Iran is not winning the war, you know China is, no one told Trump

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00:00 State media reports that Iran has halted the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz after Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Earlier today we know two vessels were able to go through this passageway, but again, state media is reporting that the Iranians are choking off the Strait. I just got off the phone with a senior Israeli official who was sounding the alarm about this action by the Iranians, saying only 00:25 Just a few hours into this ceasefire, the Iranians are already showing that they are trying to leverage their control over the strait and put pressure on global energy trade. 00:37 Um, okay. Bottom line, and if you see the headline on, I call balls and strikes, you see the headline on all the videos I'm streaming right now, it's pretty simple. Not hard to understand. Iran is not winning this war. Contrary to mainstream media lies, China is. China is winning the war. I have been frantic for two weeks now. 01:07 Two weeks, two, count them two, going, know Iran and China are cutting deals with at least eight countries to allow only ships who buy and sell their energy in Chinese dollars. They must go off the US dollar, go off the swift system in order to get through the strait. Anybody cares? Sort of seems alarming. Might crash the Petrodollar. Anybody notice? 01:37 Lee, evidence overnight? No one told Trump! 01:44 Let me say this again, because this is embarrassing. I'm embarrassed. No one told Trump. And that's clear. And we got the bizarre situation yesterday of Caroline Levitt denying news reports in liberal media all over the world and in our media, conservative media all over the world, that China 02:13 and Iran are charging tolls and only 12 ships made it through. No, that's not happening, she says. No, that didn't happen. Forbes reports White House press secretary Caroline Levinson reports the Strait Earth was closed, are a case of what they're saying publicly. Privately it's different, she says. We've seen an uptick in traffic on the Strait today. It's been relayed to Trump. 02:40 privately that the straight remains open and these reports are false. She was wrong. When our side's wrong, I'll tell you. 02:53 She was wrong. 02:56 What's terrifying about that, Lee, and I've been screaming about this and tearing my hair out and going, oh my gosh, we just handed a straight to China. Bricks is running the straight. You know the people, Iran, Russia, China, who want to destroy the dollar, that's their declared intent. Them people, they are running the straight. 03:20 And this shows you, whoever is controlling the flow of information here needs to be fired by noon. I have watched this, marveled at the stupidity, and tried to comprehend why Trump would hand the straight to China. Now I think I get it with this statement from Caroline Levy. They think the straight's open. 03:49 Who's giving them information? 03:56 Because this is horrific. 04:01 and it's resulted in bizarre proclamations from the president. I mean, there's no words. So I've been reporting for two weeks, this is going on. It's been reporting from the Financial Times, the Chosen Daily, which is a South Korean, very good financial publication. MSN, CNN, the European Conservative, another great site. Both sides, yeah. 04:31 Left, right? This is going on, they're cutting deals with ships, you're gonna drop the petrodollar, can't trade in American dollars, China's gonna run the strait via Iran, they're charging tolls, they're blocking traffic, it's like they didn't know. And then Lee Trapp comes out and posts that it's a quote, beautiful thing for Iran to charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. 05:03 What? And that Iran, I'm so upset. Okay, Iran, Iran, it's a beautiful thing. This will help the Iranian people, he says, and that we're gonna partner with them to charge these tolls. Well, somebody better tell China that, because they're running the game. They are literally negotiating ...