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Hi everyone,
In this week’s newsletter, I go into some detail on my video with Ghost about his take on the relationship between Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Usually in my newsletters, I reference a particular theme from a video, but with this video, I pretty much give a blow-by-blow synopsis. I thought there was so much important detail, and Ghost tells the story so well, that I would lay the whole video out.
Last week, I recorded with Retired General Blaine Holt and Paul, the Ordinary American, together for the first time. I thought that this combination worked particularly well. They both seemed to connect, and as often happens with my pairings, played off each other, and built upon each other. Paul does not have as large an audience as Blaine or me...yet. He definitely deserves a much larger audience, and in time more and more people will come to appreciate how sharp and cogent his analysis is.
The last video I reference is the first recording with Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Tom Luongo – all three together for the first time. This was a lot of fun for all of us, as each proffered their sharp analysis on world events.
As I tap this out, I am conscious of the fact that at some point this week, the number of subscribers that I have will pass 100,000. It has been quite an amazing journey! I posted my first video on Sunday 9 November 2025, at 16:01:11 UTC. It was a discussion on Mamdani between Tom Luongo and Alex Krainer that garnered about 16 thousand views in the first 3 days, and gained my new channel 350 subscribers. You can see the video here, if you wish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNN3UqsEqVA
This channel was my son’s idea. My crypto/politics-based channel that I had started in April 2017 had been struggling for years, principally because I believe I was shadow banned following YouTube’s deletion of about 160 of my videos in 2018 (or was it 2019?). Growth reversed, views dropped, subscribers slowly reduced and it never recovered. It was my son’s genius idea to do a purely political channel. He is also the genius behind the thumbnails, titles and other back-end work. A few months later, his best friend took over the editing function and the channel has continued to go from strength to strength ever since.
The day after the Rich Does Politics Live event, the channel will be one year old.
I am grateful to my son and his best friend (sometimes referred to as my sons), my wife of course, and the fabulous guests who have generously given their time to appear on my channel, sometimes at short notice, and sometimes quite regularly.
I am of course grateful to all my viewers and subscribers, without whom there would be no Rich Does Politics channel. It often baffles me why anyone would want to listen to my twittering or take any interest in my steering of the conversations that feature, but hey ho, what do I know?
Thank you all so much!
Trump’s RICO Net Just Closed On ActBlue
with Ret’d General Blaine Holt and Paul, The Ordinary American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TTDEEhYYBQ
This was the first time I had recorded with Blaine and Paul. I started by asking them if the raid on Ilhan Omar and the subpoena on Tim Walz was just Trump getting his own back by visiting on the Dems the lawfare they had visited on him.
Brig. Gen. (Retd) Blaine Holt,
EM Burlingame,
Steven E Kuhn,
Mark Attwood,
Alex Krainer
with a special guest appearance:
Tom Luongo
There will be presentations, and a live panel Q and A with all of them together!
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Watch the livestream and access the whole day’s recording!
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Paul said that if Ilhan Omar goes quiet, she has probably gone through a proffer session. He explained what this was with reference to his grandfathers, who were both bookmakers. One was a bookmaker to a notorious gangster. He explained that when a gangster gets caught, he sits down with the prosecutors and tells all. Anything he says in that room can’t be used against him. He tells them what he knows. The prosecutors decide what that information is worth and whether or not the gangster will be offered a deal.
Paul once sat down with a mob hitman, after his release from prison. The gangster told Paul that the scariest part of the proffer process was remembering everything. Leaving something out that becomes known later would kill any deal and could lead to a life sentence.
Blaine said that we should look to see who else goes quiet. If Hochul, Walz and Newsom stop turning up on the Sunday news shows, that’s a sign. It could be that a RICO case is being built, that interviews are taking place with the leading Dem players, who are getting nervous. That’s when they will start turning on each other, and some will proffer up everything in a proffer session.
Paul noted that little had been heard from Eric Swalwell. When he was a Congressman, his girlfriend, Fang Fang, turned out to be a Chinese spy. She has reportedly been picked up by the FBI at an airport. Paul suspects that Swalwell is talking, and trying to give up as few people as possible for as much leniency as he can get in return.
Here’s the bit that stayed with me. Paul said these people have never had to worry about getting caught. Not for generations. So the muscles atrophied. They didn’t cover their tracks. Handwritten notes. Discoverable texts. Fifty-one intelligence officials signing a letter about a laptop.
Paul said that he once had dinner with Steve Wynn, the casino magnate. As they were eating, Wynn looked round his casino and said to Paul that if people quit while they were ahead, he wouldn’t have a business. Paul said people like Omar, Walz and Swalwell have never had to worry about getting caught. What happens is that people get away with something small, and then they get away with something bigger, and then bigger again, and like a gambler who never leaves the table, one day it all comes crashing down and they lose everything.
As to whether this is lawfare or not, Blaine said the Democrats had written the rules themselves over the last six years and were now hanging by their own petard. Paul said that we would soon find out if Omar et al had broken the law.
Watch this space.
Ordinary American’s Links
youtube.com/@OrdinaryAmerican-y6q
https://x.com/TheOrdAmerican
https://www.270towin.com
Blaine Holt’s Links
https://www.dangerousintellectuals.com
https://x.com/DangerThinking
https://x.com/the_irascible
youtube.com/@DangerousIntellectuals
No One Is Talking About What Trump JUST DID To Netanyahu
with Ghost (Badlands Media)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgb29QWUzdw
Ghost from Badlands Media came back on the channel to talk about his assessment of the nature of Trump’s relationship with Netanyahu. His core thesis is that how Trump actually views Israel is not what we’re being shown on MSM. We had scheduled 45 minutes for this conversation, but Ghost provided so much detail which was so compelling that we went on for twice that amount.
Ghost started with a clip from 3 May 2017 when Trump, only a few months into his first term, was hosting Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Abbas had signed the Oslo Accords back in 1993. Trump said to Abbas: you signed the first peace agreement, and I want to support you in being the leader who signs the final one. According to Ghost, this was Trump declaring that he was going to liberate Palestine.
Ghost then gave a short account of the history of the Oslo Accords. Arafat had decided in 1988 that the PLO were never going to defeat Israel, so the only way forward was to coexist. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, and a former IDF general who’d spent his whole career fighting Arafat, came to the same conclusion that resolution could only come from diplomacy. This realisation led to the Oslo Agreement. Under that agreement, Israel would withdraw from the Occupied Territories by 1998. Palestine recognised the state of Israel. Israel never recognised Palestine.
In 1995, a young man went on Israeli television holding up the Cadillac hood ornament from Rabin’s car. If we can get to his car, he said, we can get to him. Weeks later Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli. The man with the hood ornament was Itamar Ben-Gvir. He is now Netanyahu’s national security minister.
Netanyahu became Prime Minister after Rabin in 1996, and has been the prime minister on and off ever since. Since October 7th he has bragged that he was the man who made sure that the Oslo Agreement never got fulfilled.
Ghost said that in 1998, in the run-up to the Oslo Agreement, Arafat had declared that he did not want to fight anymore. All of a sudden, out of the blue, a street gang turned up in Gaza that said that it wanted to fight for Palestine. I said that I suspected the City of London was acting through its proxies. Ghost said that this group, called Hamas, came from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Seventeen days after hosting Abbas in Washington DC, Trump visited Riyadh before he visited Israel. This was a diplomatic slap in the face to Netanyahu. Ghost showed footage from Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Trump barely shook Netanyahu’s hand. He wouldn’t look at Netanyahu and walked off. Netanyahu looked shaken. According to Ghost, the two have known each other for forty years, going back to Fred Trump (Donald Trump’s father) and New York’s Jewish community. Trump was supposed to kiss the Israeli Premier’s ring; this he didn’t do.
I asked Ghost about all the actions Trump had taken in support of Israel and the Zionist cause: moving the US embassy to Jerusalem; the weapons, logistics and intelligence the US supplies to Israel; Adelson’s money for Trump’s campaign; the US assault on Iran; Trump not reining in Netanyahu. Ghost said that these are all fair criticisms. He made the point that Israel is so powerful it can destroy a person’s reputation, their family, their bank account. We cannot expect Trump to just stand up and announce that the US is done with Israel. That would end his career, not Israel’s grip on the US polity. Instead, you have to show people.
Ghost told me that during the Reagan years, Edwin Meese (Reagan’s Attorney General) and his Chief of Staff, Mark Levin helped Mossad get hold of PROMIS. This was case management software built for the Department of Justice. They passed it on to Mossad who had it rebuilt in California with a backdoor that allowed secret access. Robert Maxwell then went round the world selling PROMIS to intelligence agencies, banks, arms companies, governments. One purchaser was Credit Suisse, which was a bank the CIA used for money laundering. Bulgaria bought PROMIS. This was where the Soviets made their weapons. Israel could now see everything: who was laundering money, who was buying guns, who was setting up which proxy. Mossad now had compromat on everybody.
Like Epstein, Robert Maxwell was a creation of British intelligence, according to Ghost. He was given the money in 1953 to buy Pergamon Press and was a faithful servant right up to his death when he drowned off the coast of the Canary Isles in November 1991.
In 1998, Maxwell brokered a deal for Semion Mogilevich, a Ukrainian mafia boss, to launder $100 million into failing Israeli companies in exchange for citizenship. Money from drugs, guns and prostitution. Israel had been set up as a socialist country, with a closed economy that was collapsing by the late 1980s. The money from Mogilevich, according to Ghost, was enough to save the floundering Israeli economy.
Russian Jews began to arrive in large numbers through the 1990s. They formed their own party, which backed Netanyahu and merged with Likud in 2003, with Ron Dermer’s help. (Ron Dermer has been a close associate and advisor to Netanyahu and served as Israel’s ambassador to the US from 2013 to 2021, and then later as Minister of Strategic Affairs from 2022 to 2025.)
Ghost said that a 2010 WikiLeaks cable showed American diplomats were worried the Russian and the Ukrainian mob had taken over Likud. This could have been one of the reasons Julian Assange faced censorship and persecution.
In 2019 Netanyahu was charged with three felonies. One was a recorded deal with a left-wing media mogul for good coverage which was made behind Sheldon Adelson’s back as these media outlets were critical of Adelson who had given financial support to Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s support collapsed. There were five elections in three years before right-winger Naftali Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid formed a diverse coalition that removed Benjamin Netanyahu from power in June 2021 after more than a decade as prime minister.
In December 2022, desperate to return to power, Netanyahu amended a 1994 law that had previously banned Jewish supremacists from the Knesset. This was so Ben-Gvir and Smotrich could join his government. Ghost’s reading is that Netanyahu was desperate, and the judicial overhaul was about getting judges who would let him off. And this is where it gets dark. In the 1980s, Jewish extremist and Knesset member Meir Kahane, had planned to blow up the Dome of the Rock. He called for expelling Christians and Muslims and burning churches. When he spoke in the Knesset, others walked out. Eventually, a law was passed in 1994 that banned Jewish supremacists like Kahane from the Knesset. In December 2022, Netanyahu’s amendment allowed Jewish supremacists Ben-Gvir and Smotrich to join his government. Ghost said that this was an act of desperation on Netanyahu’s part. Netanyahu then instigated a judicial overhaul to get judges in place who would let him off.
We spoke briefly about October 7th. Ghost believes it to be an inside job. I consider it to be a false flag. Our perspectives don’t differ; they overlap.
Ghost has been saying for two years that Israel will implode from within. This process seems to have accelerated. In August 2026, Drop Site News reported that the CIA were warning that Israel was heading towards civil war. In June 2024, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that around 80,000 young ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men have no legal exemption from conscription. The first arrests for refusing conscription started about six months ago. Riots and protests have followed. This has included a mob going into a general’s house. Haredi leaders are talking about civil war if their sons are forced to serve.
I told Ghost that Rabbi Weiss and Rabbi Beck, both ultra-Orthodox, had both told me in separate interviews that Zionism is antithetical to Judaism. Zionism has not made the world safer for Jewish people, they had said. Ghost referenced a statement by Rabbi Dov Lando, who is part of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, in which the Rabbi said that Zionism has made the Arabs hate the Jews, and that things were better when the Arabs were in charge.
This internal conflict has come about because the IDF are running out of soldiers. Reservists on their sixth or seventh tour are coming back with PTSD. Businesses are shutting down because their staff are at war, and the wealthiest Israelis are leaving, whilst money continues to flow in from the US.
Ghost was scathing about attempts in the US to treat criticism of Israel as dangerous speech. To make it illegal to criticise a foreign government is insane. His view is that nobody now even argues about whether Israel controls the US government, and he credits Trump with dragging this issue out into the open.
After the assassination attempt on Trump in July 2024, Abbas wrote to Trump. Trump held onto that letter, and posted it on Truth Social hours before Netanyahu addressed Congress. Trump wrote with his big marker pen: “Mahmoud, so nice. Thank you. Everything will be good.” Ghost noticed the tie Trump wore that day, the one with blue and white stripes. He had worn it the day he hosted Abbas in 2017, and wore it again days after posting that letter. This is a significant departure from the red tie that Trump habitually wears with his blue suit.
Ghost stressed the importance to Trump of keeping promises. In his book, The Art of the Deal, Trump said that a dealmaker who breaks his word can never make a deal again.
We talked about Soleimani, who Ghost thought was a Mossad asset. Ghost’s evidence of this was the fact that Israel had arranged with the US to kill General Soleimani. In a 2021 interview with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, Trump said Mossad pulled out of the strike, at the last minute, the night before. Israeli David Barnea had run the Soleimani file for years. He called Trump and said that Israel was not going to carry out the strike. Trump was told at the time that General Dan Caine had told him that the US could do the strike themselves. Trump said, do it. Later on, Netanyahu appointed Barnea Mossad’s director. Trump later said he would never forgive Netanyahu. He considered Netanyahu a coward for backing out at the last minute.
Obama had sent Iran pallets of cash which the Iranians used to create chaos and conflict in the Middle East. I drew a comparison with the Southern Poverty Law Center. Set up in the wake of Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement to combat racism, the SPLC was so successful that it faced putting itself out of business. It then adopted the strategy of funding racist groups like the KKK, as well as their political opponents such as BLM and Antifa. This allowed the SPLC to continue to raise money, including $500m deposited in a City of London offshore banking haven. This is how the City of London makes money from both sides of the trade.
After an attack on the Palestinian prime minister’s convoy in 2018, allegedly by Hamas, Abbas cut off Gaza’s tax money. Netanyahu told Qatar that unless the Qataris gave him money, there’d be a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They relented and gave Netanyahu cash, which he then handed to Hamas. Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s Defence Minister, resigned stating that Netanyahu had been funding Hamas with about $30 million in Qatari cash a month, up to $1 billion in total. This leaves the question: who funded the October 7th attack on Israel?
Ghost then played part of an interview that aired on Israel’s Channel 12. He said that it had been difficult to find this clip on the internet. In that interview Trump said that Abbas was almost like a father to him; that Netanyahu had never wanted a deal; that Netanyahu congratulated Biden on his Presidential victory based on a rigged election. Trump also said that he stopped Netanyahu’s West Bank annexation because it was going way too far.
As for the Abraham Accords, Ghost said that Ron Dermer phoned Trump the night before the final call in August 2020 and told him that Israel was out. It wasn’t going to sign as it was election season. Trump told Dermer to put Netanyahu on the phone. Whatever Trump said, Netanyahu was on that call the next day, and signed the Abraham Accords at the White House in September.
Trump’s critics say that Trump is Netanyahu’s best friend. Why then, Ghost asked, was Netanyahu the first world leader to congratulate Biden on his election victory? Because Trump forces Netanyahu to do things Netanyahu doesn’t want to do. Under Biden, Netanyahu could do whatever he liked. On becoming President, Trump inherited the conflict in the Middle East. In Ghost’s view, Trump is letting Israel collapse under the weight of its own corruption.
I drew a comparison with my work as a child protection social worker. If you filmed me on the job, you might see me visiting a home and shaking hands with a child abuser. You would see me being polite and respectful. If that’s all you saw you might assume that Rich cosies up to abusers. What you wouldn’t see is the work that gets done behind the scenes, making sure every rule is followed so the abuser has no legal fallback; dealing with all the managerial and bureaucratic hurdles and obstacles that I have to contend with as part of the social work process. I think that serves as a fractal for Trump. There is much that goes on away from public view. Trump is not a king. He has bureaucratic and electoral and administrative and legal obstacles and obstructions to contend with. He also has to contend with a media that is in service of the City of London and its proxies, that uses every opportunity to besmirch him and distort what he is doing.
Netanyahu does not want Trump’s Board of Peace. He doesn’t want Gaza to have a multinational security force that includes troops from 4 different Muslim nations. He didn’t want the Abraham Accords or the Oslo agreement. Ghost said that the Muslims in the Middle East are in a much stronger position now than they were two years ago, learning to cooperate on their own two feet.
Elections will be held in Israel on 27th October 2027. Should Netanyahu fail to get re-elected, Ghost said that he will lose Presidential immunity and will have to go on trial. Two of the three cases against him are open-and-shut cases where Netanyahu is clearly guilty. When Trump says Netanyahu should be pardoned, Trump’s opponents say that Trump is doing Netanyahu’s bidding. Ghost sees it as a ploy by Trump to take away Netanyahu’s reason to keep the wars going. Ghost expects that when Trump finally walks away, he will be called an antisemite, which Ghost finds laugh-out-loud funny.
This video had so much detail, and was told so well by Ghost, that I asked the viewers whether Ghost and I should do a 48-hour show next time. No toilet breaks for Ghost. Ghost said, be careful what you ask for. Some of the comments were for a 48-hour show.
Ghost Links
https://x.com/GhostofBPH
https://badlands.substack.com
https://www.youtube.com/@badlandsmedia
Tom Luongo – “Macron Wants to Be The Gay Napoleon”
with Tom Luongo, Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuicKNY0B2Q
If memory serves me well, this is the first time I have recorded with Susan, Barbara and Tom together. Susan and Barbara were both pleased to be with Tom, and he was pleased to be with them. Coupled with the respect that each has for the other’s analysis, this made for an enjoyable, entertaining and informative conversation. It was only about 4 minutes in when Barbara used the word “penis”. This, according to Tom, was an indication of how much politics had degraded and how far we had all fallen. Tom said that he was “warming up for Ireland”, getting his best material out before the 7th November Rich Does Politics Live event.
Once settled, Susan pointed out that Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, did not turn up to the IMF meeting the previous week. Susan asked every AI she could find whether a Treasury Secretary had ever skipped one. None of them could name a single time. Bessent sent underlings and a written speech instead.
In her speech to the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva told the world there is no growing your way out of debt. The only way out is to impose austerity. That has been the IMF policy since 1971, Susan said. First they used it on the developing world, then on post-Soviet Russia, then on the West. Russia said no and now America is saying no. Both nations are saying no to the British System of Financial Extraction, which is what IMF policy amounts to.
Bessent also announced recently that the US is increasing its contribution to a nuclear development fund for the developing world. This is another blow to the globalist order. Empire must always ensure that the developing world does not develop its own, which starts with denying them independence and self-reliance when it comes to energy. This keeps oil producing nations dependent on the West just like any cash-crop-based economy. It also allows the City of London to profit from the price movements as it sets the global price of oil. The last thing that the City of London wants is nations that have their own independent energy supply that the financiers cannot control through their control of the banking system. Susan listed leaders who have tried to build nuclear power and then been deposed in coups: The Shah of Iran, who said he didn’t want to be a petrol station for British Petroleum; López Portillo in Mexico; Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in Pakistan. Killed, ousted or exiled.
Tom said that in the 1960s, at Oak Ridge in Tennessee, American scientists were working on thorium molten salt reactors. No plutonium was needed and there was very little waste. Unlike plutonium, thorium is cheap, safe and plentiful. There is enough thorium in seawater that it can be easily scooped up off the Florida coastline. Instead, the thorium reactor programme was shut down, and the research is supposed to have been destroyed.
Except it wasn’t. The boxes ended up in a room somewhere, nobody got round to burning them, and years later someone found them. Tom called it the perfect intersection of government perfidy and government incompetence. I laughed, but it’s not funny really. Russia and China now have pilot thorium reactor plants. Meanwhile, the US has got left behind.
Barbara then told us how, when she first went to Washington, she fought to save the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. This project was killed by an alliance of environmentalists and right-wing budget cutters acting together like a uniparty before the term uniparty had ever been uttered.
Choke points, such as the Hormuz Strait, only work if energy is scarce. Make energy cheap and abundant and the choke points lose all strategic significance. That’s why the City of London and the globalists it has spawned fight to maintain them so hard. This is also why Bessent not attending the IMF meeting is such a big story.
The sovereigntists are building a better world.
A new world is coming. Slowly. But it’s coming.
Susan’s Links
youtube.com/@UC7qUL2EsTHpNcgsz7woW9Iw
x.com/sjkokinda
youtube.com/@PrometheanAction
Barbara’s Links
https://x.com/BarbaraMBoyd
https://www.prometheanaction.com
youtube.com/@PrometheanAction
Tom Luongo’s Links
https://tomluongo.me
https://x.com/TFL1728
https://www.youtube.com/@ThomasLuongo
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