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Scott Ritter : Israeli Genocide Update.

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	Hi, everyone.
	Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
	Today is Monday, July 28, 2025.
	It's good to be back from my brief vacation.
	Thank you for watching.
	Much appreciated.
	Thank you for the kind notes many of you sent wanting to know where I was.
	Scott Ritter will be with us here in just a minute with the latest on Israel and genocide.
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	Scott Ritter, thank you very much for joining us, my dear friend.
	I do want to explore at some length your understanding of what might be a realization on the part of the Israeli people that their leadership has been engaging in the most horrific genocide in the modern era.
	But before we do that, just about two hours ago, President Trump at an endless press gathering seated next to Prime Minister Starmer at one of Trump's golf clubs in Scotland, effectively threatened President Putin by saying, I gave you 50 days to end this war.
	Now I'm giving you 12.
	Does Trump have the slightest understanding of the special military operation, the history of Russia and Ukraine, and the personality of Vladimir Putin to think that he could threaten, materially threaten him like that?
	Well, Trump is somebody who has an ability to reimagine facts and history any way he finds convenient at the moment.
	This is a man who knows full well who is responsible for the conflict in Ukraine.
	He is, Donald Trump.
	He can look in the mirror every morning, and if he allows himself to remember back to when he was president in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and remember the policies that he implemented, the offensive weaponry he sent in, the CIA bases he authorized to be built and why he authorized them to be built,
	the fact his military was training a battalion of Ukrainian troops every 55 days for the sole purpose of eastward to fight and engage Russians in Donbass, to quote an army person, to kill Russians.
	Donald Trump is the reason why there is a conflict in Ukraine today, but he has conveniently forgotten that.
	This is a man who imagined a conversation with Vladimir Putin, who imagined a conversation where he said, I will bomb the bovine excrement out of Moscow if you dare make a move on Ukraine.
	He didn't say that.
	He never had that conversation.
	But this is a man who lives in a fantasy world of his own construction.
	So here we are, Donald Trump trying to build another fantasy world where he has apparently the ability to be his way and make Vladimir Putin back down.
	But he's going to run head on into hard reality.
	Putin doesn't back down.
	I mean, Putin isn't looking for a fight.
	Putin actually is trying to avoid a fight.
	He didn't want this war to begin with.
	It was the Russians who bent over backwards to look for every possible off-ramp towards this conflict imaginable.
	It was the United States, both Trump and Biden, that failed, that they were seeking conflict.
	And now Putin has said when this war ends, it must end forever.
	We don't want a forever war, which means that the root causes of this conflict must be addressed.
	Things like NATO membership, things like a NATO-trained army, things like NATO-backed Nazi government.
	All of this has to go.
	And the Russians aren't going to yield on this.
	This is an existential issue.
	And this is what Donald Trump fails to understand.
	This war is an existential war for Russia, meaning that Russia is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve the outcome they are seeking.
	Is Donald Trump willing to bet the future of 340 million American citizens on this conflict?
	Because that's what he's doing.
	Putin will not back down.
	I mean, the Russians have said over and over again, there are things that will happen that will trigger our nuclear doctrine.
	We don't want to trigger our nuclear doctrine.
	These are actions you will take.
	But if you take them, you trigger it.
	For instance, the lunacy of Christopher Donahue, the commander of U.S. forces and NATO ground forces in Europe, threatening the Russian exclave of Kaleningrad.
	We can take it out.
	No, you can't.
	The second you touch it, all of Russia comes after you.
	Would a four-star general making a threat of invasion, even a hypothetical one, Have needed the permission of the Secretary of Defense of the President of the United States before he can make a statement like that?
	One would believe at this, because this was made at a conference, and one would believe that he has passed that his PR people have passed his comments, prepared comments and prepared answers for any anticipated questions through the Department of Defense for staffing.
	It would also should go up through the National Security Council if there was a functioning National Security Council to get the White House chop on it.
	I believe that Christopher Donahue believes that he had permission to say what he says, which means that it's disturbing that there are people in Washington, D.C. who believe you can actually threaten Russia and that it would work.
	It won't work.
	What is the status of the Zelensky regime now?
	That is, how stable is it?
	And what is the status of the Ukraine military?
	Well, I mean, it's not a good day to be Volodymyr Zelensky.
	You know, you have or had, I don't know what the status is today of the demonstrations, but for a while you had the population of Ukraine rising up against you because you passed new laws that seem to outlaw or ban anti-corruption organizations in a way that made it look like we're having a phrase here.
	all right so scott is trying to talk to us but the internet gremlins are interfering What do you want to do, Chris?
	Well, when Scott comes back, I am going to ask him to start talking to us about Gaza and the absurd hand-wringing on the part of President Trump and Prime Minister Starmer just about two hours ago,
	bemoaning the existence of starvation in Gaza, when, of course, it is the United States government that is funding the military that is causing the starvation, because in the opinion of the American government, B.B. Netanyahu can do no wrong.
	So Scott is attempting to reconnect as I understand it.
	And as soon as he does, we'll resume our conversation.
	In the meantime, I will be talking to Scott about this peculiar recognition of the existence of starvation, but the refusal to recognize the cause of the starvation, which is the nonstop and continuous delivery of American military equipment without any strings attached to the Israeli government.
	Let me play for you a clip, which is from Sunday.
	This is Speaker Johnson and then Congressman Massey, because we're going to talk with Scott about the geopolitical implications of Epstein.
	So you have the Speaker of the House of Representatives complaining that Republicans and Democrats, a majority in the House of Representatives, want the House to subpoena the Epstein file.
	Then you have Congressman Massey defending that.
	So Chris, cut number 10 and then cut number 10.
	Thomas Massey is suggesting that this is some sort of watershed moment.
	We are all on the same page trying to advance the truth, full truth and transparency.
	And the idea that he's suddenly so concerned about it is curious to me.
	He waited until President Trump was elected to bring it to the corporate.
	Hypocritical?
	Seems that way to me.
	Well, Congressman Massey, let me turn to you.
	What say you?
	Are you being hypocritical by demanding this now and not sooner?
	The release of the Epstein files is emblematic of what Trump ran for and why he got the populist vote.
	There seems to be a class of people beyond the law, beyond the judicial system that operates outside of all of that.
	And we all thought that when Trump was elected, he would be the bull in the china shop and that he would break that up and bring transparency.
	Frankly, it wasn't until just recently that I realized that people who were allegedly working on this weren't sincere in their efforts.
	And also, politics is the art of the doable.
	There's enough public pressure right now that we can get 218 votes and force this to a vote on the floor.
	Somebody should ask Speaker Mike Johnson, why did he recess Congress early so that he didn't have to deal with the Epstein issue?
	This is going to hurt Republicans in the midterms.
	The voters will be apathetic if we don't hold the rich and powerful accountable.
	I think when we get back, we can get the signatures required to force this to the floor.
	Speaker Mike Johnson said do the right thing and just bring it to the floor and not require us to force it.
	And he'll have a choice once we get those 218 signatures.
	Is he going to try and change the rules of the House of Representatives midstream or not?
	If he does, that becomes the vote for the American people.
	Congressman Kahn, I'm out of time, but yes or no?
	Will it pass?
	It will pass.
	So in your absence, because of the power issues and the internet issues, I was speaking about the geopolitical implications of the Epstein scandal and its potential reach into international politics.
	But before we go there, I want to finish up on Trump and Gaza.
	I mean, I want to move to Trump and Gaza.
	How disingenuous was it for the President of the United States to be hand-wringing with the prime minister of Great Britain over starvation in Gaza when Trump is the principal cause of it?
	It's 100% Hypocritical Donald Trump, if this was a just world, Donald Trump would be labeled a war criminal, arrested, tried before an appropriate tribunal for crimes against humanity.
	He is not only facilitating genocide through starvation, he is the architect of genocide through starvation.
	This is a man who, you know, when he first put out his insane concept of depopulation of Gaza, I thought it was just a ploy.
	I mean, I talked about it with you, and I said, look, he's just putting out a ridiculous ploy to get a counteroffer from people, but now he's acting on it.
	He's done this in collusion with the Israelis who've straight up said that they are going to starve them out, starve them, the Palestinians, out.
	This is American policy.
	This is Israeli policy.
	And it's criminal in the most obscene definition of the term.
	Donald Trump is a criminal.
	I mean, we can't excuse this as Americans.
	We simply can't excuse this, nor can we tolerate this, and yet we do.
	Our silence is condemning to everybody.
	We are starving people to death to achieve the depopulation of a region that, which the whole concept of this is in total violation of everything we stand for as a people, everything humanity is supposed to stand for collectively.
	This is the kind of gross criminal activity on a scale that approaches what we would expect from Adolf Hitler.
	Yes, I am comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.
	Take a look at the taking down of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis back in World War II.
	Compare and contrast that to what's happening right now in Gaza.
	It's the same philosophy, same tactics, the whole thing, the brutality of it all.
	So, no, he gets no slack on this.
	Donald Trump should forever be condemned wherever he walks as a war criminal who facilitated genocide of the Palestinian people through starvation.
	One of his supporters in the House of Representatives, I really never heard of this fellow before just the other day, Congressman Randy Fine, F-I-N-E, a Republican from Florida, actually put out on his own Twitter account, okay then, starve away.
	Do you believe that until then, release, there it is, release the hostages, until then, starve away.
	This shows, I think, how widespread is the depravity amongst people in the American government that they could make a statement like that.
	Basically, if you, anything you say that could be perceived to be in defense of Israel is a defensible statement.
	Again, in a just world, Randy Fine just earned himself a spot at the gallows.
	Literally, this is a hanging offense, especially if he is voting in support of policies that sustain the starvation of the Palestinian people.
	But Randy Fine is just an extreme example of a sentiment that is seen throughout.
	Lindsey Graham has earned a spot at the gallows.
	Marco Rubio has earned a spot at the gallows.
	Anybody who is silent in the face of this genocide has earned a spot on the gallows.
	It's disgusting.
	It's sickening.
	And the fact that he can make this statement and not be hounded out of office and hounded out of civil society, forever condemned as the most base criminally motivated person ever.
	Could you imagine somebody saying this about black Americans?
	Starve out the ghettos about Indian Americans.
	Starve out the reservations about white Appalachia.
	Starve out the coal miners of West Virginia.
	No, you wouldn't get away with it.
	So why in God's name do they get away with it by saying starve out the Palestinians?
	It is disgusting.
	And anybody who doesn't condemn it is disgusting.
	Senator Graham not only lacks a sense of morality, he lacks an understanding of history, as you'll hear in just a minute.
	And he advocates for an invasion of Gaza.
	Chris Cutt number five.
	I think Israel's come to conclude that they can't achieve a goal of ending the war with Hamas that would be satisfactory to the safety of Israel.
	And if they're going to do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin, take the place by force, then start over again presenting a better future for the Palestinians, hopefully having the Arabs take over the West Bank and Gaza.
	But I think going forward, Christian, you're going to see a change in tactics, a full military effort by Israel to take Gaza down like we did in Tokyo and Berlin.
	But the Russians took Berlin and Tokyo surrendered because we slaughtered innocents by dropping atomic bombs on two other cities.
	But Senator Graham obviously has a different understanding of history.
	But do you believe that?
	He's not talking about an invasion.
	I believe it because this is Senator Graham, one of the worst human beings ever.
	I mean, the citizens of South Carolina hang your heads in shame.
	This is who you voted for.
	This who represents you.
	And he represents the United States of America.
	Listen to his words.
	Do you really support these words?
	Do you really support that sentiment?
	I mean, this is a man.
	He was an Air Force lawyer who on occasion, you know, deployed overseas so he could prosecute people and, you know, get claims of being a war crime supporter.
	But he didn't do anything.
	He got medals he didn't deserve.
	And that's his whole approach to the military.
	He wears a uniform so he can parade around in a party and do whatever he wants to do in uniform, but he's not a warrior.
	He doesn't know anything about being a warrior, what it means to be a warrior, and what the consequences of war is to a warrior.
	He's talking about the invasion of Gaza.
	First of all, if you care about the Israeli troops, that would be the last thing you'd be asking them to do because that's like asking German pioneers to make the final assault on the Berakati factory in Stalingrad.
	All right.
	It's a death sentence.
	It ain't going to happen, Lindsay.
	And you'd know it If you knew a damn thing about war, if you carried a weapon in your arm for one moment, humped a couple miles with 90 pounds on your back.
	But you've never done that, you fat perfume princess.
	I mean, this guy is out there talking about things he doesn't understand and it disgusts me.
	But it's not just that he doesn't care about the Israelis because he doesn't care about the Palestinians.
	There are civilians out there, hundreds of thousands of civilians in harmed way.
	It is a war crime to be talking about what, and he should know this.
	He's a damn lawyer.
	He knows what the laws of war are, and he knows that every word he says is impermissible under international humanitarian law and is impermissible under the laws of war as instructed by the United States Judge Advocate Corps to officers such as himself.
	He's a disgrace as an American, a disgrace as a lawyer, a disgrace as a human being.
	Is there a thread between Epstein, Mossad, and Iran?
	The threat is what our mutual friend Gerald Solante so astutely observes, when everything else fails, when the world is collapsing around you, you take the country to war.
	Will Donald Trump bomb Iran to get people's minds off of the Epstein scandal?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I interviewed somebody the other day, Ryan Dawson.
	I think you know him.
	And he is very knowledgeable on the Epstein affair, more knowledgeable than I am.
	And Ryan makes a compelling case that the Epstein file, the Epstein, the whole Epstein saga is an Israeli intelligence activity designed to blackmail, to corrupt American politicians and then blackmail into doing things, and that the corruption crosses the aisle, Republican, Democrat.
	It goes into the business community, into the political and economic elite of the United States at the highest levels and in depth.
	It appears, I mean, circumstantial evidence, as you knew, Dudge, is sometimes enough to convict somebody.
	I don't like it, but the president, the circumstances of the way his administration has changed their tune and the way he's seeking to deflect away from the Epstein case and the doubling down on stupidity, such as threatening war with Iran, threatening war with Russia, I think reinforces the validity of Gerald Salante's analysis.
	Wow.
	Does Trump cheat at golf?
	He's the biggest cheater in golf in the world.
	And just so people understand the context of this, you know.
	Yeah, why did I ask you this, man?
	Because of a Ritter rant just a few minutes ago that captivated me, Scott.
	Well, I didn't want to do it.
	My wife keeps telling me I need to learn to hold my tongue.
	But, you know, I've been playing golf my entire life.
	And I've learned a couple of things, but one of the biggest lessons of golf is that I can learn more about the integrity and the quality of a person by playing around the golf with them than I can by doing anything else.
	And I'm not talking about the quality of golf played.
	There's people I've played golf with who are single-digit handicappers who are cheaters.
	And if you cheat at golf, you cheat at life.
	That's the bottom line.
	Golf is a sport where the only referee is yourself.
	It's only you and the ball.
	And that ball could be in the sand trap.
	And only you know that your club grounded in the sand and therefore it's a stroke.
	And only you can call that stroke on yourself.
	Donald Trump is a cheater.
	There's a video out where it shows one of his caddies throwing a ball down the grass and Donald Trump walks up to it as if he found it and it's his own.
	That is a violation of everything golf stands for.
	Donald Trump has a history of winning club championships.
	He didn't play in.
	People about how he cheats at everything.
	And if you cheat at golf, you cheat at life.
	You cheated arms control.
	You cheated diplomacy.
	You cheated business deals.
	This man is the president of the United States.
	And I think it's imperative that we understand the character of this person.
	Because, as I said, golf isn't just a good walk spoiled, as a famous author once said.
	Golf is the ultimate test of a man's integrity under conditions where only he knows whether he cheated or not.
	Scott Ritter, thank you, my dear friend.
	Sorry about the little glitch we had.
	Thank you for jumping right back on.
	Much appreciated.
	Look forward to seeing you again soon.
	Thanks, Judge, and welcome home.
	Well, thank you.
	Thank you.
	All the best to you.
	Tomorrow, Tuesday at 8 in the morning, Ambassador Charles Freeman at 2.30 in the afternoon, Aaron Monte at 3.15 in the afternoon, Colonel Karen Kwodkowski.
	And at 4 o'clock, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

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