00:05:24.000Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:05:28.000It's truly never a dull moment, never a flat news cycle.
00:05:33.000So we've got a lot to get into tonight.
00:05:35.000We're going to break down Operation Epic Fury, the strike on Iran, the death of the Aita'ullah, and what it means for America and the rest of the world.
00:05:45.000We've got some incredible videos of Iranians in cities across the world celebrating.
00:05:49.000So we'll break that all down and what comes next.
00:05:54.000And of course, just like clockwork, we have our latest austere religious scholars from the regime media because Democrats and the media are already scrambling to defend the Iranian mullahs.
00:06:08.000The Washington Post writing a love letter obituary for Khomeini, the Ayatollah, like the world's, the leader of the world's leading state sponsor of terror.
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00:09:37.000And now, guys, let's get into the top headlines.
00:09:42.000You're all obviously aware of the big news over the weekend.
00:09:46.000In the early morning hours of Saturday morning, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:09:56.000U.S. B-2 stealth bombers armed with 2,000-pound bombs hit Iran's ballistic missile facilities.
00:10:02.000Over 1,000 targets have been struck in just two days.
00:11:13.000What this does to China is also a really big deal between Venezuela and Iran.
00:11:19.000The damage to China and their ability to get oil and gas reserves.
00:11:25.000I wish it was as simple as many online are trying to make it.
00:11:29.000But what happens next will be critical.
00:11:32.000You guys have heard me talk about the dangers of the endless wars, and I still am fully aware of those dangers.
00:11:39.000Here's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth laying out the road ahead.
00:11:44.000But we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do.
00:11:48.000I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people, and our enemies, by the way, here's exactly what we'll do.
00:12:48.000Now, the big picture here is important.
00:12:51.000Iran has been the single greatest state sponsor of terrorism on the planet for over three decades.
00:12:58.000The man who funded Hezbollah, who funded Hamas, who armed the Houthis, who has blood, the blood of thousands of American soldiers on his hands from IEDs in Iraq and elsewhere, that man is gone.
00:13:12.000And he's gone because your favorite president had the strength to do what no one else would do for over 45 years.
00:13:19.000Now, look, I have something to address, something that shows the real costs of military action.
00:13:25.000We lost six American service members in this operation, with a couple more critically injured.
00:13:36.000But our so-called allies in France and UK, they can barely bring themselves to even offer words of support while they spend every other day lecturing about what we have to do in Ukraine and what we must be doing there and obviously climate change.
00:13:53.000But in the matters that matter most, they don't seem to be anywhere and found.
00:17:20.000And funny enough, the same Astroturf protesters we see every time, you know, change the flag, change the t-shirt, don't know what they're talking about, they're also showing up.
00:17:31.000Just, again, with a different flag, different jersey.
00:17:35.000But the good news is they are being totally exposed.
00:17:40.000Because Masih Alinajad, an incredibly brave Iranian journalist who Iran literally tried to assassinate several times, well, she had some sharp and powerful words to sum up this historic moment.
00:19:34.000Proxies attacking our bases across the Middle East, creating turmoil, both militarily and economically.
00:19:41.000So whatever your views are on this larger strategy, the larger mission, there's no doubt that Iran has been waging war against Americans for decades.
00:19:51.000And by the way, the fact that Iran is shooting at Saudi Arabia, at the UAE, that tells you everything you need to know about this regime.
00:20:24.000I've heard a lot about experts over the last years, and these are the same people who've basically gotten nothing done for the last 40 years.
00:20:30.000Where were these people when Obama was bombing Libya without congressional approval?
00:20:35.000Where was this energy when Biden was droning people in Syria?
00:20:39.000Where was the war power's urgency then?
00:21:21.000And there wasn't any kind of outcry from parts of the left after Iran executed about 30,000 of their young people that were just simply just protesting for democracy.
00:22:03.000If anyone wants those things that they claim that they do, like peace and they can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb when someone actually did that, that could actually make sure that's possible.
00:22:15.000And I'm open to a better opportunity for more, more peace and prosperity for the Iranian people for more security that Israel deserves that.
00:22:56.000It feels like an episode out of South Park, but the Washington Post didn't just criticize the operation.
00:23:04.000They actually gave a glowing eulogy to the Ayatollah, a glowing obituary for a terrorist, someone who's, by any reasonable measure, a really bad guy with a lot of blood on his hands.
00:23:19.000From the Washington Post, and I quote, with his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khomeini cut a more vuncular figure in public.
00:23:28.000And he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.
00:23:36.000I mean, you remember austere religious scholars, the guy that we had to kill in a cave that was like the leader of ISIS or one of the other terror groups out there.
00:24:47.000The Washington Post basically saying he's like Santa Claus, you know, a regional power?
00:24:52.000That's what they went with in the New York Times?
00:24:54.000Not a state sponsor of terrorism, not a brutal dictator who murdered his own people, not the man who funded the killing of American soldiers?
00:25:42.000The largest Iranian populations outside of the Middle East.
00:25:45.000You see the gathering there behind her.
00:25:47.000Julia, how is the Iranian community responding?
00:25:51.000Well, this gathering has only grown, Jessica, over the past few hours, excuse me, since we've gotten here.
00:25:58.000It has amassed a large number of people and the celebration is striking.
00:26:04.000We got here just moments after initial reports, initial rumors of the death of Ayatollah Khamenei had just started to trickle from Iran to this diaspora community and people were jumping in excitement, hugging each other, crying, saying that basically they've been waiting 47 years for this very day, Jessica.
00:26:26.000It is the reason so many of them have come out here today.
00:26:30.000I want you to hear from one of them specifically his thoughts right after learning that the Supreme Leader of Iran was dead.
00:26:40.000When is the last time you saw people in Israel and Iran dancing on the streets in excitement?
00:26:45.000And when is the last time you've ever heard of a country coming out and dancing because they're excited that foreign powers are attacking them?
00:26:56.000Now, the name of Reza Pahlavi has been at the tip of people's tongues here, Jessica.
00:27:02.000So these are very much people who are pro-Shah.
00:27:05.000They want to see a leadership emerge from Reza Pahlavi.
00:27:09.000They're calling for him to take over the reins.
00:27:11.000And their hope, they've told me, is that he would then lead a temporary government and hold elections in Iran, hold a referendum in Iran so that the people could decide what would come next for their nation.
00:27:27.000Yeah, and so many Iranian people hoping for regime change and that they can take back their government.
00:27:35.000A lot of questions about how that will happen, if it can happen.
00:27:38.000Julia Vargas-Jones, thank you so much.
00:27:43.000And like I said earlier, I get that there is real skepticism here.
00:27:48.000I understand it, especially amongst younger people who live through the swamps-failed nation-building exercises across the Middle East for their entire lives.
00:27:57.000But there is a massive difference between launching a 20-year nation-building occupation and conducting a precision military operation to eliminate a terrorist regime's leadership and military infrastructure.
00:28:10.000And the next days and weeks will be critical.
00:28:13.000And my father has been consistent on Iran for literally decades.
00:28:33.000He gave them every chance, every opportunity to negotiate.
00:28:37.000They weren't going to give up the nukes and the things that they frankly can't have.
00:28:43.000And here's what none of these outlets, not CNN, not the Washington Post, not the New York Times, not MS Now, are talking about.
00:28:51.000They're not talking about the fact that for 47 years, every single American president looked at the Iranian regime and talked tough but did nothing.
00:29:01.000Or, in the case of Obama and Biden, giving them literal pallets of cash.
00:29:06.000For 47 years, this regime built proxies, funded terrorism, killed Americans, developed nuclear weapons, and the world just accepted it.
00:29:17.000And now, that equation looks very different.
00:29:20.000And we will continue to bring you all of the latest updates.
00:29:24.000But speaking of people who have completely lost their minds, we're seeing new levels of delusion all across the left.
00:29:31.000And you can't even parry it at this point because it's just so ridiculous.
00:29:37.000Because a former Vogue editor and stylist to Jill Biden actually downgraded herself from a first-class flight because everyone else in first class was white.
00:30:09.000The story gets even better, though, because it turns out she didn't downgrade herself to coach.
00:30:14.000She still took a seat in business class, where there's apparently fewer white people and less white supremacy.
00:30:22.000So she's still sipping champagne in business class.
00:30:26.000She's still got the extra legroom, still reclining, maybe even a lying flat seat, but now she can do it with a clear conscience because she's six rows further back in the plane.
00:31:20.000There would be congressional hearings by Democrats.
00:31:23.000But in the left's world, racism only goes one direction.
00:31:27.000And that, in and of itself, is insanely racist.
00:31:31.000And speaking of the left's insane bigotry, they are still trying to claim that voter ID is racist.
00:31:39.000And during a live town hall discussion on Fox News, a white liberal decided to tell a black female conservative it was too difficult for her to get an ID.
00:31:50.000And let's just say, didn't work out so great for them.
00:31:57.000I just think that the reality is that an act like the SAVE Act is very likely more aimed at voter suppression and at keeping key demographics that the Republican Party does not want voting to not show out.
00:32:09.000I think very often minority demographics.
00:32:19.000Do you have ID and proof of citizenship?
00:32:21.000Yeah, and if I need a copy of my birth certificate, it's just a matter of going online or going up to the department and asking for it and showing my information to get it.
00:32:36.000I mean, to say that it would negatively affect a minority group because they're somehow not educated enough to get these documents is completely outrageous.
00:33:13.000Every country around the world does the same thing, except for us and except for American Democrats, because, of course, they want people who should not be voting to vote.
00:33:52.000And speaking of which, we've also got some new explosive revelations that dropped about Fannie Willis down in Georgia.
00:34:01.000Because new documents obtained via Georgia's open records law reveal what appears to be straight-up quid pro quo corruption.
00:34:09.000The files show the most detailed evidence of collusion.
00:34:14.000And yes, I'm using that word on purpose, collusion, between the Fulton County prosecutors run by Fannie Willis and Biden White House and DOJ officials to try to force the prosecution of my father.
00:34:31.000The Biden Justice Department invited Willis to apply for a $2 million, $2 million sole source grant in 2022 while her sham investigation was accelerating.
00:34:45.000This was part of a more than 18 million in federal funding her office received during her tenure.
00:34:50.000They invited her to apply for a very vague grant project just as she was getting her witch hunt ready down in Fulton County.
00:35:03.000It's not even clear what the grant was for, but in all fairness, we know what it was for.
00:35:08.000But in total, $18 million of taxpayer money was funneled into a political prosecution, really a persecution, all done with coordination from Biden federal officials.
00:35:23.000If this happened under any other country, we'd call, we'd call it what it is, a weaponized justice system going after a political enemy.
00:35:38.000And by the way, this is the same Fannie Willis who was running around with her boyfriend Nathan Wade, billing taxpayers for their vacations, lying to the court about their relationship.
00:37:00.000They're insane, but at least they're consistent.
00:37:03.000What's the New York Times doing calling him a regional power?
00:37:07.000And this sort of sums up the last 10 years.
00:37:10.000We have a president who acts while the left-wing regime's puppets whine and complain, an administration that delivers results while the fake news writes eulogies for terrorists.
00:37:20.000A commander-in-chief who eliminates the world's top terrorist leader while the left melts down over white people in first class and tries to tell minorities they can't get an ID.
00:37:32.000As my father said in his State of the Union, these people are crazy.
00:37:38.000So on that note, guys, thanks so much for tuning in.