Victor Davis Hanson: Iran in Shambles, Rubio Targets Regime Families, and the Return of the Impeachment Hoax
4/18/20261 hr 27 min
CNN and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes are of the opinion that President Donald Trump, who has chosen the sword over the pen, will get a far worse deal out of the mullahs in Iran than his predecessor, Barack Obama. What did Iran get out of its deal with Obama, you might ask? For 10 years, Iran was sanctions-free, making $500 million a day in petrochemical sales. Thanks to figures like Ben Rhodes, it was like a “bonanza for the Houthis, Hamas, the people in Syria and Iraq that are their proxies, and, of course, Hezbollah,” argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” What did Iran get out of Trump in his first term? Crippling sanctions and a dead Revolutionary Guard leader. What did Iran get out of Trump in his second term? A dead ayatollah, decimated offensive capabilities, and a half-destroyed government begging America to come to the negotiating table. PROMOTIONS: 👉If Victor Davis Hanson is must-watch for you, The Signal Sitdown belongs in your feed. Bradley Devlin delivers long-form conversations on Washington’s biggest fights—from an unapologetically conservative perspective. Subscribe now!https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉Watch The Tony Kinnett Cast NOW! LIVE weekdays at The Daily Signal and wherever you get podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjMHBev3NsoV3kHckydY58R7TaYsizl45v 👉America is worth preserving. Do your part and act now by going to https://www.heritage.org/beautiful 👉Switch your cell phone provider to Patriot Mobile, and you’ll help grow a movement that fuels the Christian conservative cause. Go to PatriotMobile.com/VDH or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code VDH for a FREE MONTH of service!https://patriotmobile.com/partners/vdh 👉Use code VICTOR at the check out and get 35% off your order at https://www.purehealthresearch.com/ WHERE TO WATCH: 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest editions of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2iOoN0xoOoSNvDFlpLLYGY?si=5a9f369acc874c6e 👉 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/victor-davis-hanson-in-his-own-words/id1566731706 👉 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/VictorDavisHansonInHisOwnWords?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o 👉 Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSami Wink· Host0:00
CNN has been supporting the view that Trump will ultimately get the same deal or worse than Obama had. And so the implication, I think, is, is that the war was unnecessary.
Victor Davis Hanson· Host0:13
Yeah, that's being peddled by the former deputy national security advisor for Obama, Mr. Rhodes, Ben Rhodes. But this is so absurd that we have all these people who hate Donald Trump, or they think they're gonna win the midterms by leveraging this. Chuck Schumer has a whole list of all the things that went wrong. Now he throws it away, and he gets another one because they're all right now. There are things in play right now, major changes of thought, ideology, philosophy, politics that are radical right now. They're changing. People have had it with this Soros crime philosophy, critical legal theory. They've had it with the DEI critical race theory. They've had it with NATO. They've had it with Iran. It's like a huge jigsaw puzzle of the world, and somebody threw it up in the air, and now the pieces are all being reconstructed, but maybe in a different way. I don't know. It's very exciting to be r- alive at this time because I think in a year from now, the United States and the world are not gonna look the same.
Sami Wink· Host1:10
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome. This is Victor Davis Hanson, In His Own Words, and we are on our Saturday edition. So welcome