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Ben Maisel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
749 total appearances

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The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

That's where it would have gone if Donald Trump did nothing.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

2% interest rates would have been cut and it would have unleashed, I think, a lot of great economic things if unleashed with the right timing and under appropriate circumstances.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

But Donald Trump promised he was going to reduce inflation.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

So all of the inflation, though, you didn't like under Biden, right?

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

Donald Trump is adding 5% or last year's whatever it was, 3%.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

five percent year over year to biden so take biden's then add last year's inflation under trump this year's inflation under trump eight percent eight percent on top of what biden's inflation with top of what biden's inflation was so let's go more to this press conference right here where they're asking you know look the senate just shut down as well in addition to the house they got into a fight with attorney general todd blanch earlier in the day

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

Bland showed up and said, we need this $1.8 billion slush fund for Donald Trump to pay off January 6th insurrectionists.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

Donald Trump settled that case with himself that he filed against the IRS for $10 billion.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

He settled it for $1.8 billion to create this fund.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

for January 6th insurrectionists, but while you were looking that way, with the sleight of hand, he also waived any and all audits of his taxes, waived any of his, any claims that he didn't pay taxes in the past, or any of kind of the, from the point of the settlement agreement going back, any liability from taxes.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

It's a waiver of everything there.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

So all of these shady deals, I think, are covered.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

These quid pro quos, all of that.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

I think Donald Trump, though, and his family and his businesses will abide by the honor system and pay what they're supposed to pay.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

Right, Ben?

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

I mean, come on.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

I mean, they built themselves tax liability immunity in a deal.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

By the way, there were 450,000 other people who were impacted by the same data leak that Donald Trump sued for $10 billion.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

None of them sued because they don't have a claim.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 5/22/26

Sometimes it feels like we're living like in the middle of a social experiment.