Larry Johnson : Trump Afraid of the Zionists

Added: 2026-05-27

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[00:01:02]Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Npalitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Tuesday, May 26, 2026.

[00:01:10]My longtime friend and collaborator, Larry Johnson, joins us now. Larry, uh, a pleasure as always. I want to talk to you about Trump and uh the control that the Zionist lobby has over him. But before we get to that, couple of significant military events over the weekend. How significant uh was the US uh attack on Iranian speedboats which killed some u revolutionary guard sailors?

[00:01:39]>> Yeah, the situation's deteriorating. uh this look the uh the entire ceasefire which was went into effect roughly April 15th. I mean the initial phase was April 7th but April 15th brought in Lebanon as well. That was one of the demands of Iran. Well, that's out the window.

[00:01:58]Israel's on full-blown attack now against targets in Iran. Uh and they're going to they're going to level southern Iran if they southern Lebanon if they can. So then this back and forth yesterday with uh Iran and the United States, it's not an isolated incident.

[00:02:16]The United States is continuing to run uh active aerial patrols up and down the straight of Hormuz. And so I think it's just a matter of time before before it breaks out into the full-blown conflict, probably by the end of this week.

[00:02:31]So, uh, when Trump says or Rubio says we're close to a deal, is this one of those, "Oh, let's manipulate the markets and make some money."

[00:02:41]>> Yeah. No, that's exactly what it is.

[00:02:43]This is Iran's positions are very clear. Again, this is like dealing with the Russian.

[00:02:50]What is the Russian position on ceasefire? Iran has stipulated unfreeze frozen assets. That's number one. And you know, people need to understand a lot of those frozen assets came from weapons purchases that the Shaw made in his last year that was owed to Iran. And then when the Islamic Republic was established, the United States refused to come fulfill the deal, but they kept the money. Okay.

[00:03:19]>> Those frozen assets go that far back.

[00:03:23]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I Iran Iran was Iran was Saudi Arabia before Saudi Arabia was Saudi Arabia. By that I mean the major purchaser of US weaponry, you know, billions of dollars. So, you know, I've used the example, it's like, you know, you give me a quarter of a million dollars for a Lamborghini and then I don't like your politics and I say, well, I'm not giving you the Lamborghini, but I'm keeping your quarter of a million dollars. That's that's where a large portion of these frozen assets came from. So, you got the frozen assets. Uh, second is immediate sanction relief. The United States keeps talking about, well, we we'll we'll see if you comply with the agreement. Iran's been down that road before with the JCPOA. They signed on PE. You know, they keep being told that was such a terrible deal. That is a lie. That's just a blatant lie by Trump and those around him. People should go back and read that agreement. It was very detailed, very precise and in fact pretty ownorous as far as it was the requirements levied upon Iran but and then they were promised sanctioned relief which never came. So Iran's saying, "No, we're not we're not, you know, giving you a hamburger today for promises you're going to pay on Tuesday or or next Wednesday." No, no, no. We want it now.

[00:04:44]>> Thank you, Wimpy. Right.

[00:04:46]>> Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. And and then uh the the third element that the that's non-negotiable is the war has got to stop in Lebanon. The Israel has got to stop. The United States has got to put the brakes on. The United States has that power. United States refuses and the as we've seen throughout this uh so-called ceasefire that's now completely bankrupt. Uh that the United States refuses to exercise the leverage over Israel that it has. And and then the fourth element is Iran's going to continue to uh charge, let's call them resort fees or or user fees, environmental fees. They're not going to charge a toll, but any ship that's going to pass through the straight of Hormuz is going to pay money to Iran. It's going to be paid in either the Iranian currency or Chinese yuan.

[00:05:35]>> Right. Right.

[00:05:37]Um and and and the point of all that is those four those four basically four conditions for Iran. I don't you know United States is not going to accept those because the Zionists will not let Trump accept those.

[00:05:53]>> Here's here's the archionist uh Ben Gir. They're not going to stop in Lebanon if it's up to him. Cut number six.

[00:06:04]>> Sirens for manned aircraft. explosive drones.

[00:06:07]We must not accept this reality. We must not normalize it.

[00:06:11]We already know how it ends when they tolerate and adapt to a routine of terror.

[00:06:18]Not this time. This madness must stop.

[00:06:22]I call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[00:06:26]You must reach out to Donald Trump immediately. go to him directly and lay every single one of our concerns out clearly on the table. Make it perfectly clear that the state of Israel is not willing, absolutely not willing to accept and we refuse to tolerate this any longer. We are not willing to continue these endless campaigns. Our ultimate goal is to achieve a decisive and final victory in every one of them.

[00:06:56]We need to cut the electricity in Lebanon.

[00:07:02]My goal of course is greater Israel.

[00:07:04]>> Gee, was he just talking about a final solution? Sounded like it.

[00:07:09]>> Wow.

[00:07:10]>> And I mean that kind of language out of him is disgusting.

[00:07:14]>> Yes.

[00:07:14]>> And and and it underscores that, you know, Trump is the daddy here. They go to daddy and and Trump has Trump has it in his power to stop this, but instead he continues to enable it. Well, Larry, we've played this for you. When Trump says Netanyahu will do whatever I want him to, he really has that in reverse.

[00:07:36]>> Yeah. Yeah. Right now, it's uh as I I wrote over the weekend, there are 200 I can give you 250 million reasons why.

[00:07:45]And that refers to the amount of money that Miriam Adlesen allegedly gave uh to the Trump campaign. But it's not just it's not just Aden. It's Paul Singer.

[00:07:54]There's a whole collection of Jewish billionaires that are uh ultra Zionists that are levying their pressure on Trump. And we saw just when when the word started over the weekend that there was the possibility of a deal uh congealing coming into place, boy, social media just exploded. Trump was getting savaged and hit hit, you know, from all sides. the Lindsey Grahams, the Ted Cruz's for starters, but uh you know, so it's just a reminder coming on the heels of the defeat of Thomas Massie in Kentucky by a Zionist lobby that you know, if Russia exercised this kind of influence over the US political system and over US political leaders, you know, we we would have started World War II.

[00:08:44]Instead, America is just pliant. They they go along with it. they accept it and people, you know, like me and others who speak out against it are are attacked.

[00:08:55]>> Here's um Joe Kent reinforcing his own reasons for uh resigning at uh almost sounds like it's a it's a Ray McGovern gathering, a rage against the war event on Memorial Day yesterday. Chris, cut number five. So, I I made a a promise to myself in my 20s that I I never knew I'd actually have to cash in at some point. I promised myself if I was ever in a position to keep to prevent young men and young women from going into a needless word that I would speak out that I I would do do something. Fast forward 20 plus years and I found myself in that position. I found myself uh in President Trump's administration, was honored to be there, was leading the National Counterterrorism Center. It was a job I felt was very important because we knew of real terrorist threats that are that have only gotten worse because of this war. Um, but I wanted to actually help President Trump deliver on his campaign promises and watching a foreign government, watching the Israelis march right in and basically dictate terms to us and manipulate American intelligence, manipulate the media, manipulate those around President Trump to put us into this war. I knew that I had to leave. I knew I had to start speaking out because I couldn't stand by and watch more body bags come into Dober.

[00:10:07]>> Manipulate. Manipulate. He's an intellectually honest guy. Did his boss resign for the same reason? She just didn't say it.

[00:10:14]>> Effectively, yes. Because look, it wasn't just, you know, Tulsi resigned two weeks before her her other assistant Amarillis uh Kennedy, I think it's Amarillis Fox Kennedy. Uh she is the daughter-in-law of Robert F. Kennedy, but she had been a CIA officer, a covert, you know, clandestine officer.

[00:10:35]So, uh, and it looks like the person that's, uh, uh, been put in place, uh, who is now the acting DNI is someone with, uh, uh, sympathies towards, uh, Israel. I'll put it that way.

[00:10:52]>> Wow. Uh, let's, um, switch gears if we could. The other significant military action over the weekend was the use of an arashnik against um against Ukraine. Is Vladimir Putin finally taking the gloves off, Larry?

[00:11:11]>> Oh, yeah. No, we're in we're in a whole new uh we're in a whole new uh era as far as this war. It has turned the corner. uh this this warning, you know, the warning started two weeks ago with Dimmitri, Ambassador Dmitri Polanski uh when he he was on Danny Davis's podcast and and laid out very, you know, pretty clearly that, you know, Europe was now going to be in the crosshairs that that message was reiterated by then Sergey Ripkov, the deputy foreign minister, two or three days later. what Lavough did yesterday in calling Rubio it goes beyond just saying uh we're taking the gloves off it is and this I I think this some people have complained well why didn't Russia do this before I think there were two primary reasons Russia has not been hitting these targets previously but now they're going to number one Russia had intelligence assets inside each of those facilities ministries organizations call them what you will and so Russia you know if it's going to attack them could you know it would have to give those guys or gals a head up heads up and you know that that could expose that operation so so they that was one reason I believe the leading them to pull back because they were getting they they calculated more intelligence out of those organizations then uh it would be more costly if they if they attacked them and and and lost lost that at that point.

[00:12:42]>> What organizations are you talking about? Ukrainian intel, >> everything. Intel, military, general staff. Uh, you know, Russia's got outstanding intelligence capability.

[00:12:52]>> C, CIA, >> um, that I don't know. U, at least they'll have people they'll have intelligence officers in places in Ukraine where CIA officers are operating. We'll put it that way. And that that then is the second factor.

[00:13:09]Previously, Russia didn't hit these centers because there were a lot of NATO officers. There were a lot of CIA personnel, other U US personnel, and Russia didn't felt if we if we kill if we attack these centers, kill all these foreigners. That's going to run the risk of escalation. They're now past that.

[00:13:29]They're going to escalate. They are going to hit those that but they've warned they they always go through they dot the eyes. They cross the tees. They follow international law. They warned them if get your people out. These areas are now going to be targeted. And it's not talking about just blowing up a the the Rada, you know, some legislative building. No, they're going to they're going to go after the actual neural network that constitutes the intelligence and military side that that has kept the Iraq the Ukrainian army intact so far. Is this why foreign minister Lavough called Secretary Rubio and told him you better take the call even if you are in India?

[00:14:12]>> Yes. Well, absolutely. This is this is the um I I don't want to say the equivalent of a declaration of war but it is uh it's a it's a transformative point watershed moment in this now four four year fourmonth war. So, uh, you know, and Rubio, I'm not sure Rubio got the message or understood the gravity of it, but, uh, you know, I was, uh, uh, Scott Ritter, Andre Martiano, and I, we were all hosted last night on a, on a podcast to talk about this, you know, sort of the fresh reaction, and we all agreed this is um, this is a moment that is um, that is going to change the face of of the war and that it could actually accelerate the end of it. So the because we'll find you know I I do not believe I I I trust uh in our friend Ray McGovern. He says if you want to know what the Russians are going to do, listen to what they say and what they said yesterday was unequivocal. Get your people out. We're going to hit those centers. I don't think they're bluffing.

[00:15:26]>> Very uh very interesting.

[00:15:30]Why would the Ukrainians have uh like the Americans did in Iran, attacked a school and and killed school children?

[00:15:39]>> I mean, that's unforgivable and it arouses the wrath of a people. We all know what happens, the reaction to something like that.

[00:15:48]>> Well, I got some insight into that yesterday just uh serendipitously contacted by somebody, you know, who watches us uh you know, the regular follower of the judge. um uh West Point grad uh a Mustang. That means, you know, he he served as an enlisted guy and then went into West Point, uh came out, was an intelligence officer, did you know did his time, retired, but he he told me yesterday, he says, you know, what's the what's happened is the use of AI for targeting. He says that wasn't being used a year ago. It's being used now. And the problem with AI is it's a garbage in garbage out system just because that it collects all this data but if the data itself is bad or or unreliable you can come away with a false confidence and apparently uh that has you know that's played a factor both you know and palunteer is at the center of this that that played a factor in the attack on the school the same way that it did on the attack on the Iranian school uh in in in Tehran, the Midlub.

[00:16:58]So, uh what we're seeing is perhaps an over reliance on technology. That is one explanation for this.

[00:17:08]>> Wow. Uh back to Iran. Uh is anybody throwing Trump a lifeline?

[00:17:15]>> No. Well, uh, what's going on behind the scenes? Pakistan is playing a major role and we saw two was it on Saturday there was a there was a train bombing in Pakistan by the Beluchcci liberation army. Uh, when you dig into the history of the Beluchis, now they're they live on both in Pakistan and in Iran. So there it is an ethnic group. They've been seeking their independence, but uh they've had longstanding ties more than 45 years with Israel and Mossad. And MSAD has been very active with him. And in the past, in fact, there was one notorious case where two MSAD agents went into the Baluchi, one of the Beluchcci areas claiming to be CIA officers that were carrying US dollars and recruited these people. So they thought that they were doing carrying out intelligence operations for the United States and they've been used to carry out terrorist attacks uh in Iran.

[00:18:17]You can't you cannot rule out that as a result of Pakistan's increased role right now in promoting a new security architecture in the Persian Gulf working at really at the behest and in tandem with the Chinese that they were targeted by MSAD as a sort of a retaliatory warning. You know, you keep this up, there's more to follow. But the the Pakistanis and Saudis have entered into an agreement that reportedly includes a nuclear umbrella that uh you know this is not publicly reported yet but this is what I've been told by someone familiar with the discussions that both the Saudis and Qataris are now starting to distance themselves from the United States. That's the ultimate objective here. Push the United States out uh of the Persian Gulf. So this uh and in that regard you know one of the one one of the interesting you know subtexts here that people don't are not aware of that I forget it was two three years ago but there was the the the Gulf Arabs turned against Qatar they were trying to cut off trade and and to hurt Qatar and the country that supplied Qatar with some you know if you will humanitarian aid was Iran. So, uh, just because they're quote Gulf Arabs doesn't mean they all have a natural affinity for each other.

[00:19:46]And Iran has always had a pretty good relationship with Qatar. And Qatar is significant because that is the site of the largest US military base in the region. That base is still active. So whe if that if Alouded uh is closed, that is going to be a significant blow to US capabilities in the region. Do you think Donald Trump has the remotest idea of all the forces uh he set uh in motion uh and all the how fruitless his efforts will be?

[00:20:21]>> Uh no, in fact he doubled down yesterday, you know, over the week.

[00:20:25]Yeah, it was yesterday insisting that or in his conversation Sunday late Sunday with all the the Gulf Arabs with Turkey Turkey with Egypt that hey y'all need to sign on to you got to if you're going to do this you got to sign on to the Abraham according he was telling them and Saudis wasted no time coming back saying no and hell no others did too they made it clear that the there's not going to be any raw pro with Israel until the question of a Palestinian state and Palestinian freedom is addressed. And until that time, there's not going to be any Abraham accord there'll be no recognition or peace with Israel. the the issue of the Palestinian people, their right to exist, their right to a homeland, the right to a state, that must be addressed by the United States, by Israel, or else there will be no there will be no uh peace uh between the the Arab countries and Israel.

[00:21:31]>> Larry, thank you very much, my dear friend. Uh we have a marathon of a day today, as you know. Yeah. Yeah. You need you're going to need a nap in here sometime.

[00:21:43]>> Just about. And I truly appreciate your modifying your schedule to accommodate us. Uh we'll see you Friday uh with the aforementioned Ray McGovern on the intelligence community round table. All the best, my friend.

[00:21:57]>> Yeah, I think we'll have something to talk about by then.

[00:22:00]>> I think we will as well. Yes. Thank you.

[00:22:02]>> Okay. Bye-bye.

[00:22:03]>> Bye. Uh coming up at one o'clock this afternoon on all of this. You just heard Larry talking about him and I know he's dying to explain all this in his unique way. Scott Ritter at 2:00. Matthew Hoe at 3:00. Colonel Karen Quatkowski. Just Npalitano for judging freedom.

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