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Trump GOES MISSING for 72 Hours as TROOPS WOUNDED in WAR!!

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump going missing for 72 hours and making no public appearances as the war in Iran rages and the US covers up the the latest injuries sustained by US...

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Donald Trump has gone missing for 72 hours.

releasing old interviews that he did earlier this week on state regime media, which calls itself

Fox. He had treasury secretary Scott Besant, a whole day press conference instead of Trump

doing the press conference. This of course follows Donald Trump's very suspicious physical exam at Walter Reed. I covered all of the red flags in the medical report that was released on Friday evening at 11 p.m. and this all comes at a time when we have learned that five Americans were injured in connection with this ongoing catastrophic and unlawful war by the United States and Israel in Iran, which the Trump regime through St.com is trying to cover up. They're also

trying to cover up the fact that three MQ9 Reaper drones were destroyed, targeted, shot down and they now are displaying it on a video on Iranian regime media right now and St.com says no planes were shot down trying to draw a distinction between a plane like an F-35 and the MQ9 Reaper drones.

Sure I guess but there have been multiple drones shot down these 30 million 50 million dollar drones

in the past 72 hours and the cover up continues as Donald Trump continues to lie about oh there's going to be a deal we're about to make a deal, manipulating the markets for his oligarchs while the American people suffer. As we reported earlier, an Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base on May 30th injured several Americans at least five and maybe more and it also severely damaged two MQ9 Reaper drones on the 30th and then also the day before one MQ9 Reaper drone

was destroyed as well. This is how it was being reported in Kuwait, Hattip to Bloomberg for getting the scoop falling debris from the intercepted Fatta 110 missile hit Ali al-Slam air base causing

minor injuries to about five U.S. personnel and contractors. Remember that Donald Trump

refers to traumatic brain injuries as headaches and minor injuries and he's done that consistently. So I just want to flag that right there and then it talks about these MQ9 Reaper drones that were destroyed. Iran has been showing what these MQ9 Reaper's look like after they've been destroyed and they've been shot down. Iran has been releasing the footage of their radar locking in and shooting down the Reaper drones and also showing that if they wanted to they could

shoot down and F-35 as well. You know here's what was going down again over the past 24 hours.

There's lots of people who believed that one of the reasons Trump was missing as the U.S. was also planning another major strike a major offensive in the Strait of Hormuz. You had U.S. Navy Central Command and U.K. MTO kind of maritime authority in the U.K. issued a critical warning yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz that major U.S. military operations will soon be conducted citing Iran's "dangerous and illegal mining with U.S. forces on high

alert for Iranian attack any vessels obstructing the operation or supporting mind-lang activities will be targeted by U.S. forces. It was the same U.K. MTO warning that was issued on June 11, 2025 before the so-called Operation Midnight Hammer. But after that we then learned that once the

U.S. hit originally remember the U.S. breach the ceasefire and the U.S. struck an area in the

Strait of Hormuz, Iran retaliated, hit this Kuwaiti air base and were able to successfully target these five Americans there, service members, contractors and again it's probably more than five so we'll just say between five to 15. We don't know the number yet. We know the Trump regime is covering this up. But Iran was able to target it and then the U.S. kind of pulled back again. And so as, you know, as Hormra Jayza Azizia explains, the state of affairs over the past week.

From the morning to the evening, the deal is almost done. It's just awaiting Trump signature, evening to the morning, Iran and the U.S. exchange fire around the Strait of Hormuz. As of this recording, I mean a few hours back, Iran reports air defenses are being activated over Kashem Island in the Persian Gulf. This was what Central Command put out claimed. Iran's state TV claimed Iranian forces down to U.S. aircraft near Bashir Falls.

Truth, no U.

except the three MQ-9 Reapers and five Americans who are now injured as a result of the U.S.

breach of the ceasefire and then Iran retaliating by hitting the space and then the soldiers were

injured with so-called falling debris. That's what they always, that's what they always use in

the Middle East. It was falling debris that hit our buildings, not the underlying drones. So, magamike Johnson rushed to state regime media. He rushed on Fox with Kaylee Macanini, who was Donald Trump's former press secretary. And he said, she even asked him. She said, so Bloomberg reports, there were Iranian missile strikes that injured several Americans. Like, what's going on, magamike? Play this clip.

News. Bloomberg is reporting that there were Iranian missile strikes that injured several Americans at a Kuwaiti air base. You know, the president was in the situation room for about two hours. Yesterday, he's been very clear. No dust, no deal. There could also be votes about Iran. Next week, war powers votes. Where do you think things stand? Well, I talked to President most recently last night about all of this. And you're right. He has dialed in on it.

We've got to get the straight-of-war moves reopened. We've got to get this to a situation where there's no kinetic conflict. The Iranians, you know, there's a bunch of, a bunch of,

of algae hoties over there, right? And the new leadership, I think wants to bring it into this conflict.

I certainly hope they do. And then, of course, they need to pivot. Okay. What are we going to talk about now? All right. Let's just bring up religion randomly and go. So, are you still praying in the congressional trap chapel that you took me to magamike? Let's play this clip. If I don't question, I just have a few moments, but are you still praying in that congressional chapel that you took me to? Yeah. Thanks for coming in. You came in. I think maybe a couple

days after I was elected Speaker, two and a half years ago, almost. That chapel is well used. And we've worn the carpet out, Kaylee, because we're doing this on prayer and patience. We have the smallest margin in U.S. history. And still, Republicans have delivered for the people. Some, I'm really grateful for a strong leadership from the White House and President Trump, the team that we all work together in unified government. We're going to keep this going.

And we're going to prove to the people they made the right choice by giving Republicans control the federal government. Speaker, the House, Mike Johnson. Thank you for your time. And then, despite the fact that nobody has seen Donald Trump in public in 72 hours, magamike Johnson, who should be zealously defending Article 1 of the Constitution, which is the power of Congress, says, "Why would we put forward a war powers authorization?"

Let's just leave everything to Donald and let him handle it all. Why would we do anything here as a Congress who actually has the power over war authorization? Maybe that's because it's your

power. And maybe because this is an unlawful war. And maybe because that's what your freaking job should be.

I mean, I've used to see anybody more spineless than this guy play this clip. Dude, the war powers act on the House floor is being forced. It's going, they're going around the speaker with a discharge to bring that to the floor. I don't believe it'll pass and I hope it doesn't because we don't need to take the authority away from the commander-in-chief and the Pentagon

right now at this critical moment. The Operation Epic Fury has long since ended.

We're now in a new phase of this, trying to bring calm and peace to the situation. We need our international partners to help out. I'm very optimistic about that. The president is as well. But it's difficult sometimes to deal with people there when we've had a total change in leadership and they're still trying to get their bearings on who's in charge. So we're praying that this results quickly. I believe it will.

What does it accept? Then as I noted, state regime media which calls itself Fox in lieu of Donald Trump not making public appearances following his Walter Reed exam, they're playing old footage of Donald Trump from earlier in this week like an interview that Lara Trump did on like Monday of the week that they're still like playing clips right now. I just think about it. Lara Trump, Donald Trump's a daughter

in law. She knows about his physical and cognitive decline more than just about any, but we all see it. They'll obviously, right? And so you have the daughter in law interviewing the authoritarian. As we said on the Midas Touch Network, if you saw this in another country, you would be like, how utterly humiliating is this? And so this is what they're showing while Donald Trump has gone missing. Let's play this clip. We'll be the entrance into the bottom of the borough. We're

right here. This is a glass, beautiful glass tunnel. Beautiful tunnel. It goes right into the borough bones that they're pretty good, right? You've had so much fun. I feel like designing this. Well, I did. It's going to be one of the greatest. I would say it will be the greatest facility

of its kind ever built by far. They'll never be anything like it. And we're ahead of schedule.

We're right on budget. That's hard for me. And it's a gift from me and from great portrait. And then she then goes on state. Then you have Laura Trump do that interview. They play that clip. Then she's on state regime media this morning with the wife of Duffy, the transportation

Secretary's wife is the host of Rachel Campos, Duffy is the host of a Fox sho...

Donald Trump's daughter in law who is another host on Fox about the interview with the dictator,

with the fearer. And here's what they talk about. The ballroom, the ballroom, here play this clip.

Well, long before the president said, you know, the ballroom would have been a solution to what had happened at the White House correspondent center. I had been on the floor and waiting for Sean to come back. And my husband Sean to come back into the hen you was going to come back to get me after he was taken out. And I waited and he came back and his detail said to me, if we had a ballroom,

this would have never happened. And then as part of that interview between Laura Trump and Donald

Trump that they play, Laura Trump's like, so having the conflict right before the midterms not great. And then Trump's like, well, I guess we have a very short window. As our editor-in-chief Ron Philips Kowski writes, kind of hurts your negotiating leverage when your opponent knows you have to get a deal done well before the midterms. Just in case Ron didn't already know,

they know it. Art of the deal man here play this clip. I'd imagine if you could have

tying things perfectly, having a conflict just in front of the midterm elections at a time like this isn't ideal. So if you wanted to play that game, then you would wait till the midterms are over. And then the following hour, you'll attack Iran because they cannot have a nuclear weapon, most people agree with me and that. But then it gets maybe carried into the next election, whether it's a midterm or not. So you have a very short window.

And while Trump has gone missing, you had Pete Heggsiff in Singapore.

And here's what here's what he claims that we control the straightive removes. Let's play this clip.

The weight has been an American effort, especially on the block eight, which has been iron clad. And frankly, he has put the real pressure on Iran. They want to say that they control the straight. But what we do and everything behind the scenes shows that we are in control when it comes to that, including how the dynamics of the negotiation are coming together. But we... And then he claims, look, the block eight is doing amazing. The block eight is very much in place.

Let's play it. Did you discuss that with them? And is that block eight still in place?

The block eight is very much still in place. And the straighter her moves came up relatively often. And usually once we talked through it, countries were reassured that the American perspective accounted for that, which it did from the beginning. And that also our view toward energy. I think we'll reshape the global map in the president has talked about whether it's Texas or Venezuela or energy production. How the future in energy is actually an

American future. But while all of this is taking place, I don't want you to forget the corruption, the criminality, the griff that's happening in plain sight. We've done so many videos on Donald Trump stock trades, right, 3,800 trades in the first quarter of all of these companies involved in the war and that meet with him. You know that UFC fight, the Donald Trump keeps talking about how we're doing. You UFC fight on the White House lawn. I'm just going to be so big. I'm going to do a whole report on

the UFC fight as well. But Trump bought up to $50,000 worth of stock and TKO group holdings. UFC's parent company shortly before heavily promoting the UFC event. So Trump bought the stock and TKO. Also, the Trump administration and talks to give equity debt funding to US drone companies.

It's part of the Pentagon's $1.1 billion drone dominance program targeting 300,000 low-cost drones

by the end of 2027. By the way, good. We in that's where technology is going. That makes a lot more sense than doing $50 billion or $35 billion battle ships, Trump battleships. Stocks in these drone companies surge. But guess what? Trump Jr. is an advisor and shareholder in unusual machines. One of these drone companies. He's helped other companies get close to a billion dollar loans and he's making massive, massive amounts of money. And you know what Donald Trump was find for all of the

failure to disclose his stock trades. You want to know what the fine was? $200 for failure to disclose stock trades worth tens of millions of dollars within the required 45-day reporting period deadline. How utterly despicable. Thanks for watching everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get two seven million subscribers. Thanks everybody. You might as merch drop. Check out the latest pro-democracy sticker packs. T-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more. All that store dot minus touch.com.

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