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President Donald Trump’s naked capitulation to Iran — the nation he unilaterally attacked — with restitution payments, and surrender on Iran disarmament, has got MAGA voices crying all over podcasts, reports Bulwark.
Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller joined guest Krystal Ball, cohost of “Breaking Points” podcast to watch the waterworks.
“A lot of them are still trying to stay in [Trump’s] good graces, like Ben Shapiro [who] … still wants to kind of like play both sides a little bit so he was being very measured,” said Miller.
“The folks at the commentary podcast were not measured,” Miller continued. “They were very, very upset. … They wanted the war. They thought it was gonna help Israel. They thought it meant that Trump was gonna be more on their side than he had been. It has not worked out how they planned.”
Miller then played two choice clips of “Commentary podcast” co-host John Podhoretz blasting Trump on Tuesday.
“I honestly don't know if it could be worse because if this war ends the way I fear it's going to,” said Podhoretz. “America is going to be in a strategically tactically and militarily worse position than it was under Biden and before Trump came back into power. That is to say, he made a choice to test America's resolve, America's ability to win war, to exert its will, to change the nature of the map, and he has choked, he has chickened out, he has bled himself dry, and better that we shouldn't have done it in the first place.”
“True. No lies detected,” admitted Miller, adding a note that Podhoretz admitted “plainly that the point at the beginning was we are going to exercise our will on the Middle East and change the map.”
Show hosts Eli Lake and Podhoretz then slammed Trump’s motivation for giving Iran and the Muslim nations everything they wanted, allegedly because Trump succumbed to bribery.
“Because they're giving him a plane,” said Podhoretz, to the nodding agreement of show panelists. “Because they're bribing his sons. Because they're bribing his friends' sons. We know this. We all know this. Everybody knows it. But? And when that wasn't having an effect on larger scale policy, by which I mean geopolitical the choices that Trump was making geopolitically — not that you could overlook it because you shouldn't overlook corruption — but it was like they were they were bribing him and he was doing whatever it was that he wanted to do anyway.”
At this, Miller could not contain his bitter laughter.
“It's like Trump was getting bribed. You know it. We know it. Everybody knows that Trump was getting bribed. But as long as he was also doing what Israel wanted, it was kind of like, well, whatever. We'll just kind of look the other way on this for two seconds,” cackled Miller. “But now that he's not anymore, we can all just say it bluntly that Trump is corrupt. It's like, well, no s——. Welcome aboard. Water's warm.”
This podcast is by far not the only grumble coming from the MAGA side, with commentator Erick Erickson saying, “This is an American surrender."
