Q. Tell me about the MAGA people who hate Charlie Kirk because he is not conservative enough, joining with Nick Fuentes in their criticism of him?
Robinson was even "Farther Right MAGA" than Trump or Charlie Kirk!
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Here’s the short version: a MAGA-adjacent, farther-right faction—best known as Nick Fuentes’s “Groyper”/“America First” scene—has spent years attacking Charlie Kirk/TPUSA as “Conservative Inc.” and not conservative enough. They’ve tried to pull mainstream MAGA rightward on immigration, LGBT issues, and Israel, and they’ve publicly hounded Kirk since 2019.
What they say Kirk gets “wrong”
Immigration: Kirk’s old line about green cards for U.S.-educated grads became a prime target; Groypers branded it “amnesty” and proof he’s soft.
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LGBT/Q presence in the movement: They used crude, viral questions at TPUSA events (e.g., “How does anal sex help us win the culture war?” aimed at TPUSA guest Rob Smith) to paint Kirk as tolerant of values they reject. Wikipedia +1
Israel/Zionism & “Conservative Inc.” ties: They frame TPUSA as establishment-friendly, too pro-Israel, and gatekeeping the right; the 2019–20 “Groyper War” was built around that critique. Wikipedia
How they’ve gone after him
Campus disruption campaign (2019): Fuentes mobilized followers to swamp Q&As on Kirk’s “Culture War” tour (Ohio State, UCLA with Don Jr., etc.), forcing cancellations/early endings and generating viral clips. Wikipedia
Counter-programming TPUSA: They staged a Groyper Leadership Summit alongside TPUSA’s SAS, positioning themselves as the “real” right. Wikipedia
Who’s in that chorus (examples)
Nick Fuentes & Groypers: White-nationalist, far-right current that targets mainstream conservatives it sees as too moderate; they explicitly cast themselves as the GOP’s hard-right flank.
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Michelle Malkin (then-conservative commentator): Publicly defended Fuentes/Groypers during the feud; YAF dropped her over it—illustrating how this fight split the right. Reason.com
Laura Loomer (MAGA influencer): Has alternated between attacking Kirk as a “charlatan” and rallying to his side after his killing—showing the volatile, intra-MAGA rifts around him. The Guardian
The bigger picture
Analysts and reporters have long noted that far-right factions to Kirk’s right view him as too mainstream—and even after his death, some of those networks are repurposing the moment for their own radical messaging, despite having hated him before. WIRED
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Palestine Is Victorious': UNGA ERUPTS In Applause After 142 Nations Shock Israel With 'YES' Vote Times Of India Sep 12 2025
The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the “New York Declaration” on Friday, reviving the push for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. The resolution passed with 142 votes in favor, 10 against, and 12 abstentions. Israel and the United States led the opposition, while India voted in support. The declaration, presented by France and Saudi Arabia, calls for tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps toward establishing a Palestinian state. It also demands Hamas release all Israeli captives, end its rule in Gaza, and hand over control to the Palestinian Authority to achieve peace and sovereignty.
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Draft resolution Astroke 80 stroke L1 stroke revision one is adopted. The assembly will now take a decision on draft resolution A stroke AD stroke L1 stroke resolision one entitled endorsement of the New York declaration on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and the implementation of the two-state solution. A recorded vote has been requested. We shall now begin the voting process. Those in favor of draft resolution a stroke 80 stroke L1 stroke resolution one please signify. Those against abstensions. The General Assembly is now voting on draft resolution Astroke 80 stroke L1 stroke revision one entitled endorsement of the New York declaration on the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and implementation of the two-state solutions. Will all delegations confirm that their votes are accurately reflected on the screen? The voting has been completed. Please lock the machine. The result of the vote is as follows. In favor 142 against 10 abstensions 12. Draft resolution A stroke 80 stroke L1 stroke revision one is adopted. Endorsement of this so-called declaration are not a serious attempt at peacemaking. These are procedural tactics, a misuse of this assembly to force through by the back door what cannot stand at the negotiating table. Once again, we see externally drafted texts rushed forward without transparency or any debate in this assembly. This erodess the legitimacy and trust of the UN. This one-sided declaration will not be remembered as a step toward peace, only as another hollow gesture that weakens this assembly's credibility. This is not diplomacy. It is theater, a carefully staged performance for headlines, not for peace. It doesn't shorten the war, it prolongs it. It does not weaken Hamas. It rewards them. It does not advance negotiations. It undermines them. And so we must ask, who benefits? Not the hostages in Hamas captivity, not the people of Gaza, not those who pray for real peace. The only beneficiary is Hamas. Consider France's recent pledge of statethood. Hamas welcomed it, praising, and I quote, they called it the political and moral pressure it puts on Israel. When terrorists are the ones cheering you, you have to ask yourself what you are doing. Yes, we have map for peace and we invite the party that is still pushing the option of war and destruction and attempts to eliminate the Palestinian people and steal their land. to listen to the sound of reason, to the sound of the logic of dealing with this issue peacefully and for the overwhelming message that has resonated in this general assembly uh today. For those who want peace, come and join us. For those who want to save lives, come and join us. For those who want to put an end to the war in the Gaza, this aggression, come and join us. For those who want to release of the hostages and the prisoners, come and join us. For those who want to put an end to using the uh denial of food and to impose famine against the Palestinian people in Gaza, come and join us. For those who want to rebuild and to reconstruct the Gaza Strip, come and join us. For those who want to have an end to this illegal occupation, come and join us. And for those who are interested in the implementation of the historic advisory opinion of the ICJ, come and join us. for those who want to have a two-state solution to live side by side in peace and security and to open the doors for integration in the entire Middle East and for allowing the Middle East to reach its potential in terms of development, innovation, science and cooperation. Come and join us. All these details and many more details are contained in the declaration that we've endorsed today and I believe that madame president President since this is the first major issue under your presidency that you face maybe this is a good omen come and join us all those who are interested in peace interested in dealing with putting an end to the tragedy and allowing ing the people in the Middle East all of them to save their lives to save the life of children's and to open the doors for peace and development and progress and hope
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Algeria & Pakistan STUN the World: CONFRONTS Israel LIVE at UN After Qatar Strikes! WLA Sep 11, 2025
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I am obliged to take the floor to respond to some comments. The representative of Israel perhaps did not listen attentively to all council members and other speakers in today's debate. And in our view it is unacceptable indeed ludicrous for an aggressor, an occupier, a serial violator of UN charter and international law that is Israel to abuse this chamber and disrespect the sanctity of this council. And this is not the first time. And by pointing fingers on others, baseless assertions primarily aimed at masking its own illegal actions and violations of international law. president. But that's not at all surprising. It is an occupier that does not listen to anyone, that does not pay heed to any advice, even from its friends, if there are any left. that refutes and not just refutes it threatens members of the international community, international media, international human rights and humanitarian organizations doesn't listen to the ICJ or the IC and threatens the UN and its senior officials. And it does that with impunity, shielded by its apologists who time and again acquis in its illegal actions and defiance of the international community. And like all occupiers, despite being the aggressor, it fains and plays the victim. But today it is totally exposed. President, this council has spent decades discussing the situation in the Middle East and the Palestinian question. Meeting after meeting we devote hours to this agenda. It is not because of anyone else. It is because of Israel that refuses to vacate its illegal occupation and that blatantly violates the resolutions of this council. It's because of that we that we have these discussions. Israel also chose to refer to an unrelated incident and make misleading remarks regarding Pakistan in an effort to justify its own illegal actions and violations of international law. Pakistan's position on that incident has been clearly stated and is publicly available. The international community is well aware of Pakistan's frontline role and sacrifices in the international community's fight against terrorism. The entire world including our partners acknowledge that al-Qaeda was largely decimated due to Pakistan's counterterrorism efforts and we remain committed in this global collective endeavor. We cannot accept insinuations from an irresponsible rogue state. That is in fact the perpetrator of worst kind of state terrorism that we are witnessing in Gaza and in fact in the occupied Palestinian territories for decades. And we reject any false analogy as has also been done by Qatar. For whatever way it interprets the statements in this council, the occupying power must go back and read carefully the statement issued by the security council today. And let me read it out loud here. A statement that normally should have been stronger but nevertheless has been unanimously adopted by the council. The members of the security council expressed their condemnation of the recent strikes in DHA, the territory of a key mediator on 9th September. They expressed deep regret at the loss of civilian life. Council members underscored the importance of deescalation and expressed their solidarity with Qatar. They underlined their support for the sovereignity and territorial integrity of Qatar in line with the principles of the UN charter. Council members recalled their support for the vital role that Qatar continues to play in mediation efforts in the region and alongside Egypt and the United States. Council members underscored that releasing the hostages, including those killed by Hamas and ending the war and suffering in Gaza must remain our priority. In this regard, they reiterated the importance of the ongoing diplomatic efforts of Qatar, Egypt, and the United States and called for the parties to seize the opportunity for peace. That is why we are here this afternoon in this council. I thank you. I thank other representative Pakistan for the statement. The representative of Isra has asked the floor to make a further statement. I give them. Thank you, Mr. President. You know, if the distinguished colleague from Pakistan wanted to read the statement, he could have done it at the beginning of of the session, but I want to refer to your words. You know, maybe you got offended from the word of my speech, and I apologize for that. But I make sure that in my speech, I stick to the facts. And the fact is that Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan and no one condemned the US and when other countries in this council attack terrorist no one condemn them and that is the issue of double standards. When you apply different standards on Israel than the standard you apply on yourselves that that is the problem of this institution. So yes, you cannot change the fact that 911 happened and today we mark this day. You cannot change the fact that Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan and he was killed on your territory. But I would ask you when you criticize us and I'm sure it will continue in the future. Think about the issue of double standards, which standards you apply to your country and which standards you apply to Israel. Thank you, Mr. President. I thank the representative of Israel for the statement. I now give the floor to those council members who wish to make statements. I give the floor to the representative of Algeria. Thank you, President. At the outset, I would like to thank Under Secretary General D Carlo for her briefing. We meet once again in the wake of yet another grave and unlawful act committed by the Israeli authorities in addition to the endless record of their systematic violations of international law. Israel behaves as if law does not exist, as if borders are illusions, as if sovereignty itself is a dispensable notion. as if the UN charter, the UN charter is an ephemeral text. Meanwhile, in Gaza, innocent lives are annihilated by the thousands. By the thousands. The world watches helplessly horrific image of destruction, devastation, and human despair. Yet, even that current carnage in Gaza is not enough for the Israeli authorities. In the span of days, Israel has struck Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and now a renowned peace broker, the state of Qatar. This is not strength. It is recklessness. It is the sign of madness. It is the conduct of an extremist government on bound by immunity, by impunity. a government dragging the region and the whole world toward the Abbyss. Mr. President Algeria strongly condemns and denounces the cowardly Israeli aggression that targeted the Qatari capital Dha. We express our full solidarity with the brotherly state and people of Qatar. The recent attack in Doha is more than a violation of sovereignty of a UN member. It is an affront to diplomacy itself. It targeted a commanded mediator working tirelessly to end the bloodshed in Gaza. It is irrefutable proof that the Israeli occupying power does not seek peace, does not seek peace, does not seek the release of hostages, does not seek the end of hostilities, but thrive on war. President, Israel persists in relying solely on the arrogance of brutality, mistaking oppression for power and coercion for security. Yet history taught us that the path of domination yields neither peace nor stability. Violence brings violence. Impunity breeds war. Silence in the international community. and of this very security council fuels chaos. And yet this very council remains constrained unable even to name the aggressor to qualify aggression as a violation of international law. Mr. President, when will the international community awaken to its responsibilities? When will it deter the occupier? When will it halt the crimes and curb this reckless escalation threatening the entire region, the region and indeed the world demand meaningful action. Action to end aggression. Action to hold the occupying power accountable. Accountable. Action to break the cycle of impunity. This council must use all its tools, including sanctions, before it is too late. I thank you. I thank the representative of Algeria for the statement and I give the floor to the representative of Pakistan. Thank you, Mr. President. We thank you for convening this urgent meeting at the request of Algeria, Pakistan and Somalia and supported by other council members. We also thank under secretary general daro for her briefing. We welcome the presence of his excellency Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Raman Althani, the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the state of Qatar. We also welcome the participation of the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Jordan, the representatives of UAE, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait and Egypt to this meeting. Pakistan condemns in the strongest possible terms the illegal and unprovoked Israeli aggression against the brotherly state of Qatar. This reckless and provocative attack constitutes a flagrant violation of the sovereignity and territorial integrity of Qatar contrary to the fundamental principles of international law including the UN charter in particular its article 24 prohibiting the threat or use of force as the prime minister of Pakistan has stated this act of aggression by Israel is totally unjustified and constitutes a most dangerous provocation that could imperil regional peace and stability. The Israeli strikes targeted a residential neighborhood, deliberately endangering civilians and thus also constitute a grave breach of international humanitarian law. This brazen and illegal assault is not an isolated incident. Rather, it is part of a broader and consistent pattern of aggression and violation of international law by Israel that undermines regional peace and stability. Pakistan expresses its complete solidarity with the government and people of Qatar and fully supports their inalienable right to take all necessary measures in accordance with the UN charter to defend their sovereignity, territorial integrity and the safety of all persons within their territory. In a gesture of solidarity and regional unity, the prime minister of Pakistan, his excellency Muhammad Shabbaz Sharif accompanied by a high level delegation including the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Pakistan is visiting Qatar today. The visit underscores Pakistan's unwavering support for the security and sovereignity of Qatar and its commitment to peace and stability in the Middle East. Mr. President, this irresponsible action by Israel is yet another manifestation of its systematic disregard for international law and its brazen policy of destabilizing the region. It adds to its long and dubious record of aggression, brutal military actions in Gaza, repeated crossber strikes in Syria, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen, all of which amount to violations of the UN charter and international humanitarian law. Such acts of aggression as defined by UN General Assembly Resolution 3314 also set a dangerous precedent, erode the primacy of rule of law and breed a culture of impunity that threatens the security of all states. In view of the gravity of the situation, an extraordinary Arab Islamic summit will take place in DHA on 15th September with a view to ensuring a united response to Israel's aggression and to reaffirm the primacy of international law and the UN charter. Pakistan will participate in this important meeting at the high level. Mr. President, at a time when delicate negotiations on Gaza peace deal were progressing towards a possible breakthrough, striking the territory of a principal mediator and those directly involved in negotiations is a deliberate attempt to sabotage diplomacy, derail peace efforts, and prolong the suffering of civilians. It is evident that Israel, the occupying power, is bent on doing everything to undermine and blow up every possibility of peace. It also raises serious questions whether the return of hostages was indeed a priority. Clearly, Israel's destructive policies are incompatible with the international community's quest for peace and stability. Sadly, it has been emboldened by the weak response and inaction by this council. Pakistan commends Qatar's important and constructive role in facilitating mediation efforts including for a ceasefire and release of hostages which has been widely and consistently appreciated by all council members together with the role of Egypt and the United States. We recognize Qatar's tireless and principal engagement with all parties, often under most challenging circumstances, to keep the channels of dialogue open and advance prospects of peace. Qatar has consistently demonstrated leadership, wisdom, and commitment to humanitarian principles, working in close coordination with regional and international partners to bridge divides, promote peace, reduce tensions, and alleviate the plight of the Palestinian people. Undermining such a credible and indispensable mediator threatens to extinguish one of the few viable pathways towards a just and lasting peace. Targeting Qatar is thus not only an attack on a sovereign state but also an attack on diplomacy and mediation itself. Pakistan welcomes the security council's condemnation of the strikes in DHA and expression of support for the sovereignity and territorial integrity of Qatar in line with the principles of the UN charter. The council must go beyond, must hold Israel accountable, safeguard the role and protection of mediators engaged in peace efforts and recommmit to the centrality of international law and the UN charter in maintaining international peace and security. Mr. President, the root cause of recurring crisis and instability in the Middle East is Israel's prolonged occupation of Arab lands and its persistent defiance of international law and international legitimacy. Durable peace can only be achieved through a comprehensive political settlement, including an end to the occupation of Arab lands. particularly the occupied Palestinian territories. Pakistan calls for an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire across Gaza and all occupied Palestinian territories, full and unimpeded humanitarian access to the besieged and starved Palestinian population, and reinvigoration of a genuine and irreversible political process to end the Israeli occupation, leading to the realization of a sovereign, viable and contiguous Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders with al- Kuds al- Sharif as its capital. Pakistan stands shouldertosh shoulder with the leadership and the brotherly people of Qatar in defense of their sovereignity, dignity and territorial integrity. We remain steadfast in our commitment to uphold the principles of international law and the UN charter and to work with the international community to secure lasting peace in the Middle East. I thank you. I thank the representative of Pakistan for the statement. Do you want to watch more videos like this one? 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Qatar HUMILATES Israel LIVE at UN After Strikes in Qatar! WLA Sep 11, 2025 Credit UNTV
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I now give the floor to his excellency Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Abdul Ahmed Aim Al Tani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. May the peace, blessings, and mercy of God be upon you. Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on assuming the presidency of the council this month. We thank you for quickly responding to our request to convene this meeting. We especially like to thank Algeria, Pakistan, Somalia, the UK and France that asked for holding this meeting on our behalf. We also thank Miss Rosemary D. Carlo, Under Secretary General for Political and Peace Building Affairs for her briefing. We thank the council members for adopting the press release today. We appreciate your solidarity with Qatar that we heard in your statement after the unjust Israeli attack on Doha that the press statement has condemned. The attack occurred on the soil of a main mediator. The statement stressed the commitment to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar in line with the principles of the United Nations. We address the security council today in light of a dangerous escalation which constitute a threat to international peace and security and regional peace and security. This is why it is at the core of the mandate of the security council as per the charter. The Israeli attack, an unjust attack at 3:45 on Tuesday, the 9th of September, 2025, targeted residential area allocated by the state to the negotiating teams. This is part of our ongoing negotiation effort. These residencies house the negotiating team of Hamas and their families. The residential areas are known to all all those who are engaged in negotiations. Even diplom diplomats and journalists that have held meetings with negotiating team knows where these residencies are. We take measures to verify what happened. And it turns out that the casualties included Arif Bedo Sad Muhammad Adosi who was 22 years old. He was martyed on duty. A number of civilians were also injured and members of internal security forces working in the compound. They're receiving now medical treatment. We are trying to identify the identity of those affected. It was a residential area and the attacks terrorized those who live there. This area houses schools and houses different diplomatic residencies. The attack is a violation of the sovereignty of a state member of the United Nations. This attack is far away of the civilized behavior by states that believe in peace. Qatar is bu is making tireless efforts to save lives and this attack puts the international community before a test. Israel led by extremists, bloodthirsty extremists have gone beyond any borders, any limitations when it comes to behavior, not only among states, but among individuals. We're unable to predict what Israel can do. How can we host Israeli representatives when they have commit this attack? Have you heard of any state that is attacking a mediator this way? Uh state that is attacking negotiating teams that are hosted by Qatar. And then the prime minister is using shameful justifications and um is trying to justify this attack that is condemned by the whole world. The prime minister should have recall the model of Taliban. They had a political bureau in Doha and we had an negotiation channel or communication channel and this channel led to reaching an agreement on Afghanistan that led to the end of the war after decades. The US have never targeted the negotiators over these years. On the contrary, the world has seen the success of these efforts in cooperation with the United States under the leadership of Donald Trump to end the longest war in the history of the United States in 2020. This is the approach we pursue. This is the approach that the prime minister of Israel is trying to distort. These continued violations of international law, this behavior that uh under undermine all values prove only one thing that the current leaders of Israel are arrogant and they believe that they enure enjoy impunity in addition to the genocide in Gaza and the unprecedented human humanitarian disaster in this trip and the community has not acted yet Here we are. We can see that Israel is undermining the stability of the region impetuously. Israel is trying to uh rearrange the region by force. It is using fundamentalist ideas. That is the basis of Israel's behaviors. Israel leaders are declaring that and they think that only the Israeli population is listening to them. But we're all listening to them. The peoples of the region are not accepting this kind of behavior, are not accepting this narrative. We believe fully in mediation and the peaceful settlement of disputes and Qatar's role is being appreciated worldwide. Our efforts has proven that our effort in cooperation with the United States and Egypt has led tangible results. It led to the release of 148 hostages. It has led to providing humanitarian aid to Gaza. It was a glimmer of hope, a rare glimmer of hope in this Gaza. But attacking our territories while we were busy with negotiations has uncovered the intention of Israel. It is trying to undermine any prospects of peace. It is trying to perpetuate the pal the suffering of the Palestinian re people. The Palestinian people is subjected to unimaginable suffering. It also shows that extremists that um rule Israel today do not care about the hostages. This is not a priority. Otherwise, how would we justify the timing of this attack? Because the negotiations were looking at the latest US proposal. The negotiation team of Hamas have been getting together to un to discuss the US proposal and the attack occurred. Mr. President, I stand before you today and I urge your august council to bear its historic responsibility. Silence before the law of the jungle and targeting a sovereign country this way undermines international efforts undermine the prospects of any peace process in our region. The continuation of such attacks does not only target Qatar. It is a clear threat to target any country that is working on achieving peace and that undermines the trust in the United Nations. The state of Qatar stresses under the leadership of its amir. May God protect him that we will continue our humanitarian and diplomatic role without any hesitation in order to stop the bloodshed. At the same time, we will not condone any attack on our sovereignty. We will resolve the right to respond through tools guaranteed by international law. We call for peace, not war. Peace is our approach and we will not be deterred by those who call for war and destruction. Before your security council, we present these facts and we recall that today we're discussing an attack on all diplomatic efforts to reach peaceful solution. The only way to peace goes through negotiations and it starts with a ceasefire and the release of all detainees and hostages and ensuring the entry unconditional entry of humanitarian aid and lifting the blockade. Allow me on behalf of all peaceloving peoples around the world. I would like to be optimistic. We cannot succumb to extremists. We have to continue to pursue peace through the two states solutions through the establishment of the independent Palestinian state fully sovereign on Palestinian national soil according to international resolutions. We need two states, two peoples living side by side in peace. This will only be achieved through the adherence of the principles of international law. Thank you. I thank his excellency Sheik Al Tani for the statement. I now give the floor to the representative of Israel. Mr. President, on September 9th, Israel carried out a precise and targeted strike in Dha. The strike targeted Hamas leaders who for years have planned and directed attacks against Israel. many times making these directives from the luxury confines in Dha. These terrorists were the sole target of the operation. The men targeted were not legitimate politicians, diplomats or representatives. They were the masterminds of terror. They orchestrated the massacre on October 7th, murdering civilians. kidnapping children, raping women, wiping out entire communities. As the smoke still was from the massacre, even as the attack was still unfolding, Kamas leaders in Qatar appeared live on television, proudly broadcasting their celebration. While Israelis hid in safe rooms, fled from gunfire, and endured murder, kidnapping, and rape, Hamas's leaders feasted and congratulated themselves in real time. These are the same men who called for jihad to escalate the conflict. They called for blood, not peace. They while terror, not negotiation. And the terror has not stopped. Just days ago, at Ramote junction in Jerusalem, Hamas terrorists opened fire on a bus stop crowded with children and adults. Six innocent people were murdered. Among them, a 25year-old who had immigrated from Spain, recently married and building his future in Israel. A rabbi who had dedicated his life to teaching the next generation. Two residents of the community struck down in their own neighborhood. Among the wounded was a woman eight months pregnant left to fight for her life and the life of her unborn child. These are not numbers. They are lives, families, futures stolen. When the gunfire stopped, the bus and the pavement around it were drenched in blood. This is what terrorism looks like. Mothers clutching babies, a bus stop turned into a battlefield, a community scared in seconds. This is a reality we face in Israel. Terror raising its ugly head almost every single day. And let this council be reminded there can be no immunity for terrorists. Kamas immediately immediately praised the killers as heroic and exceptional later claiming full responsibility for the attack and calling the massacre of innocent people a natural response. There is nothing natural about this. It is terror, pure and simple. Today, 48 innocent people are still held hostage by Hamas. Their families live in daily pain. It has been more than 700 days that innocent people have been trapped in Hamas captivity. 700 days of cruelty and abuse. Kamas has used them as bargaining chips, turning their suffering into currency. But let me be clear, there is no immunity for terrorists, not for those who commit it and not for those who enable it. Israel has agreed to President Trump's ceasefire proposal. We are ready to stop the fighting, but Hamas Hamas refuses. They keep the world waiting. They are in no rush. They have the time. indifferent to the human suffering that their delay causes and who suffers from this refusal. Not the leaders of Kamas living abroad in the rich carton in Dha. They they don't suffer. They have the time. But the hostages languishing in theirelves and the people of Gaza used as human shields. From the start, Hamas's strategy has been to embed its weapons among civilians. They hide rockets in schools, command centers in hospitals, and tunnels under homes. They put their own people in harm's way. Then cry crocodile tears when civilians are hurt. Our fight is with Hamas, not with the people of Gaza, not with the state of Qatar. Israel will continue to take precautions to protect innocent lives. That is the difference between us and those who glorify massacre and terror. Like in the Bible, like Cain in the Bible who was marked for the murder of his brother, so too are Hamas's leaders marked for their crimes. It doesn't matter where they hide. Whether in the tunnel in Gaza or in a luxury hotel abroad, the mark of Cain is upon them. For too long, kamas leaders have been sheltered not only in Doha but in Beirut, Thran and elsewhere, parading as politicians and statemen while acting as terrorists. They are treated like celebrities when in reality they are commanders of massacre and barbarism. This false disguise of legitimacy gave them freedom to move, to buy weapons, to recruit through so-called humanitarian networks, and to spread propaganda on international platforms that should have rejected them. This strike sends a message that should echo across this chamber. There is no sanctuary for terrorists. Not in Gaza, not in Tehran, not in Dha. There is no immunity for terrorists. And yet here in this council, some members chose to give Hamas legitimacy, even protection. Israel will not. We will act against the leaders of terror wherever they are hiding. Mr. President, we have heard today in this council allegations about a breach of the territorial sovereignty of Qatar. But one must ask where were these concerns when sovereignty was violated by terror itself on October 8 when Hisbala launched rockets across Israel's border when Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Benguruan airport or just days ago when a Houthi drone crashed into the arrival hall of Rabon airport injuring civilians. How can anyone hide behind allegations appealing to the principles of international law while giving legitimacy to those who openly glorify October 7th and continue to plot terror? Mr. President, this brings me to Qatar. Prime Minister Rasani, the time for Qatar to choose has come. For too long, Qatar had harbored terrorists, offering Hamas leaders sanctuary in luxury hotels while they orchestrate massacres and terror attacks. History will not be kind to accompllices. Either Qatar condemns Hamas, expels Hamas, and brings Hamas to justice, or Israel will. Mr. President, the world has faced moments like this before. Today, the world remembers the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th. That tragic day like October 7th for Israel was a day of fire and blood. In the aftermath of 911, the countries that uphold freedom, equality, and democracy in this council stood shouldertosh shoulder. Two weeks later, this council adopted resolution 1373. It said plainly, no state, no state may harbor terrorists. No state may fund them. No state may give them safe haven. I urge you all to read this resolution. Any government that does so breaks this council biding obligations. That principle was clear then. It must be upheld today. And when Bin Laden was eliminated in Pakistan, the question asked was not why target a terrorist on foreign soil. No one asked that question. The question was why was a terrorist given shelter at all. The same question must be asked today. There was no immunity for Bin Laden and there can be no immunity for Hamas. And in facing terror, history shows that members of this council have done the very same. From 2014 to 2022, France struck terrorists in Mali, Chad, Bkina Faso, and Maritania. In 2014 and 2015, the United Kingdom carried out air strikes in Iraq and Syria against ISIS. So I ask, if these actions were justified then, why is Israel singled out now? Why are claims concerning sovereignty invoked only against Israel and ignored when others act to defend themselves? Is Israeli blood worse? The question to ask is not why Israel targets the mastermind of terror, but why they are sheltered abroad while hostages starve in captivity and gazans and gazans are left to suffer. Israel's fight is not only Israel's. It is a fight of all who believe in democracy against those who worship death and violence, light against darkness, civilization against barbarism, justice against terror. We will continue until the hostages are free, until our people are safe, and until terror can no longer find sanctuary in any corner of the world. because there is no and there never will be immunity for terrorists. Thank you, Mr. President. Do you want to watch more videos like this one? If yes, subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon next to it. We have decided to bring videos on something nobody talks about, African politics, economy, and increasing power. Thanks for watching and until the next video, stay tuned. Tell us what you think in the comment section. Like and share the video and subscribe so that you don't miss any of our African videos. It's the best way to support us.
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Big! 'Phone Mix-Up' Fooled IDF Bombs In Qatar; Hamas' Leaders Exited For Prayers, Cheated Death Times Of India Sep 11, 2025 #TOILive #October7 #TOIVideos
Israel launched a major strike in Doha targeting senior Hamas officials, but the group’s top negotiators reportedly escaped death after leaving their meeting room just minutes before the attack. Israeli media suggested Hamas leaders left their phones behind, misleading tracking systems. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared the operation to America’s hunt for Al-Qaeda after 9/11 and warned Qatar against hosting Hamas. Doha strongly condemned his remarks as “reckless,” while confirming casualties, including the son of Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya. Watch for more details.
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Russia Warns Israel & U.S. After Strikes in Qatar | Leave Now or Else...! WLA Sep 12, 2025
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Mr. President, we thank the presidency for the prompt convening of the meeting in connection with Israeli strikes on Qatar at the request of Algeria with support from Somalia, Pakistan, France and the United Kingdom. We are grateful to the under secretary general Rosemary D Carlo for the briefing. We listen. We attentively study the position of the Qatari side which was set out in the letter which was circulated on the 9th of September. We believe that such assessments of what transpired will be provider provided by the prime minister Minister for Foreign Affairs of Qatar. We welcome your participation Mr. Prime Minister Mr. Minister as well as Minister of the Representative of Jordan as well as other participants. Mr. Mr. President, the Russian Federation emphatically, the Russian Federation condemns in no uncertain terms the attack carried out by Israel in 9th September targeting a residential compound in Doha, the stated target of which was the senior leadership of the Palestinian Hamas movement. As a result of this egregious attack, according to preliminary reports, six people died, including a staff member of the Interior Ministry of Qatar and Emirati Civ citizens died. We are very much concerned by the fact that the Israeli Air Force carried out strikes targeting a residential area in the Qatari capital where foreign missions are carried out of the where foreign missions are located. The Russian diplomatic mission is 600 meters from the area of the attack as well as there are homes there and busy roads as well as schools and kindergartens. In other words, the victim of this large-scale air strike which was carried out in the middle of the working day at 15:45 local time could have been far greater. The number of casualties could have been far greater. These are innocent civilians including our diplomatic colleagues, their wives and their children. the egregious uh uh there in an egregious violation of the sovereignty of u of egregious violation of the sovereignty of states as well as the creation of grave threats to the safety of ordinary civilians have no justification. We fully share the assessments of the secretary general about the inadmissibility of Israeli strikes targeting Qatar uh which represents an encroachment upon the territorial integrity of the indep of an independent state. We also agree with the statement of the SG about the positive role of Qatar and its intention to uh desire and and and focus on putting an end to the conflict which has lasted for nearly two years, the war in the Gaza Strip which has lasted for nearly two years. What is particularly cynical is the fact that DHA is one of the key mediators between Palestinians and Israelis has over recent months been tirelessly working to end the blood the bloodshed in Gaza and for the release of detained persons. The Hamas leadership according to reports was willing to move towards the achievement of these agreements and precisely when the middle missile strikes were carried out on 9th September. The leadership of the movement was discussing in Doha the latest proposal of the US special envoy Steve Witkov. In this way, the strike uh which targeted not just Qatar, a sovereign state, which incidentally was not engaged in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but also the target uh the the strike targeting the efforts of mediators targeting the very possibility of a diplomatic solution to the Palestinian Israeli conflict. It is clear that this Israeli attack will have grave consequences both for the already atrocious situation and Gaza and for the security of the vast region of the Middle East. Mr. President, unfortunately, what transpired 2 days ago is no coincidence. This is the logical consequence of the complete the utter impunity of West Jerusalem which time and time again has been testing the limits of what is possible and it is opening up new horizons for itself by exploiting the international diplomatic cover provided by Washington. And the carrying out of these unprovoked acts of force by Israel is camouflaged by slogans about imagined threats to the security of the Jewish state at the so-called seven fronts. We all are perfectly we remember perfectly well on the evening of 31 July 2024 in Tehran the former head of the Hamas polit bureau Ismal Hanei Khan was killed. At that time, the leader of the Palestinian movement was in the Islamic Republic of Iran with an official invitation to participate at the inauguration ceremony of the elected president of Iran, Masud Peshkan. The political murder was then carried out with the same goal, namely to carry out a major to to to deal a major blow to the proxy talks between Hamas and Israel, which are geared towards achievement of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The strike on Qatar, where a major US military base is located, was a fundament has become a fundamentally new wave of regional escalation. If the Israelis are willing to eliminate their political opponents in a state that is so close to their main ally, what is then stopping them from carrying out similar acts in any other capital in the world? Why then in principle conduct why is it why should we in in principle conduct scrupulous negotiations on a ceasefire and the release of hostages if it is simply possible to place a bullet in the skull of one's interlocutor. Mr. President, the nefarious practice of the liquidation of eminent political and military actors is not merely a crime. This is a desecration of the principles of civilized cooperation among states. This poses threats of uncontrolled escalation. We call upon West Jerusalem to abandon the reckless acts of aggression which provoke the ongoing waves of violence in the region. Uh there is a need for all members of the council to send a similar message. I believe that it is clear now to all that Washington's stated focus on so-called quiet diplomacy not only is failing to yield results but this is fraught with generating new risks and further escalating tensions in the already fraught atmosphere and this and uh by specifically referring to that premise the US delegation has for nearly 2 years been blocking all efforts at the security council. It is difficult to uh to identify what other light what where lightning needs to strike for Washington to finally recognize a multilateral diplomacy through the council is not just not an obstacle but this is the only tool that is available and necessary to reverse the situation on the ground. In this connection, we support the focus of the 10 non-permanent members of the council to advance a draft security council resolution on the situation in Gaza with an emphasis on the demand for Israel to lift all limitations on the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the strip. We trust that this product will also incorporate a call for a ceasefire uh without which it will be simply impossible to alleviate the humanitarian situation there. We believe that the adoption of the resolution will be an important and uh effective measure to alleviate the plight of the Palestinian people. Mr. President, to conclude, I wish to once again extend solidarity to the people and leadership of Qatar who have been targeted by the hawkish military political cabinet in Israel. the consolidated Russian Arabic uh detailed consolidated Russian Arab assessments of this unprovoked active force and the whole developments in Middle East were made today uh in Sochi during the Russian GCC summit. The security council also adopted a press statement in connection with the strikes. Unfortunately, this is not uh uh does not uh incorporate everything that uh has to be incorporated. Not every spade is called a spade there. Thank you. 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Big! 'Phone Mix-Up' Fooled IDF Bombs In Qatar; Hamas' Leaders Exited For Prayers, Cheated Death Times Of India Sep 11, 2025 #TOILive #October7 #TOIVideos
Israel launched a major strike in Doha targeting senior Hamas officials, but the group’s top negotiators reportedly escaped death after leaving their meeting room just minutes before the attack. Israeli media suggested Hamas leaders left their phones behind, misleading tracking systems. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared the operation to America’s hunt for Al-Qaeda after 9/11 and warned Qatar against hosting Hamas. Doha strongly condemned his remarks as “reckless,” while confirming casualties, including the son of Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya. Watch for more details.
Trump ASSASSIN Trial BLOWS UP in Front of Judge Cannon by Michael Popok Legal AF Sep 12 2025
Trump's would be golf course assassin Ryan Routh is outfoxing Trump's favorite Federal Judge Aileen Cannon, acting out in Court that both proves his Insanity Defense, AND sets up a reversal on appeal as Judge Cannon struggles to control Routh acting as his own lawyer. Popok explains that representing himself is a brilliant move that lets Routh let the jury know he is "insane" without having to actually testify, while he bates Cannon into screwing up his trial for appeal.
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Well, who's going to break first in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida? Federal judge Eileen Cannon, the Trump appointee who dismissed his indictment in Mara Lago, or the wouldbe assassin Ryan Ralph, who's representing himself before a jury on charges of attempted assassination of a presidential candidate, possessing a firearm as a felon, and using a firearm in the commission of a crime. He He's representing himself. And Eileen Cannon is struggling to maintain decorum or what she called not allowing him to make a mockery out of the court. I don't think that's what he's doing at all. I think he's proving his case that he's entitled to the insanity defense on Michael Popach. You're here on Legal AF in the wake of what happened to Charlie Kirk, the murder of Charlie Kirk. We've got a real live attempted assassination trial going on in federal court in Florida. Who else would be picked to preside over it randomly? But Donald Trump's favorite Florida federal judge, Eileen Kat, let's break it all down for you right here on Legal AF. Take a moment, hit the free subscribe button on this Friday afternoon. All right, let's let's uh go back in the time machine a bit. Butler, Pennsylvania happens in June of 2024 while Donald Trump is running for office. But later in September of 2024, he's playing golf at the Palm Beach International Golf Course near his home in Mara Lago. He's on the fifth hole. But ahead of him, unbeknownst to him, on the sixth hole in a bush with an AK-47 or assault rifles, barrel sticking out of the bush is Ryan Ralph, a 59year-old contractor, former felon who had an inn for Donald Trump. Just ahead there is a special a secret service agent who is in a golf cart spots a weapon the barrel of a weapon sticking out of a bush near the sixth hole. His name is Secret Service agent Robert Fano. Now what happened in court during opening statement? Prosecutors are there from the Department of Justice. They tell the jury in the opening it's not about whether you like or you dislike Donald Trump. If they're saying that, it is probably because members of the jury are not automatically MAGA. We're talking about the Southern District of Florida. It spans Fort Pierce all the way down to West Palm Beach and even into Boca Raton. It stops right in Broward County. It's big. It's a couple of counties. There's lots of people in there who are blue who don't like Donald Trump. So, picking the jury was difficult. And the fact that the prosecutors had to do that in their opening, and I've done dozens of opening statements in front of juries, means that they think they've got people in there that they they are worried about that they weren't able to get rid of through a jury selection process, through what we call voadier or what we call uh you know uh getting perempter and other challenges to remove jurors. So that's the hand that's been dealt to the Department of Justice. On the other side, you got Ryan Ralph who decides he's going to be prosay, meaning he doesn't have counsel, meaning he fired his his federal public defenders. They're standby counsel, meaning they're around watching what's happening, but he is running his own case. So, where did the mockery come in? You got a jury sitting there, and you got a crazy guy who's demonstrating he's crazy, and you got Judge Cannon, who we know is sort of a slightly u what's the word I'm looking for? slightly thin skinned in her approach who stops his Ryan Ralph's opening statement after five minutes and cancels it. Now, I'm going to talk about that from an appeal standpoint, but apparently during it, he was talking about Adolf Hitler. Hitler seems to be on everybody's mind lately, right? It was on the group that found Donald Trump uh at a restaurant, Joe Stone Crab, in DC with a bunch of other fat cats from his administration started chanting that he was Hitler. By the way, the I I think who started Donald Trump as Hitler as a meme was JD Vance while he was out pushing his book Hillbilly Elegy when he called Donald Trump Hitler. But that's for another day. Donald Trump me mentions Hitler when he uh does the whatever that speech was supposed to be in the White House about Charlie Kirk. And now you've got Ryan Ralph talking to the jury about Hitler along with things like evolution and uh and global politics and the rest of it. So after all of that the and and interrupting him two or three times in front of the jury, Eileen Cannon again struggling here cancels Ralph's opening statement. Now let's take it on an appeal standpoint. I think he's doing all this craziness. And when you hear some of his cross-examination questions today of government witnesses, you're going to say, "This guy is mad as a hatter." But that's when you act like that and which is effectively testimony without having to testify. So maybe he's he's as uh he's as uh dumb as a fox, I guess, is is the phrase because here he doesn't have to testify, but he's testifying because he's saying things out loud and acting in a certain way, supporting an insanity defense. If I he if he's smart, he then brings in the def federal public defenders towards the end of the case to make the closing argument, look at the jury and say, "You saw the guy. You saw the questions he asked. He was so bad the judge had to cancel his opening statement after 5 months when he mentioned Adolf Hitler. Is he in his right mind?" You know, vote to acquit on an insanity defense. That's where this could end up being. Now, on an appeal, it's not a great thing that Alien Cannon, Eileen Cannon, lost control of the courtroom and cancelled the guy's opening statement. I mean, you're not entitled to a perfect trial, but you're entitled to a fair trial, and you're entitled to be able to communicate your position proay, and the judge is supposed to guide you through that and bend over backwards not to do things like canceling your opening statement or cut you off or embarrass you in front of the jury. So far, she's violating all of those cardinal sins, giving him great grounds for an appeal. So again, he may be mad as a hatter, but he also might be outsmarting the judge because he's demonstrating his entitlement to an insanity defense. At the same time, he's laying the groundwork for an appeal as she misfires on C. No, sorry, that was as she makes wrongheaded decisions about his legal position which give him grounds for an appeal. And let me tell you what else he did in his cross-examination. He gets the agent, Robert Furano, and who's the one that saw the So, what happened is he Robert Forano sees the barrel of the gun out of the bush on the sixth hole. He starts yelling into his communications device, his walkie-talkie, we got an active shooter, we got a shooter, shooting, shootings. He he sees the guy. He fires his weapon after the guy points the barrel of the weapon at him. Finally, the guy Ralph drops his weapon and starts to run where some good Samaritan sees him get into a car. So, he actually says to this agent Fano, he says, "You you feel good to be alive, right?" In other words, I didn't blow your head off. Foro's like, "Yes." And he says, "Do you know what my mindset was?" Uh, he says, "No, but I know you pointed the gun at my face." So, again, this doesn't help him from the elements of the crime, but it does continue to demonstrate that he's out of his mind, I guess, is the right way to put it. He then gets Tom McGee up on the stand, another government witness, who was effectively the good Samaritan that chased down a disheveled Robert Ralph after he dropped the gun and ran, took down his license plate, and led to his apprehension and capture. So, in the cross-examination, Ralph says to McGee, "You're an American hero. This is the guy that led to his capture and his apprehension." So, I go back where I started this hot take from a trial lawyer perspective. He may be as he may be as mad as a hatter, but he's crazy as a fox because he is laying the groundwork without having to wave his fifth amendment privilege to getting his insanity defense. All he has to do is transition his defense back to his defense council. Let the public defenders do their job and look the jury in the eye in the closing and say, "Look at the guy." Anybody in their right mind asks somebody that led to his capture, say to him, "You're an American hero." And say to the other guy, "You you feel lucky to be alive, don't you? That's the that's the actions of a mad man. Don't convict or find him not guilty by reason of insanity." On the other hand, so he does that with all without violating his fifth amendment. On the other hand, he's acting out so much in the courtroom that Eileen Cannon is making mistakes that may be reversible error to reverse any future conviction. That's what happens when you have sort of a weak need, weak-minded, sorry, federal judge who's not very good at her job, which we saw during the Trump trials handling this case. If I were her, I would have recused myself and disqualified myself from hearing the case. Why? Not just because she's a Trump appointee. That's not enough. Judges come from somewhere. All judges come from some president. No. because not only was she presided over this historically wrong decision of hers to find that the special counsel was improperly appointed and therefore the whole indictment against Donald Trump for obstruction and espionage act should be tossed but it's public knowledge that she was on the short list to be the attorney general in the department of justice and she still might be if Pam Bondi doesn't survive that was public and never refuted by the Trump administration ever. In fact, when Donald Trump filed his case against Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal, he skipped Eileen Cannon completely and filed it way down in Miami to avoid getting her. I have a theory about that. He ended up getting Daryl Darren Gails, who's a a very fine judge in Miami, who I know well from my practice, a phenomenal judge, also the judge that was the presiding judge over the Michael Cohen defamation case that ended in a dismissal by Donald Trump. But he could have filed it where he lives, Donald Trump, which is Palm Beach County. the closest box there. He would have checked the box for West Palm Beach because that's how the Southern District of Florida is divided by division. There's the West, there's the Fort Pierce division where there's one judge, Eileen Cannon. There's the West Palm Beach division where there's three judges including occasionally Eileen Cannon, Judge Rosenberg, Judge Cannon, and Judge Middlebrooks who senior status. Fort Lauderdale. Uh, uh, yeah. Uh, Southern, uh, Southern District of Florida, right? Fort Lauderdale and then, um, down to Miami. So, you check boxes on your filing. Clerk doesn't have to abide by them, but the easy box to check would have been West Palm Beach. He would have had a one in three shot of getting Eileen Cannon, but he he picked Miami, which is 70 miles south of where he lives. Why? Why? Because it's odd. They didn't do it by accident. I saw the box. I saw the check mark. because I think they wanted to avoid getting Eileen Cannon because at the time Pam Bondi was on thin ice and could have been dismissed which would have made Eileen Cannon a candidate. Eileen Cannon's also been speculated to be on the short list for the um United States Supreme Court. So should should she be presiding over the assassination attempt? Probably not. We'll continue to follow what happens next in the trial and whether he gets the insanity defense, insanity uh acquitt as I as I proposed, if they're smart enough, that's how they'll do it. Here on Legal AF, take a moment, hit the free subscribe button, do the same thing. Come over to Legal AF Substack and help us continue to grow that community. We're so close to 800,000. We're about 8,000 short, 7,000 short to get to 800,000 subscribers on Legal AF. Be the 800,000 subscriber. Help us get there before our September 17th birthday. Until my next until my next hot take on Michael Pop. 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Trump White House Insider REVEALS ALL on Trump 2.0 Legal AF Sep 12, 2025
Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz continue their riveting conversation with Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration insider.
In this second installment, they dive deep into:
Why Stephen Miller became the Rasputin of the Trump regime, driving the heart of Trump’s ICE and police state. The culture of authoritarianism Miller cultivated inside the White House. And the staggering incompetence of Kristi Noem, and how her failures exposed the dysfunction of Trump’s political machine.
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So, welcome back to the Court of History. I'm Sydney Blumenthal. I'm here with my colleague Sean Walens of Princeton. Um Sean and I have been having a conversation that is um both compelling, enlightening, and frightening with Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the US Department of Homeland Security, who um is a crit has been a critic of Donald Trump in his first administration, wrote a book as anonymous and that was a number one New York Times bestseller and has been targeted um for um criticizing Trump uh with an executive order um basically calling him a traitor. Apparently criticizing Trump is treason now in the United States. And um Miles knows a great deal about um DHS, Department of Homeland Security under which ICE operates. and he has been uh he has revealed to us that Donald Trump in his first term sought to wiretap his White House staff which was stopped by a White House official and Miles was one of those who learned about this from that official. Um it strikes me Sean before we go back to Miles about this. This is somewhat reminiscent of Richard Nixon and the plumbers. The plumbers were intended to, you know, Phil Leaks and we know where that went um into essentially a paramilitary operation against political opponents. Yeah. Except now it's being carried out and the technology to do so is vastly more sophisticated than anything that Richard Nixon could have possibly contemplated. Um, but yes, I mean it begins with leaks, you know, and as Miles said last time, I mean, now leaks are not just, you know, um, wondering about national security. It's basically anybody who's saying anything that Donald Trump doesn't like. Um, and that can be a political thing, it can be a personal thing, anything like that. But it's very reminiscent except you have to, you know, it's exponentially more dangerous um, given given the technology and also given the, you know, Richard Nixon for all of his faults, you know, was an American president. um we're now dealing with someone who is not an American president at all. We're dealing with someone who's running a regime which is not at all within the confines of the American Constitution. So you put those two things together, the political ambitions, um nefarious political ambitions and the technology and you're in a very very frightening place. Yeah, Miles. Um we don't know whether or not Trump has gone back to his previous idea of tapping his own staff. Yeah. I mean, one thing that I would say first is I'd agree with you both on the Nixon comparison. I think the difference here is Nixon's effort to retaliate against his enemies was ad hoc and intermittent. And this is systematic and institutionalized. Uh, and so it's of a of a completely different order of magnitude as Sean notes. Yeah. the Nixon had an enemies list, but you know, people were sort of proud to be on it and um John was investigated by the IRS, but you know, it wasn't like this and John Dean talked to us talked to us about this on this very show and said that he saw the enemy's list and he very quickly put it in the circular file. I mean that there was a way in which people were doing these same kinds of things that were happening under Trump one, but that it was it was as as Miles said quite correctly, it was ad hoc. It was kind of, you know, almost off the cuff. It wasn't anywhere near as systematic as what we're talking about now. Right. And I would also say that this administration now had a first term to learn hard lessons about who had a conscience, who was going to say no, who wouldn't, what agencies would be loyal, which ones would be disloyal, and has spent the first few months engaging in these purges to try to make sure there is a much more compliant bureaucracy to carry these things forward. Because there's something that the three of us here know very very well which is anytime any of the three of us have cons you know confronted conspiracy theorists in our families at at dinners or or you know family reunions uh one of the things we've often said to them is yeah you know I know you think that the CIA killed John F. Kennedy or I know you think the moon landing was faked, but conspiracies are really hard to carry out in government because it's not like the president himself can go fake the moon landing. You need dozens and dozens or hundreds of people to go carry out. Fake the moon. Only Hollywood could do that. It's a hard thing to do. Okay. Well, the Trump administration knows this. It knows it's very hard to carry out uh illegal uh conspiracies and that's because there are so many people in the bureaucracy who have a conscience and who are not loyal to you. They have replaced those people. They're in the process of replacing those people in many agencies with the intent of engaging in acts that would otherwise be ruled illegal by those folks who would have been the predecessors of those now fired civil servants. So when it comes to this issue of whether the president might be unlawfully wiretapping individuals. I think it's much more plausible now because the folks that would normally be in that chain of command from the political level down to the operational level are being replaced with compliant individuals and this administration has learned to stick those types of activities in the security of the national security realm. So I'll give you an example is during the first Trump administration uh you know it was reported that the president grew frustrated that his conversations with foreign leaders were leaking out there and not because sensitive national security secrets were getting into the public domain. It's because these conversations were embarrassing. Trump was embarrassing himself with foreign leaders and showed himself so deeply susceptible to their flattery. Uh and he didn't want folks to know that. And so, uh, they reportedly started to stick these summaries of meetings with foreign leaders into highly classified computer systems above the classification level of those conversations to make sure folks couldn't get to them. And there were a lot more stories about that in the first Trump administration. I am very concerned that today uh Trump is taking certain law enforcement activities and functions he might engage in to investigate his enemies potentially to wiretap individuals and pushing them into the dark side of the national security apparatus where it's harder to see where fewer people are cleared to do it and where he has vastly more control to engage in potentially unlawful conduct. Uh, and it's the type of thing they they showed the proclivity to do in the first administration and I think they're pursuing it with elacrity in a second. What would you advise somebody who worked in the Trump White House about the likelihood that they were being wiretapped in all of their um devices? Well, look, I would advise them by Trump. I I would advise them to help us develop a quantum computer that can create a time machine to allow us to go back and make sure he's never elected president of the United States. But if they can't help us do that, uh then I would HG Wells solution. That's right. It's it's always the best solution that we just are never able to realize. Right. But look, joking aside, I I look, I would say to someone in the White House right now, uh, I think there's a decent chance they're being monitored in ways that they're unaware of. And I'll go a little further than that and say I believe that right now there are mainstream journalists in the United States who are actively under surveillance and they do not know it. And I'll cite an example for you. In the first Trump administration, the Justice Department seized the records and surveiled CNN's Barbara Starr because of some reporting that she had done that the Justice Department suspected compromised national security secrets. He was the Pentagon correspondent. She was the Pentagon correspondent. uh and and without getting into whether there was a valid investigation into her or not, Barbara Star didn't know for many many months that her records had been seized and she was being monitored. Uh that was when there were far more safeguards in place. I will tell you that one of the first things the Justice Department did after Trump issued his executive order against me is the attorney general put out a follow-on order that cited the president's order into me and Christopher Krebs that rescended protections for journalists that have been in place to prevent the sort of arbitrary surveillance of journalists in the United States. It got very little attention, but there's a memo out there at DOJ rescending those protections. Now, I don't think for a second they did that without the intent to actually go more actively surveil journalists. And so, while I don't have direct evidence of it, I strongly suspect right now we have journalists who have reported in ways that are unfavorable to the president who are under surveillance by the United States government. Uh, and we may not find that out for quite some time. And I also suspect, last thing I'll say on this, I think we will see people who are arrested talking to journalists about things that the first amendment would protect. Now, of course, you are not allowed under the First Amendment to go share national security secrets that put the country in danger with a reporter. You just it's beaten India when you go into the national security community. I would have never done it. I don't have any friends who've ever done it. Uh, but there are an awful lot of things, important things that the media should know about, especially if the president's engaged in unlawful conduct. And I worry that we'll see an episode somewhere here before the halfway point of the presidency where they try to create a show of arresting someone for talking to a journalist about things that are not flattering for Donald Trump. It's something that he wanted to do in the first administration, was unable to. I think he'll do it this time. Yeah. No one knows um what's being done to them and the technology and you've worked in um the technological field is much more advanced than it ever has been particularly with um the introduction of AI. Um I have heard reliably that um there is a very large unit of people who are monitoring what journalists are doing across the board um inside the White House. Um I don't believe that that in that way ever existed in any previous White House. I mean, obviously the communications departments and the press secretary in the past paid attention to what was reported and they were aware of what was reported, but not in this way to target journalists. Well, and I'll add to that, Sid. I I I would I would think that we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg on First Amendment threats. You know, now the the Constitution only protects one profession in the United States of America. There's no other profession that's constitutionally protected other than the free press. It's the only constitutionally protected profession. And we've already seen the administration aggressively go after individual journalists with the president threatening individual journalists. News outlets by defunding organizations like PBS and NPR. Government news outlets like Voice of America that they've taken over and turned into MAGA mouthpieces. organizations like ABC and NBC who he's threatened to revoke their broadcasting licenses and others like CBS CBS who he's installed a monitor that according to the FTC chairman reports directly to the president of the United States. there is a paid taxpayerf funed government official who will now sit there and monitor the reporting at CBS news and tell the president whether it's good or bad uh and and whether he should exor you know exert his authorities to punish that organization. That alone is sufficient to say this is probably the greatest threat to the free press from any presidency in American history. And that is just the beginning because as you note Sid, we might have journalists who were actively being surveiled. We probably do. There's a very good chance uh whether from the White House or the Justice Department. And they want to see some of these people, the journalists, not just their sources. They want to see some of them arrested and threatened and forced to make a choice. Defend my sources and go to prison or give up my sources and stay free. but compromise the independence of the free press. I think they are going to force that issue like we saw 20 years ago with Judy Miller at the New York Times uh who was forced into that difficult decision about whether to give up a source uh or or or go to prison. And I think we're going to see that type of thing happening in this administration. Yeah. Um, at the same time at DHS, um, Coring Lewendowski, who was the de facto chief of staff and the boyfriend of Christy Num, who was not divorced, by the way, um, uh, is under investigation um, uh, for, uh, corrupt practices involving, uh, cronyism and granting of contracts. Um, how widespread do you think that is in DHS? Um, and um what happens to that agency if the Democrats were ever to get control of the House and could could conduct actual investigations into what's going on? Well, I mean, it brings me no joy to say this, but I I think the department is a place that's really susceptible to corruption. And in large part, that's because of how young it is. So you take the Pentagon for instance and you know there there have been 70 plus years of legislation, oversight mechanisms, watchdog groups to make it really difficult to go into the Pentagon and award contracts to your buddies and install loyalists. It's just a massive bureaucracy. Uh well, we'll see what Pete Hath's capable. Yeah, I'm sure he's got the commitment to see it through. Uh, but DHS is a much younger agency with far less oversight and a place that's been susceptible to that kind of abuse. Now, I'll take some blame for this because I was one of those people for a number of years who resisted the efforts to put more civil liberties protections on the Department of Homeland Security. And civil libertarians had said, you know, this is a place DHS that could be turned into the tip of the spear of a police state. And folks like me in Washington responded by saying, you know, that's George Orwell stuff that's never going to happen in the United States. Uh it requires sort of a Manurion candidate president to come into power for DHS to be turned into that sort of cudgel for a dictator. And that type of thing is never going to happen. We need uh agile authorities to be able to go after terrorists and bad guys and you know don't hamstring this department. Uh I was wrong. They were right because we did end up with a president who's a wannabe dictator with those tendencies who is misusing that department. And I think whether it's Cory Luwendowski or others, we have a much more limited ability to gain insight to how they are conducting their activities and operations. And I will even just say talking to folks in the media, um, they've had a much easier time reporting on the tumult inside the Pentagon than they have inside of DHS because it's a much more insular organization. And so I don't think the American people have insight into what's happening there right now. I'm hopeful if the Democrats retake the House, they will be uh, you know, those investigative efforts will provide us more insight onto how DHS powers are being abused. Uh, but I also know that this administration is very likely to thwart subpoenas, ignore requests from Congress, and prevent people from testifying. Yeah. What have you heard about Christine Gnome's actual practice as the Secretary of DHS? How, you know, how incompetent is she? Well, look, the thing that I've heard most is the insular nature of the organization, and that's what's worrisome. we actually really don't have much of a sense of how she's operating the organization, who she's getting most of her counsel from. Um, and largely what we have to go off of is uh informed speculation about how the department's run. Some folks, myself included, have speculated with very good reason that DHS is largely being run out of the White House by Steven Miller. Now, people forget Steven Miller is not just the deputy chief of staff to the president for policy. He also wears a second hat and that is as the homeland security adviser to the president and uh Steven Miller is probably running much of DHS out of the White House and most of those major decisions are going through him. This was certainly uh close to being the case when I was in the first Trump administration is Steven aggressively worked to micromanage the department and its decisions. And I am not uh under any illusion that that's changed in a second Trump administration. If anything, I suspect uh most anything that's done there is being run through Steven and to the president because there is no department he cared about more than DHS. And I think that's for the reasons you are now seeing is Trump realized that if he was going to build a uh loyalist police force, it was going to be through the Department of Homeland Security and not somewhere else. So what you're telling us is that the head of the new national Trump police force is Steven Miller. Uh I don't think that that's an exaggeration. No. And um tell us about what you know and your experience with Steven Miller from having been in DHS and what you hear now about how controlling he is um and how vindictive he is and um how he operates on peak and what his relationship is with Trump. Well, let me start with that last one. You know, Stephen is one of the only people that I met in the entirety of the Trump administration that never let his guard down. And by that, I mean, I never once heard him criticized the president. And you could name the person that you think is a staunch Trumper that worked in the first administration, and I could tell you in private that they said demeaning things about the president. even people who are still friends of his in his orbit. You think Sarah Huckabe Sanders for instance, you know, seen as a staunch Trump loyalist, you know, I heard Sarah over drinks saying very derisive things. What what would she say and how would you characterize it? Um, I mean, look, a lot of these folks when you would have conversations with them in private, you pick the controversy of the day, you know, they would see a tweet from the president say, "So stupid. I try to stop him from doing this stupid thing, you know. uh they they would be uh you know flippant in remarks about him. But the person that I never saw do that was Steven Miller. And Trump knows that as well. And that's why you've seen Steven's ascendancy in Donald Trump's orbit is he's created no daylight between himself and the president even on issues that are so fundamental to Steven Miller. And I'll give you an example is when President Trump a few weeks ago said he was going to pull back on immigration enforcement at places like farms and hotels because he'd apparently been lobbied uh by farm groups and uh you know tourism organizations to say don't crack down on uh immigration in this space. We rely on those workers. That was something near and dear to Steven Miller's heart. But we didn't hear Steven Miller go out there, you know, in the lines of a Washington Post story or the New York Times to blast the president's decision. There was silence. He saluted. He went along with it. And, you know, I think that's allowed him to become very, very influential around Trump. I'd say he's probably the most influential person in the Trump administration. And unfortunately, for folks who are unsupportive of this administration, Stephen is very smart and he's very effective and he's very, very committed. um he didn't have a life outside of work. He was all hours of the day on and you would get phone calls from him well past midnight about issues that he wanted to make sure were taken care of at the top of the next day. And he would also reach deep into bureaucracies to get things done. And there's only one other person that I know uh who developed a reputation for doing this effectively and that was Dick Cheney. I worked in Vice President Cheny's office and Cheney would do exactly that. He would call the, you know, deputy assistant secretary inside the State Department who he knew worked an issue and directly get them to do a thing because he knew decisions would get lost and slowed if they went down the chain of the command and in the bureaucracy. And Steven Miller knows that as well, which is why he gets to know those underlings, those civil servants deep in the bowels of the bureaucracy who go execute the decisions and he reaches out to them to personally direct them to do things rather than calling up the Secretary of Homeland Security. And that's why I say I suspect that Christy Gnome has been uh very much sidelined in the day-to-day management of her department because of Steven's tendency to do that, to micromanage the agency. Uh, but that's probably as the president wants it to be. How much do people in the White House on the staff and elsewhere in the departments and agencies fear Steven Miller? Does he al He is the agent of fear also of Trump? Is he not? Yeah, I think I look I think they fear him a great deal. I know they fear him a great deal. What do they say about it? A lot of folks are worried that they'll their their careers are on the line if they are to cross Donald Trump and Steven Miller's presence. I mean, you would never be in a meeting with him and criticize a decision of the president because you would suspect it would get directly back to the president. So, uh I think there is a a great deal of worry there, but also worry about the extremism of his views. I mean the crackdowns we are seeing in American cities for instance are very much in my view uh a Steven Miller special and you know that's the type of thing that while there may be voices of conscience somewhere in the Trump administration saying you know I don't think we should be sending troops into American cities they would not dare criticize the policy because that's something that's really being driven by the president and Stephen personally. Well, this is what I wanted to ask is what is Steven Miller looking for? What is he after? I mean, he's he's he's he's terribly, yes, differential to Trump, but that's a means to an end. That's a means for him to get his way. That's a way for him to, you know, and and and and look, what you're describing, Miles, is really something that that you know, we don't want do we use the fascism word? I don't know. But the fact is that Steven Miller has his own agenda. It is not necessarily the agenda of Trump. He's using Trump, you know, as to get what he wants done done. any thoughts about that? I mean, what is what is he how would you describe his his his ambitions and his aims? Well, look, for me personally, you know, I'm a lifelong conservative. I believe in, you know, free minds, free markets, and and free people. Uh, I would say in my view that Steven represents the antithesis of each of those things. He is a nivist and a populist and a promoter of the strongman ethos that you're now seeing coarse through the veins of American politics and really stands against a lot of the things that conservatism was supposed to be about and and those views are ascendant in the Republican party. the sort of Steve Bannon ideology that Steven Miller seems to largely share is what's driving it's what's propelling the MAGA movement and uh and it also has shown I think that it doesn't really matter that Donald Trump has betrayed the foundations of conser conservatism the tribe will follow him anyway and you know tribalism it seems is more potent in American politics than ideas are And we could have a separate philosophical conversation about whether that's always been the case and there's simply been periods where a confluence of ideas and tribalism uh have aligned uh or whether this is something unique to the current moment. Regardless, I think you have to conclude though that the tribalism is driving our politics and so whoever at the top is setting the agenda, namely Donald Trump, Steven Miller, people like Steve Bannon are going to see their will done. So I don't see it just as a betrayal of conservatism though. I see it as a betrayal of of Americanism. In other words, things that that conservatives and liberals agreed about about what the country ought to be. This is betraying that. It goes beyond political ideologies as we used to know it. It is really something about an attack on fundamentals of American government. This is the third republic, if you will. If the second republic was created out of the civil war and got rid of slavery, we are now in a whole different vein. It seems to me that is um you know betraying American principles period. Sean, I concur. Well, Miles, um, with that, there's much more we could discuss and we will, uh, in the future. 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SPECIAL] Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : How Israel Blackmails Washington. Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom Sep 10 2025
[SPECIAL] Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : How Israel Blackmails Washington. Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom
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Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Npalitaniano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, September 10th, 2025. Professor Jeffrey Sax is here on just how the Israelis blackmail Washington. But first, this. We all know how devastating war is. Lives lost, communities destroyed. But war can also threaten your financial freedom. That's where America's heading. Our growing involvement in global conflicts. It means more spending, more debt, and a weaker dollar. That's a direct hit to your wallet. So, here are three things to keep your eyes on. Exploding debt, declining dollar, rising prices of gold and silver. These things are already happening. Goldman Sachs predicts gold could hit $4,500 an ounce by 2026. Why? Because central banks and smart investors are buying gold hand overfist. They know what's coming and they're hedging against it. Currency collapse, inflation, and market volatility. 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Economists measure this by the gross domestic product and we use something called purchasing power parody to adjust the GDPs of different countries of the world to get a scaling and the US is about 14% of the world economy. China at this point is about 19%. It's a larger economy. Not shocking because China has more than four times the US population. So when the bricks get together, this means uh China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and a number of other countries not quite so large. We're talking about uh more than 40% of the world GDP. We're talking about a grouping that is larger than the so-called G7 countries, which are the countries in the US alliance, the US, Canada, United Kingdom, France, uh, uh, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Uh in other words, the BRICS countries that uh this year have the presidency with Brazil are larger, significantly larger than the G7 in economic weight. When we talk about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it's a slightly different grouping because it's basically an Asia group, not a global group, but it also includes uh Russia, China, India, Central Asian countries, Barus, and when you add Indonesia, Indonesia, Jeff, Indonesia, uh yes, uh part of the uh SEO. Uh yes, I think so. And pardon me for not being absolutely sure. Indonesia President Provo was going to go ended up going to one of the events in Beijing. So I I think that that's right. Um, and Indonesia, by the way, is is a a huge uh country, a huge uh part of the Southeast Asian economy, almost half that population. Uh, with the SEO, which is basically this Asian group, this is also more than 40% of the world population, almost half of the world population. And not only is the share of either the Shanghai Cooperation Organization or the BRICS where Indonesia certainly is a member, um not only are those populous and substantial fraction of the world output, but they're also the fast growing part of the world economy. They're they are poorer per person, but being poorer also means that they have more headroom for fast growth. They're catching up, in other words, with the income levels of the United States and Europe. And so they are a large part of the world. They are the fast growing part of the world. They're actually the highsaving part of the world also. In other words, of that part of your annual output, what do you put aside for investment in the future in China, it's more than 40% of the annual output that's put aside. And China sometimes reached more than 50% of its annual output that it put aside in investments in fast rail and long distance power transmission and uh conversion to electric vehicles and so forth. In the United States, we're barely saving right now around 15% of our output. But even that is mostly depreciation now. In other words, it's mostly saving just to make up what is wearing out or depreciating each, right? So slow growing and low saving part of the world. These other groupings are a fast growing and high saving and investment part of the world. And this is coming as a huge shock to the egos and the psyches of the western leaders who think this is all perfidious and evil and how can this be? And Donald Trump sits there giving his orders to each of these countries. Brazil, you must change your judicial process. and Russia, of course, you have to stop your war in the next 10 days. Uh, and India, we're going to punish you for buying Russian oil. And China, the list is too long even to to mention. And and they look and say, "Well, he's not our boss. He's not our emperor." And then they say, "No, thank you." And then the United States really gets upset and Mr. Peter Navaro goes out and says these are despicable vampire economies and adds to the venom and these places which are billions of people are looking on at the United States and saying that's a rather inmperate way to act. You told us you were a partner. you told us you were that that we were together in this uh and so this dynamic that's underway right now where the US is making demands of more populous larger economies and demands that are absolutely weird and arbitrary and hypocritical one after the other. It's just not playing well and not at all. It's not strengthening America. It's not getting other countries to bend to our will. It is accelerating their view that well the US is a an unstable, rude, inmperate, unreliable, untrustworthy place. Maybe we should get together ourselves and have a calmer, more stable relationship among ourselves. I guess the timing of the 50% tariffs on India from the western perspective couldn't have been worse. They were shocked by the way because uh our security Let me just stop you for a minute so that you and and the viewers know what we're watching. France is paralyzed uh as we speak by a massive strike which started in Paris and apparently is growing or has grown uh throughout the day uh in response to the now ex-p prime minister's budget cuts and the collapse of his government. Uh people are not working, not eating. Well, they're eating but they're not consuming. They're not going to businesses in an effort to shut down the government. another example of the collapse of uh of Europe. But back to the significance uh of Trump's illtimed uh and poorly thoughtout tariffs on India. But it's it's very relevant this scene from Paris uh because Paris is in a big debt crisis and uh the budget is out of control and the debt has reached 114% of GDP and in the United States it's only reached 100% of GDP and Britain is in a deep crisis and the German chancellor tells his people we have to arm militarily because and we're going to have to cut our social uh spending uh because of that. Uh, in other words, the demands are coming from a western world, if I could call it that, that is overstretched, that has is poorly managed, where the politicians one after another, starting with Donald Trump with an approval rating of about 38% and a disapproval rating more than 50%. and uh uh Mcronone in France with an approval rating under 20% actually with the Starmer in the UK with an approval rating I think of maybe the low 20s uh with the Mertz in Germany the chancellor's approval rating plummeting as well the west is making demands of the rest of the world but it can't even manage its own society its own social issues, its own political stability right now. And yet it's so used to bossing the rest of the world around that it continues to do so even though we have the question, will the US government remain open uh by the end of the month? Uh but no, Trump is uh off making his demands. He said yesterday uh visa v India he told the Europeans you should put 100% tariffs on India and China uh on because they're importing oil from Russia. So more demands on the rest of the world, which of course all of them completely brushed aside, but which just makes the US even more absurd in the eyes of these other countries. And with instability rising throughout Europe, we should get our house under control. We should end these wars. We should stop the crazy wars of uh of Israel and start attending to some of our real problems right at home. Professor Sax, what is your take on yesterday's Israeli and US supported attack on Doha? illegal, reckless, uh, profoundly destabilizing. Again, this is just like the attack on Iran a few weeks ago where the attack was to kill the negotiators of ongoing negotiations. Honestly, Israel can yell Hamas all it wants. Who they tried to kill yesterday were the people negotiating the ceasefire. Israel doesn't want a ceasefire. It wants to kill as many Palestinians as it can or ethnically cleanse them or crush them one way or another. It doesn't want a ceasefire. That's why they bombed Doha, tried to kill the negotiators, and ordered their troops into Gaza City all on the same day with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians clinging to their lives right now facing another onslaught. This is a murder machine. This is not a state of law. And by the way, Trump said he didn't even know about it for something that's been prepared obviously for many, many weeks. And it's quite possible he doesn't know about it because it's quite possible that he's basically the figurehead and that the Mossad and the CIA certainly knew about it. But maybe they didn't happen to mention it to the president until the last moment. This is absolutely possible in our system. How is it that you have referred to the dominance of Israel over Washington as one of blackmail? Oh, because it's well understood that the use of blackmail has been a standard part of American politics for a long time. We don't know most of it, but we certainly know enough that Epstein, for example, was a Mossad agent and engaged in uh gathering compromising materials, let us say, of the American political class. And that's why the files suddenly weren't there. That's why Donald Trump's signature isn't his signature. Come on. Come on. This is so sad and so pathetic. Why is it that uh the Doha radar and air defenses were down when the Israelis attacked? Aren't the radar and air defenses for Doha operated by the enormous US military base right outside of Doha? That's Wouldn't that be nice to know how that happened? Again, Donald Trump may well have been the last to know. It's It's possible. I don't doubt it. Uh, but the United States government surely knew Israel was not flying all that way without the US security apparatus absolutely knowing what was happening. Period. Would Netanyahu have said, "I want your permission to do it." Or, "We're doing it." No. Clearly he doesn't have to ask any permission because he knows that the permission will be granted. So there's nothing to ask. It's always granted by the US. Um he doesn't have he can give deniability to Donald Trump or he doesn't even have to ask. So no, but Mossad and the CIA coordinate. That's for sure. Well, we know that the Royal Air Force jets refueled the Israeli jets midair. If the RAF was involved, MI6 was involved. If MI6 was involved, CIA was involved. It doesn't take very much to connect these dots. Of course. Of course. This is the most important point. We are not run as a democracy. Donald Trump may be in no more position to do much about this than we are. This is Mossad, which is a a global killing machine. Uh, and by the way, all the Israeli politicians came out immediately after this and said, "We will go anywhere. Our long arm reaches anywhere." Yeah. They feel absolutely the impunity to murder people anywhere and to bomb people anywhere. And that's why Israel is engaged in wars everywhere right now. Here's the president yesterday. I'd like your views on whether his denial is credible. Chris number 16 Israeli strike earlier today. Well, I'm not thrilled. I'm not thrilled about it. Could you just tell more about your conversation? I don't have to do that. I'm just I'm not thrilled about the whole situation. It's not not a good situation. But uh I will say this, we want the hostages back, but we are not thrilled about the way that went down today. Do you know about you in advance, Mr. President? Did Israel tell you advance? You were caught by surprise, sir. I'm never I'm never surprised by anything, especially when it comes to the Middle East. How did you learn about this? Uh I'll be giving a full statement tomorrow but uh I would tell you this. I was very unhappy about it. Very unhappy about every aspect and uh we got to get the hostages back. But I was very unhappy about the way that went down. Do you think the Qataris will ask for that $400 million jet back that they gave to the president? Personally, sad to say they won't. They won't. Do you think they'll close down the uh American air base there, which is the largest in the Middle East, and tell the US to go home? No, they won't do that either. It's It's so sad how we're trapped in this uh unbelievably bizarre, opaque, Israelile debacle after debacle. Everyone remains a bit supine in this. Even Donald Trump who was disappointed and found out at the last moment and made the call by the way supposedly to warn the the Qatar side as the bombs were actually dropping. Talk about a figurehead. That's a figurehead. He didn't express displeasure. How could we not have known from our ally? Of course, they knew, but maybe he should figure out why he wasn't told. Can um Marco Rubio be the secretary of state and the national security adviser at the same time? I don't mean legally can I can he, but as a practical matter, can he? this not the national security adviser, someone whose office is right outside of the Oval Office with a huge staff reporting to him in uh in the West Wing manned by professionals who analyze intelligence and military and economic information that report to the president. Does Donald Trump have the benefit of all that anymore? As a practical matter, I don't know whether Marco Rubio can be either Secretary of State or National Security Adviser because I don't see any signs of any competence. So, I don't know whether he's up to any of these or either of these jobs, much less both of them. We have the biggest amateur hour imaginable. By the way, when the professionals run things, it's often not better because uh our professional CIA class has led the US from one disaster to another. But what we have is the disasters continuing, but absolute amateur hour. So, it's all improv, which we just saw in Donald Trump's own remarks. It's complete improv. Uh Hamas was supposed to be considering a ceasefire proposal. Instead, let's kill them. That's a little improv. Uh if if that's what passes for US foreign policy, here's the uh Qatari prime minister uh yesterday, Jeff. Chris, number 15, the Israeli attack that took place today on the state of in the state of Qatar. We can only call it as state terrorism that is being exerted by someone like Netanyahu given his attempts and his policies as he tries to threaten the regional security. This is only a clear message to the whole region and this message says that there is one player and there's also a disrespect to all the policies and also a violation to the sovereignty of all the countries and the states. Netanyahu said himself that he will reshape the Middle East. Does he mean that he's also going to reshape the Gulf region? I think that we have reached a decisive moment. There should be retaliation from the whole region to in the face of those barbaric actions that only reflects one thing. It reflects the barbarism of this uh person that is leading the region to unfortunately to a point where we cannot address any situation and we cannot repair anything and we cannot work within the frameworks of international laws. He just violates all those international laws. Who who would negotiate with the Israelis ever again? And who would accept an American lure into a negotiation ever again? The Gulf Cooperation Council, which is the governments of the Gulf region, should absolutely uh end the diplomatic relations with Israel, end the Abraham Accords, and not only because of yesterday's attack, but because of an ongoing genocide in Palestine. Of course, they should understand that Israel could not do any of this without the United States, and that is a big problem for them because they uh almost are trapped with US military bases all over the Middle East region. But the fact of the matter is the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the SEO and the bricks and the African Union and the UN General Assembly all have to say to the United States this is absolutely untenable. It's illegal. It is in war crimes. It is in gross violation of the will of the world. It happens by the way they might mention it that is gross violation of the will of the American people and it is leading the world to disaster. Israel is yes his Gulf region is at risk because Israel is at war all over the region using F-35s. By the way, US provided military equipment and support. This is a partnership of Mossad and the CIA. They let the president in once in a while, I suppose, on all of this, but this is a partnership that is absolutely reckless and dangerous for the whole world. And I would have thought that a genocide would have been enough to alert this. Deliberately starving two million people I would have thought would have been enough to alert this. But it seems that the tolerance for robbery is oth unimaginably large. But yes, the time has come as the prime minister rightly said to stop this. The way to stop this is to create a state of Palestine and to put Israel back in its borders, not in this lawless, murderous regime which thinks it can go anywhere and murder people anywhere that it wants. It has to stop and live like the rest of humanity is supposed to live according to standards of human behavior and international law. And this can be done. But the United States is the only protection and shield of Israel. So if Donald Trump or the CIA head or whoever's really in charge would think about it and think about America's interests, this would stop. Professor Saxs, thank you very much. These are dreadfully important things that we discuss. You've been kind enough to come on for a second time this week and and of course it's a pleasure. But let me add, by the way, just I checked in the interim, Indonesia is not a member of the SEO. So just all right keep it for the record. All right that's probably coming but it's not yet there. Thank you. Only you would do this research mid show but somehow I'm not surprised. Thank you Professor Sax. All the best. Safe travels. We'll see you next. Thank you. See you next week. Bye-bye. Okay. And coming up at 1:00 uh this afternoon profilkerson at 2:15 Aaron Mate. At 3:00 Professor John Mirshimer. Judge Npalitano for judging freedom.
Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals by Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil September 12, 2025 https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/12/char ... ssination/
Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals
A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence provoked a private backlash from Netanyahu’s allies that left him angry and afraid.
The source said anxiety spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered.
Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization, America’s largest conservative youth association, according to a longtime friend of the slain commentator speaking on the condition of anonymity. The source told The Grayzone that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to cow him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel’s overwhelming influence in Washington and demanded more space to criticize it.
In the weeks leading up to his September 10 assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a “bully,” the source said. Kirk was disgusted by what he witnessed inside the Trump administration, where Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president’s personnel decisions, and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under its thumb.
According to Kirk’s friend, who also enjoyed access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, Kirk strongly warned Trump last June against bombing Iran on Israel’s behalf. “Charlie was the only person who did that,” they said, recalling how Trump “barked at him” in response and angrily shut down the conversation. The source believes the incident confirmed in Kirk’s mind that the president of the United States had fallen under the control of a malign foreign power, and was leading his own country into a series of disastrous conflicts.
By the following month, Kirk had become the target of a sustained private campaign of intimidation and free-floating fury by wealthy and powerful allies of Netanyahu – figures he described in an interview as Jewish “leaders” and “stakeholders.”
“He was afraid of them,” the source emphasized.
At TPUSA, the rift with Israel widens
Kirk was 18 years old when he launched TPUSA in 2012. From its inception, his career was propelled by Zionist donors, who showered his young organization with money through neoconservative outfits like the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He repaid his wealthy backers over the years by unleashing a relentless firehose of anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic diatribes, accepting propaganda trips to Israel, and sternly shutting down nationalist forces challenging his support for Israel during TPUSA events. In the Trump era, few American gentiles had proved more valuable to the self-proclaimed Jewish state than Charlie Kirk.
But as Israel’s genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip drove an unprecedented backlash within grassroots right-wing circles, where only 24% of younger Republicans now sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians, Kirk began to shift. At times, he toed the Israeli line, spreading disinformation about babies beheaded by Hamas on October 7, and denying the famine imposed on the population of Gaza. Yet he simultaneously ceded to his base, wondering aloud if Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset, questioning whether the Israeli government allowed the October 7 attacks to proceed in order to advance long-term political goals, and parroting narratives familiar to his most vociferous critic on the right, streamer Nick Fuentes.
This July, at his TPUSA Student Action Summit, Kirk provided a forum for the right-wing grassroots to vent its fury about Israel’s political hammerlock on the Trump administration. There, speakers from former Fox News stalwarts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith, denounced Israel’s blood-soaked assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, branded Jeffrey Epstein as an Israeli intelligence asset, and openly taunted Zionist billionaires like Bill Ackman for “getting away with scams” despite having “no actual skills.”
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Following the confab, Kirk was bombarded with infuriated text messages and phone calls from Netanyahu’s wealthy allies in the US, including many who had funded TPUSA. According to his longtime friend, the Zionist donors treated Kirk with outright contempt, essentially ordering him to fall back into line.
“He was being told what you’re not allowed to do, and it was driving him crazy,” Kirk’s friend recalled. The conservative youth leader was not only alienated by the hostile nature of the interactions, but “frightened” by the backlash.
The friend’s account dovetails with those of multiple right-wing commentators with access to Kirk.
“I think, in the end, Charlie was going through a spiritual transformation,” Candace Owens, a conservative influencer who shifted decisively against Israel after October 7, reflected after her friend’s killing. “I know it, he was going through a lot. There was a lot of pressure, and it’s hard for me to watch the people who were pressuring him just say the things that they’re saying.”
She continued: “They wanted him to lose everything for changing or even slightly modifying an opinion. It’s very hurtful to me.”
Kirk appeared visibly outraged during an August 6 interview with conservative host Megyn Kelly, as he discussed the menacing messages he was receiving from pro-Israel bigwigs.
“It’s all of the sudden: ‘oh, Charlie: he’s no longer with us.’ Wait a second—what does ‘with us’ mean, exactly? I’m an American, okay? I represent this country,” he explained, before addressing the powerful Zionist interests harassing him.
“The more that you guys privately and publicly call our character into question—which is not isolated, it would be one thing if it were just one text, or two texts; it is dozens of texts—then we start to say, ‘whoa, hold the boat here,’” Kirk continued. “To be fair, some really good Jewish friends say, ‘that’s not all of us’… But these are leaders here. These are stakeholders.”
He went on to complain to Kelly, “I have less ability… to criticize the Israeli government than actual Israelis do. And that’s really, really weird.”
In one of his final interviews, conducted with Israel’s premier influencer in the United States, Ben Shapiro, Kirk once again tried to raise the issue of censorship of Israel critics.
“A friend said to me, interestingly: ‘Charlie, okay, we’ve pushed back against the media on COVID, on lockdowns, on Ukraine, on the border,’” Kirk told Shapiro on September 9. “Maybe we should also ask the question: is the media totally presenting the truth when it comes to Israel? Just a question!”
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According to Kirk’s longtime friend, Kirk’s resentment of Netanyahu and the Israel lobby was spreading within Trump’s inner circle. In fact, they said, the president himself was terrified of Netanyahu’s wrath, and feared the consequences of defying him.
During the past year, the Trump insider was told by contacts in the White House that the Secret Service had caught Israeli government personnel placing electronic devices on its emergency response vehicles on two separate occasions.
While The Grayzone was unable to confirm the story with the Secret Service or White House, such an incident would not have been unprecedented. Indeed, according to a report in Politico citing three former senior US officials, a cellphone spying device was placed by Israeli agents “near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington” toward the end of Trump’s first term in 2019.
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recounted a similar incident in his memoir, writing that his security team found a listening device in his bathroom soon after Netanyahu used his personal toilet.
The Israel-did-it theory
Kirk was killed this September 10 with a single shot fired by a sniper apparently positioned on a rooftop 200 meters away. He was shot while seated before a crowd of thousands at Utah State University in Orem, Utah on the first leg of his American Comeback Tour. The scene of Kirk collapsing from the impact of a gunshot to his neck just as he began answering a question about transgender mass shooters was perhaps the most shockingly vivid spectacle of assassination – and certainly the most viral – in human history.
There is currently no evidence of an Israeli government role in Kirk’s assassination. However, that has not stopped thousands of social media users from speculating that the pro-Trump operative’s shifting views on the issue contributed in some way to his death. By the time of publication, over 100,000 Twitter/X users have liked a September 11 post by libertarian influencer Ian Carroll declaring about Kirk, “He was their friend. He basically dedicated his life to them. And they murdered him in front of his family. Israel just shot themselves.”
Many advancing the unsubstantiated theory have pointed to a Twitter/X post by Harrison Smith, a personality at the pro-Trump Infowars network, stating on August 13 – almost a month before Kirk’s assassination – that he was told by “someone close to Charlie Kirk that Kirk thinks Israel will kill him if he turns against Israel.”
The frenzied speculation has set off shockwaves in Tel Aviv, where Netanyahu was compelled to explicitly deny that his government killed Kirk during a September 11 interview with NewsMax.
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Netanyahu and his allies bury the Kirk crisis as “big tent” collapses
That appearance was just one of several interviews and statements the Prime Minister dedicated to Kirk in the wake of his killing in an effort to frame the late conservative leader’s legacy in a uniformly pro-Israel light. The major public relations push has occurred while Netanyahu wages a military campaign on seven fronts, punctuated by a regional assassination spree that most recently reached into the heart of Qatar, a US ally.
Netanyahu first tweeted prayers for Kirk at 3:02 PM in the afternoon on September 10, minutes after news of the shooting broke. He has since authored three additional posts about Kirk, even breaking away from the Israeli war cabinet to spend the afternoon of September 11 memorializing the conservative leader on Fox News.
During that interview, Netanyahu did his best to insinuate that Israel’s enemies were responsible for murdering Kirk, despite the fact no suspect was named or in custody at the time:
“The radical Islamists and their union with the ultra-progressives—they often speak about ‘human rights,’ they speak about ‘free speech’—but they use violence to try to take down their enemies,” the Prime Minister told Harris Faulkner.
In a September 10 Twitter/X post eulogizing the conservative leader, the Israeli Prime Minister described a recent phone conversation with Kirk.
“I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel,” Netanyahu declared. “Sadly, that visit will not take place.”
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Left unmentioned was whether Kirk declined the invitation—just as he did with the Prime Minister’s offer to reload TPUSA’s coffers with donations from his coterie of wealthy American Jewish cutouts.
At the time of publication, a 22-year-old resident of Utah has been taken into custody after supposedly confessing to killing Kirk. The public may soon learn the true motives of the alleged assassin. Perhaps they will fuel the narrative which Trump and his allies advanced in the immediate wake of the shooting – that a leftist radical was responsible, and that a wave of draconian repression must follow.
But after the shooter’s initial escape and a series of federal law enforcement mishaps, a large sector of Americans will likely never believe the official story. Nor will they ever know where Kirk’s turning point on Israel would have taken the conservative movement.
Four days before the assassination, frustration among pro-Israel commentators bubbled over in public during an Fox News interview in which Ben Shapiro launched a chilling attack on Kirk without naming him.
“The problem with a ‘big tent’ is that you may end up with many clowns inside,” Shapiro told Fox host and fellow Zionist gatekeeper Mark Levin in an apparent critique of TPUSA.
“Just because you’re saying somebody votes Republican—that doesn’t mean that they ought to be the preacher at the front of the church, they’re not the person that ought to be leading the movement, if they are spending all day criticizing the President of the United States as ‘covering up a Mossad rape ring’ or ‘being a tool of the Israelis for hitting an Iranian nuclear facility.’”
When Kirk took his usual place at the “front of the church” four days later, he was cut down by a sniper’s bullet.
Within 24 hours of Kirk’s death, Shapiro announced that he would be launching his own campus speaking tour, vowing: “We’re gonna pick up that blood stained microphone where Charlie left it.”
The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.
Anya Parampil is a journalist based in Washington, DC. She has produced and reported several documentaries, including on-the-ground reports from the Korean peninsula, Palestine, Venezuela, and Honduras.
