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Trump in Terror over Lindsey Graham Death

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump becoming terrified over the sudden death of Lindsey Graham and Meiselas reports on how Trump’s strikes against Iran instantly backfired. Go to h...

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Hooray, let's go to work with this steuer. It's the 31st Newly upgeben. Donald Trump is panicking over Lindsey Graham's sudden death. Donald Trump was the last person to speak with Lindsey Graham. Minutes before Lindsey Graham died, cash patel over at the FBI says the FBI is putting lots

of resources into assisting in connection with the death of Lindsey Graham. Here is what Donald Trump just said. He called in to meet the press and he said that he was the last person to speak with Lindsey Graham before Lindsey Graham died minutes before the death, here play this clip. And just to make that point, I mean, authorities were called to his home responding to initial

reports of a cardiac arrest, again, his office saying a brief and sudden illness, do you have any more details? I would think it would be that, because when I spoke to him, it could have been minutes before, based on the fact that I heard about the call, whatever time that was, so was you at least before, but it had to be something like that because he was other than being

tired. He was fine. And so it had to be something like that that would just be a quick end.

And maybe that's not the worst way to go.

You know, you know, he is a fine moment. Then Donald Trump called into CNN, he spoke with Jake Tapper and Jake Tapper's like, can we just also speak for a moment about the war with Iran, the United States has escalated, Iran responded and targeted numerous American military bases and struck those bases yesterday. So are you back at war with Iran who controls the straight of Hormuz and then Donald

Trump's like out of respect for Lindsey, I can't talk about this at all. I really don't want to have any discussions about what's going on with the war, whether the straight of Hormuz is closed, watch what Donald Trump says here, play this clip. Yeah, obviously was very supportive of the strikes against Iran. The U.S. and Iran have been engaging back and forth in strikes over the last few days

and overnight. Are we back at war and who controls the straight of Hormuz? Well, I don't want to add a respect to Lindsey. I'm not talking about that. We hit a very hard last night.

So I don't want to talk about it. But I will say we hit a very hard last night. We had to deal with them yesterday. We were giving up everything and then all of a sudden two hours after that, they hit a ship with a drone.

And I said, these people are something wrong with them. But I'm talking about a man who had nothing wrong with him and that's Lindsey Graham. And to his credit, Jake Tapper continues to press Donald Trump, it says, I understand that that's what you want to do. But the American people are very scared right now and are suffering right now and are very

confused.

And we need to know what the hell is going on with this never ending war with what you're

doing with Netanyahu, what's going on here? So Iran has declared the straight of Hormuz as closed and all of the shipping data suggests it is indeed closed. Is that true? Donald Trump then goes, it's open as far as I'm concerned.

Don't talk about it. Remember, Donald Trump during COVID, if you don't test, you don't know there's cases. If you don't talk about it, let's just pretend the straight of Hormuz is open. And as I'll just show you in a little bit, Donald Trump then had Senkham published messages saying the straight of Hormuz is open.

But let's just listen to what he says here. Play this clip. Iran has declared the straight of Hormuz closed. Is that true, Mr. President? It's open as far as we're concerned.

Don't talk about it. Talk about the reason that you asked me to speak. Okay. We appreciate your time. Before I let you go, is there any other final word that you want the American people to know

about Lindsey Graham? What was it?

I think his final comment was his defensive Brett Kavanaugh, who's the terrific guy, and

was created very, very unfairly by the Democrats, very unfairly, I've never seen anything

like it. Maybe the worst I've ever seen anyone treated, that includes me, but maybe not me. But it includes just about everybody. He was treated so unfairly in Lindsey, as you remember, had that moment, and you know, I'll tell you, I think it was the top 10, maybe a top 5 moment that I can hear the Senate.

It was an incredible display, and he did it from the heart. He felt strongly about Brett, and he did it from the heart, and it turned that whole thing around. He was really amazing. That was it.

That was when they should replay. Well, I know, you don't want to talk about any other issues, out of respect for Lindsey

Graham, but we would love to have you back sometime, because I do have a lot ...

for you. Yeah, we'll do that.

And then Donald Trump says to Jake Tapper, "We want CNN to go a little bit more normal.

Hey, Jake, can you go more normal?" As you know, Donald Trump has his right wing all the garks who took over CBS, they're now acquiring CNN, and Tapper's like, "Well, I feel like we're normal right now, sir. I think we're on a normal path." And then just notice, this is a quality of Donald Trump.

He's a keyboard warrior, and he'll talk a lot of trash and say horrible things on social media posts. But when Jake Tapper says, "We are normal, sir. Donald Trump goes, "You are." You are.

And by the way, do you hear how sickly Donald Trump sounds?

Donald Trump sounds deeply sick, and what's interesting was, before Lindsey Graham passed to -- he's a -- he was sick in the head in my opinion, but he didn't sound sick.

Lindsey Graham, unlike Trump, who sounds very sickly, here's what Trump says, here play this

clip. Thank you for calling me. Thank you. Grab CNN, go in a normal path, and we'll do that. Well, I'm on a normal path right here, sir, and I appreciate your treatment.

Thank you for calling in. Okay. Thanks so much. We'll be right back after this quick break. And then Donald Trump's like, "Okay, this is the reason that I'm calling Jake.

Let me explain to you what Lindsey Graham's death means to me into this country. I think Lindsey Graham would have been there very strongly to help me eliminate the filibuster Jake.

I'm moving tribute by Donald Trump, here play this clip."

"We have a different attitude, but we've got a long -- essentially we agree, and essentially we agree in almost every -- the way he was really becoming strong was the same America.

That was -- he was really -- and I think he was going to be there very strongly under filibuster.

He was against terminating the filibuster, and I think he was doing that because he said we have a budget coming up, and we have get ceiling coming up, and the Democrats will, you know, they're deranged in many ways, and they're not going to be able to do it. So he was -- he was coming aboard. I think for the filibuster terminating the filibuster, but we before we did that he was going

to -- he was a strong advocate for save America. And that's what he called me about last time. I mean, I think of it. I spoke to him just -- he had already landed. He was probably at his place, I don't know where he was, but I spoke to him, and then

I got a call a few hours later saying late in the evening, it'd do a clock in the morning, actually. But they found out about it, I think, about eight o'clock, about his problem. But so it had to be something very quick, because he was fine, right? Other than big tired, he was fine.

He obviously -- then when Donald Trump was on meet the press, he said regarding Lindsey Graham's death, this is a big blow to the Save America, Trump's voter suppression bill. This is a big blow to that, and so that's how Donald Trump will remember Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham would have helped Donald Trump more pass the voter suppression act, here play this clip.

"Anybody like him, he was so intense, I mean, he literally called me about the Save America.

That's why he's, you know, that's where I -- I think of it, he's traveling for many

many hours, that's a long flight, that's a long trip, that he calls me about the Save America act. He thought we were going to get it passed." "Do you remember the very --?" "This is a big -- this is a big blow to the Save America act, let me tell you."

"Do you remember Mr. President, what was the last thing you said to him, what was the last thing he said to you?" "I said, we'll see you soon, come over anytime you want. He came into the White House, so I can't do that with everybody, but he come in." "By the way, and then Kristen Welker says, hey, Donald Iran says the Strait of Hormuzas

closed, Senkham says it's open, which is it? Donald Trump goes, "It's open, I don't want to talk about it. We thought we had a deal, Iran really wants a deal, it's open, everything is going great. Here play this clip." "So then you obviously launched a fresh round of strikes overnight.

Iran said overnight, the Strait of Hormuzas is closed, Senkham came out this morning and said the Strait of Hormuzas opened, which is it, Mr. President, and how are you going?" "And I don't want to talk about it, because I want to honor the life of Lindsey Graham, so I don't want to talk about it. I tell you that before the call, it's open.

We bomb the hell out of him last night. They're very, very evil and sick people. We had meetings with him for the last day, agreed to a deal yesterday, a perfect deal for us. You know this, know that, no, no, I think they gave up everything, and then after that,

they left the room, and then within an hour, they launched a grown and their ship. I said, "You people are sick, you're sick people, and so it's one of those things. I don't want to talk about it."

"Finally before I let go.

"I want to talk about one person today, Lindsey Graham." As we should, Mr. President, just finally before I let you go, what? Then state regime media facts brought on, Donald Trump's bud, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Netanyahu says, "Let me tell you about Lindsey Graham. When Israel would get aid from Trump in the United States, Lindsey Graham would say, "Let

me give you more American taxpayer dollars, Netanyahu.

We want to give you more money," as what Lindsey would always say to me, "I said, Lindsey,

you want to give me all of that money. We should take it away from the American people's healthcare, and from helping Americans buy homes, and from helping the American people afford things to give it to Israel." Lindsey, thank you, Lindsey, who is a great fall here. Play this clip.

Trump's sort of a 10-year MOU memorandum understanding where America gives us will much value support. Now, when I did this, when I negotiated this, I said, "Okay, this is what we need. We don't need any more." He said, "Yes, you do. I said, Lindsey, we don't need any more."

And he would tell me, "No, I'm going to go over your head to the Senate because I think you need more on missile defense or whatever." And I think once or twice, he got his way. And then Netanyahu says, "Linzi was a patriot. That was what the real pain.

Giving money to Israel. That's what defines patriotism. Here play this clip." Appreciate you joining us. Yes, Prime Minister, thank you for joining us.

And actually, if I could just one last quick, 10-second question, if you had one word

to remember your friend, Lindsey Graham, what would it be?

Patriot. Big, big, American, patriot. All right. Well, now let's do it. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Let's bring in Alex Hoganch. Now, six days ago, Lindsey Graham was mocking his death. Of course, during the Iatola protest, Lindsey Graham was prominently featured as one of the targets of the Iranian protest.

The mourners, rather, at the Iatola Cominese funeral, which also turned into a protest against the Trump regime. And just to remind you of some of the things that Lindsey Graham had been saying recently, he talked about blowing Iran off the map. Let's play it.

I've been saying for six months now, hit Iran. They have all fills out in the open.

They have the revolutionary guard headquarters, you can see from space, blow it off the map.

He said that his message to the Iatola is Donald Trump is going to kill you. We're going to kill you. He said, you're playing this clip. Donald J. Trump is not Barack Obama. He has your back.

And to the Iatola, you need to understand, if you keep killing your people, who are demanding

a better life, Donald J. Trump is going to kill you. He's just coming to Iran, it'll be the biggest change in the history of the mid-East, to get rid of this Nazi regime, to the people of Iran, help us on the way. But even when you go back to 2003 with Lindsey Graham, you know, he was one of the, when he was a younger and senator, you know, he would say he was one of the main people pushing.

Yes, the Domus saying his weapons and mass destruction here play this clip. I believe that Saddam Hussein is beginning giving aid and comfort, training and assistance to our cater murderers that he has weapons of mass destruction. He has lying when he says he does it.

And he will never voluntarily disarm 500 inspectors, 5,000 inspectors, not going to make

him disarm. He has a danger to our country and the world. He has killed his own people. And you're not going to disarm him, but diplomacy is going to take force. How about Lindsey Graham back in January, Iran's days are numbered, they're numbered.

And this is what he would always say, you know, your days are numbered, this is about here, play this clip. There are a lot of headlines out there that are, uh, and not even an accurate President Trump's resolve is not the question. Question is, and when we do an operation like this, should it be bigger or smaller?

I mean, the camp of bigger, time of tail. I'm hopeful and optimistic that the regime days are numbered. And then Lindsey Graham also compared the United States dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima

Nagasaki, and he goes, that's what Israel should be doing in Gaza, that's what Israel

is doing. Why wouldn't we support them in doing that here play this clip? So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. That was the right decision.

Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they can't afford to lose and work with them to minimize casualties.

So, can I say this, why is it okay for America to drop two nuclear bombs on H...

Nagasaki to end their existential threat war? Why was it okay for us to do that?

I thought it was okay, so Israel do whatever you have to do to survive as a Jewish state.

Now let me show you what SENCOM posted moments ago. They posted two things this morning. This is from SENCOM, this is what SENCOM, US SENCOM, right? They post claim.

The Iranian commander for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recently said on state

own media that no foreign vessels may pass through the straight of Hormuz without being identified, tracked and monitored by Iranian forces. SENCOM goes false. Then they go fact, this is what SENCOM says, Iran does not control the straight of Hormuz. It remains an international waterway.

US forces are positioned and prepared to keep it that way. SENCOM posts the straight of Hormuz is open to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the international waterway. US forces are positioned and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available, despite unwarranted Iranian aggression, harassment threats and arbitrary declaration.

Iran does not control the straight of Hormuz. Traffic is flowing.

When you look at the marine traffic, when you look at the data of the tankers leaving

the straight of Hormuz, SENCOM isn't just lying. They're lying so badly. The straight of Hormuz is closed right now. Even after the MOU was entered into, at peak you were having 35 to 30 tankers leave. The straight of Hormuz were as before Trump did this catastrophic war with Netanyahu.

There was 135 to 150 tankers. Such day, men that went down to 35 peak, now maybe it's one or two and their Chinese tankers or their Iranian aligned tankers. When the US tries to push out tankers through its own route and not go by the Iran route Iran strikes those ships, we saw what just went down in the past 12 hours.

And of course for the past several months and SENCOM saying it's open, we know it's closed

and it's so humiliating that this is what SENCOM has become but it's also humiliating that

not just state regime media, not just Fox and CBS and Newsmax and the usual suspects. But lots of media then regurgitates what SENCOM says. SENCOM says it, so we must say what SENCOM says. I mean, take a look right here, ground news, show aggregates, all of these articles. And they just report verbatim.

Traffic is flowing in the straight of Hormuz. Then COM says, a lot of coverage on the right wing, a lot of coverage center, even left wing media is covering that all, which is why, then might as touch networks like we need

to change the way the media landscape is, it's why independent news is so important because

you have all the media and yes, there is a right wing slant here but all of it's just regurgitating what SENCOM saying and not showing graphs and data and charts and explaining what just took place last night. I mean, that's horrible stuff. It's why I use ground news as well because I want to study what it is that corporate

media is covering and how they're covering it. And so ground news is an app and a website that pulls in thousands of articles from around the world that organizes them by story to show you how is the left, how is the center, how are the right framing stories differently. For every story, they have a color coded layout, which makes it easy to see the political

bias of each source, I can filter for high-factuality sources and see which sources are independently owned or owned by large media conglomerates with corporate interest. This lets you compare reporting on the same issue in one place so you can form your own conclusion. And as I was just studying, how was the right wing center and left wing covering this

SENCOM? It's just astonishing that there were that lots of media from all sides were covering this. So ground news has that dedicated blind spot feed to let me see left wing, right wing, center, what they're covering. I believe in ground news so much, I'm going to let you have a massive discount the biggest

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out ground news. Because I'll tell you, who's trying to grind news to the ground though, it's, and this why we need the truth. I mean, you then have all these right wing, Trump, maga, puppet, sick offense. They then go on today like Senator Jim Banks of Indiana and he's like gas prices are coming

Down.

Things are looking great.

Iran's ready to get to the negotiating table with us.

Once Iran realizes how much they need us, the gas prices will go down. That's USA. You're a United States Senator and that's your assessment after all of this. Iran doesn't want to make a deal that gives up its leverage that it won in the war. The US lost the war.

And by the way, in the past 12 hours, the US hit hard by Iran. US bases were struck hard by Iran, which just took place in the last 12 hours. It was actually a humiliation for the United States military.

But here's what Jim Banks says play this clip.

Well, where Senator and all this is politics, right, is the midterms. As the result of this conflict spiraling the average price of a gallon of gas today is $3.88 nationwide. That is a lot better than $5.6, but it is still high enough number that it could cost to party the midterms.

Well, President Trump is brought gas prices down.

Democrats for four years under Joe Biden fought to permanently increase the cost of a gallon of gas. And President Trump did took immediate actions at the beginning of this second term to bring down gas prices. They have ticked up in the last week, but we know as soon as Iran can come to the table and

understand that they have no other choice, but to do what it takes to assign an agreement

with the United States of America, that they will never have a nuclear weapon, that they can't

control the straight, that they can no longer funnel money to terrorist proxy groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, that they can no longer get away with that. Then gas prices will come back down to where we want them to be. Then you have Mike Walls, the ambassador to the United Nations, who's like, "Oh, the straight of our moves is clearly open."

Of course, it's open right now. It's not open right now at all. You're a play this clip. The President Trump has hit back. He's hit back proportionally, but at the end of the day, Iran is going to pay the price.

Yeah. And the President is threatening consequences. It should the straight of our moves not be open. There seems to be a struggle over the straight of our moves, becoming the number one flash point here.

Is it open or not? Oh, it's open. Central Command has said, and most of the targets that we've hit the last several nights, have been directly aimed at Iran's radar sensors, drones, and missile batteries right there on the straight to eliminate and degrade their ability to attack the global economy.

So we're going to take that leverage off the table, our great military and Pete Hugseth continue to do that. But at the same time, let's not forget, we have more talks going on in Lebanon. We're taking that off the table, too, for the first time, perhaps ever. It's Rayleigh government, the Lebanese government, are working together to eliminate and

disarm Iran's proxy has below. We've completely flipped the script there. We're taking the leverage off the table in terms of the streets of our moves. The negotiations are continuing on the nuclear program, and oh, by the way, Maria, oil prices are the same as they were pre-war, our energy department, and Secretary Scott Beth

and by the way, is doing a phenomenal job, just sanctioned that Iotola's money man who's running a global luxury real estate empire around the world, where turn in the screws on

the economy and President Trump will ensure Iran never has a new.

This is the message from the Persian Gulf straight authority, which was set up by Iran Dear applicants, due to recent illegal movements of U.S. military forces in the area, traffic through the straight of our moves is currently not possible. As soon as stability and com are established, all applications will be reviewed, and the necessary permits will be issued based on the schedule.

The only way to obtain a traffic permit is through the PGSAA.IR website, follow our social

media account on ex to get the latest updates, thank you for your patience and support. Iran's retaliation and attacks after the U.S. attacks in Iran's southern soil, here's with the IRGC targeted, and then there's been satellite images confirming the following. An MQ9 drone hanger, and command center at Princess on Air Base in Jordan targeted damage. A fighter jet maintenance and repair hub center at the U.S.L.U.D. base in Qatar targeted

struck damage. The supply logistics and refueling platforms for U.S. Navy aircrafts in Dukham, Oman targeted by Iran and damaged U.S. Patriot systems, ammunition depose, and radar sites at a U.S. military base in Kuwait hit with Iranian drones, communication systems, radar sites, and other infrastructure

At the U.

When you look at the straightive Ramos, we're seeing a China-managed oil tanker, Berg-Star

transiting the straight of Hormuz.

That's basically the only ship that's leaving right now.

We can see the data, Karl Kintini at post to this graph right here, which shows Hormuz commercial cargo vessel crossings, this is before Trump and Netanyahu's catastrophic war. This is, you'll see as we get closer to kind of late June-ish after the MOU, you'll see a little bit of a spike, but not a lot of tankers leaving, and now that's going right back to where it was right after Trump and Netanyahu launched their catastrophic war.

As you know that we noted yesterday as well, remember how we reported that the U.S. sent their two super-carrier groups, the U.S. Abraham Lincoln and George H.W. Bush, pretty close to the Iranian coast. Well, if you looked at the satellite image today, those ships have actually moved back from where they were previously positioned as they were getting close.

They now move back, and I want to point this out as well, Iran has been publishing images this morning of an intercepted American Tamahawk cruise missile launch from a U.S. destroyer in the Gulf of Iran, the missile was shot down by the Iranian air defenses in Karamabad,

Loroastan province yesterday, and I think this is significant and important because Trump

says they don't have any air defense systems. So Iran has offensive capabilities, they have air defense systems, they have their navy, if anything, they probably have built up more during the ceasefire period than they had before. Now they know the U.S. tactics, they've studied them, they, Iran has strategies unlike

Donald Trump who rants and raves like a lunatic and goes and thinks that he's the smartest person in the room and doesn't follow the intelligence from the CIA or anybody. He goes with his gut, which has bankrupted him his entire life, and Iran has a plan and a strategy that they're executing on while the Trump regime is flailing around right now.

Also, it should be noted that Netanyahu sees Trump flailing, and Netanyahu has of course continued to escalate in Gaza, the genocide in Gaza continues, more strikes, more innocent people being killed as well, and more people being killed in general. This is footage from the moment of an Israeli bombing in Gaza earlier today. Let's play it.

And Israeli fighter jets struck the al-Sainah area in western Gaza City. You can see right here. Also, the idea has been carrying out pretty massive strikes in southern Lebanon outside of the so-called security zone, which is just a way that Israel claims it takes over territory, but tries to act like it hasn't taken it over, but it does by calling Lebanon territory

security zones. Our casualties reported there, to share with you, Iranian media, had to say about Lindsey Graham's passing. One well-known host on Iranian media said, "I congratulate the Iranian nation on war mongering anti-Iron, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, being sent to hell."

Another Iranian TV anchor says, "Linzy Graham, the anti-Ironian Senator, has gone to hell." The news is so good that I want to read it to you once more Lindsey Graham, the anti-Ironian Senator has gone to hell.

That's what they're saying in Iran right now.

Meanwhile, Israel's defense minister, Israel Cats, has been making his rounds on podcasts.

And here's what he's had to say.

"I said that southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafa model. We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them exactly the same way." That's what we did.

The infrastructure has been destroyed. Homes and 24 villages along the border. The villages that had existed for hundreds of years that were used by his ball as military outpost against Israel have been demolished. The army systematically flattened villages with bulldozers and explosives.

90% of the houses are gone in Lebanon, southern Lebanon. Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes have been destroyed. Anyway, thanks for watching everybody. Hit subscribe.

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