Trump Team Talks Tough While Begging For An Off Ramp

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With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host Daniel. Good to see you this morning.

Good morning, Dr. Paul. How are you?

Better than my voice. I'm doing great.

Some like that. Texas allergies got to you a little bit.

When I tell people, though, is the voice is bad, but hopefully the words will be better.

Anyway, we welcome everybody to the program. We're going to start off.

Guess what? We're going to talk about today.

War, not necessary, stupid wars, and lots of activity in there, on and off again.

Markets are up again and off again.

We're killing and then blaming other people.

We're talking about that little episode going on over there in Iraq.

What a best that is. It reminds me a little bit about medicine on what happens.

Medicine, you're not supposed to make things worse, and sometimes patients pressure you into doing something.

Then they do it, and it really wasn't necessary.

Then you have complications from the medicine, and then you have to go in and do that.

This is almost like this malpractice in government.

They come in and do things that are totally unnecessary, wrong, we believe,

and then we wonder why it pursues, and they don't solve the problems.

But anyway, the complications of the policy, so yes, we should do something about it,

but a long time ago, the word is prevention.

Whether it's in medicine or whether it's in politics, don't make things worse.

I guess the one thing that I see that is lacking, that to help the politicians make better decision,

is any devotion at all to truth, telling the truth, and living with truth.

That was trained to get around it.

This is how you have to word this.

This is a controversial program. You have to do it.

Maybe you could take the analogy I just did into business operations.

Maybe that's wheeling and dealing, business operation.

You have to out trick the other side.

But anyway, it's a mess over there. This week was very, very active,

and I don't know whether we're closer to peace or not,

but I don't feel like the system is closer to sanity.

I think the policy, hopefully though, my option always has been,

well, look for it plus.

Maybe more people this week woke up and said the foreign policy

and it's not all designed by one person.

It is incestuous, it's been there, and a lot of people are cheering it on,

and it just baffles me that something that is so reckless and useless

and has nothing to do with national security, a defense of our country,

that more people would join in in this effort to have a non-intervention foreign policy,

designed for peace.

Absolutely. Well, I think that we are entering the 11th day of the war,

supposed to be four days max, because of course they believe all the assumptions,

the Trump presidency believed all the assumptions, all the things that were fed to him by Lindsey Graham,

they are the weakest, they have ever been Mr. President.

You are Reagan plus.

All you have to do is flex the muscle and they will run away cowering and beg you to restructure the country.

Well, that didn't work out very well.

In some now 11 days in, with the markets going crazy,

put up that first clip, Wall Street Journal came out yesterday with some info from behind the scenes,

Trump advisors urged him to find in the Iraq exit ramp, fearing political backlash.

You go to the next one, President Trump said he was eyeing a quick end to the war in Iran.

As some of his advisors privately urged him to look for an exit plan,

amid spiking oil prices and concerns that a lengthy conflict could spark political backlash,

speaking to reporters on inflow it on Monday, Trump characterized the military mission as having mostly achieved its goals.

We're way ahead of schedule, he said, adding he thought it would be over very soon.

Now, he gave an interview with CBS yesterday, Dr. Paul,

and this is as oil was still spiking over 100.

And that's when he told CBS,

yeah, I think we're going to declare victory and get out soon,

and oil will calm down a little bit.

You probably were watching it and noticing it.

So I think what he's doing is saying things on the one hand,

because he's worried.

He knows that the markets do not like what's happening right now.

They've stopped producing oil there.

And in fact, we have a piece up from Moonat of Alabama on the Ron Paul Institute website,

detailing what happens when you stop production.

It's not, remember like with COVID.

You can't just turn on a business and turn it off and turn it on again.

Same is with oil, but even more complicated,

because once those wells sit for a while,

you can't just turn them back on.

You got to go in, you got to do a lot of it,

especially with the liquefied natural gases,

even more complicated weeks, weeks to get this stuff flowing again.

So already a disaster.

Trump was explaining why he can back off that he's achieved most of the goals he wants.

But you know what?

He never even stated the goal.

You know, let's say there was a thousand troops invaded the tip of Florida or something.

Our goal is to get rid of them and don't invite them back again.

But there's no definition.

It wasn't thought through the Congress that ducked their responsibility.

And the people didn't pay a whole lot of attention.

And yet the people right now who are suffering the consequences,

you know, paying for all this, it did this short period of time.

You said 11 days.

And that's a lot of money in a short period of time.

But maybe the good thing about this is we'll run out of weapons.

But the bad thing is they build weapons real fast.

And the military industrial complex aren't crying.

It's a shame that the process works like this.

And the war issue is a big issue.

And I see it as dual, both being national security and protection as well as economic policy.

Because you can't fight wars, you know, if you don't have money.

It was the breakdown and the failure of communism that brought into the Cold War with Russia and the Soviet system.

Because it didn't work.

So ours is not working so well either.

And maybe there's a hint of something good might come out of this mess.

A lesson to be learned.

But don't celebrate yet.

Yeah, we thought it was learned after Iraq.

And they used the same arguments to do it again.

So we'll hear a little bit more from the article.

A couple of other reasons why his advisors probably Susie Wiles, maybe some others.

Maybe there's some smart people there.

She may not be one of them.

Some of Trump's advisors and recent days have encouraged him to articulate a plan to extract the US from the war.

And make the case that the military had largely achieved its objectives, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump has been briefed on some polling about the war.

The people said public polls released in recent days show that most Americans oppose the war.

And I've seen several polls.

I should have put some up here today showing how strongly they oppose the war.

The vast majority of Americans support ending the threat posed by the Iranian regime.

And that's what the president is going to accomplish.

That's probably, I think, what Rubio said.

But the other issue, Dr. Paul, is the new religious leader.

The Moitaba, Kamehni, the son of the killed leader, go to the next one.

Now, this is the thing we were just talking about before the show started.

Trump is mad because he wanted to be able to choose the next religious leader of Iran.

I mean, this is kooky stuff.

But from the article, Trump said, we want a system that can lead to many years of peace.

And if we can't have that, we might as well get it over with right now.

Trump said, he was disappointed with the appointment of Moitaba, Kamehni, the son of slain Ayatollah Ali Kamehni,

as Iran's new supreme leader, a move that signals that Iran won't back down.

Now, they're painting this, Dr. Paul, as if he's a hard liner and it's getting hard line.

But the fact of the matter is, and this next clip will explain, any rational person,

would you not be a hard liner if this happened, put this next clip up?

This is why he's a hard liner.

This is Lord Bibo on X. He said, if the US intends to negotiate its way out of the war,

let's briefly look at what the US has done to Moitaba Kamehni's family.

They killed his father Ayatollah Ali Kamehni, they killed his mother, they killed his wife,

they killed his son, they killed his sister, they killed his brother-in-law.

If the negotiations were tough back then, they're going to be even tougher today.

I think that's important to remember, imagine if someone had killed all of these members of your family, your wife, and your kid,

are you going to be like, okay, well, maybe we should just make a deal.

It's just amazing.

They think it passed over this, and that is the failure to accept the principles

of the one basic principle of natural law.

You're not supposed to hurt other people, you're not supposed to kill people.

It is justification. The lying comes in is, oh, they're bad people, and they dress differently and all kinds of excuses for this.

What are we doing over there? How many miles? 6000 miles? Whatever it is?

6000 miles away that we go looking for a fight, and then we wonder why the people get tired of it.

This might be a special war in a sense that maybe the people are tired of this war a little sooner.

They never got satisfied that the support the people gave for Ukraine, then the opposition developed,

but the money still being spent, and in Gaza, we never leave.

We always send money. We're always involved.

There's a number of people that Trump has another record, the number of countries he's bombed.

And countries he's bombed. Why aren't the people upset?

Yeah, can you imagine? Why would that be?

Yeah, but you know, you showed the family being killed.

What about the tragedy of these seven, not eight people, Americans dying?

Yeah. Unnecessarily they didn't.

The only the eight they've told us about, because my guess is the orders of magnitude more than that.

They don't want us to know.

Yeah, because they'd be at an arm when they finally got fed up, because there were thousands and they would get photos of the coffins coming in.

And at first they did suppress it in Vietnam, but then they finally started coming out.

And that's like what you always talk about.

That's when the opposition came.

But I would put this next picture up.

This is a picture you don't see very often.

This is a picture of Tel Aviv.

And I think this is the real reason why they are desperate to get out of this war.

You're not seeing these photos, but Tel Aviv is getting the Gaza treatment.

Look at these photos. This is just an example.

Even through excessive extreme censorship, Tel Aviv right now is being absolutely flattened.

Now the propaganda from the Trump administration is that we've taken out their navy.

We've taken out their missile launchers.

We've taken out their missiles. They don't have an air force.

Okay, but if that is true, then how is Tel Aviv being flattened?

They're not doing it themselves.

So there is a desperation sinking in.

These rallies have fired all of their interceptor missiles.

They can't stop these missiles coming in right now.

And it's getting into the dangerous phase.

I had two videos though I wanted to play because I mean,

we could probably spend this whole show doing videos of Trump.

But he said a couple of things yesterday that led me to believe that he's panicking too.

Because to me, it looks like he's trying to shift blame for starting this war on to his own son-in-law, and Steve Woodcoff.

Let's listen to a couple of these.

If you want to get your earpiece in Dr. Paul,

and this is the first one where he kind of puts the blame on Woodcoff.

Just a short while ago, they told Mr. Woodcoff, who is standing right over here.

They actually said we want to keep building essentially in a real nutshell.

We want to continue to build nuclear weapons.

If we didn't knock out Midnight Hammer,

if we didn't knock out their Iranian potential,

if we didn't do that with Midnight Hammer,

they would have had a nuclear weapon.

They would have used it long before now.

The essence of what he says is that Steve Woodcoff told him

that the Iranians told Steve Woodcoff that we want to keep building nuclear weapons.

There's no evidence for that.

The interlocutors say this did not happen.

It's a flat out lie.

So either Woodcoff was lying when he told the president that,

or the president is lying right now when he said that.

But now that the other one is probably even worse,

because he basically admitted that he started this war on the advice of two real estate developers

and a Fox News personality.

Go on to this next one, because this is not how you start wars.

If you want to put your headpiece in and listen to this last clip, Dr. Paul,

if you want to do that.

The situation was very quick.

Well, on this, let's start from the beginning.

The point of no...

You go ahead.

Return and the United States found it intolerable.

In my opinion, based on what Steve and Jared and Pete

and others were telling me Marco, so involved,

that I thought we were going to attack them.

Steve, Jared and Pete and Marco, to a degree,

were telling him he had to go in now.

This is why we have Congress.

This is why we deliberate over wars.

You don't send your real estate developer friends over to a place to do the negotiation

and they come home and say, wow, it's bad.

And you go to war.

See, we know that we go to war at the will of the president.

But he also assumes he can end it on his terms.

And he plays games with that the other day,

and it did affect the markets.

It's probably trillions of dollars

spread around in that one day.

But he wants to be able to speak to it.

But if somebody gave him some advice,

I thought it was a pretty good advice.

Guess what, Mr. President?

You don't have the...

Well, you might think you have the authority,

but you don't have the cloud,

you don't have the ability that the Iranians have,

and they predicted Iran will decide when the war is over.

And you know, sort of...

We didn't decide when the war was over in Vietnam.

And you know, the wars,

the places where we don't win wars or something,

they just go on and on and revive when we need them,

or if you need a new contract on your military industrial complex,

getting all the lobbyists satisfied.

And they're already...

The news around Washington is the new budget,

because they're worried about taxpayers paying too much money.

They're worried about whether they're going to get these contracts,

because we just think...

We just think of course we came to the Iranians dropping a bomb.

Same thing they did in Iraq.

Remember that they were going to bomb New York City.

Yeah, exactly.

The second article is related to the first,

so we call it 1A, even.

Trump threatens harder strikes if Iran hits global oil supply,

pledges U.S. excursion near the complete.

So these are two contradictory things, Dr. Paul.

On the one hand, we are going to hit him harder, harder and harder.

And then on the other hand, well, we're almost done,

and he called it an excursion.

That's a funny word.

They don't want to say war anymore.

They want to say something different.

But if you go to the next one, now this is the CBS News interview,

where he said that the war with Iran is very far ahead of schedule,

so it could be over soon.

It sounds like he's looking for a way out.

He said, I think the war is very complete pretty much.

He said, which is hardly a mission accomplished,

but I guess we have to take it.

He's saying things that just simply aren't true,

that we've taken him out.

They're gone.

But as you just said, it was very important that two sides both

have to agree to stop the war.

Now Trump himself may get an off-ramp,

but the Iranians have sat down twice to try to make a deal with the US,

and they've been bombed and murdered both times they sat down.

Why would they be dumb enough to sit down and try to make a deal the third time?

You know, the saying has been around for a while,

but these wars are all about oil.

And here we are, all about oil.

And the world is flooded with oil.

All we'd have to do is interrupt this flow of oil.

But Trump is saying that Trump says it too soon to talk about seizing Iran's oil,

but does not rule it out.

That's probably on top of his list when you look at it.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Well, good luck with that, because I don't think it's going to happen.

Well, the third one is getting increasing press,

and I think it deserves even more.

And that's the slaughter of about 170 girls between the age,

I think, of 7 and 12, if I'm not mistaken.

Go one forward.

I got it out of order here.

Investigations suggest US Navy is likely behind the attack

that killed 150 school girls in Iran.

That was in the opening days of the war.

The Navy was the branch that was firing Tom Hock missiles.

They did target a school and killed all of these girls.

If you go backward one, the strike occurred in the southern city of Minab,

the morning of Saturday the 28th, Saturday is a school day in Iran.

Iran reports that 175 people were killed mostly children

at the girls elementary school near an Islamic revolutionary guard core base.

While some, including former national security adviser John Bolton,

reflexively blamed Iran for having a school near a military operation,

others were quick to point out that US military bases

were on the world are peppered with schools to say nothing of the fact

that the US and Israel had launched a Pearl Harbor style surprise attack

amid ongoing negotiations.

Yet, depending on May of relied on obsolete intelligence,

I was listening to Scott Ritter yesterday, on with the judge,

and he pointed out that there were five strikes total on that facility.

They took out some different things, but the fifth strike was a double tap on that school.

It was purposeful, as he said, but it's causing a lot of problems.

It's also causing President Trump some serious grief because he keeps changing his story

as he does about everything.

I have a few video clips of him changing his story on this,

and I have a couple of things showing that he is inaccurate.

If you go to that first one, that first video,

here's him talking about how well it probably was Iran.

It probably shot their own missile because it is.

You might want to put that in, sorry, Dr. Paul.

I don't start a unit.

He's got to get it in.

Okay, go back to the beginning if you can rewind this one.

Okay, let's hear President Trump.

Did the United States bomb a girls elementary school in southern Iran

on the first day of the war and kill 175 people?

So what I've seen, that was done by Iran.

Mr. Hegg said.

Certainly the best thing.

But the only side that targets civilians is Iran.

We think we're stuck.

We think we're stuck by Iran.

Inaccurate as you know with their conditions.

I'm going to say one thing.

He said they Iran did it because they are very inaccurate with their munitions.

I have one here of dozens and dozens of satellite photos that I've looked at.

How Iran has struck radar facilities.

Put that next JPEG up on the left.

You can see a radar, a FAD radar facility in the UAE, Dr. Paul.

And that is before, of course, on the left.

And on the right, you can see where the Iranian missiles dead center.

Hit the three buildings, took out.

I think this is a $1 billion radar system.

They took it out absolutely perfectly.

So President Trump saying, well, they probably killed all those girls

because their missiles are inaccurate.

He's not being shown the proper information or he flat out lying about that.

Did you notice the interruption?

Like, he could lie better than Trump.

Trump's lying wasn't that slick.

So his staff interrupts him.

But you know, the arguments that Trump puts out there.

They're designed purposely because he wants the American people

to accept him.

And this is so often they do.

The American people, you know, they're not out there.

Well, we know we're bad people.

And we get involved in wars that we should and we're part of the problem.

No.

Human nature would say they want to hear the good news that they're saviors.

They're their peace keepers.

And the American people want to believe that.

They want to hear that story.

They're welcome.

Even though it doesn't make any sense that he has switched to the next day.

And the American people, you know, want to hear a good story.

But eventually the contradictions and hypocrisy of it all

and the cost of it all in life and limb.

It finally catches up.

They can't win this forever.

Sadly, you know, even some of this.

It's always revealed.

But unfortunately, some of it is revealed after a lot of people have died

and the wars have settled down a bit.

But it makes no sense whatsoever for the American people to go along with this.

But I understand that perfectly because I don't like, you know, saying, you know,

the administration did this.

We have, what kind of people do we have running the federal reserve?

You know, this is fraud and all these things.

A lot of people don't want to hear that.

But it's now, I think, with efforts not only what we try to do,

but many other organizations are in the business of revealing the truth.

And that's something that we don't know how many people out there.

But sentiments, one evidence, it might be the polling.

You know, if you say all those polls are fake,

I happen to believe that some of those pollsters want to be credible.

And they're in a business for it.

Yeah, they should be for sure.

Well, I had one, two more video clips talked about in the first one.

I just want to, because I know you always like to have a positive story.

And journalists have become such stenographers for the state.

Here's a young journalist from the New York Times of all places.

I asked a skip the one and go to, sorry, go to the one that's titled real journal.

Sorry, we're going to skip them because we're getting a little bit.

Yeah, now look at this young man is from the Washington, the New York Times.

And he asked the president a question because the president's story keeps shifting on these girls being slaughtered.

Let's listen to him now.

You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war.

The only person in your government saying this, even your defense secretary wouldn't say that when he was asked,

standing over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday.

Why are you the only person saying this?

Because I just don't know enough about it.

I think it's something that I was told is under investigation.

But Tomahawks are used by others, as you know, numerous other nations have Tomahawks.

They buy them from us.

But I will certainly whatever the report shows.

I'm willing to live with that report.

And by the way, the only other countries according to stupiders who use Tomahawks are the UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands.

I don't believe why those any of those countries did it.

What excites me about that and you too is this young guy.

Yeah, yeah.

He stood up to him.

That is wonderful.

But so often I meet young people like that that are understanding it.

And I get excited about it.

So with him, I would have asked, how did you figure this out?

What was your influence coming from?

He said, oh, I accidentally had a course at one school that taught us about the Constitution.

You could learn all kinds of things.

Because most people have others just like we cite people like Mises who might have started the Austrian School of Economics.

So we do look for people who lead and give us the ideas.

And somebody like that had to be an exposed someplace.

And if he found out I bought myself more and more and more and more and more and more and more.

Hopefully he'll ask both ours and D's the same hard questions.

That'll be how he has.

Yeah, that'll tell you.

Now, we can't let this go this whole discussion of the slaughter of these girls without bringing up.

I hate to leave it on a bad note.

I should have said that last one for the end.

But I just, I apologize to the back, but I sent over a bonus clip to put up because in the discussion of these girls being slaughtered 100.

And I've seen the picture beautiful little girls slaughtered by the, by the US Navy.

The head of CPAC, the conservative political action committee, the conservatism ink in the United States.

This guy Schlapp is a real disgrace to conservatism.

The head of CPAC says the Iranian schoolgirls are better dead than in a burka.

That should disqualify him for anything in public life, Dr. Paul, to say something so disgusting as this says a lot about the nature of the US.

Yeah, double way.

I mean, first that's ugly.

It is.

Yeah, it's an accurate.

But he's the head of the conservative organization.

I'm sure.

But he doesn't belong to what people cling to is the old right that had a different opinion about this.

So he's in charge of this organization and they probably are still getting good turnout.

Oh, they got good money.

But I was happy to go to that.

I went.

My son ran.

He's gone.

But because we encourage a certain audience, it was, it was like they thought different than the Schlapp.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He wasn't being championed by what we were trying to do.

Yeah, absolutely.

Disgraceful, disgraceful.

It's all about ideas that that guy isn't helping us in that regard.

But he's not only evil.

He's stupid because the people in Iran don't wear burkers.

Those are the, those are the women that are forced in Saudi Arabia are allied to wear that.

People in Iran are completely different.

So he's ignorant.

And in fact, Glenn Deeson and you were on his show a few days ago.

Glenn is a great professor out in Norway.

He put up a clip from Tehran.

If you can put, I'm sorry.

But just this, we have this has to be seen.

This is Tehran in the Iran.

Matt Schlapp saying that they're all wearing burkers.

Let's see.

Iran.

We can take it off.

You get the idea, Dr. Paul.

There's dudes in shorts.

There's women smoking.

You know, these are not people being forced to wear that little thing with a slit.

This guy is too ignorant to even understand that.

That's the problem.

Well, baby, unless he's purposely, you know, trying to weasel his way into a position where he can influence people with an anti-American policy.

Yeah, that is anti-American to say that.

So anyway, I'm going to close up by reminding everyone I didn't get the clip.

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Very good.

That sounds like a good plan.

I think it will, yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're going to come to your house if you don't.

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