# Trump's Iran War is Worse Than You Think

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- **Канал:** Philip DeFranco
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfheBlRwYE
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/36588

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war in Iran costs you, the American taxpayer, more than $11 billion in just the first week alone. It's also displaced more than 3 million people. And we're now facing the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. and what the pace of Iran's retaliatory attacks they may have been slowing down, they definitely haven't stopped. And the havoc they've just continue to wreak across the Middle East. It is proof that Donald Trump is lying to you. Right. Because when he claimed at this campaign style rally in Kentucky yesterday that the war it's already been one of the U. S. and Israel have virtually destroyed Iran, we're now almost two weeks into this whole thing, and it remains entirely unclear when it's going to end. and the reason I say Trump's lying rather than he's pushing a falsehood he believes in is because it seems like he knows what he's saying just isn't true. In the same speech, he acknowledged that the mission, whatever it is, remains incomplete. And the war it has to go we don't want to leave early, do we? We got to finish the job right. and with all that. Just today, Kuwait, Iraq, the UAE, Bahrain and Oman, they've all reported drones or missiles flying over their territory, with at least some making it through and hitting their targets, Kuwait, for example, said that its international airport had been damaged. And in Iraq, an Italian military base was hit with. Luckily, Italy's foreign minister saying that military personnel at the base and sheltered in a bunker and avoided any injuries. The same can be said everywhere. Roughly 30 miles off the coast of Iraq, two oil tankers were set on fire, possibly by boats carrying explosives, and a person got killed. And another 38 people had to be rescued at sea. with that, you had Iran claiming responsibility for attacking one of the tankers, with the Revolutionary Guards claiming in a statement that the ship had disobeyed and ignored warnings. well, the statement didn't mention the other ship. Iraqi officials apparently suspect that Iran was behind the attack on the other one as well. and then actually Iran is believed to have been behind yet another attack targeting a container ship about 35 nautical miles off the coast of the UAE, well as three attacks on cargo ships yesterday in or near the Strait of Hormuz, although again, Iran only claimed responsibility for one of those strikes. but in any case, there the number of commercial ships that have been damaged over the course of the war, it's now up to 19. thanks to the latest attacks, Iraqi authorities suspended all oil terminal operations at Oman, closed a key oil export terminal for what it said were security reasons. with that coming a day after the country's biggest port was struck by drones for the second time. And that last one, it stands out because Oman has some of the few ports that it's actually possible to keep shipping oil from. since they're located beyond the Strait of Hormuz. the one other big stand out is that Bahrain's energy facilities maybe some of the hardest hit with an alleged Iranian strike today hitting fuel tanks in the north of the country. and that as the country's interior ministry said that it arrested four people for allegedly spying for Iran, while a fifth person remained at large. any of the ministry accusing all five of having used high resolution photography equipment to photograph and record coordinates of vital and important locations on behalf of Iran's Revolutionary Guards? also had a British legal aid group reporting today that at least 21 people have been charged in the UAE for taking videos and photos of missile strikes. that notably coming after the country's public prosecutor said last week that taking or sharing videos that document strikes and damage is illegal if it incites panic among the public, spreads false news, or harms public security in order. right, and then talking about back here in the States, if you live in California, it's being said that you could be Iran's next target, at least that's according to a newly surfaced warning issued by the FBI to law enforcement agencies in the state last month. that saying that Iran aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles launcher, massive vessel against a state in the event that the U. S conducted strikes against Iran, with a notice adding, have no additional information on the timing method, target or perpetrators. now with it, I want to note that this was reportedly unverified intelligence. And there's no evidence as of now that this is actually a realistic threat. as far as what others are saying, you had Trump telling reporters yesterday that he wasn't worried about Iran ramping up his retaliation to include strikes on U. S. soil. and then you had California Governor Gavin Newsom saying that he was in constant coordination with security and intelligence officials to monitor potential threats to California, including those tied to the conflict in the Middle East and dating, we are not aware of any imminent threats at this time. We remain prepared for any emergency in our state. the with this, you know. Well, Ron may have a very hard time attacking the United States directly with weapons. It's already done it over the internet. because there's apparently been a major cyber attack targeting a major U. S. base, manufacturer of medical equipment, which told its roughly 56,000 employees Wednesday to disconnect from all networks and avoid turning on company issued devices. though, it also said that it had no indication of ransomware or malware and believe that the incident is contained, but also with as you have experts saying it, this could be part of a troubling trend in cyber warfare with a head of a cyber threat intelligence firm telling The Wall Street Journal. rather than targeting hospitals or frontline health care providers directly, adversaries may focus on critical suppliers and logistics providers where disruption can cascade across the entire health care system. Well, the company didn't say who he believed was behind the attack. You had a hacker group appearing to take responsibility for calling it retaliation for what's widely believed to have been a U. S. missile strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed 175 people. right. That's now reportedly the conclusion of even the Pentagon's own preliminary inquiry. And you have The Washington Post reporting today that it wasn't a case of the missile missing its target, instead, the school was actually on the target list. But it may have been mistaken for a military site, which is now raise even more questions about whether I was part of the decision making process. because I is continue to be used to wage this war, including for target selection. and with that, you had U. S. Central Command reporting today that it had struck approximately 6000 targets in Iran since the war began. with that, including 60 Iranian ships and 30 layers, which has been a major focus since we started seeing reports that Iran may have started mining the Strait of Hormuz, times I have been posting clips today suggesting that it's targeting Iranian aircraft as well as mobile missile launchers on land.

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with whatever they're hitting. We're, we're also seeing reports that some of Iran's most significant cultural sites have sustained significant damage. and then with all this on the Israeli side, with the military claiming today that it struck a site where Iran advanced critical capabilities and nuclear weapons, also claim to have taken out members of Iran's internal security forces in the capital with drones. then inside Iran. Notably, residents have reportedly said that security forces have been increasing their presence on the streets, trying to show that they're still in control. that is the reported death toll in the country has remained relatively steady, with Iran's representative to the UN claiming today at least 1348 civilians have been killed since the war began. the maybe the most shocking number coming out today may have been reports from the U. N. refugee agency saying that up to 3. 2 million people have been internally displaced inside Iran as a result of the ongoing conflict, with most of them fleeing from Tehran and other major urban areas towards the north of the country and rural areas to seek safety. then, notably with all this, if you factor in what's happening in Lebanon, the total number of displaced people, it may easily be as many as 4 million people. the latest count. But the number of people displaced by Israel's attacks on that country at around 800,000. but that number also may continue to rise, as Israel has yet again ramped up its assault on the country, which has so far reportedly killed at least 680 people, including around 100 children. in recent days, for example, Israeli forces have struck two hotels in or near Beirut, including one that was housing displaced families, and another where Israel claimed Iranian operatives were meeting. also yesterday, it hit an apartment building in the central part of the city. And today, airstrikes hit several cars along the seaside, reportedly covering the sidewalk and bloodied sand and setting off panic in the neighborhood. that strike reportedly killing at least eight people, injuring dozens more, and most of them displaced people. then you also have the Israeli military issuing an evacuation order for central Beirut, though the first warning for an area within the city limits since the war began, and then within an hour, the Israeli military began carrying out a new wave of strikes on Beirut with Israeli officials saying the strikes were targeting infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah. and with that, Israel's doing in Lebanon isn't the only thing being overshadowed by the war with Iran. there's also the matter of what it's doing in Palestinian territories. because officials in Gaza, they claim Israel continues to violate the ceasefire on a daily basis. in fact, just a few days ago, Israeli air and tank strikes killed six Palestinians. There. also more recently, you had a fire breaking out after a strike at ten, sheltering displaced Palestinians in a refugee camp. and then in the West Bank, we've continued to see an uptick in settler violence. the key thing being that once the war started, Israel's military blocked many West Bank roads and largely shut down crossings into Israel. you now have Palestinians in remote villages saying the, the roadblocks they've left them increasingly exposed to this violence, which has reportedly killed at least five Palestinians in the West Bank since the war began. with a six man dying after inhaling tear gas fired during an attack, according to an Israeli rights group. and last night, settlers reportedly graffitied and attempted to set fire to a mosque. then also while you violence spreading across the region, the broader fallout is spreading across the globe. cost of oil has surged again after Iran attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, with prices jumping to just over $100 a barrel this morning before dropping slightly. And then as a result, you had benchmark indexes in both Asia and the US falling by around 1% in reaction. gas prices have also gone up for the 12th straight day since the war started, with the national average jumping to $3. 60 a gallon, which is 20% up since the initial U. S. Israeli strikes. but also diesel prices have increased even more quickly, rising nearly 30% in the last few weeks, with the current average being $4. 86 as of today. and really what we're seeing now, it could be just the beginning. I mean, gas prices usually trail oil prices by up like about a few days. so the crude oil cause bombs that we're seeing, they might not even be really reflected at the pump yet. that's just with me talking about the United States. Things are also going to be a lot worse in Asia and Europe, which rely more heavily on oil and natural gas from the Middle East. it's even gotten so bad that you had Denmark's energy minister literally telling citizens to cut back on energy use and stop driving unless it was totally necessary. and we're seeing all of this even after the International Energy Agency announced the largest ever release of oil stock in history, with 32 of the world's biggest economies agreeing to release 400 million barrels of oil from their strategic reserves. You have experts saying that the market reaction that we're seeing, it shows that the historic release didn't reassure traders. It actually had the opposite effect. instead just highlighted how far away we probably are from seeing the Strait of Hormuz open and fully operational again. one of the biggest things is it looks like they're right to be worried, though the release the strategic reserves will help is a temporary measure, that's really not going to do much if the war continues to drag on. with Trump constantly moving the goalposts, talking out of both sides of his mouth. You investor is clearly thinking that this is how things are going to move forward. and in fact, with all this in its monthly report, the IEA said that global supplies are expected to decrease by 8 million barrels a day. that's almost half of the roughly 20 million barrels that moved through the strait each day before the war broke out. cannot overstate how major this is. The IEA says that the war has caused the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. you have experts saying that even if the war were to end and shipments were to resume, it could be months before the energy market goes back to normal. but then it's also not just the energy market. Experts say that we'll see prices rising in other areas as well, especially with food prices. For one, when oil prices go up, it becomes expensive to transport goods and services, which causes producers to increase their prices. For consumers already struggling with high gas cost, at a time when affordability is a huge issue, then some businesses, they might not be able to keep up at all. I mean, you have experts saying that many of these businesses, they're already operating on thin margins because they're absorbing most of the cost of Trump's tariffs. so basically they're getting double fucked by Trump and instead of lowering prices, the antiwar peace ticket president who ran on affordability, he started a war that's going to increase prices further, hurting American consumers and producers who are already struggling to make ends meet because of his tariffs.

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then wait. It gets worse. The affordability crisis that this war is already causing it goes way beyond oil. Because the Strait of Hormuz is also a key shipping route for many other products, and the blockade is almost entirely halted. Container ship traffic in the waterway. then on top of that, temporary closures and disruptions at multiple major international airports in the region have paused nearly one fifth of global airfreight capacity, which has caused disruptions to shipments of consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals and precious metals. but again, we're experts say that Americans can see the biggest impact is with food prices and agriculture. Because in addition to oil, the strait is also a key passage for fertilizer, which is absolutely essential for global agriculture. With Bloomberg also describing this as a fertilizer crisis like never before. and that it creates a chain reaction of events when fertilizer supply is low, it makes farming costs higher and reduces crop yield. Two factors that both mean higher food prices for consumers at the grocery store. then that is only further exacerbated by the rising energy crisis. Energy is a huge input into the food supply chain. It's used for everything farm machinery, producing fertilizers, transportation, processing. it's when prices increase where almost every aspect of food production, those are also passed off to the consumer. And food prices. despite all of these very serious concerns, Trump has just continue to downplay the pending oil crisis while also making contradictory statements. right. Well, speaking of an event in Ohio, you had Trump claiming. figured we'd be hit a little bit, but we were hit probably less than I thought. we'll be back on track in a pretty short while. Prices are coming down very substantially. Oil will be coming down. then literally at the same event, he also told local reporters that he would tap into the US's emergency petroleum reserves, and then later confirming the release of 172 million barrels. then also after that, we saw Trump trying an entirely different strategy, and he tried to paint high prices as a good thing. Writing on truth, social. United States is the largest oil producer in the world by far. So when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money. now a big thing. Yes, it is true that the United States is a huge oil producer, but it also imports a ton of other oil products. what's more, studies have shown that high oil costs only benefit wealthy oil producers and their shareholders, while American consumers, regular people, end up footing the bill for higher prices. also, while you have Trump in his administration painting the oil prices as a short term pain for long term gain in Iran, it's still unclear how short term this will actually be. or like we've talked about Trump has repeatedly contradicted himself about when this war will end. and even if he did decide to end the war soon, doing so at this point also carries huge risks. is you have places like the Wall Street Journal explaining he's basically into deep now because of any remnants of Iran's regime, they're left in place. We would essentially just grant Iran control over the world's energy markets, while also sacrificing security in the region. That could make another, more devastating regional war likely. where the Strait of Hormuz. It's an incredibly valuable piece of leverage for Iran, one that they're not going to give up easily. in fact, today, even Iran's new supreme leader reportedly vowing to keep fighting while explicitly threatening to continue weaponizing the Strait in his first statement since assuming power though the reason I say reportedly there is because he didn't actually read the statement himself. and notably, he hasn't actually been seen publicly at all since his appointment, which is then raised speculation that he was killed or injured in the strikes that killed many of his family members. but still in the statement, you reportedly had the new leader saying Iran would not refrain from avenging the blood of its martyrs and claiming that he will activate new fronts if the war continues, while also threatening to destroy enemy assets to the same extent that Iran's assets have been destroyed. with him then reportedly going on to promise that he will continue to use the Strait of Hormuz as leverage. so with all this, you have experts saying at this point, even if the U. S did end its war, there's no guarantee that Iran would reopen the strait quickly. And there's also a risk that it'll continue targeting boats or launching strikes at oil rich Gulf nations, with one explaining. if the regime holds on even a rump regime, what is to stop its missiles and drones from threatening tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and the energy infrastructure of America's Gulf allies at the time of their choosing? currently, there are signs of the regime's holding on, with Reuters reporting that U. S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and it's not at risk of collapse anytime soon. and you have analysts saying that if the U. S. wanted to forcefully reopen the strait, it would likely require a ground operation that could escalate and is all but guaranteed to result in higher casualties. and so basically, at this point, Trump has made everything worse by going to war with Iran for no discernible reason. right now, it looks like even if he does pull out and declare victory, he's fucked everything up so much that future conflicts, including ones that the US will get drawn into, they're almost inevitable. But for now, that is where we are. And I'd love to know your thoughts, opinions and reactions to, just this, this awful fucking dumpster fire. and then there's more we got to dive into in just a minute. But first, let me take a minute to thank the sponsor and say, you know, I've messed around with this game enough to understand why it has a dedicated fan base. like, for example, I like the strategy team building, satisfying the champion collecting. 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No, this war is waged purely because Israel wanted it to be waged. If Tucker wants to claim that Donald J. Trump is a tool of the Jews, which is clearly what he wants to say, he should just say it. also making Kelly coming out to make an argument similar to Tucker is calling out Ben directly. no one should have to die for a foreign country. I don't think those four service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or for Israel. our government's job is not to look out for Iran or for Israel. It's us. And this feels very much to me like it is clearly Israel's war. Mark Levin wanted it. It's his war. Ben Shapiro. Lindsey Graham, Miriam adelson. That's obvious. that you had Ben countering that Donald Trump is responsible for the war, not Israel or the Jews, and arguing that if you have a problem with the war, Trump. She is such a coward. She's such an unbelievable coward. You don't like President Trump. You don't like what he's saying. Just say his name. You coward! You unbelievable coward. Tucker and Megan both unbelievable cowardice. Say his name. You won't, you won't. and then he claim that her cowardice extends beyond just her hesitation to call out Trump directly is our entire politics. Some might point out that Megan's bravery stops precisely where the clicks end, that she was pro trans until the clicks turned against it, And she was pro-Israel that she was pro Erica Kirk until the clicks turned against it, at which point she went totally silent on Candace Owens, slandering the widow of her supposed friend. the next up. You had been going after Piers Morgan giving this explanation for why he stopped going on Pierce's show. kept bringing on actual Nazis and the Nazi adjacent and then treated them all too often as voices worthy of a large audience. Again, it's piers, his choice who he decides to have on his show and how he decides to conduct the kind of clown car battle royale that he does on a show every night. And it's my choice not to join that circus. We all make our choices and we all live with them, he then played several clips from piers. His show is examples featuring Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Norm Finkelstein, among others. but then in response to that, you had piers pointing out that he's also hosted numerous people who are pro-Israel and anti Iran, including pundits from the Daily Wire. you know, people saying for the interviews of Ben Cherry picked he left out the parts where piers pushes back against his interviewees, even calling Fuentes a Nazi. with all this, you had piers claiming that ever since he started criticizing the Israeli government, Ben hasn't even politely replied to his occasional text messages. Ben Shapiro used to make a mockery of Deplatforming when the person being deplatformed was Ben Shapiro, But his uncompromising views on Israel and America's military and political support for Israel have turned him into a cancel culture vulture with the very same sneering intolerance he used to loathe. If you disagree with him, you're a Nazi, he says. The difference between me and you, Ben, is that I'm heavily criticized by both sides because I listen to both sides, and very often I criticize both sides too, without fear or favor. You're only criticized by one side because you choose to only one side, and you choose to ignore or even silence the other. I'm a journalist. You are a propagandist. Own facts don't care about your feelings. and then reacting to all of this, you had Megan Kelly piling on the funk Ben train. it's very sad to me. As somebody who's known Ben forever and helped make Ben 100%, he became a star on my show, The Kelly File. I'm very sorry to see this happen. Truly? How many people must be culled from the conservative movement in order to make Ben happy? Right now, with all this, you got both sides of this debate claiming to represent the majority of the conservative movement, painting the other as the actually the minority. at least in Iran, the truth it ends up being kind of complicated and very interesting. Right. Because before the war started, Republicans aboard for a hypothetical strike on Iran, it was pretty weak, with like 40% in favor, 25% oppose, and 35% unsure. but then after Trump just started the war, support for the actual strikes ballooned all the way up to 85% of Republicans, any with three quarters saying that they believe that Iran has posed an imminent military threat to the United States, and 6 in 10 saying that the president's actions are making the US safer. so basically once Trump went from I'm the pro peace candidate, no more wars and he went full neocon. All that so-called isolationist antiwar sentiment, it just fucking evaporated and the supporters fell in line. though interestingly, the party is still split about 5050 over putting boots on the ground. at least for now. And until he does it and then, you see, just, everyone change their minds. and so is going to be very interesting to watch what happens there.

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Also how this MAGA civil war continues. what I will say is, you know, putting all the infighting about the war aside Republicans, they can at least come together over their shared hatred for journalists. because the Secretary of War is. I'm calling crimes. He's targeting photographers who just dare to take bad photos of with a Defense Department reportedly banning press photographers from all future press briefings about the war of that's not a war in Iran because wait for it. they published photos of Pete Hegseth that were deemed unflattering. now the briefing of this whole thing was born from happened on March 2nd, just days after the joint military strike that killed Iran's former supreme leader. it was actually the first time the text had appeared from the briefing room podium since June of last year. but anyway, for this briefing, the Pentagon, welcome to a bunch of photographers from various sources Bloomberg, the AP, Getty Images, Reuters, and a bunch more. so they snapped away. And afterwards those pictures were published in outlets around the world. but then members of Haig's team reportedly told colleagues that they didn't like the way that the secretary looked. and so, you know, they took the only reasonable option, and they blocked press photographers from the next two briefings on March 4th and March 10th. only the Defense Department staff photographers were welcome at those, and you had the Pentagon press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, saying in a statement, in order to use space in the Pentagon briefing room, effectively, we are allowing one representative per news outlet if UN credentialed, excluding pool adding photographs from the briefings are immediately released online for the public and press to use. If that hurts the business model for certain news outlets, then they should consider applying for a Pentagon press credential. which of course is a slap in the face of the outlets that surrendered their Pentagon credentials and walked out after refusing to sign a policy prohibiting journalists from soliciting any information that the government doesn't expressly approve. we're so punishing journalists are trying to do journalism. with this new development, you know, press rights advocates, they weren't exactly pleased with the development. National Press Photographers Association condemned the decision, calling on the Pentagon to restore the photographers access, anyway, the president saying in a statement, excluding photographers from Pentagon briefings because officials did not like how publish images portrayed them shows an astonishingly poor sense of priorities in the midst of a war, and is where a public servant not a good look. free press cannot function. If government officials decide that only favorable images of public officials may be created or distributed. you had Charles Statlander, a spokesperson for The New York Times, echoing that saying, as the times, as long said there is a clear importance in public service to allowing journalists to report fully on the US military. This includes photojournalists who deserve access and credentialing to attend Pentagon briefings. instead of pushing the Pentagon to allow photographers to do their jobs, the, the white House has chosen a more combative response to the whole situation. In the Washington Post article that initially broke the story, journalist Scott Nova wrote white House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly declined to comment on headset's decision to shut out reporters. but then Kelly herself pushed back on that saying on Twitter, fake news reporter Scott. No, I said, we declined to comment for this story. Not true. just didn't like my comment. Because it exposes how little the Washington Post cares about access for photographers, fake outrage, they're sharing a photo of an email thread that appears to be her responding to a request for comment with, quote, didn't the Washington Post just fire all of its white House photographers? which actually is true. Just last month, the Washington Post laid off about 30% of all its employees. that included 300 journalists and all other snap photographers, and so you've seen some right leaning outlets jumping on that fact. That claim to the post is just trying to stir up drama and outrage against the Pentagon and the Trump administration. but there you had people pushing back, noting at the post article reporting on the photographer banned and mention anything about their own staff getting shot out. rather citing their sources about the decision to ban photographers and the reason for it, with people saying this is just what a news outlet does. and in fact, you have a lot of people responding to Kelly's tweet saying just that, including from Dan Lamont, the military affairs reporter for the post, who said, whether we have zero photographers or 72 photographers, this story about the Pentagon is still true. But then from that, I want to end today's show with a quick congratulations and one more piece of news we need to dive into, but starting with a congratulations. Congrats to Ethan Casey, geeks latest weekly winner, who just scored $500 and tickets and is going to watch the Bears or Packers in the fall. and for the rest of you all. That's right. Zeke is still giving away $500 in tickets every week. And you should definitely end today if you haven't already. You could be the next winner and snag $500 towards your favorite artist sporting event play. Just really whatever. There's like over 70,000 events to choose from. all you got to do is add code. DeFranco to your Seat Geek app. Profile versions of the weekly $500 prize. No purchase necessary. then with that said that the final thing that we need to talk about today, the final piece of news, is we need to talk about how the House Oversight Committee just held a closed door deposition with Richard Khan, Epstein's former account. because we are again, seeing both sides play the same spin game and create their own talking points about what was said and what we should believe. No. Khan. He's the executor of Epstein's estate. That he claims that he had no knowledge of Epstein's crimes, that he never observed any abuse or trafficking or heard any complaints, but that he still regrets he may have unknowingly assisted Epstein in any way. according to the representatives there, he answered every single question and name some of the clients who contributed to Epstein's absurd wealth, claiming that Les Wexner, Leon Black, Steven Sinofsky, Glenn Dubin and the Rothschild family all paid Epstein millions. leaders in the committee also said that Kahn admitted to impersonating Epstein in communications with banks and facilitating a fake marriage between two women in Epstein's orbit. when it comes to other powerful people who may have had ties to Epstein's wealth, you had Representative Suha Subramanian, I'm telling you. Ms... Now. we asked him about whether there any financial transactions between 15 and other heads of state or politicians, and he didn't mention the name Andrew Barrack. I remember Virginia Giuffre had mentioned that, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is, had raped her.

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but you also have Republicans focusing on who Khan didn't implicate, especially Trump. Again, trying to use the deposition to clear the president's name, with Chairman James Comer saying Klein testified under oath that, because the Democrats asked this question, he had never seen any type of transaction to Trump or anyone in his family. That makes the fifth witness now, that's testified under oath that they've never seen any involvement by Donald Trump as you can imagine, Democrats didn't see it the same way with them pushing back on a ton of Khan's deposition, saying they flat out don't believe that Epstein's accountant, an estate executor, was clueless about his crimes. with Robert Garcia, the committee's Democrat lead, writing that Jeffrey Epstein's massive sex trafficking ring would not have been possible without the consistent payments and services of his longtime accountant, Richard Khan. not credible that he had no knowledge of Epstein's activities, and his testimony today only raises more questions. when it comes to Trump, Garcia specifically saying that Khan confirmed that Epstein spoke about Trump a lot. with Representative Subramaniam adding at the committee asking about the settlement program that he's running for the estate and. know he was proud of this program he set up, but a lot of the survivors have said that it has not been distributed fairly, that they've been trying to minimize the amount of distributions we asked about, specifically if one of Trump's accusers had actually gotten a settlement. He did confirm that. and so, once again, because this deposition didn't happen, live in front of the public, we have two different narratives about what was said and what should come next, especially with Trump. but also when it comes to the public's feelings on Trump's role in the files. Well, you know, someone in DC, they made their thoughts very, very public because a statue depicting Trump and Epstein and the Titanic King of the world pose just went up at the National Mall. it had a plaque with it saying tragic love story between Jack and Rose was built on luxurious travel, raucous parties and secret nude sketches. This monument honors the bond between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, a friendship seemingly built on luxurious travel, raucous parties and secret nude sketches. with that being put up by a group of anonymous artists who got a permit allowing it to be up in the mall through Friday. the you also at the white House trying to derided as a stunt by wealthy Democrat donors, then as far as what Trump things. Well, he's repeatedly claimed that the files are a hoax, but also that they exonerate but then also with this, you have a ton of people now focusing on his choice to attack one of the Republicans who has led the charge in exposing the files. Right. Thomas Massie. we've all seen, Epstein's one of the issues that masses buck Trump on over the last year. and so yesterday you had Trump going to his Kentucky district and railing against him and endorsing his opponent. is the worst person. he's disrespecting our country. He votes against everything. he's got one thing going. He went to a good college, but I know a lot of stupid people that went to a good college. We got to get rid of this loser. This guy is bad. He's disloyal to the Republican Party. people of Kentucky. And most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America. Trump then bringing Marcy's opponent on the stage to speak, which just as a quick aside, on the note of people who joined Trump on stage in Kentucky, you also had Jake Paul. with Jake, who, by the way, you own a fucking company that makes deodorant. How are you sweating that much? that is besides the point, Jake. He spoke at the rally, and Trump even encouraged him to step into politics. I'm going to make a prediction that you will be in the not too distant future running for political office. Okay. And you have my complete and total endorsement. Okay. also, Trump and Jake Paul made a video where they were dancing together, you know, the kind of fun, chill vibes that totally make sense when we're at war with another country and prices are going through the fucking roof. but anyway, a big thing with all this is that it looks like Trump's crusade against Massie. It might be working, Because according to CBS news, conservative groups are spending over $5 million to try to oust Massie in the primary. well Massie he's gotten some support from outside groups. It's not nearly as much as the money that's going up against him. that's a huge deal because this is likely his toughest primary yet. now, that said, for his part, you had Massie shooting back at Trump by claiming that the president's team was paying the bus people to that rally, arguing that Trump's voters in his district also support my work on the Epstein files reining in spending, ending forever wars, draining the swamp, and food freedom. and well yes, there's going to be polling from then till the primary. We won't know how this is going to play out until May. Yeah, in the meantime, I'll just I'll just keep thinking to myself what a weird time we live in. Donald Trump just endorsed Jake Paul, and I'm rooting for fucking Thomas Massie to win an election. don't know if this is the worst time timeline, but it's definitely the dumbest. but that it's where we're going to end today's Thursday Philip DeFranco show. 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