Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Max Blumenthal reports that a psychological warfare campaign orchestrated by Zionist interests targeted Trump to drive him into war with Iran.

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(0:00) Intro
(1:26) Trump’s Israel connections
(8:22) Laying the g round for blowback
(13:08) Fake assassination plots
(14:52) Thomas Matthew Crooks
(17:05) Asif Merchant
(20:38) GWOT connection
(23:01) FBI plot to kill Bolton
(25:52) Trump Force One plot
(28:29) Netanyahu talking to Trump
(32:58) Operation Epstein Fury
(35:39) Weaponizing negotiations
(41:13) What is Trump being told?
(46:05) Will Israel go for nukes?
(47:38) Outro