This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Hartman, here with you.

Wow, there is so much in the news today.

First of all, you got Trump endorsing treason, we'll get to that in just a minute.

But I think the biggest news and time will tell. Last

month there were four attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. About a third of the

world's oil comes out of this one region and there's this

little kind of isthmus that sticks up that creates this what's called the

straits of formus it's just a very narrow area it's like's like going through a little tiny river between two

giant oceans and tankers going through there are vulnerable to small boats, all kinds of

stuff. And there were four attacks last month. There were two today. Let me put this in context.

Number one, Shinso Abbe, the Prime Minister of Japan, met with Donald Trump just a few weeks ago and Trump came over for

the whole you know investiture ceremony for the new emperor to watch a sumo match

because you know he's into worldwide wrestling and Abbe is trying to you

know Japan relies on Iranian oil among other things and if Iranian oil is

all together cut off countries that have

literally have no oil like Japan are in deep trouble or at least you know their

expenses go up dramatically and so he's trying to get Trump to work something

out with Iran and you know,

know, apparently Trump said, okay, cool, you know, you work something out and

maybe I'll join, I don't know, we'll see, you know, obviously what Trump wants is a

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