Hi. This is Michael Moore.
I am going to play for you right now a podcast that I recorded in
the middle of the night last night, just a couple of hours
after we all got word of what our president did in ordering
the assassination of an Iranian leader.
When I played it back at the end, the sound quality was not
good. That's because I didn't go into
my podcast room, I just recorded it from the heart on my iPhone.
So I wasn't going to post it and then I thought, now this is this
is exactly how I was feeling in the moment.
After I learned the news. And that you'll forgive the
sound quality and my apologies for that.
No apologies, though. For how I'm feeling, how I'm
sure you're feeling right now. So here it is.
Thank you in advance for this thing.
It's the middle of the night, the third of January 2020, we're
barely two days into the new year and Donald Trump is trying
to start a war. In fact, that's what they're
calling it in the press, in the middle of the night here on TV.
Online media outlets around the world are calling it, an act of
war, and act of War done in our name.
And what was this act? The United States of America
assassinating. The number two person in the
country of Iran? I know.
Well, we knew this was coming, didn't we?
I mean, Trump has been saying since day, one, that he was
going to go after Iran. He got rid of the Iran nuclear
deal that Obama had had done with the Iranians and all the UN
inspectors and everybody had said that the Iran was complying
and they weren't going to be building a nuclear bomb.
That seemed like a good idea and Trump didn't want any part of
that and he just he just ended ended the deal.
Why because Obama did the deal. That's, you know, been the
number one policy director, Of the Trump Administration is to
anything that has Obama's name on.
It is no good and has to be done away.
With. I've been going online here,
I've been reading the news from around the world from the Muslim
world qassam. Soleimani was his name.
You're going to be hearing all day today now.
He's a terrorist. He's the worst.
He's the number of them CNBC. Actually just saw this number
one bad guy. In the world.
He's killed Americans. He's your a name that I just
said it like a minute ago. No.
Do you know who he is? No.
I I didn't know it was. I mean seriously they by the end
of today you will know that he is the latest Osama Bin Laden or
baghdady or whatever Kasam soleimani.
He had never heard of him, right?
This is how it's done. The big lie.
It's been told to us so many times, you know, we've been in
the assassination business for quite some time.
I don't know if that was taught to you in school but we
assassinate leaders. We started that actually.
When we first came to this country lost, I'm talking
referring to the white people. We assassinated Indian leaders,
native, leaders Chiefs Etc. This the first assassination, I
Burke conducted by us you and me or the United States, our
citizens, those of us who are citizens here, we pay our taxes.
So that means we fund this was in 1963 so I was 9 years old.
It's three weeks before the assassination of John F.
Kennedy early November 1963 in the CIA decides to help stage a
coup in South Vietnam and have the president of South Vietnam.
Assassinated. His name was President diem
because he was a playing ball. We needed our guy in there.
We need our own dictator to run South Vietnam.
And within a year or so we faked an excuse.
We lied about the North Vietnamese attacking, one of our
ships, we talked about this a couple weeks ago when we had
Daniel Ellsberg on this podcast. Actually, this wasn't supposed
to be the podcast for today. We had just finished producing
today's podcast when the news broke of trump assassinating.
The number two, top official in Iran, ordering the assassination
and making sure. Was completed and we found out
about this when we thought, well, we can't we can't are the
podcast, we just finished here. We try to post them around, you
know, five or six in the morning, so that you can listen
to this on the way to work, if need be.
So we decided to pull it and then started reading and
watching and single trying to figure out what was going on.
Or we actually in another war is that possible And and then we
decided, you know we need to do, we just need to go right on
here. So let's turn this on and we're
going to do a podcast in the middle of the night.
We talked about this on our first podcast, a little over two
weeks ago, that occasionally when it was warranted.
We would have what we were inaugurating or initiating, the
emergency podcast system and we would, we would just break in or
we would just get on the microphone and get this posted
no matter what time of day. Day or night.
It was if there was some event that took place in this country
in the world that needed our attention.
Your attention my attention right away.
Rumble. Rumbles emergency podcast
system. And so this is the first one.
This is the first time that we're doing this off our usual
schedule. So I'm just going to talk to you
for a few minutes and then maybe later today we'll come back when
we have more information, but I really want to, I really want to
say something's here before the country falls into the grip of
the propaganda machine, that is going to be telling one
falsehood after another today in order to to justify this crime.
And I don't think it, you don't have to be a brainiac to figure
out what Trump is doing here. I mean Clinton did it, Bill
Clinton just days before his impeachment ordered an air
strike. And as a result, they had to
delay, the impeachment vote. And where did he order the
airstrike on Iraq. He bombed Iraq to try to
distract from his impeachment, to try and stop the vote, which
they did. Stopped it, I think for at least
a couple of days it didn't matter.
They impeached him anyway. And here's Trump, just days away
from his trial in the Senate whenever the Senate finally
agrees to behave like a like not a kind of kangaroo court but a
fair, a fair and just body to hear the evidence and to hear
the witnesses when that happens, speaker Pelosi will hand over.
The articles of impeachment. But Trump, I mean, there's no
greater way to get an American's attention off anything.
Then, by doing something that could end up having to send our
sons and daughters. Once again off to a needless
stupid war or, or to do something as he did last night,
that could end up. Costing the lives of innocent
people, Americans, who are the dead Americans.
And the soon-to-be dead Americans because of this
ridiculous stupid act. You know, it's not just that
we've again, like I said, this isn't the first time we've done
this, we have staged Coos, we have in, we have in a row.
We have involved ourselves interfering, in other countries
elections for a good 70-plus years us.
I'm not talk about the Russians now us.
We're like the inventors of election interfering where the
OG of this there are. There's a, you can go online.
It's like a list of three or four, dozen countries where we
are CIA. Our tax dollars, where we've put
up fake candidates where we've donated money to the campaign's
of candidates that we wanted to win.
And when they didn't win, we did things to try to remove them
from office or stage. Coos or or in some cases,
assassinate them Salvador Allende democratically elected.
President of Chile back in the think 1973, we helped stage a
coup and then he was either assassinated or he took his life
as they were coming to kill him. Some dispute on that.
I think. But nonetheless democratically
elected president. We didn't like him.
Why didn't we like him? Because he wanted to nationalize
Some of the businesses you try to do that here, come the
Americans. Folks, you know, else tried to
do that, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran
in 1953, he came into office and he thought, you know, the oil
that's in our country under the ground, that's a natural
resource that belongs to all the people not to American and
British oil companies. So he said dump this is now
belongs to us. And you can come in and and you
know extract it and we can lease it to you kind of what the
Norwegians do today. That's how they do it.
They only loyal not the real companies.
And for that, the prime minister of Iran was removed, a coup was
staged, he was forced out. It was put under house arrest
for most of the rest of his life.
And we installed someone called the Shah of Iran.
The King, The King of Kings, they call them, the Shah of
Iran, a dictator that the United States and the British help
install, and he was there for, almost 25 years and he was a
brutal dictator. Thousands of people died were
tortured, suffered under him, And eventually by around 1979,
the people of Iran rose up. They had a revolution kind of
like what we did. You know when people are kind of
tired of the king king of kings, the dictator, they rise up, they
rise that stats, the lesson of History, they rise up and the
Iranians rose up and overthrew the Shah and they formed their
own government and the religious leaders got Role as they are
want to do and many countries, many religions, and the
Ayatollah ran things and that was that they took hostages to.
They took people in our worked, in our Embassy and, and held
them for nearly a think, nearly a year, and they were released a
couple minutes. After Ronald, Reagan was
inaugurated as president. I'm sure there's a story there
somewhere that's our history with Iran.
We so many years of of Oppression at the hands of the
United States. This is what happens.
A year later. Our Ally Ally.
Saddam. Hussein Saddam Hussein.
Did I say I like, yeah. Ally our friend.
He was our friend back. Then Saddam Hussein decided to
invade Iran. Iraq invading, Iran.
And we supplied him with arms. We helped him when he wanted to
use chemical weapons. We gave him the satellite
positions of where the Iranians were, where the troops were.
There were the estimate It's are all over the map on how many
people died in the Iraq. Iran war between 1980 and 1988
but somewhere between a half a million and a million people
died were killed in a war that we helped to fuel.
In fact, we were so sick about this that we not only were
basically, on saddam's side, supporting the Iraq he's and
giving them these weapons including chemical weapons, the
chemical weapons. That, that remember, when we Did
Iraq saying he had weapons of mass destruction back in 2003?
Yeah. Yeah those weapons.
He supposedly have well, we knew that because we had given him
chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction to attack Iran
and we helped Saddam kill hundreds of thousands if not
upwards to a million of Iranians what how do you think the
Iranians feel about us? Probably not too good, huh?
Yeah, and we invade the country. Next to them.
And then we wonder why why? This General this soleimani?
Why why did he and the Iranian revolutionary guard think?
Now this is not a good idea to have the Americans right next
door. So they start to help militias
and they start to help groups in Iraq, fight the US troops that
are invading, kill US troops, that are invading because you
know, that's what happens when you invade somebody else's
country. When that country has invaded
you when that country hasn't bombed you or killed, you, you
just go in and invade them because you want their oil for
whatever the reason. So yeah.
Iran got involved here and got involved and and helped helped
shi'a Muslims in Iraq. Stop the American troops.
It's exactly what you do. U.s. troops, invading, your town
coming down your street, shooting everything in sight,
killing children. What would you do?
You know what you do?
That's what they did to us. That's what they did to our
area. Young boys.
And girls that who had signed up to defend this country in case
we were ever attacked our volunteer army.
They sign up the Navy Marines, Air Force, they sign up, they
volunteer to protect us just in case and a lot of them signed up
after 9/11 right after 9/11 never thinking for a second,
that they would be sent to a country that had nothing to do
with 9/11, the country of Iraq and we lost we lost over for, I
think, over 4000 now, I now in a war that never really seems to
end those it It's so sad, but to, but to say that this all the
money guy is responsible for their deaths.
Well, no George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
And Don Rumsfeld are responsible for their deaths.
And if there's a God in heaven or a judge in The Hague someday,
they will receive their Justice. There is an international Court
of Criminal Justice. We don't participate in it
because Well we would have too many of our people in the docket
there because of the crimes that are are committed in our name
and we lost all those lives. We killed in that war.
When I say, we remember, if you pay your taxes, it's we we fund
it. Even though we might oppose it,
even though we might demonstrate against it, if it's done in our
name and we haven't stopped it. And we're paying for it.
It's you. And I we between the Clinton.
Embargo. And what and the bombing he did
of Iraq in the 90s and the George w-- Bush War, In the, in
the 2000s we were responsible for again.
The number the estimates are all over the map, 500,000 close to a
million. We don't know of dead iraqi's
because of the bombings killings.
The sanctions Clinton used to do creative things like, you know,
bomb their water supply, their drinking water or bomb, their
their facilities that produce electricity.
So that They go with days or weeks without electricity, just
the things that really caused a lot of harm and and directly or
indirectly caused the deaths of old people and young people
hospitals that couldn't operate properly.
We did that. And so here we are again last
night in the assassination business, killing a top Arabian,
official, and what thinking nothing's going to happen now,
or we'll just stay. Distracted.
We won't be thinking about convicting, Trump.
All of our attention will go to this.
You know, we're one month from today is the first caucus in
Iowa for our 2020 election one month from today.
Let's get the attention off at to off the person that we're
going to choose. Who's going to replace this
bastard? That's what's going on.
We know it, you know it, you know, we've been we've been
fooled so many times in our history in our recent history I
think by Now, I said, I think, especially if you're young, if
you're a teenager, listen to this, you're in college, you're
in your 20s. It's bad enough.
Really the world that we are handing you, but that we would
take you into another war after many, of you may have seen an
older brother or sister. Go off to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Maybe lost somebody in your family and your neighborhood to
those Wars. Those words that still continue,
you know, it's just It's I think you know before I sign off here
I just I just want you to not fall for any of the lies you're
going to be told today. Don't trust anything.
You're hearing question. Everything.
Look it up, look up the history of this.
Look what we've done to the Iranian people, just since the
1950s, the misery and the pain and the suffering that we've
cause them. I don't want to use the word we
anymore. I'm tired of this and I don't
want anybody assassinated in my name.
This is going to come back to haunt us in a very, very bad
way. And Trump doesn't give a shit.
My friends. This is all about him.
Not planning to leave the Oval Office.
A year from this month in this isn't his only trick that he's
got up his sleeve. We already know that we already
The situation with our whole election system with the his
collusion with the Russians. He just had another hit a
meeting. I think on the phone, just this
just this past Sunday with Putin in the days.
Just before this assassination. What else do they have cooked
up? I know I don't want to say these
things because I don't want you to sink into some even worse
despair than you're already in about this or to say, what's the
use. Why?
Bother voting. Why get involved this year?
Doesn't matter. I don't have any say in this.
I'm not going to be able to stop this.
That's not true, don't fall for that.
There are more of us than there are of them.
Yes, Trump is going to do well in the election.
I don't think he's lost hardly any of his base of support.
But he lost no matter how big and how angry his bases, there's
not enough of them and they know it.
Here's here's Here's a piece of good news in the in the three
plus years since he was elected over 12 million 17 year.
Olds turned 18 became eligible to vote 12 million new young
people. I mean that if you just think
about that, if just half of them, vote, we're in good shape.
The young people know, the bullshit here.
The young people who woke up this morning who are waking up
this morning right now to hear that that we may be going to war
again because the first of all it's not we not people our age,
they're going to go to war and they are not going to vote for
anybody who is sending them off on a fool.
Fool's errand to die for nothing.
So watch. What's going on today?
Pay attention to what is being done.
These damn Democrats. I'm sorry to swear.
I like that because Dan we need them.
We need them to do the job, they're supposed to do, but,
damn it. There already.
I, they're already on the news early this morning, always have
to begin everything. They're going to say by saying,
what an awful person this, It was that was assassinated, hey,
hey newsflash, there's a lot of awful people on this planet.
There's some awful awful people. And we're not going to
assassinate them all. Are we that the plan?
Let's just round up all the bad people and assassinate them.
No, no. There's lots of ways to contain
the people that seek to do harm This isn't going to end the way
the Trump wants it to end, but that's up to us.
That's up to us to fight this from day one.
And I bring up the Democrats only because when the I think
it's called the ndaa the National Defense, authorization,
authorization Act, For 2020. When this was debated in the
end, they had these Provisions in there for money to get ready
to do whatever. We're going to do to a ran into
authorized to give the authorization to Trump.
That should he need to do what he needed to do regarding Iran
and all but nine Democrats in the US Senate voted for this.
I think there's what are their 47 Democrats and the independent
that burning the caucuses with the Democrats 47, all the 47
only, Refuse to give Trump this authorization, for what he did
last night. I'm going to tell you who they
are. There were, there were four, the
voted. No, and there were five who are
out on the campaign Trail, and miss the vote.
So good on them, not present because they were running for
president or Bernie and Elizabeth Warren.
Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and and Kamala Harris.
But there were four who stood there in the Senate that day and
voted, no Kirsten gillibrand of New York senators, Senators
Wyden and and Merkley of Oregon and Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
That's it. All the other Dems voted for
Trump's defense, authorization Act.
Bloated military budget. A crazy Homeland Security,
operation, ice, all the stuff and the authorization to allow
the president to do things like what he did last night.
And then he didn't even even have the decency to inform
members of Congress about what he was, what he was about to do
last night and he sat there Mar-A-Lago.
Wining and dining. Played a whole day of golf
beforehand. All while this is speak, set up
to kill a bunch of people. Not Rogue terrorists, but people
who are officials of another country.
Lots of countries, we don't like, I'm depending on who you
are, where you're from, or what you believe in or whatever.
I mean, you may like this country, not like that country,
but I think we're hopefully we've reached the point of
civilization where you just don't assassinate people in
these countries. What that you're not at war with
a country. My friends, talk to your friends
today at work, talk to your neighbors, talk to your family
members. Pay attention to what's going
on. Don't fall for it.
Call up the call up the US Senate today.
Some of them are already back, they don't officially start work
till Monday, but what call them up?
Even the ones that aren't in their staff is there.
You can tell the staff, no war, no war.
No assassinating leaders of other countries.
Let them hear that loud and clear.
You want to support the troops. Make sure they're not sent over
there to die. Call Congress today.
Literally, they pick up the phone.
Pick up the phone and you say, I want it.
I'm from the state or that state.
I want to talk to one of my two senators.
You never know their names. You should know their names but
if you don't, you don't just call call.
I'll give you. I'm gonna give you the number
right now. If you don't have a something to
write this down with or you can't remember you can look it
up online. Call the Senate at switchboard
United States Senate, 20 to 22. Four.
Three one, two, one. I'll give it to you again. 20,
22, 24, 3121 call, and ask to speak to the office of the
Senate, one of the two senators, from your state.
And tell them, no war with Iran, stop the madness.
You have the power to do this. Millions of us can do this
today. Thank you for letting me take
this this unplanned time with you, to talk about this and, and
I'll try to check back in. Will do another emergency
podcast here later today when we have new information, and, and
more thought and planning into how we can all respond and act.
But in the meantime thank you for listening to.
This is Rumble with Michael. Amor.
And I wish you in this world. The best today.
Thank you.