okay, put aside the AI and stick with this issue. When they get to those primaries and they all have been defending Israel the whole time, and about 2% of Democratic voters are left supporting Israel, how are you gonna win that primary? So all of the propaganda of mainstream media is what these corporate Democrats have leaned on their whole lives. That's okay, MSNBC is going to lie to them. CNN, New York Times, are going to lie to them, and they're gonna pretend that I'm the good guy. And by the way, in the midst of this piece, they're like, now Gavin Newsom's number one. He's the leading candidate. Remember, he took back apartheid, he loves Israel and reveres. Now he's number one. He's the top candidate.

You should really think about voting for Gavin Newsom because he's rich and poor. Okay, and he's looking out for you and the donors. So remember Gavin, Gavin's the guy. Yeah, Politico can say it. You know how many people listen to real people outside of Washington read Politico? Approximately zero. None. Oh, but I have Axios, Politico and semaphore covered.

Oh, you do? Great. You'll have a bunch of senators and congressmen on your side and a lot of defense contractors, and you'll have zero regular human beings. So enjoy that strategy. It's not just about Gavin Newsom, all the people who are choosing the donor class, choosing foreign governments and corporations above their voters, I believe are going to lose and lose badly in 2028.

And I hope to God that that is true because they would ruin the Democratic Party and this country if they won more time made false promises, then got into office and served Exxon Mobile and Lockheed Martin and Pfizer and Israel. And that is exactly what they're planning to do. And Gavin Newsom just told you. We'll be right back.