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Trump Gives In to Iran and Awards Himself Golf Trophies

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump blinking first and backing down to Iran again and then throwing himself a golf tournament and awarding himself 2 trophies. Go to https://Groun...

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Donald Trump just threw himself a golf tournament at his golf course in Ben M...

and then proceeded to award himself first place in the senior division and in the regular club division,

and he threw a trophy ceremony for himself. This follows Donald Trump surrendering to Iran last night, after threatening that he was going to rain down terror on Iran. He made up late last night that the Iranians reached out to him to want to do a deal. So he's holding off the strikes and instead he threw himself a golf tournament and awarded himself trophies. This would be the 43rd club championship that Donald Trump won at his own course. Watch as he awards himself two trophies

for the senior division and the regular division. Does it get any more pathetic than this? Let's

play this clip. And then Donald Trump proceeded to post articles from March.

Let me show you this article that he posted in March from the Wall Street Journal. Why is he what is going on? Trump's energy triumph. He prepared the U.S. and its allies for the current troubles in the Persian Gulf and it's a Wall Street Journal opinion piece and opinion piece I vehemently

disagree with. But take a look at the date of it. March 12th, 2020, 26th. That's what he's posting on

August 2nd. Everything about Donald Trump is a fraud is a lie. Is a scam. Then he posts the following this morning. Mexico's problem. Okay. I click the link. It's an article written by Bill O'Reilly,

March 11th, 2026. And this is what Trump is reposting. Mexico is not a friend to the United States.

Its government has been corrupt for decades and that has led to the rise in murder and international drug trafficking. They are not a friend. So after Trump posted at 11 p.m. last night that the U.S. is prepared with, quote, levels of military military terror, not seen since World War II, but we've been asked by Iran to hold off on striking them. This is what he's posting this morning. Now, what's Iran saying? Per their media, which is called FARS, F-A-R-S, Iran directly rejects

Donald Trump's claim that Iran asked for a deal and seeks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says there is no agreement. We're not speaking to them. We're not opening up the Strait of Hormuz, adding the U.S. back-cutari proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is false and Israeli channel 12's claim that Iran's foreign minister, Iraq, she accepted the deal, is also completely false. In other words, Iran is saying that the Middle East nations desperately want to see

a deal as does Donald Trump because they know that Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles and drones and could destroy all of the infrastructure in the Arab nation neighbors as it's

shown its capability to do if Trump escalates so Trump and Qatar, remember, Qatar gave Trump the

jet, went to Iran with a U.S. Cotari proposal and Iran said, "No, we don't want to do that. We're not doing that. Just get the hell out of here. That's your option at this point." Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains fully closed under any circumstances with passage only through the designated route with IRGC Navy permission. No changes have been made to Iran's policy that Donald Trump is simply trying to manipulate the markets, Iran adds that every U.S.

threat is treated as real with Iran not backing down and instead using Trump's ceasefire period to raise combat readiness and strengthen its deterrence ability. Iran also directly rejects Trump's new claim that Iran agreed to end its nuclear program and open the Strait of Hormuz as a complete lie. It's yet another desperate attempt to manipulate the market.

That's what another Iranian military official told their other media outlet in Iran called

Mayor News. So with all of this taking place, you have the magas stuages doing the various Sunday news programs, by the way, shout out to Jack Kochirella for the Sunday show on the Midas Touch Network, the only real Sunday show out there. So you have maga Republican Senator John

Kennedy.

Trump's doing here with this whole reflect and pull thing. We all know we all know that Donald

Trump grows anxious when he has unexpress thoughts. He grows anxious. What are you describing?

This is supposed to be the president of the United States. I mean, you're describing someone who is psychologically ill and which Trump is. I mean, he's also deserves all of the accountability in the world and deserves to be tried in war crimes. But he's also definitely psychologically ill. And none of this is normal. Why can't we just admit that why do you have these maga Republican senators like? I don't know. Maybe this is all part of his political messaging that he fabricated

charges against a guy. And he has unexpressed thoughts. This is the president of the United States

people. This is serious. Tell me. This is as serious as it gets here. Play this clip.

Well, the whole thing is a multiple vehicle power up. Let me start with the president. President says it was caused by vendors. I don't know whether he really believes that or it's part of this political messaging or he's just thinking about out loud. You and I both know the president will. He exists loudly and he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought. I'm not saying he doesn't really believe it. I just don't know. Now, the stakes are a lot higher

for a current for US attorney bureau. You can't lie to a federal judge. If she can't prove her case, she was right to pull back. Because if you fool around with a federal judge, you will find out

when I was in private practice one time, I put my briefcase on a brand new conference table bought

by a federal judge. And he got so mad. I'll never forget. I thought I was going to get to spend

overnight with Bubba and send her lock up. The federal judge is will not tolerate. And so if I don't Hawaii, she filed a suit without having without doing a full investigation. She says she relied on the Department of Interior, but she was smart to pull it back there. And then send it her Kennedy's like, but look, if it turns out that the Iranians are behind these attacks on certain water systems here in the United States, we need to eat them up and spit their bones out on the floor. Eat them

up and spit their bones out. We talked like eat them up and spit their bones out. The hell is wrong with all of these people. You're a play this clip. Well, we've got cyber experts head and back Iran's done this before. I'm not saying it's not Iran. It could be North Korea. We do it to each other all the time. I'm sorry it happened. I'm glad we caught it. But if Iran's going to start this foolishness, I would I would hit them back. I'd you know, just like we've done with the military

strikes. I'd had to eat them up and spit the bones on the floor. All right. Let me ask you about what's happening on Capitol Hills meanwhile while Trump and Magga are talking about eating Iran up and spitting their bones out on the floor while every other day backing down to Iran surrendering to Iran. Again, in the most humiliating of ways, I'll be clear we shouldn't be involved in this catastrophic war at all. But the humiliation ritual Trump puts the United States through is

absolutely insane. We're going to bomb the effing Assad of them. He says and then he's like actually actually actually they want to do a deal like we've done this literally a hundred times, a hundred times. It is it is absolutely demand. This is why though he's bankrupted every company he's touched. He's a sicko. He's a loser. It's like sicko loser behavior. Meanwhile, Iran's armed forces spokesperson Brigadier General Akraminia says, "Look, we made the most of the agreement and the ceasefire.

We utilized every moment." During this period, the the import of new equipment, the repairing reconstruction of damaged systems and the production of new systems were prioritized. The new drones that we have recently used are also a result of taking advantage of the opportunities

created during the ceasefire. That's what Iran was doing while Donald Trump was out there.

I don't know, threatening Greenland while Donald Trump was out there. I don't know what, working with the King of Morocco to release Moroccan migrants into Siyata in northern Africa by Spain, which isn't connected to the mainland Spain in order to create a false flag. So Trump, because so you see in the midterms, that's what the U.S. is going to look like if you you looked at Donald crowds. I mean, like what Trump posted this morning. Thank you to the highly

respected Muhammad VI, the King of Morocco. Such a great honor. I look forward to traveling the entire

Length of this great highway someday.

highways after Donald Trump and Morocco in the King of Morocco, released the migrants into Spain, which Spain very quickly were able to bring the migrants back to Morocco. But that was used as like the right wing talking point when it was so obvious. It was an op that was done by Trump and Morocco and Netanyahu, and we were calling it out. And so look, the American people know that Donald Trump has destroyed our economy that he is manipulating the markets on a daily basis.

So what is right wing media need to do? They always need their boogeyman. You can't turn on any type

of right wing media news without their attacks on Mamdoni, Mamdoni, Mamdoni, Mamdoni, and they also want to like draw, you know, Democrats and others into like having these like debates. Mamdoni, Hassan Piker, Hassan, it's like guys. Guys, this is an existential moment in our country. Okay, let's talk about what's actually happening right now. Donald Trump is a fascist. He's a wannabe fascist, but he behaves as he's running this country into the ground as an authoritarian.

Okay, he is currently taking over the methods and means of production of companies, and he is currently lying about everything. Every single thing out of his mouth is a lie, while the American people suffer to enrich himself and a small group of right wing oligarchs who have made billions. Some over a trillion while the American people suffer. So I was just looking at this story this morning. Business group votes to sue New York City over Mamdoni stores. This is what the right

wings pushing. Notice no one on the left is covering it, no one from the center, but this is being pushed by all of this right wing media. I use blind spot to determine media bias when I do my reports, because I want to know with everything that's happening right now with our country,

with Trump destroying the economy, with this never-ending war, with this constant humiliation

ritual of fake deals, getting busted for a fabricated, reflecting pool, criminal case against

David Hurn at two time, and was like, what are they even talking about on the right wing?

They're getting people angry about Mamdoni. I use a blind spot feature on ground news, and ground news helps me prepare these videos every morning. So ground news isn't an app in a website that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world and organizes them by story to show you how the left center and right are framing the story differently. For every story they have a color code to lay out making it easy to see the political bias

of each source, and I can also filter large media conglomerates with corporate interest versus

independently owned. I can see what the left, the right, the center is reporting on as I just did there with the Mamdoni story that blind spot features a personal favor of mine. Like I believe in ground news so much. It's a resource that I use to prepare for my videos.

We're going to offer you 40% off the same vantage plan. That's what it's called the vantage plan

that I use for my research. So just go click the link in the description or go to ground.News/MTN or scan the QR code up here. It's one of the biggest discounts they've ever offered. If you want to support this channel and get a cleaner and clearer understanding of the world, try out ground news. One more time go to ground.News/MTN or scan the QR code. So what else are they trying to push out to cause rage and division amongst the people?

There's Mamdoni and then they're talking about Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci, as though they want to distract from the Epstein files by doing the catastrophic war, and then distract from the catastrophic war and the horrible economy by bringing up the pandemic in 2020 and talking about Fauci, all of the time who is just trying to help, but that's what they want to talk about right now. Okay, so they bring an RFK junior did his rounds on the morning shows and he was just yelling at like

Dana Bash again as Aaron Roupar says. He sounded like a rabid dog barking. Let me show this to you. Let's play it. "Not really, you had to do. There's repeat things that people told you and say,

trust the experts. That's what you're a dirty coven. Now we know that if he found she who was the expert

was lying about everything, about mass, about the social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID, he was lying and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts and now you're rolling out the experts again. It's all about something that you have no personal knowledge of." Okay, well, guess what? That is my job to talk to people. "You're job is something you're American." Yes, and my job is to get as much information as I can.

What we're doing in COVID and still with regard to these vaccines is getting the best information,

The best science that we can and putting it out there.

to the outer that is not accurate. "Who is lying to you?" "The National Academy of Sciences,

which you decided in November, said, "We support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism."

This is the National Academy of Sciences that you just talked about. "Look at the National Academy of Science, most recent report." Okay. "I want to ask." And then Dana Bash says, "Look, there's one of the biggest measles outbreaks in history and recent history right now. You're out there questioning the efficacy of vaccines. Do you accept responsibility for the current outbreak?" Here, let's point. "I want to talk to measles." The measles cases in the U.S.

just reached a 35-year high. The second record-breaking year in a row, 93 percent of these cases

are among the unvaccinated. The outbreak has happened on your watch and even before becoming HHS Secretary for years, you've been one of the leading voices questioning the efficacy of

vaccines. Do you accept some responsibility for this measles outbreak? "Absolutely not.

First of all, this is an international outbreak. We're doing better at handling it than any country in the world." And then also with news that Maggie Republican Congress member Max Miller engaged in heinous, heinous conduct with his former wife and that he's engaged in heinous conduct in general towards women with all those allegations out there. Some of the worst

things imaginable. Mike Turner, who tries to present himself as like a maga Republican,

as they like a more of a centrist guy. I'm not so maga. I'm more of like a centrist guy. Who he really is and he's an enabler of all of this. Watch what happens as he's asked about Max Miller, and the heinous things that Max Miller did here play this clip. I want to get to a bit of

politics out in Ohio, your colleague, Max Miller. According to latest court filing, he's been accused

of domestic abuse. The court filing says he shoved his then-wife, held a gun to her, had poured hot water on her and had concerns he may have broken their two-year-old daughter's collarbone, according to both police reports and court documents that were filed. He just went live in a social media stream and denied these allegations within the past hour. My questions not about his marriage or his personal life, but I'm asking about the politics here and the party.

Should there be an ethics pro to look into this? Well, Marker, what you just said when you begin this question is that this is a matter of litigation. This is best handled in a court room and not in a TV studio and this is, you know, that type of speculation is better for TMZ than CBS. Well, we've covered with other lawmakers, including in the other party, the Democratic party, credible allegations against people running for office. We take those allegations seriously.

When it comes to Mr. Miller, he was previously accused in 2021 by President Trump's former spokesperson of abusing her when they dated. So given these two instances, is it at least something Republican leadership should look into? Well, again, this is this is an issue that is currently part of a divorce and part of litigation. It's an courtroom and the court should be handling this, which is clearly ongoing. And then you've got Jim Jordan, Maggie Republican, Jim Jordan,

who this past week said, I'm not even a lawyer. You went, I went to law school, but I'm not actually

licensed. So I don't know what I'm talking about. Just think about that for a second. Okay, I mean,

we know that I've said that before about him. But of all of the people, all of the people that MAGA can put to chair the judiciary committee in the House, the judiciary committee, they choose someone who's not a licensed lawyer and who says, I'm not a real lawyer to chair the judiciary committee. Now, let me be very clear, as a licensed lawyer, as someone who's passed the bar exam 16 years ago, as someone who's litigated, just because your lawyer doesn't make you smarter,

just because you passed the bar doesn't actually far from it, right? Sometimes makes you the opposite. But for the House judiciary committee, you kind of want someone to be licensed, right? The same way, if you're having issues where you need a heart specialist, you don't want someone who doesn't consider themselves a doctor, yet alone a cardiovascular doctor, right? So it's like, why do we talk, I mean, a most basic level, it goes beyond, for me, democrat, republican, and independent.

It's like these people just are, they're bad humans in this MAGA part, and they're bad humans,

They're just, they're not qualified humans, they're bad, they're, they're, th...

try to even learn things, and all they want to do is spread lies. I mean, they're, they're here,

they're, they're demons, right? They're here to cause harm, like that's it, that's their role

to divide and cause harm, that's sick to me. That's really sick. Here, let me play this for you. Let's play it. Before I let you go, last week you sent a criminal referral to the justice department for former special counsel, Jack Smith, from making what you alleged to be Paul statements during a congressional deposition last year. Todd Blanche was President Trump's defense attorney during that Smith investigation. Should he refuse himself, even as acting attorney general

from any prosecutorial decisions involving Smith? No, of course not. First, he's just follow the

facts. He should keep doing the great work, because he's attorney general of the United States. But he was a president of life. He liked what? He liked what? Well, that has nothing to do with it. Jack Smith is supposed to tell us the truth. We asked him, did you get the contents of any communications of the United States members of members of the United States Congress? And he said, no, he did it. When, in fact, he did, I mean, the Jack Smith not know

was the average date. I mean, he's supposed to be the smartest guy in the world. He's supposed to be as smart as Anthony Fauci for goodness sake. He did not know that. You can't set under oath and tell us you did not get the contents of communications of members of Congress. When, in fact, you did. That's pretty clear. So if Todd wasn't the justice department wants to prosecute him,

that's up to them. He should not refuse himself. Well, that's what that's his view.

That Todd Blanche has no conflict of interest. Real sick stuff. And with all of this taking place, remember, we saw Treasury Secretary Bessent had a handwritten note about bailing out Japan. Well, as Reuters reported this morning, Japan is expected to announce on Monday that it coordinated with the US to intervene in currency markets to support the end after it fell to a 40-year-long. The joint-end buying operation comes after Japan is estimated to have spent

nearly $59 billion in intervention in that network. So let's just throw more

money into it. And if you noticed what Bessent did on Friday, he wrote a note like basically like

buy the end and then he had a reporter photograph it. I believe this was all part of an

operation to manipulate the markets and to signal to people what was going to happen. And so he wrote it on a note pad. He had a reporter post it and then they're going to announce it on Monday. To me, it's just an obvious market manipulation scheme. The move aims to stabilize the currency and prevent broader financial market disruption while signaling close coordination between Tokyo and Washington. That's great. That's great. I'm being sarcastic. Balin out Argentina,

Balin out Japan, Balin out. Balin out every just bail out. Bal out Donald, pal out Donald while the American people suffer while housing is unaffordable. Well, people can't afford gas or groceries. But we're Balin out Argentina in Japan. So there you go.

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