The former U.S. Army Europe Commander Ben Hodges is demanding that Donald Trump confess right now, or it will come out regardless when the Democrats take control of the Congress. That is, Donald Trump's relationship with Putin. Former U.S. Army Europe Commander Ben Hodges says, "I think that Donald Trump has been bought off." Of course, I can prove it with documents, but it's quite clear to me that Trump is somehow being pressured by Vladimir Putin. I think he's been bought off. The president can either admit it now and say, "Yes, I'm on Putin's side," or he can drag this out as long as possible, and hope his successor will protect him from criminal prosecution. But Hodges says he expects that the Democrats, once they take control of the House and the Senate, will be able to smoke this out. Again, U.S. Army Europe Commander Ben Hodges says, "We've never had a perfect president, but having a president who is not only corrupt himself, but also allows others to be corrupt is an incredible disgrace." This is as the Trump regime ordered illegally all of this Russian diesel, although we hear these tankers that were carrying the Russian diesel ship, ended up going to different ports as it became increasingly clear that there were no U.S. corporations that would touch that illegal Russian diesel. This also comes at the same time that Vladimir Putin's number or top adviser, one of his top advisors, Karel Demetriyev, who runs the Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and who also is the envoy to the United States, was in the White House with Melania Trump in front of the presidential seal while Melania Trump was essentially saying that Ukraine steals all of these Russian children. And yes, Russia also steals Ukrainian children, but Melania says, "Be cost of her and all the great work she did, she's reuniting all of these children." The Ukrainian position is we're not stealing any Russian children. They're stealing our children, and now they're having the Ukrainian children who were kidnapped, fighting the war against Ukraine, and they're getting killed on the front, while Melania is like, it's just a both sides issue, and also Melania using this purported small ceasefire in Olesky as a propaganda point for the Kremlin and for Putin, as the Trump regime hosted an individual who was on a war criminals list, Yani Lachanotova, who was known as kind of the Russian arm that has been involved in the kidnapping of the Ukrainian children, and Melania called her a great humanitarian. And this also comes at the same time, where Moshen-Razai, the top advisor to Iatola Mojtaba, Kulmenei, has been in the Kremlin meeting with Vladimir Putin, where they discussed military cooperation, economic cooperation, like building more gas pipelines, building more railway, connecting Russia with Iran, talking about helicopter parts, talking about surface-to-air missiles that Russia may be providing Iran with, intelligence cooperation, more of a security umbrella involving Russia and China, but Melania was great, and Trump was great to have the Karel Demetri of the number two hosted at the White House in front of the presidential seal. Ben Hodges, on German TV, and here's what Ben Hodges said about these midterm elections, that Putin thought that it had wrapped up the U.S. administration to do all of its bidding, but this election now is very problematic for Putin, because Democrats are not going to fund Donald Trump's cooperation with Putin, and the Democrats, and perhaps working with some Republicans are going to push for not funding the defense department until the Ukrainian support is given. Here's what Hodges says, let's play it. Yes, they thought they had wrapped up a U.S. administration to do their bidding. I mean, looking at everything the president has done over the last two years, it's like a wish list for the Kremlin. They got out and everything they could have possibly wanted. That's over. I think it will be very difficult. It should be very difficult for the administration to keep doing all the things that they have done. These deals and things that damage bad for Ukraine, that are bad for a relationship with Europe, and frankly bad for the United States. I think Vladimir Putin has to be very disappointed. More from Hodges over here saying that much of what's been happening by the Trump regime over the past two years will likely be found to be illegal. Play this clip. I anticipate that we'll also see a lot of investigations, frankly, looking into what the administration has been doing with Russia, Ukraine, so much of this of what's happened over the last two years, I think is probably going to be found to be illegal if not entirely inappropriate. What consequences would this have? It would be found out, for example, that whatever action he did with Russia was illegal, so what would that mean? Well, of course, if it's illegal, then there can be subpoenas. There can be indictments that could come out of this. It could be handed it over to law enforcement. I think you're going to see the administration people beginning to protect themselves, looking for pardons in advance, or somehow to distance themselves from all of this. More from Hodges over here talking about the terrible two years we've been through. Let's play this clip. Look, people should be comforted by the fact that Americans, our democracy is resilient, and we went through a terrible two years, and we still have two more years of Trump. I can't predict what will happen in two years after that. The Europeans need to, of course, address their own security and their sovereignty. More from Hodges about what he expects Congress to do. Let's play it. I think this is an example of the area, one of the areas where the Congress will assert its authority with hearings, with investigations, putting pressure on the administration to follow through on the sanctions package, for example, against Russia. At the end of the day, the president is the president, but the Congress can influence things with these hearings and investigations, putting attention on it, questioning, and then, of course, they can use one thing to influence another. They can block other things that the president was if he doesn't do what the Congress intended when it comes to support the Ukraine. And, frankly, most Americans, and certainly, most members of the Congress support Ukraine. So I would imagine that this will be an area where the administration is going to have to relook at its approach towards Russia, as well as Ukraine. And I imagine that Mr. Whitcoff and Mr. Kushner are going to be how on the list of people getting investigated by the Congress. You know what's get an absolutely ridiculous the cost of car repairs. Cars today are basically computers on wheels and one little sensor goes bad. Suddenly, you're looking at a repair bill for thousands of dollars. Nobody needs that surprise. 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Didn't just, you know, cater to whatever Trump wanted it and I think People that have done that really look foolish now. So I think what the bonus counselor know there's how they Handle themselves and dealing with Trump is gonna be For them even more respect And I hope that what they will do is Follow through on what they have said about support for Ukraine and put pressure on the US To do that and now you'll have a congress. I think and also though frankly some Republicans who were scared of Trump. They're not gonna be scared of him anymore. Now he's lame. Don't Alame more from Hodges over here says I think and this is the former US Army commander of Europe I mean it's the top army guy the top army officer in Europe. This is not like a low-level guy He was the guy in Europe for the US army and he said look Unfortunately Donald Trump is still the commander in chief at least for the next two years But Congress controls his money and they got to cut him off your play this clip technically There's no change. I mean he's still the commander chief the secretary of defense still reports to him What what will be different is the availability of the funding? I would be surprised if the Congress would still pass a 1.5 trillion dollar budget Without some very very strict accountability for um Or what happened to the 47 billion they spent only around this year already so That would be the main thing is on budget and then on some policy But a lot of people talking about Mr. Hicks have this being the number one target or impeachment He's gonna be he's gonna be having a rough January, February that's for sure Now, I want to give a hat tip to Ukrainian reporter Maria Olena Voska who asked a the question that I think should be asked to the Ukraine human rights commissioner in the United States Which is why does the White House and Melania Trump continue to treat Ukraine as stealing Russian children when there's no evidence that that happened There is evidence that Russia kidnapped Ukrainian children and brought him into Russia now has them fighting against Ukraine But why is this being treated as a both sides issue and you know you'll see this Ukrainian official basically saying We can't speak to the specific language that's being used about that, you know, but look we're trying to get back Ukrainian children, so you know if that this is if this is what Melania is doing and we know they're doing propaganda for Russia But at least for us on balance, okay, they could do the propaganda for Russia But we're getting back the children, so we have to balance that here's what he says play this clip if the first lady is Missled in this question or how do you think this influence is the perception of the crime of Russian Federation by Decorating so many thousands of Ukrainian children. Thank you. Uh Ukraine as the state never the lock The going out from Ukraine on territory the citizens of Russian Federation. I know that's a lot of families Russian Families before this war before 2014 From the period from 2014 till 2022 after 2020 to absolutely easy Uh went out from Ukraine through Moldova Uh through Belarus We never blocked the Russian children, so I don't know why the White House uses this category like Um Russian Ukrainian children on on On from our side we appreciate that Melania Trump um Assisted returning back several groups of Ukrainian children from Russian territory And she did it and continue to do it it from 2025 The first Ukrainian the first group of Ukrainian children that's weird to gather returned back in 2025 Uh, it was unique group because we Uh, that started our collaboration From maximum hardest cases And all these groups were Uh, uh, children that's before we tried Returned back from Russian territory through another partners and other negotiators without success So when Melania Trump joins this initiative now we have for maximum positive for Uh, result and We uh, we will continue to do it and yes, uh, yesterday in a meeting, of course, we Discuss the issue of far Ukraine own children right and just to show you the photo right here This is Yana Latronatova at the White House with Melania Trump yesterday And then picture too is Yana Latronatova deciding which Ukrainian babies essentially to steal Um as Russia's invasion of Ukraine when they took those territories They they took the Ukrainian kids with them back into Russia and a lot of those kids are actually fighting the war right now Let me know what you think hit subscribe. Let's get to Seven million subscribers. Thanks for watching. It's finally here WTF America the book I wrote with my brothers is out now It's about how we got into this hell and how we get out scan the QR code click the link in the description We're finding anywhere books are sold and order your copy today
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