Donald Trump is panicking and is in full coverup mode on Sunday as two nuclear sites in the Middle East have exploded in the past 24 hours. In Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, a nuclear facility was hit by a drone and there is currently a fire there. Fire and rescue services are in Abu Dhabi responding this morning to a drone strike that resulted in a fire inside an electrical generator outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah nuclear power plant in al-Dhafra region of the UAE. Authorities right now are reporting no injuries, but we have the official statement right here from the UAE Defense Ministry. They say there were 3 drones that were in the direction of this facility, that they were able to strike down 2 of the drones, but one of the drones hit this nuclear facility. That nuclear facility is on fire. Then we turn to Israel. Yesterday we saw a massive mushroom cloud after this explosion that was reported near the Sdot Mika Air Base in Beit Shemesh. Um, Israel claimed that this was a contained detonation and that it was pre-planned. There's a lot of red flags there in that there were no prior notices if you were going to do a contained explosion at a nuclear facility that results in a mushroom cloud.
I'll show you some B-roll of what this looks like. You would normally tell the civilian population, and while Israel never announced this is their nuclear site, it is widely known that this is the area where they keep nuclear, uh, weapons. But Israel's going with controlled explosion at a civilian factory. Okay, so while Donald Trump says, oh, there's a ceasefire going on and we've moved on from epic fury, folks, in the past 24 hours, two nuclear sites in the Middle East are on fire. By the way, do you hear this being reported anywhere else? I mean, we can literally see the fires happening. So what is Donald Trump doing? Naturally, naturally trying to start a war. With another country, because this is what you do when you run a Ponzi scheme regime. You move on from one horrible problem by creating another horrible problem. You move on from one set of war crimes to another set of war crimes. And what do you do? You follow your same Ponzi scheme playbook. You go to your propaganda regime media that works with you to create pretext for your war crimes in Iran. and you just do it again right now in Cuba.
I kid you not. Axios, you know, Barak Ravid, the guy who in my opinion works with Donald Trump before the markets open. And then all of a sudden there's a massive breakthrough. Ravid denies that. He goes, I don't know. I think it's worse that he denies it and says he doesn't know. So you're just being used as a pawn. Let people form their own opinions about that. But now here's what Axios has reported. And like clockwork, you've got the MAGAs saying, aha, now we must invade Cuba immediately. Cuba. This is the story from this morning, exclusive Axios. Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and recently began discussing plans to use them to attack the US base at Guantanamo Bay, military vessels of the United States, and possibly Key West. 90 miles north of Havana. Exclusive on what the Trump administration is thinking. Well, I'll cut to the chase. What they're thinking, aha, let's use this as a pretext to invade Cuba. We know that Ratcliffe, CIA Director Ratcliffe, was in Cuba at the end of last week talking about invading Cuba. We know that the Trump regime has issued or will be issuing formally an arrest warrant for the 94-year-old ailing Castro, who's no longer longer even really the day-to-day— he's not the day-to-day leader anymore, but the spiritual leader, I suppose, at this point.
It's the same playbook that they used in Venezuela, the same playbook that they tried to use in Iran and failed. And now Donald Trump is moving on to Cuba and saying, ah, by the way, you know, if you read the article, it says they got their drones and they got all of this equipment from Russia. Donald Trump's a Putin bootlicker. Donald Trump's removed the sanctions on Putin. Donald Trump helps— but Donald Trump has removed What, 4,000, 5,000 US troops from Poland that were supposed to be deployed there? Trump attacks NATO and then you're shocked, shocked, I tell you, that Russia gave Cuba drones.
Okay.
Donald Trump allowed Russian ships to get through the US blockade. As I said at that time, what do you think was in the ships in addition to aid to Cuba? You don't think they were going to bring drones and military weapons on there? Trump let the ship in. Remember when Trump let this— I have this blockade in Cuba and Russia's like, yeah, we're going to get there to Cuba. And Trump's like, ah, it's only a blockade when it comes to the United States' former allies like Canada and Mexico and other countries that want to help Cuba, but we'll let— we will let Russia in. And like clockwork, you've got the MAGAs out there making their posts. MAGA Republican Congress member Diaz-Balart, Congressmember Jiménez, Congresswoman Salazar, You know, these are the Cuban MAGA Republican Congress members who sold out their people in Florida, but now they go, aha, right in time for the midterms, the Cuba war. Maybe that's how we'll get Latino voters back who no longer support Donald Trump. Do you see how stupid they think we all are, right? They think we're all so stupid. In response to the Axios article, Diaz-Balart goes, Congressman, MAGA Republican Congressman, we've seen the threat drones pose in the Middle East.
Now they are 90 miles from our shores. And near critical infrastructure, it's clear that the Cuba regime is a national security threat. Carlos Heiman, as MAGA Republican, the regime in Cuba poses a dangerous national security threat to the United States of America. Congresswoman Salazar, the world has already seen what a hostile regime can do with drones, and those capabilities in the hands of the Cuban regime, just 90 miles from Florida, should concern every American. A dictatorship aligned with America's adversaries operating this close to our shores. Y'all were the one— you're starving. Whatever we think about the Cuban regime, but whatever we think, you are starving the people of Cuba to death with the blockade, and you are threatening war and total annihilation once again, not just on the Cuban regime, but on the people in Cuba. And then you go, oh my God, we've just learned that they have drones. Well, now we need to invade. The propaganda that comes out from this Trump regime, it's not even good propaganda. They just think that you are all that stupid. And by the way, do you hear corporate news talking about any of this? Wouldn't you think it's a big story?
Two nuclear sites are hit. Uh, maybe that should be a big story. Uh, you know, creating the pretext for an invasion of Cuba with these drones and Axios puts it out there. Then the MAGA Republicans, you know, try to get the layup for their, for their next war, And this is all absolutely related. Not to mention you have 11 US Air Force C-17A aircraft leaving the Middle East towards Europe. The same exact mass departure pattern happened right before the US and Netanyahu— Trump and Netanyahu invaded Iran back in late February, late February. This is going to be a never-ending war. What's the plan, Donald? What the hell is the plan? Oh, you're just going to try to social media post your way out of it? This is what Trump just posted. Bad Congressman Tom Massey voted against tax cuts, the border wall, our military and law enforcement. Actually, he voted against almost everything that is good. The worst Republican congressman in history. He voted for you most times. The guy's as conservative as you can get, right-wing as you can get, but MAGA ain't conservative. They're a Trump cult. And when Thomas Massey and Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy May said, release the files, to expose the child sex trafficking ring in the Epstein files, you, Donald, told Marjorie Taylor Greene, but that's all my friends.
We can't do that. And then you and MAGA Republicans have systematically attacked the people who helped release the Epstein files. That right there, folks, tells you everything you need to know about this sicko predatory regime. Oh, and then Lindsey Graham is like, yeah, let's bomb Iran even more. Here's what Lindsey Graham had to say this morning.
And there's things we can do to hurt their— the energy infrastructure is their soft underbelly. If you go back to the fight, I put energy on top of the list.
So you're calling for strikes on the energy infrastructure?
Yeah, I'm calling to hurt this regime. If you do the same old thing, you're going to get the same results. Hurt them more. Maybe they'll make a deal if you hurt them enough. But right now, I think they're trying to wait us out. I think they're playing games. And in the words of the president, I think they're crazy. I think he's right, Senator.
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Now, going back to this video, what's MAGA Mike doing right now? Well, MAGA Mike Johnson is there in the Washington Mall, uh, and he's speaking with state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And he goes, look, I understand that people care about kitchen, kitchen table issues. We'll get there. We'll get to the kitchen table issues as soon as we get this Strait of Hormuz opened. You're the reason it's closed. You are the reason it's closed, and you're the reason it's gonna be closed probably this time next year as well, and the year after that as well, until we can get a competent leader in. Here's what Maga Mike says. Let's play it.
So CBS News had some polling out this morning showing 76% of people are concerned. 67% say they are stressed about their own personal financial situation. You know that generally the incumbent is punished in the midterms, and, um, people are feeling very uncertain about how they're doing personally. How do you campaign against that?
Well, this relates to the last segment we were talking about, the Strait of Hormuz. Really, all points lead back to that. Gas prices are too high because of that. And then that has an effect on how goods are transported to the grocery store and all the rest. So as soon as we get that straightened out, we will get back to the kitchen table issues, the economic issues that we put in place to make the economy grow.
And then MAGA Mike spreads this lie that you hear Trump say and MAGA say. The reason that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed is because Iran doesn't have any leaders. And because all of their leaders don't exist now, because we've been so successful, we don't know who to talk to. They have leadership. The Iranian regime is in place. The Islamic Republic is there. The IRGC is deeply in— I know who all the leaders are. In fact, their leaders are being given heroes' welcome at major international conferences. Every other damn country, MAGA Mike, knows who Iran's leaders are. They're calling them. Europe's calling them on a bilateral base. Everyone's calling Foreign Minister Araghchi, MB Ghalibaf, the parliament leader. Ghalibaf, I should say, has just also been named a special envoy to China following Donald Trump's disastrous visit. I know who's in the courts in Iran. I know who their parliament leaders are. Heck, I know who their spokesperson is. For certain parliament members. I know why, because if you just do a modicum of damn research, you would all know this. So stop with the, they don't have any leaders. They don't have any leaders. When you lie and lie and lie and everything is a lie, then all we can come to the conclusion is everything you say, no matter what you're going to do, is just based on Donald Trump's delusions of conquering everything so he can have people in his golden ballroom.
I don't even know what the— I don't even know what the outcome here is. You're making us so much damn weaker. Here's what MAGA Mike says. Let's play it.
This is not time for War Powers Act. Operation Epic Fury has been declared concluded, and it is. And now we're into a new project, and that is to get the Strait of Hormuz open. This is about diplomacy and negotiation. You don't have kinetic warfare right now. You don't have missiles flying around. And so we've got to allow the administration time to finish this and sort it out.
And how much time?
Well, we'll see. I mean, this is a day-by-day development. The president has his hands on this every single day. The Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, everybody is involved. They're pushing it as aggressively as they can. The challenge has been in Iran, as I explained to everybody all the time, is we took out about 4 layers of leadership there. So they've needed some time to sort out who has the authority to get this straight. But I'm very optimistic about it. I've talked to allied nations around the world. They want to assist in this as well. Getting commerce open so gas prices come back down to planet Earth. We get back to the economic issues and the conditions that we've set in place, the Republican-led Congress, to allow all boats to rise, so to speak, in the economy. We're excited about that.
What do you say to your Democrats?
And then you had Jameson Greer, the trade representative, making his rounds. And, you know, he's being asked, he's like, hey, what did you do on this trip to China? Like, what did we get? Because there was no deals announced. China's made clear that they've done no deals. They've preliminary discussions. On soybean purchases. Yeah, under Biden, they were buying 29 million metric tons of soybeans. We didn't have to hear about whether or not they were buying soybeans. So when they stop buying soybeans and then buy half as many soybeans, that's not a win. When what we're talking about in Iran now is opening up the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before, that's not a win. It's these loser, entitled, privileged You know, whatever you want to call these people, you know, you know, Trumpers who describe the biggest loss as a victory and they want like a participation trophy in geopolitical, in geopolitical situations. It's like, what are you even talking about? Here's, here's what Jameson Greer, Trump's trade representative, has to say. Let's play.
Egg products. The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board questioned whether the summit achieved any of the stated wins. Because of how vague these things have been. They said Mr. Trump boasted about fantastic Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans and aircraft, but China didn't confirm the sales. And by our count, this is the second time China has bought the same American soybeans, or is it the third? Um, they're kind of arguing you're playing a shell game here with, like, re-announcing past deals on past agreements to purchase over a period of time. Can you answer these conservative skeptics with any specifics?
So first of all, we've had a deal in place with the Chinese since October that they would buy 25 million metric tons of soybeans each year for the rest of the president's administration. So that deal is still in force. What we expect with the new purchase agreements— where the specific number will be announced very soon— double-digit purchases of aggregate agricultural products. When I say aggregate, I mean everything else. That could be soybeans, that could be beef, that could be grains, that could be dairy products, all kinds of things. So we have the existing soybean deal that they may be referring to. And then over on top of that, we have these agricultural products as well. And all of that will be facilitated by Board of Trade discussions with the Chinese.
So still not nailed down, just an aggregate agreement.
So And then Lindsey Graham makes it very clear this morning that it is the Trump cult, that MAGA Republicans, if you are not, if you don't pursue the Trump agenda and the Trump agenda is hide the Epstein files, that we will target you and we will kick you out of the Republican Party. So Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted for impeachment to Donald Trump, he lost his primary and now they're targeting Thomas Massie with what is it? Uh, $40 million in the primary with a candidate who refuses to even debate Massey because Massey had the audacity to call for the release of the Epstein files and was instrumental in that. So now you're disloyal. Here, play this clip.
News overnight, Senator Bill Cassidy losing his primary in Louisiana. You worked closely with Senator Bill Cassidy on a range of different issues, including a plan to replace Obama. Obamacare. He, of course, voted to convict President Trump back in 2021 in the impeachment trial. Now he's lost his seat. Are you glad that Senator Cassidy is no longer going to be your colleague, Senator?
No, I like Bill. I thought he's a great senator, but he made a political decision. He tried to— he voted to impeach President Trump, which would have ruined his political life. He could never run for office again. Massie's on the ballot Tuesday. He votes against Trump all the time. What's the headline? Trump strong. Those who try to destroy Trump politically, stand in the way of his agenda, are gonna lose. Bill made a decision. What would LBJ do? Is it natural for a politician to go after people who try to destroy their political life? So Bill Cassie's lost because he tried to destroy Trump. Massey's gonna lose because he's trying to destroy destroy the agenda. You can disagree with President Trump, but if you try to destroy him, you're gonna lose. Cuz this is the party of Donald Trump.
And then finally, we've heard from Donald Trump's acting attorney general. What's their big agenda, folks? They're focused on the 2020 election. And now our DOJ is doing a lot of work to make sure that they can prove to you Trump really won in 2020. And the 7, 8 million votes that Biden won by Oh, it was all one big mirage. And every one of these court cases that federal judges, Trump judges, George W. Bush judges, Reagan judges, and Democratic judges, that all these judges saw, they didn't really have the facts. You know who has the facts? The people who have the facts are the people who are hiding the damn Epstein files. Trust the Epstein class. No, thank you. No, thank you. I'm not gonna trust the Epstein class. You are a bunch of frauds. Con artists, losers, and pathetic individuals. Play this clip.
Hiding, hiding what they're doing. And so that's why we're very focused on finding out whether the right people voted, whether people that were supposed to vote voted, whether there was one vote cast per voter. And that's what we're doing in multiple states. And, and, and, and I expect, and again, people, you'll say to me, how long has it taken? Why is it taking so long? And the reality, the answer to that is because it takes a lot of work to uncover what happened in 2020. It takes a lot of, of old, good old-fashioned law enforcement police work, which is what we're doing. And we have great prosecutors working on it as well. And I expect that— and I assure you, I assure the American people that as soon as we have something to say for it, whether it's charges, whether it's a report, whether it's the results of an investigation, the American people will learn about what we uncovered.
Yeah.
And this is how this Fox segment then ends. With Maria Bartiromo saying, all right, we're going to find out 2020, huh? That's what Americans care about. We're going to find out 2020, huh? Yeah, we're going to find out 2020. What are you talking about? Americans just want their healthcare. Americans just want to be able to afford things, be able to afford gas and afford groceries. 2020, huh? 2020. Here, play this clip.
The election was stolen.
I don't—
I'm not going to promise there's going to be a definitive answer. That wouldn't be fair to you or anybody else. But we are looking at and we're hoping to get one.
Todd Blanch, we appreciate your time and your work. Of course, our audience is very—
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