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Returning to Useful Idiots this week is 4-time combat veteran and host of Daniel Davis Deep Dive on YouTube: Lt. Col. Daniel Davis!
In the early stages of the second Trump administration, Davis was considered for a top job under the now-former Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. He almost got the job until Laura Loomer intervened.
That’s right. The Islamophobic, arch-Zionist bigot who’s currently visiting Ukraine and extolling the virtues of arming Zelensky’s government got Daniel Davis’s nomination quashed because Davis has been critical of Israel. So of course that’s a no-go in the so-called America First administration.
This week, we tap into his military expertise to discuss the growing conflicts under Trump’s watch, from the Ukraine proxy war to the regime-change war against Iran.
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00:00 Intro
00:54 Trump mocks Lindsey Graham at his own funeral
03:25 Lindsey Graham EXPOSED collaborating with Netanyahu against ICC
07:44 Rahm Emanuel tells FAKE story about confronting Zohran Mamdani
08:14 Lt. Col. Daniel Davis interview
13:51 Davis SHREDS "ignorant" pro-war general
26:20 Trump fakes death count of US soldiers
28:57 More making fun of Lindsey Graham
40:14 Ukraine joins the Iran War

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This week, the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee issued a subpoena to the independent online news outlet Breakthrough News, demanding all of the organization’s internal communications, financial records, and more.
This comes on the heels of Marco Rubio’s State Department issuing a near-100 page report on communism in Cuba and its left-wing international supporters, describing Breakthrough News as being “intimately linked to the Cuban regime.”
To discuss this, we spoke with journalist and host at Breakthrough News, friend-of-show Rania Khalek.
00:00 Intro
02:37 Why's the Washington Post this excited about killing Iranians?
08:48 A blatant and definitional call for US war crimes
10:38 Rania Khalek interview
27:05 Is Israel blackmailing Lebanon's president?
36:51 Rania DESTROYS Israeli Emily Schrader
44:02 Hezbollah is blocking an army of rapists from invading

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