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Trump Just Made It Worse…

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump making a disastrous situation even worse as his war spirals out of control, oil and gas prices surge, the fallout from his strikes intensifies, and Trump desperately lashes out and tries to blame everyone else for the chaos he created. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af Sidebar with Katie Phang: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-with-katie-phang/id1886801652 The Parnas Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949 The Intersection with Michael Popok: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Five Minute News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minute-news/id1471715443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald Trump in a spiral this morning waking up to his collapsing presidency waking up to the country he is Destroying here. This is what he posted first thing this morning now that we have it under USA control Should we change the name of Hormuz straight to Trump straight like America itself? It would be hotter than ever before Thank you for your attention to this matter Donald J Trump of course we don't have control over the straight of Hormuz and the massive escalation of the catastrophic war in Iran that Trump engaged in yesterday resulted in the death of five individuals the injury of 68 individuals at a wedding in Syrac County in Iran in the southern area of Iran meanwhile the IRGC says that two additional oil tankers were struck in the strait of Hormuz Trying to pass through the unauthorized route overnight Iran responded to the United States strikes on the wedding in Syrac and to other US strikes that took place in the coast of Iran

Iran responded with strikes in Jordan in Erbil Iraq in Kuwait in the United Arab Emirates Iran claims that there are multiple US casualties At least in the strike against Jordan which the Trump regime is covering up numerous Iranian embassies are posting the following this morning Announced the death toll in Jordan last night at sent com and then other Iranian embassy accounts are saying our sister embassy is asking the real questions But when sent com is silent it is the answer The Iranians struck an area called camp titan in Jordan which they claimed was being reconstituted for logistics to the United States military because the Bahrain base was destroyed early in the war by Iran Iran claims there were service members who were at the camp titan base in Jordan and they were killed or injured And they claim that sent com is covering it up

right now We will be covering that and following up with what's happening There as the Trump regime is Spiraling and all over the place they sent out treasury secretary bessent Who i'm not sure why we keep hearing from this deranged and demented psychopath bessent But he goes on well, I think I do know it's all about market manipulation Although he doesn't make things better. I think he makes it worse By far he goes on state regime media fox and he says the reason that we're seeing this shock in oil supply right now He goes it's Ukraine spault everybody you crane did it here's what he said and They we are going through an energy shock right now due to both the war And you crane Because you you crane has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refine products So that is creating upward price pressure on global basis and then the conflict in Iran and the conflict in Iran

Will will end and prices will come down overall and then he says actually it's not just you crane It's Biden's fault and Kamala Harris here's what he says play this clip Well, Brian let's let's let's walk backwards for them first of all the Canadian deal has virtually no impact on American prices No impact so you know and Prime Minister karni has made a political decision That the deal was on the one one yard line he blew it up at the last minute President trump offered our northern neighbors the most favorable deal and He will have to come back and i'm not sure That the deal will be that good again and look prices are too high the American consumer got blown away under Joe Biden 21.5% stated inflation probably much higher for working americans Yeah, then the market manipulation continues they bring on commerce secretary Howard lotnic and Howard lotnic's like the way Donald trump is handling this with Iran

There's been no American deaths at all zero. I don't know what war you're talking about But we know of at least 18 confirmed deaths although we believe the number may be more than that We also know of overall casualties least reported close to 800 the real numbers probably in the thousands with massive traumatic brain injury Issues being caused but okay Be go go on let Nick here play this clip the growth rate and the reduction in the deficit will not only stabilize the bond market will bring rates down I think the way the president is playing Iran right there's not there haven't been American deaths It's really just an economic choke out Which the administration is now executing more broadly and i think it'll be very effective so i'm very Optimistic that the bond market will treat us very well It may take over the next couple of months, but you're gonna see rates stabilize you're gonna

I'm in Howard lotnic says and we need data centers everywhere They don't cause any issue at all with water no issues at all Not sure what you're talking about there Howard lotnic but the American people kind of know that this the most ridiculous lie ever Of course these data centers and these hyper scalars are going into communities They're taking up the municipal supply of water overall they're consuming data centers like 40 billion gallons a year of water By 2028 it's probably already in being covered up, but here's what let Nick says data centers in your backyard everybody Here play this clip unbelievable, you know one of my favorite things is when people talk about data centers using water The number one product in America that uses water is cattle I mean data centers don't use water the data centers. This is Propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down. That's my lotnic impression by the way Um then he goes on and he attacks Canada

You gonna mess with the US Donald Trump's gonna give you a smackdown. This is what are you saying again? So utterly humiliating here play this clip So if you're gonna mess with the United States of America and its economy and you were right adjacent to our northern border I think it was really disrespectful We were treated disrespectfully and I think when you treat Donald Trump disrespectfully You know he knows it and that's what happened They did it for politics they're gonna do it through their elections in Quebec And then they have an election in Alberta and after October 12th all of a sudden the Canadians are gonna treat us Respectfully because their elections will be behind them. It's just It's sad if you're from my perspective. It's just sad the way catalyst treated us As noted the United States military is in shambles our logistics has been completely dismantled out of this catastrophic war in Iran The USS Abraham Lincoln which was previously In the straight of Hormuz area was right outside in the Arabian Sea

For 286 days it's now arrived in Thailand Where no doubt Russian and Chinese intelligence are are waiting there as well But anyway the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in Thailand Just look at what the ship looks like Visibly weathered heavy rust and worn paint This is what our ships look like now in the United States Navy Join the Navy they said I mean Donald Trump hates our service members He's always called them suckers and losers and this is how he treats them I mean just look at this rotting aircraft carrier and how you could say well That's because it's been at sea for a long time and that's what happens Well, it's not meant to be at sea for a long time like that okay Think about what it looked like in the inside if this is what it looks like on the outside Think about the inside where the plumbing didn't work where people had to like put their feces all over the floor And the and the piss was all over the floor and people weren't getting food and the families were raising the red flowers

We're sounding the alarm and the and the military leaders under the Trump regime Hegsiff what they were defaming the families. I know you're lying to us here Just take a look at what the ship looks like Oh Iran's parliament leader and be Galibat just posted the following message Minab school children massacre Lamar sports hall kids slaughtered the kushdick wedding that's in the syric area In southern Iran children killed with families if a power acts like Satan picks targets like Satan and kills like Satan it's Satan Shields a junior Satan that does the same. It's the great Satan And the Trump regime just goes out there and slaughter's children They escalate the attacks they so the syric wedding area. I mean it's this has been geo located

It's been independently verified by BBC and New York times and others So it's confirmed the Trump regime in Netanyahu at first tried to say ah was Iran that struck its own people. No it was a slammer Unique missile we know it's of a United States origin. We've seen the parts. It's a hundred percent the US that did it now There was a telecommunication structure down the block From this residential area and they struck the telecommunications area and they struck the residential area Where the wedding was taking place you can see the aftermath here of the US attack on the wedding in Iran Where five people were killed the four-year-old child was killed 68 injured We believe that number is going to go up here play this clip BBC's independent verification Sarah Jalali over there at BBC geo confirmed this video right here of the aftermath as well. Let's play this clip

And so what is the Trump regime doing? We're heading close to the midterms They got a cheat they got a cheat for the midterms. So Donald Trump governor Abbott Magger Republicans are now trying to shut down voting Locations polling locations in areas like tarant county in Texas And they're that's what that's their plan they want to Screw with our male ballots and they want to screw with the voting locations because they're authoritarian And we've already been talking about how the Trump regime is trying to push through this rule with the postal service That's going to have a Trump voter rolls and if you're not on the Trump voter rolls the postal service will not just eliminate your ballot But all 10,000 ballots in the same batch of ballots. They'll just throw it away That's that's part of it at Trump's discretion everybody because he's an authoritarian because he is a Want to be dictator? Who knows? His reign that the people are rising up against this crap

But here's what happened in tarant our friends at MS now brought us this here play this clip Voting is a right not a privilege Making citizens jump through hoops to vote is the kind of cowardice engaged in by people who don't think they can earn our votes The founders of our country would would be a pull to how you treat people here with this stain And with your attempts to make it more difficult to vote Commissioners court of tarant county voted on party lines Three Republicans two Democrats to close nearly a hundred polling stations in a county that come a Harris one by 26 points There are 316 polling places in that county more than two million people They voted today to close 92 of them. They say it's about the budget Two months before election day Seems to me pretty transparent effort to make it harder for people in the Fort Worth metro area to vote knowing that Fort Worth numbers are going to be determinative for any statewide democratic victory And to suppress support for taleriko in what is now a toss-up race Donald Trump then putting out this we are

1930s fascist Nazi videos like this communism is the enemy of the free people everywhere This is the stuff that they're putting out at the White House on the official White House account play this clip together We will defeat communism socialism and Marxism in America. We will not be a socialist country And Of course everything is falling apart in the Trump regime Um lots of people have been calling out the Venezuela deal Um within Venezuela outside of Venezuela Um, we were hopefully you thought we were as soon as it was announced We you know called it out and I tried to give you a deep dive into what was really going on there all the BS all the corruption that it was a fake deal The Trump's 100 billion dollar plan to boost Venezuela's oil production is facing major doubts from industry experts Yeah, you think because I think the the oil is not easy to refine. It's going to take decades to refine

It doesn't go into our strategic petroleum reserves. It's virtually uninvestable Venezuela as well under the delsea Rodriguez regime And so that's why Donald Trump because he's a communist and authoritarian communist created a Trump oil company Within Hegsett's defense department that did a deal with Ali Hundro bent a court a bully Chico is what they're called these young Chavistas who took advantage of the people in Venezuela. He did the electricity grid in Venezuela And then took all this money for himself while there were all of these blackouts in Venezuela He's the guy that the defense department is doing a JV with for the US to have a 100 year exploitation rights of Venezuela's Tari viscous dense sour oil that will take hundreds of billions of dollars to refine Maybe decades from now when it's finally achievable and will not do anything with the price of oil right now where the price of crude is heading over a hundred dollars of barrel for both

WTI and Brent by the way and so But with all of this going on what do you have you have the energy secretary Chris Wright arrived in Venezuela And he was like we need American businesses. This is all for the American businesses look what he said when he was in Venezuela You can see him for yourself here play this clip Absolutely that the American investment in Venezuela is to grow the flow of private capital from a great number of American businesses We want to see a lot of investment coming from the United States in the Venezuela To grow opportunity and prosperity for Venezuelans and for Americans and for energy Way to go and participate meaningful and as Carlos Rodriguez Lopez says I'm aware that this press conference is in the middle of a runway However, the fact that secretary Wright is making such an emphasis on incentivizing investments from quote a great number of

businesses leads me to believe that the Trump administration is looking for American investment in Venezuela for a broad scope of American industries That's not exclusively American big oil because America big oil knows that you can't just do this in Venezuela So one of the things that Trump's bringing are the crypto bros and his tech oligarch buds And so like coin base co-founder Fred or shahm is thinking about you know because the oil folks are like we we're not gonna do that So they're bringing in like crypto folks and coin base folks and people like that Meanwhile, remember when Trump regime threatened economic D day and if you do business with Iran if you do business We are going to obliterate you we don't care if you're China and you're or your Russia or your whoever remember what happened right away Pakistan was like well, we're still do we're still gonna do business with Iran all the kind of middle power type countries said we're gonna do business with Iran then Russia said not only are we doing business with Iran We're gonna focus our investments on nuclear capabilities with Iran investment in nuclear facilities in Iran

And then China of course came out with a statement through their foreign minister Wang Yi saying we're going to support Iran as well And then Donald Trump and best and for like China is actually working very very productively with us Well, China was apparently the sole holdout at the G20 finance ministers meeting blocking consensus on the straight of Hormuz free navigation language reportedly because it could set a precedent For the Taiwan straight and the South China sea in other words China Blocked an effort by the United States at that G20 summit in Asheville, North Carolina to basically say that the straight of Hormuz should be you know Should be free for navigation and and China's like of course, it should be free for navigation But not with the way you're doing it the United States. We don't we don't support what you're doing it And China's been very clear that it supports Iran and that it's standing in its standing side by side children shoulder With Iran also you're seeing lots of billboards like this go up all throughout Iran right now

Take a look over here It is Donald Trump in the catering container with the cheeseburger and Coke in his hands and they're just mocking the hell out of him about what a coward America's so-called commander in chief is and just look at this billboard right here Trump hiding this is you know in Tehran Trump this is what they put in Iran Trump hiding in a catering container with a cheeseburger, Minnesota the humiliation ritual here in the United States the shame That he's brought our country how weak and pathetic we look we look like a country of all losers right now because we have a loser in the Oval Office Thanks for watching we'll keep you posted throughout the day hit subscribe get your copy of WTF America now We appreciate you

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