Assassination Attempt & Iran Update

On tonight’s show, I’ll start with the latest on the Washington Hilton shooting scare, the man arrested with guns and knives, and the obvious security questions this raises. He never got inside the secure perimeter and apparently wasn’t even on Trump’s floor, but he still could’ve hurt journalists and other people entering through the front of the hotel. And now Trump is using this to claim he needs his giant ballroom, because of course he is. Never mind that the event had about 1,000 people, not 2,500. Never mind that this wasn’t even a government event. And never mind that Trump’s previous assassination attempt was at one of his own resorts -- which he somehow hasn’t declared off-limits, presumably because that would interfere with the grift.Then we’ll get into the bigger Trump spin operation: his people are now trying to blame Democrats for a “culture of violence,” which is pretty rich coming from Donald Trump. This is the guy who mocked Paul Pelosi after he was nearly killed with a hammer, celebrated Robert Mueller’s death, tried to violently overthrow the government, and just posted a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as gorillas. But now Melania is lecturing Jimmy Kimmel about hateful rhetoric, Karoline Leavitt is blaming people for comparing Trump to H*tler -- when JD Vance did exactly that -- and the Heritage Foundation is pretending America has a left-wing violence problem, even though the data shows right-wing political murders have massively outpaced left-wing ones for decades. The point isn’t subtle: Trump is trying to turn a security failure into a political weapon, while deflecting from Epstein, Iran, and an economy that’s not exactly booming.And then we’ll turn overseas, starting with Iran, where Trump claimed there was some huge new Iranian offer to reopen the Strait and set aside the nuclear issue -- just in time for the markets to close -- except it appears he lied. Oil is back up, gasoline is almost back to its crisis high, and Germany’s chancellor is now openly saying the Americans have no coherent strategy, no exit plan, and may be getting humiliated by Iran. We’ll also talk about Israel allegedly buying stolen Ukrainian grain from Russia, Mali’s Russian-backed junta possibly collapsing, Canada’s prime minister saying the US has changed and Canada has to adjust, the Trump administration’s move away from newborn hepatitis B shots, and the report that Kash Patel may already be on his way out. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aravosis.substack.com/subscribe