Transcript: Trump’s Rage at Iran Takes Scary Turn—Even MAGA is Rattled
As Trump’s threats of escalation in Iran worsen, a former State Department official explains why the deeper dynamics surrounding the trap ensnaring Trump are so alarming.
The New Republic 06/29/26
"He threatened to bomb all Iran’s bridges and power plants, and said explicitly that the entire population of Iran might soon be without electric power.
There’s a temptation to dismiss moments like these as bluster. But we can’t let ourselves lose sight of what exactly he’s threatening to do, just how sociopathic these threats really are, and just how terrible it is that the media is now largely numb to them.
This all comes as some MAGA figures are warning against escalation in some surprising new ways as well."
Its excerpts from an interview between
former State Department official Emily Horne
and host, Greg Sargent.
Horne:
"I think they’ve shown that there’s a real willingness on their end to pass the cost of this war to the Iranian people, which, as terrible as that is, is a major asset for them. They are not particularly troubled by their own people’s suffering."
(Might as well be talking about US.)
Sargent:
Well, in that context, let’s check out something Trump just said on Fox News. He starts by saying, I could knock out all the power plants, then it keeps going from there. Listen to this.
Donald Trump (voiceover): I could knock out the power plants within one day. All of their power plants would be gone. And I let ‘em know that, you know, with negotiations. They say, look—people want me to do that. I think about 91 million people without power, without bridges, with that to live. And it’s a very, very delicate balance. So I think we have a very strong position right now. They know I’m going to do that if they don’t make a deal. The bridges are going to be gone. Literally, in less than a—I would say in two hours, most of the bridges, the major bridges, will all be gone. And the power plants in one day."
"Sargent:
Emily, I could be wrong, but I think this might be the first time that Trump has explicitly said not only that he’d knock out all the power plants, but also clarified that he really means knocking out electricity for all of Iran’s 91 million people. He said that. And that would be like a humanitarian catastrophe of unthinkable proportions. What would actually happen if he did that?
Horne:
So if Trump were to follow through on his threats to attack Iranian civilian infrastructure like power plants en masse, then you would likely see an immediate and mass humanitarian crisis that would affect at minimum tens of millions of people. Remember, Iran has a population of almost 91 million people, many of whom are outside of the center capital of Tehran."
"Sargent:
I just want to make one other point about this. I think in the West, in advanced democracies like ours, we think to ourselves, OK, knock out a power plant, it could just get back up and running pretty quickly. But that really isn’t the case here. It would sort of depend on what exactly Trump did. But if he really decided to make good on his threat—and again, he said this on the air on national television—if he really decided to knock out power for 91 million people and really demolish a whole lot of power plants, it would take probably months, if they were lucky, to get them back up and running. So we’re talking about a humanitarian crisis that would extend for months and months and months, right?
Horne:
Absolutely. Probably years, probably generations, in fact—especially if you’re widening the aperture to talk about things like the effects of having tens of millions of people turned into refugees in their own country. I mean, that’s tens of millions of lives that are permanently disrupted. And the ripple effects of that are absolutely staggering to comprehend."
"But I also want to make another point here,
that what he is proposing is a war crime
under both international humanitarian
and human rights law,
and importantly under U.S. law."
(This is why this is so different.
The evil on this earth right now
does not care if you know
what it is going to do.
IT JUST DOES NOT CARE.
Why?
Because it knows its going to accomplish
what it is supposed to:
Revelation 17:17
for God
has
put it into their hearts
to carry out
his purpose
by being of one mind
and handing over
their royal power
(power he gave them)
to the beast,
until the words of God are fulfilled.
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"what he is proposing is a war crime...
importantly under U.S. law."
This is just one point
of about 50 BTW of:
Revelation 13:2
"the dragon gave his power
and his throne and great authority."
Pointing to you know who:
"Iran’s already survived months of American bombing campaigns. And I see no evidence that more airstrikes, or bigger airstrikes, are going to eliminate their nuclear ambitions, or force them to surrender the Strait of Hormuz, or dislodge the new regime that is in place in Tehran. The only thing that more bombs are going to do is prolong this war, further destabilize the Middle East, and continue to drive up costs for everyday Americans."
(So thats exactly what we should be expecting...)
Sargent:
"I just think we can’t really rule out the possibility that he makes good on some of these threats to start destroying infrastructure."
(They are already planning on it
