July 12, 2026
Trump Gives Orders To Decimate Iran IF He’s Assassinated
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RSS Feed As we learn more about the latest Iranian assassination threats against President Trump’s life, Trump himself laid out what amounts to a “dead man’s switch” on his social media. Trump claims he’s given orders to the U.S. military to destroy Iran at levels they’ve never seen before in case he is assassinated. The President even told reporters this week in Turkey that perhaps his luck in staying alive won’t last much longer. However, the 25th amendment makes it very clear, what would happen if Trump were, in fact, assassinated: only Vice President J.D. Vance would have authority to make decisions about retaliation.
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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Sunday, July twelfth, and it sounds serious. I knew fresh plot by Iran to possibly assassinate the President of the United States. And President Trump's response, I hope you'll miss me. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: You have to take something like this seriously. And then you hear the President make some comments. This has been a wild little back and forth in Robes. This seemed to rise to the level because of what happened with Air Force one coming from Turkey, So we have to take this seriously. But the President is commenting and it sounds like Robes. He's a He almost rewrote his will to include instructions on what should happen upon his death.
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Speaker 3: Yes he has. That is exactly what he is doing. He is leaving us all instructions on what to do in case he's assassinated by Iran, and he's almost being not almost, he is being flippant about it, saying hope you'll miss me.
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Speaker 2: Flippant is a good word.
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Speaker 3: And maybe it's somebody who has survived three assassination attempts who understands that, yes, it's no secret Iran has wanted to assassinate President Trump since twenty twenty. Yes, and they have made no bones about it. At Comanie's funeral this week, people were holding up banner saying Trump will die. You know they want him dead. That is not a secret. Everyone knows this. But to hear the President this week when he was in Turkey tell reporters they want to take out the US leader me, I'm on every list I saw this morning. I'm on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I've been a little bit lucky. But maybe that doesn't last very long.
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Speaker 1: Flippant is a good word, and I didn't put enough. I didn't give enough credit to the previous assassination attempts. And how that maybe is his mind. This comes with the territory, I guess obviously, if you're the president of the United States, this has However, Robed, I really do think it was Air Force one, and we started asking questions, and then the President was making comments at the natal summon in Turkey and robes he takes as a badge of honor that people want to kill him. Yeah, the way he kept talking about it, Yes, I'm number one when everybody's a missed.
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Speaker 3: He always wants to be number one, and apparently even on a kill list. He has before talked about those before him who have been assassinated as great people, as memorable people, and he doesn't mind being on that list.
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Speaker 1: So he is apparently smack dab on it to get you caught up here. And why this is of significant note right now, Robes, is because there is probably Robes.
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Speaker 2: Right now we're.
00:02:43
Speaker 1: Seeing the most significant escalation of fighting since the first ceasefire was put in place some time ago. Robes, we are back on the cusp of all out war again, absolutely, so that is significant.
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Speaker 2: All of that.
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Speaker 1: Right, you do this, we go into Turkey.
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Speaker 2: So let's start.
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Speaker 1: I guess with the plane we know, the new It looks gorgeous, don't get me wrong, the new Katari jet. Yes, it sounds funny that a Katari jet is now the new air Force one.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but that's where we are. And yes, and the fact that he was so proudly flying Yeah, I he took his inaugural trip to South Dakota Mount Rushmore. That seems fitting, but yes, flew it overseas and then in some bizarre switch through that had a weird competing story based on who you spoke to about the whys. But it doesn't make sense other than the reason that was given to us, I guess initially, which was that, yes, there was a security concern.
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Speaker 1: Well, the first reason that was given to US was that they just wanted to take the new Air Force One over to some local air bases in the region in Europe so that US troops could toure it.
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Speaker 3: That was President Trump's version what happens that he said that, but there was a very different story coming from actual officials within the government. They said that there was a security concern, and then they said that the new Air Force One didn't have basically all the security bells and whistles that the old Air Force one had. That doesn't make a lot of sense. It seems like they were trying to do some sort of decoy, like there was a real concern that they needed to make sure that whoever was targeting President Trump didn't know which plane he was on.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's fair, and I think that's to limit how much you tell people. Sure is okay the story about the troops just touring the plane was, but what do you do? He said at the time, But he was also Robes. He said, every chance he got, yep, I'm number one on their risks, their list, they're after me. He kept dropping those notes. So that gets just called up to where everybody's asking questions, what is going on?
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Speaker 2: What is happening.
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Speaker 1: This brings us to now Robes that we're getting word that this all might have come about because Israel whispered in our ear.
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Speaker 3: Yes so, And in fact President Trump tried to refuse that in an interview he gave to the New York Post saying no, no, no, no, it wasn't Israel. But the Wall Street Journal is reporting this. Several other news outlets are reporting that Israel absolutely is behind this new fresh intelligence about just how close Iran is to following through with its constant threats to target and assassinate him.
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Speaker 1: Jea so roapes Israel a very close ally, very close started the war with Israel. So they tell the US, hey, we got some fresh intelligence that they're after you, that they're trying to kill President Trump.
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Speaker 2: They have to take that seriously.
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Speaker 1: However, there is some reporting from seeing In and others but that the threat wasn't specific, It was more about a general idea of a desire rather than having an actual plot and a plan to do so. Also, there's a suggestion by seeing in Rose that Israel, this could just be a ruse.
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Speaker 3: By Israel to get us back into the war because we were obviously de escalating, We had a ceasefire, we had an agreement in place, and Israel, we know, was not on board with that, said, hey, we're not in a cease fire with Iran. They didn't like the idea of it, and so could this have been a ruse? They knew exactly what to say to Trump to get him fired up, to get him back into the war and back at firing missiles at Iran.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy to think he's being manipulated in that way. I look at these levels, I guess I don't put anything. It's hard to believe that Israel would do that. Let's let's let's toy with and let's manipulate Trump. We know how to play to his ego, we know how to get what we want.
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Speaker 3: Had three assassination attempts on his life that we know of.
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Speaker 1: But there is that suggestion out there that is some direction and in reporting that, in fact, they are considering the possibility. Some officials are that maybe this was Israel that behind that was behind it. Well, Trump at least is speaking, he's doing interviews. And then one the quote you just gave, but wrote his social media is a true social post. Yeah, he made clear what his desires are if he were to be assassinated Iran.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and we'll read you what he put out on his true social and then there is a ton of reaction and a reality check to what he said. Here was his post. One thousand missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian government act on its threat pronounced in many corners of the globe, to assassinate or attempt to assassinate the sitting president of the United States of America in this case me in all caps with an exclamation point. Orders have already been given, and the US military is ready willing and able for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran. And then in all caps, he writes, Praise be to Allah. Why why? First of all, this is delusional, because there is no such thing as a dead man switch, which is what he is basically saying, Yeah, if I get assassinated by Iran, this button's getting pushed boom. So this is where he is right now. And look, he does seem to believe that he can leave instructions and there won't be anything left. And he said something like this before.
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Speaker 1: He's been talking about this Iran. The talk about Iran wanting to take him out is not anything new. This is new because we are in wartime right now. This is new and different because of the escalation recently. But he's been talking about this for years. Hes talking about it right after he got into office. He has put on the record previously that there.
00:08:43
Speaker 2: Is some plan in place. Is that a real thing?
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Speaker 1: He keeps telling the public that.
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Speaker 3: And it's strange because I know a lot of people in their wills leave how they would like their funeral to take place, or what they would like in their will for the money to go to this person or that person. It sounds almost as if he's creating a will, a personal will, but with with international implications. It's almost like he can push a nuclear button posthumously. It's almost like he has that in his head.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: Oh. He has said it repeatedly. Robes.
00:09:22
Speaker 1: He said it as if there was a document sitting somewhere with the list of things to do robes.
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Speaker 2: What is he talking about again? Here?
00:09:31
Speaker 1: Wipe them out, completely, decimate and destroy all areas of Iran. The military is ready for a one year period of time just to blombe them indiscriminately and NonStop for a year until the country no longer exists.
00:09:50
Speaker 3: This is where I worry about his mental health because does he actually think that this is a real threat. Anyone who has any understanding of how the world operates knows this isn't possible. So for him to make this threat and somehow think he's scaring Iran into not assassinating him, I you know, I know people have you know, when they're concerned about someone, maybe their husband or their wife killing them, they'll leave a letter, you know, in case of my death, and they'll you know, have he did it? And here's why and all these It's almost like he's got this in case of my death, and it's a warning that has no bite to it. It's just words. It makes him look weak.
00:10:34
Speaker 1: This is strength to the president, and there's a lot of tough words. It's Sunday, as we sit here, just wait till Tuesday. Wait for Taco Tako Tuesday.
00:10:44
Speaker 3: Always always, actions speak louder than words, and in that sense of things, in action speeds louder than words.
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Speaker 1: There's no reason for Iran to be shaken in the boots over over his words.
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Speaker 3: It's like I've said this like when you're a parent, the one of the things my mom and dad taught me from the beginning, They're like, never ever threatens something if you can't follow through, And when that child disobeys you, when you've put out a specific threat, you have to follow through with the consequence, or you now have zero authority, you have zero credibility. And that is exactly what he's proven time and time again. So this latest post seems insane to me.
00:11:23
Speaker 1: Is that a deterrent for them to target him? Is it a deterrent because ooh better not because there's a document in place and they're all gonna come kill us all?
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Speaker 3: No, because he keeps threatening to unleash hell on Iran if they don't do this or that, and then when they don't do this or that, he extends the deadline.
00:11:45
Speaker 1: What was the one that got everybody going an entire civilization.
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Speaker 3: Is that the one an entire civilization will be wiped off the map. And then he moves the goalpost on.
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Speaker 1: Tuesday it happens.
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Speaker 3: This is silly to me. He's dead. He can't move to goalpost.
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Speaker 1: Well, can he cannot present actually leave sitting orders. Can a president give orders, like you said, Robes, posthumously attack a country? Well, the president thinks yes. And as Robot just mentioned, there's really not a dead man's switch, at least it's not in the constitution. All right, we continue here on this Sunday with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Roobes.
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Speaker 1: We're talking here about standing orders. I mean, I would be very concerned. I don't want anybody to take out the president of the United States.
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Speaker 2: I would hate to.
00:12:42
Speaker 1: Think of what would happen, What could happen if something like that didn't take place. We have been targeting the Iranian regime, taking out everybody in charge.
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Speaker 3: Funeral was this past week.
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Speaker 1: That the US targeted the leader of another country, took him out, celebrated. Is it legal to take out the president of the United States in wartime?
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Speaker 2: Is he fair game during war?
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Speaker 3: I would say we would have to say yes.
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Speaker 1: I think the answer is no. I think it's no based on covert assassinations. If it's a matter of the commander in chief out on the battlefield kind of a thing. I think there's some distinction in international law about a covert assassination poisoning his drink if you will, versus a targeted air strike in the middle of war.
00:13:34
Speaker 2: I think there is a distinction.
00:13:35
Speaker 1: No, you're not supposed to go around assassinating leaders of other countries.
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Speaker 2: You're not supposed to.
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Speaker 3: You're not supposed to. But we're doing it.
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Speaker 1: Well, we call it bombing, we call it wartime, legit targets, is what they say. But if Iran dare try to shoot at.
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Speaker 3: The White House, I don't understand the distinction.
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Speaker 1: They're on the battlefield versus he's.
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Speaker 3: The battle field. We made Iran the battlefield. Why couldn't they then in turn make the United States the battlefield? Hey, that's hey man, I'm just curious. I don't know. As fair in Love and War, I thought that was the phrase.
00:14:13
Speaker 1: I think that is just the distinction is a matter of carrying out a targeted assassination surreptitiously in some way.
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Speaker 2: If you will, versus we're at war.
00:14:25
Speaker 1: You're the commander in chief, we're going to bomb specific targets for some reason.
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Speaker 2: I think that's you.
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Speaker 3: Differently, I don't believe that Iranians are worried about being hauled to the Hague to face international war crimes. True, I don't think that's like a deterrent for them, Like.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: Oh, no, they might have to, but there's the deterrent that he's gonna come. He's left instructions to wipe us out.
00:14:47
Speaker 3: Is that a I don't believe it is, because I don't believe that is legal either.
00:14:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not at all. We have a process in this country. And look, the twenty fourth Amendment is there for a reason. They can bog it now if they wanted to and think he's not able to do the job. But a dead president has no power, you know what.
00:15:07
Speaker 3: That is the most succinct, clearest way to put it. The person who would have power via the twenty fifth Amendment is none other than Vice President JD. Vance. He would immediately be given media, he'd be sworn in, he would become the commander in chief. And yes, if he chose to follow Trump's wishes and he chose to retaliate based on what Trump asked of him. Then he can make that call, but it will be his decision, not President Trump's, even though President Trump would like to believe that he can literally leave instructions, but they would be for JD Vance and up to Jdvance to follow up the way.
00:15:43
Speaker 1: You said it now, Robes, there's only one person who could see it through. JD Vance is the only one in charge, or would be the only one in charge. You make a very good point, Robes. There is no document for anybody else to follow, and something that goes in place and triggers everybody some plan. It's just JD and maybe he has JD's ear, and Jad said, yep, damn right, I'll do exactly this thing.
00:16:06
Speaker 3: Well, look, I wouldn't be surprised if if Iran was able to somehow carry out its wishes and to assassinate President Trump. I do believe that we would retaliate severely. There's no questionely. I don't look so what he's saying. I don't think it's far off from the truth. And I think Iran's very aware that we would. We wouldn't just be like, oh damn, that sucks. No, he would absolutely retaliate. We would have to defend the position of presidents, just defend everything about what we stand for as a country. So look, it's just the notion that President Trump thinks that he can control things even in death. He thinks, I think that's what's so bizarre. He actually, I do believe he believes he can still control things after his death by putting them into place now, and it does. He is talking like he believed it's almost inevitable. I mean, like the words he's using, the way he's writing about these newest assassination attempts. And yes, he does consider it a badge of honor. I do believe that. But he's acting as if he believes it is almost not even just possible, but likely, like he's running out of time.
00:17:21
Speaker 1: He's been and we know this, and we can say this. We watch his social media very closely. He has been robes obsessed here lately, with age, with youth, with his robes, with I guess the end being near. He's been putting up random throwback pictures of him as a younger man, talking about how young he looked compared to other presidents in their heyday.
00:17:46
Speaker 2: And it's just it's an.
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Speaker 1: Odd obsession robes, and I guess it's a natural human thing.
00:17:52
Speaker 3: You get older and you start to see your friends die. Lindsey Graham's seventy one, nine years younger than him, drops dead. We don't know all the detail tells about that, but I wonder how much that will impact him even further because that news just obviously happened this morning or that we heard of. So look, this might just be the beginning of more obsession about age, impending death and the limited time he has left and the impact he still wants to make, and he is certainly trying to do so. But yes, we know that the president wants certain things to happen, even despite his demise, but we know that that is not the way this country operates. So yes, just please, and.
00:18:31
Speaker 1: You say, I want to correct, he missed it. You still around at eighty. I just want to make sure nobody was going to grab that and run with it.
00:18:38
Speaker 3: My apology said, thank you very much, No, but yes, just always interesting. We encourage everyone to take a look at President Trump's truth social You learn a lot about the man who is leading our country. And it's daily, daily, all right, with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
00:19:01
Speaker 1: Ucation published Incations
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Sunday, July twelfth, and it sounds serious. I knew fresh plot by Iran to possibly assassinate the President of the United States. And President Trump's response, I hope you'll miss me. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: You have to take something like this seriously. And then you hear the President make some comments. This has been a wild little back and forth in Robes. This seemed to rise to the level because of what happened with Air Force one coming from Turkey, So we have to take this seriously. But the President is commenting and it sounds like Robes. He's a He almost rewrote his will to include instructions on what should happen upon his death.
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Speaker 3: Yes he has. That is exactly what he is doing. He is leaving us all instructions on what to do in case he's assassinated by Iran, and he's almost being not almost, he is being flippant about it, saying hope you'll miss me.
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Speaker 2: Flippant is a good word.
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Speaker 3: And maybe it's somebody who has survived three assassination attempts who understands that, yes, it's no secret Iran has wanted to assassinate President Trump since twenty twenty. Yes, and they have made no bones about it. At Comanie's funeral this week, people were holding up banner saying Trump will die. You know they want him dead. That is not a secret. Everyone knows this. But to hear the President this week when he was in Turkey tell reporters they want to take out the US leader me, I'm on every list I saw this morning. I'm on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I've been a little bit lucky. But maybe that doesn't last very long.
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Speaker 1: Flippant is a good word, and I didn't put enough. I didn't give enough credit to the previous assassination attempts. And how that maybe is his mind. This comes with the territory, I guess obviously, if you're the president of the United States, this has However, Robed, I really do think it was Air Force one, and we started asking questions, and then the President was making comments at the natal summon in Turkey and robes he takes as a badge of honor that people want to kill him. Yeah, the way he kept talking about it, Yes, I'm number one when everybody's a missed.
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Speaker 3: He always wants to be number one, and apparently even on a kill list. He has before talked about those before him who have been assassinated as great people, as memorable people, and he doesn't mind being on that list.
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Speaker 1: So he is apparently smack dab on it to get you caught up here. And why this is of significant note right now, Robes, is because there is probably Robes.
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Speaker 2: Right now we're.
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Speaker 1: Seeing the most significant escalation of fighting since the first ceasefire was put in place some time ago. Robes, we are back on the cusp of all out war again, absolutely, so that is significant.
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Speaker 2: All of that.
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Speaker 1: Right, you do this, we go into Turkey.
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Speaker 2: So let's start.
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Speaker 1: I guess with the plane we know, the new It looks gorgeous, don't get me wrong, the new Katari jet. Yes, it sounds funny that a Katari jet is now the new air Force one.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but that's where we are. And yes, and the fact that he was so proudly flying Yeah, I he took his inaugural trip to South Dakota Mount Rushmore. That seems fitting, but yes, flew it overseas and then in some bizarre switch through that had a weird competing story based on who you spoke to about the whys. But it doesn't make sense other than the reason that was given to us, I guess initially, which was that, yes, there was a security concern.
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Speaker 1: Well, the first reason that was given to US was that they just wanted to take the new Air Force One over to some local air bases in the region in Europe so that US troops could toure it.
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Speaker 3: That was President Trump's version what happens that he said that, but there was a very different story coming from actual officials within the government. They said that there was a security concern, and then they said that the new Air Force One didn't have basically all the security bells and whistles that the old Air Force one had. That doesn't make a lot of sense. It seems like they were trying to do some sort of decoy, like there was a real concern that they needed to make sure that whoever was targeting President Trump didn't know which plane he was on.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's fair, and I think that's to limit how much you tell people. Sure is okay the story about the troops just touring the plane was, but what do you do? He said at the time, But he was also Robes. He said, every chance he got, yep, I'm number one on their risks, their list, they're after me. He kept dropping those notes. So that gets just called up to where everybody's asking questions, what is going on?
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Speaker 2: What is happening.
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Speaker 1: This brings us to now Robes that we're getting word that this all might have come about because Israel whispered in our ear.
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Speaker 3: Yes so, And in fact President Trump tried to refuse that in an interview he gave to the New York Post saying no, no, no, no, it wasn't Israel. But the Wall Street Journal is reporting this. Several other news outlets are reporting that Israel absolutely is behind this new fresh intelligence about just how close Iran is to following through with its constant threats to target and assassinate him.
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Speaker 1: Jea so roapes Israel a very close ally, very close started the war with Israel. So they tell the US, hey, we got some fresh intelligence that they're after you, that they're trying to kill President Trump.
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Speaker 2: They have to take that seriously.
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Speaker 1: However, there is some reporting from seeing In and others but that the threat wasn't specific, It was more about a general idea of a desire rather than having an actual plot and a plan to do so. Also, there's a suggestion by seeing in Rose that Israel, this could just be a ruse.
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Speaker 3: By Israel to get us back into the war because we were obviously de escalating, We had a ceasefire, we had an agreement in place, and Israel, we know, was not on board with that, said, hey, we're not in a cease fire with Iran. They didn't like the idea of it, and so could this have been a ruse? They knew exactly what to say to Trump to get him fired up, to get him back into the war and back at firing missiles at Iran.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy to think he's being manipulated in that way. I look at these levels, I guess I don't put anything. It's hard to believe that Israel would do that. Let's let's let's toy with and let's manipulate Trump. We know how to play to his ego, we know how to get what we want.
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Speaker 3: Had three assassination attempts on his life that we know of.
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Speaker 1: But there is that suggestion out there that is some direction and in reporting that, in fact, they are considering the possibility. Some officials are that maybe this was Israel that behind that was behind it. Well, Trump at least is speaking, he's doing interviews. And then one the quote you just gave, but wrote his social media is a true social post. Yeah, he made clear what his desires are if he were to be assassinated Iran.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and we'll read you what he put out on his true social and then there is a ton of reaction and a reality check to what he said. Here was his post. One thousand missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian government act on its threat pronounced in many corners of the globe, to assassinate or attempt to assassinate the sitting president of the United States of America in this case me in all caps with an exclamation point. Orders have already been given, and the US military is ready willing and able for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran. And then in all caps, he writes, Praise be to Allah. Why why? First of all, this is delusional, because there is no such thing as a dead man switch, which is what he is basically saying, Yeah, if I get assassinated by Iran, this button's getting pushed boom. So this is where he is right now. And look, he does seem to believe that he can leave instructions and there won't be anything left. And he said something like this before.
00:08:26
Speaker 1: He's been talking about this Iran. The talk about Iran wanting to take him out is not anything new. This is new because we are in wartime right now. This is new and different because of the escalation recently. But he's been talking about this for years. Hes talking about it right after he got into office. He has put on the record previously that there.
00:08:43
Speaker 2: Is some plan in place. Is that a real thing?
00:08:46
Speaker 1: He keeps telling the public that.
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Speaker 3: And it's strange because I know a lot of people in their wills leave how they would like their funeral to take place, or what they would like in their will for the money to go to this person or that person. It sounds almost as if he's creating a will, a personal will, but with with international implications. It's almost like he can push a nuclear button posthumously. It's almost like he has that in his head.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: Oh. He has said it repeatedly. Robes.
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Speaker 1: He said it as if there was a document sitting somewhere with the list of things to do robes.
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Speaker 2: What is he talking about again? Here?
00:09:31
Speaker 1: Wipe them out, completely, decimate and destroy all areas of Iran. The military is ready for a one year period of time just to blombe them indiscriminately and NonStop for a year until the country no longer exists.
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Speaker 3: This is where I worry about his mental health because does he actually think that this is a real threat. Anyone who has any understanding of how the world operates knows this isn't possible. So for him to make this threat and somehow think he's scaring Iran into not assassinating him, I you know, I know people have you know, when they're concerned about someone, maybe their husband or their wife killing them, they'll leave a letter, you know, in case of my death, and they'll you know, have he did it? And here's why and all these It's almost like he's got this in case of my death, and it's a warning that has no bite to it. It's just words. It makes him look weak.
00:10:34
Speaker 1: This is strength to the president, and there's a lot of tough words. It's Sunday, as we sit here, just wait till Tuesday. Wait for Taco Tako Tuesday.
00:10:44
Speaker 3: Always always, actions speak louder than words, and in that sense of things, in action speeds louder than words.
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Speaker 1: There's no reason for Iran to be shaken in the boots over over his words.
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Speaker 3: It's like I've said this like when you're a parent, the one of the things my mom and dad taught me from the beginning, They're like, never ever threatens something if you can't follow through, And when that child disobeys you, when you've put out a specific threat, you have to follow through with the consequence, or you now have zero authority, you have zero credibility. And that is exactly what he's proven time and time again. So this latest post seems insane to me.
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Speaker 1: Is that a deterrent for them to target him? Is it a deterrent because ooh better not because there's a document in place and they're all gonna come kill us all?
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Speaker 3: No, because he keeps threatening to unleash hell on Iran if they don't do this or that, and then when they don't do this or that, he extends the deadline.
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Speaker 1: What was the one that got everybody going an entire civilization.
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Speaker 3: Is that the one an entire civilization will be wiped off the map. And then he moves the goalpost on.
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Speaker 1: Tuesday it happens.
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Speaker 3: This is silly to me. He's dead. He can't move to goalpost.
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Speaker 1: Well, can he cannot present actually leave sitting orders. Can a president give orders, like you said, Robes, posthumously attack a country? Well, the president thinks yes. And as Robot just mentioned, there's really not a dead man's switch, at least it's not in the constitution. All right, we continue here on this Sunday with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Roobes.
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Speaker 1: We're talking here about standing orders. I mean, I would be very concerned. I don't want anybody to take out the president of the United States.
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Speaker 2: I would hate to.
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Speaker 1: Think of what would happen, What could happen if something like that didn't take place. We have been targeting the Iranian regime, taking out everybody in charge.
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Speaker 3: Funeral was this past week.
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Speaker 1: That the US targeted the leader of another country, took him out, celebrated. Is it legal to take out the president of the United States in wartime?
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Speaker 2: Is he fair game during war?
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Speaker 3: I would say we would have to say yes.
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Speaker 1: I think the answer is no. I think it's no based on covert assassinations. If it's a matter of the commander in chief out on the battlefield kind of a thing. I think there's some distinction in international law about a covert assassination poisoning his drink if you will, versus a targeted air strike in the middle of war.
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Speaker 2: I think there is a distinction.
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Speaker 1: No, you're not supposed to go around assassinating leaders of other countries.
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Speaker 2: You're not supposed to.
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Speaker 3: You're not supposed to. But we're doing it.
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Speaker 1: Well, we call it bombing, we call it wartime, legit targets, is what they say. But if Iran dare try to shoot at.
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Speaker 3: The White House, I don't understand the distinction.
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Speaker 1: They're on the battlefield versus he's.
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Speaker 3: The battle field. We made Iran the battlefield. Why couldn't they then in turn make the United States the battlefield? Hey, that's hey man, I'm just curious. I don't know. As fair in Love and War, I thought that was the phrase.
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Speaker 1: I think that is just the distinction is a matter of carrying out a targeted assassination surreptitiously in some way.
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Speaker 2: If you will, versus we're at war.
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Speaker 1: You're the commander in chief, we're going to bomb specific targets for some reason.
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Speaker 2: I think that's you.
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Speaker 3: Differently, I don't believe that Iranians are worried about being hauled to the Hague to face international war crimes. True, I don't think that's like a deterrent for them, Like.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: Oh, no, they might have to, but there's the deterrent that he's gonna come. He's left instructions to wipe us out.
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Speaker 3: Is that a I don't believe it is, because I don't believe that is legal either.
00:14:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not at all. We have a process in this country. And look, the twenty fourth Amendment is there for a reason. They can bog it now if they wanted to and think he's not able to do the job. But a dead president has no power, you know what.
00:15:07
Speaker 3: That is the most succinct, clearest way to put it. The person who would have power via the twenty fifth Amendment is none other than Vice President JD. Vance. He would immediately be given media, he'd be sworn in, he would become the commander in chief. And yes, if he chose to follow Trump's wishes and he chose to retaliate based on what Trump asked of him. Then he can make that call, but it will be his decision, not President Trump's, even though President Trump would like to believe that he can literally leave instructions, but they would be for JD Vance and up to Jdvance to follow up the way.
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Speaker 1: You said it now, Robes, there's only one person who could see it through. JD Vance is the only one in charge, or would be the only one in charge. You make a very good point, Robes. There is no document for anybody else to follow, and something that goes in place and triggers everybody some plan. It's just JD and maybe he has JD's ear, and Jad said, yep, damn right, I'll do exactly this thing.
00:16:06
Speaker 3: Well, look, I wouldn't be surprised if if Iran was able to somehow carry out its wishes and to assassinate President Trump. I do believe that we would retaliate severely. There's no questionely. I don't look so what he's saying. I don't think it's far off from the truth. And I think Iran's very aware that we would. We wouldn't just be like, oh damn, that sucks. No, he would absolutely retaliate. We would have to defend the position of presidents, just defend everything about what we stand for as a country. So look, it's just the notion that President Trump thinks that he can control things even in death. He thinks, I think that's what's so bizarre. He actually, I do believe he believes he can still control things after his death by putting them into place now, and it does. He is talking like he believed it's almost inevitable. I mean, like the words he's using, the way he's writing about these newest assassination attempts. And yes, he does consider it a badge of honor. I do believe that. But he's acting as if he believes it is almost not even just possible, but likely, like he's running out of time.
00:17:21
Speaker 1: He's been and we know this, and we can say this. We watch his social media very closely. He has been robes obsessed here lately, with age, with youth, with his robes, with I guess the end being near. He's been putting up random throwback pictures of him as a younger man, talking about how young he looked compared to other presidents in their heyday.
00:17:46
Speaker 2: And it's just it's an.
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Speaker 1: Odd obsession robes, and I guess it's a natural human thing.
00:17:52
Speaker 3: You get older and you start to see your friends die. Lindsey Graham's seventy one, nine years younger than him, drops dead. We don't know all the detail tells about that, but I wonder how much that will impact him even further because that news just obviously happened this morning or that we heard of. So look, this might just be the beginning of more obsession about age, impending death and the limited time he has left and the impact he still wants to make, and he is certainly trying to do so. But yes, we know that the president wants certain things to happen, even despite his demise, but we know that that is not the way this country operates. So yes, just please, and.
00:18:31
Speaker 1: You say, I want to correct, he missed it. You still around at eighty. I just want to make sure nobody was going to grab that and run with it.
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Speaker 3: My apology said, thank you very much, No, but yes, just always interesting. We encourage everyone to take a look at President Trump's truth social You learn a lot about the man who is leading our country. And it's daily, daily, all right, with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roboch alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
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