{"id":46738,"date":"2026-07-31T01:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46738"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:30:39","slug":"transcript-trump-failures-pile-up-and-aides-leak-hes-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46738","title":{"rendered":"Transcript: Trump Failures Pile Up, and Aides Leak: He\u2019s \u201cFrustrated\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/213729\/transcript-trump-failures-pile-up-aides-leak-he-frustrated?u=&amp;ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/da821894ae3ff5ba7eef979ee303f294a334fa57.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:183px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>As Trump\u2019s aides leak his frustrations on Iran and his push to jail James Comey flounders, a legal observer explains how Trump is confronting the limits of his powers on many fronts as once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/213729\/transcript-trump-failures-pile-up-aides-leak-he-frustrated\">Transcript: Trump Failures Pile Up, and Aides Leak: He\u2019s \u201cFrustrated\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A senior official says Trump is frustrated by his failure to get Iran to budge, to the point of wanting to order a heavier attack on Iran. But he and his advisors decided against it because it could further deplete our weapons stockpiles. And David, get this: Trump told advisors that he fears that an escalation could cause a global economic meltdown and, quote, \u201cturn me into a Hoover,\u201d as Trump put it.<br>That\u2019s a real admission. He doesn\u2019t have the power to force Iran\u2019s hand, and he\u2019s acknowledging that Iran has leverage over the global economy. And it\u2019s, of course, because of what he did, right?<br>&#8230;<br>And part of it too, as you suggest, is that it\u2019s not just Iranian interests versus U.S. interests. It\u2019s like this triangulation of Iranian interests, U.S. interests, regional interests, Trump\u2019s own personal political interests. <strong><em>And there\u2019s no way for him to sort of do a 3D chess move on any of that. I mean, this is beyond his capability. It\u2019s beyond how he even thinks, right? Negotiation for him is a zero-sum game. And I think the longer Iran holds out, the harder it is for him to figure out how to make sense of it, given the prism he looks at this through<\/em><\/strong>.<br>&#8230;<br>I\u2019m thinking about things like the high-seas strikes on drug smuggling boats. I\u2019m thinking\u2014you talk about areas with unfettered power\u2014I\u2019m thinking special operations activities around the globe. <strong><em>I\u2019m thinking other military actions or activities we might not know about. And I\u2019m not suggesting some dark, hidden conspiracy, I just mean we don\u2019t know. And so while we are trying to gauge how well things are going, I suspect that we may be spending the next several decades unearthing things that happened during this period that we just didn\u2019t know about.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Trump\u2019s aides leak his frustrations on Iran and his push to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[815,1102],"class_list":["post-46738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ratfucker","tag-tfg","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46742,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46738\/revisions\/46742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}