Interview · moment 5 of 31
Scahill: Trump Wants to 'Avenge 1979' and the Neocon-Netanyahu Capture of MAGA
from Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486 · #486
3 min
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Scahill describes sources saying Trump wants to be remembered as the president who forever changed Iran, and details how Jared Kushner, Miriam Adelson, and the neocon-Netanyahu wing captured Trump's foreign policy portfolio despite his earlier disdain for Bolton-style war hawks.
- Tim questions how the U.S. ended up arming Israel and funding military operations while the Israeli president dictates terms in the Oval Office.
- Jeremy Scahill describes Trump's stated desire since the Venezuela operation to go down in history as the president who avenged the 1979 Iranian revolution and embassy takeover.
- Trump's first term featured disdain for John Bolton and the neocons, culminating in his post-Bolton claim that Bolton would have started World War III.
- In Trump 2.0, the neocon Netanyahu wing of MAGA has taken over the entire Iran and Israel portfolio, creating what Scahill calls the most dangerous figures in American politics.
- Jared Kushner, deeply invested in Gulf money and Israeli interests ideologically and religiously, has helped facilitate this capture of Trump's foreign policy.
Jared KushnerMiriam AdelsonGeneral Qassem SoleimaniJohn BoltonIranIsrael