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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Trump’s Plan: Genocide in Gaza, Peace with Putin?

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.54.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Useful Idiots has another Double Header this week as we look at Gaza and Ukraine.

First up we speak with Dr. Omar Abdel-Mannan, founder of Health Workers 4 Palestine, about the State Department’s heartless decision to pause all visitor visas for people from Gaza. This policy shift came after Jewish-supremacist, right-wing-conspiracy-theorist, and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer took to Twitter (and tagged Secretary of State Marco Rubio) to expose the fact that “Islamic invaders” were infiltrating the U.S. from Gaza. Of course, what was really happening is that children injured in Gaza with weapons from (and/or paid for by) the U.S. were coming to the states for medical treatment (at no expense to U.S. taxpayers) thanks to the non-profit HEAL Palestine.

Dr. Omar knows how important it is to provide children from Gaza with medical treatment in England, where he lives. He himself has worked tirelessly to bring children wounded in Gaza by UK weapons, into the UK.

He also reacts to propagandist outlets like Bari Weiss’s The Free Press, which engages in the most disgusting whitewashing of Israel’s crimes: starving children to death isn’t that bad because most of the ones dying have pre-existing conditions. Phew! What a relief.


Plus, we ask Dr. Omar: is Palantir selling your health data to Israel?

Next we speak with Professor Richard Sakwa to discuss the latest in Russia-Ukraine after Trump’s controversial summit with Putin.

We ask Sakwa: what are Putin’s true motives? Does he see Ukraine as a real country? Does he want revenge on the US and UK after Biden and Boris Johnson colluded to push Ukraine out of peace talks? And is Trump treating Putin as his equal, conning him into taking a worse deal, or bowing down to him just like he does with Netanyahu?

00:00 Intro

00:40 Dem Rep beats up protesters

03:22 How JD Vance lied about "no taxes on tips"

07:30 Trump thinks he's going to Heaven

09:54 MSNBC thinks progressives are MAGA

14:05 Dr. Omar Abdel-Mannan interview

14:22 Laura Loomer tells Rubio to cancel visas for wounded children

46:57 Professor Richard Sakwa interview

47:36 The Trump-Putin Summit

59:31 Does Putin see Ukraine as a real country?



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Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots.

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I'm Katie Halper.

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I'm Marymete.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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Our website, as always, is

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Usefuladietzpodcast.com. Go there to support the show and get bonus content. This week,

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we're bringing you two interviews. We'll be talking about the medical situation in Gaza, the Trump

1:23.0

administration's decision to now ban wounded Palestinian children from coming to the U.S.

1:28.8

for medical treatment.

1:30.3

And we'll be talking about the latest in the proxy war and Ukraine in the aftermath of talks

1:34.3

between Trump and Putin and Zelensky and European leaders.

1:38.4

A whole lot to discuss in today's show.

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