Trump’s Iran War Is A Billion Dollar Epstein Distraction
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Elephant in the Room: the “fun part” of Trump’s Iran war is over. The bombs dropped and the headlines rolled — but now comes the reality of a conflict with no strategy, no exit plan, and no adults in the room. Rick Wilson breaks down how Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio stumbled into a rapidly escalating Iran war that could cost billions, risk American lives, and spiral into the next Middle East forever war. And as the conflict grows, so do the questions: Is this about national security — or a convenient distraction from the Epstein files and other scandals closing in at home?
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| 0:00.0 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:02.5 | Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hearted. |
| 0:06.3 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:09.9 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:14.5 | Good night and good luck. |
| 0:16.8 | Hey, folks. |
| 0:18.1 | The elephant in the room this week is that the fun part of this war is over. |
| 0:27.1 | In the modern era, wars have two phases. |
| 0:32.7 | The easy part and the rest of it. |
| 0:37.7 | War's kind of like a bear trap. |
| 0:40.9 | Easy to walk into it. |
| 0:43.3 | Much harder to get out of it. |
| 0:46.3 | I don't want to say this from the very start. |
| 0:50.9 | Being opposed to Donald Trump attacking Iran is not being in favor of the Iranian government. |
| 1:02.5 | They terrorized Iranian women for decades, the regime's enforcers of so-called morality. |
| 1:09.8 | This week, one of the most notorious morality police centers in |
| 1:13.7 | Tehran was hit in a strike. In text and audio messages from inside Iran, women shared with us |
| 1:20.7 | their relief when they heard that place is no more. I'm crying because I'm so happy to know that it |
| 1:27.0 | doesn't exist. And I'm crying because I'm so happy to know that it doesn't exist. |
| 1:28.3 | And I'm crying because I remember the way I was insulted and pushed around in that building. |
| 1:33.3 | I will never forget that one of these officers took a handkerchief that had been lying on the ground |
| 1:39.3 | and rubbed it on my face and wiped my makeup off. |
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