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In the final moments of the trailer for the upcoming blockbuster MELANIA, the filmmakers capture a phone call between the president and first lady just after the results of the 2024 election were announced.

“Hi Mr. President,” she says to her husband. “Congratulations.”

“Did you watch it?” he responds hopefully.

“I did not.”

Is this whole documentary a way for Melania to throw shade at Donald? In the strange and plotless trailer, Melania says lines straight to camera, shows us around the White House, and gives Trump speech advice that, even after multiple viewings, we can’t understand what she actually says. What is this movie about??

And the cherry on top comes when Katie reveals who the director is…let’s just say the pipeline of accused-rapists moving to Israel is strong with this one.

Also in this Friday Free-For-All: Fox News cheers on the murderous “squeezing” of the Venezuelan people, a GOP senator rejoices that photos of starving children haven’t hurt Congressional support for Israel, and Trump somehow blames his terrible healthcare plan on Obama.

It’s a Free-For-All as cringey as any: laugh at it all with Katie and Aaron. Support independent media and subscribe to Useful Idiots to watch the full episode here:

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This week we speak with Suad Abdel Aziz, a Sudanese-American lawyer and founder of the human rights advocacy organization Decolonize Sudan. The Sudan Genocide is a topic we haven’t covered extensively at Useful Idiots, so Suad educates us with a history of the region, explains what’s going on now, and reveals how the US is involved.

Useful Idiots: Can you give us a brief history of Sudan and how we got to where we are?

Suad Abdel Aziz: Despite how mainstream media frames it, there is not an internal power struggle or civil war that’s happening in Sudan. What’s happening is a foreign-backed genocide, carried out by a militia called the Rapid Support Forces, or the RSF, as part of a colonial project to completely destabilize Sudan in order to seize land within a larger imperial scheme designed to extract resources, consolidate economic control of Sudan, and control Sudan’s foreign policy.

Beginning in April of 2023, the RSF violently seized Sudan, and over the course of over two years now, destroyed and leveled the bulk of Sudan’s infrastructure and has displaced over a third of the population, which is over sixteen million people. They have waged a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing marked by mass killings, including killings of entire family lineages, sexual violence, and the deliberate starvation of entire communities.

The RSF is only able to do this through the backing of the United Arab Emirates, who provide the funds, the fighters, and the weapons for this militia. In exchange, the UAE is extracting the resources of Sudan, with the main export that it’s smuggling being gold. And the UAE’s gold exports have increased by over 25% since this siege began.

Useful Idiots: What is the connection between Sudan and Palestine?

Suad Abdel Aziz: Sudan has historically been allied with Palestine and against Israel, which is key in understanding why the US seeks to align Sudan’s foreign policy with its own in order to serve its larger interests of domination of the Middle East. It’s very clear that if elections were to happen in Sudan, that the people would elect in anti-colonial Muslim governance. And this is a threat to US control of the Middle East and of Muslim countries.

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Plus, don’t miss this week’s Friday Free-For-All: Aaron Maté on Confronting Hillary Clinton

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At the Israel Hayom Summit in Doha, Hillary Clinton claimed that young people, specifically her own students at Columbia University, are brainwashed by social media into believing that Israel’s genocide of Gazans is bad.

Not only is this genocide denial, as a group of genocide prevention experts deemed, but it’s also just strange for a professor to mock her own students on a global stage.

And who else happened to be in Doha this week? That’s right, our own Aaron Maté. When he found himself standing outside of a lecture hall right near Clinton herself, he didn’t miss his opportunity:

“Secretary Clinton,” he asked. “You said that young people are brainwashed because of social media. What about young people who don’t want to see US-made bombs kill Palestinians? Any message for them?”

Her grin only widened as she walked away.

Hear Aaron’s analysis of his confrontation with the former secretary of state by subscribing to Useful Idiots. You’ll also get an examination into Chuck Schumer’s approval of Trump’s regime change war in Venezuela, our response to ADL Fraudfather Jonathon Greenblatt calling us “antisemitic Jews,” and yet another former Biden official justifying the murder of countless Ukrainians.

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