Benjamin Schachter

[Benjamin Schachter @bschachter]

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[Nate Anderson @NateHindenburg]

I am Nate Anderson, the founder of Hindenburg Research referenced repeatedly in this bizarre and fantastical interview. During my career, I helped expose numerous financial scams, including over a dozen Ponzi schemes and numerous instances of public companies lying to and stealing from investors: https://t.co/a40Lw3zTMp

I am immensely proud of that career including our work on Nikola Motors referenced in the interview.

Trevor Milton is a convicted fraudster held criminally responsible for the incineration of hundreds of millions of dollars in retail investors’ hard-earned money. As should be unsurprising, Milton in this interview seems to just fabricate key events and information out of thin air – unfortunately with zero critical questioning or pushback from Tucker.

For starters, contrary to Trevor Milton’s implications that his prosecution was some sort of Biden administration conspiracy, conveniently neither Milton nor Tucker share that the investigation into Milton was started and disclosed in September 2020 – under the first TRUMP administration and well before the 2020 election.

There were numerous inaccuracies throughout the interview. The claim that Hindenburg paid employees for inside information is patently absurd. The key whistleblower discussed in the interview was only briefly a contractor for Milton. He was so horrified by what he viewed as Milton’s repeated false claims that he did a tremendous amount of research on his own, unraveling numerous additional suspected lies that Milton peddled to the investing public.

Further, Hindenburg didn’t “coordinate” anything with media or the DoJ. Such entities ran their own investigations for their own purposes unconnected to us. There was ample evidence that Milton misstated numerous aspects of his business, as the company itself later acknowledged.

It would take hours to write about all the other absurdities, half-truths, innuendos and false statements in this interview but in the interest of correcting some of the record, here’s a handful:

- Milton waxes on about his pardon, but no one mentioned that Milton’s lawyer was Brad Bondi—the brother of AG Pam Bondi. Nor did anyone mention that Milton donated $900 thousand to Trump in October 2024, less than a month before the recent election—strategically timed well after his criminal conviction and immediately prior to the presidential election. Trump acknowledged he had never heard of Milton before being asked to pardon him but relied on others for the recommendation.

- Milton failed to mention that immediately prior to his resignation from his company, beyond the extensive allegations of fraud, he was also publicly accused of multiple instances of sexual assault, including by his own cousin, who went on-the-record with her allegations.

- I can only wonder what kind of investigation Tucker undertook of the fraud allegations against Milton before having him on. Milton literally video-taped a truck rolling down a hill implying that it was driving under its own power. He also went up on stage and said a truck that didn’t work “fully functions and works.”

- Waxing poetic about hydrogen in the interview echoes Nikola’s lies to retail investors that it successfully produced hydrogen at a cost ~81% lower than anyone on earth, a feat that would have upended the entire energy industry had it been remotely true. Nikola’s head of hydrogen production, presumably in charge of this world-changing scientific breakthrough, turned out to be Milton’s own brother, who had no scientific background and previously did odd construction jobs in Hawaii.

- These weren’t one-off misstatements—there were dozens of examples like these. As the DoJ said – and proved in court – Milton “made false claims regarding nearly all aspects of Nikola’s business.” The company itself admitted to many of these false statements, agreed to a $125 million fine, and won an arbitration against Milton holding him personally liable for his conduct.

- Milton claimed that Hindenburg made $30m-$100m on our Nikola investment—this isn’t even close (we made a fraction of that). Trevor seems to just be making these numbers up out of thin air.

Hilariously, Tucker opened by suggesting that short selling was illegal until 2007, a claim that is completely false. After confirming that he knows nothing about the subject, he went on to suggest that short selling should be criminalized outright.

Short selling has existed for hundreds of years, and for good reason. Short sellers play a critical role in the functioning of healthy markets, similar to the role of investigative journalists, (which I presume Tucker considers himself akin to).

Most companies are a force for good and economic growth. However, some companies lie and engage in fraud. Short sellers have exposed nearly every major corporate fraud in the past several decades because just as there is an economic incentive for identifying the good companies, there is also an economic model for identifying the scams. This is how free markets and free speech works—helping weed out the bad companies and those stealing from investors so good companies have more room to thrive.

Claiming to be a free speech advocate while casually advocating for the imprisonment of anyone who dares to speak critically about public companies is a contradiction of the highest order.

In short, Tucker, I highly suggest you actually vet the people you welcome onto your platform. If you find yourself staring, mouth agape at your interviewee, repeatedly saying “Wow! This is unbelievable!” it may in fact be because it’s unbelievable.

You reach a lot of people and this one was an avoidable miss. Good day.

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

Novak Djokovic, 38 years old.

You just have to sit back and applaud.

[Benjamin Schachter @bschachter]

@Criminalsimpson https://t.co/zqWPQ1mSCZ The answer to this is obviously, "the person who's always standing and walking...Rory Calhoun"

[Inferam @InferamAI]

If you cut the Sun or a planet, what would it look like inside:

*AI

[Inside_Israel_Intel @inside_IL_intel]

If you’re just getting caught up, here’s the latest on everything that has taken place between Israel and Iran since our last report. This is the most up-to-date breakdown available. If you appreciate this info, please follow for more breaking news and analysis.

🚨 New Missile & Drone Strikes (June 14)

•Iran launched another volley of missiles and drones overnight and into the morning of June 14, continuing its phased response to Israeli strikes.

•Israeli reports confirm at least three civilians killed and dozens wounded.

•Strikes hit central cities including Tel Aviv and areas near strategic military infrastructure.

•Most of the projectiles were intercepted, but a few broke through, causing casualties and damage.

•⚠️ Reminder: We already reported Iran’s first and second retaliation waves (on the 13th). The key new development is the pattern of reduced volume and intensity in each wave—and there’s a strategic explanation for that.

🎯 Why Iran’s Missile Strikes Are Losing Punch

•Iran’s missile stockpile is vast—but its ability to launch is limited.

•Despite possessing an estimated 3,000+ ballistic missiles, Iran relies on a relatively small fleet of mobile launchers (TELs)—likely fewer than 150 for its medium- and long-range systems.

•These TELs require setup time, mobility, and camouflage, forcing Iran to launch in staggered volleys, not all at once.

•Israel is exploiting this vulnerability:

•By achieving air superiority and penetrating Iranian radar coverage, Israel is now able to track and destroy launchers as they are used.

•Each TEL destroyed not only reduces the number of missiles that can be fired in the next volley—it also slows down the pace of Iran’s retaliation.

•This has two immediate effects:
1.Iran’s ability to overwhelm Israel’s air defenses with saturation attacks diminishes.
2.The intensity and frequency of Iran’s volleys drop, even if it still has thousands of warheads on hand.

🧠 Strategic Landscape

•Follow-up Israeli strikes today (June 14) targeted launch facilities near Mehrabad Airport, suspected TEL storage locations, and military radar installations in Isfahan.

•Khamenei’s regime is showing signs of pressure:

•While Iran has issued public threats of “ruin” for Israel, its leadership is dealing with the loss of key IRGC commanders, degraded air defense systems, and a public increasingly anxious about domestic vulnerability.

•Proxies remain restrained:

•Hezbollah, Iraqi Shiite militias, and the Houthis have not yet escalated, likely due to the high price of retaliation and fear of drawing preemptive Israeli or American strikes.

🧭 What’s Likely Next

1.Ongoing Israeli suppression of launch platforms — Israel will continue locating and destroying missile launchers and command infrastructure in real time.

2.Iran’s capacity for direct retaliation will degrade — the more TELs are destroyed, the less Iran can fire in a given window.

3.Shift to asymmetric responses — Iran may escalate via cyberattacks, terrorism abroad, or activating proxies once missile options are curtailed.

4.Diplomatic options are collapsing — Iran formally rejected the possibility of renewed nuclear talks with the U.S. earlier today.

⸻

Bottom line: Iran’s ability to sustain high-volume missile strikes is not determined by its stockpile, but by its launch capacity. As Israel gains air dominance and eliminates those launchers, Iran’s ability to project power into Israeli skies diminishes. The war is no longer symmetrical—and each passing hour tilts it further in Israel’s favor.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Before any idiots come out eulogizing the terrorists of the Iranian regime who have perished in the Israeli air strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran, remember that the Mullah fascists occupied four Arab countries, contributed to the death of hundreds of thousands of Arab people, empowered Hamas to destroy Gaza and fueled a lethal cocktail of terrorists across the Middle East in the name of "resistance."

The people of Iran, just like the people of Gaza, the people of Lebanon and Syria, and others in the Middle East, have been held hostage by a terrorist regime that has to be destroyed so that humanity in the region can have a chance at survival. Of course, Netanyahu is not a trustworthy leader and his actions should be scrutinized. But there will never be peace in the Middle East, and there definitely will never be a safe, stable Palestinian state or people, as long as the Islamic Republic of Iran exists, and especially if this terrorist regime has nuclear weapons.

The cowardly left and the isolationist right will scream to the moon and back that they are anti-war, but remember these are the same people who let Bashar al-Assad continue to slaughter his people for a decade, and believed in allowing Islamist terrorists to thrive in the Middle East, all in the name of supposedly opposing war. Sometimes, you can only fight fire with fire.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

Love this!

Opposition Leader @yairlapid addressing Argentinian President @JMilei in Spanish, from the Knesset podium:

“Since the prime minister does not know Spanish, I can tell you in secret that we disagree on almost everything. But there are two things on which we agree. The first is that Jews have the right to defend themselves. Israel will not surrender or bend. Neither in the face of terrorism nor in the face of lies. The second is that your friendship and support for Israel move us all.”

[Shane @sbliss89]

I’ve always really liked this latter day performance of Sloop John B by Brian Wilson and Al Jardine.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

1. "We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be."

Sam Altman has once again published an article on his personal blog. It is nothing less than a glimpse into the future. Here I summarize the most important quotes:

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Clarity comes from action.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards composing the legendary Rolling Stones song "Sympathy For The Devil" in 1968

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

It will never not be fascinating how western progressives were intellectually captured en masse at this time by an imperialistic Islamist movement which stands opposed to every progressive value they claim to hold. When you think about it, it is wild, to see students and their professors marching in their keffiyehs against the only (tiny) liberal democracy in the Middle East as it battles for its survival, and in support of the jihadists which surround it, jihadists whose publicly stated goals are to convert or eradicate minorities, execute gays, adulterers and apostates, subjugate women, and whose many many victims are in fact overwhelmingly Palestinians and other Muslims from across the region. How the Islamist movement achieved this feat of PR will be studied for years to come. All of the sane Muslim states have crushed and banned the Islamists, knowing full-well the threat they pose, the UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, etc. Yet among western ‘liberals’ and on western university campuses they are adored and celebrated. There are earlier precedents. Socialists and students in 1970s Iran helped Islamist revolutionaries to take power, after which the Islamists rounded up and killed them.

[Samer Sinijlawiسامر السنجلاوي @SSinijlawi]

I’m trying hard to salvage a two-state solution in 2025. But let’s be clear: we had a real chance in 2008. A deal that could’ve given us a sovereign Palestinian state. Borders based on ’67 lines. Land swaps that made sense (82% of settlers would’ve stayed inside Israel). A connection between Gaza and the West Bank. Two capitals in one city, side by side.

It wasn’t perfect, but it was possible. And we said no.

That choice haunts me. Because history doesn’t offer endless second chances. And because that deal recognized both peoples’ realities—our need for freedom, their need for security. It offered dignity and hope. And that’s why I support a two-state solution—but because it’s the only path that gives us both a future.

When opportunity knocks again, I hope we don’t walk away. We can't afford to miss another moment like 2008.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

There's an Iranian version of Love Island running on Youtube these days, and it's getting absolutely insane views.

It's filmed in Turkey featuring Iranian expats, and each episode is watched by millions. Complete slop, but super popular.

Never seen anything like it.

[Stephen Gibbons @Gibboanxious]

This SNL sketch is so good.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

One of the most iconic moments in NBA history

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

“Why is Israel killing children every day?”

That question is thrown around by those who who ignore the truth or are too cowardly to face it.

Israel is not targeting children. Israel is targeting monsters who deliberately hide behind them.
Terrorists who launch rockets from playgrounds, stockpile weapons in hospitals, and use schoolchildren as shields.

They know exactly what they are doing. They are counting on the world to cry for the victims they created while blaming Israel for defending its people.

Yes, children are dying. It is heartbreaking. It is devastating.
But what would you have Israel do? Stand by and watch as its own children are hunted? Wait quietly until the rockets hit their mark?

Where were you when Israeli children spent months sleeping in bomb shelters?
Where was your outrage when Hamas stormed Israeli towns on October 7th, slaughtering babies, burning families alive, kidnapping over 250 innocent people?

Crickets.

And now you find your voice to accuse Israel.

“So you justify killing Gaza’s children?” you ask.

No. Israel does not target Gaza’s children.
Israel targets terrorists who choose to use their own children as shields. Terrorists who care more about their weapons than the lives of their sons and daughters.

War is brutal. It is savage.
But who started this war? Hamas did.

Here is the truth no one wants to say out loud:

If it comes down to a choice between protecting my children and sparing yours, I will always choose mine.
Israel will always choose its own children.
Any parent would.
That is not cruelty. That is survival.
And if you think otherwise, you are lying to yourself.

No parent, no nation, no people would willingly sacrifice their sons and daughters to protect the murderers who want them dead.

“But is it right to kill children?”
No. It is not right. It is a tragedy of the worst kind. Every innocent life lost is a wound that will never fully heal.
But when a terrorist leader hides behind his child while plotting to slaughter Israeli children, Israel must act.
Israel must defend its children. No nation can survive if it does not.

Some might try to argue otherwise.
They say, “If a murderer ran into your neighbor’s house, would the police blow up the whole building, killing your family to get him?”

They want you to believe that Israel is reckless or cruel.
But that argument is dishonest from the start.

If a murderer ran into your house and barricaded himself among your children, any moral police force would first demand he surrender. They would warn the family to evacuate. They would use every tool to minimize harm.

But if the murderer kept shooting at everyone around him, refusing to surrender, refusing to release his human shields, and if waiting meant hundreds more innocent people would die, then force would have to be used.

Not because the police want your family to die, but because the murderer made that outcome inevitable.

Israel doesn’t flatten buildings without warning.
Israel calls. Israel drops leaflets. Israel sends texts. Israel even taps the roof with small warning strikes.
Israel pleads with civilians to leave.

Hamas forces them to stay.
Hamas fires on evacuation routes.
Hamas chooses death and blames Israel for it.

The real comparison is not a careless police force destroying a building.
The real comparison is a murderer who ties up your family, uses them as shields, and keeps firing on hundreds of innocent people while daring the police to stop him.

The blame is not on the one trying to end the violence.
The blame is on the monster who created the horror in the first place.

This is the brutal, ugly reality that Hamas created.

If you want to end this nightmare, stop blaming Israel.

Blame the terrorists who turned Gaza into a battlefield.
Blame the monsters who don’t care about their own children.

The war ends when the hostages are freed, the rockets stop, the guns are put down.

Until then, Israel will do whatever it must to protect its children.

Always.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Universal is putting dragon costumes on the Boston Dynamics robots, and they are insanely cute

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Gael Monfils wins an absurd point against Marozsan in Monte Carlo.

38 years old and still moving like he’s in his twenties.

He is simply exceptional at any age. 🇫🇷