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Trump Cracks as US Ground Invasion Imminent

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump cracking under pressure with his disastrous war against Iran and now he is sending a marine expeditionary unit to prepare a possible ground invasi...

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Donald Trump is panicking as his war against Iran is spiraling out of control...

reaching a phase in this war where a United States ground invasion is imminent.

Let me explain to you what's happening and it is actually reminiscent of what went down during

the Vietnam war. So what we learned earlier today, multiple sources telling the Wall Street Journal and others that the Pentagon is moving a marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East as Iran steps up its attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz according to two officials who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. Defense Secretary Pete Higgs of a proved a request from U.S. Central Command SENCOM for an Expeditionary Unit typically consisting of up to 2,500

Marines to be deployed near Iran with the Marines to be believed to be coming from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in 29 p.m. California. Now this is significant because the escalation of the Vietnam war leading to the direct U.S. ground combat involvement began March 8, 1965 with the landing of 3500 U.S. Marines from the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade. And you can take a look how the troop ramp up actually went down and Vietnam thereafter.

So this is one of the first steps to believe to a potential ground invasion. One of the things

we're learning about as well is we've known this now for some time. Putin's significant involvement in helping Iran, China's involvement in helping Iran Donald Trump gave an interview earlier today with Brian Killmeat on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And when Donald Trump was asked, if you believe Putin is helping Iran, Donald Trump's response was basically like so what even if he is, here, play this clip.

Do you think Putin is helping him? I think he might be helping him a little bit. Yeah,

I think yes, and he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right? And you are, right?

Yeah, we help it. Also, and so he says that and China would say the same thing, you know, it's like, hey, they do it and we do it in all fairness. Now, how treasonous is that? So what we're doing it to, can you act tough? Can you act like the president of the United States? Can you act like you took an oath to protect defend our constitution? What are you doing right there? And also, I think it's notable as well that Donald

Trump is just allowing Chinese ships and Iranian ships to go through the straight of her moves without any issues at all. Trump is terrified of Xi Jinping, because those Chinese ships and those Iranian ships continue to take oil out of the straight while all of the United States allies and the US ships are being blocked. And Iran says, if you get our permission, you can leave. But Trump's just letting the Chinese ships go shows you how scared he is of

Xi Jinping's terrible. Here's what Donald Trump said about Iranian terrorists. He goes, they're just

bad. Something wrong genetically with them. He goes, it's just their genetics. It's just their genetics. What are you talking about here? Play this clip. And say, yeah, this is about ISIS.

I mean, how do you get into the mindset of this? How do you stop this?

There's sick people. And a lot of them will let in here. They shouldn't have been let in. Others did just bad. They go bad. Something wrong is something wrong there. So genetics are not exactly, well, they're not exactly your genetic. It's one of those problems. It's a terrible thing. And it happens. And it happens. And it happens too often. And Donald Trump continues to refer to his unlawful war as an excursion. And he says they're

crazy people. So we had to take this excursion, play this clip. But take a look. We'll take a look at everything. And it's all going to work out. Look, we took an excursion. We had the greatest economy ever we still do. And we have to do a little excursion to get rid of mad, mad people, crazy people that want to have nuclear weapons. If we didn't do the hit at midnight hammer, if we didn't have those beautiful B2 bombers hit them so effectively. And the word is obliterate. And now,

everybody admits the word is obliterate. In fact, they're not even talking about opening that site. They were talking about going to a new site if you can believe it. Now, mega Republicans are beating their chest to try to push for a ground invasion. You have Keith self. A mega Republican congress member says he can't just do this with air power. We need boots on the ground. Special forces need to be on the ground. Play this clip.

But look, you do not defeat a nation with air power. Only I am not for ground troops. But we need to understand as an American people. You may or may not get regime change with air power only because you don't defeat a nation. You have to put boots on the ground.

I'm not advocating for that.

to do some of the operations on the ground. But right now, we've got the upper hand.

More from Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations Whitaker. Here's what he's saying.

He says all we can see so far is that Donald Trump's been the best diplomacy first peacemaker.

And then he goes on to say that, you know, look, if this is a line that they keep repeating, that if Russia is aiding around, they're not doing a good job right now. Here, let's play this clip right here. What kind of relationship will it take moving forward now to possibly come back to the table? I mean, I'm curious, how you then simultaneously solve the issue with Russia if we even think they might be helping Iran at this point. And you make an excellent point. If they are

helping, they're not doing a very good job. And we're good with that. Yeah, I think, you know, President Trump is a diplomacy first peacemaker. And it's not until he knows there's not a deal to be made that he brings kinetic options to the table. And whether, you know, that is the situation we face right now in Iran or whether it is to try to solve the Russia

Ukraine war. I mean, there is always the time for peace is always now. President Trump is always looking

for a peace deal. But he's also looking for an American first peace deal that advantages the United States of America and our people. And so no earlier today, we saw Pete Heggsiff giving a speech where he said that all of the Iranian leadership was basically hiding. And they were nowhere to be found. But then we saw the Iranian leadership out there. Hey, take a look at what's been going down. The Iran's leadership is in no better shape. Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground,

cowering. That's what rats do. And here were some scenes. So you can see for yourself what the

Iranian protests looked like today. By the way, Donald Trump keeps on making posts of what the Kennedy Center is going to look like when he calls it the Trump Kennedy Center. And it's just an AI image of the Kennedy Center. We heard from JD Vance as well. JD Vance gave a speech moments ago. And he's acting like the gas prices are great right now. Let's just take a look right here. Now, here's interesting thing. All this conversation happens where Joe Biden left us in a terrible

situation. And the reason why gas prices are where they are today is because of Donald Trump's work to get them lower because then the Biden administration, they were crazy high. The gas prices we're seeing today are nothing like what we saw at the peak of the Biden administration because the president has set us up for energy dominance. And one of the lessons we all have to take away, frankly, every time we get involved in anything overseas, whether it's

in the Middle East or anywhere else, the thing we got to take away from it is energy dominance and energy independence, rely on our own people, rely on our own energy. And then also you have Donald Trump speaking to Brian Kilmead saying, these are bad people.

They shoot protesters in the head. Hey, do you want to look in the mirror right there?

Here, let's play this clip. How important would it be to get out that besieged force? The thugs that walk the streets and tomorrow. Are we aiming for them? No, these are these are bad people. They go out shooting protesters. These are your protests and they shoot your right through the head. This is an evil group of people. And if we had them have a nuclear weapon, they would use it and they wouldn't lose an outsourced sleep.

And Trump says at the end of the day, when it comes to Iran, we're being nice. I could take things out within the next hour. Here, play this clip. We're being nice. I could take out things within the next hour. We could hang up within one hour. You'd be reading about taking out nuclear power plants or power plants that creates electricity, that creates the water, the empty solidization all over the place. We could do things that would be so bad. They could

literally never rebuild as a nation again. And we're trying to be nice about it. We're not doing it.

Now they'll go around and shoot civilians all over the place. Well, we don't do that. But we could take out elements of what they have in terms of infrastructure. They would virtually never be able. Time wouldn't matter. Never be able to reproduce it. And so far, we've chosen not to do that. But we have hit them so hard. I mean, they have no. And then Donald Trump says nobody has the technology that we have like our Tomahawk's. Iran doesn't have our Tomahawk's. Didn't you blame

them the other day and saying that they stole our Tomahawk's and then bomb their own elementary school. Let's play this clip right here. Look, nobody has the technology or the weapons that we have. And the Patriots are example of it. We have the Tomahawk's. We have the pages. We have stuff that nobody's ever been able to produce. And they can't produce it like us. And then earlier today, when Pete Heggsiff was holding a press conference, he's like the straight of her mows is open.

It's definitely open except for the fact that the ships are being shot out by...

Otherwise, you can use it. I mean, this is just a breathtakingly stupid here. Play this clip.

I want to emphasize what the chairman said about that. The only thing prohibiting transit in the

streets right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that. Now, there's a reason why we chose as one of our primary objectives destroy the navy. We understood the ability to introduce shipping is something Iran has done for four years. It's key terrain. They've used it as leverage. The world is seeing what they'll do to fight back in that context. And so we've heard them talk about taking various measures and we're planning

for all of them. So we have a plan for every option here. We're working with our interagency partners.

And that's not a straight. We're going to allow to remain contested or with the lack of flow

of commercial goods. So we're aware of that. We're laser focused on our military objectives, but also want to make sure our partners across this government understand we're working with you to make sure that energy flows. We're seeing other ramifications in the Middle East as well. Bahrain had to cancel its Formula 1 race, Formula 1 canceled the Grand Prix in both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, signing the ongoing conflict in the Middle East for the move, French president

and Emmanuel Macron spoke moments ago and said, you know, just an estate mint of like why the hell is the US removing sanctions against Russian oil right now when in fact Russia is working with Iran, like what are you doing? Macron's like in no case should anyone be removing sanctions from Russia? What are you doing? Watch with French president Emmanuel Macron said he also met with Zelensky earlier today. Let's play this clip. In no case, should an increase in the

price of oil lead us to change our position with regard to Russia that is the position of the G7 and of course that of France and Europe? You also have Brooke Rollins, Donald Trump's agriculture secretary is talking about a new bailout for farmers as a result of the fact that fertilizing fertilizer prices are going through the roof right now as a result of the war. It's a lot of the fertilizer comes from the Middle East. So I guess the plan is to let just keep bankrupting people

and then bailing them out. I mean, is that what this plan is right here? Let's play it. Yes, we'll take questions. Are you considering another bailout for farmers who are concerned

about the rising price of fertilizer can be the worst home?

Yeah, so I appreciate that question with what's happening in Iran, what that means for specifically nitrogen, urea, which is one of the key components that fertilize our farmers are moving into planting season right now. So the president is very aware of these challenges and these issues. We are very close to having an announcement on some solutions on what that looks like. We're looking at every potential avenue to keep the fertilizer costs down as these farmers are going into

planting season. No big announcement yet, but it is coming. I have been in conversation with the hill on that as they're looking at additional funds for our farmers. So at this point, everything is on the table. This president is convicted. He is resolute. He will stand with our farmers. He knows that his national security issue and we're on it. So more to come on that. And we heard more from JD Vans about started talking about Christy Nome. And I guess he just

talks to us like we're all stupid right now. I'll show you what went down here. Play this clip. Ship to hasten that delivery of resources to the people of North Carolina. A lot of people in the media have said that the reason why we made a change at DHS is because the Trump administration is backing off of its illegal immigration enforcement policy. That can be further from the truth. The reason that we're making this change is because Christy Nome has a great opportunity to

serve in this new shield of the America's position. I think she's going to do a great job. And on the other hand, we think it's useful to have somebody come in and focus on some of this disaster relief and recovery stuff. And that's exactly what we're going to do. But I appreciate

Michael bringing that really. That's why you think Christy Nome was gone. So she could work at

these shields of America. I mean, for real, that's what you think is going down. Well, we'll keep you posted every step of the way. You know, obviously, this seems to be one of the first steps

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