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Fox News Collapses on Live TV as Trump War Backfires

2025/6/23
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Ben Meiselas: 福克斯新闻试图将特朗普对伊朗的袭击描绘成一场巨大的胜利,但宣传适得其反,他们不知所措。他们先是请来Marco Rubio试图否认美国与伊朗开战,但特朗普自己却发布消息暗示可能进行政权更迭。Kayleigh McEnany则表示所有独裁者都受到了关注,暗示政权更迭范围扩大。然而,福尔多核设施并未完全被摧毁,且伊朗警告称可能因此激活恐怖分子。福克斯新闻甚至先发制人地指责拜登政府应对潜在的恐怖袭击负责。面对MeidasTouch Network等独立媒体的揭露,福克斯新闻的宣传策略失效。他们请嘉宾用“Yalla”鼓励伊朗人民推翻阿亚图拉,但这种做法显得荒谬。我认为,美国不应重蹈伊拉克覆辙,陷入无休止的中东战争,且内塔尼亚胡和特朗普在伊朗人民中可能更不受欢迎。福克斯新闻加大宣传力度,吹捧特朗普政府的领导力,但Mark Levin却暗示特朗普和内塔尼亚胡都是罪犯。此外,他们还试图论证《战争权力法》违宪,为特朗普的行动辩护。然而,宪法明确规定宣战权属于国会。最终,Tim Scott等人对特朗普表示感谢,而Nancy Mace则呼吁感谢“亲爱的领袖”,这些言论都显得非常荒谬。总而言之,福克斯新闻的宣传策略已经破产,无法再有效影响舆论。 Marco Rubio: 我认为美国没有与伊朗开战,只是关注其核计划。我们希望通过外交途径解决问题,但如果伊朗不合作,我们将采取不同的方式。 Kayleigh McEnany: 我认为现在世界上的每个独裁者都受到了关注。 Guest on Fox: 我对伊朗人民说,去吧,夺回你的国家,世界正在关注,我们都支持你。 Mark Levin: 我认为特朗普和内塔尼亚胡是朋友,他们有很多共同的敌人和朋友。我们的政府试图除掉特朗普,他们使用了虚假的罪行,他们使用了虚假的民事法规,他们把他带到民主党地区,他们有法官,我会在他们的后口袋里说,在意识形态上是的,但他还是强行通过并击败了他们。内塔尼亚胡也遇到了类似的情况,他因人们能想象到的最愚蠢的指控而受到刑事审判。他们基本上拥有最高级别的司法暴政,我们拥有最低级别的司法暴政,但某种程度上正在渗透到最高级别。因此,尽管你在Axios和Politico上读到的所有泄密事件都被推了出来,但他们有很多共同的敌人、障碍和朋友。 John Yoo: 我认为《战争权力法》不符合宪法,宪法规定总统是美国首席行政长官,也是总司令。宪法的制定者理解这些短语意味着总统对保护我们的国家安全负有主要责任。国会有权提供资金或切断资金,这就是国会结束越南战争的方式。国会不能利用那些因越南战争或伊拉克战争而感到不安的人所宣扬的这些理论,并利用它们来试图改写宪法秩序。 Tim Scott: 让我们停在这里,感谢总统先生,感谢您做出的完美决定,执行一次非常重要的打击。特朗普总统所做的是拯救美国人的生命,保护美国的利益,并与美国在该地区的朋友和盟友站在一起。他总是拥有宪法赋予的权力,为美国人民处理事务。让我们与我们的总统站在一起,与我们的国家站在一起,让我们做正确的事情,不要把这件事变成共和党或民主党的问题,这是一个美国问题,由美国总统代表美国人民执行。今天是美国伟大的一天,真正伟大的一天。 Nancy Mace: 我认为唐纳德·特朗普和以色列所做的是他们让世界变得更加安全。特朗普划了一条红线,伊朗越过了红线,我们消灭了他,他兑现了他的承诺,他摧毁了伊朗的三个核设施,他们非常接近拥有核弹头,我知道这一点,我和很多其他成员都听取了简报。我们可以感谢特朗普总统昨晚的努力,感谢我们的军队和我们的飞行员,以及昨晚参与行动的每个人。 Pete Hegseth: 我认为这次任务不是,也从来都不是关于政权更迭的。 J.D. Vance: 我们的观点一直很明确,我们不想要政权更迭,我们不希望延长或扩大这件事,我们希望结束他们的核计划,然后我们想与伊朗人谈论一项长期协议。

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State regime media known as Fox is in a total and utter collapse as its propaganda trying to act like Donald Trump's strikes against Iran were some massive victory. It is backfiring in Fox's face and they just don't know what to do. So they tried a number of tactics yesterday. So first they bring on Marco Rubio and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, tries to

pretend that America is not at war with Iran because Donald Trump attacking Iran is incredibly unpopular. So here's Marco Rubio. He goes on Maria Bartiromo and he goes, no, we're not at war with Iran. We're just focusing on the nuclear program. That's about it. Here, play this clip. Mr. Secretary, thank you for being here. Are we now at war with Iran?

No, we're not. This is not a war against Iran. This is very simple. You know, 67 days ago, the president of the United States sent the Iranians a letter and it said, you're not going to have nuclear weapons. You're not going to have a militarized nuclear program. Let's negotiate. I want to do this diplomatically. I want to do this peacefully. They tried to play them along the way they've played every American president for the last 35 years.

And, you know, the president told them if we don't get a deal, which is what he wanted, then I'll have to handle it differently. But you see, then Donald Trump contradicts what you just saw right there. And Donald Trump posts, it's not politically correct to use the term regime change. But if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be regime change? Make Iran great again, exclamation point, exclamation point. So then Fox has to pivot.

So then you have Kayleigh McEnany on Fox, who's Donald Trump's former press secretary. And now she says every dictator is on notice right now. So now they're expanding their regime change operation to include all dictators around the world. America is going to go to war with everybody. Well, that escalated quick. Here, play this clip. Precisely. Every dictator in the world is on notice now.

Now, one of the things that we're learning as well is that the Fordow nuclear complex was not completely destroyed. And Donald Trump on Saturday said it was completely destroyed. And Trump says that the entire nuclear operation of Iran has been knocked out, destroyed forever. They are done. So now it's time we just move on. And Trump's like, can we talk about the budget bill? He doesn't really work that way.

And in fact, with all of the data coming out, it seems that the nuclear facility was not completely destroyed at all, that the uranium was able to be moved, and also that Iran had warned Donald Trump that they would potentially activate terrorist cells.

across the world or potentially in the United States as a result of Trump's conduct. So now I want to show you what Fox is doing. They are preemptively blaming former President Biden for potential terrorist attacks in the United States caused by Donald Trump teaming up with Netanyahu and no other allies of the United States and attacking Iran. Seriously, Bill Mulligan of Fox

is saying per senior CBP sources, here were all of the Iranian nationals that crossed during Biden and let go. We don't know if they're terrorists, but there may be Biden Iranian terrorists out there. Do you see what they're doing? But now that the Midas Touch Network and independent media is out there calling them out,

educating the American people what's going on, swatting down their propaganda tactics. Fox doesn't know what to do. So they try their usual tricks. They bring on this guest who's like, to the Iranian people, I say yalla to the Iranian people. Yalla, now go and overthrow the Ayatollah. Here, play this clip.

And to the Iranian people, I say, YOLA, go. Go take your country back. The world is watching and we all stand with you. YOLA. That's a word I've learned from you. Aaron Cohen, thank you very much.

Can we just be real for a second? Like, I think the Ayatollah is a terrible person. OK, I don't want to see the Ayatollah running Iran. I don't think that Iran should have nuclear weapons. I don't want, though, the United States to be in a never ending Middle East war based on false pretexts.

The same way we did in Iraq in 2003. This is like that on steroids and on fast forwards times about 10 X. And let me tell you, I just have a hunch here that, uh,

that even if the Ayatollah is unpopular amongst a lot of Iranian people, I'm going to guess that Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump are more unpopular. And I don't think the Iranian people are going to welcome a, just come on, regime change us in Iran. And why don't you put a Netanyahu and Trump puppet? I'm sure that will go real well, utterly. I'm being facetious, of course. Then you have this next guest here,

Who goes on Fox and now they try to kind of push their propaganda into overdrive and they go, we are so blessed today.

"We are so lucky to have Pete Hegseth and Donald J. Trump running the operation, unlike the people who are running California and Los Angeles." He talks like that too. Here, play this clip. I think it's reassuring that in the face of this situation, we've got really strong leadership in the federal administration, whether that's the Department of Justice, FBI, of course, Pete Hegseth there and the president.

That's reassuring. It's not reassuring, frankly, when you have states like California, cities like Los Angeles, led by people with no moral clarity on these questions and no real operational competence when it comes to law and order in any sense. Look. OK, so so then you have Mark Levin. Mark Levin is like the biggest warmonger. It's like, let me tell you, it's my Mark Levin impression.

So Mark Levin then spends the entire night. Let me tell you, I'm Mark Levin. And here's what you need to know. Donald Trump is just like Netanyahu. Now, I want you to watch this clip because Mark Levin essentially says that Trump and Netanyahu are so similar to one another and such good friends because they're both criminals. Here, play this clip. Alliance between our two countries.

Let me tell you a little story quickly. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are friends. They have many of the same friends and enemies. Look, in our country, our government tried to take out Donald Trump. The establishment tried to take him out. They used phony crimes. They used phony civil statutes. They brought him in Democrat districts. They had judges. I would say in their back pocket, ideologically, yes. And yet he muscled through and he defeated them.

and you defeated them too with your vote this election. Benjamin Netanyahu has something similar going on. He's been in a criminal trial over the most inane allegations one could ever imagine.

And it goes on and on and on with a hard left attorney general, a hard left prosecutorial system and radical leftist judges, including on their Supreme Court. They have basically what is a judicial tyranny at the highest level. We have a judicial tyranny at the lowest level, but sort of leeching into the highest level. So they share the same, in many respects, enemies, obstacles and friends.

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And then Mark Levin calls on a former deputy assistant attorney general, John Yoo. And what they try to argue to their maga mush brain audience, which I will fact check is

And Mark Levin's like, why do we even need to go to Congress in the first place? And then they have John Yoo who tries to, you know, talks very sophisticated. He goes, well, the War Powers Act by Congress is inherently unconstitutional. We must go back to the Constitution. You see, the Article 2, which deals with the executive branch, Donald Trump's able to do whatever he wants. Why would he have to go through Congress? Here, play this clip. What do you say to them about

Impeach the president over the War Powers Act is the War Powers Act constitutional. Let's start right there. I agree with you mark I don't think it is the Constitution sets out the war powers Congress can't use a law to rewrite the Constitution and the Constitution says the president is the chief executive of the United States and he is the commander in chief and

The founders understood those phrases to mean that the president has the primary responsibility to protect our national security. Alexander Hamilton in the federalist paper said energy and the executive is a definition of good government because he was explaining why are these clauses in the Constitution. And he said it's response. It's necessary to protect the communities, our community from attack.

That doesn't mean Congress has no power. Congress has the power to provide funds or to cut them off. That's how Congress ended the Vietnam War. That's how Congress ended the Mexican-American War of 1848.

But what Congress can't do is take these theories promoted by people who felt burned by Vietnam or burned by the Iraq war, take these academic theories and use them to try to rewrite the constitutional order. You can only amend the Constitution if you want to do that. OK, well, why don't we look at the United States Constitution? Article one, Section eight, which says the sole power, the sole power to declare war is held by.

Congress, Mark Levin, by Congress. If you go and look at Article 1, Section 8, the Congress shall have the power to declare war, and then it says to raise and support armies, to provide and maintain a navy, to make rules for the government and regulation of land and naval forces, and then it says to provide for the calling of militias. So,

The Congress has that sole power. Now, once Congress authorizes it based on its sole powers, the commander in chief, the president can then faithfully execute the laws as commander in chief.

The Constitution clearly says Mark Levin and it's Congress's power. That's why the War Powers Act is constitutional because it's based on Article 1, Section 8. So then you have Trey Gowdy. One of the most incredible things too is, you know, like the Trey Gowdy's of the world and even the Levin's, they don't really like Trump. And the people who like Trump, the MAGA base,

Trump screwed them and he promised them no wars. And then Trump went with the warmongers on Fox like Trey Gowdy. So here you have Trey Gowdy speaking with Senator Tim Scott. And let's just look at this North Korea style propaganda. Tim Scott's like, let us just stop and let us reflect.

and say, thank you, dear leader. Thank you for this. You have made the world so much of a better place. We need to do that, Trey. Play this clip.

One thousand percent. The president has all the authority he needs. Let us stop here and say thank you, Mr. President, for the flawless decision to carry out a very important strike. What President Trump just did was save American lives, protect American interests and stand with America's friends and allies in the region. He

always has the authority, the constitutional authority, to take care of business for the American people. For those folks in either body who believes differently,

It's just hogwash. Let's stand with our president, stand with our country, and let's do the right thing. Let's not make this a Republican or Democrat issue. This is an American issue carried out by the president of the United States on behalf of the American people. This is a great day in America, a truly great day. Really, you think it's a better place right now? Oil takers are making U-turns right now at the Strait of Hormuz,

the Chinese oil tankers as well,

oil's about to go up massively. Iran is threatening terrorist strikes. The state department had to issue a statement to all Americans traveling abroad that you are now targets of potential assassination and terrorist attacks as a result of what the United States is doing. So I guess mission, mission accomplished there, huh? Mission accomplished. Here you have Pete Hegseth. Just so you see how ridiculous this is. Earlier, he,

on Sunday, Pete Hegseth held a press conference where he said the mission was never about regime change when it comes to Iran. Play this clip. So is regime change off the table, Mr. Secretary? And to the chairman, you said the battle damage assessment is still ongoing, but do you believe that some nuclear capability in Iran remains? This mission was not and has not been about regime change. The president authorized a precision operation

And then you have J.D. Vance saying the mission was never regime change. Play this clip.

Well, look, that's up to the Israelis. But our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change. We do not want to protract this or build this out any more than it's already been built out. We want to end their nuclear program. And then we want to talk to the Iranians about a long term settlement here. All right. Well, now it's apparently regime change, regime change, regime change. Right. That's all they're talking about. Then they bring on Nancy Mace on Fox. And here Nancy Mace says,

Have you said thank you yet to our dear leader? Have you said thank you? Have you prayed for Donald? Have you said thank you to our Mandarin Mussolini? Here, play this clip.

Well, I think it's really obscene what Ro Khanna has stated. I mean, what Donald Trump and Israel have done is they have made the world a much safer place. Donald Trump drew a line in the sand, a red line. Iran crossed it. And we took out he made good on his promise. He took out three of Iran's nuclear facilities. They were very close to having a nuclear warhead. I know this. I've been briefed along with a lot of other members.

but he did the right thing. And we learned last night, like we learned with Soleimani, Donald Trump doesn't make threats. He makes promises and he made good on his promise last night. And we are all safer for it. We can say thank you to President Trump for his endeavors last night and our military and our pilots and everyone who was part of that operation last night.

I mean, we talk. It's the most ridiculous things that we're watching right there. Here's Mark Levin saying we need to defeat these Democrats and isolationists like Republicans, Thomas Massey and Rand Paul. Here, play this clip. They call him. This law was passed in haste. It's unworkable. You want to taste of this? You're going to need it because we're going to fight this battle.

We have to defeat these Democrats, these isolationists who are in Congress, the radical libertarian isolationists like Tommy Massey, Rand Paul, who claim that they know what the Constitution is, but they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

And then finally, you have Mark Levin refer to Democrats as the enemy from within who must be defeated. Just watch this tyrannical language right here from this freaking moron, Mark Levin, playing this clip. And so there they are, the reprobates, the miscreants, the malcontents, starting with AOC and Bernie Sanders.

two people who hate the Constitution and hate the Republic or they wouldn't be Marxist-Islamists, would they? So they say the President violated the War Powers Act which was passed in 1973 and my guest John, you and I are going to discuss it some when. It was violated. He must be impeached. He's a dictator. Our military just pulled off something that is astonishing. Just saved the world, the entire world, and by the way that includes the United States, from a nuclear Iran.

The Democrats see this as an opportunity, they believe, to exploit. They're the enemy within. They are the enemy within. I mean, dude, just because you have the most obnoxious voice ever and you go, okay, doesn't mean you're right. It actually usually shows how wrong you are. But guess what, Mark LeMann?

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