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Bob Barney-Did the Trump Family Get Rich of of the Iran War?
Hi, Bob Barney with The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, and we’re going to talk more about this Iran-United States peace deal, and some of the, what I think is disturbing ideas of what was the reason we really got into this war, a war that I tell you right now, you have to not have too many brains to think we won this conflict. Iran is the winner of this war. They’re going to walk away with tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars.They’re going to be the strongest, most powerful force in the Middle East, next to Israel, and this peace treaty, signed in Versailles, Versailles, of all places, you know, where World War I was signed, this peace treaty is actually going to force Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates,and maybe some other countries in the region to go nuclear. It’s just going to happen becauseIran is going to go nuclear. But the disturbing thing is, what was the reason for this war? And I’m going to play a few excerpts of things over the last 90 days, statements from different people, mainly you have to go overseas, you got to go to the BBC, you got to go to European newspapers or online sites, you can’t do anything in America, because the truth of the matter is, American media right now is afraid of Donald Trump.And that is basically, even the left-wing media, they’re afraid of lawfare. Let’s face it, if you wind up on the Trump band list, you get the DOJ going after you, you get Jeanne Pirro, we’re going to put you in jail or whatever you want. I find it funny that Trump wanted to put Jerome Powell in jail for overspending on the Fed building that had asbestos in it, but he don’t have a problem with overspending on his ballroom that now is $600 million.He said it was going to be $50 million. He also said that nothing of any public money would ever go, taxpayer money, would ever go to the ballroom. And now it turned out that $300 million of the $600 million has come from taxpayer funds.And the other $300 million that came from a few corporations have gotten over a billion dollars in government contracts since they got on the good side of Trump building his ballroom. Corruption. And that’s what we’re going to talk about today.I’m going to play a few excerpts, but it just simply means that corruption may be the reason for this war. People got rich, and the Trump family got rich during this war. And you have to wonder, I know a lot of friends of mine who are trying to make excuses for Donald Trump, this peace treaty, saying they think maybe he’s kind of gone a little off his rocker, you know, all the lawfare against him, and he’s aged, and he’s got health problems, you know, look at his swollen ankles, look how heavy he looks.And they’re trying to make one excuse after another, like he’s not responsible for what he’s doing. However, that just simply doesn’t seem to be the case, in my humble opinion. He’s made, as of about a month ago, 3,700 stock trades himself since he became president, and he’s earned over $1.3 billion in profit off of successful commodity and stock trading.His family have made, in the neighborhood between sons and, well, sons, not daughters, I don’t know about Ivanka, but her husband, have made a conservative estimate, $6 to $7 billion in a year’s time, and have told friends that they plan on being the richest family in the world by the time President Trump leaves or their father leaves office. It’s a problem. Here’s an outtake from about a month ago about all the reasons we got into the war.Operation Epic Fury has already led to the deaths of more than a thousand civilians and eliminated one of the most powerful leaders in modern history. Donald Trump and the Israelis saythe conflict is about security, stability, and that they’re providing the people of Iran with an opportunity for change. But the reasons why this war has started are all over the place.Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. This is not a so-called regime change war. Take back your country.Eliminate the threat of Iran’s short-range ballistic missiles. We did not start a war. We’re trying to stop a war.So in this foresight, let’s talk about what the Trump administration claims is driving this conflict and why this actually looks more like a president ripping up the rule book to cement his place in the history books. Well, that was a take three months ago. Well, we’ve all read, I hope, if you’re listening to this program, you should be a little bit into the news.Well, all of a sudden, the idea of the people doesn’t matter. We don’t care that this regime stays in power now. We don’t care about ballistic missiles.Donald Trump said yesterday, of course, they have a right to have ballistic missiles. All of their neighbors have ballistic missiles. He said Saudi Arabia has ballistic missiles.Listen to this. You said you don’t mind Iran having ballistic missiles. Can you elaborate on that? I want to make sure we understand your position.No, I’m saying that if other countries have them, it’s a little bit unfair for them not to have some. A ballistic missile is not the same thing as what we’re talking about when we talk nuclear. But if Saudi Arabia and Qatar and they all have some, I would say, in relative proportion, I think it’s okay.Does Saudi Arabia go around attacking people? Other than that’s on 9-11. But you could say that was a member of the official government position. But that was the most absurd statement that I’ve ever heard.That is a statement from somebody that’s either so inept that he should be impeached immediately or he doesn’t really care if Iran has a bomb. They have $300 billion of American money. They wipe out Israel.He doesn’t care if Hamas or Hezbollah keep sending missiles into Israel. It appears to me there is another motivation to this peace treaty. Number one, I think he wants to get out of it at any cost because there was no planning, as I mentioned in the beginning about this war.I will not go back on what I thought, that they thought this was going to be a cakewalk, because they did. Because you have someone in charge of the Secretary of Defense, Hegseth has no clue how to plan a war. He didn’t go to West Point.He has no military strategy. He has no business being the Defense Secretary. And I said it when he was nominated.I said it would be a woeful Secretary of Defense when this was over and done with. I’m right. This entire cabinet are yes people for Donald Trump.And Donald Trump has used his position to enrich his family. And you have to start wondering, is this the reason why all of this is happening? Here’s another outtake about the Trump family and the controversy around the world, including this is a report from Germany. We begin today with power, money, and Europe’s poorest country.In Albania, thousands of protesters have demonstrated in the capital Tirana over a planned development linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump and the husband of Ivanka Trump. Now the project involves Cezanne Island and the Vjosarnata Delta coastal area, one of Albania’s most sensitive environmental zones. It’s home to flamingos, seals, and sea turtle nesting sites.Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says this is a transformational investment, promising jobs, and he has made it clear he won’t do anything to stop it. Ivanka Trump was recently asked about the project that she and her husband are fronting. Here is how she described it.I’m working on an incredible project with my husband in the Mediterranean. It’s massive in scale. An unbelievable, beautiful 1400 hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean.We were on a friend’s boat and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it. Well, protesters in Albania’s capital Tirana, they see something very different here.They see protected land being open to private wealth. They see a lack of transparency. They see a country trying to join the European Union while apparently bending its own environmental protections for a politically connected foreign investor.Here’s what some people in Albania are saying. These demonstrations began for me as a personalact to protect my own belongings, but today they go beyond my own interests. It is about protecting Albania for our children.And we won’t, we’ll stop at this one. I got some more, I’ll take somebody to play with in this program. But what have happened to investing in America that we’ve been lectured to? Well, if you really follow the Trump family in the last one year, they have invested nothing in America.Nothing they have. The watches he’s selling, the phones he’s selling, the hats he’s selling, they come from China. Matter of fact, everything I just mentioned comes from China.Every investment that they’ve made in real estate is overseas. Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, nothing. Talking about Gaza, for example.Matter of fact, you know, Jared Kushner owns many hundreds of acre beachfront property. He’s invested in Gaza and there is still the talk about rebuilding Gaza and turning it into a casino Mecca, you know, a Trump empire with a Trump golden statue. I don’t know.I don’t hear that too much on watching the media in America. You got to go overseas to see this. And here is another scandal that broke about a month and a half ago that everybody, it seems other than the plain truth today, kind of have forgotten about.Let’s listen to this one. Do you remember this? I don’t know the front page of every newspaper this morning and President Trump’s settlement agreement with the IRS. Eamon Jeffers joins us now with more.Hey, Eamon. Yeah. Hey to you, Joe.In an unprecedented arrangement, the Trump administration has barred itself from pursuing any and all claims against President Trump and his family that could have been made by the IRS, including his tax returns as part of a controversial $1.8 billion settlement between President Trump personally and the government that he leads. Now the protection extends to Trump, his family members, the Trump organization and parties, including trusts, parents, sister or related companies, affiliates and subsidiaries. It covers any pending tax audits of Trump and others the IRS may have been conducting.And the sweeping exemption of Trump and his family from normal obligations under tax law raises the question of whether Trump has directed his government to award him a settlement onfavorable terms that no other American could get. It comes as part of the settlement of a $10billion federal lawsuit against the IRS filed in Miami by Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and their company. Well, if that was done by Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, even George Bush, would we here have heard the end of it by now? Yeah, but we don’t hear it no more.You gotta go again. That was CNBC. That was an American media program.It was about three or four minutes long and I hope nobody listened to it. But again, you gotta go overseas to find this corruption of the Trump and how they’ve made money. And for example, we’ll get back to the stock trades again.CBS News investigation shows President Trump has traded stocks at a level never before seen in the American presidency. In the first three months of this year, Trump’s investment accountstraded 3,600 stocks worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The Trump organization said Trump’sportfolio is overseen by independent investment managers.Do you believe that? Does anybody watching this president ever believe that anybody does anything with his money other than he does it himself? This is a hands-on president in every aspect. There’s no way that he’s got his fingers on everything going on that he’s allowing someone else to invest his money. Think of the man’s personality.Let’s go on. News investigative reporter Michael Kaplan has been following all this for us. Michael, it’s great to have you here.Great to be here. What do we know? Well, this is a financial disclosure that came out last month and it was really remarkable because you saw 3,600 plus individual trades, most of them of individual companies. And the sheer volume of this is what’s extraordinary.I mean, the portfolio leaned heavily into tech stocks and the major technology giants. You had Apple and Amazon and Microsoft and Oracle as some of the most bought and sold securities. But this is- Those are the companies he exempted from the tariffs.My company wasn’t exempted. It cost me over a half a million- I’m sorry, $100,000. And less than a half a million dollars of buying cost $100,000 in tariffs that Apple didn’t have to pay, Amazon didn’t have to pay.Of course, I don’t have- I’m not on a stock market and President Trump didn’t own any of my stock. Sort of unprecedented in sense we’re talking about individual companies instead of index funds or sort of larger pool. And many of the companies you just name check have active interests before the federal government, point one.Point two, the president knows better than anyone, any utterance from him can affect the stock of one of these companies. Point three, this president, more than his predecessors, has been open to the federal government negotiating share arrangements, purchasing some portion of privately held companies, all of which have implications for this portfolio. By the way, when a government buys stock in a company and starts controlling private companies that are on Wall Street, it’s called communism.It’s not even socialism anymore. Even Nazi, even fascism does not have government ownership of private business. You have government owners- hand in glove in fascism, where the government helps private business and private business helps the government.But only in communism do you actually have government owning companies. It’s done in China. It was done in the Soviet Union.Yeah, and I just want to stipulate at the top, the Trump Organization, which manages these funds,told us in a statement that the president, his family doesn’t have any direct visibility into what’s being traded. This is all being handled by third-party investment managers. But some of thetiming of these trades is interesting.Take, for example, NVIDIA, the chip maker. The first week of January, he traded up to a million dollars worth of NVIDIA stock. And the next week, the administration loosened export controls around these chips to China.So now NVIDIA has an easier time selling its prized AI chips to China. The president bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir, touted Palantir by its ticker name, on his true social account after that. And Eli Lilly bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Eli Lilly, and the administration has been making it easier to buy GLP-1s and policies that benefit the company.Historically, presidents have had blind trust where they are so far removed from it and the actions of the federal government as to be completely unaware. This is closer. I’m not saying it’s illegal.I’m just saying it is closer than we’ve ever seen before. Yeah. And again, the Trump organization says the president has no visibility into this.And what’s actually interesting is the president is exempt from some of these conflicts, conflict of interest laws. Yes, just like Congress, just like the presidency, the Congress has exempted themselves and the executive branch from insider trading laws, the stuff they put Martha Stewart in jail over $30,000. It’s legal for Congress to do it.And everybody remembers Nancy Pelosi’s great stock trades or her husband’s, and they had aproblem with that. They didn’t have a problem when Marjorie Taylor Greene made $180,000 on a stock deal when she was still in the orbit of Donald Trump and was liked by him. And her response, I thought, was precious at the time.Well, it’s our turn to make money now. Didn’t have a problem no longer with how Nancy Pelosi made her money because now it’s our turn. That was her statement.I’m sorry, but that was her statement. And again, when she was a darling of manga, nobody had aproblem with that. I had a problem with it, said it on this show, but nobody else had a problemwith it.And that’s the thing that I keep seeing. I see, I am a person who walks a straight line and I am, it’s right or wrong, black or white. There are gray areas, but it doesn’t come, gray areas are not when it comes to morality, when it comes to being a thief, robbing the American people and being downright evil and becoming rich off the lives and deaths of others.We’re going to get into that next. Hi, Bob Barney for the Plain Truth Today and theplaintruth.com. I believe the only news source that you can go to that has a perspective of what God says in the Bible about breaking news, because the Bible is a book of not only history, science and religion, but it’s also a newspaper that actually has already printed the headlines of tomorrow. Just the modern news don’t say that, but you can find that on theplaintruth.com if you go there.Thank you. And we’re back and we’re going to talk about how Trump’s inner circle helped pave the road to a war with Iran and the cabinet and some really nefarious ideas what’s going on there. He said, you get the ayatollahs out, you bring about regime change in Iran and school books will write about you, history books will write about you.This is what Netanyahu told Trump. Just think of the generations to come. Play into his ego.We’ll be talking about you. So here’s another report about how maybe the Trump family is profiting off of a war that he turns on and turns off, turns on and turns off. And every time it turns on, the price of oil goes up.And every time he turns it back off, the price of oil goes down. And so anybody with any inside information knows when you want to trade, you trade futures of oil. And if you know they’re going to go up, you buy it cheap.And then when you know it’s going to go back down, you sell it all and you wait until it goes back down. You can even bet on it’s going to go back down and make money that way. But after it goes back down, you know you’re going to do another strike.Then it goes back up. And it’s very simple. Nobody, everybody knows how it’s done, except nobody’s saying it’s being done.But when it is. As Donald Trump’s fragile ceasefire with Iran crumbles, and again, is it a ceasefire? People have not ceased firing. I don’t know.The Air Force just agreed to purchase an undisclosed number of military drones from Power Us. Power Us is a West Palm Beach company backed by Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr. Less than two weeks ago, Eric was also touting a 24 million dollar Pentagon contract awarded to a robotics firm on which he serves as chief strategy advisor. It’s giving grift.It’s giving let them eat cake is given. We don’t run the tables on everything everything we can. To me, it’s disturbing to realize you’re making money.Your family is making money off the war that you’re waging and losing, by the way, and not even trying to win anymore. And then you listen to his comments this week. Excuse me.And you listen to the comments this week. And he doesn’t care if they win the war. He doesn’t care if Iran has ballistic missiles.He doesn’t care about the idea we’re going to give them 300 billion dollars. After all, we destroyed them. We need to build them back up again.And there and we can trust them now because I’m a great dealmaker. And unlike Obama, I can trust them. Well, under the Obama agreement, guess what? They weren’t close to a nuclear bomb.And here is the problem. And I heard this over and over again. And I had doubts.They said that we attacked Iran because we had imminent threat of a nuclear exchange, that they had a bomb and they were going to send it to Israel and Israel was going to retaliate. Trump’s own CIA director and his NSA director, who has since been really fired, testified to Congress there was no such information available. In fact, they said when we first took out all the nuclear material, supposedly last spring, that we did not get all of it, number one.Number two, when they testified about going back to war here three months ago, they said Iran was at minimum three years away from a nuclear bomb. It would take another year to get the uranium that they had at 20 percent refined to 90 percent, which you need to make just a simple atomic bomb, not even a powerful atomic bomb. So the idea that we went to war to prevent an atomic war, his own administration said was not true.So now we’re going to have one other take here about family corruption over a war that we should have never been into if we had no intentions of winning. Last night, I spent a lot of time going through one story after another about potential corruption, or very real corruption, I should say, in the Trump administration in some detail. But guess what? Because today is a day that ends in Y. We’ve got so much more to talk about.And this particular story centers around a specific conflict of interest that just a few years ago made right-wingers nearly foam at the mouth. Because this is a story about potential corruption involving a president’s sons. And before I play this, I just want to let you know, this is Fox News talking about Hunter Biden and the Biden family and all of the problem they have with corruption.Just take a listen and just remember what you probably felt like too when it was Biden and Hunter Biden doing the corruption. And they were. Corrupt us all, get out.This particular story centers around a specific conflict of interest that just a few years ago made right-wingers nearly foam at the mouth. So here’s Fox News then talking about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. They have been 100% silent when it comes to this current president’s son.I mean, this is the president’s son. Can you give me a bigger conflict of interest? No. That is whatcreates this conflict of interest.Why was this potential conflict of interest ignored? Nothing but conflict of interest when you’re taking money from foreign oligarchs. So are we shocked that the president’s son is getting special treatment? We’re not talking about Eric and Don Jr. here. We’re talking about Hunter Biden.Do you remember when people thought about this? About him peddling influence from being thepresident’s son. Whose son actually did profit off of his dad’s government service. Tried to profit off his dad’s political career.Profiting off his father’s diplomacy. Profit off his father’s position. Profiting off his father’s name and everybody.All Fox News right here, by the way. For bribery there. And by the way, did I tell you his son has no experience, nothing really to offer.I hope that. That was the media, mainly Fox News, but the general pro-Trump media at the time. But now it’s Donald Trump’s turn, as Marjorie Taylor Green would say.It’s Donald Trump’s son’s turn to be the new Hunter Biden. And all of a sudden, silence. Now, let’s fast forward to today, shall we? The company just secured a $24 million contract with the Pentagon for its phantom robot to begin tests with the Marine Corps and help troops breach enemy sites more safely.Joining us now is Foundation Future Industries founder and CEO, Sankat Patak, and the company’s chief strategy advisor, Eric Trump, President Trump’s son. Now, all of a sudden, Fox Business, with Maria here, has no problem with Trump’s son being involved with a company dealing with the military. The same Maria had a big problem in the last barrage we just gave you about Hunter Biden doing the same exact thing.But all of a sudden now, it’s OK. That’s right. In the middle of a war that the president started, his adult son is the chief strategy advisor of a company that just so happens to be winning multimillion dollar Pentagon contracts.And it is not just that one humanoid robot company that has managed to score a Pentagoncontract either. Last year, the venture capital firm of Trump’s other adult son, Don Jr., invested in a new 3D printed rocket propellant startup. And eight months later, that company, partially owned by the president’s son, landed a nearly five million dollar contract with the U.S. Air Force.Imagine that. Now, a spokesperson for Don Jr.’s company, of course, denied that their proximity to power represented a conflict, saying the company maximizes transparency and compliance, even though no one at the fund has ever worked in government. Guess what? If that doesn’t sound like Hunter Biden, but you want to know what Hunter Biden maybe made a billion, two billion dollars for the family.I don’t even believe that, by the way, because the family seems to be broke again. But, you know, the reports right now is that Don Jr. and Eric made eight, seven to eight billion dollars in 13 months off investments, most of which were companies doing business with the federal government. And their competition, by the way, Donald Trump publicly went after them to destroy their stock.And we know that’s true. That’s what happened with Planetar, where no longer can that system be used by our Pentagon because his sons are involved with the competition to that AI tech company that was doing work for the Pentagon. If that doesn’t stink to high hell, I don’t know what does.But I tell you right now, Bob Barney stays consistent. When you’re a crook, you’re a crook. And we have a crook for a president right now.And I don’t want to go along with he signed this really terrible peace, probably the worst peace treaty that’s ever going to be signed by the United States president, probably the worst, and probably setting up World War Three. And that’s what’s happening. And I don’t think it has to do with his dementia.I think he might have a little bit of it. And I don’t think it has to do with his health concerns. I think it had nothing to do with greed to make his family the richest family on the face of the earth.That’s the goal. And the pardons are coming. And no one’s going to have a problem when he pardons his son like they did with Biden when he pardoned his son.Double standard. And Bob Barney, in the plain truth, does not stand for double standard. The man, in my opinion, needs to be impeached.Because no one’s asking the questions. There needs to be a session in Congress. And impeached does not necessarily mean being removed from office, by the way, because the Senate has to do that.But there has to be public trial about what’s going on here. If there’s ever a case that the Constitution says something should be investigated in Congress in an impeachment trial, it’s this going on right now. People have died, and people’s lives have died.I’m sorry, people’s lives are at stake because of this war that we maybe got into because we wanted to make money for one family. How about the $700 million aircraft given to Donald Trump’s library? Didn’t you give it to the United States of America, to his library from the Emirates in the Middle East? You remember that too? Nobody had a problem with it. It’s gone.It’s history, but it’s going to his library. We got to do something about it, my friends. The United States is on its last legs, and we’re being sold on the river, and this time by Donald Trump and his family.This is Bob Barney. I’m out of time for The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. Thank you for listening. Bye-bye.