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Trump Goes Silent as Iran War Takes a Deadly Turn

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump going silent as war escalates in Iran and US troops are getting killed and seriously injured. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Netw...

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Donald Trump has gone silent since it was revealed that multiple U.

tragically killed in the Middle East as a result of Trump's escalation in this unlawful and

catastrophic war in Iran. Donald Trump has not made any social media posts in the past 24 hours.

He has not given any public interviews in the past 24 hours. He has not publicly addressed the fact that multiple U.S. service members have been killed in this war recently. Also, we know that dozens of U.S. service members have been injured. We believe that the extent of those injuries are still being covered up by the Trump regime and the SENTCOM multiple U.S. military bases were hit hard by Iran, U.S. military equipment, helicopters, drones destroyed by Iran's counter-strikes,

no public statements by Donald Trump. In fact, yesterday he was in bed minister, his luxury golf course.

He was holding a fundraiser. He was spending time with the right wing oligarchs and he was hiding from the press. In fact, he called a "lid." He kicked out the press. He was potentially going to

speak with the press and then it was uncovered that there were these multiple U.S. service

member fatalities. So he kicked out the press. I'll show you what state regime media which calls itself Fox News said when it was discovered that there were these U.S. service member fatalities and then Trump kicked out the press yesterday. Here, let's play this clip. He had argued that

this was for the future. And we heard him last month during the ceasefire say that if service

members were killed, it would end the ceasefire again. That ceasefire is no longer in effect. So the White House has just called a "lid." Meaning we do not expect to see or hear president make any public appearances for the rest of the day. However, I have met some people here in Bridgewater who say that they are attending a black tie summer bash at Bedminster. It's worth noting that the president does hold fundraisers throughout different weekends

at many of his facilities. John. So we have some photos of Donald Trump at his Bedminster luxury golf club yesterday. As U.S. troops were under attack and being killed, we have photos of Paul and Gracia, Paolo Zampoli. That's who introduced Donald Trump to Melania at the Kit Kat Club in the late 1990s. And his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his child, says that she knows about Melania's dark past and Trump's dark past. That's him right there.

He's like an ambassador and Drew Giuliani are there. They're thumbs up. They're thumbs up. While all of this is going on. Also, you did hear a public statement from Pete Heggsip, defense secretary. He said, "God speed heroes, their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve in response to the news that multiple U.S. service members were killed at an air base in Jordan, notably sent combat previously put out a statement after those service members were killed

and sent com should have known that those service members were killed. And the sent com statement was, "No U.S. troops in the region have been recently killed or captured." And that was in response to Iran saying that there were U.S. troops killed in Syria and in the region and sent com said absolutely false. Now, the last time Donald Trump spoke publicly was at Trump Tower. We have footage of what went down there. That was when he was speaking with Gianni in Fontino the head of

FIFA. And Donald Trump, while he was escalating the war before we knew about those, although we suspected on the mightest touch network. There were fatalities, but before it was publicly reported. Just so you can get a sense of where Donald Trump was speaking in the Trump Tower and how everything he does is fake. Like, this is the public relations. This is the press room that he kind of manufactured just so you can see what it looks like for yourself here. Play this clip.

Now, we're getting additional footage of what went down at the Mowafix salty air base in the Iranian counter strike that killed those U.S. troops. Let me just show you some of the footage of the Iranian strikes. Now, we showed you some of that footage the other day when we were,

when we suspected here that that's what took place. But let me show you the footage for yourself,

play this clip. And then this open source intelligence accounts did a side by side,

Where you can see video from inside and outside of the Mowafix salty air base...

to ballistic missile impacts took place on July 17th here. You can see it for yourself. And this

resulted in multiple U.S. service members being killed. And I'm saying multiple because I still

don't believe the send-com number. They publicly reported too. We believe that number of courses increasing and we believe the seriously injured that that number is being covered up as well. But here, let's, let's play this clip. Now, the Iranian army also published a video of their drones that were launching towards the various U.S. military bases yesterday and the day before. And Iran has been able to strike bases

in Kuwait, in Jordan, in Iraq, or Beal, in Qatar, in Oman, in Bahrain, in all of the surrounding Arab nations in Saudi Arabia. Now, here's video of Iranian Shaheed 136 hitting its target in the Iraqi Kurdistan region to play this clip. And you can see the U.S. CRAM systems active over Arab Beal in Iraq with reports of explosions play this clip. Now, one of the things we're learning is send-com is very worried that the Patriot Interceptors

and its systems are really not capable of stopping the Iranian ballistic missiles and the Iranian drones at this point. We know that the U.S. has gone through a lot of its munitions, but even where it has some pack three or the stat interceptors. Iran's been able to calibrate its ballistic missiles in ways that these U.S. Patriot Interceptors are really struggling to strike down the movement and the patterns of the Iranian ballistic missiles. And maybe the interception rate is like 10,

15 percent right now. And so these Iranian ballistic missiles have been able to kind of strike

with impunity at this point. And Iran's clearly found big vulnerabilities in the U.S. air bases

in Jordan. And that's why Iran's been really focused on hitting Jordan where they see a lot of

vulnerabilities. And there are multiple air bases and other U.S. bases in Jordan that Iran has been targeting. And we've been sharing with you some of those over the past week or so as well. Should be noted that the State Department had to issue this worldwide caution notice right now. The Department of State has advised Americans worldwide exercise. Increase caution no matter where you are in the world. That's what happens when you have Donald Trump as your president at this point.

Oil prices, the price of crude has gone up 20 percent or so in the past several days.

You know, we believe that that'll be over $90 a barrel when the market's open. May have been approach $100 a barrel straight of her moves remains shut down or Iran in response. You know, so the U.S. has been striking all of these bridges civilian infrastructure surrounding Bondara boss. I've been covering how, you know, it looks like the U.S. is prepping the terrain

for a potential ground invasion. Basically cut off Bondara boss and cut off the coast of Iran

from the rest of Iran. That's why the U.S. is destroying the U.S. is engaging all of these war crimes.

But they're destroying the bridges and the tunnels. The U.S. also had two desalination, two desalination facilities, Iran responded by striking a desalination, two desalination facilities

In Kuwait 90 percent of the drinking water.

facilities. So, you know, they're really reaching a tipping point there. You know, in the Middle

East Iran has demonstrated its ability to counter strike very, very hard. Clearly, you know, when Donald Trump said that Iran doesn't have its weapons anymore and we destroy it all of its

weapons. They don't have its radar. Remember back in March, they don't have anything. I mean,

that's the furthest from the truth. Iran's actually even mocking Donald Trump. They're posting photos of him. The Iranian embassy in South Africa. Here you go, the owner of the world's

most worthless signature in its Donald Trump in Versailles holding up the memorandum of understanding.

Are they show this photo? We intercepted all of Iran's missiles, you know, showing that as the U.S.A. you have Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson talking about how the U.S. striking down the Kabahar maritime surveillance tower, a civilian facility dedicated to maritime safety,

was deliberately targeted by the United States as part of its ongoing aggression. They go on to say,

and then the U.S. Secretary of War, Pete Hanks had proudly released footage of the tower's collapse. Had he been able, he would likely have broadcast the lethal missile attack of the Manob school, and the massacre of the civilians in Llamour with the same chilling pride. Last night, the U.S. attacked power facilities, desalination pumps at the Bungi village pair and jazz, leading more than 10 people, 10,000 people without drinking water. For a state that once casted

itself as a global champion of order, liberalism, and the war on terrorism, proudly displaying

images of destroyed bridges and civilian infrastructure has become its only remaining victory,

yet with the collapse of every bridge, every tower, and every civilian facility. It is not merely stealing concrete that is being reduced to rubble. It is America's moral standing along with the entire architecture of international law and the civilization claims of the West that is crumbling before the world's eyes. The question that must now be asked of America and its allies is stark and simple. What is the real difference between what they have done in Kabahar,

Manob, Lamar, and jazz, and the very acts of terrorism they once invoked to justify their war of occupation. That statement coming out from Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson, Donald Trump's last post was about a day ago where Donald Trump was attacking Canada for climate-related wildfires and talking about sanctioning Canada and attacking Canada. One more thing to note as well, it was also revealed yesterday CNN got the scoop that Donald Trump is trying to allow Saudi Arabia

to be able to enrich uranium, which it could quickly turn into weapons grade without any oversight by the IAEA. And again, Donald Trump gets a lot of money from MBS the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. And so that was revealed yesterday as well. While Donald Trump again nowhere to be found in the past 24 hours while multiple troops killed dozens seriously injured or injured, we believe a lot seriously injured and that's being covered up. And Iran hitting the U.S. bases hard. Let me know

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