Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano - Phil Giraldi : Netanyahu Tricks Trump Again.

Oct. 1, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano

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Phil Giraldi : Netanyahu Tricks Trump Again.

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	Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
	Today is Wednesday, October 1st, 2025.
	Phil Giraldi will be here with us in just a moment on Netanyahu tricks Trump yet again.
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	Phil Giraldi, welcome here, uh, my dear friend, and so happy that you're you're with us.
	Before we get to Trump's uh flawed Gaza plan and Netanyahu who's undermining it is Netanyahu who undermining it as soon as he landed uh in Jerusalem, I want to talk to you about these horrible preening speeches that were given to uh a hundred,
	excuse me, eight hundred admirals and generals uh yesterday, during the course of which the uh Secretary of Defense calls himself the Secretary of War, but we'll go by Congress's nomenclature, not his and the president's.
	The Secretary of Defense told them that they were fat.
	And uh he uh told them that in other words, we don't need the Geneva Conventions anymore, we're not going to play by rules.
	The president said I think the troops should do some training for the lethality in American cities.
	Right.
	I mean, that you almost can't make this up.
	It was so bad, so bad.
	But what are your thoughts?
	Well, I I thought that uh we had a week uh starting with the United Nations speeches, and then you know, uh going on from there and ending up in Guana Quanacle.
	And uh that was the craziest aspect of all of it.
	And there was crazy stuff all the way through the week uh on the part of our government and the its um its appointed officials.
	But this was the nuttiest part because basically he was saying that the military should become a whole lot more warlike and war-loving, and should be trained uh specifically, uh,
	not just at uh Fort Dix or any place like that, but also in our cities, where they would be able to use and and empowered to use whatever means necessary to uh create uh a crime-free environment.
	And this is what they were kind of shooting for.
	And this is a frightening thought.
	Uh turning the military loose on the cities, uh, the military, by and large, um, you and I have been through military training.
	Uh it has nothing to do with law enforcement.
	Correct.
	You know, many of the uh People arrested by the military in Los Angeles two months ago had to be uh set free because they didn't know how to arrest, they didn't know how to issue a Miranda warnings, they didn't know how to preserve evidence.
	They're just, and in fairness to them, they're not trained to do this.
	Yeah.
	And it's just it's just incredible that people at the top of our government should even be so ignorant of the reality of our constitution and of our system of laws and order that they should even be able to come out with this kind of stuff.
	But they did, and to their credit, the 800 um uh admirals and generals who were sitting there subjected to this, uh basically sat there and they sat on their hands and uh and were shifting their eyes at each other, wondering what exactly this was all about.
	And uh at the end of it, Trump actually, of course, as I'm sure you know, uh, asked them to applaud him, which of course they they did not do.
	Right.
	And I give them full credit for this.
	Um whether they they didn't look like a uh a bank of fatties to me, but this is again, this is something that's being trotted out as a form of propaganda to get this kind of uh concept going.
	And this was totally frightening, totally idiotic.
	And uh God knows where this is going to go from here, unless uh somebody begins to step in and say, Look, this is just not acceptable.
	This should not be allowed in our system of government, in our system of of uh due process when people are accused of of something.
	These these people in the cities that are subjected to military force uh may not necessarily have done anything.
	Uh, Chris, play the uh the new version of uh the Secretary of Defense uh talking about exercise.
	It all starts with physical fitness and appearance.
	If the Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force.
	It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country in the world.
	It's a bad look.
	It is bad, and it's not who we are.
	Now, of course, we superimpose those backgrounds.
	The generals were not exposed to demeaning photos of the Secretary of Defense or the president, but you get the point.
	I guess the point is that the president's not required to do what he requires his subordinates to do.
	This is obscene.
	In fact, the picture is obscene.
	Uh the picture is obscene.
	Chris, play um cut number 20, where he basically argues without using these words that we should abandon rules of engagement and forget about the Geneva Conventions, which we wrote.
	Every day we have to be prepared for war, not for defense.
	We're training warriors, not defenders.
	We fight wars to win, not to defend.
	Defense is something you do all the time.
	It's inherently reactionary and can lead to overuse, overreach, and mission creep.
	War is something you do sparingly on our own terms and with clear aims.
	We fight to win.
	We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy.
	We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement.
	We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country.
	No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.
	Just common sense, maximum lethality, and authority for war fighters.
	That's all I ever wanted as a platoon leader.
	Wow.
	Reminding one, two, three, and four stars that they're being lectured to by a reservist, not even regular army, reservist uh platoon leader.
	But the essence of what he was saying is let's scrap the Geneva Convention.
	So we can kill civilians, we can torture, there are no more war crimes, we can do whatever we want, as long as our lethality, one of his favorite words, supersedes that uh of the other side.
	I can imagine what was going through the foul language that was going through these generals' minds as they were being lectured to by this preening secretary of defense, a job usually held by a universally respected person in the field of the military.
	Yeah, and usually someone who has a lot of experience and lets that experience guide him to a certain extent.
	These are people that are just kind of speaking out of their butts and uh with uh ideas that uh are floating out there coming from various sources of these oddball people that uh Trump has collected that whisper in his ear.
	I mean, this is this is obscene, and this is uh the whole idea that we are there to maximize killing, uh is just a little bit bizarre.
	And uh the other thing I would point out that this is what kind of scares me uh more, in fact, is that that this is all coming out of um the intention to go to war with some people,
	and I would uh I would suspect that Venezuela might be next on the list, and uh Iran uh acting with our good friends in Israel uh might be the next one after that, or maybe even the one before that.
	This is this is there is an intention.
	Uh the United States is not threatened militarily by anyone.
	Uh if it just went along its way and stopped trying to antagonize people, and stop trying to start wars on behalf of other people.
	And uh rather than go through that and get have the United States respected and American people uh benefiting from the lack of a need to spend a trillion dollars on a war machine.
	Um we have to be creating our own war situations.
	Iran doesn't threaten the United States, and Venezuela doesn't threaten the United States.
	But this is the kind of stuff I think is getting cranked up.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Here's um this is really uh dangerous, what Trump said.
	Uh listen to this, uh Chris number 19.
	San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles.
	They're very unsafe places, and we're going to straighten them out one by one.
	And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.
	That's a war too.
	It's a war from within.
	Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security.
	We can't let these people in.
	We're under invasion from within.
	No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms.
	At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out.
	These people don't have uniforms.
	I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military National Guard, but military.
	Well, I mean, this is very uh scary if he views ordinary criminal activity in inner cities as the legal equivalent of war, thereby allowing him uh to kill people.
	I wonder if he thinks he can kill people in America that he sees his people cease sitting committing crime just as he murdered people on the high seas because he thought they might uh be engaged in criminal activity once they reach the United States.
	Um bad stuff.
	Well, once you get engulfed in that kind of logic, where you're thinking that we're being invaded, there's an enemy inside.
	And this is we're not just talking about clearly not small numbers, we're talking about a war situation, which means lots of enemies out there.
	And and basic and Trump, of course, also said that uh uh, you know, in a sense the gloves are off on this, that we will use uh the resources of the military to oppose these people.
	And uh that to me, uh I went through basic training.
	Uh that means uh shooting, being armed, shooting people, uh, as you're trained to do when you're going into a real war situation against a foreign country with uh with which actually threatens you or you go to war with for uh good reasons.
	I'd like to see what the good reasons would be, but good reasons.
	This is just this is turning the military loose onto the civilian population in this country, based on a bunch of I think phony premises.
	One more before we jump to uh Trump and uh Netanyahu.
	Uh one of the people that uh Secretary Heggseth personally attacked as the recently retired chair of the uh joint chiefs, General Milley.
	Yeah.
	Here he is, whatever you think of him at his finest hour, Chris.
	The new compass heading is clear.
	Out with the Sharelli's, the McKenzie's and the Millies, and in with the Stockdales, the Schwarzkopf's and the Patents.
	You see, we in uniform are unique.
	We are unique among the world's armies.
	We are unique among the world's militaries.
	We don't take an oath to a country.
	We don't take an oath to a tribe.
	We don't take an oath to a religion.
	We don't take an oath to a king or queen or to a tyrant or a dictator.
	And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.
	We don't take an oath to an individual.
	We take an oath to the constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that it's America, and we're willing to die to protect it.
	Every soldier, sailor, airman, marine, guardian, and coast guardsman, each of us commits our very life to protect and defend that document, regardless of personal price.
	And we are not easily intimidated.
	You took that oath.
	I took that oath.
	It's not to a person or a president or a king or even an ideology.
	It's to a piece of paper and the values that underlie it.
	Yeah, and it was the right thing.
	And what was the good thing about this country?
	And uh I can't remember going through basic training and being in the army then for three years after that, uh, where uh anyone was coming out with the stuff that Hegset is coming out with, or that uh President Trump is coming out with.
	This is this is sheer, you know, uh neocon type policy to create a dominance in the world uh to enable uh the United States and and quote friends and allies like Israel to get away with murder.
	And this is enough of this.
	I I ended up this week and I sat down and said, my God, this was possibly the most bizarre week we've ever experienced in years, in in maybe forever.
	And everything running from the UN meeting all the way through that week and the meetings with Netanyahu and the shifting around on this 20-point plan uh for Gaza, which has turned out to be basically uh a death warrant for the Gazans.
	Uh come on.
	This is not what we need, not what we expect from our country.
	And it's time for the American people to do what you and I and many of the people on your program have been doing, really start shouting out loud about what how wrong this all is.
	I guess you're not surprised that as soon as he landed in Tel Aviv, speaking in Hebrew, not in English, and to a reporter and not on national television, reporter's uh cell phone.
	Prime Minister Netanyahu repu repudiated two of the uh critical parts uh of Trump's uh plan.
	This is within hours of him standing next to Trump on national television in the Oval Office saying he supported it.
	Those repudiations will play it for you in a minute, but those repudiations are that the IDF, which under the Whitcoff plan is supposed to withdraw out of Gaza will not leave.
	Uh, and that uh there will never be a Palestinian state, even though the plan calls for one in five years.
	I don't believe the Whitcock plan at all, but this shows you the character as if we needed more demonstration uh of Netanyahu.
	Chris, do you have that clip?
	Instead of Hamas isolating us, we turned the tables and isolated Hamas.
	Now the whole world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the conditions we set together with President Trump to release all our hostages, both the living and the fallen.
	While the IDF remains in most of the Gaza Strip.
	Who would have believed this?
	After all, everyone kept saying you have to accept Hamas's terms to withdraw everyone.
	The IDF needs to withdraw, and Hamas can recover and also rehabilitate the strip.
	No way, that's not happening.
	contrary and president trump added that if hamas refuses he will give israel full backing to complete the military operation to eliminate it And that's why I think from every perspective, this was an excellent visit.
	Many in the government, there's a question being asked.
	Did you agree to a Palestinian state?
	Absolutely not.
	Well, it's also not written in the agreement.
	President Trump also said that.
	He said he understands that.
	He also said at the UN that it would be a huge reward for terror and a danger to the state of Israel.
	No surprise that he said that.
	No, and I'm not surprised that uh the intention was ever any different than that.
	I think this was a gimmick where there were certain inducements being offered ostensibly.
	And um, but it was all kind of a con job.
	Uh basically to disarm Hamas, get the hostages back.
	Uh Hamas would no longer have any presence or leverage uh against Israel, then Israel will just finish the job, as Donald Trump keeps putting it, um, and and uh slaughter the Palestinians or drive them out, um, whichever comes first.
	And um that's the way it was being played.
	And Trump is right on board, and Trump's negotiators, Whitcoff, and and certainly his uh son-in-law, uh, are right on board.
	And I would imagine Sir Tony Blair is right on board.
	This is all a con job.
	These people are all on the side of Israel, and it's been that right from the beginning, and will be that right forever until something happens to shake them up.
	Now, one thing he Trump um Nanyar was lying about was that uh the Arabs have accepted this 20-point plan.
	They did originally in the first draft.
	But uh what I'm reading today is that they are uh uh quite aware of the changes that were made sort of on this on the sneak and uh put in there that uh allowed the IDF to stay there as long as it felt that it was warranted and so on and so forth, and uh basically uh returned to a status quo ante of uh October 7th, with uh whatever Palestinians are left of Gaza uh living in a concentration camp.
	I mean, Tony Blair, as the governor general of Gaza, is he who once resided at number 10 Downing Street, going to live in Gaza City, no matter how many MI6 people he has to uh protect him?
	Where is he gonna live?
	Well, he'll probably live offshore or something on a yacht.
	I mean waiting for the Riviera Trump Riviera resort to be built, and he'll move into a penthouse.
	The Israelis have kidnapped the American captain of uh one of the uh flotilla boats carrying food uh and medicine.
	This is out on the high seas.
	How long uh should we wait before the State Department uh registers an objection?
	Uh I think the expression for that is never.
	They've they've never uh registered objections to um to Israel killing Americans.
	Uh all they've all they've ever said is that oh, Israel will carry out its own due process or its uh its own legal uh procedures in terms of looking into that, and it always turns out, gee, it was some kind of accident or uh or a misunderstanding or something like that.
	Uh the Israelis kill people with impunity, they get away with it, and the reason they get away with it is because we have people like uh genocide Joe Biden and Donald Trump in charge of our country.
	Time to make these people go away.
	Was Netanyahu ever a CIA asset?
	No, as far as I know.
	Um, the uh there was he was, of course, a student in the United States, and then he was involved with various aspects of Israeli government operations in the United States, particularly involved with obtaining Ukra uranium and that sort of thing for the nuclear uh weapons that Israel eventually wound up with.
	He was involved with all that.
	I don't believe he had any connection with the agency, but hey, it's always possible.
	Well, Phil Giraldi, thank you very much, my dear friend.
	Uh, thanks for your time.
	Welcome back to the show.
	We'll look forward to seeing you next week.
	Thank you very much.
	I look forward to it too.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Phil.

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