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Thank you and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to DSR's Daily. I'm David Rothkuff, joined by Riley Fessor, and met a Stein somehow, much to our surprise. It's Friday. And somehow, we've made it through what I would say was one of the weirdest weeks in recent American history.
And that's saying something. Because we're living this past decade.
It's been one of the weirdest decades ever.
“Certainly, I think the weirdest in my lifetime, and I'm 300 years old.”
But, you know, this week was ending just as weird as it started. And we heard talk about that where it may lead. And who's going to kick us off? And then why will I tell you that I don't want to talk about that story? Oh, start us off.
House Republicans. No, I don't want to talk about this story. I want to talk about the Malonis story. You know, two nations. We'll get there.
No, no. No, I want to do the Malonis story. You get your dessert after you eventually. Okay, mom. Okay, mom.
“House Republican successfully blocked a democratic resolution intended to curb President Trump's war powers and end on going military strikes against Iran.”
During a brief, pro-forma session. These escalating tensions have led democratic leadership to move beyond symbolic gestures and openly consider impeachment or the invocation of the 25th amendment. I doubt that will happen. But we'll see. To bolster their position lawmakers are highlighting the economic toll of the conflict directly linking military expenditures to rising gasoline prices and the expiration of domestic health care subsidies.
Yeah, 25th amendment. That's not happening. Go read the 25th amendment. Almost none of the steps can be fulfilled in that. Should it be implemented? Of course it should. The guy's out of his fucking mind.
Okay, this, it's precisely written for this reason.
But he has surrounded himself with a group of people who will never do this.
And the reason he did is because of this. He knew that at some point, you know, you could have an administration that turned into you. And so he picked a bunch of tools.
“And that's, that's why the 25th amendment's not going to happen.”
impeachment, you know, of the Democrats take over the house. He'll get impeached for sure he'll get impeached. And for those of you who were like, oh, that didn't work the last time. How do you know it didn't work the last time? The, you know, I mean, the reality is our view of who he is is impacted by that.
But if there was ever a president who ought to be impeached, it's this guy. He should be impeached for corruption. He should be impeached for attacking democracy. He should be impeached for what he is doing to, you know, undermine the, the, the, the, the law in the United States of America.
And not honoring his oath to Constitution. He should be impeached for conducting illegal wars. He should, I mean, we could go on and on. There are plenty of reasons to impeach him. We'll, he get convicted. Now, the Senate's a bunch of spineless institutionalists.
And that won't happen. But it'll put these issues front and center. And they need to be front and center because we have to have accountability. We can't let this happen again. And I hope when we're dealing with accountability,
that a big dose of accountability comes for these Republicans in the house, who block voting on the war powers resolution, who block the Congress playing its article one role in managing whether or not the United States is in a conflict. They are behind this.
They own it. They own the hundreds of schools and hospitals that have been destroyed in Iran. They own the cost. They own the laws of life. They own the violations.
They own a president who is threatening genocide. And, you know, they've, they've got to be held to account by voters. They say, no, sorry, sorry.
You know, you think this is some clever procedural ploy,
where you don't actually, you know, get us to the point where we get to have the vote we deserve.
Well, no, we know what that means. That means you're backing the president, backing the war, backing the expense, backing the undermining of the international order, backing, making the world a more dangerous place, backing higher gas prices, backing higher food prices.
And you've got to go. That's how that's going to happen. Donald Trump lashed out at several conservative media figures, including Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Campus Owens, and Alex Jones after they criticize his handling of the conflict with Iran.
In a series of posts, Trump dismissed them as losers and claimed they no longer represent the maximum movements.
He also said, he also made a big point of saying they were stupid.
Well, we agree on one thing, man. The future flex a widening riff within his political base, particularly over his aggressive rhetoric and policies surrounding the Iran war. Yeah, I've been in luck. I'm not going to go to defend these guys.
They want to go and attack each other, let them attack each other. The main point that I take away from Donald Trump writing this incredibly long true social post. I mean, I guess it's his company.
“But you know, remember the olden days where there were 240 characters or something.”
Anyway, anyway, he writes these incredibly well. This may have been the longest social media post we've ever seen. And it was a rant. A rant. Weird capitalizations.
These guys are stupid. They're horrible. I made them who they are. They're disloyal. They're, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I am mega. They're not mega. Well, that's not the point. The point is he's out of his mind. The point is this is what he is doing.
The point is this guy with his finger on the nuclear button is completely unreliable and erratic. You know, he'd see my prior point about the 25th amendment if it was being applied properly.
“But, you know, I mean, is he losing some of his mega base?”
Yeah. Yeah. He is. Joe Rogan. I want a real, a logical centrist government.
What? You know, Joe, you know, I mean, what?
The reality is all these idiots realize that they bet on the, on a bad man.
And, you know, great, you know, but we're, we're on absolve them of having to make of having made in president not once but twice. Fuck no. Fuck no. And we're going to sort of take the advice of Martry Taylor Green going forward because, you know, she was awful for a while and then she stopped being awful. No, just like if you want the truth and if I'm going to offend some people here, not men in our Riley course.
“Do do I want to take advice and where the country should go from a bunch of never trumpers who spent 30 years setting up the situation that got us to trump?”
Fuck no. Okay, how about we don't take the advice of the people who put us in a bad position who let us to doing terrible things. You know, the never trumpers were like all gangun, how about the Iraq war, that was a disaster. How about we just don't take the advice of the people who get bad advice? And we start listing to people who had better ideas.
You know, that, you know, take the labels away and start listing to the people of better, I saw a social media post. This was really set me off and I'm not going to go too much on it from a guy that I've been on his podcast and some may have talked to. And it's like, well, the problem in America is that the far right and the socialists on the far left. And it's what? What? The far right are fascists racist who are trying to destroy democracy in America.
The far left are people who cared too much. You know, that you don't think you don't, you don't want to have the fight they wanted to have on trans rights. That doesn't reflect well on you. You know, they may not have made a political calculus that was smart. You don't want to have a somebody who is sympathetic to the socialist idea that we actually take care of people in our society. That's not the same as a fascist.
That's that the same as a racist. That's that the same as somebody who supports an illegal war war crimes or corruption. The far right and the left are not the same.
Left is not an insult.
Center is not always an answer.
“What we want to look for are people who have the best interests of the country at heart and have a path towards making the lives of the most possible people better.”
Stop with this nonsense. Bet you wish you'd started with Melania and I'd be in a better mood now. Come on. We got to put you in a positive mood to end the podcast. Oh, okay.
Thank you. Well, another happy story.
Vice President JD Vance has departed for Islamabad to lead a high stakes negotiations aimed at ending the war between the US and Iran.
A company to buy a crack team, including a Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff, made seeks to resolve a conflict characterized by President Trump's aggressive rhetoric and a tenuous ceasefire that is currently on the brink of collapse. The talks facing significant hurdles as the two nations are being deeply divided over the reopening of the Strait of Formus, and the inclusion of Israeli operations in Lebanon within the peace terms. This mission represents a critical diplomatic test for bands who's historical skepticism of foreign intervention makes him a strange interlocutor in a situation with profound implications for both regional stability
and his own political future.
“Yeah, it's not helped by the fact that he's an asshole, right?”
It's not helped by the fact that he just spent the past few days like campaigning for Victor Orbot, and that we know what the things that he supports are pretty miserable. It's not helped by the fact that, you know, the rest of this team consists of Jared Kushner, who is not a US government employee, who has not done financial disclosure, who has all sorts of conflicts of interest, and whose track record in this area is not so great.
Or Steve Whitkopf, who is a government employee, but also has conflicts of interest, and whose track record is terrible, neither of whom really understand the issues here. Because if they did understand the issues, they would know that the way you solve the problem of this war is that you lock Donald Trump in a room, and you lock baby Netanyahu in a room, and you don't let him talk to each other. Because they started it, they are the ones who, in talking to each other,
“persuaded each other that this war makes some sense.”
They are the ones who will egg each other onto future conflict.
The problem is Trump and Netanyahu in this case. Does that let the, you know,
see a credit regime in Iran off the hook? No, they're horrible, they're brutal, they're monstrous. They've killed many of their citizens that the Iran should be a democracy in some day, God willing, it'll get there. But in this particular case, this particular war was started by Donald Trump and baby Netanyahu. And it was predicated on a bunch of rationales, neither of which were, or none of which were good enough for them to stick with them.
So they would go from one to another, they would say, well, this is to stop the nuclear program. Except, you know, first of all, there was an agreement to stop the nuclear program. Trump pulled out of that agreement. And also the threat that Trump talked about, Iran will have a nuclear weapon in weeks was complete bullshit. And everybody knew it was complete bullshit.
So then this was to stop Iran's missile program before they could have a missile to hit the US. They couldn't have a missile to hit the US for at the least a decade, according to experts. And, you know, they haven't succeeded in doing that. They blown up a bunch of missiles, but now the Chinese and others are helping them to rebuild. And, you know, in current warfare, there are a lot of low tech weapons that cost $20, $30,000, like shot head drones, that are actually much more effective deadly and have caused a lot of the destruction associated with this war.
They said, well, you know, we want regime change. Well, look, we ended up with a regime that is more hard-line than we had in the past. They wanted to stop Iran, which has been a prox, you know, a sponsor of terror and a sponsor of proxies that have destabilized the region. Nothing has destabilized the region, more in recent history than this war. This war is a catastrophe, you want to solve it, get Donald Trump to stop fighting it.
Well, David, I'm going to make your dreams come true on this Friday. Lovely Friday morning. Thank you. Thank you. Melania Trump publicly denied ever having a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein or Galane Maxwell, calling circulating claims and images fake and deflimentory.
She urged Congress to hold public hearings for Epstein's victims, though some survivors criticized the suggestion as shifting responsibility away from authorities like the Department of Justice.
Her statement comes in on going political and legal controversy over the hand...
Well, thanks, Melania. Thank you for bringing the focus back to Epstein. I'm sure your husband is every bit is happy that you have done so as all the rest of us are. Well, actually, let's look into that a little bit. Melania Trump yesterday walked in before the press stood at the podium in the White House and made a statement.
Something she's never done before.
Everybody was shocked, apparently, in the press room. So, you know, there are a couple of possibilities here. One, people in the White House knew she was going to do this because they control the White House, because they know what she's going to do because they're not a complete incompetent bunch of idiots. Okay, we'll get back to that possibility in a minute.
“Well, if that's what happened, then you have the very strange and plausible reality that Donald Trump has done so badly with his war that was designed to distract from the Epstein case.”
That he's decided to distract from the war with the Epstein case. Okay? Now, that's a little complicated, but if Trump knew she was going to do this, and if the White House knew she was going to do this,
then they must have known this would be the result, and they must have at some level when they said go ahead and do it,
sought this result. Okay, that's one possibility. Another possibility is that she went completely rogue, that the president is not in control of the White House, and that she went out and she did this Epstein dumb and turned around and left. And, you know, some people in the press think that's more likely.
They didn't expect her to be there. She turned around and there was no announcement. It was out of the blue.
“But, you know, can have been nice for us, been to sit there and have her say,”
"We need congressional hearings in which the victims speak at." By the way, the victims, they were pissed off by this too. They don't see her as the champion that they need or deserve or what. But, you know, Trump has been trying to quash congressional hearings for months, and, you know, Trump just fired as attorney general, because she couldn't put the Epstein story to rest,
hired a new guy who then said, "Okay, there's no more to see here."
And, two days later, the first lady comes out and says, "No, there's plenty more to see here."
We need to look at this. Of course, we should also examine the first lady's assertion that she didn't know Jeffrey Epstein, she didn't know going Maxwell. We know that she had no relationship with them. We know she had a relationship. There are hundreds of photographs of them together.
There are emails between her and Glenn Maxwell, where they're like, "Let's get together." And, "Oh, I love you."
“And, you know, I think the one email in question opens with her writing to Glenn Maxwell,”
"G" exclamation point. And, complimenting her on how she appeared in the New York Magazine article about Jeffrey Epstein and sending her congratulations to Epstein on the article. Of course, they knew each other. Of course, they did.
So why would she open this bag of worms up? Is she that stupid? Well, it seems like there are a couple of things brewing. What is that, you know, there is a guy who is a, I guess, a ran model who was involved in this whole ugly Epstein thing.
Who decided that he wanted to get rid of his ex-wife who was a pain in his ass. So, you do what a normal person connected to Trump does. You call up the right people to White House and you get her deported. And, the, the woman then writes and there's, you know, emails that show she's written this. Saying, "Okay, folks, if this is what you're going to do, I know the dirt.
I know the backstory here. I'm going to publish it." And there are many people who think that what Milani was doing was trying to anticipate the publication of a bunch of photos and things from this woman who was thrown out of the country by, by, by, by a partnership between her husband and the Trump administration.
So, she's trying to get ahead of a story. She's also involved in lawsuits where she's saying people are defaming her by saying she's involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
She's going to lose those lawsuits.
That is a classic Trump response.
“But, you know, will she ever appear for a deposition?”
Will she ever appear for a discovery? Will she ever give the evidence she needs? Will Donald Trump ever appear to do that? Of course, they won't. Because they know the truth. One final point.
Milani, a Trump, went in front of the nation yesterday to deny she was ever involved with a notorious sex trafficker and a woman who is currently sitting in federal prison for sex trafficking. That might seem like a reasonable thing to do if you didn't want to be associated with people like that. But she's married to Donald Trump. As bad as Jeffrey Epstein is, and he's one of the worst people ever,
Donald Trump is worse.
Millions of people will die because of Donald Trump.
Millions of people have died because of Donald Trump. Donald Trump is behind war crimes. He is behind illegal wars. He is behind corruption. He is a serial sex abuser.
He has been accused credibly of rape. He is stealing money from the country. He is trying to destroy democracy in the rule of law in the United States of America. As bad as Jeffrey Epstein is, Donald Trump is 100 times worse. So to say, I'm the wife of Donald Trump, and I just want you to know I had nothing to do with Epstein,
not the defense that Malania, winner of an Einstein visa. You know, think of it. Anyway, thank you for allowing me to get that out of my system. I know that's what you expected.
“Do anything else you want to say before the weekend begins?”
Well, I have a much less salacious story to fashion, which is going to be a disappointment. Well, I prefer salacious, but maybe you can just cut out the salacious parts and put those on YouTube because the YouTube audience loves salacious. That's that is true.
A new report shows that U.S. inflation accelerated to 3.3% March, marking its highest rate nearly two years as the economic fallout from the conflict with Iran, began to impact the wider economy. A sharp and decreased was primarily fueled by a record of 21.2% monthly jump in gasoline prices. A direct consequence of soaring oil costs from the shutdown of the strain of four moves.
The Labor Department's report highlights an energy shock, a reminiscent of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with fuel oil prices alone at searching more than 30% in a single month. Well, that's not good. I thought the president was going to lower costs.
And then I go wrong. Riley, you told me he would lower costs. Listen, I believed him, but that's on me, I guess. Yeah, well, we all probably believed him. He's such a good man. He's such a handsome guy, very smart, ethical. Many people think that he's here because God wants him here.
By the way, the Pope today put out not one, but two social media posts attacking people who conduct wars and pray for God's intervention in their wars.
“I think he's got a personal vendetta now going with Pete Hagsett.”
And I love to see it. I love to see Hagsett, tangled with a real tough guy from Chicago, who also happens to be the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Anyway, we'll watch for this. We'll watch for what else happens over the weekend when these talks break down,
how they pay for the mover, how they say they're going well with their not going well. Trump wants out. He has got himself into a mess here. He's putting out social media posts talking about his next conquest. He desperately wants to change the subject. As far as I know, as far as I know, as far as I know, as far as I would have to guess,
my guess is they will come up with some kind of fake agreement that preserves both sides ability to say they don't agree on anything, but allows Trump to turn the page. Now, might not work out that way because the Iranians might say, "Hell, no," and, you know, hormones is closed and you know, pay us.
So we'll keep an eye out for that.
But here in Washington, D.C., it's going to be the first warm-ish weekender of the spring.
It's been cold for a long time. I hope that all of you who are someplace where it's warm can enjoy it. And can enjoy the fact that the spring is beginning. And hopefully with better weather comes better news. We'll keep an eye out for it.
Meanwhile, if you haven't listened to Deep State Radio for this week, it's going to be a big conversation with General Mark Hartling, where you haven't listened to words,
Matter, great conversation with more and more.
Instead, or you haven't listened to Silicon consciousness,
great conversation with a real cutting-edge professor who's an AI optimist,
“which I think provides some useful balance to coverage of AI,”
or if you haven't listened to any of the other need to know or other episodes we've got.
Just listen to them over the weekend while you're lying in this sun.
“Or watch them on YouTube and subscribe on YouTube.”
For now, thanks very much.
Have a good weekend, Benna. Have a good weekend, Riley. Bye-bye.
