FiveStack: Trump Edited From World Cup, China Helping Iran Target US Troops, The Tates In The SHU, The Grift Clock Goes Live, and Number 10's New Occupant

FiveStack: Trump Edited From World Cup, China Helping Iran Target US Troops, The Tates In The SHU, The Grift Clock Goes Live, and Number 10's New Occupant

5️⃣ The Boos Trump Couldn’t Edit Out Spain won the World Cup 1–0 at MetLife Stadium, and the cameras caught what the White House couldn’t cut: the crowd booing through the anthem, Spanish players turning their backs, Lamine Yamal refusing the president’s handshake — every player warmly greeting Mark Carney one spot down the line. Trump planted himself in the champions’ team photo until FIFA’s Gianni Infantino ushered him off, then collected a trophy of his own from Infantino Monday morning. Spain’s federation and FIFA, Dean reported, have already edited him out of the official footage. “This visual will live forever,” Dean said on air. The country that spent months insulting Spain watched Spain win on its soil — and watched its president get cropped out of the picture. 4️⃣ Burnham Takes No. 10 Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade Monday morning, hours after Keir Starmer resigned. Zev tried to name all seven on air and couldn’t — which is the story. The turnstile at Downing Street is what a Brexited country looks like ten years on, with Tommy Robinson’s street movement and Elon Musk’s misinformation machine working the wound. Dean, a dual British citizen, called Burnham “Mark Carney-esque” — the most trusted politician in England, promising, in the most British phrasing available, to settle things down. 3️⃣ The Grift Clock Starts Ticking Zev launched the Grift Clock live on air: a real-time counter of the Trump family fortune, which crossed $5 billion on July 10 — real estate, crypto, international licensing — and climbs $107.74 every second. By Tuesday at 5 PM ET it adds another $100 million. The figure is deliberately understated: a billion in Trump media holdings, government contracts, and pardon money sit in separate counters, uncounted. The clock is free for any newsroom to carry. “It’s a remarkable look at how much money is being taken from you, the American taxpayer,” Zev said. It ticked past the show’s end. It hasn’t stopped. 2️⃣ One Garden Party, 59 Charges Four days before US Marshals cuffed Andrew and Tristan Tate outside a Miami arena, Paolo Zampolli — the president’s Special Envoy for Global Partnerships, the man Narativ’s reporting with Amanda Ungaro has tied to Epstein’s world, to Jean-Luc Brunel’s model pipeline, and to Melania Trump’s path from Slovenia — threw the brothers a garden party near the White House. A hundred and fifty guests. Cabinet secretaries in attendance. The show played Zampolli’s own interview with the Tates: gifting Andrew a copy of the Constitution, boasting he asks heads of state to “buy a Boeing,” calling Marco Rubio his “second boss.” Then the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the hammer: 59 charges across both brothers — rape, trafficking, assault, and counts involving indecent images of a child — seven women, 2010 to 2017. The brothers sit in solitary confinement tonight. 1️⃣ The War They Won’t Count The dead have names now. Specialist Isabella Gonzalez, 19, of Carleton, Texas. First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii. A third soldier died at the Jordan base; a fourth is missing; the show reported 17 to 22 more severely injured — numbers the Pentagon withheld while Iranian missiles struck the same base three times in a week. Iran’s new missiles change course on descent, guided — analysts believe — with help from China’s Beidou satellite system, and they are beating air defenses the public was told were impenetrable. Hours before airtime, three more vessels burned near the Strait of Hormuz, two of them British. Trump, on his way to the World Cup: “We control the strait. They don’t control anything.” The show ran the footage of the base strike instead — sourced from foreign outlets, because Hegseth’s Pentagon won’t release it. THE PATTERN Zev closed the show with Hunter Biden’s post: “We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided on purpose by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight.” Every story Monday was that sentence with a different number attached — a hidden casualty list, an uncounted fortune, a protected trafficking network, an ally ground down by the same machine. The count is the fight. Narativ is keeping it. Thank you Lev Parnas [https://substack.com/profile/35788031-lev-parnas], Cat: Poli-Psych [https://substack.com/profile/94117599-cat-poli-psych], Robin Payes [https://substack.com/profile/22747167-robin-payes], Elaine Cimino [https://substack.com/profile/3734678-elaine-cimino], Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA [https://substack.com/profile/205390666-richard-hogan-md-phd2-dba], and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell [https://substack.com/profile/34833166-dean-blundell]! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe [https://www.narativ.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Rollout: Lev Parnas Says Tonight's Address Launches the Plan to Steal 2026

Lev Parnas drove his car into the Fivestack on Thursday — literally, phone mounted on the dash — and spent an hour telling Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev why tonight matters more than Washington wants to admit. At 9 PM, Trump addresses the nation on what he calls foreign interference in American elections. Parnas, who flew to Washington last week to warn Democratic leadership in person, put it plainly: “Today is the rollout. Today is the beginning of the next rollout for Project 2025 — to keep Donald Trump in office forever.” The five stories all fed the same machine. 5️⃣ The 104 The panel opened on the number rattling both parties: 104 House Democrats — nearly half the caucus — voted Wednesday to end $3.3 billion in Israel aid. Zev called it what it is: a big number, and a weapon. “Trump will use that against Democrats,” he said, while Parnas begged the coalition to hold: “We can disagree hardcore on a lot of different policies — but we should all agree we don’t want to live in a dictatorship.” 4️⃣ The Grift Ledger Dean brought the receipts on the fraud Trump won’t mention tonight. Forbes reported the president has taken in $2.4 billion this year — six thousand times his salary. A CNN whistleblower story detailed stock buys that preceded his Truth Social endorsements, American Eagle to Nvidia. And Gabriel Perez — Trump’s personal teleprompter operator — landed on administrative leave after making $100,000 on Polymarket, betting on speeches he read before the country did. Zev pitched the fix: a live counter outside the White House tracking what Trump takes from the American people, running every second. 3️⃣ Epstein’s Money Men Leon Black didn’t show. The Apollo co-founder’s videotaped deposition, set for today, slid to September 3 — no reason given by his lawyers. His Epstein NDAs still land in the committee’s hands next week, and the panel that grilled Goldman’s Kathryn Ruemmler over her Epstein emails keeps working the money. Parnas, who testified before the same committee, saw the pattern: the paper trail survives every delay. 2️⃣ Blanche’s Worst Day Day two of Todd Blanche’s confirmation produced the week’s most damning testimony. Elizabeth Oyer, the career pardon attorney, told senators Blanche’s office pressured her to restore gun rights to a convicted domestic abuser — Mel Gibson, a friend of the president. “When I wouldn’t, Mr. Blanche fired me within hours,” she testified. “He then took extraordinary measures to silence me. He sent U.S. Marshals to my home.” Her close drew blood: “The casual lies that Mr. Blanche tells, even while sitting in this chair testifying to this committee, are emblematic of a much larger problem.” Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky recounted Blanche’s DOJ leaving her name unredacted hundreds of times. Tillis set his price on camera: meet the Epstein victims, or the no vote stands. Cornyn isn’t moving either. The committee sits 11–10. 1️⃣ The Rollout Then the show returned to where it began — 9 PM. Parnas laid out the sequence he’s been warning about for months: tonight’s curated “declassified” documents seed the doubt; indictments follow — Obama, Comey, Clapper are the targets he hears — and the FBI’s signature-matching review of ballots seized from Fulton County supplies the “proof.” Dean named the tell: sixty-plus courts found no fraud, and no one has been charged. Zev named the flaw: “He’s got a bit of a process issue here. He was the president in 2020.” And Parnas named the mechanism: “When you pick and choose what you declassify, it becomes propaganda.” The target isn’t 2020. It’s November. THE PATTERN One machine, five gears. A prime-time lie needs an attorney general who fires the honest lawyers, a committee that runs out the clock on Epstein’s bankers, a press under subpoena, and an oppositionatoo divided to answer. Zev left the panel with the counterweight: “He’s turned America into the very thing he said he was trying to fix. But that’s not who America is — millions are going to show up in their droves.” Thank you Ellie Leonard [https://substack.com/profile/39376636-ellie-leonard], Lyudmila and Daniel [https://substack.com/profile/153454755-lyudmila-and-daniel], Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA [https://substack.com/profile/205390666-richard-hogan-md-phd2-dba], Alex LeMay [https://substack.com/profile/163250417-alex-lemay], Lori Modafferi [https://substack.com/profile/385631085-lori-modafferi], and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell [https://substack.com/profile/34833166-dean-blundell]! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe [https://www.narativ.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

BLANCHE COLLAPSES UNDER FRAUD CLAIMS; OSSOFF EVICERATES CLAYTON; TRUMP'S ADDRESS TO THE NATION IS A POWER GRAB BASED ON A LIE

Three of Trump’s nominees sat for confirmation on the same day a federal judge’s fraud finding hung over the tallest of them — and by airtime, the votes to sink him were coming into view. Zev Shalev and Dean Blundell spent the hour with attorney and military veteran Anne P. Mitchell, who watched the Blanche hearing with Zev gavel to gavel and came armed with the one legal wrinkle nobody else caught. 5️⃣ THE HIGH-T DEPARTMENT OF WAR Pete Hegseth opened the day by authorizing annual testosterone-deficiency screening for every warfighter over 30 — “the biological foundation required to sustain the fight.” This from the secretary who banned flu vaccines until 222 active-duty members got sick enough to bring the mandate back. Mitchell’s read ran the other way: “He actually is saying the quiet part out loud. We’re going to boost your testosterone so unnaturally high that you are going to be just hair-trigger angry all the time. And then we’re going to funnel that anger into the quote-unquote enemy.” Dean reached for the historical parallel — the Luftwaffe’s amphetamine program — and Mitchell reached for the obvious question: what does Moscow think of an army that announces its men need pharmaceutical help to be fighters? 4️⃣ CLAYTON, DEFENESTRATED Jay Clayton wants to run American intelligence and could not say who won the 2020 election. Jon Ossoff asked him seven times. “I’m not going to do this with you. This is a job interview,” Clayton offered — before the exchange collapsed into “I’ve answered the question” / “No, you didn’t” / “That’s my answer.” Then came Fulton County: Clayton claimed he first learned yesterday, in Ossoff’s office, that Tulsi Gabbard attended the raid on a Georgia election facility — then conceded thirty seconds later he simply hadn’t “thought about it recently.” Mitchell called the whole performance what a courtroom would: “This is the equivalent of invoking the Fifth, in terms of non-responsiveness.” Zev called the ritual itself: a loyalty test. Lie about 2020 under oath, and the president knows you’ll lie about whatever comes next. 3️⃣ TOMORROW AT 9: THE OPERATION The 2020 question wasn’t academic. Tomorrow night Trump takes primetime to unveil “declassified intelligence” about the election he lost — served up by acting DNI Bill Pulte, teed up for the man who wouldn’t say who won. Mitchell flagged the tell in the credible reporting: foreign *plans* to interfere — not evidence anything happened. Old news, rebranded as a scandal, 110 days before the midterms. And the show put down the marker that matters: he cannot cancel the midterms. “The states have control over elections, even federal elections,” Mitchell said. Zev’s count: the administration is 0-for-14 trying to pry voter rolls from the states — “and he will go 0-for-50.” 2️⃣ THE MATH THAT SINKS BLANCHE The Judiciary Committee sits 11–10 with Graham’s chair empty, and by airtime both John Cornyn and Thom Tillis were being reported as no votes — two Republicans who got primaried out of their party and, as Mitchell put it, got handed their freedom in the process. Blanche spent the day answering fraud questions with “I don’t know” and “I wasn’t part of that decision” — about a settlement he announced, advocated, and signed. Under oath, Mitchell noted, those are the only words left that aren’t a confession. 1️⃣ THE $2 BILLION SELF-DEAL The story of the day, walked step by step. Trump sued his own IRS over his leaked tax returns. The DOJ — which, in Judge Kathleen Williams’ words, has “vigorously defended” the IRS in every such suit — rolled over for this one. The IRS’s own rank and file had prepared a 25-page defense that was never used. Trump dismissed his own case with prejudice; the $1.776 billion “settlement” appeared the next day, paying Trump allies and immunizing the family’s taxes forever. Williams reopened the case after 35 former federal judges told her something smelled, voided the fund, named the lawyers — and referred them for discipline. Then Mitchell delivered the wrinkle: the settlement protects “plaintiffs” — and the moment Trump dismissed the case, there were no plaintiffs. “It was a non-entity that was being protected. Blanche had to know that. A first-year law student would know that.” Whether that makes the AG nominee a fraudster or a man quietly harpooning his own client’s scheme, the paper trail runs through his signature either way. THE PATTERN One day, one test, three nominees — and every answer pointed at the same boss. The fraud was signed at Justice, the loyalty oath was administered at Intelligence, and the audience for all of it speaks at 9 PM Thursday. The desperation is the tell: a president polling at Nixon levels, stacking officials whose only qualification is what they’ll refuse to say under oath. Watch tomorrow night with us — and as Mitchell said, call, call, call. Watch: [link]Thank you Robin Payes [https://substack.com/profile/22747167-robin-payes], Shulamit Elson [https://substack.com/profile/402784719-shulamit-elson], Cathy R. 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THE FIVESTACK: THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews [https://groundnews.com/fivestack] — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Five stories, one thread. Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev spent Tuesday’s Fivestack tracing a single line through a broken news day: the people who built a machine to jail, track and frighten Americans are now the ones living behind the walls. A president who bombs a foreign capital flinches at his own hit list. Two justices who handed Trump immunity now beg Congress for bodyguards. The hunter, Zev argued, always becomes the hunted — he watched it happen once already, growing up white in apartheid South Africa. 5️⃣ Trump Books Primetime to Declare the 2020 Election Stolen — Again Trump has booked the nation for Thursday at 9 p.m. to claim newly “declassified” intelligence proves foreign interference handed Democrats the 2020 election — and, per reporting from Georgia’s own senators, to declare Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock illegitimate ahead of the 2026 midterms. Zev called it what it is: a pre-announcement of the intent to cheat. Trump ran the 2020 election as the sitting president; 80 court cases, up to the Supreme Court, found no fraud. The big lie built the resentment that carried him back to power. This is the sequel — the biggest lie, aimed at the vote that comes next. 4️⃣ Twenty FBI Agents at Graham’s Door — and Trump Wants Them Gone Twenty FBI agents searched Lindsey Graham’s home; Kash Patel called it “assisting local authorities.” Zev laid the calendar out plainly: Israeli intelligence warning of an Iranian plot to kill Trump, Graham in Kyiv closing a Russia sanctions deal, a published hit list, Trump refusing the new Air Force One — and then Graham dead. Russia, Iran and China run as one alliance; one death could serve all three. Zev stopped short of the conspiracy — he believes the aortic dissection, the same silent killer that took Graham’s father — but Trump’s “the FBI is wasting their time” only sharpened the question. Dean’s read: you can’t believe a word the man says, so watch what he’s this eager to shut down. Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews [https://groundnews.com/fivestack] — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. 3️⃣ Blindspot: DOGE Let AI Write Housing Policy — and the Right Won’t Cover It This week’s Ground News Blindspot is a story the right-leaning press is ignoring: DOGE used an AI model to draft federal housing policy affecting millions, then refused to name the model, the prompts or the guardrails. Wired obtained the records. The tell of the whole regime, Zev and Dean agreed — too lazy to do the work, willing to hand millions of Americans’ housing to a chatbot and sign it unread. See what both sides cover and hide: groundnews.com/fivestack, 40% off. 2️⃣ The Split Screen: Justices Beg for Guards While ICE Stops Stopping Cars Kagan and Barrett sat before appropriators — the first justices to face Congress since 2019 — asking $14 million to protect their homes; Barrett described the bulletproof vest Secret Service handed her, and her twelve-year-old asking what it was for. The same day, ICE ordered agents to halt vehicle stops nationwide after killing two men in a week — Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, work-authorized and not the target, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, also the wrong man. The powerful seek protection from the people; the people seek protection from the government. Dean’s harder edge: the Court handed Trump the immunity that built this, and the threats are the job now. 1️⃣ Blockade Hour: Trump Scraps the Toll, Keeps the War Trump announced a 20% toll on the Strait of Hormuz Monday and killed it by Tuesday — days after Rubio called Iran’s own tolls illegal under maritime law. The blockade itself went live at 4 p.m., mid-show. Trump calls himself “guardian” of a strait Iran still controls; only 22 ships crossed on July 9, down from 147 before the war. As Dean put it: watch nothing change in the Strait of Hormuz. THE PATTERN Zev brought it home through apartheid. In white South African suburbs, families sealed themselves behind high walls, barbed wire and glass shards, more imprisoned by their own fear than the people in the open, communal townships they feared. Tonight Trump builds an iron fence around the White House, extends the National Guard through 2029, and houses his cabinet behind a twelve-foot electrified fence on a military base. Miller, Noem, Hegseth — all living in more of a jail than any citizen. The fear they manufacture to hold power is the same fear now closing in on them. The hunter becomes the hunted. That is the whole show. Tomorrow: Narativ carries the Blanche confirmation hearing live from 9 a.m., then Trump’s primetime address at 9 p.m. Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews [https://groundnews.com/fivestack] — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Subscribe free — The Narativ and the Fivestack, every day. Know Sooner: narativ.org Thank you Rabbi Joshua Hammerman [https://substack.com/profile/13881731-rabbi-joshua-hammerman], LeftieProf [https://substack.com/profile/116079548-leftieprof], Michelle C. 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BREAKING: LINDSEY GRAHAM’S SISTER TAPPED TO SERVE REST OF HIS TERM

Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev returned from a two-week break to five headlines telling one story: one man pulling power into his own hands, and only the courts and the states pulling back. Watch the full countdown at narativ.org. 5️⃣ A Senate Seat, Filled by Truth Social It became official an hour after the show ended: Governor Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham Nordone — Lindsey Graham’s sister, who has never held public office — to serve out his term, hours after Trump announced the pick by Truth Social and preempted the governor’s own press conference. On the show, Zev played Graham’s final tape — Kyiv, 24 hours before his death, announcing the White House had agreed to his Russia sanctions bill — and walked the who-benefits board on a death the medical examiner calls natural causes and Iranian state TV calls a kill. The whole story, including the photograph propping up Mitch McConnell’s empty seat, is in the episode. 4️⃣ Twelve States Move to Stop the Ellison Media Empire California AG Rob Bonta led a 12-state antitrust suit to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery — CNN, HBO and CBS News under Larry Ellison’s family, Trump’s biggest donor, who already holds Oracle and TikTok. Zev takes you inside how media owners actually collude — he watched it from inside CBS — and Dean names what Jake Tapper’s weekend Trump interview was really about. 3️⃣ ICE Kills Again — Maine This Time ICE agents shot and killed a man in his car in Biddeford, Maine this morning — the second fatal ICE shooting in under a week, at least the fourth death this year — and it took the Maine House Speaker, not the agency, to tell the public. Biddeford poured into the streets. Dean connects it to the Houston foreman ICE admits it killed by mistake last week, and to the $5,000 NDAs his reporting says witnesses were offered. 2️⃣ Judge Kathleen Williams Kills the $1.8 Billion Slush Fund A federal judge tore up Trump’s settlement with his own IRS — voiding the $1.8 billion “weaponization victims” fund, the family immunity deal, all of it — ruled the suit was filed for an “improper purpose,” and referred Todd Blanche to the Florida bar for attempting to defraud the court. Blanche faces his Senate confirmation hearing for Attorney General on Wednesday. The hosts break down the 56 pages that just followed him there. 1️⃣ The Guardian of the Strait Iran struck US facilities in Bahrain and radar sites in Oman, and Trump answered by Truth Social: America is now “the Guardian of the Hormuz Strait” and “will be reimbursed at the rate of 20%” on all cargo through it — a toll on a war Congress never voted on, from a blockade Dean calls fantasy dressed as policy. What it actually buys: higher prices straight through November. Watch the full Fivestack at narativ.org — and tonight at 7 PM ET, Amanda Ungaro returns to Narativ Live with new Zampolli documents. Fivestack viewers get 20% off annual subscriptions. Thank you Caro Henry [https://substack.com/profile/464640-caro-henry], Lalisa [https://substack.com/profile/286625111-lalisa], Courtney M 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 [https://substack.com/profile/136249074-courtney-m], Fran [https://substack.com/profile/194263848-fran], Jeanne Elbe [https://substack.com/profile/96662126-jeanne-elbe], and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell [https://substack.com/profile/34833166-dean-blundell]! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe [https://www.narativ.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]