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Right now, as we get underway on a Tuesday, it's all about the Trump man who is all about

the Benjamin's right now. I know we're not supposed to be quoting P. Diddy songs, not the most opportune moment to be supporting his recording career.

But what Trump is doing in the Middle East, and I'll get you the clips, and I'll get you the particulars of the deal.

But none of us are foreign policy experts.

Okay.

But what he's doing in the Middle East, and I'm going to really oversimplify this, so everybody gets it, including myself, most importantly. Okay. But what he's doing in the Middle East, and I'm going to really oversimplify this, so everybody gets it, including myself, most importantly.

I'm not here to tell you I have some background in geopolitics or anything like that, but if you've been following foreign policy at all for the last 50 years, then you know that Iran is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

He knows what he's talking about.

Okay, that's a known thing.

That's not like my opinion.

That's like, you know, France's opinion.

That would be Germany's opinion.

That was everyone's opinion is Iran through proxy attacks subsidizes all of the terror groups disrupting

the Middle East. So if you're talking about the Houthis, you invariably connect that back to

Iran. If you're talking about Hamas, you invariably connect that back to Iran. Anyone who is a

disruptor in the Middle East does so by way of Iran.

Now, there are two divergent thought processes when it comes to how to make the Middle East a slightly stable region, if so.

Okay, the Obama approach was to give $50 billion to Iran, the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, thinking if we gave them our money, they would stop chanting death to America and sponsoring proxy attacks on us and our allies.

That's stupid. Use your common sense. And it did turn out to be really stupid because they not only continued to attack us, they took some of our seamen hostage, continued to chant death to America, and yes, subsidized the entire attack on October the 7th that took place in Israel. They were able to do that. Why? Because even though Obama left office and Trump ripped up the Iranian nuclear deal and put really harsh sanctions on their oil, when Trump left office in 2020, Biden got in, eased the sanctions, cut domestic energy production, and Iran went from $4 billion in strategic oil reserves to over $71 billion in oil reserves.

So the people who sponsored terrorism got really rich, really fast.

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