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Tue Episode #2281: — Trump Admits the Economy Was Sacrificed for the Iran War
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- The David Knight Show
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- Jun 9, 2026
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- 7345
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──────────────────────────────────────── [00:04:00] Trump Told NBC He 'Had to Take a Turn' and Choose War Over His Good Economy — He Admits the Inflation Was His Decision Knight: he said the quiet part out loud — I could have kept the good economy but I decided to destroy it for the Iran war. It is purely a PR calculation. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:18:00] 55% of Trump's Own 2024 Voters Want the Iran War to End — He Told the Farmer Who Can't Afford Fertilizer That They Still Love Him Knight: 70% of farmers can't afford fertilizer; Trump's response was loyalty — they still love me. Cognitive dissonance cultivated by the MAGA media for years. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:30:00] Trump Said 'No New Wars' Over and Over — Tucker Carlson: He Also Shut Down His Own Butler Assassination Investigation Carlson: Trump installed loyalists in every key position yet shut down the investigation into his own attempted murder — no non-sinister explanation exists. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:42:00] LA Election: Mail-In Ballots Moved the Socialist From Third to Second, Ousting the Strong Second-Place Candidate Knight: a candidate leading strongly on election night was moved out of the runoff as mail-in ballots were counted — the same corrupt vote-by-mail system Trump created in 2020. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:55:00] SpaceX IPO Prices at Nearly $2 Trillion — It Would Need $1.1 Trillion in Revenue to Justify That, 60x What It Made Last Year SpaceX lost $4.9 billion in 2025 on $18.7 billion in revenue; Amazon's record is $742 billion. Knight: it is the doge of the stock market. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:08:00] Iran War Costs $750 Per Household So Far — Airlines Are Paying $100 Billion More for Jet Fuel T…