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July 29, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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AMB. Charles Freeman : Does Israel Recognize its Own Genocide?
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Hi, everyone.
Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
Today is Tuesday, July 29th, 2025.
Ambassador Charles Freeman will be here with us in just a minute.
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Ambassador Charles Freeman, welcome, my dear friend.
I missed you for the past two weeks while I was traveling in Europe.
And it's a pleasure to be back at work.
And it's a pleasure to be with you, my dear friend.
I do want to talk to you, as I said in the intro, about whether or not there is a growing realization amongst Israelis of the genocide that their government is perpetrating.
But before we get there, some interesting recent developments.
Yesterday, the President of the United States threatened the president of Russia and said, if you don't stop this, I call it a war, we're talking about the special military operation in Ukraine.
If you don't stop this war in 10 to 12 days, well, well, what?
What is this threat?
What is Donald Trump going to do to the Russian government or the Russian people or Vladimir Putin if the war is not over in 10 to 12 days and we know it won't be?
I don't know.
I don't think there's very much.
I think he's threatening to have a bit of a peak.
You know, he's threatened major sanctions on Russia, but frankly, Russia is already subject to the most amazing sanctions ever.
He's threatened to arm Ukraine.
We've been doing that all along.
And so I don't know.
I think this is just petulance.
And I don't know why anyone would take it seriously.
What does this do to diplomacy?
I mean, this is not, as I understand it, and you're the former diplomat and former ambassador.
This is your field, not mine.
I'm just the observer.
But this does not strike me as any type of sophisticated diplomacy whatsoever.
Well, there's no diplomacy.
Basically, this administration is managing international relations through the equivalent of extortion, bullying, threats.
We've just seen this dramatically illustrated by the unequal treaties, they're called, that Japan and the European Union have succumbed to.
First of all, they're not professionally reached.
There is no text to, there's no agreed text on these trade deals.
They're entirely oral.
They're vague.
They're subject in both cases to additional American actions as yet unspecified with regard to specific categories of goods.
Both basically, Japan and the EU have been forced to accept a 15% across-the-board tariff as a permanent condition of their relationships with the United States.
Can I put that another way?
The American public has been forced to accept a 15% sales tax on goods and services that it's going to purchase from the EU and from Japan.
Do you agree with it, putting that?
Absolutely.
That is absolutely the case.
I'm glad you intervened to say that, because we have the very odd situation where a tariff, which is an import tax paid for by the consumers, of the people who actually import things, is described as a tax on foreigners.
It is not a tax on foreigners.
It is a tax on us.
And the only question is how much of that tax is going to be paid for by the actual importer, let's say Costco or Amazon or one of these large companies, and how much is going to be passed on directly to the consumer.
And we're told that companies up to now have been absorbing a fair amount of the tariff increases, which of course have varied widely in the absence of any real strategy or consistency, but that they have now run up against the reality that they can absorb no more.
So you see these calls passed on.
And there's some really weird confusion here.
For example, Detroit, which has been, you know, we have Japanese auto companies, Honda making, Toyota making cars, Katsubaru making cars here in the United States, making car parts here in the United States.
These are now subject to a 15%, as you say, import sales tax.
But in addition, the steel that they need to import is going to be taxed at 50%.
So who's going to benefit from this?
Not clear to me.
So if you buy a $100,000 Mercedes, which would be a low-end Mercedes, it's going to cost you $115,000.
If you buy a $100 microwave at Walmart, it's going to cost you $115,000.
Yeah, that's probably generally true.
The confusion over the 50% tax on steel in an American-made car owned by a Japanese company might take you a PhD in economics.
It would take Jeff Sachs to figure that out.
Let me get back to something you said, which has piqued my interest.
You said that these agreements have not been reduced to writing.
How can you have an agreement of this magnitude not reduced to writing?
So we don't know what's in there?
Well, they're not agreements.
That's the point.
They are capitulations by foreigners to bullying.
There's no meeting of the minds.
There's no mutual benefit.
For example, Europeans are pointing out, and by the way, they're using the term unequal treaties to parallel the kind of impositions that were made on China in the 19th century by imperialist powers, including us, which, of course, ended up causing a revolution in China, two revolutions in China, and knocking China for a loop for almost 150 years.
Europeans are saying, pointing out that they agreed that everything they sell to the United States will be subject to a 15% import tax by Americans, but that they will not have any import tax on American imports, imports for us.
So they've given up a lot of trade in return for absolutely nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Let me get back to Trump's threat to Putin.
Here he is yesterday in the presence of, actually, I'm not a fan of Keith Starmer.
I know you're not either.
Sir Kiera Starmer, the prime minister of Great Britain.
I felt sorry for him.
I don't know if he got five words out of his mouth in a 90-minute press conference.
But anyway, should have known what he was getting involved with sitting next to Donald Trump in front of the press.
Here were the two of them yesterday.
During the course of this clip is when he says, I'm giving him 10 to 12 days.
He also says something that's rather startling, and I'm going to ask you about that.
He claims the Russians have lost a million troops in Ukraine.
I've not seen that number anywhere.
But before you comment on it, let's take a watch.
Chris, cut number 15.
Have you had any other trading channels, conversations with the Russians?
Reiterating this?
In what?
Reiterating this new pressure and deadline.
Yeah, we're going to have a, yeah, I mean, well, you're the press.
I'm reiterating it to you.
Yeah, I'd say 10 to 12 days.
I'll announce it probably tonight or tomorrow.
But there's no reason to wait.
If you know what the answer is going to be, why wait?
And it would be sanctions and maybe tariffs, secondary tariffs.
You know what a secondary tariff is.
And look, the Russian economy.
I don't want to do that to Russia.
I love the Russian people.
They're great people.
I don't want to do that to Russia.
But this thing, they're losing a lot of Russians.
They've lost a million Russians.
And that's the, you know, sons, that's the sons and daughters of Russian families.
They leave the house, they go by mom, bye dad, and then they get blown away.
And Ukrainian, too.
Look at Ukraine.
It's a disaster what's happened there.
But it continues to go on.
As you know, we made a deal where the European Union is essentially involved, but it's NATO, and we're supplying weapons to NATO.
NATO's now paying.
So first of all, the 10 to 12 days, I think a number off the top of his head.
Secondly, I guess he's going to impose some sort of secondary tariffs about which Russia and China couldn't care less.
But this million person losses, have you seen that anywhere?
I don't think that's consistent.
The president has a habit of pulling numbers, as you say, out of the air.
In this case, he's citing a number which is produced by the Ukrainian propaganda machine against the Russians.
There's no basis for it at all, no evidence whatsoever to back it.
It is a distortion of reality.
The reality appears to be that the Ukrainian deaths have vastly outnumbered the Russian deaths.
And while the Russians have certainly made major sacrifices in terms of their manpower on the battlefield, it's nothing like that.
But this is the, you see numbers for the Russian losses and none for the Ukrainians.
That's because Ukrainians are making this stuff up.
And the U.S. press, the government is dutifully reporting it, repeating it.
So that's nonsense.
As for secondary sanctions, I wouldn't dismiss those if he actually does them as unimportant, because basically that has the capacity to throttle the global economy.
He's talking about putting sanctions on our friends, or let's say India, for example, if it imports Russian oil.
And the figure that this is a Lindsey Graham and Spetville that he's talking about, it makes no sense at all.
No economist that I know has anything but ridiculed for it.
And I don't think the Russians would be intimidated by that.
He's going to put an additional tariff on China, which is a major importer of Russian goods, at a time when he seems desperate to have a trade deal with china and there's a lot of evidence that his administration is in fact uh operating under the principle that they should not once again provoke the chinese with new sanctions new tariffs or whatever uh as they look forward to a meeting in stockholm i mean how would how would such a tariff even
paid and collected.
Russia sells oil to France.
Yes.
How did the United States come into play?
We're tax collectors.
Yeah, then we tax the French for doing that bad thing.
So we tax the French.
No, we're not.
We tax us.
We tax the American people to punish the French for what they're doing that we don't want them to do.
We do the same thing with imports from India.
The same thing with imports from China.
You know, basically you say the whole world, anybody in the world who's doing business with Russia on a normal basis is going to be subject to punitive action by us in the form of a tax on us, on the American people to import whatever it is that is in law.
Let's move on to Israel.
Also in this presser yesterday, the president and the prime minister were wringing their hands over the level of starvation now well known and acknowledged by apparently everybody on the planet except for Ben Gavir and Netanyahu.
We'll play those clips in a minute.
I mean, how disingenuous, how heartless, how indifferent could Trump be pretending to be upset about the starvation caused by a war he has funded, a war he could stop with a phone call.
Well, wringing your hands while sitting on them is a common pose for countries that will not step up and take responsibility for their actions.
People are starving in Gaza with our direct involvement.
It's not just that we're funding it.
We created this monstrous thing called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to replace the UN, which was doing the UN Refugee Works Agency, UNRWA, which knew exactly how to get food to people and which was getting food to people to the extent that Israel allowed it to do so.
What we have created enforces the Israeli use of food as bait to lure people out where they can be killed.
And so every day brings a story of 100,000 or so about desperate Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, either from drones or from actual soldiers.
And there are American mercenaries participating in this.
Some have been so disgusted by what they have seen that they've left and gone public condemning it.
The entire world condemns it.
And yet the president reacts, as you say, with a mixture of denial and passive aggression.
Israel's reaction is, of course, typically a lie.
Oh, this isn't happening.
You know, it's like Groucho Marx's famous comment, you're going to believe my, you're, you're, you're lying.
I'm sorry, I can't, I can't, Marx, Groucho Marx, who are you going to believe?
Me or your lying eyes?
Yes.
And we, you know, the whole world can see what's going on.
And you mentioned Ben Gavir and Smotrich and others, they know exactly what's going on.
They celebrate it privately, meaning in Hebrew, they talk about how great it is, how they're not going to be any Palestinians left.
And publicly, they pretend that it isn't happening.
And they get a lot of cooperation from camp followers of the Israelis abroad on this.
Here's a smiling, smirking, benjamin netanyahu denying that there is starvation in gaza and taking credit for getting it's hard for me to say this with a straight face getting food to the people he's trying to eradicate from the face of the earth chris cut number 17.
Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza.
What a bold-faced lie.
There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.
We have enabled the amount required by international law to come in, there are hundreds and hundreds
hundreds of trucks loaded with tons so far we've supplied 1.9 million tons of food since the beginning of the war almost 2 million tons and now we have hundreds of trucks that are waiting on the gazen side of the current shalom crossing and it's uh international organizations some of them very well intended and it's the UN too food
they purchased and we said go ahead deliver it and they said we can't because combat is going on and we say yes with combat we'll fight where we're fighting we'll continue to fight but there are safe corridors you can bring the food to anywhere you want that is not a problem heard anything more disingenuous out of his mouth Well, he achieved a record.
Not a single thing he said was true.
true uh in all of those remarks um uh it was uh one lie after another.
And the entire world can see what's happening.
So I think the fact that he can stand there with the poem that he did and lie in that manner suggests either that he's disconnected from reality completely, or that he is someone with no credibility at all.
None.
And it gets worse.
Chris cut number 18.
A moral bankruptcy.
That while our hostages are in Gaza, our prime minister is transferring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
I think that at this stage, the only thing that should have been sent to Gaza is one thing, bombs.
Bomb, conquer, encourage immigration, and win the war.
It's not a war, of course.
This guy is really off the wall.
This guy is condemning Netanyahu for allowing any aid to get through.
Yeah, I mean, the whole thing is so degenerate and despicable that it really fires all description.
I don't want to play the clip because it's very long, but Trump did say yesterday that people are starving.
We talked about this a few minutes ago.
People are starving there, Mr. President, because you're arming a monstrous regime determined to cause that starvation.
And we are backing the starvation.
This Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a joint U.S.-Israeli enterprise that is enforcing the starvation.
And the business, there's no medicine in Gaza.
There's no electricity.
There's no water.
There's no food.
And we've already seen 17,000 babies die, not of starvation, but more and more of them dying every day of starvation.
Adults.
The whole place looks like a death camp, and that's what it is.
Mr. Ambassador, thank you very much.
I'm sorry these conversations are so gloomy, particularly since we haven't chatted in two weeks.
But this is the world today.
The president doesn't understand Russia.
The president is totally controlled by Zionists on Gaza.
And who's running American foreign policy?
It's not clear, but the horrifying realities are evident to all of us.
Thank you, Ambassador.
Pleasure, sir.
We look forward to seeing you next week.
And coming up later today at 2.30 this afternoon on Russia Gate, a subject matter for which he was ridiculed.
And now it turns out he was right from the beginning, our friend Aaron Mate.
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