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🔹 Pete Hegseth and the deepening drama in Washington — a true "House of Cards" moment
🔹 Donald Trump claims he will reveal a Ukraine Peace Plan within 3 days — could this change the course of the war? 🇺🇦🕊️🇷🇺
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🔹 China issues a warning over a possible escalation in the tariff war — what does this mean for the global economy? 🇨🇳💼
🔹 Pete Hegseth and the deepening drama in Washington — a true "House of Cards" moment
🔹 Donald Trump claims he will reveal a Ukraine Peace Plan within 3 days — could this change the course of the war? 🇺🇦🕊️🇷🇺
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00:00You know, what a big surprise that a bunch of, a few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out
00:08from the same media that peddled the Russia hoax, won't give back their Pulitzers.
00:13They got Pulitzers for a bunch of lies, Pulitzers for a bunch of lies and on hoaxes time and time and time again.
00:22And as they peddle those lies, no one ever calls them on.
00:25See, this is what the media does.
00:27They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.
00:35Not going to work with me because we're changing the Defense Department, putting the Pentagon back in the hands of warfighters
00:42and anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on old news.
00:46Doesn't matter. So I'm happy to be here at the Easter egg roll with my dad and my kids, because, you know, this is what we're doing it for.
00:53These kids right here. This is why we're fighting the fake news media.
00:57This is why we're fighting slash and burn Democrats. This is why we're fighting hoaxters.
01:03Hoaxters. This group. No, no, no. This group right here full of hoaxters that peddle anonymous sources from leakers with axes to grind.
01:11And then you put it all together as if it's some news story.
01:17And when we know it, we know exactly what it is.
01:19So I'm really proud of what we're doing for the president, fighting hard across the board.
01:24And I'm going to go roll some Easter eggs with my kids.
01:27Thank you very much.
01:28Have spoken to the president and we are going to continue fighting on the same page all the way.
01:34This is my video update on this Tuesday, midday, April the 22nd, coming to you from Limassol, Cyprus.
01:45Let's talk about some news and let's start things off with a China U.S. tariff war update.
01:59And Politico, USAID Politico, is reporting that U.S. President Trump wants to speak with Xi Jinping directly.
02:15And he is not allowing any other type of diplomacy to take place between the United States and China.
02:24Not even back-channel diplomacy or talks to take place.
02:31Trump is basically saying, according to Politico, that he is going to be the one to directly engage with Xi Jinping and with China and no one else.
02:45Politico's article is,
02:46Trump and Xi are locked in a standoff over direct trade negotiations.
02:50The president's refusal to allow informal diplomatic outreach to bridge the gap between the White House and Beijing is slowing progress toward a possible deal.
03:01In this article, it is also reporting that Xi Jinping is hesitant about engaging with Trump, directly with Trump at the moment.
03:15Because, according to Politico's sources, China is worried that Trump would turn the talk or the negotiations between the two leaders into some sort of a spectacle or something like that.
03:34And China would rather have things work through lower-level officials, through experts, lower-level officials, and then work their way up to some sort of bilateral talk between the United States and China.
03:55Basically, China wants the normal route of diplomacy and negotiations.
04:00Since Trump is saying, let's just cut through all of that, I want to speak directly with Xi Jinping and no one else is going to engage with China.
04:10So that is where we are, according to Politico.
04:13I always have to say that.
04:14According to Politico, that is where we are with the U.S.-China trade tariff war.
04:22I believe that China also sent out a message the other day, one second, and China warned countries not to align with the U.S. in trade.
04:36Basically, the message that China sent out is that any country that is looking for tariff relief from the United States at the expense of trade with China would be facing retaliation from China.
04:59That's what I want to say.
05:29Cut off any type of trade with China.
05:32So now we get China's response, which is saying, don't cut off trade with us.
05:37If you cut off trade with us, then we will retaliate against you.
05:42So this thing is getting wild, man.
05:46Absolutely getting wild.
05:49So that's the update there on the tariff war.
05:53And the next story is a quick one.
05:57Yesterday, Putin signed the strategic partnership agreement with Iran.
06:04Putin signs law ratifying Russia-Iran strategic partnership deal.
06:0920-year comprehensive strategic partnership agreement signed in January in Moscow.
06:14Deal ratified by both houses of Russian parliament earlier this month.
06:17And now Putin has signed this thing.
06:20So it is done.
06:23Russia is now in a strategic partnership with Iran.
06:28And we're talking about military stuff as well.
06:33So that's a done deal.
06:37That happened yesterday.
06:40And we are getting more reports that Russia is going to or possibly is possibly going to to play some sort of a key role in the U.S.-Iran negotiations,
06:53monitoring the uranium enrichment and stuff like that with Iran.
06:59That's going to most likely fall on to Russia, which is interesting because in the JCPOA, that was going to be done by U.S. allies.
07:10And now it looks like it's going to shift to to become Russia's responsibility, which is which is significant.
07:19It's moving away from the West and on to to BRICS.
07:24And Iran is now a member of BRICS, as, of course, is Russia.
07:28So the Hegseth signal chat group number two, the second signal chat group from U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
07:42Once again, we are getting pressure on the Trump administration to remove Hegseth.
07:50I believe NPR actually posted an article calling on on the White House to to remove Hegseth.
08:02And the Trump administration is saying that that they will not do such a thing.
08:09Carolyn Levitt, the press spokeswoman, said that Trump backs Hegseth and there will be no.
08:20No firing of the Defense Secretary.
08:23This is the story that I covered yesterday with the New York Times article, which revealed that Hegseth had another signal chat group talking about Yemen.
08:37And in this group was was his brother, his lawyer and his wife.
08:43Now, the first signal chat scandal, remember that one where Hegseth was part of the group, as was Vance and Rubio and all kinds of other people.
08:55But that that that signal chat scandal, which had the Atlantic reporter, what was his name, Goldberg in that group, that was the fault of Mike Waltz.
09:07But nothing has happened to Mike Waltz, though we have not heard much from Mike Waltz, to be quite honest.
09:13It seems like he's been very silent, maybe sidelined.
09:18But the reports were that Mike Waltz had had Goldberg, the Atlantic reporter in this this signal group.
09:28But they're going after Hegseth, you know, it's it's kind of weird.
09:34They weren't really upset with Mike Waltz when I mean they I mean the Democrats, the deep state.
09:42I want to say the neocons, but it doesn't make any sense because Hegseth has that neocon tendency as well as as Waltz.
09:52So I just don't understand why they would why they would want to remove Hegseth.
09:57Hegseth is definitely not anti-war, though he did, according to The New York Times, vote against the the big strike on Iran that Israel pitched to the Trump administration, the weeklong strike on Iranian facilities.
10:17Hegseth was one of the people that voted against Israel's plan.
10:22And then you had the the three people inside the Pentagon who were fired, allegedly for leaking information.
10:30The one guy actually was on Tucker the other the other day, Tucker Carlson's podcast.
10:36And that guy seems like he's he's he's against the conflict with Iran.
10:42At least that's what he was telling Tucker.
10:43He said, I don't I don't want to I don't want to see a war with Iran.
10:48So I'm just not quite sure why why these three guys were were let go.
10:59All we have is leaked information.
11:01They're saying they didn't leak any information.
11:03Allegedly, Hegseth is is being or the Trump administration is being pressured to remove Hegseth because he wasn't for an all out conflict with Iran.
11:19And the reports were that's that these Pentagon officials leaked this information because Hegseth voted against the retaliation against Iran.
11:33But then you had one of those guys in the Pentagon saying that he doesn't want a war with Iran either.
11:41So I'm I must be missing something.
11:45I don't know.
11:46We need more information on on this story.
11:49What's what's going on with this push to remove Hegseth?
11:55Zero Hedge reports President Trump stands strongly behind Hegseth.
11:59White House denies NPR's fake news story.
12:02A new secretary of defense search.
12:05Yeah, NPR.
12:05The article was was saying that the Trump administration is already looking for a new secretary of defense and the White House denies this.
12:16Zero Hedge reports that secretary of defense Pete Hegseth is taking heavy fire once again in what looks like a coordinated attack.
12:23Sunday brought a sensational new allegation of Hegseth violating operational security ahead of the March 15 U.S. strikes on Yemen and an op ed from a former Hegseth advocate calling for his removal over total chaos at the Pentagon.
12:40While it's while it's hard to discern motives in D.C.'s House of Cards intrigue.
12:45Intrigue, interesting sentence there.
12:49The renewed assault comes after Hegseth reportedly helped dissuade President Trump from launching Israel's long pursued U.S. war on Iran.
12:57The narrative was that Hegseth did not want the war with Iran or he voted against the war with Iran according to the New York Times and the three people that were dismissed were upset with Hegseth's decision.
13:19But then we had the guy appear on Tucker, I believe his name is called Caldwell, I believe.
13:25I forgot the guy's name, Dan Caldwell.
13:28Anyway, he appeared on Tucker's podcast and he was saying that he doesn't want a war with Iran, but he was still removed from the Pentagon.
13:37And he said that it's that the neocons have pretty much messed everything up.
13:42Something's going on here, and I think Zero Hedge sums it up well by saying it's it's hard to discern motives in D.C.'s House of Cards intrigue.
13:57Yeah, it is. It is hard to figure out what's going on with this story.
14:01So, the New York Post, they are reporting more details on Trump's peace plan.
14:15Turn up, peace plan, peace plan.
14:17Trump's peace plan.
14:18It will be revealed, according to the New York Post, in three days.
14:22In three days, we're going to have the big reveal.
14:24At least that's what Trump told reporters.
14:27Trump will reveal Ukraine war peace plan over the next three days as details emerge about possible peacekeeping force.
14:36So, what is the New York Post reporting?
14:39Well, they're giving us some more details on what this plan will have in it.
14:51And, according to the New York Post, actually, the New York Post says they cannot independently verify anything of what these sources are telling them with regards to what is going to be in this Trump peace plan.
15:06Peace plan.
15:07Peace plan.
15:08Mr. Trump has peace plan.
15:09The New York Post is saying that the plan is going to contain a clause for peacekeepers, for European peacekeepers, once it is agreed, once all the parties sign this ceasefire freeze peace plan.
15:32And that's what this is.
15:33This is the, without a doubt, this is the Kellogg ceasefire freeze plan.
15:39Once it is signed by all parties, then European troops will be allowed to enter Ukraine.
15:45That means UK and France.
15:48The plan says that it's not going to be, they're not going to be called peacekeepers, by the way.
15:54Nor will they be called, what did Stammer call them?
15:57A reassurance force?
15:58They're not going to be called peacekeepers, according to Trump's plan.
16:02They're not going to be called a reassurance force.
16:05What they are going to be called is a resilience force.
16:09So we've gone from peacekeepers to reassurance force.
16:14And under Trump's plan, the Europeans in Ukraine will be called a resiliency force.
16:23Yeah, Russia's not going to go for that one.
16:26They are not going to go for that one.
16:29But this is the plan, according to the New York Post.
16:32This is what they're saying.
16:34Of course, they cannot independently verify any of this, but let's continue.
16:39The New York Post is also saying there's going to be a separate force in Ukraine keeping the peace.
16:49And this force is going to consist of Russian military, Ukraine military, and a non-NATO military, though they do not name what country this will be.
17:03So we're going to have two groups of militaries in Ukraine.
17:11We're going to have the European Resiliency Force, and then we're going to have this Ukraine-Russia non-NATO third party force in Ukraine.
17:25The U.S. is going to provide economic support.
17:31No boots on the ground, no U.S. boots on the ground, but they will provide money, money, money, money.
17:39That's what it's all about for the Ilensky regime, right?
17:42So the U.S. is going to do that.
17:44And Ukraine, according to the New York Post, is ready to recognize 20% of the territory that Russia currently holds,
17:54as long as it's recognized de facto, de facto recognition and not de jure recognition,
18:03which means that Ukraine will accept that this territory is occupied by Russia,
18:13that Russia controls this territory,
18:15but de facto recognition means that Ukraine does not abandon claims to this territory,
18:22and they will continue in the future to try and get the territory back.
18:29De jure would mean that they accept it, and they're not going to make any more efforts to get the territory back,
18:34and that would be it.
18:36It would be game over.
18:37But nope.
18:38Ukraine is saying, okay, we'll accept the freeze.
18:41That's what we're talking about, the freeze on the current contact lines.
18:46But the de facto, de facto recognition, not de jure.
18:51That's the plan that, allegedly, Trump is going to reveal.
18:56Oh, look at those lizards.
18:57In three days.
19:04Oh, man, that lizard is fast.
19:09Can I see the lizard?
19:10He's huge.
19:13Buddy.
19:21Wow.
19:22So cool.
19:24All right.
19:25So, the Moscow Times, which is located somewhere in, I believe, in the Netherlands or Austria or Finland.
19:36I don't know.
19:36Italy.
19:37Anyway, the Moscow Times, they are reporting from their sources, the Moscow Times sources,
19:44they are reporting that the Kremlin, in order to get the U.S. on side, as they were negotiating with the Trump administration,
19:53they offered Trump a skyscraper in Moscow.
19:58Russian officials discussed the possibility of reviving plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow to entice U.S. President Donald Trump to reset relations,
20:08as the Moscow Times, as the Moscow Times reported on April 21st.
20:14Yeah.
20:15So, we will give you a Trump Tower.
20:18Another lizard.
20:20Oh, they're everywhere.
20:21Oh, they're everywhere.
20:35Lizards on the beach.
20:36Beach lizards.
20:38Okay, so that's a good lead into clown world.
20:45And the New York Post, they are talking about a Biden Easter family picture, which the Internet is trying to figure out.
21:01Because, according to the New York Post, it looks like Biden photoshopped himself into this family picture.
21:12That is what the New York Post is reporting.
21:15Biden posted on X,
21:16We wish everyone celebrating today a peaceful and joyful Easter.
21:21And you can see Biden in the background wearing a blue suit, blue tie.
21:30And everyone is trying to figure out, is he sitting down?
21:38Is he standing up?
21:40Something doesn't look right.
21:41The light that's hitting Biden's face doesn't feel right.
21:46And there's three fingers behind the head of one of the guys that's allegedly sitting or kneeling in front of Biden.
21:58And everyone's saying, whose fingers are those?
22:02It would be impossible if those are Biden's fingers.
22:05Anyway, there's a lot of people trying to figure out,
22:08Was Biden photoshopped into this Easter family picture that he posted on X?
22:14And where's Hunter?
22:16Where is Hunter in this family picture?
22:20Though someone photoshopped Hunter into this photo, as you can see.
22:26You can see it on your screen right now, Hunter.
22:29In the background over there, he was photoshopped into this family picture by someone on X.
22:37What do you guys think?
22:39Is Biden really in this family picture or was he photoshopped?
22:42I think we need some photoshopped experts to weigh in on this in the comments down below.
22:50Let us know your expert opinion.
22:54And let's just do one more quick clown world,
22:59which is an update on the World Economic Forum
23:03and eat Zembug, Klaus Schwab's replacement
23:07as interim chair for the WEF.
23:12It is going to be Peter Brabek Letmath.
23:17Peter Brabek Letmath.
23:20I think he was the CEO of Nestle.
23:23The former CEO of Nestle.
23:27Who is now going to be the interim chair of the WEF.
23:34From what I understand, this guy once stated in 2017
23:40that humans have no right to access free water.
23:44I can't confirm if he actually said that.
23:48Maybe he did.
23:49That's the quote that is being posted on the interwebs
23:54of what the new interim chair of the WEF said.
23:59But yeah, if he did indeed say this,
24:03then it looks like they found the right guy
24:06to take over for Klaus Schwab.
24:09Anyway, that's the video, everybody.
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