They’ve created a disaster they can’t control

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**David Pakman** (1:15)
The presidency is entering a danger zone. We have American service members dead in Iran, hundreds wounded, and Iran is threatening to assassinate Donald Trump. And Fox News is now starting to hedge against this disaster. Republicans are realizing that the war, rising prices, the instability could completely destroy them in the midterms exactly as Trump is preparing his supporters to reject the results of the midterms if they lose. Meanwhile, monetizing the presidency, the administration is preparing to send taxpayer money, your money, my money overseas to support MAGA aligned projects in other countries. And the White House's campaign against independent media is escalating with a new battle against this program. War, corruption, political retaliation and a president preparing for an election defeat. All of that and much more today. If I can get through the show.
Two American soldiers are dead. Another service member is missing and more than four hundred and thirty have been wounded in Donald Trump's optional failing and expanding war with Iran. The president who promised to end Middle Eastern wars has created another one. That's already a violation of his campaign promises. And we now are getting to the point where not just all Americans are paying the price economically, but American military families are paying the price with death. Two active duty army soldiers were killed when Iranian ballistic missiles and drones hit an American airbase in Jordan. Four additional service members were hospitalized and a whole bunch of others have minor injuries. As of this exact moment, the names of the dead have not been released because of family notification. Now Iran carried out this attack. Iran killed these soldiers criticizing Trump's decision to start and expand this war does not excuse the Iranian government. But this was a predictable retaliation. Once you start bombing another country, that country is going to try to strike your troops. They're going to try to strike your bases and your allies if they can and if they believe they can get away with it. And Donald Trump has put thousands of Americans through the region into the line of fire, never really explaining what would it look like to win. I know he's got talking points he shifts in and out of, but there's not really a clear vision of what it would mean to win this thing. And these deaths now bring the American toll to 16 service members killed and more than 430 wounded since this all started back on February 28th. Now, this is already a major war.
The whole idea of it's a little incursion. Trump thought the word was excursion. His English isn't very good. But by the way, none of his other languages are good either.
But the play was like this is this small thing.
This is already a major war. And we now have seen seven consecutive nights of airstrikes. This is just just recently after the supposed ceasefire and the letter and the beautiful deal. It is going beyond military targets. As Donald Trump told us, they have big plans to commit war crimes. They want to target bridges, roads, power infrastructure, water facilities. Iran is retaliating against American bases in neighboring countries. Kuwait says that Iranian attacks struck an oil facility and a power and water desalination plant led to fires and injuries. Iran has attempted to strike Saudi Arabia. So we have a situate by air raid sirens are going off in Bahrain. So we have a growing war. Jordan saying it shot down 10 Iranian ballistic missiles two nights ago. So this is now in the context of Trump last week saying, you know, you might need a little bit of ground troops in there, a ground war. And we have a senior Iranian adviser threatening a full scale offensive saying no political border will be safe.