that he's the only person who could do it. And then he did it. He did it right in front of us. You change reality instead of negotiating. There was also negotiating, but the changing of reality is the breakout part. The part that brings him from, oh, he's a good dealmaker. That's not what you're seeing. You're seeing a legend. You're seeing a once ever personality. You don't see this again. You'll never see this again. So enjoy it while you got it.

All right. Here are some of the things I mentioned before. His credibility up to this point allowed him to do things other people couldn't do because he's done things that other people can't do. Boy, if you want to be in a position to do something that other people can't do, do something that other people can't do in some other domain until people start thinking, "Oh, I get it. This is a person who can do things that people can't do." Elon Musk being the best example of that, right?

So here are some of the things that Trump has done just to be in a position for people to say, "Oh, I think he does impossible things." He won a second term after being lawfared and impeached twice. He was actually convicted of felonies, booked, headshot, impeached twice. What do we call that? What do you call it when you lose your second term the first time you got lawfared into literally felony convictions and you got impeached twice? You know what the name for that is? Mr. President. Yeah, that's what we call that. We call that Mr. President. 47 if you like. So that seemed impossible.

He survived two assassination attempts and one of them didn't even keep him on the ground. He's jumping up and telling us to fight. That was amazing. And also a sign that God's protecting him. I'm not even a believer. And even I think it looked like God protected him.

He's now had enough time that he appears to be completely right about tariffs, using them as a tool sometimes, using them as a way to raise money sometimes. Maybe he'll use some of that money for stopgap healthcare stuff. We'll see. But he clearly was right about tariffs and that looked impossible, didn't it? All the smart people were saying, "Oh no, this will never work." And then it just kept working. He kept making deals. And he closed the border in no time. The thing that at least Democrats thought was impossible. And people watching from other countries. Imagine if you're a European and you're watching your own countries being continually overrun now and no control. But you watched Trump come into office and immediately closed the border successfully. You don't think they're a little bit jealous that he did what looked like maybe it was impossible? Nope. Closed it down tighter than a gnat's ass in the winter.

He got the original Abraham Accords done. Remember that Jared Kushner got the original Abraham Accords done. Did anybody think that was possible during his first term? No, not at all. He got several other peace deals done. We'll talk about his list of successes. And he managed to be the commander-in-chief who dropped several gigantic bombs down ventilator shafts in Iran and essentially brought Iran to his knees.

Now if you've got all of that working in your favor and you make a phone call to somebody, they're going to take the call because they think, "Oh man, this guy's got some kind of magic." Like he's just doing all these things that on paper they didn't look doable at all. Even people who supported him would have said, "Well, I don't think so, but you know, try. I like it that you try, but it looks out of reach." And then he does it. It's quite amazing.

So anyway, Trump became the only person who could legitimately bully Netanyahu. Would you agree? Nobody else could legitimately bully Netanyahu at the same time he was bullying Qatar. We'll talk about that. At the same time he was getting all of the leaders in the region to line up behind his vision. You tell me somebody else could have done that? I don't know who. I don't know who.

There's one theory that the breakout came because when Netanyahu decided to bomb, which was kind of a baller play, when he decided to bomb and kill all the negotiators, the Hamas negotiators who had gathered in Qatar, it not only showed Qatar that Qatar is not the boss of us, well not the boss of Israel anyway, and that there would no longer be a safe haven for Hamas. If you were Hamas leadership, you probably thought to yourself, well worst case scenario, I can live in Qatar safely and rebuild what I had. And taking out the negotiators sent a very strong message. We're not negotiating anymore. We don't need these negotiators. So we'll get rid of them. And at the same time, we'll prove that Qatar is not a safe space for anybody. And so of course Qatar was super mad and there's some weird relationship with Qatar where sometimes they are good friends and they I think we have bases there, but sometimes they might be helping all the worst people in the world work against us. So Qatar is sometimes a good guy, sometimes a bad guy, and it's like extreme in both cases. It's like extremely bad but sometimes extremely good and their money is clanking around. So Qatar had a little issue but also Qatar had power over the United States because we would sort of have to keep them happy in order for them to do what we needed to do. But apparently Qatar got so freaked by Israel bombing it that when they said they needed military protection. So what does Trump do? He offers to protect them militarily from our own ally Israel. Now did you see that coming? Would you have made that play? Would you have even known to offer? How about we'll be your military protector, but you're ours from now on. Now he didn't have to say the part to Qatar that says we will protect you militarily. I can influence Netanyahu. We've seen it. But you're going to have to be our bitch. So it could be that what we're getting out of this, the stuff we don't know was communicated with Qatar and whatever they're going to do. It could be that that's one of the biggest benefits we get from it is that Qatar decides to be smarter and a little bit more our friend than something else.

All right. Oh you're such a... There's some people in the comments who are just... Oh you. I hate you so much right now. All right, I won't even get into it.

Anyway, the other thing that I thought was super interesting besides the fact that Trump became good cop to Netanyahu's bad cop and that worked. I like the fact that Jared was sent at the end as a closer. And I'll give you a little behind the curtain fun for that. You might remember that in 2018 I got invited to the White House to just meet Trump and he was I think he was just consolidating support with his supporters and I was just one of those people. And Ivanka told me that the reason I was on their radar, she introduced me to the president, took me around, showed me to the Oval Office, is that she had read my book "Win Bigly" which taught Trump's persuasion techniques and she told me and I couldn't even believe this. She said that when she read the book "Win Bigly" that I wrote, it was the first time she understood her father, meaning that she didn't understand him as a persuader the way I described him. And that once she did, like a lot of things clicked into place for her.

You would not believe who I just got a text from. I can't tell you though. So anyway, so she read it and then apparently Jared also read it. So Jared read my book here. It's this book. The new version is out if you want to get the audio. I didn't do the audiobook. It's an audio artist. But "Win Bigly," it's a version two. This is the only one you want to buy. It's only on Amazon. It's nowhere else. And so prior to negotiating the Abraham Accords, Jared read my book about how to be a negotiator and persuader like Trump. And then armed with those skills in his talent stack, he went out and did the impossible, the Abraham Accords. Now of course there's lots more I don't know about that. The only thing I know for sure is that Jared is super smart and he's adding talents. Now it doesn't mean that he couldn't have done it without reading the book, but he did consciously read a book about how to negotiate like his boss, his father-in-law. And I've heard lots of other stories from people who read the book and got promotions, doubled their pay, just did all kinds of amazing things.

So then this situation comes along. You know, Jared is no longer actively in the administration, but he was asked to be brought in toward the end here as kind of a closer. Now we don't know what he really did. It could be that Witkoff and Trump and everybody else had already got the deal pretty well done. But even if his direct role was not consequential, although I think it probably was, my guess is that he had personal contacts in the area that were super important. So he probably just called in some personal contacts. So I do believe he probably made a big difference. But even if he didn't, do you see how genius it is for Trump to send him in? Because Jared is like a signal that something impossible is going to happen. As soon as Jared enters the room, you say he's done one impossible thing so far, the Abraham Accords. Just seeing him and knowing he's part of it would make everybody in the region go, "Oh, this thing's actually going to happen." So again, this is Trump managing reality, not negotiating because introducing Jared into the larger picture changes how you feel about the reality. And then suddenly the negotiating part becomes the trivial part because you've just reframed the entire reality by introducing the magical dealmaking Abraham Accords guy. That's amazing. Like yeah, I don't think that history will ever quite record the total number of small genius things that were done to get to this point. That was one of them. Sending Jared.

Anyway, another news. Letitia James has been indicted, as you know, for mortgage fraud. I like the fact that the name of the alleged crime sounds pretty bad. Mortgage fraud. Anyway, I don't think she'll be convicted. I think they've probably got some clever defense. One of the defenses as somebody suggested that sounded pretty good to me is that maybe if you get a loan and you say this is my intention when I get the loan, but then something comes up. Let's say you intended to rent it or you intended to use the second house as your second house, vacation house, but then let's say something came up. Let's say a family member got evicted and needed a place to stay. So you said, "All right. Well, I wasn't intending to do that when I got the loan, but you're my cousin, so I'll rent it to you." Now I'm not saying that's what happened. What I'm saying is how do you handle the fact if somebody gets a loan and then they change their mind, maybe temporarily, not even permanently, and say, "All right, it was going to be my second home, but why don't you rent it for a year until you get back on your feet?" So if she's got a story like that, even if she technically broke the law, even if she should have notified the bank, it's going to make the crime look so small that maybe the jury will just say, "Ah, get out of here." Who knows? So I'm guessing that she will not go to jail over any of it or won't be convicted anyway, but it will be a punishment.

And you know, I'm hearing people on TV say, "But it's looking like it's just revenge." No, it's not looking like it's revenge. It's revenge. Am I in favor of the government using its power for revenge? Yes. Yes, because it's revenge against the lawfarer. If he was doing it against somebody who just was a critic, then I would be like whoa, authoritarian. No, you don't go after somebody who just disagrees with you. You don't send the Department of Justice against somebody who said a bad word about you. No way. But if you're going after the people who created hoaxes to try to remove you from government, call me. If you're taking out somebody who said, "I'm going to take this person down. I don't even know what the crime is yet." Oh yeah. You have to revenge the hell out of that. And I feel safer when that happens. I feel safer that the January 6 people got their sentences commuted or whatever the right word is. That makes me feel safer because I don't want to be locked up and rot in jail. But at least they didn't stay there forever. And when I see Trump just publicly and unapologetically going after people who were lawfare creeps, then I say, "Oh yeah, absolutely. You can revenge the hell out of that because I will feel safer if I know that anybody who goes after a Republican with a lawfare agenda that somebody's going to take him out." Take him out with lawfare, not violence, of course. So yeah, I feel better. Makes me feel safer. Makes me feel better as an American. Makes me feel that like something like justice is happening. Even if there's no jail time, just the annoyance of it and having it on your record would be bad enough.

Well, the Nobel Prize winner was selected really at the beginning of the week, so Trump didn't have a chance. And I guess it's the opposition leader, a woman who was known as Venezuela's iron lady. And some would say that she's the real legitimate leader of Venezuela and not Maduro. And I guess she's been in hiding for a while, which makes sense. Yeah, you'd want to be in hiding. And the nominations, I think the nominations were in January or something. Now some people said, "Scott, don't you know that Trump wasn't nominated in January, so there was no way that he could have been selected?" Well, he probably was nominated. He probably was. You don't know who was nominated. That's not public information, but he probably was nominated. Trump probably was from some of his other work. But it would have taken the Gaza thing to put him over the line and that was just too late.

So what I think is happening is that this is an only Trump thing too. If you were ma