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The MeidasTouch Podcast — Breaking: Trump Escalates His War…Oil Tankers Attacked!!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
A massive escalation just took place in Donald Trump's war against Iran sent Khan announcing that it struck three Iranian crude tankers in the past several hours. We have footage of what went down. Let me show it for you right now. You can see right here these Iranian crude tankers absolutely destroyed. They were several miles off of Kharag Island. It appears. This was the statement that was issued by sent Khan moments ago. US Central Command forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers on September 5th and sent com alleges that they did this after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles towards two US Navy warships patrolling regional waters. We don't have confirmation that Iran launched those strikes yet, but this is what sent com is saying. And in response, sent com is attacking Iranian crude tankers because they say they want to hurt
Iran's economy more. So the Trump regime is behaving like pirates and destroying the crude tankers. Interesting. Meanwhile, you have Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff who just arrived in Moscow, Kareel Demetriev, Russia's envoy to the United States who calls himself the special envoy of cooperation announced the arrival of Kushner and Whitkoff. So obviously they are going to meet Putin first and they are going to meet Demetriev and go to Moscow first before going to Ukraine. Unclear if they'll end up actually going to Ukraine as I reported earlier, Whitkoff was very scared that Putin was going to strike. Steve, if he arrived there without Putin's blessing, I suppose, but he appears not to be scared of Putin in the sense of showing up in Moscow first. Now, Whitkoff who's supposed to be the envoy to that region, even though he's not appointed
and no American wants this guy to really have this position other than the Trump regime and the ultra maga bootleakers, he's never visited. He's never met with Zelensky. So we'll see what happens over there. You can see Whitkoff and Kushner arriving in their motorcade. And while all of this is going on, you have Donald Trump at Bedminster, Trump said his golf club for the next four days. Donald Trump is posting people, especially patriots from the United States of America. Love the name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America. The support has been overwhelming, including affirmation. Affirmation, he says, from Google Maps, Apple Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps. Donald Trump threatening the CEOs of these companies. You need to change the way your maps look to change Lake Ontario to Lake America to soothe my ego or else. It's the height of communism, authoritarianism. Trump goes since the name change business on the United States side of the lake has been
absolutely booming. Donald J. Trump, I guess so booming that the president of the United States is selling fake $1,000 bills. This is what is attached to his post. It's part of his own social media platform and it's using hate, his name, image and likeness. Trump 1000 bill being given away free for truth social users. Hurry, only 71 left. What the hell do you mean also? It's just the stupidest stuff. Since we made the name change, business is booming as though like people in Canada or people throughout the world go, oh man. Can you change Lake Ontario to Lake of America? I'm going to have to visit now. So while Donald Trump is at his golf course in Bedminster for the next four days on the taxpayer dime, whatever's going on there with Natalie and the weird bag of crowd there, whatever. There's serious things going on in the world right now. Russia hit near both key airports as Whitcoff and Kushner were reportedly about to fly in from Moscow.
So Putin, look at this b-roll right here. Putin hit both of Keyes airports. You can see a drone hitting two old Soviet planes at the Zoliani, the in city airport. A Ukrainian member of parliament said the envoys had been close to agreeing to land at Borgesville, but would likely take a train instead. The envoys landed in Moscow earlier this morning. And so Zelinsky agreed that he would not strike in Moscow or some of the surrounding areas while Whitcoff and Kushner were there. Putin, moments ago agreed, all right, I won't strike Ukraine. That's what he said. We'll see if that happens, but only in Kiev. And Putin before saying that though, just struck the airports in Kiev, which are the airports that Whitcoff and Kushner would have likely fly it into. And then there's this.
Russia hit the comet steel plant in Kamensky, Denopsprop's region, reportedly using North Korean KN23 ballistic missiles. Take a look right here, because after Ukraine lost the Avastol and Ilyak plants in Maury Pool, this comet steel became the country's second largest steel producer. And while Whitcoff and Kushner were flying into Russia, you had this taking place earlier in the day. Watch for yourself what happened. Play this clip. And all the while, Donald Trump is sending his regime sikafens. Here you have transportation secretary Duffy going on Fox and friends.
And he and the Fox host Charlie Hurt give Donald Trump credit for the record high diesel prices. And they're like, it would have been way worse if Trump wasn't in power. It would have been worse. We'd give him credit for the highest diesel price in American history right now. And then Duffy, the US transportation secretary goes, when you look at diesel, you got to look at Russia and Ukraine at this point. It's their fault. Look, you invaded Iran, the US and the kind of self involved in this catastrophic and a lawful invasion of Iran. It's escalating even more right now. And Iran isn't just going to take it. They're not going to be okay with you blowing up their crude tankers like that. They're going to launch strikes again very soon at US military bases, which are mostly evacuated at this point. They're going to go up the escalation ladder at this point. And it's going to put more of our service members in harm's way.
And it's going to cause prices to go up even more. I don't think we're anywhere near the top of what diesel and gas is going to cost it. But here's what Duffy says. Let's play this clip. I think I want to ask you about diesel prices. Diesel prices have reached a record high for all of time. That we're obviously there's a lot going on in the world. The vice president saying yesterday that a lot of what the administration has done has kept the, they'd be a lot higher if it were not for the efforts of the administration. Yeah, so I think that when you look at diesel, you have to look at the at Russia and Ukraine. And Russia was a major exporter, the second biggest exporter in the world on diesel. They've stopped their exports. So that puts pressure on a global market. But president Trump has pushed American energy dominance. We are producing more energy now than ever in the past. We need to refine more capacity. And just think about this, those we come into political season. It's Republicans who have pushed, are trying to push more production and drive prices down.
It's the Democrats who have always wanted energy prices to come up and force you into an EV. That's, and so that's rich now that they're like, hey, we're really upset about it. High energy prices. That's like, that's what you've been fighting for. And it's only president Trump who's trying to drive these prices down. And you're going to see him come down. We're going to resolve this issue in Iran and in Russia. And you're going to see historic low prices as we look to the future. Yeah, indeed. And then you have Netanyahu talking about how he claims his son, Ya'eer Netanyahu, who was living in Miami, was threatened by Iran. And then Iran was going to assassinate Ya'eer Netanyahu, who was partying. Get up in Miami with the Trump Mar-a-Lago crew. So Netanyahu says there had to be an extraction. We had to send our security forces to save Ya'eer Netanyahu from an imminent Iranian assassination attempt in Miami. Have we heard this before? Oh, yeah, there was the IRGCs about to assassinate Ivanka in Miami.
Remember that or the Iranians are about to assassinate. And they're putting out videos to kill Baron and to kill him. Remember that or the multiple attempts that Donald Trump claims that Iran is trying to kill him. Donald Trump has to hide in a catering container with Natalie, even though he would be on the most highly protected plane in the world. Air Force one, not the old, not the guitarie Air Force one, the old Air Force one. He's got to hide in a catering container. Are you sensing a pattern here? Are you sensing that these could be used as pretext or false flags potentially in order to justify more invasions, more attacks? Maybe you tell me because while Netanyahu is saying they tried to kill my son, they tried to kill Trump son, they tried to kill his daughter, they're trying to kill Trump, they're trying to do all of that.
By the way. The only person who killed Trump killed the leader of Iran, the Ayatollah and the Ayatollah's granddaughter and daughter and son-in-law and entire family who were having dinner. Trump killed the entire family and Trump killed a lot of other people in Iran and slaughtered little girls in Manam and slaughtered little girls and little children in Lamar and slaughtered unarmed sailors in the Iranian Navy who were leaving a parade on the iris denna over when they were leaving India at the beginning of the war and killed people out of wedding. This past week they killed those people out of wedding and now Netanyahu is saying they have an election in the next month in Israel. The central question in these elections, who will finish what has to be finished? Who will finally finish off this regime in Iran? For Netanyahu, the plan is a never-ending war with Iran. Let's be very clear. In the way he describes it as, my political opponents give into every pressure American
tells them, no, and they immediately tremble. Will they do it? No, they won't do it. We do it. When America says no, Netanyahu says we bring the United States into the war. He's saying he's saying it out loud right now. So with all of this massive global instability caused in large part by Donald Trump's weakness and his pathetic behavior and launching catastrophic wars with Netanyahu, what is going on in our defense department this morning, reporting from Reuters this morning. We all know that Dan Druskel, the Army Secretary, resigned. We all know Pete Hegseth has forced out numerous top officials within the defense department and top military officers and top generals and admirals and the former chairman of the joint chiefs. We know that, right? But now the White House has considered candidates to replace deputy defense secretary. Steve Feinberg, no decision has been made in both the White House and Pentagon say he's
not being pushed out. We're just floating, replacing him. Not being pushed out. We're just floating, replacing him. A departure would add to recent Pentagon leadership turnover and as concerns grow over weapon shortages and munitions production. Also, as I reported in the 4 a.m. video and the 6 a.m. video that I did this morning, make sure you check those out by the way. The Pentagon has now also launched a bizarre and unusually large leak investigation giving polygraph tests to roughly 50 members of the joint staff after news reports exposed shortages of key US munitions during the war with Iran. Investigators asked officers and civilian employees whether they shared classified information with journalists, including details about depleted missile and patriot interceptor stocks. They put these top individuals, top joints, joint staff staffers hooked them up to polygraph
test. Could you imagine working in that environment right there? And our former allies are looking at us like goodbye United States. You have utterly capitulated. There is a new world architecture being formed and I'll do more videos on that. I think it's a real important thing to reflect on G. Zing Ping's trip to Egypt. What that means when President G talks about a new global architecture. When you see all these other alliances being formed while Donald Trump is out there behaving like an absolute lunatic and has destroyed any credibility and has destroyed the reputation of the United States. So for the first time in decades, NATO allies held a submarine hunting drill off Iceland without US ships or aircraft as European and Canadian forces took the lead in defending the North Atlantic and the exercise focused on an area over there, a key route for Russian,
nuclear powered submarines entering the Atlantic. I'm in growing concerns over Russia and the US pull back from Europe. And I'll tell you who's investing in cutting edge technology when it comes to the military and everything else. China. Photos confirming China's WZX-DELTH drone. Look at this unique stepped wing design, the broad intersections transitioning to extremely narrow outer wings. Look at this wing span 170 feet, comparable to the B2 bomber. They are focusing on building their technology and science and building a multipolar world with China as the organizing Hegemon. That's what's taking place right now. We'll keep you posted as we learn more about WITCOP and Kushner's visit to Moscow. Putin claims he's not going to be striking, but we will see right before Putin said that he struck the airports and he struck the steel factory.
And so we'll focus on what's happening there. And we'll of course keep you updated as soon as we get breaking news. I'm confident Iran is going to be responding after sent come just announced the Trump regime strikes on those three crude tankers. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching. Before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.
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