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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
latest attempt to push our experts, federal workers and others out and replace them with political hacks. This is Jerry Connolly's statement from the Oversight Committee. Donald Trump is trying every trick he and his Project 2025 cronies can think of to circumvent established civil service protections so they can purge the civil service of experts and replace them with political loyalists.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
The victims here, as is always the case with Donald Trump, are the American people who will see government services and benefits allocated not by nonpartisan civil servants, but by partisan hacks. But more... over, Donald Trump is also, I think, trying to con and fraud the federal workers. You signed your resignation. You think you're going to get the money from Donald Trump and Elon Musk?
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Or do you think you're going to get the old bait and switch? Democratic Senator Tim Kaine gave a powerful speech earlier where he said the buyout idea is another Trump scam. Quote, he's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept the offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed other contractors.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Folks, if you have friends, family, or you, or you know people who work at the federal government, make sure they know that this is likely yet another Trump and Musk scam. Don't be fooled. Here is Senator Tim Kaine on the Senate floor making this impassioned case. Let's play it.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Here, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, she goes, Trump is offering a fake buyout to federal workers with no guarantee he won't screw them the minute they accept and then replace them with unqualified, inexperienced loyalists the second they leave. This is straight from the pages of Project 2025.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Want to share this with you because Democrats going on the offense and calling Donald Trump out. Here's Governor Tim Walz. This is his interview he gave recently on MSNBC. Here's what he had to say about the Trump roligarch. Play this clip.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
You know, when I watch that clip, I get a little frustrated because that's the governor walls. that Vice President Kamala Harris picked. And he seemed to be holding back or the advisors were holding him back during the campaign. He came out so strong. He was calling Trump and J.D. Vance weird. And then I guess they were saying, don't say that. I thought that was powerful as could be.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Speaking of powerful as can be, Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman, here he talks about how Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are basically allowing Trump to impound all of legislatively prescribed funds that are out there going to all of these people who need it. All of these federal programs Trump is not allowing to reach.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
its final recipients, people who rely on this for life or death matters here, watch this.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
So Donald Trump and Elon Musk just offered a fake buyout to all federal employees saying that if they resign before February 6th, they are going to get paid all of their salary through September of 2025. Well, Congress hasn't appropriated that money. There's no authority to do it. And it's likely another bait and switch by Donald Trump, which he did to stiff contractors his entire career.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
I think Senator Tim Kaine makes a great point here as well on MSNBC where he says, look, if you want to make cuts to the budget, then pass a law. You control the House, you control the Senate. Don't do it unlawfully via impoundment. If you want to do this, go through the process. That's what laws are for.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
Laws are on the books that allow, that require, that mandate these funds, these government funds go to their destination. You can't just be like, no, that's called being a dictator on day one. Here's what Tim Kaine has to say playing this clip.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
But if you want to know what they're talking about on Fox, the WMD, the weapon of mass distraction, What are they trying to do here? Know their playbook, folks. They're talking about, oh, Trump's going to do an Iron Dome in case Russia nukes us. Iron Dome. I thought Donald Trump had great relations with Putin.
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
I thought him and Putin were buddies in that the war in Ukraine was going to end on day one. I thought Trump promised us peace. In 24 hours after the election, oh, that failed. 24 hours after the inauguration, that failed. And now you're saying that we need an iron dome to protect against nuclear weapons in the United States from Putin, who's Trump's buddy?
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
What in the world are y'all talking about? You can't even get your WMDs, your weapons of mass distraction, out. consistent at all. And now your WMDs are actual WMDs, weapons of mass destruction. You're running that playbook right now? That's the playbook you're running to try to distract us? Isn't it so obvious, folks?
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
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Dems Finally OUTMANEUVER Trump with RAPID RESPONSE
That's just what Donald Trump does. Democrats are forcefully calling Donald Trump and Elon Musk out for this scam. You have the Democratic Oversight Committee saying the following, there's a fork in the road, all right, and Trump, Musk, and their Project 2025 cronies are going down the wrong path again. Read Jerry Connolly's statement on the Trump administration's
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Like Lucinda, who goes, you are betraying your followers, Donald Trump. You are betraying us. I'm an elderly woman and you're taking away food stamps. You're taking away all of these programs for children. Who are you? You're letting us down and we put you there. How about this person who goes, A week in and now my Medicaid portal is shut down in my state. I voted for him too, but Jesus.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
This next person goes, the bank just called and told me that my USDA rural development loan that I was approved for is now canceled. Apparently, Trump has frozen all federal loans and grants. We were supposed to start construction on February 1st. I voted for him to bring down grocery prices, not this.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Well, I guess if you consider that a lot of groceries are no longer even making it to the grocery store, perhaps that's how you could say he's bringing it down the same way. I guess he brought down toilet paper during his first administration because bye-bye, there was no toilet paper and there were mass casualty events. Do y'all remember what happened in Trump administration?
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
One with mobile morgues, he said like a miracle. All of this COVID is just going to go away. Just inject yourself with bleach. Do you have collective amnesia, Trump voters? You know that men in black wand that they used to have and they would just erase their memory? Is that what's going on here at all? Okay, let me pull out some receipts, then I'll share more stories.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
So this is Elon Musk right here, who's basically as... top of the food chain of Trump. He's almost a co-president at this point. So during the election, he was saying what his plans were. He said that he needs to inflict temporary hardship. He said, we need to inflict immediate hardship on people, let them suffer, and then we can build after the people are suffering. This is his words.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Okay, so you have Elon saying that. And now, as we share more F around and find out stories, yesterday, we also learned that Donald, and this one pains me because I stand in solidarity with unions worldwide. with Teamsters brothers and sisters, with other union members. So this one hits me hard.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
I don't take delight in reporting on this, but Teamsters, you know your president, Sean O'Brien, what he did. He ran to Mar-a-Lago with that thumbs up and he spoke at the RNC and he was telling y'all and everybody, Trump's gonna be great for labor. I was like, Trump's going to be great for labor. What are you talking about? His whole life was ripping off labor and screwing people.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
That's literally Trump's entire MO. Screwing labor, hating unions. Well, surprise, surprise. What happened on Tuesday? The National Labor Relations Board's powerful, well-respected general counsel, Abruzzo, she got fired by Trump.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
unlawfully I might add also Donald Trump ousted NLRB member Gwen Wilcox unlawfully they fired her despite the law forbidding firing board members absent neglect or malfeasance and the reason they fired her by the way she was the first black female member of the NLRB Now the NLRB is deadlocked for the entire term, so the unions can't advocate for even the formation of unions.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
The union busters love this and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump's broligarcs, the people who were invited to the inauguration, who sat even in front of the cabinet, they've been trying to destroy the NLRB. So to all of the Teamsters, your president, Sean O'Brien, who was out there palling around with Trump, what's he saying about the fact that Trump just gutted the NLRB? And by the way,
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Here's the audio of Donald Trump and Elon Musk laughing about firing striking union workers. This existed before the election. We were sharing this clip. Play it.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
But, you know, if you look at Arjun... And by the way, Elon Musk, who's basically running the government now, we know that Elon Musk has planted his lawyers and his team to run... OMB's back end, the Office of Management and Budget. And they're out there, you know, I think my opinion is scamming people in the federal government saying, if you resign now, we're gonna pay you X amount of dollars.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
If you resign now, we'll give you a buyout. Trump doesn't do buyouts. Trump is a con artist. He is a felon. He is a adjudicated fraud. He was found liable for fraud. You're gonna trust this guy? Anyway, here's Elon Musk out there saying, that he doesn't even believe in the concepts of unions because he says unions are the lords and the workers who are members of the unions are peasants.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Think about the gaslighting and the lies, talking about a lord v. peasant dynamic. That's the Broligarchs and the rest of us. The lords are Elon Musk, the Bezoses, the Zuckerbergs, that whole crew, and then the peasants is everybody else, and now they gutted union protection.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
We're hearing from all of these Trump supporters and Trump voters who are now like, Donald, you're betraying us. We depended on federal aid and now you did this federal aid across the board freeze and now we can't get the services that are keeping us alive. How could you do this to us?
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Let's just take a look as well at some of this other data that's out there. This person, I'm a facility director for a collection of churches who supported Trump, currently have about a million dollars in projects between all of the churches through federal grants. We can't pay these bills if the money doesn't come in.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
We were offered this money by the federal government for various safety upgrades and maintenance. Most of the grants are reimbursement loans. Parishioners are already texting and calling scared. I don't feel good. This person goes, my parents are conservative and own a business whose sole purpose is writing federal grants. Their entire income is now completely gone because of Donald Trump.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
This person goes, what the hell? While I agree we need to cut down on federal spending, this will immediately harm food banks, suicide hotlines, farms, and dozens of other things that are essential to this country. There's really no good way to defend Trump's federal government freeze. Even if you say we should cut back on government funding,
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Cutting things cold turkey like this with everything is absolutely ridiculous. Even Louisiana's far, far right. Governor Jeff Landry says we need to have clarity as to the depth. He says he goes that he's concerned that Trump's actions, quote, jeopardize financial stability.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
You think it jeopardizes financial stability when Trump's order looks like it is freezing federal loan and grant programs like SNAP and TANF and WIC and federal student loans and more. But folks, Folks, guess what MAGA's doing? They're doing cosplay. You've got your puppy-killing Homeland Security director, Kristi Noem, dressed up like an ICE officer doing the arrests herself with Dr. Phil.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
Here, watch this. You're in New York City this morning. We are getting the dirt bags off you. Don't worry, also the zero-star general, the zero of a person, Pete Hegseth, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, he announced his first action will be revoking General Mark Milley, a four-star general security clearance, and investigating Milley to potentially take away one of Milley's stars.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
So Hegseth, who has zero stars, gonna take away a decorated military veteran's stars. and harm his retirement and take away his security detail because that's how Donald Trump treats the troops like absolute crap. And it absolutely crapped on the troops by putting Hegseth there.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
And by the way, the veteran suicide hotline gets funded with these grants that have now resulted in the veteran suicide hotline being taken down and so many programs that fund veterans being cut because of this. And by the way, you think about some, you know, no one's even talking about this.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
I'm going to share some of this F around and find out content, also known as leopards eating my face or your face content. But I come with receipts as well. What I want to share with you is the type of coverage we had warning you about what was going to happen. So let's take out the receipts and let's also share some of these stories. First, let me share some of these stories.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
A lot of our aid, you know, helps like kids with AIDS, kids with HIV, people even abroad that have AIDS and HIV who are going to die. We're gonna die now because of this. It's literally killing people like he did in COVID, just killing people with this stuff. And so, yeah, you're effing around and you find out the leopards are eating your faces. You voted for that. We didn't. You voted for that.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
We didn't. And the people in the rest of the world who are going to be impacted, who are going to freaking die because of this or be seriously injured because of this and suffer because of this is because of all of you. So, yeah, it's an F around and find out you're finding out you're screwed up, but you screwed everybody's life in the process. And we warned you about this stuff. We warned you.
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Trump Voters FREAK OUT over his AWFUL DECISIONS
And you were talking about transgender volleyball players. And that's what was getting you all angry. Your culture war issues. You wanted to bully marginalized communities. Shame on you for doing it. Seriously. Me saying shame on you isn't enough. Horrific. Wake the hell up. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
Here, Governor Walz says the following about MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer and the other MAGA Republican Congress members who are ceding their authority as members of Congress as a co-equal branch of government to allow Donald Trump to engage in what's called
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And here's Minnesota Governor Walz one more time talking about how Donald Trump is the worst manager ever. Let's play the clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
There were other powerful statements by governors throughout the country as well. This is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. This is how it's done. He looks at the camera and he says, Donald Trump's administration is lying to you. Here are the facts. Here's what happened. Here, play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
Here's Governor Walz, Governor Pritzker rather, once again slamming the Trump administration for the federal funding crisis. Let's play it.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
While all of that was going on, you had the MAGA Republicans in Donald Trump's cabinet doing cosplay. This is now the Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, puppy killer Kristi Noem. Here she is dressed up in her cosplay gear saying she's going after the bad guys herself after being sworn in. Here, play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And folks, it should also be noted that Donald Trump has tasked Dr. Phil. Yes, the washed up television personality, Dr. Phil, who nobody likes anymore, apparently other than MAGA. He's doing a TV show about the bloody mass deportations. Now, when Donald Trump's press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, was asked about
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
That's Minnesota Governor Tim Walz laying the smack down to Donald Trump. after Donald Trump issued a federal spending freeze, basically stopping all federal spending to key government programs, sending our country into chaos yesterday. Civil rights groups had to rush into court, federal court in Washington, D.C., to block Donald Trump's spending freeze temporarily.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And again, it should be noted that what transpired is blatantly illegal. Impoundment, Trump impounding stealing, he knows a lot about stealing Donald Trump, stealing funds for himself and seizing it, entirely unlawful, it is dictatorial. And the fact that MAGA Republicans in Congress are okay with it tells you all you need to know about how weak and pathetic they are.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
I'll show you this one more clip right here of Caroline Leavitt. Here she is when she was asked, so what about Medicaid? Because the Medicaid portals in all of the states were shut down right after the Office of Management and Budget, controlled by Trump, issued the edict to shut it down. So what's going on with that Caroline Leavitt? Here's what she had. She goes, I don't really know.
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I don't really know. Here, play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
By the way, you have Democratic senators speaking up as well. Here's Senator Patty Murray. Here's what she has to say from the great state of Washington. Play this clip.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
And by the way, these cuts affect all of the departments and agencies, whether it's the Department of Education, whether it's the Department of Agriculture, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security.
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Gov Walz PUTS THE SCREWS in Trump for GOV FREEZE
The EPA, Department of Veterans Affairs, for example, the Suicide Crisis Line shutdown, Department of Commerce, Department of Interior, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Small Business Administration, National Endowment for the Arts, Department of Health and Human Services, all of these programs, let's think of like our shutdown, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, for example.
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um hiv aids program maternal and child health care services lunches for kids in school defense education outreach national guard and reserve equipment grants creative writing and arts education grants indian housing block grants education and human resource directorate grants veteran housing assistance
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public works, environmental justice small grants program, superfund remedial programs, fire prevention and safety, port security, victims of crime act, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention grants, energy efficiency and conservation block grants, low income energy assistant grants, shut down because of the federal spending freeze by Donald Trump, who wants to torture the people.
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which a judge granted there will be another hearing next Monday. Let's go back to what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had to say, and he was not holding back. Here, Governor Tim Walz talks about how Trump threw our country into a crisis while he was out golfing. Play the clip.
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Let's just call it what it is. He wants people to feel pain to help the billionaires. That's it. That's the game. We don't have to overcomplicate what this is. He hates Americans, unless you're a billionaire. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Also, we are learning from the French foreign minister that he spoke with other European Union leaders as well, and other European Union leaders And ministers of defense also talked about deploying their troops into Greenland to make sure they have Denmark's back, which is part of the European Union. So Donald Trump threatening our NATO allies, our NATO allies now responding to Donald Trump.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
This follows the prime minister of Denmark, Meta Frederiksen, having a meeting with European leaders this week. Here's an article about that. Danish Prime Minister Meta Fredriksen says the country has received substantial support from fellow European nations as she seeks support to counter the United States President Donald Trump's threats to take control of Russia. Greenland.
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Fredrickson visited three European capitals on Tuesday, meeting French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, she says. I want to play this for you right now. This is the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barotte. Here he is talking about how if the sovereignty of Denmark and Greenland is threatened, France will step up.
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Here, let's play the clip, and I'll just note this is in French, so we did an AI voice to translate what he was saying into English for our English viewers.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
Now let me show you Denmark Prime Minister Meta Fredriksen. Here's what she said after meeting with European leaders. She called for, quote, a stronger and more resolute Europe against the United States, which is now threatening to attack the sovereignty of Europe. Let's play it right now.
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WOW! France DESTROYS Trump with MILITARY RESPONSE
And so all I can say to you is that we here at the Midas Touch Network stand in solidarity with you. We do not support the actions of Donald Trump and his threats. I want to share with you this video right here. This is of President Zelensky. This was back on November 19th of 2024. So this was after Trump's election.
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And here Zelensky is talking about what a great ally Denmark has been to Ukraine, how grateful Ukraine is to Meta Fredrickson. Let's play the clip right here. Let's play it. And Zelensky says, a thousand days of full-scale war is a very difficult path and we are enduring it because we have friends like Denmark by our side and leaders like Prime Minister Meta Fredriksson.
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Share this with you as well. You can just see how the people of Denmark now absolutely just despise Donald Trump. What a grotesque character he is. He is, I know the people of Denmark, we have a strong connection with the pro-democracy Americans here and so this is so difficult for us, you know, to have someone like Donald Trump doing this here.
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A bakery in Denmark starts selling bright orange Donald Trump
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moron cakes right now quote Denmark should send a box of these cakes to Trump so they're selling moron cakes of Donald Trump in Denmark I think by the way that is a brilliant idea and by the way I agree with you that he's absolutely a a moron but folks things are escalating quick we previously reported again that Denmark had invested another two billion dollars into its military capabilities in
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Greenland, I'll play this for you right now. Again, preparing for a possible American invasion. I mean, that's where we're at right now. And by the way, I'll show you two clips right now. One clip I wanna show you is of this MAGA Republican Congress member. who's out there. And this is how they talk right now in the United States.
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It's crazy for me to see saying that America is an apex predator and we have to conquer others. We need to be predators is what these MAGA Republicans sing. Play the clip.
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Now, let me show you this clip of people in Greenland when Fox showed up and they were, I guess, surprised that the people of Greenland did not want to be attacked by nations that call themselves apex predators like the United States. Surprise, surprise. Here, play this clip.
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Well, that's where we are folks right now. We will keep you posted as we learn more here on the Midas Touch Network. Now hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers. We're getting there pretty quick. Please subscribe right now. And thank you to all of our international viewers as well. This is an international struggle. And we here at the Midas Touch Network, we're in it with you.
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Relations between the United States and Europe are absolutely falling apart and falling apart quick. We are now learning that France is prepared to send troops into Greenland, which is part of the kingdom of Denmark, in order to protect against a possible invasion by the United States, which is what Donald Trump has threatened.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Donald Trump was stunned into silence this morning. Usually we'll see him posting over and over again on his social media platform or sending emails to his supporters. No such post this morning. The last post was about 14 hours ago. This as more information was released by the Atlantic
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Also, strike drones launch MQ-9s. More F-18s launch at 1410. 1415 will do strike drones on target. This is when the first bombs will definitely drop. pending earlier trigger-based targets. At 1536, the F-18 second strike starts. Also, first sea-based Tomahawks are launched.
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So now that this has been released, because that piece was not released yesterday, so the Trump regime went out and they were like denying, denying, denying, or saying nothing was classified, even though what was already released was classified. And then the Atlantic dropped that. It also just shows that how just reckless and negligent the Trump regime is even at the cover-up itself.
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So now what the Department of Defense is going with is that, look, the Atlantic is backpedaling because the title of the Atlantic article from this morning about those new messages I just shared with you are, Here are the attack plans that Trump advisor shared on Signal. The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to the Atlantic's editor-in-chief.
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So the Department of Defense is going, aha! The Atlantic is now saying that these are attack plans and not war plans. So clearly they're not war plans. Look, the Atlantic is taking it all back. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, goes, this is really the lame ass defense that the Trump regime is going with. that they were attack plans and not war plans.
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And then all these MAGA influencers are doing that as well. They're highlighting the part of the Atlantic headline that says attack plans, like Sean Parnell goes. It's no surprise the hoax peddlers at the Atlantic have already abandoned their war plans claim. These additional signal chat messages confirmed there were no classified materials or war plan shared.
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about the leak of war plans on a Signal group thread where the top Department of Defense officials, top national security officials, top military officials, top Trump officials were sending each other emojis as they put actual war plans in the messages, highly classified information. Yesterday, of course, you had Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, head of the CIA,
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The secretary was merely updating the group on the plan. That's as classified of information as you can get. So then Tulsi Gabbard moments ago, as again, Trump was in silence, Tulsi Gabbard testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, and now she's backpedaling and kind of throwing Hegseth under the bus saying,
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Because yesterday she said there was no classified information, no attack plans. It was just basic communication, which it wasn't what we saw yesterday. So here's what she's going with now. Watch as she throws others under the bus. Play this clip.
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I just want to show you what she said yesterday so you can now compare. After all, so you've seen for yourself, I've read for you the text messages that give an operational plan of when targets are going to be hit and which military assets are going to be used. Here's what she said yesterday to the Senate. So the first one I showed you was today in the House of Representatives.
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Now I'm showing you yesterday in the Senate. Play this clip.
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So please answer the call. So then Tulsi Gabbard claims that while she was traveling, she was on this text message thread, even though she refuses to acknowledge also, I think that she was, she says she now realizes she was on the text message thread at the end. I don't even know what she's saying. But she was in a foreign country when this was taking place.
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And now she refuses to say which foreign country. She says she doesn't remember the country she was in when these messages were sent. Watch her play this clip.
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And others say there was no war plans, no attack plans, nothing classified. The Atlantic released more information.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. So then Congress member Himes, the Democratic ranking member of the committee, we've had him on the Midas Touch Network before. I'm going to have him on the Midas Touch Network this week and ask him questions about this as well for everybody. So I want to get his take on it.
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But he asks Tulsi Gabbard, why are you retweeting Russian propaganda? Your personal accounts are retweeting RT, which is literally the Russian propaganda network, and you repost it over and over again. Do you think that it's responsible for you as the director of national intelligence for the United States of America to be reposting Russian propaganda?
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And you can see right here that Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, put the exact sequencing of the entire operation and the types of aircraft that would be used to conduct these strikes all before the operation took place, putting the lives of our fighter pilots and other assets at risk.
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And then Tulsi Gabbard is like, I have a First Amendment right. What I do on my personal account, I'm going to do. It's my First Amendment right now. to post Russian propaganda. For real, this is what she says. Let's play it.
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So while that was going on today, take a look at some other headlines throughout the nation. From the Wall Street Journal, corporate America's euphoria over Trump's golden age is giving way to distress. Headline from the Wall Street Journal, CEOs and investors are fretting over what they see as whipsaw policy changes and complacency about the risks of recession.
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Now, this follows the Wall Street Journal post on November 6, 2024, after the election when the Wall Street Journal's headline was, Wall Street salivates over a new Trump boom. Wednesday's epic post-election rally augurs big lucrative opportunities. Investors and analysts say, come on, you're the Wall Street Journal. Trump bankrupted almost everything he's touched in his life.
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He's bankrupted more companies than everyone. Like, you have to know the guy's an idiot and he's going to continue to bankrupt things. He is a bankruptor. He is a destroyer. He is a fraud. He is a criminal. He is a felon. Just wake the hell up. This is not complicated analysis. The guy's a sexual predator, felon, disgusting, vile, bankrupt. It's easy. And juries have found that.
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And then in February, the headline was the mood of the American consumer is souring. And now how bad is it? The economic vibes are about as bad as you get right now, as bad as you get. Consumer confidence is falling to almost all time lows at this point. I mean, we haven't seen confidence this low since about what, 2013 ish.
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And the month over month declines are clear signs that not just a recession is but potentially a great recession or a massive depression is coming just based on the consumer confidence drop. What are the MAGA Republicans saying about all of this? Well, you have MAGA Republican Congress member Dan Crenshaw.
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By the way, he was a Navy SEAL, but now he has to bend the knee to Trump and MAGAism and behave like a freaking buffoon. And he's like, I just want to say when I kill the terrorists, I always use fire emojis and fist bump emojis. When I kill terrorists, that's what I do. Here, play this clip.
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I want to talk about cartels. I mean, these are parodies of parodies of parodies at this point. Another headline this morning from Reuters. U.S. government can face default risk as soon as August without debt ceiling increase. Congressional budget office estimates. China is expressing solemn concerns on U.S. tariffs and they're now considering reciprocal tariffs. Additional news.
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Remember the lawsuit that was filed against China? All of the individuals in that signal group chat for violating the Public Records Act and the Presidential Records Acts and all of the things that say you can't communicate that way. The group American Oversight filed that lawsuit against the Trump administration. You know what judge it was assigned to randomly? Judge Boasberg.
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Yep, the same Judge Boasberg, federal judge, Washington, D.C., who Donald Trump has been consistently attacking over and over again and saying that, oh, that judge, you know, issued an injunction against the Trump regime, kidnapping people and sending them to concentration camps in El Salvador. That judge now got this new case assigned to him regarding the Records Act violations.
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I do want to share with you this, though, is now that I've showed you all of this. Here's what Pete Hegseth said yesterday while he was in Hawaii, that nobody was texting war plans. Play this clip.
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And finally, we're seeing unity like never before amongst Greenlanders to fend off the United States as Trump continues to Say he wants to annex Greenland and he keeps attacking Greenland and making aggressive moves towards Greenland. Remember how yesterday I reported how Usha Vance, J.D. Vance's wife and the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz were going to Greenland? Well, now J.D.
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Vance wants to go to Greenland as well. He's going to be there as part of an effort to try to conquer it and take it over. whatever the hell the Trump regime is doing. This has Europe pissed. Greenland's part of the territory is a territory in Denmark. Denmark's pissed. Greenlanders are pissed. Greenland hates this. And 95, 96% of Greenlanders do not want this. And they say, no means no.
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Get the hell out of here, you freaking abusers. We don't want America here. Get out. That's what's going on today. We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Exclusive: Senator Schiff Calls for Trump Admin Resignations
I'm joined by Senator Adam Schiff. Senator, how big of a deal is this leak of classified information on text threads about war plans now that we've had a day or so to process it all?
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So, Senator, you're calling for those resignations. You may have said it before, but you're calling for those resignations right now, correct?
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So earlier today in the Senate, there was that hearing with DNI Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel. DNI Tulsi Gabbard was asked about these documents or these messages, and she said, to your point, they're not classified and seemed to suggest that there was nothing wrong with it at the same time.
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She refused to say if she was the TG because she wouldn't say that she was in it. But she also said that it's not classified. Let me share with you what was said so our audience can hear it as well. Then I'll ask you about it.
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So when she's saying under oath there that there was no classified information, you've had the ability to read those messages, as has the public at this point. What do you say to that?
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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was on Fox, Laura Ingraham moments ago, trying to normalize what went down. And he was like, you know what happens when you just like put in like the wrong person's number in your phone and like this happens to all of us, right? Let me show you what they're doing on Fox right now. Let's play it.
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This looks like some like bizarro, awful movie cosplay scene playing out there where she like looks at the camera. That doesn't happen to everybody. And he's such a bad liar. Like just even watching that, he should resign for that appearance.
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But Senator, they did say they're going to get to the bottom of it and they have a plan. And the plan is they're going to put Elon Musk on it. Here, play this clip.
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Elon Musk is going to figure this one all out too. Let's give this to Elon Musk. I mean, it's pathetic. I don't know how else to describe. I'm trying to find the words. It's pathetic.
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What's your final message to the American people who are like, what comes next? What do you say?
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Senator Adam Schiff, thanks for joining us as always. Great to be with you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Sleepy Trump Has Disaster Interview as Pressure Grows
What did I just watch? Look at Donald Trump here throughout this interview on Newsmax with Greg Kelly this evening. He looked like he was going to fall asleep the entire time. Sleepy Donald with his eyes closed as he spent most of the interview whining about the 2020 election and saying the 2020 election was rigged. Here, play this clip. Before
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. That was Donald Trump, sleepy Donald Trump's appearance on Newsmax. Really weird stuff. Dangerous stuff. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Then Donald Trump and this host, Greg Kelly, walk around the Oval Office. And then Greg Kelly looks at portraits of George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Ronald Reagan. And Greg Kelly's like, just look at all of these people. They're like you. They're like you. And then Donald's like, yeah, that's why I like you to interview you.
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Just watch this, play this clip.
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I mean, we're watching the outtakes from idiocracy, not even idiocracy, the outtakes from idiocracy. Donald Trump then talks about why his national security advisor, defense secretary, and others were discussing war plans on a group text message thread and invited a reporter, Jeffrey Goldberg, onto the thread. What he says makes no sense. Play this clip.
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You were on the phone with Donald Trump. He's amazed by the word groceries. He goes, groceries? Groceries, have you heard of this word? All the groceries are going down. No, they're not. What world are you living in? The prices are not going down. You are tanking the economy, though. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump tries to attack Social Security by lying that illegal immigrants get Social Security when they don't. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump, it seems like he praises Russia here for not doing a deal with Ukraine. And he's like, you know, it's like me. Like when I used to do contracts, I didn't want to sign a contract. That's like Putin, a good negotiator.
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Notice he can never say anything negative. He'll attack Ukraine, which has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire when Russia has refused to unconditional ceasefire. And then Donald Trump attacks Ukraine here. Donald Trump then talks about starting a compensation fund for the January 6th insurrectionists, play it.
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And then a very lethargic, a very fatigued and sleepy Donald Trump said that he was saved by God to save the country. A demented man. Play this clip.
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Donald Trump then blames George Soros. for attacks on Tesla.
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Then Greg Kelly tries to get Donald Trump to say that there was going to be a lot of exceptions to the April 2nd tariffs. And Donald Trump's like, no, not too many exceptions. Play this clip.
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That's why we- And do you hear there as well? He's like, yeah, there's going to be disturbances. Disturbance. Why are they disturbing our economy? I don't want disturbances. I just, I want to go about my day with my family. I just want to wake up, maybe read a book, have some breakfast, my wife and my daughter, go for a walk.
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That's what I want to do, not have to deal with disturbances, have economic hardship inflicted upon me. What are you doing? Then Donald Trump lies and says, Biden paid $350 billion to Ukraine. Europe paid $100 billion. So we're $250 billion. All lies. Europe has paid more to Ukraine than the United States.
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And the United States payments to Ukraine came in the form of old weapons that the United States was not even using. And Europe gave more. It's just everything he says is a lie. There's nothing true about this. Play this clip.
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who was the lady who got shot and killed on January 6th. She was leading a group of people trying to break into the area where senators and congress members were to attack them. And the group, the mob, wanted to kill them. And Ashley Babbitt was going through the glass that had been broken to attack police officers. And then Trump, of course, attacks the police officer and praises Ashley Babbitt.
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By the way, here's Donald Trump celebrating the USMCA, his trade deal with Canada and Mexico that he now says is the worst deal. I just want to bring out the receipts. This is during the first Trump administration. The trade deal with Canada and Mexico is literally his deal. Play this clip.
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I said before, demented man, a demented thing. Here, Donald Trump talks about tariffs, and he says the deals that were made by my predecessors on these trade deals were so bad. Donald, the big trade deal with Canada and Mexico, the USMCA, it's your deal. It was your deal. Play this clip.
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Yeah, Donald, so the person who made a stupid deal, stupid, that was you, Don. That was you who did it. I had the opportunity to interview- Former ambassador to the United Nations and former national security advisor Susan Rice. I asked her about the cell phone text message threads by these Trump officials where they were talking about their war plans.
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Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy to Russia, was in Moscow while all of this was taking place and he was on the thread. So I asked Ambassador Rice, so do the Russians have all our info now? And she's like, yep. If he's on that thread, he's using signal. They have it here. Play this clip. Donald Trump's special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat.
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The CIA director, John Ratcliffe, testified today that he wasn't even aware of today that wit cough was in moscow when i knew about it because it was a matter of public attention how dangerous is that do you believe the russians now have all of that information and potentially more what can you give us based on what what would you know about these things well
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
I'm joined by Georgia Senator John Ossoff. Senator, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast. Hey, people seemed pretty fired up at your first kickoff speech of the 2026 campaign season in Atlanta. What were you seeing out there? What's the reaction of the people right now?
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And what are people saying about this hostile government takeover by Elon Musk, this unelected billionaire and Doge coming in with a wrecking ball, dismantling the federal government, attacking veterans, taking people's private data, social security data, medical records and saying, trust me, bro, we're billionaires. We ain't going to do anything bad with them. We just want to look at them.
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What are people saying in Georgia?
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take a look at this i think it exactly proves your point howard lutnik the commerce secretary he's a billionaire and he said look if you complain about not getting your social security check one month the fact that you're complaining probably means you're the fraud that we should be going after. He's like, my mother-in-law, she's 94.
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If she missed a social security check for a month, she would be like, whatevs, it's going to come the next month. So people are afraid that they're going to go after social security and they're seeing social security offices shut down. Let me just show you what Lutnik said and let me get your response to it. Let's play it.
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When you hear that, what do you say to it?
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And to your point there, you have the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, posting a meme of Donald Trump at a cemetery in front of a grave, which is just ghoulish in and of itself, kind of mocking the grave. But the grave is for the Department of Education, and it's spelled wrong. Department is spelled without the T at the end of it.
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And they're mocking the fact that they're gutting the Department of Education and Donald Trump's putting out an executive order to get rid of it. I mean, things like this, Senator, it's going to make a horrible impact on your state, right? I mean, the Department of Education getting gutted, that's going to hurt Georgia.
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Look, Georgia... turned red this 2024 election. They voted for Trump this time around. What are you hearing, though, from the people? Are you hearing that there's regret? Are people pissed off? What's going on?
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Senator, what do you make of Donald Trump and his administration, I call regimes, kind of consistent going out of their way to praise Putin? We believe what Putin's saying. But then when it comes to Zelensky, they try to humiliate him in the Oval Office and consistently say, you know, just spread Russian propaganda.
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They had Steve Witkoff, the special envoy to Russia and Ukraine, go on the weekend shows. And here's what he had to say about Putin. He goes, we should trust Putin. Why wouldn't we trust this guy?
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
You make of the way Donald Trump's been. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine on day one. That's obviously another lie. What do you make of all that?
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
Senator, what's your reaction to the breaking news on Monday that there was this group chat with all of the top national security, DOD, Vance? They were all there discussing war plans. in a group chat with emojis and text messages and discussing all the sensitive compartment and mental information over text message.
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
And now they're attacking the reporter from the Atlantic, who they apparently accidentally invited to this chat. That's how it's been uncovered. You've seen a lot, Senator, but what do you make of this?
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
Senator, your message as you kick off this campaign season for 2026. Wow, time flies. I remember when you were running in 2020. What's your message to the voters in Georgia and your message just generally to Americans who are just worried and nervous right now?
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
Senator, where can people find out more information about the 2026 campaign?
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Senator John Ossoff's first time on the Midas Touch Network. We hope you come back and keep us updated as you tour Georgia and you hit other districts there and other constituents there.
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Senator Ossoff Calls Out Trump’s Attack on America
Maybe I'll take you up on that. Well, to be continued. Thanks, Senator.
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You know, I look at this face right here of a real DEI hire. Didn't earn it. Pete Hegseth, so emblematic of this Trump regime, cacistocracy. So you wake up in 2025, March, with headlines like this from the Trump regime. Consumer expectations plunged to their lowest level in 12 years as recession signals blare from NBC News.
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We'll keep covering it here in the Midas Touch Network. Something is happening in this country. Democracy summer is coming. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million.
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The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging into their online accounts. This headline from the Wall Street Journal is not surprising, and perhaps two months late. Canadians are boycotting American vacations.
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Infuriated by annexation talks, neighbors to the north are keeping their vacations local. Good. We stand in solidarity with the Canadians here at the Midas Touch Network against this Trump regime. We know why you're boycotting. We know it's not against the American people. It's against the regime. You got to do what you got to do. And we're here fighting the regime from within.
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And I can't wait for the day when we're able to celebrate without Donald Trump together again. But we appreciate the strength that you're showing in Canada and elsewhere throughout the world standing up to this despicable bully. I mean, look at this team of misfits. DEI didn't earn it. Trump regime people like Pete Hegsa. What the hell is even going on here? He goes, we destroyed strength.
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I mean, dude, let me play you the clip first and then I'll talk to you about it. Play it.
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All right. Y'all were doing war plans on text threads, on signal chats, while some of the people on those text threads were in Moscow, which means, and I spoke to Former Ambassador Susan Rice, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, go back and watch my video I posted yesterday in my exclusive with her. That means Russia has all of this stuff.
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You placed lives at risk, you fools, you morons, you. And here is Pete Hegseth saying again, oh, I'm not doing war plans. I know what I'm doing, everybody. I know what I'm doing, everybody. Play this clip.
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The conference board's monthly index showed older consumers are especially worried about the fate of their finances. from the Wall Street Journal. Consumer confidence drops further. Key measure flags recession risks, as Heather Bushy says. Yikes. The president may get the economy he wants after all. Consumer confidence has plummeted, falling four months in a row.
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My dad warned me about people like that at the bar. He said, Ben, just look away. Don't engage. Don't talk to those people like that. That's the defense secretary right now. There's something going on in this country right now, folks. There truly is a movement. As I said, a pro-democracy summer is coming. And I've been saying, I see the signs in all of these areas and red districts too.
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We're getting validation of that. In Pennsylvania's 36th district, state Senate district, a Democrat flipped that seat. It was a plus 15 Trump district. This guy, James Malone, flipped a plus 15 Trump district that had not gone Democrat since the late 1800s. And that seat flipped yesterday. We're also seeing massive polling shifts in Canada.
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Trump in Fear as Signs of Disaster Surface
You know, I've been doing lots of hot takes, lots of videos on what's going on with the Liberal Party, now led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, is pummeling and punishing Maple MAGA, the right-wing conservative party at the federal level, led by Pierre Poliev. to be clear, I think that there are some conservative premiers who have been stepping up. Not all of them.
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I mean, in Ontario, I think Doug Ford has been doing a good job. Alberta, in Alberta, Danielle Smith has been doing a horrific job. She's like... A maple MAGA Vichy spy with Mr. Vichy Doge boy, Pierre Poliev, trying to interfere with the elections and have Trump like help them out. What a horrific, embarrassing thing there.
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But the liberal party led by Prime Minister Carney has been on the right side of this issue, standing up to Donald Trump powerfully as opposed to this maple MAGA mess that is Pierre Poliev. Donald Trump yesterday held this disastrous public meeting of ambassadors. He had his national security advisor, Mike Waltz, there as well.
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And Donald Trump was asked about these war plans that were in the signal chat where they had They invited accidentally a reporter who they're now attacking that reporter and saying that somehow he like nefariously entered the chat, even though he was invited by Mike Waltz. And then he's called sleazy by Donald Trump. Here's what Trump said. Play this clip.
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The six-month outlook hasn't been this bleak in over 12 years and is at a level that tends to indicate recession is coming. You broke it, Donald. You own it, Donald. Meanwhile, as Carl Quintanilla is posting from the Washington Post, long waits, waves of calls, web crashes, Social Security is breaking down.
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The audacity to call the reporter, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic a sleazebag when your idiot team brought him into the chat while they were talking about war plans with emojis. And isn't it so obvious that they were doing that always on signal, how comfortable they are?
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Here's Mike Waltz, by the way, national security advisor at that meeting, again, attacking the journalists and like just sucking up to Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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Also in 2025, Trump America, you wake up to headlines like this. First confirmed case of measles in Washington, D.C., being investigated by health officials. Great measles in Washington, D.C., Out of Florida, Florida's 6th congressional district, a plus 30 Trump area. We're seeing the Democratic candidate, Josh Wheel, running against a guy, Randy Fine, who's like a loathsome individual.
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We're seeing Democrats get momentum in this plus 30 ruby red district, Florida's 6th congressional district. Will there be a massive flip there on April 1st when the election's taking place? We'll find out soon, but... The early voting, at least, indicators are good for the Democratic candidate right there. And what are the Republicans talking about on the Senate?
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Well, they brought in this guy, this guy, Frank Bisconano, who is they want to have run the Social Security Administration and gut it. And here this MAGA Republican Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina, by the way, promises to support Bissingano's recommendations to cut Social Security offices in his state, too. He goes, get rid of him. Get rid of him.
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Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. The fact that I even have to say that is cringy in and of itself. Yesterday in the Senate, she was saying, oh, you know, the war plans, those weren't actually classified info. There was no classified information, but I'm not going to share them with you, but nothing classified. Play this clip.
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So please answer the question. Then Donald Trump gave an interview with Newsmax where he talked more about the tariffs and he said the people who made the tariff deals in the past, the people who made the trade deals in the past, he said were idiots. Trump made the USMCA deal. Here, play this clip.
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For all of these MAGA Republicans saying, oh, even though Elon Musk calls it a Ponzi scheme, and even though the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says that you're committing crime or fraud, if you whine about not getting your check, we're not going to close Social Security down. Well, you already are doing it.
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Donald, it's your deal. And then you have, like, little MAGA Mike. He goes and he's got to be all like a tough guy right now. And so yesterday, as... A lot of federal judges are ruling against Trump and issuing injunctions against Trump because Trump keeps violating the law, right?
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We're learning more stories about people who Trump kidnapped and sent to concentration camps in El Salvador who were not gang members at all from Tren de Aragua. They had Real Madrid tattoos or was like a gay hairdresser from Venezuela political exile. Women were sent to these concentration camps in El Salvador and turned away because the concentration camps only hold men.
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I mean, these were not Tren de Aragua gang members. Could there have been some? I don't know. But that's why you have to have process, due process to give people an opportunity to say, I'm a gang member, I'm not a gang member. But here, MAGA Mike Johnson says, we're coming after you district courts. We're going to eliminate all of your funding. We can just eliminate the courts.
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We're just going to wreck the courts, too. Here, play this clip.
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I covered this with Harry Littman on an episode that I'm releasing soon as well. The Trump regime yesterday also invoked the state secrets privilege. And they're saying, because we're in a war, they said, against Venezuela, we can't even turn over to the judge. the identities of the people in concentration camps now in El Salvador because it's a war and we're going to jeopardize our war efforts.
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That's how dystopian, despicable, disgusting this Trump regime is. But folks, There is a movement taking a hold of the United States of America right now. People are fed up. Republicans, Democrats, independents, people who don't like politics are just fed up. You're coming after our Social Security. You're coming after our Medicaid. You're freaking spreading measles. You're firing veterans.
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You've already closed down 47 Social Security Administration offices, making it very difficult for older people to access actual people and services that they need. And you're seeing here that it's already being crashed as you're destroying the call centers, the website, a flood of cuts led by Elon Musk. has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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You're doing hostile takeovers of the federal government. You are destroying people's lives. You're doing it cruelly. cruelly. You seem to be enjoying the cruelty of it. Like F you. That's what Americans are saying. F you Doge. F you Musk. F you Trump. F you Hegsiff. Enough of this crap. People are saying we didn't vote for this crap. The hell is this? Hell is this?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
So are Republican governors just attacking like their own constituents now who are losing their jobs because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Let me show you what's going on in Virginia, where their Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, is like celebrating the fact that thousands of Virginians are losing their job as a result of Trump and Musk and Doge. Actually, this is what
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Now, you visited the entire state. You visited Democratic areas, Republican areas, purple areas. What are you hearing? Let's start with in the one. Is it is it similar all around? What are you hearing in the in the red areas when you're traveling there? What's going on in the state?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
And Youngkin said in his own words, he's cheering on these cuts.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Congresswoman, I'm confused because the White House posted this image, victory. They are declaring a massive victory because they've asked Google, which Google did to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, which
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
I'm just going to bet that when you go to all the areas in Virginia right now, when they hear about Medicaid being cut, when they hear that their Social Security may be raided, when they hear about these important agencies and services that they rely on going away, I'm going to bet is the main issue that they're focused on the Gulf of America.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Are they is this a big celebratory time in the Commonwealth?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Before becoming a congresswoman and then running for governor, you were an intelligence officer, and you focused on very serious issues at the CIA. All issues are serious at the CIA, but you also focused on nuclear proliferation. You focused on terrorism.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
So in the past 48 hours or so, the Trump administration sided with the Axis of Evil, Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and a few other nations against our allies. in refusing to, well, actually just opposing the United Nations resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Donald Trump's continued to praise Putin over and over again, cut out Europe from negotiations and cut out Ukraine from negotiations with Putin in Saudi Arabia. But this is what they're saying. Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's former press secretary, who's now a host on Fox. I got it. That's kind of a common theme here. And they become defense secretaries, apparently. Here's what she had to say.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
She said, this is the art of the deal. We're missing the point here. Play this clip.
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What's your response to that?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
I don't know. Is it the whole role of like the governor supposed to be to fight for like your state? I don't know. It's like in a sports team. Could you imagine like the coach rooting against the team? You know, I'm the Lakers coach, but I'm really hoping that the New York Knicks win this game. I think that I'd like to see that it'll be more efficient for us. What is going on?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Now, final question, you're campaigning for governor. You were a member of Congress and you had to give up that seat as part of running for governor. So, you know, you can campaign. You can tell people what your platform is, what you're going to do. And I'm sure people are asking you on the campaign trail. What what can we do?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
And I think people are looking for just like what can we do as people right now? So when they ask you, what can we do? What's your message to the people of the Commonwealth and to just Americans in general who who feel a little bit powerless right now, but but want to take action?
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Oh, and then Young can set up this website, which adds insult to injury. Virginia has jobs. And when you go through this, by the way, I'm not even sure if that's an AI image or people in Europe or what this image even is. But then you look at it and it sends you to LinkedIn and Indeed and basically says, good luck.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, thank you so much for joining. We appreciate it.
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Abigail Spanberger on Fighting for Virginians and Americans
All right, I got to bring in Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, Democrat who's running for governor in Virginia. I look at that as like the craziest, like disappointing, crazy. You're running for governor in Virginia. What do you make of it?
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Republicans making complete fools of themselves on the weekend shows like MAGA Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from Oklahoma, who was asked on Meet the Press by Kristen Welker. So tell the people in Oklahoma what your message is when they keep losing their jobs because Donald Trump is laying them off. He's taking away their Medicaid. What do you say to them, Mullen?
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Let me ask you, man, these MAGAs are ultra pathetic, ultra MAGA pathetic. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 5 million subscribers. We appreciate you.
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Did you hear what he said? The level of arrogance? Maybe there were some mistakes that were made. And then he goes on to demean federal workers again and say, these jobs are just ridiculous. Who needs someone to be doing this? Who needs someone to be doing that? Who needs someone to be doing this? It's not, by the way, just that they're firing these people, which is reprehensible.
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It's also how they're stripping away people's dignity. And we're not just talking about liberals. I would say that's probably in the minority. I mean, these are red state people. These are federal workers who may not even be political. We're talking about veterans. disabled veterans, spouses of veterans combined.
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They all make up like 30% of the federal workforce who are getting disproportionately laid off and get this as well. These terminations are being done for cause and they're blaming the federal workers for the terminations for poor performance. So then the federal workers can't even get like unemployment because they're just being thrown to the curb and There's a nastiness. There's a cruelty.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
There's an evilness right here in these MAGA Republicans. And as we've always said, when it comes to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, cruelty is the point. These are vicious, horrible people inflicting pain on we, the people and hardworking federal workers. Here is the former Fox News host turned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. He's asked a very simple question on Fox.
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Here's what MAGA Republican Mark Wayne Mullen says. Play this clip.
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They're like, hey, can you just say that Russia launched the attack on Ukraine unprovoked? Just say that. And Hegseth is like, it's very complicated. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
So utterly pathetic. Now back to MAGA Republican Congress member Mark Wayne Mullen. Here's what he has to say on Trump's refusal to criticize Putin. He goes, it's up to the Russian people, huh? As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, yeah, Russian people who criticize Putin end up falling out of windows in a gulag or poison. And let's be clear, that's what these magas want to do to us.
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And right now we're rising up. We're standing up. I see people across the country at these town halls taken to the streets.
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streets and people are saying do not turn america into russia we're already in an authoritarian regime here in the united states the issue is is will the authoritarian regime fully trample on all of our rights and we're standing up against it back to uh here let me show you this one scott besant
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the Treasury Secretary, who downplays Doge, mass government firings, saying that what we're really trying to do here is we're going to reprivatize, what we're really trying to do here is reprivatize the economy like Trump promised.
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I think you would appreciate that impression of Besson. I mean, the most arrogant guy who's like, oh, I mean, this guy's worth like nearly a billion dollars and he's there.
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That's why we're doing all this. It's like ridiculous stuff. Here is Mike Lawler, who tries to pretend that he's a moderate. But let's just say what he is. He's really a MAGA basically, and he's from New York. He ain't moderate at all. Mike Lawler here, soft pedals doge, claiming that what Musk is doing is actually not firing people. This is actually a comprehensive forensic audit.
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That's what's going on. Here, play this clip. All right, let me show you some Democrats right here. Democratic Senator Von Hollen, let's play it.
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Democratic Congress member Jim Hines, let's play it.
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Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, let's play it.
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Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, let's play it.
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Do you see the difference there? Do you see the difference there? No wonder that in the recent polls, I think that Democrats, even Trump's pollster has Democrats up plus five in a generic. And I've seen other polls from Ipsos and seen in others showing that like Democrats would be up like almost like 15 if there were to be an election. I mean, this Trump train is crashing very, very, very quickly.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Here is Donald Trump's special envoy on with CNN, again, saying that Putin didn't provoke the war in Ukraine. Play the clip.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Here is Secretary of Defense, previously a Fox host, Pete Hegseth, saying that the firing of top military lawyers was making sure there didn't exist roadblocks to everything that's about to happen. Play this clip.
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Yes. So as this commentator says, he basically told them good night and good luck. Go F yourselves. I'm just going to do what Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell me to do. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Jim Jordan says the following on firing federal workers. Play this clip.
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So we're gonna open- And finally, let me share with you this clip of Democratic Senator Cory Booker. Let's play it.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Donald Trump is playing with toy planes in his office, the Oval Office right there. Take a look, though, at that mirror behind you. Zoom in right there. That's real. That's Elon Musk right there watching Donald Trump play with toy planes as Musk is really running the show and just destroying our government.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I want to show you this, Congress member. There was a press conference held earlier in the day with Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary. She was asked a question about who is the Doge administrator? Is it is it Elon Musk? Who's who's running this thing that's inflicting so much pain on the American people? And they just they just gaslight. I want you to watch this.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
We just learned this as well, that Doge quietly has deleted its purported five biggest spending cuts that it was celebrating, or perhaps the headline should be lying about last week. So those are now removed from the site.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I'm not going to reveal it. We've been incredibly transparent. I mean, this is...
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Well, I think you're also seeing independents, Republicans, people who are not political also rising up. I mean, this is touching everybody in some way, whether your 401k is down right now, whether you've lost your job, whether a friend or someone you know.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
has lost their job and is worried about being homeless, whether you're on Medicaid and you're about to lose your Medicaid because of this GOP budget scam that's gonna help the billionaires, whether you have essential services that you rely on, whether the Department of Education was actually providing you services. It's like everyone's been touched, it seems, already in such a destructive way.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
And here's what we're learning about as well, about 20 to 21 people who worked within the United States Digital Service Office, an office established during the Obama era that's supposed to help with all of the technology and the data. and all of that, they're resigning. They're saying the reason for their resignation is because that they're unable to basically perform their functions.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I'm seeing these Republican town halls even where Republican constituents are standing up and saying, what the hell is going on here now? Are you seeing the word vibe shift is the right way, but are we reading too much into these Republican town halls or is something happening now that that feels and looks and is different?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
You know, let's talk about the attack on you by the Department of Justice, which is what now referring to itself as Donald Trump's personal lawyers. I mean, that guy, the United States attorney from the District of Columbia, who had no federal prosecutorial experience ever before getting this position. He represent the January Sixers. He called them heroes.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
That's what he was known for before getting this very distinguished position. I mean, the United States attorney for D.C. is like the The people who are usually the most experienced federal prosecutors of the most elite, and they give it to this guy. But he came after you.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
He wrote a letter saying that he was basically criminally investigating you because you utilized your free speech rights to criticize the Trump administration. And then he's out there saying as president, this is what Martin writes, as Trump's personal lawyers. He goes on and talks about how he's Trump's as Trump's lawyers. We're proud to do this. We're proud to do that.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Talk to us about these attacks on you. You know what that letter was to you, what what your response is going to be. Is there any information that hasn't been reported? I mean, are they are they what's the status of that investigation? Tell us what do we know?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Maybe if you can, we know that a lot of the MAGAs watch this. Musk may be watching this now. Would you direct a message? A lot of the constituents are saying, Why isn't Musk testifying before Congress? Why isn't he showing up before oversight or any of these hearings?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
So if he was watching this now, what would your message be about testifying before the House and letting the American people know what the hell he and Mr. Big Balls and his crew of 19 to 25-year-olds are doing?
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the constitution across presidential administrations. And we are basically being asked to violate our oath of office by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. So they resigned. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member, Robert Garcia.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Congressman Garcia, please join us again. At this point, it doesn't feel like, at least amongst the American people, as a Democrat, Republican, independent thing. It really feels like a bunch of tech billionaires are running the show. Literally, you saw that first photo I showed you with Musk in the background, like pulling the strings as Trump's playing with like a toy.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
you know and they're like just screwing the people and people like what that what the hell is this like this isn't what i learned about in government class this isn't checks and balances this is some idiocracy authoritarian crap anyway thanks for thanks if you want to say anything else i'll i'll let you get the final word no just thanks for keep reporting the story we gotta we gotta continue to expose you on musk and uh you know turn this around so thanks everybody hit subscribe let's get to five million subscribers and thanks for watching
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
You know, we saw mass resignations, I think, last week or the week before at the Department of Justice, both at SDNY as well as Maine Justice. We're seeing more mass resignations here. These are important people as well because they kind of hold the infrastructure together across presidential administrations. Just what are you making of all of this, the chaos, the cruelty?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi. Congressman, what do you make of that?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
So Congress member Swazi, you're from New York's third congressional district. That's actually the area where I grew up in. That's in your district. I know that area very well.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
sounds good my my mom will love to uh would love to hear that i think she's still living in the district as well so my question for you though is uh people on long island people in your congressional district and across the country do they like that elon musk and these 19 to 25 year old doge workers who call themselves big balls are going through their tax records and their social security information and their medical records what do
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
you hearing from your constituents, Democrats and Republicans?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
So this budget that's providing massive tax cuts for the billionaires, cutting $880 billion in Medicaid, it's unclear what's going to happen. The MAGA Republicans, some of them are very outspoken even against this. You've got Republican Congressmember Thomas Massey.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Yeah, I think chaotic, irresponsible, and I think to your other point, just cruel, like just treating human beings like trash. And a lot of these people who work in these government departments are veterans, disabled veterans.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Now, Musk is what refusing to testify and or the a lot of the Republicans are blocking every single time oversight tries to issue a subpoena or the Doge subcommittee issues a subpoena. The Republicans are at leadership are blocking even the debate about whether Musk should have to show up. I mean, when I've been following a lot of these town halls and Ruby Redd,
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
moments ago saying that this is going to increase the deficit by at least $328 billion just this year if you take the best case scenario that's part of the Republican talking points. This is what Republican Congressmember Massey just said moments ago on C-SPAN. Play it.
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Republican areas, the Republican constituents, they're just also saying, in addition to being pissed that Medicaid's being gutted, their services are being taken away, infrastructure projects are being dismantled. They're just saying, why not just do your job? You're a member of Congress. Oversight. Bring Musk in and ask him the questions, or what are you trying to hide from us?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
You know, I got to ask you as well, 3rd Congressional District, like all the other congressional districts out there, but I know growing up there, how proud, patriotic the 3rd is, supporting our veterans, supporting our armed forces. So yesterday, when we saw the Trump administration side with North Korea, Russia, Belarus, and Hungary, bringing the United States as part of an access available
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
to vote against a United Nations resolution that simply condemned Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine on the third anniversary. To me, it felt like a gut punch. What do you make of it? And what are your constituents feeling?
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Congressman Tom Suozzi on Republican Budget Chaos
Congressman Tom Swasey, as always, thanks for making me look good in front of my mom and your congressional district. I appreciate it.
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Thank you, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
President Zelensky of Ukraine delivered a rude awakening to Donald Trump yesterday from Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv. Here's what went down yesterday marked the three-year anniversary of Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
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Here's President Zelensky again, let's play it.
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So the day began with Donald Trump trying to assert his dominance over Ukraine by announcing that he was bringing the United States into an access of evil that was joined by Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and North Korea.
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Here's another clip of President Zelensky from that meeting. Let's play it.
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Here's another clip of President Zelenskyy.
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Then President Zelensky talked about his support for Canada and Prime Minister Trudeau. Watch this.
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and all of those nations including the united states opposed a united nations resolution condemning russia for its unlawful invasion of ukraine three years ago but president zielinski was prepared president zielinski surrounded himself in kiev with other world leaders who he invited on that three-year anniversary of Russia's unlawful invasion.
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By the way, Canada has the largest population of individuals from Ukraine who migrated out of uh ukraine um so there is this also very special bond between canada and ukraine here's what uh president zielinski said about donald trump though when he was asked about trump play this clip my relationship with president trump it's never was in such best way
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Now, through all of these clips, you'll see Zelensky standing up to Donald Trump. And as I mentioned before, you then had the French President Emmanuel Macron go to the White House and then kind of fact-check Donald Trump to his face. Here's an example of that. Let's play the clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
well we're all we're negotiating everything and everything's on the table and we'll see if we can get some land back and we'll see you've got a lot of different things while that meeting was happening in kiev you had all of these countries in europe and canada and australia elsewhere just announcing these massive aid packages to ukraine and also saying there's not going to be a deal unless you allow europe in these negotiations unless you allow ukraine in these negotiations
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and we're doubling down and tripling down and quadrupling down whatever it takes europe canada elsewhere they said we're standing with ukraine i want you to watch this as well this is from the floor of the united states house of representatives here's congresswoman ballant saying, I think this was such a powerful speech where she goes, I can't believe what I'm seeing.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
You've got Donald Trump and a United States president trying to form alliances with like, with dictators. What the hell? Here, play this clip.
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And President Zelensky had a plan to checkmate Donald Trump. You see, the European leaders then sent French President Emmanuel Macron to go to Washington, D.C., to basically called Donald Trump out to his face in front of the world media there at the White House.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
I never thought I would see the day when our president would be a puppet for a- And then just so you see like French president Emmanuel Macron like babysitting Donald Trump, here they are sitting together and you've got Donald Trump talking about like robbing Fort Knox for gold, play this clip.
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Because maybe somebody stole the gold. Tons of gold. You know, and the United States propaganda machine was flummoxed. They were perplexed. I mean, here's Kayleigh McEnany, like, not even sure. Like, she's like, what are my talking points supposed to be? Oh, let's just say this is part of a brilliant negotiating strategy. Here, play this clip.
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Yes, I think it's not part of a brilliant negotiation.
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strategy the brilliant negotiating strategy is what europe is doing right now that's you want to know four dimensional or five dimensional chess you send macron to the united states have him just swarm donald trump i used to play basketball you know a ton and what you would do is you'd have your best defender right kind of go next to like their person and just like shadow him wherever he would go so to me that's like macron by donald trump and then you have your rest of your world leaders
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surrounded by, in Ukraine, surrounding Zelensky, again, showing absolute strength. You know, like when Donald Trump's saying, like, I've spoken to Putin, and Putin says he'll do this. Here's what Putin's told the press. Putin said Monday that he has not discussed resolving the conflict in Ukraine in detail with Trump, and nor did Russian and American negotiating teams talk about
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really anything like that when they met in Saudi Arabia last last week. That goes tells you a lot right there. So here is here you got Macron and Donald Trump. And here Trump is asked, can you explain your rationale in having the U.S. vote against the U.N. resolution that Ukraine proposed? Here, play this clip.
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Zelenskyy Puts the Screws into Trump… from Kyiv!
French President Emmanuel Macron like shook Donald Trump's hand super hard and then would fact check Donald Trump when Trump would say all of the lies about Putin and say all of the lies about Zelensky. So they flanked Donald Trump by sending Emmanuel Macron to the United States. And then you had Zelensky flanked by the world leaders in Kyiv, in Ukraine,
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And then finally, you have Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders. Here's what he's got to say. Play this clip.
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The caucuses with the Democrats, I guess, technically an independent, but there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. But you see Zelensky standing up powerful stuff right there. Let me know what you think.
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standing up to Vladimir Putin and sending a strong and powerful message. So here is what Zelensky said during this meeting where he's surrounded by the leaders of all of these world democracies. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
As our economy worsens, Donald Trump yesterday was in the Oval Office talking about replacing our visa system and immigration system with the Trump gold card. And he says he's basically going to sell gold cards to immigrants to get visas and fast track their citizenship. And he says specifically he's going to help I'm not making this up. The Russian oligarchs become American citizens.
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While all of this was going on, too, or I should say right before that was going on, Donald Trump was in the Oval Office playing with toy toys. airplanes, and he was playing with it while Elon was like, good job. And you can see Donald Trump holding the kind of toy plane, the statute, if you will. Then you can see Elon through the mirror right there.
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There's some real issues about what's going on there as well. What the heck? At the same time, you had Donald Trump basically coercing and pressuring the MAGA holdouts to support the budget plan, the Trump GOP budget plan, which cuts basically... $880 billion from Medicaid. So say goodbye to Medicaid under this program. It has about $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires.
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It also cuts close to $300 billion to farmers, about $400 billion for education. And Tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure, but don't worry, the billionaires are getting a massive tax cut.
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Ultimately, the budget blueprint passed after Donald Trump reached out to MAGA Republicans like Congresswoman Spars and others and got them to change their votes to flip in favor of the plan, which will add about $19 trillion to the deficit. over the next 10 years, conservatively, about $19 trillion. Remember what I said a few months back?
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I said, Trump's plan, they're saying that it'll add about 10 trillion. I was saying, nope, I think it'll be more like 30 to 50 trillion, which I still think I'm gonna be right. Here is the moment where the MAGA Republicans were cheering the fact that they cut billions from, hundreds of billions, from healthcare and food assistance programs, but delivered $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to billionaires.
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Here, play this clip. Yesterday, Donald Trump also got a number of bad rulings from federal judges. That's why Donald Trump and Elon Musk are basically calling for these federal judges to now be impeached or to force them out.
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One of the rulings was Judge Ali in Washington, DC, who granted a motion to enforce the restraining order against USAID, against the spending freeze that the Trump administration ordered. Judge Ali ordered the Trump administration to pay, quote, all invoices and letter of credit drawdown requests for work done prior to February 15th by tonight at midnight, 36 hours to comply.
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Also, there was a separate scathing ruling from another federal judge extending her block of Trump administration's blanket spending freeze. While all of this is happening, Elon Musk is posting, what is the point of having democratic elections if unelected activist judges can override the clear will of the people? Well, that's no democracy at all.
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Here, play this clip. Go down to nothing.
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As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski writes, they really struggle with the concept of a constitutional republic with judicial review. They also struggle with the concept of decency. Because here's Marjorie Taylor Greene from the hearing yesterday that preceded the vote on the budget bill, where Marjorie Taylor Greene says that the federal workers who are being fired are not really workers.
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They don't have real jobs. They don't deserve their jobs. They don't deserve their paycheck. And that federal workers are lazy. This is what Marjorie Taylor Greene, who leads the Doge subcommittee, has to say. Play this clip.
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And by the way, as Marjorie Taylor Greene leads the Doge subcommittee, again, I don't care what political party you're from, aren't you pissed regardless that she's not calling Elon Musk to testify before oversight committees? that Elon Musk just gets to like make up things.
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And then as the New York Times reported yesterday, Elon Musk then like removed some of the main claims about, or Doge removed some of the main claims about the things they allegedly discovered that were fraud, which were not, they're not calling Elon Musk to testify. In fact, the MAGA Republicans have consistently blocked the subpoenas to Elon Musk when the Democrats have tried to subpoena him.
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Yeah, from that same Oval Office appearance where he was flanked by RFK Jr., Donald Trump was also selling MAGA hats from the Oval Office. Take a look at RFK Jr. 's face also while Trump was selling MAGA hats. Here, play this clip.
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Here, Marjorie Taylor Greene says that everybody loves Doge. Democrats, Republicans, everybody loves Doge. Here, play this clip.
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Also today, Elon Musk will be attending the first cabinet meeting that Donald Trump will be convening. Here is Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's press secretary, talking about that. Let's play the clip.
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And then yesterday, you may recall this instance where the reporter asked Caroline Levitt, so who's running Doge? Like who's the administrator? Play this clip.
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Yes, Caroline Levitt said they were being so transparent that they couldn't tell you who the administrator is. And then they basically named this lady Amy Gleason. I'm not sure she realized that she was the head of Doge. Her LinkedIn said that she was a senior advisor at the U.S. Digital Service. So I'm not sure she realized she was the administrator. So is Gleason going to testify? We will see.
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While all of this was going on, Trump allies circulated a mass deportation plan calling for processing camps, which I call concentration camps, and a private citizen army because the Trump administration has been so incompetent in their attempt to
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at doing the largest deportation exercise on day one, which they've tried to do, and they've tried to do it cruelly, but they're so incompetent, they now want to hire people like Blackwater, like Eric Prince and others, and they're hatching a privatized plan to go after migrants.
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Love what Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett had to say when she was asked by a reporter, Joe Galena, from Call to Activism, what her message to Elon Musk is here. Play this clip right here. If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say?
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Then you had a spineless former speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy. He was asked the following by Jesse Waters. Let's play it.
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And now what is MAGA doing to try to distract? Well, you have Jesse Waters who's saying, well, according to the Washington Times, The new FBI director, Kash Patel, is opening an investigation into James Comey about some honeypot operation to go after Donald Trump. And Waters is like, this is about justice. Okay, it's about retribution. And, you know, these people just make up stuff all the time.
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Should be noted as well, yesterday, 20 individuals who worked at the digital department that essentially became Doge, they resigned from their positions yesterday as more of a mass exodus from the kind of corrupt stuff this Trump administration is doing is underway.
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We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network, but it sickens me to have these MAGA Republicans out there cheering and supporting the fact that they're taking away Medicaid and taking away SNAP and attacking the most vulnerable Americans, attacking farmers, attacking veterans, attacking people who live in red states too and blue states and all across the country.
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It saddens me that that's what's happening. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Make sure you hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers together. We appreciate you.
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Trump Gets HUMILIATED by WORST Inauguration Ratings
Also, this whole inauguration was like probably the weakest, most pathetic and humiliating inauguration in history, not just from the perspective of these very low, small, teeny tiny ratings, Donald, but also Donald Trump blamed cold weather as the reason why he was bringing the inauguration from outside, inside, into the rotunda. Guess what, Donald?
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When President Obama had millions of people show up for his inauguration after the 2008 election, it was basically the same exact By the way, when John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in 1961, the weather was much colder, significantly colder than it was on Trump's inauguration.
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So Trump had it inside the rotunda where he gave this really bizarre unhinged speech where he talked about attacking Panama and he talked about all of this weird stuff, never mentioned bringing prices down, never mentioned healthcare. And then we saw all of the oligarchs and their spouses because they were allowed to bring their spouses. Others weren't allowed to bring their spouses.
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The billionaire tech broligarchs were all sitting right there and they were making like weird, like tweaking face stuff. It was so bizarre to see Bezos' face and Musk's face. And then Bezos' wife showed up and she was like basically wearing an open blouse and just like exposing her chest with a bra. And then... Zuckerberg was like looking at her chest. The whole thing was so bizarre.
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This is Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Some of the worst inauguration ratings in history. We're getting these numbers now. Not only were his ratings terrible, President Biden's inauguration ratings were terrible.
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It shows that these people may have billions of dollars, but they are classless. They are clearly yearning for attention. And it's just so utterly powerless as they're there as props, as stooges for Donald Trump's utterly pathetic speech. What I want to talk about as well, though, is that a lot is very teeny tiny for Donald Trump.
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I mean, he also had some of the lowest inauguration approval ratings like ever. This is supposed to be the honeymoon period. And for Donald Trump, America already wants a divorce, and a lot of America actually wants a restraining order against Donald already, just based on him being a little bit facetious, or maybe not, based on how he's handled things.
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So this APNORC poll basically said that Donald Trump's favorability leading up to the inauguration was only 41%. In contrast, President Biden's was like 67 to 72. Obama was in the high 70s. Clinton, George W. Bush, the low to mid 70s. This is supposed to be a time where the nation unites if someone's elected to the presidency, regardless of what political party they're from, but not Donald.
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And folks, Put your foot on the gas right now to expose this fool, to expose this corrupt administration. Now's the time to put your foot on the gas and expose him. I mean, take a look at some of these other numbers. When it comes to Donald Trump pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists, the violent insurrectionists
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Those convicted of seditious conspiracy, only about 15 to 20% of Americans from the APNORC poll ever favored that. About 80% to varying degrees did not approve of pardoning violent, seditious individuals who engaged in terroristic behavior and tried to kill cops. Americans hate that. As you go through other polling data, this is a Wall Street Journal poll. I mean, they're right-leaning.
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76% of voters reject Donald Trump's unconstitutional push to seize Congress's power of the purse for himself. Americans actually believe in checks and balances. Also, more than two-thirds of Americans oppose using economic coercion or military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
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Two-thirds of them, all from, this is from the Wall Street Journal poll, two-thirds of Americans oppose annexing Canada and making it a 51st state. More than half of Americans say, what in the world are you doing with this Elon Musk who you're giving an office in the West Wing? Take a look at this.
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Only 17% of Americans approved of Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense's sister-in-law came out with a declaration saying what a horrific human being he is. Here's a guy. who never led any military command before. He's never led a large organization. The nonprofits he was leading, he was pushed out of.
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Working for nonprofits that you were pushed out of for behavioral issues, that doesn't give you the qualifications to lead the Defense Department and have access to the nuclear complex. I mean, I just want you to think about this and then his personal behavior, but this is who Donald Trump is rallying behind.
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Also the Congress, Republican Congress, it's a disapproval rating is over 75% right now. I mean, some really bad statistics and it's only gonna get worse from Donald Trump. I mean, this weird, he had the new village people, not even the original village people, doing the weird dance. You have Melania wearing the Pizza Hut hat and selling meme coins and Donald Trump selling meme coins.
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You got Elon Musk raising his hand and doing this. You've got Trump taking down the Spanish version of the White House webpage. In addition to pardoning the insurrectionists, you also had Donald Trump engage in Other very, very serious pardons as well, pardoning individuals who were convicted of aiding and abetting sex trafficking and engaged in just horrific behavior.
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And he said because the libertarians wanted him to do it. You've got Donald Trump saying that birthright citizenship in the United States should not exist, even though it is ensconced in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Donald Trump
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failing to get peace into ukraine in 24 hours as he promised he promised peace in ukraine in 24 hours and get this this is this is true what donald trump said in his first press conference is he was delegating he said he told xi jinping to negotiate the peace in ukraine Xi Jinping, who's forming an alliance with Putin to destroy America.
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Donald Trump now says he wants Xi Jinping to negotiate peace in Ukraine. How utterly pathetic can you be? But Donald, those ratings, some of the worst ratings ever. And I think Mediaite just did a remarkable story calling it out. And by the way, lots of people weren't even watching corporate media. A puppy inauguration, the kitten inauguration right here on the Midas Touch YouTube channel.
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Thanks to you, we raised $90,000, approximately $90,000 for the Humane Society. And I spent the four hours of the time, the inauguration talking about puppies, kittens, goats in coats, stampedes of guinea pigs, otters wrestling. That's what we were doing. I hope you enjoyed. I thought it was fun to watch the puppy and kitten inauguration, but maybe, I don't know, that's my sense of humor.
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But sorry, Donald, you're off to a pathetic start with the lowest ratings ever. President Biden kicked your you-know-what in the ratings. millions of more views than you, and then you continue to do things that are just gonna make you more and more unpopular as Americans see your chaos, your sicko behavior, all your deranged social media posts. But what about the lower prices?
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You wanna talk about the Gulf of Mexico being the Gulf of America? How about the Gulf of lower prices, lower egg prices? Well, prices are up, egg prices are up, housing's not more affordable. And Donald Trump goes, I don't think Americans really care about inflation. He goes, I think they care about the mental institutions and people coming in from the mental institutions. Get this, Donald.
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Border crossings were down under President Biden to the levels where it was when it was at your lowest in April of 2020 during COVID, which was low for you because of COVID, President Biden brought the border crossings down, but everything Biden did, the MAGA Republicans would blame on him.
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There was not a single crisis, a single natural disaster that they wouldn't blame on Biden when it was Trump's fault. But guess what? Now you're in charge. And the American people hate you. They didn't even tune in for the inauguration. Worst inauguration ever for, I think, the worst term in a presidency ever. Utterly pathetic, Donald. Utterly pathetic. Everybody, hit subscribe here.
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Remember where we had those really small crowd sizes and his press team tried to act like this was the largest inauguration in history. you had lower ratings than that, Donald, and President Biden beat you.
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well. So you said that there would be peace in 24 hours. So what about that? To which Donald Trump continues to lie and defraud the American people. The ultimate rug puller is Donald Trump. This is what he said yesterday. He goes, well, this has only been a half day. I still have one more half day to do it. Well, the half day has passed now and you have not done it. How utterly pathetic.
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So what does he do? He sends his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to go on CBS, which tries to act like it's just a straight down the line media network. And so then they want to inject disinformation. So watch what Marco Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio, says when he's asked about the promise that there would be peace in 24 hours. Rubio says, oh, no, no. Trump kept the promise.
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What Trump said he was going to do is simply say that it is official U.S. policy to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. And he said he wants that. So therefore, he kept his promise. The ultimate rug down. Polar folks, this is Rubio.
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And folks, you may remember the clip I showed of Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, about a week and a half, two weeks ago, where we were reporting here on the Midas Dutch Network. Look, They are telling you that this promise will be broken.
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Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy, said that they would need at least 100 days, so not 24 hours, 2400 hours to develop a framework. to discuss potential peace and ceasefire in Ukraine. Well, that's not what Donald Trump said, but watch Donald Trump's special envoy, Keith Kellogg, walk back Donald Trump's promises, or should I say, admit that it was a lie.
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Fortunately, former President Biden was prepared for this. So one of the things that President Biden did before leaving is try to give as much aid to Ukraine as possible so it could be as best funded as it could possibly be in 2025. Also, the United States transferred leadership over Ukraine initiatives away from the United States over to NATO because we realize that if
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Trump and our military was leading it, that would be an absolute disaster. So here is the chairman of the NATO military committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, explaining that NATO is now assuming responsibility for coordinating military aid to Ukraine.
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And some of the mechanisms previously that were being organized by the United States have been transferred over to NATO and Europe because President Biden rightfully knew that Donald Trump would be a complete and utter disaster. And he was trying to proof this, stop this, protect this from happening. So watch what the chairman of the NATO military, Admiral Rob Bauer, has to say.
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Here, play this clip.
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By the way, even a few weeks before that, one of the things President Biden did was transfer control to NATO of air defenses surrounding Russia, where the U.S. was in control of it in places like Poland. made sure that NATO would have control over that, which was an important move to try to trump proof assistance, not just to Ukraine, but to Eastern Europe as well.
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Now, if you want to see how our adversaries are maneuvering right now, Let's take a look at what happened yesterday. So at the exact moment that Donald Trump was inaugurated, President Xi Jinping declared a readiness to bring China and Russia ties to new heights in a call with Putin. So Trump's being inaugurated. Xi Jinping rejects Trump's offer to show up at Trump's inauguration.
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One of Donald Trump's biggest promises has officially been broken. Donald Trump said there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. Frankly, he said after the election, there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. But if you want to say 24 hours after the inauguration, well, it's 24 hours after the inauguration. There's no peace in Ukraine.
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Xi Jinping then calls up Putin and here's what goes down. Just think about what's going on geopolitically here and the message that Xi Jinping and Putin are sending to Donald Trump. and other nations as well. Chinese President Xi Jinping declared readiness to lead China-Russian relations to a new height together with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Kremlin's press service reported on January 21st after a video call between the two leaders. By the way, timed to embarrass Trump. inauguration. The call took place shortly after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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China has deepened its ties with Russia since the start of Kremlin's full scale war against Ukraine has become Moscow's leading source of dual use goods that feed the Russian defense industry. Beijing has nevertheless denied accusations of supporting Russia's military effort. In the call with Putin, Xi added that China is ready to stand with Russia
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to, quote, face external uncertainties based on maintaining the stability and stress resistance of China-Russia relations for the prosperity of the two countries, international justice, and equality. In other words, F you Donald Trump, but Trump is too stupid to realize the message and the maneuvering going on by our adversaries who smell Donald Trump's stench of weakness.
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The Chinese president stressed that bilateral cooperation between Beijing and Moscow is gradually expanding and that joint trade is trending upward. Putin in turn noted a 7% increase in trade between the two countries, which amounts to more than $220 billion. The Russian president also called China's Russia's leading trading partner. China is the largest consumer of Russian energy resources.
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We hold the first place in terms of oil exports to China. Five years ago, together with you, we launched the power of Siberia gas pipeline. And today, Russia has taken first place in natural gas supplies to China. So while Russia and China
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are making alliances and strengthening alliances across their borders, you have Donald Trump saying that on February 1st, there will be 25% tariffs placed on Canada and Mexico. Now, as I've reported before, during the G20 Summit in November, The Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum was not supposed to meet with Xi Jinping because of what Donald Trump was doing.
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President Claudia Scheinbaum met with President Xi Jinping and took photographs with Xi Jinping. Again, it's subtle or should not be all that subtle, but she was sending a message, perhaps Trump too stupid to recognize it, that if you push us, United States, this is the alliance that we're going to form as China builds out its Silk Road number two program.
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We will form alliances there as China and Russia are expanding the BRICS block while Donald Trump attacks our NATO allies. It should be noted as well that Donald Trump has put a 90-day moratorium on foreign military aid, which would impact Ukraine.
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We did this montage that I'm not going to play because I don't play Trump audio or video clips here on the Midas Touch Network during my videos, but I have about 15 different clips of Donald Trump promising during his campaign that he would bring peace to Ukraine.
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However, President Biden did try to get as much aid to Ukraine as possible to ensure that when Trump would make maneuvers, it wouldn't sting Ukraine right away. It was called the re-evaluating and realigning United States foreign aid executive order right there. But that's what's going on geopolitically, okay?
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So I want you to think, if Trump does impose these tariffs on Canada and China, which I expect he'll do, I want you to think about will, sorry, on Mexico and Canada, but he's also gonna impose tariffs on China and Europe. Think about the alliances that are going to be formed to isolate the United States. There you have it. Hit subscribe.
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Let's get to 4 million and let's stay focused on Trump's promises broken. These aren't minor promises. These were central to his campaign. Lies, lies, lies. But what would you expect with a liar in chief?
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In 24 hours, he said he would go to Zelensky and he said, Zelensky, I would say this and I'd go to Putin and I would say this and I'm such a good dealmaker that there would be peace immediately. There would be so much peace. You're not even going to want all of that peace because there'll be so much peace. Well, that is a promise broken. Yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump was asked to
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But Donald Trump did not attack Vladimir Putin at all today. He was notably silent. Also, Donald Trump did not bring peace to Ukraine in the first 24 hours as he promised. He also didn't attack Kim Jong-un. He praised Kim Jong-un and said that North Korea would be a great place. to build condos, is what Donald Trump said.
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As it relates to peace in Ukraine, Donald Trump was like making a joke about his broken promise. And he was like, well, I guess I still have half of tomorrow to do it. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. So utterly pathetic. Donald Trump was asked about Doge when he signed an executive order. that allegedly made Doge a thing.
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It should be noted that the executive order really isn't capable of doing that. This is all kind of a make-believe exercise that Donald Trump is doing, but nonetheless, he's giving Doge an office right by the White House, and Elon Musk will have an office in the old executive office building, which is basically attached to the White House. So in other words, the oligarchs literally have offices
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in the White House right now. And it should be noted, I talked about this in a video I did yesterday, during Donald Trump's awful inauguration, you had one of the oligarchs, Jeff Bezos, there with his wife. His wife was wearing a shirt that her bra was showing and her chest was exposed and Mark Zuckerberg was like looking at her breasts. Like the whole thing was incredibly strange.
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But Donald Trump said, yes, Elon Musk will have that office right by the White House. It should be noted as well that Democracy Forward, this civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit against Doge saying that it violates the Administrative Procedures Act. It violates the Freedom of Information Act.
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And it violates numerous other laws that require that things like Doge that are quasi governmental agencies actually follow a process and that they have to make their records public. Donald Trump then talked about Gaza and he seemed to describe first and foremost, he said, it's not our war. He said it's their war.
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And I'm not confident that there will be a that the ceasefire in Gaza that President Biden worked so hard for. is going to last. Then Donald Trump talked about how Gaza is now rubble and Donald Trump suggested essentially that it would be a great place to build things over because he says it has great weather and it's near the water.
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So for anybody who was saying that you thought that Donald Trump was going to make this a peaceful situation, Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. And his words today suggest that as well. Donald Trump then signed some executive order called Protecting Women from Radical Transgender Ideology. just a way to bully marginalized communities.
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And what Donald Trump wants is people to, you know, listen to him and get involved in culture wars over penises and vaginas. And while he bullies the transgender community, who, by the way, we will always stick up for here on the Midas Dutch Network. And then Donald Trump wants his base to forget about the fact that he said things like there would be peace in Ukraine in the first 24 hours.
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Donald Trump said that there would be lower prices, voila, magically right away. Housing would all of a sudden become more affordable. and accessible and all of these other more jobs would be created right away. So Donald Trump wants to distract with a culture war, as I've said before, WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Don't be distracted when Donald Trump does things like say, I'm changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. which is one of the executive orders he signed in one of his proclamations today, say, how about the gulf of lower egg prices, bro? That was one of your promises, but that's another promise broken. Prices are going up, up, up.
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And one of the things that Donald Trump was asked about were tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Now, earlier in the day, The Wall Street Journal had reported that Donald Trump was not going to immediately implement tariffs on Canada and Mexico and seemed to suggest that he was just going to explore and study it. But when asked about it, Donald Trump said February 1st.
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will be the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He also said horrific things about Canada and Mexico as well, like really demeaned and defamed those nations while praising Kim Jong-un and saying that North Korea is a great place, great place for condominiums. So utterly disgusting.
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Then Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the definition of birthright citizenship, by the way, which is patently unconstitutional. Basically, Donald Trump says in this executive order that it will deny the legitimacy of U.S. citizenship of the child, even of someone who has temporary status. If you were born here, you go on in the executive order.
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I mean, obviously ex post facto retroactive laws are invalid and this doesn't purport to be that, but who knows what they're going to do. But birthright citizenship is within our constitution. But Donald Trump is claiming that no longer exists as part of a broader plan to basically purge our country of whoever it is that Donald Trump doesn't think belongs here.
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Let me show you what Donald Trump did in the Oval Office on day one. May have been the most disastrous day of any president in the history of the United States of America. Just a reminder, I don't show Trump audio or video on this channel during my videos. I describe what happened, but I will spare you that.
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January 6th insurrectionists who were convicted of seditious conspiracy. So the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, commuted, no longer going to be in jail. As you go look at like Stuart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, people who the Department of Justice said, engaged in terrorism against the United States.
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The worst of the worst, the most violent January 6th insurrectionists all being released, their sentences commuted, and Donald Trump saying that as it relates to some of the most violent ones, they've served enough time. He may even explore a full pardon.
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totally declaring them basically to have committed no wrongdoing at all but they're being released regardless they're getting their sentences are being commuted and they're going to get released forthwith and no more january 6th insurrectionist in jail the worst of the worst will be free now Even the Republican federal judges, the ones that Trump appointed, warned Donald Trump against doing this.
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But one of the first moves Donald Trump did was empower the worst of the worst January 6th insurrectionists. He said, look, regarding the violent ones who beat and tried to kill cops, Trump said they've been in jail for a long time already. And he said that the FBI was involved spreading lies and conspiracies. Donald Trump was then asked about TikTok. and cutting a deal with TikTok.
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And then Donald Trump said, maybe I won't do a deal with TikTok. TikTok is worthless without me, he says. He then describes some kind of bizarre deal that he's conceived or concocted in his mind whereby the United States government would take a 50% interest in TikTok. So you're gonna have the government, you wanna increase the government so the government becomes a shareholder
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of TikTok at a 50-50 JV. And then I would assume, based on the position that Donald Trump gave to Carrie Lake, that this would be something, what, that Carrie Lake would control. So Trump wants to control TikTok through the United States. government and says that he may not cut a deal.
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Also, Donald Trump kind of shortened the potential length of the deal-making period, the extension from 90 days to 75 days as well. And so just a very kind of bizarre plan that Donald Trump has there. I guess a few other things to discuss about what went down over the past 24 hours. As well, Vivek Ramaswamy resigned from Doge. He goes, it was my honor to help support the creation of Doge.
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He's going to be announcing whatever his next plans are soon. You had Kid Rock go on Fox and he talked about how Trump's enemy's heads should be put on a guillotine. word for word. Some people's heads should be put in a guillotine. That's what Hattie and Fox are platforming right now. And then Donald Trump revoked three executive orders that are noteworthy to discuss, a bunch of others.
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If you want to watch that elsewhere, you can do that, but let's just discuss what went down. Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. And when he would get these executive orders and sign them publicly, he would say things like, ooh, going to withdraw us from that one. It was very weird.
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He revoked an executive order establishing the United States Council on Transnational Organized Crime. In other words, he's pro-crime. He rescinded an executive order lowering prescription drug costs for Americans. And he also rescinded an executive order for the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence.
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Oh, and another executive order Trump just signed gives the White House counsel the full authority to give interim top secret security clearance to whoever Donald Trump wants for up to six months. So regardless of if you pass any background checks and Trump wants you to have top secret security clearance, you get it right now. So that's a roundup basically of what went down in the Oval Office.
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As I said, the worst day in the history of the presidency potentially in the United States. I don't play Trump audio. I don't play Trump video, but I give you all the data. Asin, one of our senior producers here, posts the videos on social media.
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So if you just want to see it for yourself, if you don't believe I've accurately narrated everything that happened and you need to hear Trump say it, go follow Asin. You can see the clips. He has them all listed there. I don't show those anymore. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Check out MidasPlus.com.
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Also, he was like kind of like bright orange in the Oval Office as well. Then Donald Trump threatened Spain with 100 percent tariffs. He believed that Spain was part of the BRICS bloc. It is not. Spain is part of the European Union. Donald Trump didn't know that. The BRICS block is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. That's the S, as well as a number of other nations as well.
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Panama President STRIKES BACK HARD against Trump
Those bold statements, those aggressive statements, now verbal but also threatening, of intervention by force, the people of Panamá must have a message for them.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
Trump voters continue to take to social media posting that they are regretting their vote. Let me share with you some of the recent posts and recent headlines that we're seeing. Posts like this one right here, update my MAGA neighbor who worked for USDA and was fired three weeks ago by Trump. His Trump flag just came down. His house is now up for sale. F around and find out at its finest.
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for donald trump now many farmers say they face an uncertain future as the tariffs are kicking in because starting this week american farmers are getting hit with the tariffs on the food they directly sell to china including soybeans corn and wheat as well as pork chicken and beef those levies are in retaliation for what trump's putting on the chinese goods
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coming into the United States and farm dependent states like North Dakota. All of this has renewed concerns about the trade war. You think I previously reported what's going on in Nebraska, for example, they've got a big budget shortfall there. And also with the gutting of the Department of Education and other services, They are struggling there. And then you hear headlines like this.
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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. It talks about this guy, Bradley Bartel and Camila Munoz. She's from Peru. They were in an airport. She got picked up and then she got deported. And they are shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Let's bring in to make some sense of all this. But before, let me show this one more I got to show. This is a comment. Tell me this.
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If Trump is doing so good and saving so much money, why is gas still the same as what Biden had it fluctuating at between two ninety nine and three something? And why is every bill that I received going up electric bill, phone bill, water bill, every single bill? You have Trump boasting about how much he's doing. But until he starts doing something for Americans, I'm off the Trump train.
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I know I wouldn't vote for a Democrat, though. Now I want to bring in Neera Nandan, CEO for the Center of American Progress, former senior advisor for domestic policy to former President Biden. Neera, you hear these types of comments, but you also hear people saying, I am pissed at Trump, but I can never vote Democrat. What do you make all of this? First, the regrets and then the Democrats part.
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There are posts like this by the thousands of people reaching out to Donald Trump. President, I voted for you, but since then you've cut many government jobs so fast. OPM has screwed up my wife's retirement money after 30 plus years of faithful service and we haven't gotten her retirement for a month. What the hell is going on?
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You've recently been quoted as saying that Democrats should not be knee-jerk institution defenders. What do you mean by that? And what's your vision? What are you advocating for at the Center for American Progress in terms of what that vision should be?
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The business community that was very outspoken in favor of Donald Trump. They don't seem to like the chaotic economy. That's putting it lightly. CEOs say they are losing faith in Donald Trump. Quote, I don't trust that what's said today will be true tomorrow. I mean, someone who was found civilly liable for fraud and convicted of 34 felony counts. You can't trust their word. Oh, that's surprising.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
What do you think about some of these Democrats who are heading into the red and purplish areas and holding these town halls and speaking with voters who may not agree with them in the absence of these Republicans who have canceled all of their town halls? Do you think that's a good strategy? Just go out there and speak?
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
know and i think when you listen a lot of voters i saw that word tree that you had posted um of how people think about democrats and and what they think in general about the way democrats are fighting and you hear the words like like weak um and handling it poorly and you know i just think these past few weeks have been kind of a a wake-up call like listen to the people Get out there.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
As you said, deliver the message. The people, as I've always said, like I firmly believe the people are on your side. They don't want their Medicaid gutted. They don't like billionaires calling their social security Ponzi scheme. They don't like seeing veterans get cruelly fired and treated like crap. Just go out and speak to people on those issues. Hear them. And make the case.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
That was from Fortune, by the way. Also, as the Trump regime guts FEMA and we're seeing horrific storms ravage the country and our hearts go out to.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
Neera Tanden, CEO, Center for American Progress. We appreciate you and please come back. Keep us posted on the work that you are doing and we appreciate all you do.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
Have a great day. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Neera Tanden on Beating Back Trump & MAGA
everybody who's been affected there was over 37 dead this past weekend while donald trump was bragging about winning his own golf tournament the people in these states a lot of them red states or purplish states are saying actually we we need fema yes the states are involved but believe it or not fema's a helpful entity and it should not be abolished the way the trump regime wants it to be you hear stories like this north dakota went big
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, who calls herself a press secretary, is just so sloppy and unprepared. Her press conferences, like the one today, are always just so disastrous. Caroline, I know you don't do your research. I don't know. Maybe just go on Wikipedia for some of these judges before you attack them.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Oh, you don't have answers to that, Caroline? As Greg Sargent, great reporter, says, the White House press secretary was just asked about the termination of this program that tracks Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. Why in the world would Donald Trump terminate that program? She goes, oh, I have no updates about that. Oh, by the way, Caroline, Where are the Epstein files?
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
You think you're going to distract us by releasing the 2023 JFK files and just changing the number to 2025 instead of 2023? You got Joe Rogan saying, has anyone fed the JFK files to Grok? So who killed JFK? There's not a conspiracy that that moron won't chase. Sorry, back to Caroline. I digress. Back to Caroline Leavitt.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
She's asked here by a reporter, can you provide any more details on how authorities investigate have determined if these Venezuelan individuals who you put in concentration camps in El Salvador are gang members or terrorists or whatever? What's your criteria for sending these people? If you're gonna show their faces on these ISIS style videos, what's your evidence that they committed crimes?
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Like here, Caroline Levitz says, oh, this Obama appointed activist DC judge and the judge's wife, they're going after Donald Trump. Caroline, the judge was first appointed by George W. Bush, a Republican. Here, play this clip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Oh, we're not going to give operational update. Why don't you just list their names? Why don't you say who they are? Why don't you list the crime that they committed? No, you're willing to put their faces on screen in videos where they're kicked and punched by El Salvador military. And you're not going to just say what their name is and what they did. I mean, this is the United States of America.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
I mean, I'm a law and order guy, but we have a constitution in due process here. Next, I want to show you this reporter then attacks the mainstream media and then praises Derek Chauvin. Play this clip.
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praising Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, great idea, Trump regime, for letting all these right-wing nutcases into the briefing room to make speeches and turn this all into an InfoWars episode. So ridiculous. And by the way, here's another clip, though, of a real reporter, Rachel Scott to Levitt, saying...
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Okay, look, if y'all are publishing these images and photos, then of these Venezuelans, you can't say what they did? Here, play this clip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
So then there's more attacking judges by Caroline Leavitt, who has no clue what she's even talking about and play it.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
And then one more question, Senate Minority Leader. And here she uses her podium from the White House to beg the Supreme Court for help to rein in, quote, activist judges. Activist judges. Chief Judge Boasberg is the chief judge in Washington, D.C., Before being the chief federal judge in Washington, D.C., he was the chief judge of the FISA courts.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
She just doesn't know anything. And by the way, to have a press secretary from the White House attacking the judge's wife after Chief Justice John Roberts also put out a public statement for Donald Trump to stop attacking federal judges if he doesn't like their orders. She's attacking the wife of the judge, but that's very Trumpy here.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
So he knows a little bit about federal intelligence. I mean, and foreign intelligence, rather. And then before that... He was a DC judge, a district court judge, from the district, that is, appointed by George W. Bush. But more attacks on the judge next. I'll show you right here. Caroline Levitz asks, how do you determine if a judge is bad? Watch her response.
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She's then asked about Donald Trump unlawfully terminating the FTC, the Democratic FTC commissioners and more lies from her. She goes, of course she has the authority to do it. He doesn't have the authority. Let's play it. Go ahead.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Rachel. Caroline Levitt is then asked if it was Donald Trump himself that asked for the airplanes that had these Venezuelans to keep going to El Salvador after it was known that there was a court order requiring them to return to the United States. and be given due process, play this clip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
while the Caroline Leavitt press conference was taking place, there was another press conference taking place by the Federal Reserve Chairman Powell. Here he is right here, and the Fed sharply reduced their 2025 growth projections. They're keeping interest rates the same because they're reducing growth projections, and they believe the tariffs are going to cause more inflation.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Here's what Federal Reserve Chairman Powell had to say. Let's play it.
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And here he talks about how the Fed is now projecting just 1.7% GDP growth. That's the median when it was expected to be much higher had Donald Trump just literally done nothing and just allowed former President Biden's economy to just continue on. Play this clip.
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Here's the headline that comes out of this meeting. Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady as tariffs, inflation blurs the path ahead. Blurs the path ahead. You mean that Trump is crashing the economy. That's another way of saying that. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Caroline Leavitt is asked another question, which she doesn't know the answer to, about has the White House shut down the program whereby the United States, through this research institute, finds Ukrainian children who are being trafficked by Russia? Here, play this clip.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
One of the most powerful moments, we've been covering these speeches that I see, and we've covered your speech in Warren.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
Oh, it's what people want. People want people like you who are fighting and who are listening. And there's a part in your speech where you ask the people in the crowd, what's it like to live paycheck to paycheck? And people share what they're experiencing with you. Talk to us about that, Senator.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
I heard one person in the crowd even say psychological torture. It feels like we're being tortured by these oligarchs.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
It is an honor to be joined by Senator Bernie Sanders. Senator, tell us about your Fight the Oligarchy tour where you're traveling to reddish and purplish areas and just speaking to the people and speaking to workers.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
No, and Senator, so many people, though, voted against their interest or voted against their unions. And, you know, we were doing our best to try to cover what Trump and Musk were saying. Let me just show you what they were saying during the campaign. This was out there. Yet people who were in unions, workers voted
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
For this, I mean, I think they were deceived what the this is, and I want to get your take on it. But here, let's play this clip where Trump praises Musk during the campaign for firing workers who were striking for better pay and working conditions. Let's play.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
You'd be good. So what's going on here? How come people voted for that and now that happened?
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
And so what does that look like to you once you have the descriptive and you recognize the prescriptive is we have to take on the oligarchy? Look, I think you're leading the way right now, speaking to workers across the country. And so maybe just speak to anybody who's listening right now. We've got a pretty big audience here.
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
And to the American people, what does that fight look like now where MAGA controls the executive branch, both houses? in Congress? What does the fight look like?
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
Where does the Fight the Oligarchy tour go next?
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Senator Bernie Sanders on how to Fight Oligarchy
Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers this month. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
After failing in his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump ran straight to American state regime media known as Fox to attack Canada. Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Canadians are the worst people to negotiate with, he says. Here, play this clip. Things, we rebuilt our military.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
You see even Laura Ingraham is trying to, like, lead him to not attack Canada, but he can't help himself because he's a despicable human being who actually wants to annex and take over Canada the way Putin wants to take over Ukraine. Here, Donald Trump is, again, after attacking Canada, here he is praising Xi Jinping of China and Vladimir Putin. I could go on and on.
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You get the point, though, that this is what is going on in most of this interview. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
So absolutely despicable. I'll just show it to you one more time. Then Donald Trump says, look, Canada wasn't meant to be anything other than the 51st state of America. We don't need their lumber. We don't need anything from them, he says. Here, play this clip.
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Let me just say to our Canadian supporters and the Maple Midas out there, we here at the Midas Touch Network stand in solidarity with you. We understand why you are boycotting all things American and American tourism because of the despicable Trump regime. And we are fighting from within to take back our democracy from an authoritarian regime that has taken over our country right now.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Here in this interview with Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump says that he wasn't able to do the ceasefire deal with Putin because...
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ceasefires are hard and then he spreads the lie that uh russian troops have encircled the ukrainian troops and that that's one of the reasons why they can't do a ceasefire and that he and putin are trying to save the ukrainian troops from russia killing everybody here play this clip and right now you have a lot of guns pointing at each other and a ceasefire without going a little bit further would have been tough
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uh russia has the advantage as you know they have encircled about uh 2 500 soldiers they are nicely encircled and that's not good and we want to get it over with look we're doing this let me be clear what donald trump said there is 100 false russia has not encircled the ukrainian troops in the kursk's region that is just straight up russian propaganda from vladimir putin it is absolutely despicable that donald trump is parroting that but
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Everything he's saying here is despicable. Laura Ingraham here talks about how the Kremlin media actually stated that he demanded immediate cessation of aid to Ukraine. And Donald Trump then lies and says, oh, he didn't say that. Here, play this clip.
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I thought Donald Trump was such a good negotiator that you were going to figure this out, Donald. I thought you had the best negotiating plan that you were going to have peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. You don't even know what was said on the call. I mean, it's like not the art of the deal. It's like the art of the stupid and dangerous right now.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Donald Trump spent most of this interview with Laura Ingraham attacking Canada and then praising Russia and China. Here Donald Trump is saying that he'd like to do more trade with Russia while he attacks our closest ally, Canada. Play this clip.
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The art of Donald Trump's obsequiousness, the art of Donald Trump surrendering. What a pathetic individual he is. Laura Ingraham then goes, are there circumstances you would ever defy a court order like the court order that said you cannot send Americans to concentration camps or you cannot send migrants to concentration camps or people who just you divine and deem?
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um, to be, uh, uh, train day or Agua gang members. You have to like, give them a process or let's just see where we are in 14 days. And Donald Trump's like, uh, now I think that the number one, I, I think I've been in court more than anybody here. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement today in public. saying he didn't mention Trump by name, but he said that people should not be attacking federal judges who issue injunctions, go through the regular appeals process. But Trump, like a little freaking baby, is like, oh, he didn't say my name. He didn't say my name, so therefore he didn't mean me. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
He was Obama appointed. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski explains, this is the game that every Republican has figured out. You can criticize something Trump has done on virtually anything as long as you don't actually mention his name. I've documented hundreds of examples of this. It's why he's our editor-in-chief. He's the best in the business.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Laura Ingraham then asks Donald Trump if he believes that when people vandalize Teslas, if that's terrorism. And Donald Trump says, yes, it's terrorism. Play this clip.
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Trump Goes Full Psycho in Disaster Fox Interview
Meanwhile, it's because... Very weirdly, Donald Trump then brags that Elon Musk loves him and loves him more than Kamala. Play this clip.
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If you took a transcript of this and you said like a little baby, is saying these things, like just his cadence, you like me, you like her, you like me. Like I would believe you that this was like a three-year-old, no offense to three-year-olds. Here, Donald Trump attacks federal employees, play this clip. But for federal judges,
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Here, Donald Trump says that he would have liked to get a piece of the action of the money that's going to come in from the Trump gold card, which is how he says, we're all going to get rich from the Trump gold card. You see, he's going to sell citizenship to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. Play this clip. Judge.
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And then finally, Donald Trump lies and says that they found so much fraud in USAID. All this fraud they found. Play this clip.
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So I guess they closed the door. You didn't find fraud. And also, you know how I know you didn't too? Show me. You're sending people to El Salvador concentration camps, right? So where are all your people who have been arrested for fraud, for USAID fraud? Where are the criminals? Oh, wait a minute. Are you telling me that the Republicans passed –
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continuing resolutions where they adopted these priorities and until you, Elon Musk, decided that you were going to just lie about everything USAID was doing, you're telling me that Republicans were actually in favor of USAID and now they're not? Oh, you're telling me they're inconsistent and they're liars? Oh, big shocker when it comes to MAGA. How pathetic is this, though?
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and on that they have things that we could use frankly and they that other and as i said most of this interview was devoted to donald trump attacking canada saying he wants to conquer it saying he wants to annex it saying that they don't have any resources that are really needed and they need the united states here donald trump is talking about how
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He spent an entire interview attacking Canada, saying how he wants to conquer it, which is not a trade war. Those are the words of actual war. And it pisses me off. And that's why Canada has united in solidarity against this crap. It's pathetic. It's shameful. It's a stain on the United States of America. It's horrific. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thank you for watching.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
Well, that didn't take long, folks. Donald Trump's approval continues to plummet, according to Atlas Intel, which was the most correct in the 2024 election in terms of pollsters. They find that 52.4% of Americans now disapprove of Donald Trump's presidency. And when you look at the people who did not vote in the 2024 election, who could have swung the scales, I don't know, say to democracy.
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It's not $3.45. It's ridiculous. And this is what they want to sell us on. And finally, I'll just show you this just so you can see for yourself the clip. First, just take a look at these stock markets since inauguration. Hong Kong crushing it. Europe crushing it. United States being crushed.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
All the other markets are good, but the United States is doing horrible when it was doing fantastic under former President Biden. But here's Donald Trump. Liberation Day, April 2nd. We're all going to be liberated. Stupid. Here, play this clip.
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So going back to what I shared with you at the outset, no wonder people are pissed. No wonder Trump's approval is plummeting. Frankly, I think it's high. I mean, the fact that it was still 47% approve of this madness of this craziness or something like that, or 54% disapprove. Who could approve of it? It's like a psycho in every aspect of it.
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as donald trump and his regime send the united states of america into a recession or perhaps even into a depression you have donald trump he wakes up in the morning and he just does crap like this and it's so odd and dangerous and pathological it just stop this nonsense and behave normal But look, folks, we know he's incapable of that.
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We got to just keep opening up people's minds, showing them the facts, pulling out the receipts. And just showing what are we even talking about here? You got Trump and Musk cutting Medicaid and calling Social Security Ponzi schemes, firing veterans. Pisses me off. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
Here's the photo that he posted when he posed in front of the empty auditorium at the Kennedy Center with his hands outstretched like he's Mussolini. And he was kind of copying those photos from authoritarians in the past who stand on the balcony. There's literally nobody in that auditorium. And Donald, if you were to show up there People would boo the hell out of you.
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I dare you to show up to a Kennedy Center event, by the way. I doubt there'll even be many more Kennedy Center events since. I think attendance is down 50% since Donald Trump fired everybody on the Kennedy Center board and appointed himself as chairman. Nobody wants to perform there. The Hamilton play canceled and other people are canceling as well. I mean, you wake up in Trump regime America.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
And by the way, it's not a government by the people for the people. It's by the bullies for the billionaires. And you wake up. to headlines like this, whereas with former President Biden, the headlines were like, economy envy of the world, new record highs in the stock market. Now you get headlines like this from the New York Times. Trump says a recession might be worth the cost
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Economists disagree. It's like a stupid headline too, though. I mean, Trump says recession might be worth the cost. Economists disagree.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
How about Trump wants to destroy our economy, which is completely and utterly stupid and dangerous, so he and his oligarch friends could hoard their money and then try to lower the interest rates, then borrow, and then try to scoop up assets for pennies on the dollar when they crash the economy and make people suffer. Ah! I don't know, maybe that's part of their plan.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
You take a look at the NASDAQ yesterday, the Dow yesterday, continues to have awful, awful days. Headlines like this. Trump policies promise an economic downturn, says prominent forecaster and first ever recession watch. The UCLA Anderson forecast citing substantial changes to the economy from the policies of the Trump administration. So yes,
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It's directly linked to Trump issued its first ever recession watch on Tuesday. UCLA Anderson has been issuing forecasts since 1952, said the administration's tariff and immigration policies and plans to reduce the federal workforce could combine to cause the economy to contract. Its analysis was titled Trump policies, if fully enacted, promise a recession. They
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Could have just titled it Trump's Policies Promise a Recession because he's out there every day. What's his new thing that he's saying? April 2nd is Liberation Day. You know what he's saying that's going to happen on April 2nd? He says on April 2nd, all the countries of the world are going to get a envelope. I'm not making this up. And in the envelope, they're going to get a number.
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Amongst the people who didn't vote in 2024, 83% of people who didn't vote, and I guess who would vote again, say they disapprove of the way Donald Trump is doing. handling things.
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And the number is going to be how much they're going to be tariffed based on how nice or naughty they are to Donald Trump. I'm not making that up. There was a town hall that was held recently in Nebraska by MAGA Republican Mike Flood, where the crowd chanted, tax the rich, tax the rich. And this is in a ruby red area of Nebraska. Play this clip. Tax the rich, tax the rich.
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Well, that was taking place. As I mentioned yesterday, Donald Trump had these. failed negotiations with Putin where Trump says, I'm going to go in and we're going to get a absolute ceasefire. Trump didn't get that at all. What they did talk about, you want to know what Trump and Putin talked about?
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Donald Trump supports Putin's idea of organizing hockey games in the US and Russia between Russian and American players competing in the NHL and the KHL as per Russia's propaganda network. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, yes, Donald Trump still hasn't ended the war in Ukraine in 24 hours like he promised.
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But apparently he's setting up hockey games with the guy who is murdering civilians, torturing prisoners and kidnapping children. Also. Donald Trump and Putin, according to the readout of their negotiations, agreed that a future with improved bilateral relationships between the United States and Russia has huge upside.
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Also, when you take a look at the approval ratings of Zelensky versus Putin, as Donald Trump continues to suck up to Putin and just say a bunch of false and demeaning things about Ukraine, 14% of Americans view Zelensky positively. And Putin has a net negative 80% approval. I guess 80% people disapprove of Putin. It means 20% of Americans in MAGA like Vladimir Putin, which is very bizarre.
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This includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved. as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains from the White House readout of Trump's call with Putin, where Putin did not agree to a ceasefire.
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It seems that while Trump is launching a trade war with the EU and North American countries, our closest allies, Trump does expect enormous economic deals with Russia very soon. So Donald Trump had these failed negotiations with Putin, or maybe that's what Trump wanted, like that was the goal. I've told you, right?
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I think from the outset, when Trump was talking about a deal, it was that Trump was going to steal Ukraine's minerals and rare earth minerals, scoop that for himself, put it in his own mind into his sovereign wealth fund, and then build all of these Trump stuff with Ukraine's wealth. and then give the other portion of Ukraine to Putin. And then U.S.
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and Putin would become allies and engage in a bilateral trade relationship and then screw Europe and Canada and Australia and everywhere else. That's what I predicted. And I mean, look, Trump was acting consistent with that plan. But shout out to the European nations and Canada for standing up against Donald Trump and strongly getting Zelensky's back and standing up to him.
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This wannabe fascist Donald Trump. So after Trump's whatever you want to call those discussions with Putin, by the way, Putin made Donald Trump wait for him like a half hour. And Putin was like mocking Donald Trump at a speech he did before. Oh, he could wait for me. He could wait for me.
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Then Donald Trump rushed to Laura Ingraham, state regime media in the US, and he goes, I really wanna do more trade with Putin. We need to do more trade with Russia. Play this clip.
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So you go to stopboxusa.com, use that code MIDUS10. Discover a better way to balance security and readiness with Stopbox. So he's talking about more trade with Russia. And then he keeps saying, I really want to do deals with Xi Jinping. I look up to Xi Jinping and Putin. Here's what he says. Play the clip.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
The next question, do you approve Trump excluding Ukraine from negotiations between Russia and Donald Trump? Trump had those bilateral discussions yesterday that were a complete and utter failure. More on that in a moment. 66% of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump just speaking directly to Putin without Zelensky or Europe.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
bashing Canada. Here's what he has to say about Canada. Let's play it.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
So yes, praising China, praising Putin, but he's very bad and attacking Canada. I mean, it's so utterly pathetic. Shout out, by the way, to Canadian Prime Minister, their new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, who is, I think, pitch perfect right now in standing up to the Trump regime. As I've said, Mark Carney, the banker, Donald Trump, the bankrupter.
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Mark Carney, the banker, Donald Trump, the bankruptcy guy over and over again. You need a real banker to deal with Donald Trump, and Carney's been handling him quite well. But, you know, like there's a pathology to these sicko authoritarians. Like look at Putin when he would like give himself the awards at the hockey, right? You know, he gives himself the hockey awards.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
Donald Trump gave himself over this weekend while America's Midwest faced deadly storms where like 40 people or more died. Trump awarded himself the golf tournament championship at his own golf club. Very Putin-esque. The way Putin has his sycophants go on state regime media. That's what Trump does. He has Witkoff, one of his special envoy to Russia, goes, oh, I would commend President Putin.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
I'm commending Putin on everything, the way he talked to Trump. Oh, and Donald Trump, I can't overstate how compelling he was. Trump was so compelling.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
And by the way, the Trump regime keeps putting out like just fake stuff like this too. Egg prices drop again. I think the USDA is putting out phony wholesale numbers, not retail numbers, wholesale numbers. And they're comparing wholesale to retail and they're acting like egg prices have dropped and eggs are good now. We're all good now because the U.S.
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Trump Gets Instant Karma as His Failures Accelerate
And then you take a look at the NBC poll from the day before yesterday, Trump job approval amongst independents, 67% disapprove. I mean, look,
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Department of Agriculture tells us there's no issues with eggs. Like a miracle, it's fixed. Mission accomplished. It's like, dude, I go to the grocery store. There's no eggs. At least for me in California, it's like 10 bucks. I know in other areas, it's eight bucks, nine bucks. I don't know. You may find a Trader Joe's where it's three or four bucks. I don't know. But overwhelmingly.
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Trump Glitches Out on Live TV as His Mind Deteriorates
Now, never normalize this. This is what Donald Trump is doing this afternoon. He made posts like this. Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York is saved. Long live the king. And then the White House official account reposted that with a fake Time magazine cover that says Trump and has a crown on his head. And it says Long Live the King.
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And this refers to the Trump administration trying to stop a New York and New York City programming to stop. to help with the flow of traffic into the city and to raise funds that the city of New York and the state of New York said was going successful. There was a deal made with the federal government under the Biden administration and Donald Trump ordered it unilaterally
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cancel, that the deal should be broken. And New York is not following those orders right now. But Donald Trump is saying that he's now saved New York for doing that. And he's posting photographs of himself as a king with a crown on his head. Yes, folks, it is utterly deranged.
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Trump Glitches Out on Live TV as His Mind Deteriorates
And this follows Donald Trump posting this morning multiple posts and statements referring to President Zelensky of Ukraine as a dictator and threatening Zelensky that he, quote, better move fast or he is not going to have peace. a country left. Donald Trump then spread other Russia propaganda as well about Ukraine stealing all of this money from the United States.
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I'm reminded of this quote, though, from Game of Thrones, quote, "'Any man who must say, I am the king,' is no true king. Donald Trump's posts both about Ukraine and saying that he's a king, to me, it comes from a place of total and utter weakness. You can see the weakness and desperation in the posts. He thought that President Zelensky of Ukraine was going to be bullied.
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Trump thought that Europe was going to be bullied and that they were just going to back down. And they're not. Europe is standing up. Zelensky is standing up. So now Donald Trump is trying to further bully Zelensky and to pursue other talking points and strategies fed to Donald Trump by Vladimir Putin, which is to say that Zelensky needs to hold an election immediately and
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that he's not a legitimate leader of Ukraine. Now, let me just show you this video that Vladimir Putin released moments ago, where he's basically speaking to Donald Trump in this video, saying that Trump needs to go harder on Europe right now and apply more pressure to attack Europe and to attack Ukraine. You can see how easily Putin is playing Donald Trump here. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, is it? So completely obvious what's going on there. Meanwhile, Donald Trump announced that he will be speaking at an investment conference in Miami sponsored by the Saudi government entities, an address that comes as the Trump organization seeks to expand its real estate empire in Saudi Arabia. And Trump looks to strengthen his ties with the Middle East partner. Remember, Saudi Arabia,
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And he just calls Kristi Noem, Kristi, here, play this clip.
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I guess, purported to host that mediation. I say purported because what the hell was that if you cut Ukraine and Europe out? In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia yesterday, where the United States and Russia negotiated directly with each other, and it seemed that they were trying to ally with each other against Europe. and Ukraine.
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But Donald Trump is, I guess, Saudi first right now, and he's trying to bolster his own business. Donald Trump has also spent the entire day today golfing over and over again and making people clap for him at his golf course while he tees off. And while all of this is happening, it should be noted that there was yet another plane crash.
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Trump Glitches Out on Live TV as His Mind Deteriorates
This one at a regional airport in Arizona as Donald Trump was golfing. Two planes crashed into each other. Two people were killed in the plane crash. And so to be clear, I think we're talking about the ninth crash now. since the Trump administration took over.
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Trump Glitches Out on Live TV as His Mind Deteriorates
And as I said, one of the things they're trying to do in the Trump administration, the same way they've normalized school shootings, they want to normalize air crashes and plane crashes as well and say that planes crash, planes crash all the time. which is not true. And then they lie and say planes crashed more under Biden than Trump, which again is totally false.
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But here's Trump's transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who got famous on the real world road rules challenge. Here he says planes crash. It's just what happens here. Play this clip.
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Okay, and then Donald Trump says that he put Elon Musk in charge of Doge, which directly contradicts an affidavit submitted under oath by the Trump administration to say that Elon Musk is not in charge of Doge and that Elon Musk was actually just a special advisor to Donald Trump but was not controlling Doge. Donald Trump just threw Elon Musk under the bus.
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In America, we hold a presidential election every four years, even during wartime. We held an election during the Civil War. We held an election during World War II. Before President Zelensky decides to lecture the Americans again, He should hold an election, too, to which then Elon Musk responded.
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Zelensky cannot claim to represent the will of the people of Ukraine unless he restores freedom of the press and stops canceling elections. That is quite literally verbatim the Russian talking point. That is being spewed by a co-president of the United States and the official accounts of the White House and other American accounts as well.
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While all of this is going on, folks, we're learning that, and this is from our friend Greg Sargent over at New Republic. He's a great writer. The Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers and At NIH's Center for Combating Alzheimer's, they predict big setbacks to fight dementia. This cause was once championed by Republicans, but not anymore.
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President Zelensky just wrote, thank you for your support. reaching out to the world and trying to stay strong. As Dylan Williams writes, though, Trump has not even been in office for a month, and Americans are already legitimately wondering if, one, it is safe to fly. Two, they will be able to buy eggs. Three, we are going to invade a NATO ally. Four, common prescriptions will be banned.
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Five, their Social Security payment will arrive. Will it arrive or not? We're learning from the New York Times, the IRS is beginning laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday. They're looking to further gut the IRS. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, the third day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country.
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He didn't even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Administration resigned and didn't know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA and Department of Defense. And he claimed Medicaid wasn't being cut when it's being cut massively right there. And so this is what continues to go on right in front of us. Now, I'll show you this video right here as well.
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This is from Senator Thune, the Republican leader of the Senate. And Senator Thune is asked, would you call Zelensky a dictator as Donald Trump does? And you'll see how cowardly Thune is refusing to answer the question.
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Further, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the following to Morgan Rimmer after Donald Trump called Zelensky a dictator. Quote, I would like to see that in context because I would certainly never refer to Zelensky as a dictator. As our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, the context is that Trump is Putin's bitch. Just take a look right here.
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Our friend Brian Tyler Cohen made this graphic right here, which shows Trump got the FAA. Trump disbands the Aviation Security Advisory Committee on January 22nd, declares he has ended DEI and restored excellence in safety and air travel. On January 23rd, plane crash in Columbia, California. January 29th, first commercial plane crash in 16 years over Washington, D.C. 67 people died.
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January 31st, plane crash in Philadelphia. February 1st, plane crashes in Texas. February 5th, Japan Airlines plane strikes Delta flight on runway in Seattle. February 5th, plane crashes in Arkansas. February 6th, Air flight disappears over Alaska with 10 people on board, later all found dead. February 10th, plane crashes in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Trump Glitches Out on Live TV as His Mind Deteriorates
A very lethargic-looking, low-energy, cognitively addled Donald Trump just gave a press conference in Florida. He forgot the name of his Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem. He then went on to accidentally throw Elon Musk under the bus. You can see that he was struggling up there. Total disaster. Let me show you first. Again, you'll see how kind of slow he's going right here.
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February 12th, military fighter jet crashes in San Diego Bay. February 15th, Trump fires hundreds of FAA employees. February 15th, plane crashes in Florida. February 15th, Plane crashes in Georgia. February 16th, two planes crash in Texas. February 17th, plane departing from Minnesota crashes in Toronto. February 19th, plane crashes in Arizona today.
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Trump Glitches Out on Live TV as His Mind Deteriorates
I wonder if the lawyers in that case are going to try to now call Elon Musk in to testify in court. Play this clip.
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We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. That's your update so far. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thank you for watching.
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Wow! Trump Screws Himself with Public Confession
Tonight, finally, are you definitively getting rid of the penny?
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Wow! Trump Screws Himself with Public Confession
All right. Let's go to other not broken promises, outright fraud. Remember Donald Trump's statements during the campaign that he was going to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, he said. He said 24 hours. after the election. He said he wouldn't even have to be sworn in. Remember what he said? Here, play this clip. You could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes, I could.
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It won't even take that. Well, Donald, you now sent your secretary of state, Marco Rubio, to Saudi Arabia to meet with the Russian delegation led by Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, to, what, normalize United States-Russian relations as Russia's trying to destroy the United States of America, you idiot?
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And you were trying to sell out Ukraine and force Ukraine to capitulate without even any plan, without bringing Ukraine to the bargaining table, without bringing Europe to the table. That was your plan. And guess what? It wasn't resolved in 24 hours. When Donald Trump was vacationing in Mar-a-Lago yesterday, as he was playing golf yet again, here's what Donald Trump told the press about Ukraine.
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It's not broken promises. It's outright fraud. All of the things that Donald Trump was saying on the campaign trail were lies. We were trying to warn you. Let me show you the admission that Donald Trump made last night on Hannity, where he said, folks, inflation is back. Here, play this clip.
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Play this clip. Yeah, please.
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You've had a seat at the table for three years? Donald, you told everybody that you were gonna be this great negotiator, you were going to figure it out. Or were you just going to totally capitulate as we told everybody you were going to? So take a look at the spineless Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, with the U.S. delegation.
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Wow! Trump Screws Himself with Public Confession
And they seemed giddy over the idea of normalizing economic relations with Putin. and empowering Putin. Watch this.
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All right, let me show you more, not broken promises, but outright fraud. Remember what Donald Trump said on the campaign trail? That he said that on day one, he was going to start the largest mass deportation in history. He said it was going to happen on day one, right away. That's what was going to happen. Here, play the clip of what he said.
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Well, do you remember what he said on the campaign trail? As inflation was actually going down based on former President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, the inflation being caused by Donald Trump adding $8 trillion to our national debt in his first administration. Here was the promise Trump made on the campaign trail. I have hundreds of clips like this. I'll just show one short clip here.
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Wow! Trump Screws Himself with Public Confession
Well, Fox tried to pump it up with propaganda. On January 22nd, 2025, Fox said this. Here, play this clip.
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I'm going to prioritize the criminals first. Well, Donald Trump was asked about that at that press conference as well. Hey, Donald, you've actually been sending a lot of people to concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay who... were not part of gangs, who were not criminals.
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Wow! Trump Screws Himself with Public Confession
You're deporting your own supporters, Venezuelans whose family members were under TPS, temporary protected status, who were not criminals. You cut deals with the Venezuelan dictator Maduro, who was voted out of power, but like the authoritarian you are, is clinging to power the way you want to. You're sending your Venezuelan supporters back to be killed.
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by Maduro or throwing people who are not criminals into concentration camps. Donald Trump was asked about it and he didn't deny that he sent non-criminals. He was like, oh, well, we'll move them back to their countries of origins. Here, play this clip.
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And as my friend Pablo Monriquez also says, actually, fact check, zero of the transferees to Guantanamo have been confirmed to have criminal records or gang ties. It should also be noted that on day one, there wasn't the largest number. mass deportation in history.
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In fact, the level of deportations are actually less than in the Biden administration significantly, except the Biden administration deported criminals more than innocent people or people who were not engaged in crimes, while more people who Trump is deporting and sending back to countries where they could get tortured and killed are are actually people who were not engaged in crimes.
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But, you know, they are doing their propaganda shtick, their tough guy act, because cruelty is the point. So they're sending their border czar, Tom Homan, this, I don't even want to go where I'm about to go with that. But anyway, he goes on the various news networks where he threatens
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AOC, Democratic Congresswoman AOC repeatedly because that gets to rile up the MAGA base while they lie about all the stuff that they said they were going to do. Let's just attack AOC. Here, play this clip.
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And then they announced what we need to do because they're incompetent and cruel. Let's do a marketing campaign. $200 million, right? Because they claim they care about government waste. $200 million we'll throw behind ads. in English, with Kristi Noem cosplaying the governor who shot her dog. Yeah, Kristi Noem cosplaying. She's now the Secretary of Homeland Security. Say, you go home, illegals.
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You go home, illegals. And then as part of this marketing campaign, the White House. This is from the official White House account. This is how ghoulish and disgusting and monstrous these people are. This is what they posted from our White House account. Shame on on these goons. Here, play this clip.
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But then let's talk about what Donald Trump is trying to do to distract you, folks. He's getting rid of the penny. Ooh, the penny. He wants to get rid of that. That's what you get. No, goodbye, penny. Here, play this clip of Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. And he knows, like, what am I even doing here? Here, play this clip.
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And while all of this is going on, it seems like every day we learn that Doge accidentally fired the people who are stopping the bird flu. Doge accidentally fired the people working in the nuclear plants. Doge is firing FAA workers and critical workers, not accidentally. They're getting rid of tens of thousands of government workers who we rely on.
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It seems like every day there's like another plane crash taking place and it's horrific. And what does Donald Trump do? Oh, While there's devastation in terrible storms in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Donald Trump goes to NASCAR and drives around in circles in his motorcade over and over again. But hey, Donald, let me ask you this question.
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While 12 people or more died in Kentucky from the storms and you said nothing while posting stupid selfies of yourself from a Daytona 500 NASCAR race, hey, Donald, whatever happened to no tax on tips? No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security. Whatever happened to capping credit card interest rates and capping credit card penalty fees? What happened to all of those promises that you made?
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You are a two-bit snake oil salesman, con artist, pathetic weak fool. An American needs to know that about you because you lied, you betrayed Americans, but that was the purpose. You're a con artist. You are a fraud. You are a criminal. You are an adjudicated felon. You are despicable. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
As Donald Trump becomes more unhinged and his approval plummets, Fox, which is just state-run regime media at this point, gets more desperate. It's so utterly embarrassing. Let me just show you what went down in the past 24 hours. I'll use to show you what they're doing. So they bring in Lara Trump, who now Fox has given a TV show to.
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They are suppressing information. So by the way, didn't he give away the whole game right there? I thought that was a wild moment. And then finally, after doing all of that, then they try to inflict the fear. So then they call the border czar, Tom Homan, to basically once again threaten AOC. that he's urged the DOJ to prosecute her for telling migrants about their rights.
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He goes, when do you cross the line?
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So I wanted to break down the anatomy of the Fox propaganda. You can see how desperate they're getting. And remember that moment there when Jesse Waters, in my view, just gave it all away. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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What? This data is public. I mean, Elon tried to make some posts today to show, look, there are millions of people or tens of millions of people over the age of 110 who are dead and getting Social Security. This stuff is public. It's not hard to find. I think there's only, what, 89,000 people or so. above the age of 99 who are receiving Social Security. These numbers are not hard to find.
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But then again, the purpose of Fox is to lie. And I want to show you this next methodology they use, which is once they're caught in the lie, just to laugh it off and be like, well, that's how we own the libs. Watch what happens when the pro-democracy voice on Fox named Jessica Tarloff calls out Jesse Waters and other disinformationists.
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for lying and saying that USAID was sending condoms to Hamas in Gaza. Here, play this clip and watch what happens. Play it.
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Did you see what Jesse Waters did there? Jesse Waters was like, yeah, I'm the one who made up that lie. I lied about that. I'm the one who spread that one. What they're trying to do is desensitize their audience so that once they're caught lying about something, they've already achieved their agenda. So then they're like, well, we own the libs, so we can lie, right?
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And they want their audience to think that that's normal. That lying is just kind of funny. And at first they try to get the lie through. And then when they're exposed, they try to act like it's just funny here. Jesse waters then goes on this strange rant about, uh, Like Canada's angry at the United States and they shouldn't be.
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So Lara Trump is now going to get paid a huge amount of money by Fox to host Fox shows to run part of the state-run regime media. And here she is introduced by Sean Hannity, who accidentally calls her Laura shit. Here, play this clip.
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And now Canada's booing America and networks are cheering for Canada. Look, Jesse, Donald Trump threatened to annex Canada to conquer it. And you and others have mocked Canada consistently and said it should be a 51st state. Canada just wants to exist with its sovereignty.
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And so of course you're going to piss them off when you say you want to conquer them and then attack them and mock them every day. But play this clip.
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But you see what Jesse Waters is trying to do there? He's trying to convince his audience that, and this is typical abuser behavior. He's trying to convince his audience, look, Canada's the bad guy because they're now booing the United States.
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Well, perhaps the reason they're doing it is because you're talking basically about enslaving them and conquering them and taking over their country and taking over their sovereignty and forcing them to be part of a country that they don't want to be a part of. Maybe we could give some context there, Jesse Waters. In this next clip, I want to show you. Now you have Hannity.
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who basically is, you know, he's trying to vouch for Musk and Trump and say, look, I've seen them together and I know that they know who's the real president here. Like their relationship is so good. It's just, again, this is what the ultimate propagandist does. Like you're masquerading and pretending to be news, but you're like, I know the real deal here and I know that they respect each other.
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Again, it is so utterly pathetic. And by the way, all of this is taking place at a time where yesterday evening, the White House submitted a declaration in one of these cases that's trying to block Elon Musk's access to these agencies. And this is how they described it.
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They said, Elon, this is in the declaration, that Elon Musk is a senior advisor to the president and he is not actually part of Doge. That's what they're trying to play off that happened right there.
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What was that? So then Fox brings in Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's press secretary. And here she just literally makes up fake numbers where she goes, and I think we've already found with Social Security that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are getting Social Security. Elon Musk told us, and we know Elon Musk and Doge never lie, right? Right? Here, play this clip.
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Here, they then have the interior secretary, Doug Burgum. He goes on, and this is just like pure North Korea, Pyongyang stuff right here, where he goes, where Doug Burgum, who's in Trump's cabinet, goes, oh, and when we saw Donald Trump circle around that track over and over again at Daytona 500 in the motorcade, we knew America was back. Here, play this clip.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
Because notice what they're trying to do here. They're trying to distract their audience from the fact that prices are going up. Inflation is going up. Housing is not becoming more affordable. It's becoming less affordable. Trump did not get peace in Ukraine in 24 hours as he promised. Trump promised that prices were going to go down on day one.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
And Trump continues to take actions which are hurting red states, perhaps even more than blue states. But he's getting rid of jobs in all of these locations and causing absolute havoc. So what do they do on Fox? How do they deal with this as well? And how do they try to justify the xenophobia?
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
How do they try to justify the fact that one of the Trump policies are also going after hardworking people, hardworking migrants who are doing jobs in agriculture and hospitality and construction? So they go on this tirade in the morning where they're like, look, Elon Musk and all of these technological people who are part of the Trump administration, they're just so smart.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
These are such smart people that we're going to be dealing with quantum computers. So we don't need actual people who are doing the work as laborers because let's use a big word, quantum computers. quantum computers are going to figure this out. So why would we need all of these millions of people who are here doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do and can't do? Quantum, quantum.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
Do you see what they're doing? I'm just trying to cue you in on their propaganda tactics right there. So I guess we should deport everybody's what they're saying, even if they're doing key jobs, because don't worry, Donald Trump and Elon Musk quantum. They'll figure it out with quantum. We'll make big words for you right there.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
And then right here, I love this part where Jessica Tarloff then makes, and you can see that she struck a chord there because a hit dog, a holler. Watch what the panel does when she says, could you imagine for a second if former President Joe Biden was driving around on a race car track while a number of states, including red states, were suffering? Kentucky now we know dramatically.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
12 people died in Kentucky from the horrible storms. West Virginia, Virginia suffering. Donald Trump made no statement at all about that while he was driving around the Daytona 500. Watch this.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
So part of what Fox then does as well is because Donald Trump is suing CBS and Paramount, you have Fox goes after both CBS and Germany at the same time. They attack CBS on Trump's behalf, and they attack Germany because, one, Trump's suing CBS, and two, Germany is being targeted by the Trump administration as they try to get the AFD, the neo-Nazi party, elected.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
But fortunately, I think the people of Germany are seeing what's happening in the United States and saying, Elon Musk trying to support this neo-Nazi party in Germany to cause the exact harm he's inflicting on the US here in Germany. But watch this, let's play it.
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Fox News Starts Collapsing as Trump Can't Be Saved
I thought this was a very telling moment right here where Jesse Waters, to me, gives it all the way. Where Jesse Waters basically says, you know what? We're waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left. And he spells, this is where he just lets it slip. And he's like, we've got Elon Musk tweets it out. Then Joe Rogan podcasts about it. Then Fox broadcasts it. Watch this.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Congress member Jared Moskowitz, just want to start off by asking you how you holding up there in Washington, D.C. How are things going there?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Well, we'll have you back on. You got to keep us posted on all the developments in your state. You can see from my shirt how I feel. Show me the shirt.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
You're too cool for me. I just record YouTube videos all day from my living room. So I don't get out of... You don't know about a capybara? Oh, man. Come on.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Thank you for your time, Congressman.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
I want to talk about the 12 individual spending bills that Speaker Johnson claimed that he was going to bring, but he's not. I want to talk about clean CR, clean continuing resolution and what that means. But we know that it's possible Elon Musk is going to be watching this interview. These clips circulate far and wide. So maybe you speak to him right now and make that invitation
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
for him to show up in the Doge subcommittee? Why would you tell him to show up if he's watching this right now? And you could speak to him directly.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
You know, I'm sure. You seem to be a-okay, but Congress member, we... We absolutely.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
You know, it's not normal. I think we should let our viewers and listeners know that this constant use of continuing resolutions to keep the government going and funded is Explain to people in layman's terms why that's not how it worked, usually when Democrats were in control and the way the budget process.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And I'm not asking for our lecture, but break it down in a quick way of how the process is supposed to work. So people see why this CR approach is kind of a cop out. and how it's not really addressing what Congress's main function is, like the most basic function of what it is. And Johnson and the Republicans can't do the most basic stuff. Explain that if you can.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
that we absolutely need you in the fight? So let me start off by asking you this question, though, which is Elon Musk. There was a declaration that was submitted either on his behalf or by the federal, by the Trump White House, basically saying Musk is not running Doge or he's not an employee of Doge, but he's an advisor to the White House. You sit on the Doge subcommittee. What is Elon?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
So if they were to propose a CR, though, and not the individual spending bills, and it was just the status quo, how would you vote on that?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
What's his role if he's saying that he's not actually working for Doge?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Well, look, your constituents, many of them maybe thought that no tax on tips was going to be the first priority, which it isn't in the budget or no tax on social security. We don't see that in the budget or no tax on overtime. And, you know, the priorities seem to be, how do you help the billionaires and the, you know, deca millionaires and how do you focus on them? But like,
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
You know, do you think, though, it is a little bit breaking through to some people that, whoa, even if they're now waiting, whoa, whoa, whoa, what about these things? Do you see at all, you know, people in your district starting to call your office and ask questions like we feel a little bit rug pulled here or not yet? I'll give you the final word.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
I'm joined by Jim Acosta. Hey, Jim, I got to ask you your perspective on these press briefings we've been seeing, the treatment of the press by the Trump administration. Have we reached the point where the press corps needs to boycott, the press room needs to just not show up? What do you think?
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
You think the Trump administration's attack on the AP, given their longstanding reputation, their distribution, their use by all of these other outlets, it's really an attack on all the other kind of major outlets out there trying to do reporting. That's why they're picking on the AP.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
You've seen a lot of press secretaries in your day. Let's talk about Caroline Leavitt, the current holder of that position. It seems that every day she goes out there, takes another almost Q drop, I call him at this point is another lie from Elon Musk and then spreads it and just says it matter of factly. She goes on Fox and then spews the propaganda there.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
I think Jesse Waters was bragging yesterday about the propaganda machine they created about how Elon Musk first posted and then the podcast bring it and then Fox brings it. Let me show you this video of Caroline Levitt, the short clip From her last night on Fox, where she lied about tens of millions of deceased people getting Social Security. This was quickly debunked.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
But now all, you know, tens of millions of Americans now believe this the same way they believe there were condoms going to Hamas in Gaza. Here, play this clip.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
And finally, let's talk about the promises that have already been broken. Donald Trump said that he was going to lower prices on day one. He said there was going to be all these jobs right away. We weren't going to know what to do with all of these jobs. He said that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Instead, Trump sends Marco Rubio to meet with Sergey Lavrov in Saudi Arabia and tries to cut out Europe. and Ukraine from that conversation. Nothing really came out of it other than some great photo ops for Russian propaganda. And what's Donald Trump been doing?
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
He's been like driving around in a NASCAR racetrack and circles for photo ops and going to the Super Bowl costing taxpayers millions of dollars. You think people are starting to get fed up across the country? And do you think that sentiment's growing?
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Jim, where can people find your reporting right now? Where are you based? I know I've been following your sub stacks have been incredible. Let all the people know out there.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Well, one of the number one requests I always get is to bring you on here, the Midas Touch Network. And so I know all the Midas Mighty will be happy to see you here. Jim Acosta, thanks for joining us. And everybody, check out his sub stack.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
Thanks, Jim. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Let's get to 5. Let's do it.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Yep, not big Donald Trump and MAGA fans there in Greenland. Now, this comes at the same time that these MAGA podcasters went to Greenland. That followed Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk going to Greenland. And it's been the same story over and over again, trying to create this astroturfed support for MAGA. Again, they're trying to distract us. This is from a Greenland digital paper. Here's what it says.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
MAGA, Mystic, and Nuke, YouTube stars hand out dollars and caps. The police have received a report about the incident, writes this magazine, this digital article. According to the Greenlandic media outlet Sermistjak, a number of citizens in Nuuk received a somewhat strange visit on Tuesday.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Here, people who, according to the media, are believed to be Americans have knocked on doors to private homes where they have handed out American money and merchandise in the form of caps and the like. The media has been in contact with several citizens who have wondered about the visits.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
They say there have been American men wearing clothes with the American flag pattern and that they have carried Donald Trump posters around. The police have been called. They're confirming that Sermstyak has been in contact with police in Greenland who confirm that they have received a report that American dollars and caps are being distributed in the city center.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Furthermore, one of our patrols saw the incident in connection with a drive on the way to another assignment, says the chief of patrol at the Greenland police. The chief of police cannot answer questions whether there is anything illegal in And what these suspected Americans are doing.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
He points out that the police can advise the Americans to notify the police in advance if they are doing anything resembling a demonstration. And the group that's there is called the Nelk Boys. And at least the leaders of the Nelk Boys are right wing podcasters from Israel. And they were the individuals who were campaigning with Donald Trump. I think Barron likes their podcast.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
And they were the ones talking about how they want Trump to legalize a form of like chewing tobacco, Zin or something that it's called. So that's what's going on there. Meanwhile, the MAGA Republicans in Congress, they've now put forward legislation, make Greenland great again. That's what they're calling their bill. Trump's House GOP unveil a bill to authorize the country's purchase.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat, says Representative Andy Ogles. It goes on to say how Trump's plan to conquer and annex Greenland got a boost by the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives. Representative Andy Ogles from Tennessee, MAGA Republican, he's leading a bill to authorize Trump to enter negotiations with Denmark to purchase Greenland.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
This bill is titled Make Greenland Great Again Act, according to a copy of its text. And Ogles goes on to say, Joe Biden took a blowtorch to our reputation these past years and before even taking office. Trump is telling the world America first is back. American economic and security interests will no longer take a back seat.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
And this bill is backed by 10 fellow House Republicans who are publicly co-sponsoring it. And according to the legislation text, quote, not later than five calendar days after reaching an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark relating to the acquisition of Greenland by the United States,
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
The president shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees the agreement, including all related materials and annexes. And so I want to be very clear here. When I was in high school, I was part of a club called Met Monk.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
mock United Nations, I think Metropolitan Mock United Nations Club, where you would kind of cosplay international diplomacy and you would go into all of these kind of theories. Now, look, I'm not suggesting that this is purely a adult or they don't behave like adults.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Another version of kind of the Met Monk stuff, because again, Donald Trump has the resources of the American military that these threats are actually meaningful threats. But let's take a look at what the MAGA Republicans are trying to distract us from, right? They want to talk about make Greenland great again and turning Canada into the 51st state and invading Panama.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
That's where they want our attention to go. The old bait and switch. Why? Because Americans don't care about changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. What about the Gulf of lower egg prices? Egg prices are going up. Mortgage rates are expected to continue to go up where they were going down under President Biden.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Donald Trump's threats of tariffs are going to have severe economic consequences. The premier of Alberta, a conservative by the name of Daniel Smith, she came to try to cut other provinces out in Canada. And she was basically begging Donald Trump to do a deal with Alberta directly and screw over the other provinces. And there's a lot of big oil companies in Alberta.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
that kind of squirm their way into getting a lot of government benefits in Canada. So you had Daniel Smith in Mar-a-Lago, and then she returned to let people know, not only am I not bringing you anything, but Donald Trump just further threatened us, said on day one there will be 25% tariffs on everything, no exemptions, including on crude oil. And Canada imports a lot of oil.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
a lumber, a lot of other things that we rely on. So Trump's gonna start that trade war on day one.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Donald Trump, MAGA, and Fox just got a rude awakening when a Fox reporter went to Greenland to see how popular Donald Trump was there. And it turns out that the people of Greenland do not like MAGA and do not like Donald Trump. I want you to watch this, but then I want to talk more broadly about what's going on here. Remember what I've been saying, WMD.com. weapon of mass distraction.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
What else is Donald Trump distracting us from? He's distracting us from the fact that he said there would be a peace deal in Ukraine in 24 hours after he was elected. That didn't happen. And there's not going to be a peace deal 24 hours after he's inaugurated. Keith Kellogg, his special envoy to Ukraine, confirmed that they need at least 100 days to build some sort of framework for peace.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
And again, that Donald Trump is lying. Meanwhile, All the Trump propaganda out there, like the New York Post, they are saying, oh, the Don Roe doctrine, the Don Roe doctrine. Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, was saying that he would not rule out invading Greenland and essentially going to war with Denmark. our NATO ally.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Keith Kellogg looked very uncomfortable during his appearance on Fox, where he was talking about Donald Trump's plan to take over Greenland. J.D. Vance was on TV saying the same thing as well. But remember, folks, again, we need to take it seriously. But WMD, weapon of mass distraction. You always got to ask yourself, OK, cool, bro. But what about lower prices? Cool, bro.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
What about affordable housing? Cool bro, what about lower interest rates, mortgage rates? Cool bro, what about the peace deal that you said was going to happen in Ukraine? Cool bro, what about the jobs that you said were miraculously going to appear? Where are they? Don't fall in. We should take seriously the threats, but always bring it back to WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
Tell me what you think. I could play you those clips of J.D. Vance and Trump saying things I know you appreciated here on this network when we don't play that stuff. If you want to watch it for yourself, I invite you. You could find those clips and figure it out. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe and let's get to 4 million subscribers and have a wonderful day.
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Trump Gets RUDE AWAKENING as Greenland HUMILIATES HIM
That's exactly what Trump is trying to do when it comes to Greenland. We need to take what he says seriously, though, because the threats are real and they're uniting our allies against us. First, let me just show you this clip and then let's chat about it. Let's play it.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Gentlemen, stop. So go on the offense, Dems. Go on the offense. Be loud about these. The American people are with you on these issues. But you're seeing the deluge of propaganda and lies from MAGA. You got to be able to rebut them. It's a fire hose. Of lies. Over and over and over and over again. That's all they've got. You got to combat it. You got to be ready to debunk it right away.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
But you also have to go on the offense. And going on the offense doesn't mean responding always. It means saying that the MAGA Republicans support the oligarch billionaires who are stealing your jobs, who are giving your jobs to others, who are taking away your money and enriching themselves. You have to go on the offense too here. Can't always be defense. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Thanks for watching.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Point of order. Point of order. Order, order, order. Jasmine Crockett is not done. Congresswoman Crockett says that you're here trying to somehow make an argument about transgender people. What are you even doing, MAGA? Here, watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Would you yield back? I'll yield. More from Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. And here she is talking about how MAGA Republicans are creating their Doge subcommittee instead of a subcommittee on civil rights and actually doing things for the American people. And then she mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene. Watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Here's Democratic Congress member Garcia, California, right here in the Long Beach area. Here he says, I don't think we should be listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene on fire safety. I mean, she's the Jewish space laser woman.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Okay, speaking of the Jewish space laser conspiracy theorist who grabs cardboard cutout crotches of Donald Trump and attacks victims of school shootings who survived, Marjorie Taylor Greene. By the way, we sued Marjorie Taylor Greene and she settled with us. Cut us a check, I think, for about $10,000. And then we took that check and donated it to groups that focus on responsible gun ownership.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Just a nice little way to troll her back. You know that story. It's a funny story. Anyway, I digress. Here's MAGA Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, You don't like Elon because you're jealous of him. Here, watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Okay, Marjorie. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene blaming the Los Angeles fires on no water in the fire hydrants and not cleaning up the forest floors. There's not a conspiracy theory that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not... willing to spread. That's just what she does. Play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
You go from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Marjorie Taylor Greene 2.0 Nancy Mace. Here's MAGA Republican Nancy Mace. Here she is again talking about the only thing that seems to be on her mind. This is how she gets attention to go on Fox.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
By the way, you may know this about me. I'm a professor at USC. One of the courses I teach is a course called sports law. So one of the things I often teach my students Now, you know, this whole attack on transgender people in sports, do you know how many transgender athletes there are in the NCAA? Under 10.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
And in some states where they spend millions of dollars to try to keep transgender athletes out, sometimes there's one transgender athlete in the state. But this is all MAGA talks about. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene right here talking about bathrooms and pee-pee and vagina. What are these people? They want to distract you with this stuff. Here, play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
All right, folks, it's gloves off for these Democrats. I appreciate these House Democrats going on the offense against the MAGA Republicans. Leading the charge, Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Watch her call out Nancy Mace, MAGA Republican, then MAGA Republican. Nancy Mace says that she wants to fight Jasmine Crockett and says, let's take it outside. Here, watch this.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
And you know, one of the things I've been saying, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. They don't want to govern. They can't deliver the things that they claim they're going to. They can't even come close to it. So they want to divide Americans against Americans.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
They want to get the factory workers and the 99% who are getting screwed over by the actual MAGA policies, which go to help the billionaires and the DECA millionaires. And they want to convince the factory worker, the union worker, Blue collar worker. It doesn't have to be workers. I mean, just people who are just working hard, multiple jobs.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
They're trying to convince them that they should be more pissed off about some transgender athlete from San Jose State on the volleyball team than against their own interest in their own family's interest. It's it's ridiculous. Here, MAGA Republican representative Derek Van Orden says we're very close to World War II. Here, play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
There's a bunch of Navy... What do you mean, Van Orden? First off, okay, World War II happened a while ago, the 40s. But a little bit before then. But second off, I thought that your whole thesis... was that Trump was going to get elected and then the world would obey. And then things would be all of a sudden great right away on day one.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
But now Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, says there's not going to be a peace deal in Ukraine for at least 100 days. That's what Keith Kellogg's saying. Also, Donald Trump apparently wants to be the bad guy in World War III. threatening to annex Canada, Panama, Greenland, Mexico, whatever country comes to his mind. But I digress.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Here's Democratic Congresswoman AOC talking about while the fires are burning, the number one priority of MAGA is to prevent 10 transgender athletes from playing in sports. Here, play this clip.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
Thank you and I yield back. take when nancy mace was threatening jasmine crockett and saying let's take it outside comer's like but it could have been it could have been take it outside for a cup of coffee playing the clip what the gentle lady said was we can take this outside if you want and so that could mean you could go outside and have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer or
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
I'm going to appeal the ruling of the chair. And finally, we have Congress member, Democratic Congress member, Garamendi, who calls out MAGA Republicans for trying to impose conditions on on aid to California. One of the things that MAGA Republicans are demanding is that there be a increase of the debt ceiling or an elimination of the debt ceiling in order for California to get aid.
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FIRED UP Dems go ON OFFENSE against GOP in First HEARING
You're tying together the debt ceiling and aid to California in a disaster? Watch what Congress member Garamendi has to say.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
As Donald Trump's approval is plummeting, former Trump voters are speaking out right now against his heinous policies. We're seeing his approval on the economy absolutely tank his lowest levels, frankly, ever, including the first Trump administration. And we're getting lots of comments like this. So now Musk and Trump are planning to dissolve Social Security and Medicare. I did not vote for that.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
He's saying George Soros is sending paid protesters and that's why people are upset. What's going on? We got to bring in Democratic leader, Congress member Hakeem Jeffries. Congress member Jeffries, what's going on? Are you seeing shifts in the country right now? And what are the Democrats doing?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Look, staying on that issue also is the fact that the Republicans passed this CR yesterday. That, I mean, is absolutely devastating. I mean, in addition to, I think, not really being a CR in the sense that it ain't clean. I mean, it has, you know, all of these cuts. It kind of doesn't provide anything. I guess a blank reverse check for Elon Musk to just continue to gut everything?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
How devastating is this CR? You know, people hear the word CR, continuing resolution. It's wonky. What does it mean, though, to the American people?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Here are some comments from the Fox News audience post. Trump's chaos is tanking the markets and inflation isn't reversing. Trump's own DJT stock and cryptocurrency are dropping dramatically. When he complains about the current trade relations with Canada and Mexico, keep in mind, it's his deal that he's complaining about. These are post folks from the Fox message board.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Yeah, blank check or blank shredder. I mean, he's put the entire government through a shredder and seems to be targeting the most vulnerable. I mean, you saw one of those comments that I played at the outset of this attack on veterans, right? It seems to be over and over again, disproportionately attacking veterans and other kind of vulnerable groups.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
What are you hearing from the other members of the Democratic caucus? And what are you hearing just in general from your constituents about, you know, attacks on veterans, attack on the Social Security Administration, attack on people on Medicaid?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
hide from their reckless record talk about that plan i showed you that clip of their latest conspiracy is that all of their own constituents even in ruby red areas are actually secret agents of george soros and and deep state actors and that's why They're getting booed at the town halls, so they're shutting down their town halls.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
There's never a conspiracy too idiotic for these MAGA Republicans, at least in my view. So what are Democrats going to do? Are Democrats going to be, you know, are Democratic members of Congress going into those reddish states the same way we're seeing, like, Senator Sanders speak in Kenosha and Warren, Michigan?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
And Altoona, are we going to see Democratic Congress members kind of going in there and speaking to people's angst and meeting that moment?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Someone posts, we're already in a recession. The stock market's dropped like 2000 points in the first month of the Trump presidency. I voted for Trump. I'm a Trump supporter. But what he's doing right now is the wrong time to do it. Here's someone posted the following. Yo, tell me why my neighbor confessed. Confessed.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
You know, when I hear from our viewers and they say, look, we understand that Democrats don't control the House. They don't control the Senate. So there are necessarily limitations. You can't subpoena. You can't dictate what the committees are going to be focused on. But when they talk about fighting, I think that that they mean they want to see.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Democrats, as much as possible, as you mentioned, Democrats have their own constituents. They have to focus also on their own constituents. But they just want to see people as those MAGA Republicans run away and hide. I think they want to see a coordinated effort to see Democrats go into those areas. And I think they want to hear Democrats
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Listen to people's stories to tell us what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck. Explain to us what you're going through with these Medicaid cuts and share those and share those stories. So in addition to the day of kind of focusing on the Medicaid cuts, you know, is that the beginning? And there's kind of a.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
What else are we expecting to see with, you know, that's critical, of course, but is there going to be, you know, other kind of, you know, going into red states or what does that plan look like?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
and said, quote, my dumb ass voted for Trump, but now he's trying to take my job. Her reason, immigrants. I asked her how immigrants affected her. She had no idea, honestly. Typical red state. The good news is, she said, next time she'll vote who I vote for. Here's another Trump voter. WTF, I voted for Trump. This is not okay. You said you would support the VA and help all veterans.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Yeah, people are calling it already the Trump recession or the Trump economic downturn. Just finally, Leader Jeffries, what's your message just in general to the American people, whether they're Democrats, independents, Republicans, people who never paid attention to politics until politics certainly paid attention to them now. They're seeing it in their 401ks.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
What's your message right now where we are March 12th as we're recording this?
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, appreciate you. Thank you so much. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump Plummeting Approval
And this individual is responding to Trump's plans to fire over 70,000 employees. at the VA. And as the markets were tanking, what was Donald Trump doing? He was selling Teslas yesterday with Elon Musk, selling Teslas. And then what does the speaker, Mike Johnson, have to say? Here's what Mike Johnson said about all of this. Play this clip.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
I'm joined by New York Attorney General Letitia James. New York Attorney General James, you've successfully prosecuted Donald Trump in a civil fraud case, $486 million judgment. So you understand how at least he operates his businesses. Can you apply that to what he's doing right now with the government? Are you seeing similar patterns in how he's operating things?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James, thank you so much for joining us on the Midas Touch Network.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
about their loved ones being deported and separated i want to talk about some of the specific cases that your attorney general's office is involved in but in that case against trump as you mentioned inflating assets there would be certain assets that would be x and he would just say they are y just put kind of a bunch of fraudulent and fake numbers to those assets now
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
You kind of see the same playbook, though, with this administration. I mean, you know, you had Trump and Elon Musk saying that somewhere between 400 billion and 600 billion dollars of Social Security payments are like, quote unquote, they're saying incorrect or fraudulent payments. And then.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
when Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitz, asked about it and said, well, those numbers are inaccurate. Where are you getting these numbers from? Well, that's what they think the numbers are. And we're seeing that in their cuts, in their gutting of the government. They're using made up numbers and fake numbers to justify it.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
It almost seems like a lot of the Doge playbook is the playbook you saw also in your prosecution. Do you see that?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
Let's talk about some of the cases that your office has brought against the Trump administration. You've joined with some of the other Attorney General's offices, as you mentioned. One of the things you talked about earlier today was winning a big court order that's going to temporarily stop Trump's cuts to grant programs that Congress authorized to hire and retain teachers in underserved schools.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
There, Trump going after the most vulnerable You talk about how your office and a group of AGs challenged Trump's unlawful early termination of temporary protected status for Venezuelans. We know a lot of these Venezuelans on TPS were also like family members of people who voted for Trump, Venezuelans for Trump.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
Your office also leading the case on behalf of the probationary federal workers who were illegally fired. Talk to us about those cases. And one of the patterns seems to be Trump and the oligarchs look at some of the most vulnerable people and just punch down at the most vulnerable people.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
are going into court and they're not able to answer these very basic questions by the judges of who's running a specific entity. And then the judge says, you don't know the answer. And then some of these DOJ lawyers are there saying, well, look, we're working as hard as we can. We're understaffed. We don't have the same amount of people that we do.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
I mean, as a lawyer, a former practicing lawyer, I'm thinking to myself, can I ever imagine going in front of a federal judge and saying that I don't have the staff to get the answers or being asked who runs the organization and I go, you know what? It's above my pay grade, I can't answer. What's your perspective when you hear transcripts and you see that? It's like sloppy and company.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
I gotta get your perspective on that.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
Let me ask you a final question. What's the latest on Mahmoud Khalil? I know your office may have been in touch with their lawyers. I saw something about that. What's the latest update on that? What should the people know?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
No, I said finally, but I've got New York Attorney General Letitia James on, so I'm not going to, I got to ask you, I got to ask you one more question. This is the real finally, though. What do you say to the American people out there, though, who are worried and seeing all these democratic institutions under attack? There are a lot of people who are scared. They want to see fighters right now.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Cases Against Trump
What's your message in general to Americans who are worried? Are there going to be future elections? Is our democracy going to survive? What do you say to them?
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
The Trump regime folds to Canada. Once again, it's like Groundhog's Day, the same day over and over. Trump wakes up in the morning. He threatens Canada with tariffs and annexation. Canada goes elbows up over the boards. They stand up to Donald Trump. They say, we're going to retaliate. The markets start to crash. Donald Trump passes. and then Donald Trump reverses course.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Carried away with your rhetoric? You know, there's this meme that I think is so appropriate right now, right here, where it's like the U.S. shoots Canada and then the U.S. goes, how could Canada do this to us? Look at what Donald Trump posted earlier yesterday. He said the only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished 51st state.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And then Donald Trump said there won't need to be tariffs if we annex you. And then Trump said the artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear and we will have the safest and most beautiful nation anywhere in the world.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
and your brilliant anthem, O Canada, will continue to play, but now representing a great and powerful state within the greatest nation the world has ever seen. I think we should stop using the language that this is merely a trade war. When Donald Trump makes posts like this, threatening conquest and annexation, we're actually talking about declarations of real war.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And so when the Trump regime declares war on Canada and Canada goes elbows up and over the boards and punches back and applies retaliatory tariffs and boycotts all U.S. tourism and takes American booze off the shelves, the Trump regime then sends Peter DeMargou oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so good. Could you tone it down? You're being mean to us.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Do you know how weak and pathetic that makes the Trump regime then look? It's a cycle of taunts, bullying, and then weakness repeated over and over again. Let me just share this with you. Talking about going elbows up, my recent interview with Canadian Member of Parliament, Charlie Angus, he directed this message at Donald Trump before Donald Trump said, sent Peter Navarro to back down.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Now, yesterday, Donald Trump sent out his trade advisor, Peter Navarro, fresh from his recent prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, Canada, Can you tone down that rhetoric?
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Now here's Charlie Angus talking about the boycott. And he says that the statistics he's seeing, it's about a 40 to 50% decline in certain flights to the US and tourism and consumption, which is going to cost the US billions and billions of dollars. Watch Charlie Angus.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And you have the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford. He went on a number of shows in America. And here's what he had to say here. Play this clip on the electricity.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Now, one of the things that Premier Ford said, too, is that he was going to apply his own tariffs on energy, which was above and beyond other retaliatory tariffs, above and beyond the boycott. And then that freaked out the Trump regime.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And so the Trump regime that ended up like negotiating against themselves and then acting like they got some deal or concessions when the Trump regime literally threatened annexation and then once again pulled back their threats. I mean, They do this every single day now, it seems. You wake up, tariffs, no tariffs, tariffs, no tariffs. Ooh, did Donald Trump actually post that? Oh, he did.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Are they actually going to sign the tariffs? Oh, they're not going to sign it. What's actually going on here? Let me show you the new leader of the liberal party, the interim, soon-to-be interim prime minister, Mark Carney. Here was his very pointed message to the Trump regime. Let's play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And by the way, this is what Navarro and the Trump regime was doing all day. making appearances like this, saying, all right, everybody, we just got to tone it down. Canada was getting, you're getting a little carried away there with your rhetoric. Here, watch this.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And so what does Donald Trump continue to do throughout the day? It's just lots of whining. It's social media whining. It's like trolling on his social media platform and exits. It's just weird. They go, why would our country allow another country to supply us with electricity, even for a small area? Who made these decisions and why?
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And can you imagine Canada stooping so low as to use electricity that so affects the life of innocent people as a bargaining chip and a threat? I don't know. Maybe you threaten their existence. Maybe you threaten their sovereignty. Maybe when you do something, sometimes people react.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
You know, the rest of the world are not like these spineless Pyongyang MAGA Republicans who dutifully clap at dear leader. Most of the world looks at you like the pathetic, weak moron that you actually are, who keeps tanking the market. markets.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
But I guess when you tank the markets, that's a great opportunity for your band of grifters like MAGA Republican former Congress member Matt Gaetz, who said, we told you there would be market volatility. You can protect your savings and retirement. I trust at Golden Crest Gold to manage my gold and silver portfolio, and it's growing my wealth.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
So you've got Matt Gaetz selling products over a market crash. Who else would do that? Oh, Donald Trump and Elon Musk selling Teslas, doing product placement ads outside of the White House. as they are unleashing these disorganized and pathetic and dangerous trade wars that are backfiring in their face, as they're tanking the markets, they're selling Teslas.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And Donald Trump's like, oh, I don't know how to drive. I don't know how to drive. And then meanwhile, they're having their regime propaganda like Jesse Waters act all tough to kind of cover it up and be like, okay. Can you believe that Canada tried to shut off our electricity? It's like they want us to invade them. Yeah, we're going to invade them. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
I don't think that y'all are building the case for Canada to be nicer to you when you talk like that. When you speak in language of invasion through American state regime media, it is so utterly, utterly pathetic. One of the things that I enjoyed watching as well, though, is Caroline Leavitt learn what a tariff is in real time. And then she was like, you don't know what a tariff is.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
A tariff is a tax cut. The Americans are getting their tariff tax cuts. That's what we promised, like no tax on Social Security tariffs. What? What are you even talking about? First off, you're not doing no tax on Social Security, no tax on tips and no tax on overtime. And tariffs are quite literally a tax on American consumers. They're not a tax cut. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
Oh, and then they go back to their line, though, that while they're folding to Canada, while they are sending Navarro out and showing utter weakness, then she goes back to saying, well, look, we want Canada to be our 51st state. Everybody knows that. Here, play this clip.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
I guess I should mention as well, finally, that in that Trump social media post, he says that the borders are artificial. Isn't he like Mr. Border? And now he goes, when it comes to Canada, those borders are artificial. It's just a line. People drew it with a ruler. Why would they draw such an artificial line with a ruler? Listen.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
First off, that's exactly the opposite of what Trump said, but who cares when it comes to Donald Trump about consistency to begin with. But it's the language of Putin. He's using verbatim the language of Putin. It's just a border, artificial border. And Canada has taken note. Europe has taken note. The world has taken note.
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Trump Quickly Folds to Canada as Reality Sets In
And could you imagine, though, if Putin sent somebody out and go, oh, they're being mean to us. They're being mean to us. What are we even watching? What are we even watching? Weakness. Weakness. Hit subscribe.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
And if there is a CR, it's going to be clean CRs. This was none of that. But then they tried to spin it, I think, in kind of Pyongyang fashion. This is MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer just saying how great things are. Play this clip.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
Last time I checked, y'all are the ones who control the House and the Senate and the executive branch, and y'all are the ones who are throwing the temper tantrums. This is MAGA Republican Congressmember Steve Scalise. Just take a look at this.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
What was Donald Trump doing today while the markets were crashing? Oh, yeah, he was out there with Elon Musk selling Teslas and doing product placement while their propaganda network as well as Sean Hannity talking about buying Teslas. It must be nice, all these rich people buying Teslas all over the place and helping out their billionaire friends.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
Let's bring in Democratic Congressmember Joe Neguse. Congressmember, you sit on the Rules Committee. You're on the Subcommittee of Budget and Legislation. So you know this CR. What are they cheering for right there? Can you put this into context?
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
You know, I watch you on the Rules Committee, and it's an interesting committee because the members of Congress who are putting forward the legislation appear kind of as witnesses. So you're actually kind of examining or questioning your Republican colleagues.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
I want to talk about that because, I mean, I'm sure you speak to these people not in that setting where they know that, like, our people at the Midas Touch Network are clipping all that stuff and getting it all up. Like, after they're done with that theater, do they admit kind of privately that, like, they know that this is big trouble?
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
Or are they fully Pyongyang, North Korea, clap-clap mode, that this is their shtick, this is their jam?
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
So that's the moment the MAGA Republican members of Congress were cheering that they passed their CR, their continuing resolution. That reminds me of something. Where have I seen clapping like that before, where people look terrified by clapping at the same time? Oh, yeah, I think I've seen that before. It looks like that's what these MAGA Republicans have become these days.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
You represent a district in Colorado. I would say on the whole, Colorado as a state is bluer, but there are certainly lots of red dots within Colorado as well and purplish areas in Colorado as well. You know, are
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
what are you hearing from constituents not just democrats but like are you hearing from independents and republicans and are you hearing across the board in colorado that there's kind of a growing frustration would be putting it i think gently to what elon musk and trump is doing do you feel this is still kind of people are in their partisan camps what are you seeing in your state
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
It looks a little bit Kim Jong-un-ish, and I guess there's a reason why Donald Trump
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
And I just don't think anybody's signed up for the chaos. It's every day. Tariffs? No tariffs. Tariffs are great. Tariffs are the worst. What are we going to do? Am I going to invade Greenland today? Am I going to invade Canada today, 51st State Day? Is today a Panama Canal conquest day? What are we talking about? Are we talking about fentanyl in Mexico today? Where are we going with this?
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
looks up to kim jong when you look at this continuing resolution there are about 22 different instances at least although i want to see if there may be even more than that in this bill where the funding for certain programs is set at zero dollars um and if you look at the types of things that are being cut go back to to that last graphic as well there, Salty.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
You know, is he going to send a Shalom Hamas text? Is he going to post images of himself in Trump Gaza City, you know, with bearded people with cleavage? What's the it's it's not. I always say we can't normalize this behavior. And then there's like a like a gaslighting element to it as well. Like, you know, he'll have, you know, Peter Navarro, who, by the way,
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
served jail time for his conduct relating to... Contempt of Congress. Contempt of Congress. He's out there right now asking Canada, can you please just tamp it down? Tamp down the rhetoric. Canada, he goes, tamp down the rhetoric. Watch this.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
There you have it. I'd love to. This is your first time on the Midas Touch Network. We got to have you. We got to have you back. You know, there's a reason that Asen has so many clips of you, because as a former litigator, I love your style. I love your examinations. And I always point it out to him. So it's great to finally have you on the network. And we hope you come back.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
All right, good to have you here. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Democratic Congressman Neguse on GOP Disaster CR
I mean, you're looking at things like EPA, healthcare, education, things that are going to also harm red states. So these MAGA Republicans are quite literally cheering on the fact that they're harming their own constituents. By the way, these are the same MAGA Republican Congress members who for years have now been saying, we will never pass a continuing resolution again. The days of CRs are over.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Donald Trump's chief propagandist, his press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, just gave a disastrous press conference in the White House. And she said Americans are getting their tax cuts right now. She says those tariffs are the tax cuts. Watch as the reporter pushes back. They'll play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
She calls Canada potentially a competitor and goes on to reiterate that Donald Trump wants to annex Canada and make it the 51st state. Here, play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Next, Caroline Levitt is asked about Elon Musk's fraudulent claim that there's over 500 to 700 billion dollars of fraud that is part of the Social Security Administration, to which Caroline Levitt's response is that Elon Musk never actually claimed that there was actual fraud.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
It's just that he thinks he thinks that that may be the case, even though that's like one third of Social Security payments. Play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Go ahead. Then Caroline Leavitt brags that Donald Trump might be driving around a Tesla later today and photographing himself in a new Tesla that he bought to help Elon Musk out play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
By the way, if you saw my coverage earlier in the day as well, Donald Trump had made posts about how he was going to buy a Tesla to help out his billionaire friend, Elon Musk. And then last night on Fox, Sean Hannity said that he was buying a Tesla in order to support Elon Musk, because that's what they got to do. Stand in solidarity with their billionaire buds.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Next up, Caroline Levitt talks about the golden age that exists right now in America. She says this is a golden age in manufacturing. Play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Yeah, tell that to people, Caroline, whose pensions are in the gutter right now, whose 401 s have been absolutely destroyed, people whose lives have been ruined in a very short period of time by Donald Trump as America heads into a Trump recession or even potentially a Trump depression.
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Next up, Caroline Levitt talks about how the globalist mainstream media is to blame and that the economy is actually fine, but it's the globalists who are doing this. Here, play this clip.
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Then Caroline Leavitt attacks Canada and says that there will be grave consequences if Canada cuts off electricity to the United States, as Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, says he's going to maybe do if Trump keeps this up. Play this clip.
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As for conversation- As Democratic Congress member Jimmy Gomez said- One problem when you start trade wars and you talk about going to actual war and annexing your neighbors is eventually the other side shoots back, even with your allies who the Trump regime is now saying are not allies anymore.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Next up, Caroline Leavitt is asked if the White House can assure Americans there will not be a recession. She cannot make such assurances. And she just reiterates what Trump says when Trump goes, I don't know. Here, play this clip.
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Even Peter Doocy of Fox asked Caroline Leavitt if she's sure that nobody is shorting the Dow because how bad the markets are doing. Play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Okay. Caroline Levitt then claims that egg prices will be under control in about, I don't know, six months maybe, three to six months. Here, play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And then after Caroline Levitt's press conference, you heard from others kind of in the Trump regime as well. You have Kayleigh McEnany, who used to be Donald Trump's press secretary. Now she works on Fox as part of the revolving door. Here she says, look, the bottom line is that Trump is sacrificing for the country right now. He could be on a yacht somewhere. Here, play this clip.
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Really, a yacht somewhere with Melania? That's what you're going with? As Americans, 401ks are in the gutter. As our economy is absolutely being destroyed and ravaged, Donald Trump could be on a yacht with Melania? I remember who Donald Trump was once on yachts with, though, little girls, as part of the beauty pageants he used to throw for teenage girls. And it was absolutely disgusting.
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And it was described in an article recently. by The Guardian about these little girls being forced to grind on men old enough to be their grandparents as part of the look of the year competition that was hosted at one of the Trump parties and Trump was on Trump properties and Trump was on that yacht. Maybe that's what you mean instead of Melania. Anyway, I digress.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Then here, Peter Doocy talks about how, you know, it's interesting, even Doocy on Fox is saying this, like they're gutting and destroying these federal workers' jobs, and they're telling federal workers they should retire, but federal workers are now not even able to retire because of the sinking economy. Here, play this clip.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
John, this is real. This is what the White House put out in one of their latest press releases. It was another week filled with endless wins for the American people under President Donald J. Trump. As Douglas Boneparth writes, my portfolio's pronouns are was, was. were.
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And another brutal day on the stock market, it began with Donald Trump posting about raising the tariffs on Canada, trying to crush the automobile industry in Canada, and that Canada needs to become the 51st state, he says. The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished 51st state. And then he declares a national emergency on electricity.
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There you have it, a disastrous press conference. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Mary. It was great work by the reporter from the Associated Press. You see why the Trump administration is so or the regime is so afraid of them. Next up, Caroline Leavitt is asked if she and the president still believe that Canada is an ally of the United States. She does not say yes.
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And I show you that because it's just utterly pathetic behavior. And again, to me, this shouldn't be about even like a political party. I'm just watching that behavior and saying, pathetic. Pathetic, this Trump regime. Weak, weird, out of control. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas?
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Yeah, zoom in on Donald Trump's notes right there as the market is crashing. Donald Trump was selling Teslas at the White House. But if you zoom in right there, he literally has the Tesla pricing for a full self-driving vehicle, the Model X, the CT.
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He's out there doing product placement for Tesla as people's pensions, retirements, 401ks are getting absolutely destroyed by Donald Trump's erratic decisions. tariff threats and tariff wars that he then pulls back and then threatens again and threatens annexation. Here's what Donald Trump was doing yesterday. He was sitting in a Tesla and he was just shocked at the way a car looked.
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because he hasn't driven a car in a long time and he doesn't know how to drive. Here's what we posted on the Midas Touch social media accounts. Americans, we'd like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs around, and not lose our retirement savings. Donald Trump, the best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on earth. And we're supposed to feel bad for
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Elon Musk, as he and Donald Trump are firing our veterans, attacking 9-11 first responders, sending groups of 19 to 25 year olds to get our private data, our medical records, our social security information, our tax records. We're supposed to feel bad for the guy who said he wants to inflict suffering on us while he enriches himself to the tune of billions of dollars.
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So when Trump and Musk were outside of the White House, Trump was, I want you to watch this moment. I don't think you've seen this clip before. You may have, but so Trump is talking about Ukraine and he says, Marco Rubio, Steve Wyckoff, Michael Waltz, he's making names and he goes, they want to see two things happen. And then he like loses it. He like freezes. And then he goes, death.
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They want death. Huh? And then he goes, I'm surprised that people who live in the country are people. What's he talking about here?
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So then he talks about how he doesn't know how to drive and that he's never driven a vehicle in a long time.
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All right, that's Mr. Alpha right there, right? He can't drive a car. You know who was able to drive a car? Former President Biden. Here, take a look at this clip when former President Biden was around. Play this clip. Sorry, I had to be slightly... I don't think it's that petty. I had to show you that clip. So then Donald Trump was asked, do you think that your tariff policies...
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are causing economic harm and hurting people this week. Trump goes, nah, Biden's fault, Biden.
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And you look at what's happened there. I just want to come with receipts when I do these videos. Because here's what Donald Trump previously promised during the campaign, where he said on day one, he was going to fix everything. Like a miracle, he would get everything done, even though with former President Biden, inflation was going down to 2%. Interest rates were coming down. GDP growth was up.
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Unemployment was down to record levels. Job growth was at record levels. Infrastructure Act, Inflation Reduction Act, PACT Act, CHIPS Act. He was actually doing things. But Donald Trump said he was going to fix everything.
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I got to bring receipts like that. And then you contrast that to the kind of propaganda machine that's out there. And so as Trump is crashing our economy, as people crash, Most Americans living paycheck to paycheck don't know where that next paycheck is going to be.
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As Trump and Musk are cruelly ripping apart the lives of veterans and people in the military and spouses of military people and military families, and they're gutting the Department of Education. The recent announcement was they're firing 50% of the people who work at the Department of Education. Right. What are they saying on Fox? They saying Trump is doing this for you.
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He could be on a yacht with Melania. He could be on the Melania yacht.
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All right, fact check. Donald Trump would not be on a yacht with Melania. I can tell you the yachts that Donald Trump was on. He was on yachts with little girls. Yeah, he was on yachts in the early 1990s when he would throw beauty pageants for girls, not women, girls.
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And according to this article from The Guardian that was published many years ago, there would be old men old enough to be the girls' grandparents would grind on the little girls on the yachts. Right before Trump was on the yacht, right before Trump hosted the look of the year competition at his property with girls. Disgusting stuff. That's the yacht that Trump was on.
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Caroline Leavitt, Donald Trump's propagandist press secretary, she was bragging that Donald Trump was, she's going, the economy may be bad, but Trump will be on a Tesla later today.
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Now, as Keith Edwards says, this one stings. According to one of the more recent MIRS polls, former Vice President Kamala Harris would trounce Donald Trump in Michigan if an election was held today. It's why it's important to get out information. It's why it's important to get out the truth. It's why it's important to defeat this propaganda machine, right?
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I mean, just think about what went down yesterday, right? The MAGA Republicans passed their continuing resolution against that they say is going to fund the government, but it's really to defund the government. I think they're zeroing out like 22 programs. They're stealing money from Veterans Affairs, from schools, from law enforcement. They're like destroying all funds to go to Washington, D.C.
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They're crippling D.C. They hate Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., police and education getting totally taken away. They're stealing from children's health care to give tax cuts to the wealthiest like Elon Musk. They're harming working class families and then selling Teslas in front of the White House. There's such a cruelty component to it, such a cruelty component to it.
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I'll show you this moment yesterday in the House of Representatives at this committee hearing where a MAGA Republican Congress member, MAGA Republican Congress member self, referred to the Congresswoman from Delaware, transgender Congresswoman from Delaware, Congresswoman McBride, and referred to her as Mr. McBride, to which then Congresswoman McBride called the chair Madam Chair.
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And then Democratic Congressmember Keating then stood up for Democratic Congresswoman McBride. Watch this moment.
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And it's just the cruelty of it. It's like the cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Why treat her that way? She's a human being. She's a human being. Why bully somebody like that? Unless you're just an evil, despicable person. And hat tip to Democratic Congress member Keating for standing up to Congresswoman McBride. All this talk about alpha and masculine. I've said this before.
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People who are alpha and masculine don't refer to themselves as alpha and masculine, kind of number one. And also someone like J.D. Vance who's like, masculinity is under attack. Okay. Masculine people don't believe masculinity is under attack, okay, like JD Vance. So let's get that out of the way first and foremost, JD and MAGA. Second off, I'll tell you how I was raised. You don't.
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Punch down and bully marginalized communities. As I was always taught by my family, by my parents, they were like, man, you know what a man does? This is what they told me. You stand up for people who are being bullied. You stand up for marginalized communities. You show empathy. That's strength. Not punching down and bullying people who may already be suffering or who are being bullied.
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It's ridiculous stuff. Enough of that crap. You got people like this MAGA Republican Congress member, Brandon Gill, who's like, yeah, things may be really bad right now, but we were handed bankruptcy by Biden, right?
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Wrong, wrong. I'll just show you all again the Wall Street Journal headline. I could show you headlines from a ton of other places. I'll show you Wall Street Journal and Axios. Why? Because Wall Street Journal is right leaning Axios. I really don't know what leaning they are. Sometimes right, sometimes center. I don't know. But here's the Wall Street Journal Murdoch owned April 14, 2024.
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Envy of the world. U.S. economy expected to keep powering higher. Economists lift their growth forecast in latest Wall Street Journal survey. Then July 12th, 2024, Axios, just right inflation opens the door to a Goldilocks economy, meaning it was just right.
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By the way, the Atlanta Federal Reserve just last month predicted strong GDP growth until Donald Trump started all of his tariff threats and tariff wars. And then the Atlanta Federal Reserve had to change its course and said because of Trump's policies, that's the impact.
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We now expect negative 2.8 to negative 3% GDP contraction, meaning we're headed towards a great recession and even potentially a depression right now because of what Trump's doing. And while he's doing this, he has his propagandist like this guy, Peter Navarro.
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So after Trump threatens annexation of Canada to conquer Canada, as he says that Canada should be the 51st state and Canada stands up to Donald Trump, then Peter Navarro, Trump's trade advisor, goes on TV and he's like, whoa, Canada, cool it. Canada, you need to chill. Your rhetoric, you're being a little mean to us.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
Next, even Peter Doocy of Fox says, hey, Donald, you know, these optics are really bad. You're out here talking about buying Teslas while Americans are suffering. Do you see how that could be a bad look? Hint, hint. Here, watch this.
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So that even Ducey from Fox is like, what are you doing? Next up, Donald Trump talks about how the borders between the United States and Canada are artificial and the United States needs to immediately annex and conquer Canada. Play this clip.
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I mean, this individual is an utter psychopath, crashing the economies and talking about conquering and annexing Canada and how borders are artificial. By the way, this is Mr. Border Guy, purportedly, who was like, borders matter. But between Canada and the United States is artificial, and he's talked about conquering Greenland as well.
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Here, Donald Trump talks about how he's rebuilding the military, and then he's connecting that with annexing Canada. Watch this clip.
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Well, when you take away that and you look at that beautiful. Here's where Donald Trump talks about spending $35,000 today to buy his granddaughter a Tesla. And he loves the Teslas. Play this clip.
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He goes in the Tesla. He goes, wow, computers. Wow, Elon. Here, watch this.
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By the way, you remember when Donald Trump was saying that he wants to destroy all things electric and how he hates electric vehicles? Who's actually expecting this moron to be consistent about anything? I guess the only thing he's consistent about is bankrupting everything he touches. Here, Donald Trump is again talking about the markets and he's like, so what?
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You'll have drops here, you'll have drops there. It doesn't matter. We're being treated unfairly. Here, play this clip.
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He's like a wind-up Furby. Like, it's just a bunch of word salad, and he has no clue what he's even talking about, except the words that you can kind of figure out what he's saying, crash our economy and destroy our alliances. Here you have Donald Trump and Elon Musk talking about how Tesla owners are being unfairly targeted. These are innocent people who have done nothing wrong.
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As Donald Trump crashed our markets once again today, Donald Trump decided to do a product placement event for Tesla outside the White House. He made a big announcement that he was going to be buying a Tesla for himself and also for his granddaughter as Americans are suffering as their pensions and 401ks are being destroyed. This is what Donald Trump is doing. Just take a look.
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More whining by Donald Trump about being treated unfairly by Canada and Mexico. Let's play it.
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Here Trump again, more whining from him saying, our country's been stripped of everything, everything. I'm tired of seeing where they build apartments, cheap apartments in broken down factories. Here, play this clip.
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So utterly pathetic, Donald Trump and Elon Musk outside the White House selling Teslas. Donald Trump was asked other questions as well, like, do you believe that your tariff policies bear any responsibility for the turmoil we're seeing in the economy? Trump goes, nope, it's all Biden's fault. Play this clip.
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By the way, this disastrous press conference by Trump follows what went down earlier in the White House, the disastrous press conference by Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt. And here, Caroline Leavitt just lies about what tariffs are. And she's like, we are delivering on our promises of tax cuts. The tax cuts to the American people are the tariffs.
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That's what tax cuts are, right? And the reporter's like, no, tariffs are literally tax hikes, not tax cuts. What are you talking about? Watch it. You're welcome.
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Mary. And the White House continued their message of annexation of Canada today when asked if the United States considers Canada an ally. Here was Caroline Levitt's response. Let's play it.
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Oh yeah, and this follows Lara Trump appearing on Sean Hannity last night, where she says that why are people upset at Donald and Elon? They should be kissing their feet. People should be kissing Donald and Elon's feet. Here, play this clip.
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Well, and that's what went down at the White House today. Horrific, horrific stuff. The economy's tanking. Markets are crashing. And this is what Donald Trump is doing. Product placement to try to sell Teslas in front of the White House. Absurd. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
Clean up on aisle three. Fox is just in a spiral right now. As Donald Trump keeps saying more dangerous and psychotic things, Fox has to be state-run regime media. They got a cover for him, right? So they have to hit their beats every day. So one of the beats they wanted to hit over the past 24 hours is there really shouldn't be any opposition or strong opposition to Donald Trump.
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All right. So then they move on to this issue of impoundment. Right. This is what Donald Trump and his regime is setting up for before the Supreme Court by trying to cut off all government funding to essentially all of the agencies they don't like, which is basically impoundment. All of the agencies. Impoundment. It is what it sounds like.
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Trump wants to impound, take the funds that Congress appropriated and keep it for himself. Rule like a dictator. So he gets to decide where it goes. So Fox is starting to talk about, and by the way, where do you think it goes? Probably to, he said it, a sovereign wealth fund for him and Elon Musk to buy things for him and Elon Musk so Trump could rule over
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like Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin or MBS in Saudi Arabia. I mean, that's what they're saying. That's what Donald Trump wants. So Ted Cruz then goes on Fox and he says the quiet part out loud. He goes, well, I think the Trump administration, they're teeing up a challenge to bring back impoundment. OK, first off, what do you mean bring it back? It's unlawful.
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It's a violative of the law here. But play this clip.
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So that was one of the messages that they wanted out today, right? I mean, they have to, message number one, there shouldn't be opposition. Let's all just kind of get along and let him do his thing, right? Because Fox knows that resistance is growing. There's protests that are happening. Corporate media is covering it up. We're addressing it here.
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You just got to live with it, people. Live with it. So this is what Sean Hannity said here. Play this clip.
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The other thing is we got to justify Donald Trump saying he's got to conquer Palestinians. So let's just talk about that they give birth to too many babies, right? So then they do that. Then impoundment, boom. They bring on Russ Vogt, architect of Project 2025, who runs the Office of Management and Budget for Donald Trump. And here he talks about impoundment again. Here, play this clip.
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But then Fox has to pivot to their next message, which is that this is, by the way, all out of the fascist playbook. You see, I'm going through the fascist playbook right now, one by one. So then they have to go to Donald Trump needs to defy court orders because
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Republican courts, Democrat courts, meaning judges who have been appointed by Democratic presidents, judges who have been appointed by Republican presidents, including judges appointed by Donald Trump. They've ruled against Trump over and over and over again. Trump keeps losing in court.
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So as he keeps losing and these judges are issuing nationwide injunctions because what Trump is doing is so unlawful. Now they attack the judges. So now Fox pushes the message, okay, these judges are defying the Constitution and we should start not following what courts do.
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Then as Donald Trump talks about conquering Gaza or just taking Gaza and occupying it and forcing all the Palestinians to go into countries that are not agreeing to accept Palestinians and engage in this horrific ethnic cleansing and Trump's bragging about it and calling it a real estate deal, Fox is trying to get its viewers to be like, yeah, let's do it.
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So then Laura Ingraham in the evening slot, she takes that cue and she and MAGA Republican Congress member Chip Roy, now they start talking about They say we need they trying to justify this. Let's bring back Andrew Jackson's playbook. And Trump should not follow what courts do. He should be like Andrew Jackson.
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So now what they're trying to do is find some historical precedent to justify authoritarianism. And now what they're going to push out is federal judge orders don't matter. So Trump should just rule like a dictator. That's what they're, that's why I'm playing this for you. I want you to see the playbook of what they're saying. Here, play this clip.
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And then they bring in Cruella, I mean, Alina Haba. And Alina Haba goes, there's a separation of powers for a reason. The executive branch is the ultimate authority on federal issues. Of course, you can see the internal contradiction right there. The separation of powers means that there are three coalitions. equal branches of government. Let me repeat that because I know MAGA has gutted civics.
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Three co-equal branches of government. The executive branch, Congress, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, two chambers, and the judiciary. Under the judiciary, there is judicial review, where federal courts, with the highest level of the Supreme Court, rules on the constitutionality of acts, executive branch acts.
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They interpret the constitution and make sure that things are conforming to it. But now what Elena Haba is saying here is that the separation of powers means that the executive branch has ultimate authority. That's literally the opposite of separation of powers. Co-equal, co-equal, equal. Play this clip.
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And then here is Alina Haba again, and here she attacks Democratic Congress member Ted Lieu for saying that court orders should be followed. And Alina Haba's like, ah. Ah, this guy's not a lawyer. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Democratic Congress member Ted Lieu went to the law school that I went to, Georgetown University Law Center. He was the editor of Law Review.
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So they have Jesse Waters, who's like their xenophobe in chief, and he starts saying, look, that what makes Palestinians such a threat is that they have far more babies than the people in Israel. Here, just play this clip. Let's play it.
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He was a lawyer in the military with the JAG. He was a member of JAG. He received lots of distinguished honors for his job as an advocate in the military. He was an accomplished lawyer, unlike Alina Haba, who was no offense to parking lot lawyers, because there may be some good parking lot lawyers out there, but that doesn't qualify them to be doing this at the White House.
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I'm sure parking lot lawyers would agree. Yeah, we'll just stick to the parking lots. She was a parking lot lawyer who basically lost all of Donald Trump's cases. And then Donald Trump elevated her to the top, and now she's his main advisor. Play this clip.
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Number- All right, so you see the different things that Fox is doing, right? Attack the Palestinians, attack the courts. promote impoundment, say there shouldn't be opposition. Now let's add just some spicy propaganda. Let's just start talking about Gulf of America, America, right?
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And now it's the evening hour. So what do you do on Fox after doing all of those things that I just mentioned? Fear. fear. You got to scare your viewer. You got to scare them. So how do you scare them? Bring on Tom Holman, who looks pretty scary in and of itself. But he goes, and again, he's the border czar. It's like a made up position.
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And he goes, I don't sleep well at night because I'm afraid of the people walking the streets. Here, play this clip.
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Let's think about it. He's saying that he doesn't sleep well at night. He's afraid to walk around the country. Because of the people walking the streets that he doesn't want to walk. He's the borders are. So alpha. So alpha. I'm being sarcastic. Hit subscribe. Help us get to four million subscribers. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
Mexico's president, Claudia Scheinbaum, is bringing the fire. And at a press conference she just held, she's calling out Donald Trump's tariffing the world, including Mexico, 25% on steel and aluminum. She's just saying, do you all realize that based on the current trading posture, this is actually going to hurt the United States of America? far more than it's actually even going to hurt Mexico.
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And I just want to show you how cool and collected Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum is. For example, the day before, when Donald Trump had just stated that he was going to do these tariffs on Air Force One after saying that there would be a 30-day pause on the tariffs before, right? First, he was going to tariff, and then there was a 30-day pause after he made a fake deal.
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The European Union in the US account was just kind of responding with a sad face emoji. And I got to finish up by showing President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico one more time. Look at the strength that she is projecting. Donald Trump wishes that he could take a photograph like this. And she goes, remember the 112th anniversary of the March of Loyalty.
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We are proud of the courage, dedication, and loyalty to the people of the young cadets of the heroic military college. Powerful stuff right there. Let me just share with you this video that she put out as well. Take a look at this.
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And while all of that was happening, in contrast, this is Elon Musk in the White House yesterday with Donald Trump. So utterly pathetic. Play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. A powerful response from President Claudia Scheinbaum. A powerful response from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. the leaders in Europe to the leaders in the Middle East, smacking Donald Trump down like the weak, pathetic fool that he is. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe right now. Let's race to 4 million subscribers. We're almost there.
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Then he said, okay, I'm tariffing the world when it comes to aluminum and steel, even though I made deals with Mexico and Canada, whatever. I break deals. My name is Trump. I lie about everything. So Claudia Scheinbaum finds out about it on the media the way everybody else does because Donald Trump is so chaotic. The media asks her about it and watch how President Claudia Scheinbaum handles it.
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She's just like, look, I heard about it the same way y'all heard about it on the news. We're going to get through this together once again. Play this clip.
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And what I love as well is, you know, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is putting out some of these great videos as well, you know, which I think are videos she may have put out anyway, but in the context of her going on the offense against Donald Trump and projecting a strong, united Mexico,
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Videos like this where she's showing the Air Force in Mexico and showing the diversity of the Air Force in Mexico and the leaders and what a real leader looks like. Here, play this clip.
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Hey, Donald, you may want to use a little logic. Oh, wait, you don't have any. Mexico's powerful president, Claudia Scheinbaum. Let's watch it.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
So as Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum was powerfully responding to Donald Trump, so was Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has essentially become kind of like a wartime prime minister in Canada. Look, Donald Trump's words are powerful. threats against the sovereignty of Canada. They are the same types of words and language that's used by Vladimir Putin.
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I mean, Trump keeps on saying that he wants to conquer Canada and make it the 51st state. And Prime Minister Trudeau has united Pretty much all of the political factions in Canada. I mean, you have, you know, Daniel Smith in Alberta, who's still Maple Maga. You still have some Maple Maga.
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You have Pierre Poliev, who's, you know, now claiming that, oh, I'm standing up for Canada when, you know, we all know where PP really stands on a lot of these issues. But
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You know, most of Canada, whether you're conservative, liberal, NDP, Green Party, nonpolitical, is united, boycotting the United States of American products, buying Canada, refusing to travel to United States if they have, you know, homes or rental properties or, you know, Selling those, ending the rental property lease terms, vacations canceled.
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And you see all these like American, you know, tourism managers elevating it to senior management. We don't stand with Donald Trump. We don't stand with Donald Trump. Well, Canada standing strong. Here's Prime Minister Trudeau responding to the tariffs. Play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
And here's our friend at the Midas Touch Network, who's become a leader in Canada and internationally. Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus here responding in Angus fashion to Donald Trump. Play this clip.
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And look, you had NDP's parliament leader, Jagmeet Singh. You know, even he's, you know, he's always been strong against Donald Trump. But here is Jagmeet Singh saying, here's what you can do. Buy Canada. Here's how you boycott America. Play this clip.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
And here Jagmeet Singh again explains this isn't about the border for Donald Trump. It's about our water and the critical minerals that Elon Musk needs. Donald Trump has threatened to use economic force to make Canada the 51st state. Canadians will never let that happen. No chance in hell. Here's Jagmeet Singh. Play this clip.
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So from Mexico to Canada... And we go east to our friends in Europe who are sick and tired, of course, of Donald Trump's threats and saber rattling. The people of Denmark started the following petition at denmarkification.com. Let's buy California from Trump. Denmark's next big adventure. And they talk about buying California for $1 trillion.
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Mexico Prez Destroys Trump Over New Threats
Have you ever looked at a map and thought, you know what, Denmark needs more sunshine, palm trees and roller skates? Well, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality. Let's buy California from Donald Trump. Yes, you heard that right. California could be ours and we need your help to make it happen. You sign the petition there.
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Over 200,000 people have signed the Denmarkification position to make California part of Denmark. You know, of course they are. I'm just kind of mocking Donald Trump there. Here's the Jordanian deputy minister explaining that, you know, so, you know, see, we're doing it. We're going to Mexico to Canada. We're going to Europe. Now we go to the Middle East.
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Jordan's deputy prime minister saying no way, no, how will. Donald Trump acquire or just take Palestine and just force Palestinians to move to Jordan or Egypt. And you can see how perturbed he is right here. Here, play this clip.
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Take a look at some of these posts by the leaders in the European Union. This post over here, the EU sees no justification for the imposition of tariffs on our exports, economically counterproductive, a lose-lose scenario. We're assessing the scope of the measures by Donald Trump, and we will be responding in a firm, proportionate way by countermeasures, aka retaliatory tariffs.
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Antonio Costa goes, I fully support the European Union Commission in ensuring a firm and proportionate response to unjustified tariffs. The EU stands united in defending the interests of its businesses, workers and citizens. We are a reliable and predictable partner and we will continue to strive for fair trade. trading relationships.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
The Arab world and Arab leaders are strongly condemning Donald Trump's repeated news conferences, press conferences, statements stating that he wants to conquer Gaza, that he wants to just take it, that he wants to just take all of the Palestinian people and move them to Jordan and Egypt. Egypt and Jordan, by the way, say, no, we don't agree to that. We're not having that happen.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Maybe Donald Trump's trying to, look, I'm trying to impress Ivanka. I'm going to take it over the way Kushner said that he was going to take it over. I'm going to do it, Ivanka. Who knows? This guy's a psychopath. I mean, he's literally a demented psychopath. Every day threatening to invade and conquer. It's Greenland. It's Canada. It's Gaza. It's Panama. Take that over. Again, take it all over.
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Ridiculous. Ridiculous. We're going to keep on speaking out here at the Midas Touch Network, even though we're here in the United States and we're dealing with this. We'll keep reporting on the truth. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together. I think we'll get there today. Thanks for watching.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk said it. They want us to suffer. Those are their exact words that the people need to suffer to be patriotic and support Donald Trump and Elon Musk. So let me show you this. Look, Margo Martin's Donald Trump's top advisor, one of his top advisors, July 26, 2024. He's hatching the plan there with Netanyahu and they're talking crap about Kamala Harris.
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But what they're doing in private is they're coming up with their plan and at that time to stop the ceasefire from happening, in my view, and to have Donald Trump lay the foundation to take over Gaza. Here, play this clip.
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Now, you could rewind this even more than that. You'll remember our coverage here in the Midas Touch Network about Jared Kushner saying that what he wanted to do was turn Gaza into real estate property. He wanted to see it basically leveled and rebuilt and the Palestinians moved out. This was years ago. Kushner was saying this.
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And we were saying, everybody, hello, are you hearing what they're saying? Here, play this clip.
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All right, I thought it was important to refresh your recollection with those two clips that predate the election, okay? That's why it shocked me that there would be Muslims for Trump or Palestinians for Trump. That and for a variety of other reasons. I don't know, how about a Muslim ban?
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And how about the fact that in contrast to what Trump was saying, Vice President Kamala Harris wanted a two-state solution. She wanted aid to flow into Gaza. I digress. Here's Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister on CNN. And here he's very firm. No, you don't get to conquer Gaza. We in Jordan are not going to take all of the Palestinian people. We could do 2,000 for humanitarian reasons.
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Kids with cancer and kids who have been brutally maimed will bring 2,000 kids. We're not taking the Palestinian people. Their homeland is in Palestine, is what they're saying. They have land right now. There needs to be a two-state solution. Here, play this clip.
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The only thing that we're agreeable to is a two-state solution. Donald Trump, by the way, was talking about conquering Gaza in the Oval Office with King Abdullah of Jordan yesterday. And you can see how visibly uncomfortable King Abdullah was. Let's rewind, though, shall we? And let's take a look first at the origin of where these plans were hatched.
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Here's the Jordanian prime minister again talking about what King Abdullah wants. Notably, King Abdullah, when he was in the Oval Office, did not stand up to Donald Trump. And again, he was like, he looked very uncomfortable being in the Oval Office as Trump was saying all of those things. But King Abdullah left the dirty work to his deputy prime minister. Play this clip.
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You'll remember and recall from our coverage here on the Midas Touch Network that we were trying to warn everybody, and it shouldn't have been just us, but when Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took that trip to Mar-a-Lago multiple times, but during the campaign, July 26th, 2024, go back and look at what we were saying. We're saying clearly what they're doing there is trying to stop
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One of the things we're also learning, of course, is that Egypt has reportedly closed the door to any further discussions with the United States regarding the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with Egyptian officials having presented several plans for rebuilding Gaza. without any kind of displacement. At least one of these plans has been delivered to the Trump administration.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Cairo is said to be outraged by statements from both Israel and the United States calling for the total removal of the Palestinian population from Gaza. sending a message to Washington demanding clarification on recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, stating that sanctions could be imposed against Egypt if they refuse to accept Palestinian refugees. Egypt is pissed. Jordan is pissed.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Saudi Arabia is pissed. Donald Trump thinks this is some game, some real estate transaction that everyone's going to go, oh, okay. You are brilliant. How did you think of this, Donald? It's the opposite of what's happening. So here's what the Egyptians have said.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Quote, Egypt expresses its intention to present a vision for the reconstruction of Gaza that guarantees the survival of the Palestinian people on their land. The Arab Republic of Egypt expresses its aspiration to cooperate with the U.S. administration led by President Trump in order to achieve a comprehensive and just peace in the region by reaching a just settlement of the Palestinian issue.
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that takes into account the rights of the people of the region. The Arab Republic of Egypt expresses its aspiration to cooperate.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
In this context, Egypt affirms its intention to present a comprehensive vision for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip in a manner that guarantees the survival of the Palestinian people on their land and in a manner consistent with the legitimate legal rights of this people.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
The Arab Republic stresses that any vision for resolving the Palestinian issue should take into account avoiding jeopardizing the gains in peace in the region in parallel with seeking to contain and deal with the causes and roots of the conflict by ending the Israeli occupation.
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Of Palestinian land and implementing the two state solution as the only way to achieve stability and coexistence among the people of the region. In other words, go pound sand, Donald. This is the Arab League's Hassam Zaki. Here he is again saying Gaza is not just some piece of property that you buy and sell, idiot Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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the ceasefire that former President Biden was trying to negotiate. The same way Donald Trump killed the border bill and said that it was a winning issue for him to have chaos at the border and he didn't want to hand former President Biden a win on the border, Donald Trump kills things that he believes would be helpful to political opponents, even if it benefits we the people. Why?
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
And then Saudi Arabia has reacted. Of course, the chairman of the Gulf Research Center, Dr. Abduzzi Sarkar, reacts to the U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to take over the Gaza Strip. Here he talks about how shocked people were in the Muslim world. Play this clip.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Again, you see the pain and the grimacing on King Abdullah's face right here as Donald Trump says, we're just going to take it. We're going to take Gaza. Play this clip. I really think we're making some very good progress.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Donald Trump's asked, okay, but under what authority are you gonna do that? And Trump's like, under US authority. Play this clip.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
Under the U.S. authority. Well, there you have it. Donald Trump being strongly rebuked by the Middle East, by Jordan, by Egypt, by Saudi Arabia. And by the way, they're probably being more diplomatic than what's going on behind the scenes. And so I showed you the plan. The meeting at Mar-a-Lago between Netanyahu and Donald Trump, what Kushner's plan was that became what Donald Trump wants to do.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
These Trump supporters just got very rude awakenings as Donald Trump is attacking them. Quote, I thought they were going to be targeting criminals. No one mentioned that residents, legal residents were going to have to go through this. That's what a Stephanie Pena, 30 years old from Lincoln, California believed when she supported Donald Trump for reelection.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
And he goes, President Trump's proposal to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza and have the U.S. take over is yet another chapter in the ongoing genocide. Deploying U.S. troops and using taxpayer dollars to invade Gaza is morally indefensible. Our commitment to justice remains unshaken no matter who sits in the White House.
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Now, Dearborn, Michigan, which is made up of a large Muslim population that voted for Donald Trump, lots of Palestinians for Trump, which is...
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One of the strangest things I could ever even fathom at that time, Abdullah Hamoud, who was the mayor and is the mayor of Dearborn, to his credit, although I don't think I should use the word credit, he didn't vote for Donald Trump like many of the Muslims in Dearborn. He didn't vote for anybody. I think perhaps that's... almost just as bad, if not just as bad.
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This is what he said on November 1st, 2024. The architect of the Muslim ban is making a campaign stop in Dearborn. People in this community know what Trump stands for. We suffered through it for years. I refuse to sit down with him, although the requests keep pouring in. Trump will never be my president.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
To the Dems, your unwillingness to stop funding and enabling a genocide created the space for Trump to infiltrate our communities. Remember that. So I guess it's a both sides issue. On the one hand, Vice President Kamala Harris wanted a two-state solution. She wanted to make sure that aid found its way into Gaza. President Biden sanctioned Israeli settlers who prevented aid from getting into Gaza.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
The first time there were powerful sanctions like that ever happened. placed on any Israeli settlers like that. President Biden was very strong and critical of Benjamin Netanyahu and did everything he can to broker a ceasefire.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
But on the other hand, on the other hand, America wasn't able to stop Netanyahu and therefore Donald Trump, who had always been basically threatening ethnic cleansing and building Trump towers there and the architect of the Muslim ban, I guess everybody's just as bad.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You know, it would be like totally different right now if you had vice president, like objectively, it would be totally different right now if you had vice president Kamala Harris there. Anyway, we go from individuals in California and Florida, Latinos for Trump. We talked about Muslims and Palestinians for Trump. How about the business community for Trump?
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Everything just came crumbling down, she said. When immigration officers entered her home and wouldn't let her husband leave. Hello, we told you this was going to happen. What do you think it meant when they were holding signs that said mass deportations now at the Republican National Convention? Look, here's some of the stats that we know.
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How about some of these billionaires like Citadel, a major private equity firm hedge fund? Ken Griffin's head. This guy is worth like. $50 billion or something crazy, $40 billion, a huge amount of money. So this is what he says yesterday. Ken Griffin says Trump's bombastic, I like when they use a big word, bombastic trade rhetoric is a mistake that's eroding trust in the U.S.
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin sent a stern warning. I'm wagging my finger. I'm a billionaire, Ken Griffin. I'm sending you a stern warning, Donald Trump, against the negative impact from Donald Trump's combative approach to U.S. trade policy.
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This is what Ken Griffin, who voted for Donald Trump, was a Trump supporter, said, quote, from my vantage point, the bombastic rhetoric, the damage has already been done, Griffin said Tuesday at the UBS Financial Services Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida.
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It's a huge mistake to resort to this form of rhetoric when you're trying to drive a bargain because it tears into the minds of CEOs, policymakers, that we can't depend upon America as our trading partner. The billionaire hedge fund founder's comments came after Trump on Monday evening signed an order that would impose the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
He's already enacted 10% duty on all Chinese imports. He paused 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, but apparently reinstated as it relates to steel and aluminum. Griffin, who voted for Trump and was a mega donor to Republican politicians, believes the hostile dynamics caused by punitive tariffs could make long-term investments challenging for multinational companies and investors. Quote,
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It makes it difficult for multinationals in particular to think about how to plan for the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years, particularly when it comes to long lead time capital investments that could be adversely impacted by a degradation of the current terms of engagement as amongst the leading Western countries when it comes to terms and trade. Ooh, lots of big words you're using there, Mr. Griffin.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
How about the fact that Donald Trump is a con artist. His whole life was conning people. You just take a look. How do you as a business person, right? You made a lot of money, Mr. Griffin. Wouldn't you want to look at Donald Trump's past and go, wait a minute. You bankrupted all of these casinos. You bankrupted all of these companies. You had to get bankruptcy protection like three to four times.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
All of these companies, when you weren't using the seal of the United States and the trappings of the Oval Office before that, you've been found liable for fraud. fraud for business fraud. You inflate your assets. You hide your tax returns because you're pathetic. And Donald Trump doesn't pay his taxes was what we had to uncover in those tax returns. You run crypto scams. Isn't it?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You sell Trump guitars and Trump NFTs. How do you, I mean, Ken Griffin, how do you vote? How do you support this guy? What you thought the deregulation, Listen, when Biden was in office, America's GDP was leading the world. Unemployment was at record lows. We created 16.4 million jobs. That was more than any other president in American history. Mr. Griffin, I know you know stock market returns.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
That's kind of what you do, right? So 60% returns, right? A lot of the ways you value your wealth are the markets, right? Under President Biden, people's 401ks skyrocketed. The stock market was up 55 to 60% and President Biden focused on workers. So he did a bottom up, middle out and the stock market was booming.
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But y'all wanted to go for the grifter who now has some like freaking golden freaking goat in Mar-a-Lago with fake hundred dollar bills with his stupid face on it that says in Trump we trust. Oh, my God. You know, these. these billionaire oligarchs, you thought you were what?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
ProPublica and the Texas Tribune have reported that less than half of the approximately 8,200 people arrested from January 20th through February 2nd so far have criminal convictions, according to the government data they obtained. And Who even knows if this data with Donald Trump is reliable anymore? They basically gutted all the data.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You thought that you were going to get the Elon Musk treatment and get to raid the treasury department and all the government departments. Is that what y'all oligarchs thought you were going to get that treatment?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
Just look at some of these other headlines. This one from the Wall Street Journal. For CEOs and bankers, the Trump euphoria is fading fast. Who would have predicted this? Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered by president's first week. How it started. Trump's support grew in America's top farming counties despite first-term trade war. How it's going.
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Shuddering of USAID could mean the end of millions in income for Midwest farm operations. Frozen by Elon Musk's Doge personnel, the USAID program purchased 70 million in commodities in 2024 from Minnesota vendors. I just want y'all to think about this for a second, right? What are we talking about here?
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
So I started off by talking about Latinos for Trump who have now lost temporary protected status. They're getting deported. When it comes to the Venezuelans, they're getting sent back to Venezuela. Maduro's waiting for them. They fled Maduro. Trump sending you back to Maduro. Trump putting you in concentration camps in Guantanamo Bay, maybe even sending you to El Salvador.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
If you're lucky, maybe you get to go to El Salvador. Latinos for Trump than we're talking about the Muslims and Palestinians for Trump. We're talking about the business community that came out for Trump. We're talking about the farmers for Trump right there who are getting absolutely screwed. How about this one right here too?
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You know, this one factory that prints all of the, you know, it just shows you that Trump and these MAGAs just don't think anything through. So this is what's reporting in the Greenville Sun. This county, Greene County, Tennessee voted 83% for Donald Trump, 83%. It's total MAGA red area. They're all going to go bankrupt now. They're all going to lose their jobs. Why?
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Because this was like the one area that printed those pennies. You know how Donald Trump is getting rid of the penny because he wants to do all this performative stuff to distract us from the fact that prices are not going down anymore. They're going up egg prices up, gas prices up, grocery prices up, mortgage rates going up, housing's less affordable, no peace in Ukraine.
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I can go on and on and on. You get it, right? So Donald Trump, I'm doing the plastic straw executive order. I hereby declare plastic straws something, something, something, okay? That's stupid. Okay, I hereby declare the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America. Okay, I am hereby destroying the penny. Okay, well, guess what? You take a look at this area in Green County.
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Trump Voters Lose Their Minds as He Ruins Their Life
You know, and we've seen these videos like in Memphis where plain clothed ICE officers and DHS officials were going into like taco stands and just like grabbing migrants and treating them like trash. So we got a little leopards eating the face there, although I hate to see people suffer. How about this one right here? Abdullah Hammoud. He's the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan.
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That's like the area, it's the one area where they have the material that makes the penny. And so you shut down the penny, all these people lose their jobs. Same way if you freeze a lot of this government funding, it turns out That the red states, yeah, they rely on the government funding. Yeah, they like to rail against it. They like the boogeyman, but that's what keeps them alive.
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So Trump is freezing money for clean energy. Ooh. Clean energy. Magas don't like to be clean. They like to be dirty. Magas. Give us some COVID. We're the magas. Red states have the most to lose. I'm being silly on this video. About 80% of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flown to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.
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But isn't that what Elon said? Pain. Pain. Donald Trump did say that during election. We're going to cause people pain. We want you to suffer. This is what Elon Musk and Donald Trump said. You must suffer. We need to break you down, then rebuild you. That's what they said. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
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I mean, these people who voted against their interest and some of them don't even, you know, some people will admit it, but others like, yeah, Gulf of America is what we wanted. We're better now. This is exactly what we wanted. right? Like he literally is screwing your life, but like, okay, you get, if you go to Google in America, you'll see, it says Gulf of America.
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Exposing Musk's Corrupt Power Grab with Congressman Dan Goldman
Democrats are fighting back against Donald Trump and Elon Musk's corruption. Leading the way is Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman from New York. He's been outspoken in the halls of Congress, on the floor of Congress, outside of Congress, and on social media. He posted the following. Elon Musk gave Trump $250 million, so Trump handed him control of America's checkbook.
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Of course not. It's absurd. There's part of that distraction effort where they try to do the kind of comical trolling, but they're saying very kind of dark and, you know, problematic things is, you know, he changed his name on Twitter or X. Now he calls himself Harry Balls and he goes, you know, he's billionaire oligarch who's going around and has access to all this information.
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His screen name is Harry Balls. That's where we've become
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as a country apparently under the trump administration and goes democracy in america is being destroyed by a judicial coup an activist judge is not a real judge and we've been seeing musk and trump and jd vance and all of them attacking these judicial rulings even judicial rulings from trump appointed judges republican judges democrat judges as all of these lawsuits have been filed what
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It seems to be the case, as these judges have ruled against Trump and Musk and others for violating the Constitution, that they're gearing up to defy the orders. And it seems they may be already defying the orders and just ignoring them and ignoring the orders that block their government funding freeze and the freeze on funding to NIH. What are you seeing and what do we do about that?
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And what's your response to that?
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Musk and his 20-something Doge cadre can now access your social security number, home address, and more.
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Elon Musk then tried to attack Congressmember Goldman by saying, corrupt politician says what, to which Congressmember Dan Goldman, a former top federal prosecutor says, actually, former federal prosecutor says, you are breaking the law on a daily basis, so you can use our government's checkbook and Americans personal information
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What can Democrats do about it? I'm sure you get asked all the time. I mean, Democrats don't control the House. They don't control the Senate. They don't control the executive branch. Since you don't control the House, you can't set the agenda on what happens in the committees. You don't lead the budget.
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You don't really have any role at all, quite frankly, other than potentially withholding your votes when a corrupt budget is passed. You don't have subpoena power. So what can you and the Democrats do to fight back?
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for your own corrupt grifting he went back and forth with elon musk elon musk then said we don't have any personal data of americans you corrupt moron to which congress member dan goldman says tell it to the judge under oath we've got congress member dan goldman here right now congressman welcome what do you make of all of this
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Finally, talk about national security risks. It was announced yesterday that from Donald Trump that he would be halting all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the Justice Department. And he goes on in this executive order to say that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is this horrible thing that has harmed businesses since it was enacted in the late 1970s.
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You're a former federal prosecutor. What did you make of that decision? And apparently the Department of Justice is no longer gonna view violations of the FCPRA as a crime. It's shocking.
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Congress member Dan Goldman, any hope that you see right now as we are heading into February, March, April? Any signs of hope?
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Congress member Dan Goldman, thanks for joining us. Please come back. We're about to hit four million subscribers here. This network's growing rapidly. People want to hear the truth. They want to know how they can fight back. And it's great to see you leading in that way as well.
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Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 countries have called representatives of the United States, including the departments of commerce, treasury, and the USTR to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to trade, trade barriers, tariffs, currency manipulation, and non-monetary tariffs,
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and that the countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90-day pause and a substantially lower reciprocal tariff during this period of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So, yes, we are seeing this popular meme play out again in real time.
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Trump makes a stupid decision, something really bad happens, he convinces his followers the problem is now magically solved, and he then reverses his stupid decision, and the cycle repeats and repeats and repeats. It should be noted that Trump this morning encouraged his followers to buy stock, writing just hours before he made the announcement, quote, "...this is a great time to buy DJT."
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Naturally, once Trump made the announcement, the markets had a massive jump. Market manipulation, anyone? The Trump propagandists kicked right into gear, calling this panicked reversal the art of the deal and pretending that Trump was not reacting to crashing the global economy and US bond markets.
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Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, was one of those people calling this the art of the deal. Listen to this.
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They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit... We've got some major breaking news. The headline, a panicked and terrified Donald Trump has folded on his tariff plans. In a major policy reversal, Trump announced a 90-day pause on his massive tariffs after he sparked an economic crash globally. My name is Brett Mycelis with the Midas Touch Network.
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Elena, go ahead. It's so embarrassing. She literally did this meme. Trump goes, I'm adding the tariffs. His followers go, this will create jobs. Trump says he's removing tariffs. His followers go, this is the art of the deal. And the cycle repeats. And if you're not feeling the secondhand embarrassment enough just yet, Well, let me show you this clip of Benny Johnson.
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This was put together at Project Liberal, and in the first clip, you'll see Benny Johnson, a MAGA talking head who is literally being paid by Russia to spread pro-Trump propaganda, talking about the economic crash occurring under Donald Trump. He was telling his listeners that these are just numbers. Everyone loses money. It builds character.
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But in 2024, when Joe Biden was president and the stock market was down for a single day, he called it the Kamala crash, and he treated it like the apocalypse. Watch this.
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Trust me, you will never go back to grocery store coffee. If you remember, just yesterday, Donald Trump was calling any Republican who suggested even pausing the tariffs weak and panikins. So I guess this makes Donald Trump weak and a panikin. And by the way, if tariffs were supposed to make us so rich and strong and be the, quote, medicine that we all needed, then why would he pause them?
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Remember to hit subscribe now and add the Midas Touch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Stocks were collapsing. The bond market imploding. The 10-year treasury yield was skyrocketing, indicating that mortgage rates and other loans were about to skyrocket. So naturally, Donald Trump did what he does best. He caved.
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Can a single Trump supporter answer that for me? Huh? Crickets? Thought so. Let's pull up some receipts. Here was Trump on April 7th saying that he was not looking into a pause.
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And just two days ago, Caroline Levitt told the press that the idea that Trump was even considering a pause was, quote, fake news. Watch this.
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Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who said he hasn't been included in like any of these tariff decisions, is now saying that this was all part of the plan and that Trump actually goaded China into a bad position. Watch this.
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This is just typical loser and abuser behavior. You try to punish somebody, they react to protect themselves, and then you try to punish them more and blame them, saying that they were asking for it. Just, it's so disgraceful, this whole thing. Oh, and by the way, speaking of China, Fox is now reporting that any TikTok deal with China is now off the table. Watch this.
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Effective immediately, all of the tariffs will be capped at 10% for the duration of a 90-day period, with those additional higher tariffs being paused. The only exception is China, which will now face a dramatically increased tariff rate of 125%. So I want to be extra clear here just for a second. Trump has still put a 10% tax on virtually everything Americans will buy.
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As Roger Sullenberger of the Daily Beast writes, quote, the volatility of Trump's presidency seem like it may function as its own kind of non-monetary tariff, eroding trade relationships without generating the additional tax revenue. And that really is the issue. I mean, Trump has lost complete control of the tariff narrative.
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He has proven himself to be an erratic and untrustworthy trade partner, an abuser of the global economic system. He offers no stability to businesses or governments. Under his leadership, there is no reason for our allies or our rivals to place any faith in the consistency of US policy. And for American businesses, the uncertainty has to be paralyzing.
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How can a company justify sinking billions into building factories in the United States if those investments could instantly be undercut by a single tweet? Trump could raise tariffs, lower them, scrap them entirely at a whim, obliterating an entire business model overnight. There's no strategy here, no coherence, only chaos, and we all suffer because of it.
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As Midas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski says, quote, the credibility of the U.S. government is completely shot, gone, annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this administration ever. Oh, and here's a photo that the Democrats on the House and Ways Committee posted.
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Trump's trade representative, Ambassador Greer, was in the middle of testifying to Congress. about why Trump's tariffs were so great and should never be paused. And at this very moment in the picture that I'm showing right now, he found out that Trump reversed the policy. For those listening, he's staring down at his phone in disappointment and confusion after hours and hours of testimony.
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The Ways and Means Democrats tweeted the following along with this image. Heartbreaking. Man discovers he has to backpedal on a policy he just spent over four hours defending. Ouch. So there you have it. Trump caved. Again. The propagandists, they're out in full force to try to spin this. Our alliances are shattered, and Americans are worse off because of Donald Trump's erratic behavior.
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Costs for businesses will still be higher. Prices for Americans will still be higher. Trump announced the pause on his Truth Social website, writing the following, quote, Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets, I am hereby raising the tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125% effective immediately.
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At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the USA and other countries is no longer sustainable or acceptable. It's always projection with this guy, right? Let me continue.
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Doesn't this say it all? This is what they were showing on state regime media on Laura Ingraham's show. Stay calm. This isn't 1987. Then it's a photo of the dear leader for state regime media, Donald Trump. And then the text says, saving capitalism. You don't get more pathetic than that. Actually, when it comes to state regime media known as Fox, you actually probably do get more pathetic.
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I mean, but just so you saw before, I mean, at least Brett Baer asked that question. But, you know, the markets are tanking. The futures are tanking. You know, situation here is not good. And then Fox is saying Trump has a plan. This is a great thing. Here are some other facts I want to talk to you about. Number one, federal spending is not down at all. Federal spending is higher.
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Despite all of Elon Musk's doge wrecking ball to our economy, spending is higher right now than it was under former President Biden. So federal spending is off the charts. Donald Trump wants a $1 trillion military budget. $1 trillion, he said. Elon Musk just got awarded another $5.9 billion contract from SpaceX. The FAA awarded him a contract. Bezos got awarded a contract.
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This is the oligarch crap that we see in Russia. crash the economy, make people poor, make people beg, make people and foreign countries dependent on Trump, hoist up oligarchs, give them the kind of contracts, you get a 5.9 billion contract, you get a 2.3 billion contract, and don't care about the people suffering, and then have regime media fill in the gaps. That's what we're seeing.
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I didn't have to keep checking the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P futures each night. Here is from state regime media, Jeanine Pirro. And she goes, dear leadership, Donald Trump is not panicked and neither should we, because this is the golden age. Everybody here. Watch this.
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Golden age. The golden age. Y'all are creating a great depression. You are actually not bringing manufacturing jobs to the United States, but you are manufacturing a great recession. I guess when you said manufacturing boom, you didn't mean it like former President Biden, who actually brought a manufacturing boom. You meant manufacturing A Great Depression. I suppose that's what you meant here.
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Jeanine Pirro says, you know what, we got to remember that actually everything is Biden's fault. And millenniums didn't care about their credit cards because they figured we can never afford it. I don't know what these people are talking about. Here, play this clip.
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So these tariffs are literally- As I told you, state regime media known as Fox, it's off the rails. It is off the rails, this coverage. Then you have Jesse Watters, I got to show you. I'll show you this. I'll show you just like a minute, a minute of this. This goes on for like three minutes. I'll just cut this out a minute or so. He's like, this is a brilliant plan. Let me spell it out for you.
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This is all part of Donald Trump's grand, brilliant plan. Here, let's play it for a little bit. Play the clip.
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There really is no bottom line. So what were they talking about all yesterday as Trump once again continues to crash the markets as Donald Trump says that he's now imposing this 104 percent, maybe more, 117 percent when you actually adjusted tariff on China, just cripple everyone, the entire global economy. Well, Fox was talking about, you guessed it, former President Biden.
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What? I just, this is how they turn the minds of their viewers into magamush. You know, the KGB, the Soviets, did studies on how you can create basically a climate of absolute kind of zombie, like how you can zombify a population with injecting fear and these lies and and how you could basically try to convince them of everything.
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So my opinion, state regime media known as Fox, you know, they would always say, you know, you know, the migrants are coming to kill you. Invasion, invasion, everyone's going to die. You're going to, they would repeat that over and over and over again. And so they literally kind of freak their audience out into having magamush brains where this is, they're now susceptible to this crap.
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And I, cause I watch this, you watch this, you're like, what the hell, what Ben? Wow, come on, how could this be? What are they talking?
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And they brought on MAGA Republican Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, who was like, We need to hold hearings about former President Biden's mental acuity because maybe all of his executive orders should be voided if he has dementia. Maybe, maybe that. Here, play this clip.
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So of course, state regime media known as Fox, they didn't want to talk about the markets. The fact that we're heading into a great recession or potentially a recession. So Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United States, she's like basically a Fox host now. That's what she does. And so she goes on Fox again and she like does breaking news, like as though she's a new host.
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She's like, some breaking news that I'm going to be reporting, everybody. Guess what we're doing? We're pulling all non-essential funding from the main Department of Correction facilities because... We found there to be, she goes, a giant six foot one, 240 pound guy in the woman's prison. And we have to protect women prisoners. So no more of that. I don't know what they're, look.
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What are they talking about? Why are you as the AG holding press conferences about, I mean, saying breaking news? Here, play this clip.
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You know, one of the interesting things that Fox then does is because they know that Donald Trump just obsessively watches Fox. So they then try to like coach him and treat him like a little baby. about what he should do. And they try to like coach him. So like Sean Hannity last night brought on these MAGA Republican senators to try to coach Donald Trump.
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So like MAGA Republican Senator John Kennedy, he's not really a Kennedy, and he has a fake, he does a fake voice. Like if you go back and watch MAGA Republican Senator Kennedy from Louisiana's voice, like before he was a senator, he never liked talking like that. I think he just makes up a voice because they're all a bunch of weirdos, these MAGA Republicans.
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But here he tries to give advice, play this clip.
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Pounce on it like a ninja. Then he describes Donald Trump like a pit bull catching the car. Here, play this clip.
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You know, and just as you hear these MAGA Republicans spend all day on Fox attacking former President Biden, I mean, this is what Trump was talking about. He's like yesterday when Trump was at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner and Trump was like, I just want everybody to kiss my ass. Just kiss my ass, everybody. Here, play this clip.
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You know, and there is something to me also, you know, about the vulgarity of it all. I mean, we know Trump is a sexual predator, right? He's found liable for sexual assault. He's a felon. We know that about him. He's been found liable for fraud. We know that about him. He's a disgusting human being. Like, there's no other way to say it.
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But a vulgarity, you know, it's like, yeah, it's just the worst, like the worst person for leadership positions anyway. Then you have Annapolina Luna who goes, they kind of tell on themselves. They're like, this is what they're, again, this is what they're spending all night talking about on Fox, right? The futures are crashing 104% tariffs on China. You've got Donald Trump attacking Europe.
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Donald Trump said yesterday he was going to put tariffs on all pharmaceuticals, just killing Americans by imposing tariffs on pharmaceuticals. So then they're talking about, let me tell you what's so much worse than January 6th, Biden's mental state.
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You know, look, I'll give Brett Baer some credit for this interview right here. Brett Baer interviewed Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary. Now, Brett Baer asked a good question here. So one of the things that the data is showing, we reported about it on some of our other shows, the way the Trump regime's been trying to reduce the price of eggs is
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They're buying eggs from foreign countries who they're tariffing at high prices, and then they're artificially suppressing the price of eggs so they can say, we brought down the price of eggs. But then because of the Trump tariffs, we now have to pay tariffs on the eggs that we're bringing in from other countries. That we're paying more for than they're being sold for.
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And so all of these eggs are being sold at a massive loss. And taxpayers are going to be footing the bill for all of this stuff. Let me just play this clip of Rick Rollins and let's talk about it here. Play this clip. Take that damage.
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I mean, have you seen or heard Donald Trump speak lately? By the way, when former President Biden was running things, America was expanding its alliances with NATO. Two additional countries joined NATO. Our economy was thriving. It was a Goldilocks economy. 16.2 million new jobs were created. Record growth for our GDP. Record low unemployment. 40,000 infrastructure projects.
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Just take a look at this scene. Last night, the futures markets are crashing as Donald Trump imposes 104% tariffs against China. China doesn't back down. Donald Trump is speaking at this black tie event for the National Republican Congressional Committee. Donald Trump looks like he's on the Titanic that is sinking. He's got his little teeny tiny hands on the podium.
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As I've said before, Donald Trump's Liberation Day, as he calls it, which is actually Annihilation Day, Liquidation Day or Great Depression Day. It's all about his ego. It's all about the authoritarian playbook to make countries have to go to him. to beg him, please, can I get an exemption? Please don't put the tariffs on me, makes businesses runt him. Please, I need help. I need an exemption.
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Can you please help me? I have to do the walk of shame to Washington, D.C. or Mar-a-Lago. And authoritarians like when their people are suffering. Like, do you think Kim Jong-un is upset that people in North Korea suffer? You think Putin cares that he sends Russians into the meat grinder of war in Ukraine? Do you think that he cares that people are suffering economically? No.
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Authoritarians like when their people are suffering because then you can give breadcrumbs. You don't want people to be economically independent or independent at all when you're an authoritarian. And Trump is following that playbook to a T. I mean, just take a look right here as Carl Quintanilla posts. We as the United States went from back to back under former President Biden.
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20 plus percent or 20 percent plus growth in the markets, equity markets, the Goldilocks economy. The Wall Street Journal called the economy under former President Biden the envy of the world to this. America's equity markets, stock markets, the worst in the world right now and tanking the entire world economy with it. As Donald Trump also says, you know, just trust me.
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I'm telling you, I know what to do. I know how to do deals. I'm a good deal maker. Let's just take a look at what's been going on. The Germany economy minister, Robert Habeck, says the U.S. calculations for their tariffs are nonsense. The U.S. is now in a position of weakness, will hurt their pharmaceuticals. The EU Commission proposed 25% counter tariffs on U.S. imports.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced that starting today, there will be 25% tariffs on certain categories based on the Trump regime's behavior. The futures right now are getting absolutely bulldozed. We'll see where the market opens in just a little bit, but Trump tanking the economy. And again, yesterday,
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went from the markets actually doing decent in the day, or as Senator Mark Warner from Virginia put it, it was kind of like a good day at the hospice, making that analogy to Trump's economy. But then Donald Trump said, no, I'm opposing 104% tariffs on China. And then Trump crashed it all.
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And then at his speech last night before the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner, Donald Trump then talked about how he wants to put tariffs on pharmaceuticals, that I'm going to go after the pharmaceuticals now. It's like, can we go one day without this idiot talking about tariffing things? Here he is. Let's play it.
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And Donald Trump speaks to the MAGA Republican Congress members and he says, everybody, what are we going to call Joe Biden? Should we call him crooked or should we call him sleepy? Here, play this clip.
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We did it, JD. We did it, Lonely JD. You see that graphic right there. Also, one of the things that we learned is that Marjorie Taylor Greene, buying lots of treasuries and making a lot of odd stock purchases and sales kind of right before the market started tanking and crashing, doesn't really surprise me, when it comes to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Right now, Apple's taking like emergency flights to try to put planes full of iPhones as they're going to be a run on iPhones right now. And Apple's getting crushed because of the tariffs Donald Trump put on Canada. I mean, on China and China's retaliation.
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Also, one of the things that we learned yesterday is Donald Trump's DHS, Department of Homeland Security, just ordered the migrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the U.S. after using the Biden-era CBP One app, that they're ordered to leave the country immediately immediately. More than 900,000 people were allowed in the country using the CBP One app since January 2023.
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A lot of these people are family members of Trump supporters, Venezuelans for Trump, Cubans for Trump, Latinos for Trump. And now they're being threatened. Self-deport now or else you can end up in concentration camps in El Salvador. Self-deport now or you can end up in ICE detention centers. No due process will throw you with Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime in El Salvador.
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That's the message from the authoritarian Trump regime. But Donald Trump last night says this is the most successful 100 days yet of any administration in history. Here, play this clip.
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And we're going to do tremendously in midterms. One of the things that I don't want to forget as I report on all of this as well is that federal spending has not gone down at all. In fact, federal spending right now, despite all the wrecking ball that Trump and Musk took to the federal government and the hostile takeover, federal spending is higher.
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Donald Trump wants there to be a $1 trillion military budget. Of course, that's going to add to the debt. It's going to add to our growing deficit. Trump added $8 trillion to the deficit his first term. I predicted $25 to $30 trillion, perhaps more. So government spending is not down, government spending is up. Let's not forget also that Elon Musk was just awarded basically a $6 billion loan.
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contract for SpaceX by the federal government. And this is on top of Elon Musk being awarded lots of money by the FAA as they gut these agencies. Surprise, surprise, Elon Musk's companies are filling the void. Also, Jeff Bezos got, I think, over $2 billion from the federal government as well. Take a look at this headline from Bloomberg. Stagflation is now America's best case scenario.
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Stagflation is crashing GDP and high inflation. That's stagflation. They're saying that this is the best case scenario. Trump's tariffs risk is a brutal combination of recession and inflation. The president's attack on free trade is truly extraordinary in scope. The impact will be devastating over the next six months. Annualized inflation will likely climb to nearly 5%.
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Also, lots of experts predicting about 2 million job losses over the coming months as the effects of these tariffs. start to kick in as well. I think one of the ways I visualize what's going on with these Trump tariffs right now, the fact that it's crashing the markets and the GDP is contracting so soon, I think is shocking in the how fast this hit.
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But basically, from an economist's perspective, you know how when a tsunami hits, the shore basically recedes, recedes, recedes. And most people who understand what that means would tell you, oh, a tsunami is coming. That's what's happening right now. The damage is done. So now it's waiting for this economic tsunami, stagflation, recession, Great Depression to swarm over the country right now.
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But as our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, OK, Trump's wrecking the economy, but at least we have RFK Jr. in charge of public health.
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's team of lead poisoning experts remained off the job Tuesday, a week after they were first laid off by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy in sweeping cuts to the nation's public health agencies.
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Cut to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help local health authorities to a virtual standstill. Current and laid off agency officials say, including for lead poisoning responses that could have helped children in Milwaukee and on an American Indian reservation.
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So quite literally, Americans are dying of lead poisoning because we've fired the workers. who are in that field. And we're going to see this in all other aspects of government as well. Oh, and on international foreign policy, many experts internationally say the U.S. is now on course to potentially be at war with Iran coming soon based on the threats that Donald Trump has been making lately.
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As Donald Trump was doing that, we also learned from Usha Vance, who gave her first interview, that her husband's world can be very lonely. The second lady gave her first interview since J.D. Vance assumed the role, and she described it all as very, very lonely. Let him hang out with the couch, Usha. Let him hang out with the couch. Sorry, back to Donald Trump here.
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What is Donald Trump and J.D. Lonely J.D. Van say? Are you happy yet? Are you happy? Say thank you. Say thank you. Say thank you. This is a deranged and demented authoritarian regime led by Donald Trump, a sexual predator, a criminal, a felon, someone found liable for fraud, a bankruptor. The world sees it. The world stands up and resisting.
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Tens of millions of people here in the United States are resisting. Trump's approval is plummeting. MAGA people, Republicans, are pissed off at Donald Trump. There's a mini revolt happening, which I think is growing and gaining steam amongst MAGA Republicans in the Senate. We've seen MAGA Republican Rand Paul speaking out against Donald Trump.
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MAGA Republicans in the House know the disaster Donald Trump is causing, but they're too weak and obsequious to say anything as well. But we see, I think we see a chain shifting and As Donald Trump continues to crash our economy, we'll see what happens with the markets today. But this is a Trump depression or recession or whatever we're heading into. Trump chaos.
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This is one of the first, if not one of the first ever manufactured recessions or great recessions, like actually done, looks intentionally and maliciously. And I think it's for the reasons that I said earlier in the video. It's right out of the authoritarian playbook. Let me know what you think. Go to store.midustouch.com as well. Lots of people say, where can we get the Midas gear?
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Donald Trump speaking to the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner. He's like, aren't these tariffs great? All these countries have to kiss my ass. Here, play this clip.
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But he will be making posts like this, having the American flag over the United States and Canada. You have Trump supporters like Benny Johnson saying, welcome to the Gulf of America. And then it says greater American empire right here. The Northern colonies are Canadian provinces. Then the Greenland protectorate, the United States and Mexico are all controlled by the United States under that map.
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Donald Trump making other posts, relentlessly posting about conquering Canada and again saying, oh, Canada. Let's take a look at what some of these Trump supporters are responding and MAGA supporters like this person over here, Malam Suprati goes, so is this supposed to be cool? Or maybe you're just too young to remember, Benny.
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For years, true conservatives have opposed the CFR's advocacy for globalist North American Union, the NAFTA superhighway, the SPP, and the Amerocurrency. Now, all of a sudden, it looks like it's being rebranded as trendy? And we're supposed to believe it's a good thing. This is straight up CFR and Rockefeller globalist nonsense. This is not America first. Do your research diligently.
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Chris Rossini goes, globalism steps towards one world government. That's what Trump will give us. Wow, America first turned into new world order pretty quickly, huh? Another person responds, it's unreal. And I'm genuinely shocked at how many conservatives don't see what's happening and are loving every bit of it. Ah, there you go. I thought I was the only one seeing it.
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They painted globalism and nationalism and hardly anyone raised a question. Or take a look at this meme that's circulating right now. I have a feeling this meme format is going to get a lot of use over the next four years. Donald Trump's like, we should invade Greenland and Panama and Canada. And the person wearing the MAGA hat's like, hell yeah. than you have below.
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We should help Ukraine defend itself. And then the person wearing the MAGA hat goes, no, that's pro-war. Didn't Donald Trump say that he was going to be stopping World War III? He said World War III is about to happen. He promised he's going to stop World War III. No, it seems like you're going to be the one to start it and you want to be the bad guy in World War III.
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did an interview with Corey Hargraves, who was a United States Army sniper. He did two deployments in Iraq, and he told his story about the horrors of war. He talked about what it really means to be sending American military abroad and to risk their lives and to have American soldiers die abroad. And he told me his experience there. He's a poor kid from a Native American reservation.
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Trump voters and supporters are livid that Donald Trump is proposing a new world order globalist regime where he will have the United States of America purportedly conquer Canada. and Greenland and Mexico and turn it into a United States empire? I mean, Donald Trump is making these statements.
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And he's like, if you're trolling or whatever you're doing, what you're saying is that you want to send American soldiers, young Americans to die fighting our NATO allies while you're not even talking about Russia, North Korea, China, Venezuela. You're out here attacking our allies with these memes and these maps. where you're saying 51st state owe Canada.
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Here's another account that goes, do we really want to start connecting vast land masses together? I feel like it's a slippery slope to a one world government. Other people are MAGA supporters. So this is the new world order? Not sure this is good. Ha ha, Benny Johnson, all in for globalism now? Yeah, let's bring in far left countries to destroy the tiny remaining pieces of our constitution.
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At times like these, I always like to hear from my buddy Charlie Angus from the New Democratic Party. Here's what Angus says. He posts this photo right here. It says, Jim Parks of Winnipeg Rifles was in the very first wave at D-Day. He was blown overboard and attacked the beach without a rifle. He didn't stop.
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75 years later, he was honored by young Dutch and French who never forgot the sacrifice. Unlike Trump, Canadians will always fight for freedom. Angus also says, January 6, the sequel where Donald Trump scores a hat trick for the world's dictators, sending his dumb ass son to Greenland while threatening Canada is a deliberate provocation of NATO. Step forward, Vladimir Putin.
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Then there is validating China's designs on Taiwan. The chaos idiot goes global. Powerful words by Charlie Angus. He also says, so I'm standing in the grocery store parking lot and it's freaking cold. A very classy old woman sees me and walks the entire distance across the lot. Quote, you give that man shit, she says, then walks away. That's Canada. The criminal might buy off porn stars.
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He'll never force Canada to bend. Just take a look here, by the way, of Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk. It looks like Charlie Kirk is wearing, he's cosplaying as like a military guy or whatever the heck he's wearing. I think he's wearing the outfits of the bankrupt or defunct Trump Airlines crew. You see them there.
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Meanwhile, powerful words from the leader of Greenland and others saying, you're not going to buy Greenland. Also strong words from our allies in Denmark pushing back against this ridiculous treatment of them by Donald Trump.
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As I've said on other videos, I believe this is part of Donald Trump's weapon of mass distraction tactic to cover up the fact that prices are not going down, that the war in Ukraine from Russia's unlawful invasion is is not going to end in 24 hours. In fact, that time's elapsed already. And also Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine and Russia has said that he will be canceling his trip in January.
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Now, all of this is happening as well as Senate Democrats have delayed the Tulsi Gabbard nomination and her confirmation hearing because she's not providing the required vetting material. So one of the things that Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, is basically saying is that she's not turned over her FBI background check, her ethics disclosures, or a pre-hearing questionnaire.
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Now MAGA Republicans are blaming it somehow on the snow. I guess you can't send emails when it's snowing according to them. MAGA Republicans are saying that, oh, after terrorist attack on New Year's Eve and New Year's, it's sad to see Democrats playing politics. So you see how they're trying to use these terrorist attacks where it was a domestic terrorist in Texas.
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And then if they want to call the Cybertruck incident that, but that was a MAGA Trump supporter who made a pro-Trump manifesto. But basically Trump is, I mean, just, just look at the idiocracy here. You've got Donald Trump making posts of going like people like this in Greenland are the true people of Greenland and they're super MAGA, ultra MAGA. Greenland wants to go MAGA.
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Okay, the person who Donald Trump posted was a convicted drug trafficker. That's who Donald Trump is making the face of his deal with this deal or this conquest of Greenland. The Danish press reports that Timothy Zeeb served prison time for drug smuggling and violent crime. So there you have it, folks.
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I have a lot more to report on this, but you see how Trump's own supporters are turning against him as a result of this globalist approach. and how he's alienating our allies abroad as well. Hit subscribe, help us get to 4 million subscribers and thanks for watching.
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Housing will not be more affordable. The stock market will not be going higher than it was under President Biden. Things look grim, so Donald Trump needs distraction. So it's post after post after post about conquering our allies.
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Mind you, not a single word from Donald Trump about Venezuela, where the actual democratically elected leader's son-in-law was just kidnapped a day after Edmundo Gonzalez, who actually should be the leader... Venezuela was with President Biden in the Oval Office. His son-in-law just got kidnapped, but you won't hear Donald Trump talk about that.
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Hence, we need to increase the H-1B visa program, according to Donald Trump, which he said that he was either going to eliminate or phase out to get Americans those jobs. It's lie after lie. Oh, and then the other lie, that within 24 hours, he was going to negotiate peace in Ukraine.
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Well, now Donald Trump's liaison, his envoy to the Ukraine crisis, the Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine, has now pulled out of any peace negotiations in January. And he did that because Putin and Russians and Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, have been... mocking Donald Trump, mocking the United States.
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And so rather than be forceful with Russia or Xi Jinping or Venezuela, especially as within 24 hours of the actually elected president of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez, who's in exile, going to the White House and meeting with President Biden. Edmundo Gonzalez's son-in-law was kidnapped in Venezuela.
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You won't hear a peep from Donald Trump on that, but what you will hear him talking about is invading Greenland and that Denmark shouldn't have a right to Greenland. But folks, I want you to remember WMD, weapon of mass distraction.
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And anytime Donald Trump makes these statements and starts threatening this group or that group, I want you to think about what Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar said, like when Donald Trump was like, we're going to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene amplifies that and she goes, This is off to a great start.
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We're renaming the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, Democrat from Texas, goes, cool. but how does this lower costs? I want you to think about that. Cool, but how does that get Americans housing like you promised? Cool, how does that get Americans jobs? Cool, how is that going to lower the price of eggs and lower grocery prices?
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Cool, how is that going to lower mortgage rates? Cool, how are you going to do anything you promised? Oh wait, it was all a lie. So folks, I'm not saying that we shouldn't take Donald Trump's threats seriously when he talks about invading Greenland like he did repeatedly at that Palm Beach press conference.
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I'm not saying that we shouldn't take it seriously when he says he wants to make Canada a 51st state or invade Panama and take over the canal. But what I am saying is we have to be smart in our opposition and recognize that
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Donald Trump is a weapon of mass distraction, a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction. His press conference on Tuesday shows you what his plan is, right? Say you want to invade Greenland, talk about invading Panama. say all of these outlandish things, talk about faucets and water and drip, drip, drip, and the windmills are killing the whales, and try to distract the American people.
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That he wants to create all of these issues and we need to be laser focused on Donald Trump's promises to his base, to the American people, to the 49% of voters who actually voted for this guy. That he is a liar. And why is he lying? Because he represents the oligarchy. It's him and the billionaires who are actually not eating your cats and dogs or geese like he claimed migrants were.
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They are eating your lunch money. They're eating your checks. They are hoarding the wealth. for the, not just the 1%, but the 0.01% who are getting monumentally richer at your expense. Why is there issues with housing supply?
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Because Trump's billionaire friends, his oligarchs who run private equity companies, have bought up all of the homes, reduced the supply of homes, and have made it incredibly expensive just for regular Americans to afford homes. Why are prices so high? Well, number one, Donald Trump added $8 trillion in debt. That's the cause of inflation.
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That's what Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley said during the primary debate. And duh, when you add $8 trillion in debt and then you print money as recklessly as Donald Trump did, that's going to cause inflation. And when you break down supply chains like Donald Trump did, who had no clue what he was doing in his first term at all, That's going to cause inflation.
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President Biden got it under control, but the prices are still high, yes. But where's that being caused from? Also from price gouging from Donald Trump's billionaire friends who collude together and raise up the prices. Biden was trying to stop the price gouging. So what's the source of these things? It's Trump and his billionaire oligarchs. So Democrats need to get smart.
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Don't get distracted by all of these things. Say, okay, all these things are serious, but what are you doing about the prices? What are you doing about homes? What are you doing about health? What are you doing about education?
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Just take a look at the things that Donald Trump has said to try to distract. The reporter asks him, can you assure the world as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, you're not going to use military or economic coercion? Trump's response, no, I can't assure you on either of those two. You're going to send our troops to invade Greenland and Panama.
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By the way, the question normalizes it. As you try to gain control over Greenland and Panama, guess what? Greenland does not want to be owned by the United States. Denmark does not want to sell Greenland to the United States. Canada does not want to become a 51st state. The leader of Panama said, get out. And all this is helping is President Xi Jinping and China and Vladimir Putin
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He's a weapon of mass distraction from the fact that, guess what? He lied during his campaign over and over again. Folks, Egg prices aren't going down, they're going up. Grocery prices aren't going down, they're going up. The stock market is far more volatile as a result of Donald Trump's statements and behavior before he even is inaugurated.
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in their agenda in expanding the BRICS block to become a more powerful block than American alliances. More comments about Donald Trump attacking Greenland. The windmills are driving the whales crazy. Obviously, it's the windmills. Gas heaters are much less expensive than the heat is better. It's much better heat, as the expression goes. You don't itch.
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Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching yourself? It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. And they want to do no water. It comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. You can all have the water you want. It makes no difference. This stuff is stupid. That's why I don't show his videos or audio anymore.
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In addition to other reasons, I don't show his audio or video anymore. Weapon of mass distraction. It's trying to distract you from the fact that he's screwing you and the Republicans are screwing you. How else are they trying to distract you? Trump and MAGA Republicans like
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Nancy Mace oh their attack on transgender people oh my gosh there's a transgender volleyball player in San Jose State we want you to care about that and what and not the fact that these MAGA Republicans are making your lives actually miserable that they're taking away workers protections they're taking away your health care they're preventing you from accessing health care
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They want to abolish the Department of Education because they want to keep you dumb and stupid so they can get cheaper labor from overseas and then say that you're too stupid to work the jobs. I hope that you're just so ignorant that you fall for their stupid propaganda. Do you see what they're doing to you? Do you see what they're doing to you? But yeah, egg prices are up. Mortgage rates are up.
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The New York Post article, it's Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb is set to explode just in time for Trump to take office. Excuse me? Joe Biden's fiscal time bomb? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? President Biden's stock market up 55, 60% over Donald Trump. Unemployment at record lows, 16.2 million jobs created. There was never a month where America lost jobs.
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Your 401k, if you have one, is probably up under President Biden. I mean, 40,000 infrastructure projects, the most pro-union president. And you want to compare what President Biden is doing as well versus what Donald Trump's doing? Well, as Donald Trump's a weapon of mass distraction, this is what Biden was doing yesterday. Did you hear it reported anywhere on the media?
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The Biden administration announced a rule change which requires companies that compile consumer credit data to remove medical debt from their reports.
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More than $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans across the country will no longer negatively affect their credit score, and lenders will no longer be able to consider medical debt when evaluating whether or not to give someone a loan.
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As a result of this rule change, Americans could see their credit score skyrocket by an average of 20 points, and more than 20,000 new mortgages can now be approved each year. year. Also, President Biden previously did the same thing when it came to forgiving student loan negative credit reporting. He extinguished a bunch of that if you applied on the right time.
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So while Biden's been doing things, he signed into law the Social Security Fairness Act over the weekend. Donald Trump is talking about threatening our allies. It's a weak little man who talks about threatening our allies, but won't dare talk about Venezuela kidnapping the opposition leader who should be their president, and Mondo Gonzalez's son-in-law.
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Won't talk about that, won't talk about Putin, won't talk about Xi Jinping, but talks about Canada heinously, talks about Denmark heinously, talks about Panama heinously. a weapon of mass distraction. And folks, I think it's important that we cover it. We can talk about this stuff that Trump's saying, but I want to focus more on why he's saying it versus just saying, here's what he's saying.
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Here's what he said. He's an idiot. No, I want to focus on the distraction that he's doing. Why? Because he's playing you. He's trying to screw you. He's the reason why Trump We as Americans, the 99%, have not been able to obtain the economy that the people deserve, the healthcare that people deserve, the education that people deserve, the housing that people deserve.
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So his friends, Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon company just paid Melania $40 million for the rights to her horrible documentary with Brett Ratner, who was someone who has all these accusations of... Sexual misconduct against him during the Me Too movement.
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Donald Trump has completely frightened the bond markets. Donald Trump will not be able to help people get housing. Donald Trump has betrayed his base by saying, with Elon Musk essentially, that white Americans are too dumb. Americans are too dumb to have STEM-related jobs and to do jobs in technology and engineering and mathematics and science. That's what Donald Trump said.
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He's the director of the Melania film and Bezos paid him $40 million so that he could get close to Donald Trump while they're buying their yachts and their private jets, their Bombardier jets, their Gulfstream 600s. Americans are struggling to buy housing. But Trump's like, oh my God, we're going after Greenland. We're going, we're going to name the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.
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Oh, the volleyball player from San Jose. Stop it. Focus, focus. Weapon of mass distraction, focus. And go back to what Veronica Escobar said. Okay, cool. But how is that dealing with my life and the prices? Cool. What does that have to do with me right now? Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Jagmeet, we've been speaking for about 17 minutes or so. And I want to introduce our audience though, to just who you are. Of course, I would love to have you on more in the future, but I'd love for people just to know your background. I mean, How do you go to lead the NDP? Your background was a very compelling story when I learned about it.
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I'd love for you just very briefly to just share that story with our people here.
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You got a great story that we'll get into a little bit later as well. But one standing up to Trump in the first place, but to your overall reaction to this barrage of threats from the United States, from Trump specifically, not all of us against Canada.
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Finally, Jameet, we know that Donald Trump watches this show. He frequently cites it in his court filings. He blames us for things and it's all meritless, but we know that him and his team watch this. So if you had a message for him today, what would your message be to Donald Trump, the president elect of the United States?
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not we don't need to be bullying each other and we're going to fight facts my message is don't pick a fight with canada it's not a fight that's worth it jagmeet singh leader of the ndp in the house of commons thank you so much for joining us appreciate it thank you everybody hit subscribe let's get to four million subscribers by next month thank you
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You know, you have this Maple MAGA thing going on in Canada, as it's been referred to, embodied in the Conservative Party there, led by their opposition leader, Pierre Poliev. You know, Pierre Poliev recently went on this far right wing podcast by Jordan Peterson, where he seemed to mock
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I'm joined by Jagmeet Singh, member of the House of Commons and leader of the NDP in the House of Commons. We've got a lot going on in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from the Liberal Party just announced his resignation. His government was held together by an alliance, tenuous one, with the NDP. Mr. Singh, you had called for his resignation a few weeks later. He did indeed resign.
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all of the social programs in Canada, from healthcare to dental to pharma, and started saying it's a way that distribution goes from people who don't have a lot of money to the people in power. In other words, that The social programs in Canada are benefiting the wealthiest and not the people. It seems to be the message that he was spewing on Jordan Peterson and before.
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And you've confronted him about this. You know, he seems to be someone who's more supportive. of our failed healthcare system here in the United States. Let me just show this brief portion of that interview from the Jordan Peterson podcast. The fact that he was on that podcast to me says a lot in and of itself, but what he said, I thought was horrifying as an American.
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I wonder what Canadians think about this. Let's play this clip.
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What's your response to him being on that show, what he said on that show, and what's your message to Canadians, especially as we're in this pro-Rogue period? And I assume there'll be elections sometime after March.
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You know, before Trump won the election and started doing all of these threats against Canada, and frankly, even before Prime Minister Trudeau resigned, if I were to even talk to some of my Canadian buddies, somewhat off the record or just as friends, you know, they would think, though, you know, look, it's likely that this guy is going to win Pierre Poliev.
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And there seemed to be I don't want to call it defeatist because I don't want to project an Americo centric view of my conversations with Canadians. But there seemed to be a fait accompli that that we were that Canada is just going to be pulled into this Maple Maga thing and that inevitably that's where it's being just drawn into. And I would say
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But I just spoke to Jagmeet Singh, and he's saying this guy is so clearly articulating things that to me would go against foundational principles in Canada. So what am I missing here as an – are people really going to vote for this guy? Do people – I've seen this guy speak on the House floor. He's obnoxious. He gets kicked out. He's –
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First and foremost, I want to welcome you to the Midas Touch Network. We had some other NDP members on, but welcome. Thank you so much. I'm honored and excited to be here. Thanks so much. You know, when Donald Trump was elected and he first started attacking Canada, there was a lot of confusion, I think, within Canada about how to respond. but not from you.
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He seems to be everything that cuts against my American view of Canada. So, so why, what do you think is going to happen? I mean, can this guy be stopped? Can the conservative party truly, you know, truly be stopped after this pro rogue period ends?
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You know, one of the things you see with far right wing movements internationally, same thing here in the US, probably Canada, you know, everywhere is this divide and conquer approach, though, because they can use wedge issues to divide people. But sometimes the default ends up being. picking really flawed and harmful people who are actually attacking you.
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So I see you on Canadian media appearances and often you get asked the question, which is basically like, well, what could the NDP be doing here? Is it forming alliances again with the Liberal Party? I mean, you've been asked, well, look,
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you know you've been you called for trudeau's resignation and to and to basically disband the government that led to his resignation does that fall into the hands of the far right does that fall into the hands of pierre poliev and you get asked that a lot so what what's and oftentimes you get cut off when you're trying to give your answer when i've been watching uh canadian media but if you can explain that because some people are saying well look we don't want pierre poliev
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We didn't like Trudeau, but now what do we do? So what do you say to those people?
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You immediately responded right away and said, you will not bully us. And after that, I thought it gave others the confidence because you're seeing it now with a lot of other politicians out there in Canada who are saying that. But Donald Trump has been relentless. Just yesterday, he made the following post as well. Once again, referring to Canada as the 51st state.
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You know, talking about the friends of Pierre Poliev, Elon Musk seems to be amplifying the interview with Jordan Peterson and everything Conservative Party over and over again, you know, to see kind of foreign intervention in your elections so brazenly like this. I want to get your thoughts on that and your message to the Canadian people there. We're seeing this internationally, though, right?
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I mean, we're seeing Elon Musk with the Reform Party in the UK, with the AFD in Germany. There's not a far right wing party that this guy Elon Musk is not propping up. even more far right wing than even Nigel Farage is like, all right, you're getting a little too far there, which tells you a lot.
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But it's that alliance that Musk is trying to create, right, with Poliev, AFD, Reform Party, MAGA, and bring this together to help the billionaires and the oligarchs. Do I have that right? Or what's your response as Canadians are seeing, why is Elon Musk there? coming into Canada? Why is he messing with us?
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And he said that Canadians would love for Canada to be the 51st state and that this is something that they want. What a great nation it would be essentially if the United States conquers Canada. I want to get your response to that for those who don't know you, too. You got a background in jujitsu. You went to law school. You got it.
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He goes... We don't need their lumber. He goes, we don't need their aluminum. He goes, we don't need their oil. He says, we don't need their resources. They just rely on us for military protection. So they need to become the 51st state of the United States. Donald Trump then said,
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People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to Greenland, but if they do, they should give it up to America because we need it for our national security. First off, we don't need it for our national security. And number two, Donald Trump is threatening Denmark. Donald Trump is threatening our NATO ally, as Greenland is a territory of Denmark.
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I'm gonna do a whole other video of this, but yesterday Donald Trump reposted a video of someone who purported to be from Greenland who was saying that he wants Greenland to be part of the United States. It was a heavyset man who ended up mocking the United States for having fat people, he said in the video, and he put on a MAGA cap. It turns out that individual was a well-known drug trafficker.
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from the area. But I digress. I'll do a whole other video on that. Great reporting by our team, and they looked at some of the reporting out of Copenhagen to report on that for all of you. Donald Trump then goes, the windmills, the windmills, they're driving the whales crazy. Obviously, the windmills are driving the whales crazy, he says. Then Donald Trump says, what is really important is
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Donald Trump held a press conference on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida that was demented, delusional, and dangerous, but it was particularly very demented and delusional. Look, folks, I don't play Donald Trump audio or video clips anymore, but I want to share with you what went down at this press conference so you can understand how Demented, delusional and dangerous he is.
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is that we will be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Keith Oberman says, Donald Trump then says, they also want to go back. They have already started that too. When you buy a faucet, no water comes out. Even in areas that have so much water, you don't know what to do. It's called rain. It comes down from heaven. It's called rain.
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It's what Donald Trump said at the press conference. Trump goes on to say, they want very little water, very little water to go into your dishwasher, almost none. And you know what people do? They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing, keeping it going. They end up using more water, like washing machines. He then goes on to say, gas heater is much less expensive. The heat is much better.
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It's much better heat. As the expression goes, you don't itch. Does anybody have a heater where you go and you're scratching? That's what they want you to have. They don't want you to have gas. Again, what the heck is he even talking about? Who is they? What's he talking about? Itchy and scratchy. This is bizarre, folks. He goes on to say, the Panama Canal is a disgrace.
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What took place at the Panama Canal, Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1 and they were supposed to treat us well. He then goes on to say, if those hostages aren't back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break loose.
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And when he finished the press conference, he said, I want to remind everybody all hell is going to break loose. So I'm just trying to get this straight. Wasn't he supposed to be the master negotiator and just be able to solve all of this? Weren't all the MAGA folk telling us, oh, he's going to stop World War III.
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He's threatening to be the bad guy right now in World War III and go after Greenland and attack Canada and Mexico and Panama. And by the way, you know what he's not talking about? Russia. China because he's terrified of Vladimir Putin. He's terrified of President Xi Jinping. I thought Donald Trump was going to bring peace in Ukraine in 24 hours.
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Oh, I guess he wants to distract from that now by saying he wants to attack our NATO allies. We don't forget here at the Midas Touch Network. So you're not going to do the thing that you said, bring peace to Ukraine, but you are now threatening military force. against Greenland.
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And as one commentator wrote, and I agree with this, just think about the lack of respect this shows our troops where you are for just utter stupidity and your own ego now threatening to use American troops to attack a NATO ally in Greenland.
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He's talking about windmills, killing whales. He's talking about not ruling out sending our military to conquer Greenland and go to war with Denmark. He's whining about his court cases. He's talking about how heaters make him itchy. He's talking about water dripping from faucets and he's going like drip, drip, drip. It was very strange. Let me explain what went down.
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As this account says, Rotimiadio says, Iran war, also along with the Greenland war and the Panama Canal war, also the war with Mexico when we blow up cartels. Am I keeping up with all the wars this guy wants to start? And also notice what a weak person Donald Trump is. Oh, I need all of this to be done before I get into office.
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Remember what Donald Trump did to President Biden in Afghanistan, where Donald Trump cut a deal to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners who then took over Afghanistan. And then when Donald Trump did not even do a transition and President Biden took over, President Biden had to deal with the crisis that Donald Trump created.
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And now Donald Trump wants President Biden to solve the problems for him before he takes office. Pathetic.
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As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes, Trump ran on a platform as a peace candidate who would stop endless wars and would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, but now concedes that is not going to happen while he threatens Mexico, wants to invade Greenland and Panama, and wants to take over Canada through economic warfare.
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Donald Trump has then asked the following question about Meta or Facebook, because Zuckerberg, Trump announced he will not be doing fact checks and he will be moving a lot of his team that deals with content moderation to Texas because California is too woke. Donald Trump is asked, so Meta announced they will stop doing fact checks. Trump says, I think they've come a long way.
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The reporter goes, do you think he's responding to the threats you've made in the past? Donald Trump responds, probably. Aaron Parnas writes, oh look, meta rolling over for Donald Trump. Color me shocked. Why Donald Trump doesn't want fact checks is because when we fact check his lies, his heinous behavior, his just disgusting being, he looks like a fool.
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When he says stupid things like this, Jack Smith will do a 500 page report and it will be a fake report. Like the investigation was fake. If they're not allowed to issue to the report, that's the way it should be. Why should he be allowed to write a fake report? It's fake. Everything is fake. I mean, all of the witness testimony is fake. The videos are fake. The photographs are fake.
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Your statements are fake. The audio recordings are fake. No, I would like to see the report about you taking classified information and hiding it at Mar-a-Lago. I would like to see that data and that information, especially if it includes nuclear secrets, which it is believed to include. Donald Trump then says he's asked a question about January 6th, 2021.
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And Donald Trump says that it was the FBI who were involved. And he says Hezbollah, we have to look into Hezbollah, that somehow Hezbollah was involved in the January 6th insurrection. Again, now you have Meta, Facebook, too afraid to fact check that. Move their crew to Texas so we have to say Hezbollah caused the insurrection. Are you kidding me?
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Donald Trump was asked by a reporter, can you assure the world that as you try to get control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, You are not going to use military force. You are not going to use military coercion. Donald Trump says, no, I can't assure you on either of those two that he will not use military or economic coercion.
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I mean, honestly, if there are any Trump supporters watching this, do you realize how stupid this looks? And by the way, go watch the if you think I'm just giving you the tidbits, go back, watch the full press conference. If you go and watch that and you're like, oh, that's my guy. Well, do some deep reflection right there.
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A reporter asks Donald Trump, Elon Musk is drawing criticism for some of his statements about foreign affairs in Europe. Is that appropriate? Trump's response is you mean where he likes people that tended to be conservative? I don't know the people. Well, let me be clear, Donald. Elon Musk is now your top advisor. He's someone who's either pulling your strings or right by your side.
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He's running a fake government agency which has significant power over life and death of Americans and nobody elected that guy. So you're attached at the hip to this guy now. He's not just saying things about conservative people.
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He's saying things that even the far right extremist party, the Reform Party in the UK, is saying Musk is being too extreme for us by supporting people who have essentially been accused of inciting like domestic terrorism, people who are corrupt. criminals, people who have sympathies for white supremacists, people who are white supremacists.
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And even Nigel Farage is like who is a far right wing extremist in UK is like, OK, Musk has gone too far. It's not conservative people. Elon Musk is supporting a party in Germany called the AFD, which basically sympathizes with neonauts. They're basically neo-Nazi sympathizers. So, no, it's not just he likes conservative people. And Trump knows what he's saying right there.
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He knows the gaslighting. Again, he's asked about using military force on Canada. He says probably not military force, but that he will use economic force against Canada to try to annex it and acquire it and make it the 51st state. He goes on to complain about Canada more. He goes after New York Judge Juan Merchan and says that he's a crooked judge. I'm under a gag order while attacking the judge.
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Doesn't... All Donald Trump wants to be able to do, apparently, is to attack the judge's daughter, because that's what a weak little man Donald Trump is. That's the only remaining part of the gag order. Just don't attack the judge's daughter, who's a private citizen. And then Donald Trump praises Judge Eileen Cannon, the judge who he appointed, who...
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made a ruling that no other judge has ever found in the history of America, that special counsels don't exist. So she dismissed the case where Donald Trump took nuclear information on the basis of special counsels don't exist, but apparently they just don't exist for Donald Trump because special counsels exist for everybody else, like Hunter Biden was prosecuted by a special counsel, for example.
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But Judge Cannon ruled on Tuesday that the report that's being prepared by the DOJ about their findings regarding Donald Trump can't be released. She issued an injunction stopping Merrick Garland and Jack Smith from releasing their report. Again, you want to talk about weaponization? Take a look at what Judge Cannon's doing as Donald Trump's praising her from this Palm Beach press conference.
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Donald Trump is then asked about the police officers and other people who were injured on January 6th. And Trump response is basically, look, all I care about is Ashley Babbitt. She's the only person who was killed and he blames the police for killing her. when she was an insurrectionist who tried to break into the secure area with a mob of people who were trying to kill members of Congress.
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He will not rule that out, meaning that he's open to going to war with Greenland. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says... This is where we are at, folks. The president-elect is not ruling out using military force to seize Greenland and the Panama Canal. Then Donald Trump goes on a rant saying that Canada should be a state. He says we really don't need a lot of stuff from Canada.
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And many of those members of Congress, Republicans are so spineless that they go along with all of this crap. We're not going to normalize this behavior. I'm not showing the audio of him. I'm not showing the video of him, folks. I'm just letting you know what went down.
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And if you want to go watch it, there's lots of places you can find it for yourself to verify that everything I said was accurate. But that was a summary of this, as I said at the outset, delusional, demented, and dangerous press conference. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 4 million subscribers.
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Trump Screws His Entire Legal Defense in Front of World
Donald Trump's joint session speech was not only the worst speech I think I've ever seen in Congress, but it also gave all of the people, all of the groups suing Donald Trump a treasure trove of evidence to use against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Let me explain.
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All right, so now let's just take a look at some of the affidavits, some of the declarations that were submitted on behalf of Doge in the various court proceedings. Take a look at this one, for example, and there have been declarations like this in numerous cases.
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Anna Bauer says the following, in a new filing, a Trump administration official says that Elon Musk is not the administrator in charge of Doge. He's a senior advisor to the president per the declaration. And you take a look at this declaration right here, and it says the following.
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This is written by somebody named Joshua Fisher, who may be a little nervous tonight after submitting this declaration. It says, I am the director of the Office of Administration. I have personal knowledge of Mr. Musk's employment status within the federal government. Mr. Musk is an employee of the White House. He holds the position as a non-career special government employee, SGE.
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In that job, Musk is a senior advisor to the president. It says it's not uncommon to have that position. Then it goes on to say... The U.S. Doge service is a component of the executive office of the president. The U.S. Doge service temporary organization is within U.S. Doge service. Both are separate from the White House office. Mr. Musk is an employee of the White House office.
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During one portion of the speech, Donald Trump praised Elon Musk and specifically referred to Elon Musk as the head of Doge, which Donald Trump says was a department that he and Elon Musk created. Now, this directly contradicts the declarations and affidavits that were submitted to federal courts, which said that Doge is not a new department or agency. and that Elon Musk is not its head.
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He is not an employee of the U.S. Doge service or U.S. Doge service temporary organization. Mr. Musk is not the U.S. Doge service administrator. Because Donald Trump right there seemed to say that Elon Musk is the head of Doge, which is its own department, not something that already existed.
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Let's take a look at some of the other court cases where we can find various representations that were made to the courts that, again, seem to contradict what you just heard there from Donald Trump. Like here's a case before Judge Chong. It's a three-hour preliminary injunction hearing, which took place last week. involving a case against Elon Musk and Doge for violating the appointments clause.
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And this federal judge grew frustrated when the government's lawyer was unable to answer question about Doge's chain of command and Musk's role. I'm sure what Donald Trump just said at the joint session is going to be shown to this judge quickly. Quite immediately, here's the conversation or the questions from the judge and the government lawyer. Judge, who was the head of Doge before Amy Gleeson?
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Because one of the things that the Trump administration did is basically pick this like random person who worked at UDS, the United States Digital Services. And her name was Amy Gleeson and said that she is actually the head of Doge to try to use her as a cover-up for Elon Musk, who's really running the show, as you heard Donald Trump just said. So this judge is like, who's Amy Gleeson?
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You're saying Amy Gleeson? Who's this person? Who's the head of Doge before Gleeson? Government counsel. I can't answer that. I don't know. Judge, I mean, that seems like a pretty knowable fact. You don't know who was running it. Before Amy Gleason, government counsel. I'm sure it's knowable. I just don't know it. I'm very conscious of being accurate with the court.
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I just, I can't make a representation, your honor. Judge, have you asked anybody? Government lawyer. I have not asked. Actually, strike that. I have asked previously, but I wasn't able to get the answer. Judge, are you saying there was an administrator before Ms. Gleason? or that there was nobody until this new person, Gleason, was put in, government counsel.
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I'm not saying either because I just don't know. Judge, is there a piece of paper, counsel, like an appointment paper? Is there one that says Elon Musk, senior advisor to the president, not the head of Doge, government lawyer? Sorry, now you're talking about Elon Musk, not the Doge administrator? Judge,
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Listen, counsel, the plaintiffs who are suing Trump and Doge are saying that Musk is the head of Doge. You're saying Musk isn't the head of Doge, but we can't tell you who was, which admittedly is highly suspicious. So I'm not at this point saying that you're not being candid, but this whole operation raises question.
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There's an affidavit saying he's a senior advisor of the president, but there's a strange disconnect where he has referred to himself in public as affiliated with Doge and not as a senior advisor to the president. Until recently, after these lawsuits were filed, his position apparently has changed. Having some backup documentation for that would be useful.
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This is also from that same encounter with the judge. The judge goes, so why do we get a declaration from these people, but there's no documentation or anything there to which the government lawyer said, look, look, judge, it's just important that everyone understands the context here. Since January 20th, we received approximately 80 lawsuits against
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And our staff at the Justice Department's federal programs branch has been cut in half. We have about half the number of staff we had in November, and we are working on expedited schedules. The judge is like saying, so I'm just trying to understand this. Like, are you saying that you don't have the staff? This is what the judge goes.
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So you're saying the Justice Department isn't taking this case seriously, that you're not staffed sufficiently? to which the lawyer goes, it's the opposite. I've had I've been working day and night since being since January 20th. We're working really hard. And the judge is like, I understand that. But come on, like, like, come on here. So let me just show you.
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I mean, and by the way, now Donald Trump clearly said Elon Musk is is the head of Doge. I mean, you heard him say that.
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It's not its leader. I want you to watch what Donald Trump just said. He's going to potentially cause a lot of lawyers that work at the DOJ to be very nervous tonight that they may lose their bar licenses. And he also provided a gift to the people who are suing him, suing Musk, to get accountability. Here, play this clip.
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This is a Caroline Levitt at a press conference when the reporter goes, who's the Doge administrator? And she goes, I'm not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium. That's what she said first a few weeks back. Play this clip.
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So then she said it was Amy Gleeson, and then they just made up that it was this Amy Gleeson person. And so she goes, I told you who it was. It's Amy Gleeson. Everybody knows that. Everybody knows it. Aren't there bigger things in the world who the Doge administrator is? Here she is saying that.
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And then here she is saying she's been the Doge administrator for quite some time. And then the reporter's like, but it seems like the Doge staff just found out yesterday. Here, play this clip.
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Now, see, one of the other big things as well is if this is a new department that was created, as Donald Trump said, it's a new department. A new department requires Congress because we were supposed to be a democracy, not an authoritarian regime. And so this is why the whole kind of con, the fraud that the Trump administration was pushing was to say that Doge wasn't a new thing.
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They were saying you have the United States Digital Service, UDS, which was already in existence. But by the way, what they were basically doing was just like helping with the websites. They were like almost like IT support, like it wasn't government agencies and nothing to do with that. So what the Trump administration, the regime tried to say is that, oh, UDS is
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is doge so doge just rebranded was a rebrand of uds it wasn't like they created a new department and elon musk is not its head because if you had to do that then elon musk has to sit for depositions and he's got a answer for what's going on which they want to hide that's why
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They're saying, oh, he's a special advisor to avoid FOIA requests, freedom of information requests, because he doesn't want to have to answer for it. And if it's a new department, Congress had to create it. So by Donald Trump saying what you heard at the outset, it's basically a stunning admission. Also not that stunning. that the whole operation is unlawful.
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I bet you lawyers start using that right away and they're going to go to court with it. It's what I would do. It's the first thing I would do. Take that right away to the judge. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Blows Up Key Program in Ultimate Betrayal
With Donald Trump and Elon Musk's wrecking ball to our federal government, let me ask you this question. If you were to call the Social Security Administration to try to get a disability application processed, how long do you think it will take? Well, our friend Sandy Botchum, she's an incredible photographer and investigative journalist, tried.
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We know that the Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce, laying off more than 7,000 people, shutting down offices, big Social Security offices in red states, in places like Alabama, have been shut down. The physical office locations have. Elon Musk went on the Joe Rogan podcast and said that Social Security is one big, massive Ponzi scheme.
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In other words, calling the whole thing a fraud. And then Donald Trump at the joint address to Congress last night said that he and Elon Musk have found probable fraud in Social Security. That's his language. And I want you to take note that Elon Musk, by calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme, is already calling the whole thing a fraud. Do you see what they're doing here?
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So here's Donald Trump from the State of the Union saying they found fraud in the Social Security Administration. Play this clip.
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The answer is that they're making this up to gut Social Security. As we posted, when's this post? October 29th, 2024 on the Midas Touch account. We were trying to warn everybody. Elon Musk admits that his plan and Trump's plan will be to collapse the U.S. economy, says it's necessary for everyday Americans to experience temporary hardship.
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The answer may or may not surprise you, but let me get to the punchline. It's 200 to 230 days. So when they say, oh, we're not going to touch Social Security, they already have. Previously, the wait times were about 28 minutes in 2024, now 200 to 230 days. Listen for yourself.
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And as the anonymous account posted yesterday, they literally told you they were going to crash the economy. And now they are doing it. I'll show you right here. This was Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan podcast, where he says, you could hear for yourself, he calls Social Security the biggest Ponzi scheme of all times. Here, play this clip.
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Now, rewinding as well, Donald Trump was asked during the first cabinet meeting that he held that Elon Musk was in attendance, can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be touched? And you can hear what his answer is right here.
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Here's Maga Mike Johnson from the past weekend where he said, Elon Musk's team has their algorithms crawling, this is his language, crawling through the social security to find fraud waste and abuse. I don't know, how about a 230-day wait time to get your disability application processed? Maybe that's fraud, waste, and abuse. But what do I know? Here, play this clip.
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And notice that language that they use over and over again. Here's Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, another billionaire. It's all these billionaires who want to gut Social Security. Here he goes, we're not going to cut one penny from someone who deserves it. So the threshold is, does Trump think you deserve it? And if you deserve it, then maybe you get it.
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Well, everybody deserves it who's paid into the system. This is Trump's commerce secretary. You can hear him say it for yourself. Play this clip.
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I want to give you other data points as well. The former Social Security head stepped down over Doge accessing the private Social Security data. Remember when we reported on that and CNN reported on that February 17, 2025. The Social Security Administration's acting commissioner said,
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stepped down from her role at the agency over the Department of Government Efficiency, requesting access to Social Security recipient information, according to two people familiar with the official's departure who were not authorized to discuss the matter. Acting Commissioner Michelle King's departure from the agency over the weekend after more than 30 years of service, she worked for it.
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was initiated after King refused to provide Doge staffers at the Social Security Administration with access to sensitive information, the people said. So they probably have access to your sensitive information and your data right now. And while all of this is happening, while Trump's crashing the markets, this is the type of stuff they're talking about on Fox.
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As Aaron Rupert says, here's the view from Pyongyang. It's basically North Korea. At this point, here, play this clip. And here's Alina Haba saying that, you know, even veterans don't deserve their jobs, that they're not working hard enough. Play this clip.
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Trump Blows Up Key Program in Ultimate Betrayal
Now, I just want to give you a bit of a flashback to one of the things that former President Biden did at the end of his presidency.
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Here, he was cracking jokes to sign the Social Security Fairness Act, which actually boosted payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers, and other public service jobs. Here, play this clip.
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Here, former President Biden makes comments during the signing of the Social Security Fairness Act about Americans who have worked hard all their lives and earned an honest living should be able to retire with dignity. Here, play this clip.
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just so you can take a look at the prior processing times over here. You can see right here in seconds, the prior processing times, but this should not come as a shock. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are indeed targeting social security. This is top of their mind.
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And so you see the difference right there as well. I wanted to show you those clips because with former President Biden, it was about protecting rights, actually making things more efficient, reducing the wait times on calls. And with Trump and Doge and Elon Musk, it's about taking a wrecking ball to it. Let me just show you this other this finally this moment right here.
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where Donald Trump in that joint address last night said that, you know, the age of unelected bureaucrats going through your stuff has ended here.
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I mean, how do they even say that with a straight face when Elon Musk has gone through your social security data, your medical records, your tax information, and Trump and he and everyone, these Republicans are crashing the economy. It's despicable. Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Trump's tariffs against Canada are backfiring as Canada stood up for itself, issued a firm and powerful and forceful response, and it has Donald Trump's administration reeling. Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was reportedly nervously calling the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and saying, Doug, please don't do this retaliatory tariff stuff. Please don't cancel the Starlink contracts.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
It seems like this Trump regime is in panic mode as stagflation fears bubble up as the Trump tariffs take effect. Now, economists believe that there will be stagflation, meaning rising inflation and a recession when it comes to GDP growth.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Remember, the Atlanta Fed is now predicting basically a 3% plus contraction in the economy where it was supposed to be a 4% growth if Donald Trump didn't do a thing and just let former President Biden's economy roll on. There you have it, folks. Canada standing up powerfully to the United States. And we're not even talking about the boycotts, the boycott of U.S. tourism, the boycott of all U.S.
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referring to the unity of mostly all of the premiers of the provinces in Canada aligned at the federal level with Prime Minister Trudeau. Doug Ford goes on to say, as a first step in our response, Ontario will rip up our contract with Starlink. Take U.S. alcohol off of LCBO shelves and ban U.S. companies from government procurements. Prime Minister Trudeau issued the following statement.
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goods. Think about the tourism hit when that shows up in our economic data. That's in the Atlanta Fed model in addition to other things. That's why they're predicting like a three and a half to four percent contraction of our GDP recession territory in the first quarter. Trump took a perfectly stable Good economy and crashed it into the ground.
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And you see how weak and pathetic he is, like a quartered rat that he is. No offense to quartered rats. We're frankly more likable. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
The moment U.S. tariffs came into effect this morning, so did the Canadian response he wrote yesterday. Canada will be implementing... 25% tariffs against $155 billion of American products, starting with $30 billion worth of goods immediately and the remaining $125 billion in 21 days time. You see right here, the LCBO halted the sale of all American alcohol.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
The LCBO is the world's single largest purchaser of alcohol. A loss... right away, of $1 billion to American companies. Like that, Donald Trump did it. Here's what LCBO posted. For the good of Ontario, for the good of Canada, in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, products produced in the U.S. are no longer available until further notice. Looking for an alternative?
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Ask our team about our extensive range of Ontario and Canada-made products. And you saw right there, All of the American alcohol being taken off the shelves. Also, lumber futures soaring to its highest price in recent memory as well, making it very difficult for new homes to be built in the United States. So here's the play by play of what went down as I talked about it earlier.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Laura Stone got the scoop. So the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, he had to call Premier Doug Ford of Ontario after the press conference by Doug Ford, basically saying, look, your response is too tough. It's too aggressive. You got to tone it down. You're making Donald Trump sad. You're making Donald Trump sad. And Ford told Lutnick, Lutnick, Howard, I ain't backing down. You punched us.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
You went after us. We have to respond. You have to understand, Howard. You come after us. We're coming after you. We were prepared. Your people weren't ready. What you going to do about it? So then Howard Lutnick runs on Fox, American state regime media. And then he's like, all right, we're trying to work out a deal. We're trying to figure something out with Canada and Mexico.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
You know, Trump's a good dealmaker. This is... It's all going to plan, everybody. It's all going to plan. Here's what Lutnick said here. Watch this.
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Just to clarify, I told you- Yeah, you see, when Canada smacked These losers down, you see how weak and pathetic this regime is. This wannabe authoritarian regime of freaking losers who are in charge in the United States right now. These snake oil salesmen, con men who are just trying to screw up the international order to benefit Putin.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Please tell all of your supermarkets not to take the American bourbon and American whiskey off of the shelves. Please don't do that. Let's try to do a deal. to which the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, said, you punched us in the face, Howard. We have to respond this way. And Howard was like, look, we're going to try to do a deal. Donald Trump needs to kind of get out of this.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Yeah, when you screw over Canada, Canada goes over the boards. When you screw with Canada, Canada goes elbows up. Canada's a peaceful nation, as many of our allies are, unlike Russia. But you screw with them, you poke them, they stand up. Here is the Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the speech that he gave yesterday that really scared the crap out of the American regime. Here, watch this.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
And here he is again from the day before that even, Doug Ford saying, we're going to cut off your electricity next too. We're going after you. You come after us, we're coming after you. Watch this.
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We're going to come back twice as hard. And here he was on CNN saying how livid Canadians are. Play it. How upset, how mad are Canadians?
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Erie is saying that Canada will not hesitate to use every tool in its toolbox, play this.
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Thank you, Miracle Made, for sponsoring this episode. and Prime Minister Trudeau's speech yesterday, pitch perfect. You know, he's acting like a wartime president, because it is a declaration of war essentially against Canada by the United States. Here's what he said.
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Here he is again. Let's play it.
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So Doug Ford, the conservative premier of Ontario, who used to be Maple Baga, this guy used to be kind of supportive of Trump, but that kind of was supportive of Trump until he said Trump stabbed him in the back with the tariffs. Here's the message that he posted yesterday. Canada and Ontario didn't start this trade war with President Trump, but Team Canada is ready to win it.
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Canada Leaders Put the Screws in Trump in Public
Now, all of the MAGA Republicans had to go on state regime media in the US, Fox, and had to be like, well, look, Short-term pain's okay, right? Short-term pain's okay, right?
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And then Donald Trump at the State of the Union, you may have seen, or the joint address, whatever the hell they're calling it, was like, we're good with pain, right? We'll suffer a little bit. Everyone's okay with some short-term suffering. Here, watch this.
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Well, if you take a look at the Dow Jones yesterday, it crashed yesterday. Over the past month, it's down over 2,000 points. Over 65% of Americans believe the economy is doing very bad.
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right now that's what they're saying very bad but folks the big mega influencer cat turd wants you to know that these tariffs are going to hurt canada a hundred times more than us and the canadian leaders know it they can't hide their panic really because now you It doesn't seem like they're panicked. It seems like they're prepared.
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New York Gov Hochul Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Policies
I'm joined by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. These Trump tariffs against Canada and Mexico going to affect New York a lot. What are you hearing and seeing already? Governor, what should the people know about them?
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Let's talk about those cuts to Medicaid. I mean, I mean, millions and millions of people in New York and other states. I mean, red states as well on Medicaid. This is not like he's just attacking blue states or people who vote a certain way. Tell us about the impact this is having or can have on New York. What are you telling the people in New York and what should we know?
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what went through your mind when donald trump started posting long live the king and then he like reposted like fake time magazine covers from the official white house account as he was going after the policies of new york and and just reposting this stuff i i mean look it's it's it's cruel it's unconstitutional but like this is not normal like this is not annoying this is weird stuff like so what what do you what do you make of just this behavior
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What's your message? You know, we know his staff often watches these clips. They have their rapid response 47 or whatever. And so we know that they follow, you know, these shows, these interviews. And so if he's watching this evening on the eve of when he's giving this joint address, like what's your message? What would your message be to him?
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You saw that town hall, I think it was in New York's 3rd and Hofstra, Hofstra University in Hempstead. Congress member Swazi was a plus five, I think, Trump area. And he was talking about how horrified Congress member Swazi, how horrified he was about what happened in the Oval Office with Trump attacking Zelensky. He got a standing ovation at that town hall, I think.
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I heard earlier this morning that the head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee said, stop the town halls, cancel them all. And they're now accusing these people of being like paid actors, which just to me further demeans the suffering of these people. What what what what vibes are you? Are you seeing a vibe shift in New York amongst the electorate there?
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You talk about the You're Hired program that you have in New York. Any other kind of programs and policies that you're excited about right now that you want New Yorkers and the rest of the country to hear about?
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Let's talk about some of the other policies coming out of this Trump regime that we know are harming New Yorkers. Would love to get your take on some of these federal job cuts in particular. And then I think we should also talk about how Donald Trump and the Republican budget gutting $880 billion in Medicaid is going to impact New Yorkers. Yeah.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul, thanks for joining us.
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Trump Crumbles in Public as His Entire Life Unravels
The day began with Donald Trump crashing the markets after imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. It concluded with Donald Trump giving the worst joint session speech in American history. And right before he gave that speech, He gave his old buddy Chief Justice John Roberts a pat on the back saying, thank you, thank you. I won't forget what you did, John. Take a look at this.
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How uncertainty from Trump's tariff is rippling through the economy. Trump's tariffs cause chaos in auto industry. The two-headed monster stalking the economy has a name, stagflation. Tariffs have stoked fears of a dreary combination of weak growth and inflation. The Atlanta Federal Reserve believes there will be negative 3% GDP in the first quarter. When if Donald Trump just did nothing,
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and let former President Biden's economy go on auto drive, literally do nothing. The expectation was that the growth would be 3% to 4%, not a contraction, not minus 3% to 4%. Oh, and here's the other headline from the Wall Street Journal from yesterday. This is a Murdoch-owned property. This tilts conservative. Tariff war risks sinking world into Great Depression.
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International Chamber of Commerce warns the world economy could face crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s. And by the way, it wasn't like Donald Trump assuaged the fears last night. He said tariffs. There's going to be a little bit of a disturbance. There'll be a disturbance, but we're okay with disturbances, right? Everybody's okay with disturbances. Here, play this clip.
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Everybody's OK with disturbances. Look, we did tell you that he and Elon Musk said that they wanted to inflict hardship upon Americans. They said they wanted to break it down, kind of crash it down. And then they said they would build it back up once they took the whole system down. I mean, that's actually what they said they wanted to do.
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Listen to what he says here in the joint session from last night. Donald Trump says to Speaker Maga Mike Johnson. Get rid of the CHIPS Act. Get rid of anything left of the CHIPS Act.
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Just to remind you, the CHIPS Act was a bipartisan piece of legislation that was signed into law by former President Biden that invested over $50 billion in the semiconductor industry in the United States and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. Red states, blue states, ruby red areas. led to a manufacturing boom that Trump is destroying. Listen to him. Listen to him.
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Remember, Chief Justice John Roberts issued the ruling that gave Donald Trump absolute immunity so he could escape criminal accountability. Look at the raw corruption after Donald Trump crashed our markets earlier in the day. Just watch it. Thank you again.
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And look for Donald Trump, who said that he's going to stop World War III from, remember, Donald, I'll stop World War III. There's no World War III. In fact, America's alliances were stronger than ever under former President Biden. NATO was stronger than ever. But now look at what the Chinese embassy in the U.S. posted. This is the Chinese embassy in the U.S.
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They're seeing how weak Donald Trump is. This is their post. If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. That's the Chinese embassy in the U.S. saying any type of war, we're ready to fight until the end. Let's go from China.
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Let's go to the United Kingdom, where the Daily Star has on its front cover this photo of J.D. Vance, Trump deputy's vile slur on Brit heroes. Vance slams us, the incredible, brave United Kingdom armed forces who had valiantly fought in many, many wars. As a random country who hasn't fought a war in 40 years, you see Donald in the background.
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These are like little babies, these people, Donald and J.D. But 636 of our troops died in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting alongside the U.S. I mean, you have J.D. Vance and Donald Trump attacking our closest allies like the U.K., like Canada, like Mexico. But, you know, Canada and U.K. fought by the U.S. 's side all of the time. Prime Minister Trudeau posted the following yesterday.
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The moment the U.S. tariffs came into effect, so did the Canadian response. Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155 billion of American products, starting with $30 billion worth of goods. And the Premier of Ontario said, Doug Ford posted, Canada and Ontario didn't start this trade war, but Team Canada is ready to win it.
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As a first step in our response, Ontario will rip up our contract with Starlink, take U.S. alcohol off of LCBO's shelves, they're the biggest purchaser of alcohol, and ban U.S. companies from government procurements. That sent the United States stock market into the crash yesterday.
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And then Howard Lutnick, Trump's commerce secretary, called up Doug Ford and others to beg them, please don't be mean to the U.S. Donald, can we just make up a fake deal again to give? Just don't be rude to Donald. Just pretend you like him. And Doug Ford said, nah, you punched us. You gut punched your ally and now we're gut punching you back. Canada was prepared and ready for this.
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They outmaneuvered the US. Canada's going to have economic difficulties. But as we've been saying on this podcast and on this YouTube channel, they prepared in Canada. And all of a sudden, the US is like, oh, what? They did this? They retaliated? Yeah, we said they were going to do it. They said they were going to do it. And good for them.
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This ridiculous, idiotic Trump regime is driving the United States into the ground. Take a look at this poll from Civics. How would you rate the condition of the national economy right now? Negative 38. 65% of Americans say the economy is very bad or fairly bad right now. But you know,
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Man, Chief Justice John Roberts will go down as the most pathetic chief justice in American history. And that's saying something. So as we sit on the Midas Touch account, is this what they all meant? By the red wave, the stock market is down or the Dow Jones is down over 2000 points, close to 5% in the last month alone.
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The MAGAs are focused on all the important things on people's minds, like they're fighting with themselves over the release of the Epstein files, right? We know that Donald Trump was like Epstein's close friend. And so we told you Trump never wanted the Epstein files released. But for some reason, the MAGAs were like, we're going to release it. Trump's like, nah, can you not release it? Like, no.
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He kind of trafficked the girls from Mar-a-Lago, like Virginia Giuffre, and I kind of was friends with them and Ghislaine Maxwell. I mean, right? So here was the reporting yesterday from ABC. New. Attorney General Bondi blindsided the White House by handing out the Epstein file binders to MAGA influencers last week.
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Bondi told staff not to tell the White House the plan, apparently thinking the surprise would be well received. Surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise. I mean, they're idiotic. Go look at the photos. Go look at the photos. Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side.
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Donald Trump held beauty pageants where he said that he looks at the women naked without their consent because as the owner of beauty pageants, they let you do it. Donald Trump held beauty pageants with teenage girls, 12-year-old girls, 13-year-old girls, younger than teenagers. Trump was photographed on these boats with these young girls. The whole thing is like disgusting. It's disgusting.
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Trump was found liable for sexual assault. What are we talking about here? He's on audio bragging about him. But folks... MAGA Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace focused on the important things like this. Women want someone who will go to battle for them. I am your lion. Hear me roar, as our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski goes. That's a male lion. That's not a lioness.
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So for someone fixated on women, she picked a lion, a male, not a lioness. The cosplay continued yesterday. A new outfit was unlocked. Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary. She does all this like cosplay dress up. Sometimes she's a cowgirl and then sometimes she's SWAT team. And then here she is. Here she is in in Arlington, Virginia.
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This is cosplaying in Arlington, Virginia, like, you know, five, 10 miles outside of D.C. property. The whole thing is ridiculous. Oh, and then you have MAGA Republican Congress member like Brandon Gill. This is real. They introduced the Golden Act to put Trump's face on the $100 bill.
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Alina Haba, Trump's top advisor, saying that veterans who have been fired from government jobs are not good workers and the veterans deserve to be fired. Let's play it.
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And then finally, here you have Donald Trump blaming everything on former President Biden.
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Looking awfully like Donald Trump's stocks and his companies that went bankrupt. As former Congress member Adam Kinzinger, who was a Republican, posted this meme. Listen up, liberals, as Donald Trump crashes the economy. But look, listen to what the Wall Street Journal is saying. This is four different articles from the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Here are the headlines.
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Do a good job. But of course, Donald Trump has to end with the fundraising blitz. I'm launching an ultra mega fundraising blitz, he says, because the Democrats are watching our numbers like hawks ready to pounce. If we don't shatter records in the hours before my address to the nation, they'll be claiming victory. Oh, victory over what? What the hell are you fundraising for? What are you doing?
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The election's over. As you destroy the economy, as you pummel your supporters to the ground, as you take away their Medicaid, you're doing a fundraising blitz to take their remaining dollars. You pathetic grifter. You're the most despicable person ever. Wow, wow, wow. Anyway, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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So we're not even halfway through Donald Trump's joint address to Congress. It's already off the rails and one of the worst speeches I've ever seen. We are not broadcasting it live because I don't need to show Trump propaganda. I want to show you the lowlights, however, in summary fashion. So we're only halfway through. I'll do a full review of what went down. But here's what's happening so far.
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Then Donald Trump blames the surging prices of groceries and surging prices of eggs, the surging inflation and the terrible economy right now and the markets crashing. He blames it all on former President Biden. You can hear the audible groans in the crowd. Let's play it.
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Then Donald Trump mentions an African nation and the word trans and Republicans find this to be hilarious. Here, play this clip.
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$32 million. Then Donald Trump talks about sports team with trans women losing their funding. This is one of his biggest priorities as Americans are suffering from the markets crashing from cuts to Medicaid to cuts to our government. This is their main issue. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump attacked the Democrats for not applauding him for achievements that he did not actually do. But he's upset that they're not applauding him for hypothetical achievements. Play this clip.
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and to make things very clear where Republicans stand on these issues as Elon Musk and his team of 19 to 25 year olds are going through your personal and private data, social security information, medical information, tax information, and gutting critical programs, FAA jobs, social security administration jobs, national park jobs,
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other government jobs that are very, very, very important and treating people so cruelly. Elon Musk gets the biggest standing ovation from Republicans as Democrats. Stay seated. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump lies and says that he's found probable fraud in the social security system, which is basically just code for they're going after your social security just as they're going after your Medicaid.
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And I've already played clips in other videos that I've done where Elon Musk, who you just saw get the standing ovation, who's basically running the government, says that social security is one massive fraud, one big Ponzi scheme. So when they're saying that, they're basically saying, They're going to get rid of Social Security. Here, play this clip.
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Believe it or not, government... Now, they're already targeting about 7,000 or so Social Security Administration workers to be fired. They're shutting down Social Security offices. I saw an individual, 80 years old, she called the Social Security Administration today for applications, and they said the wait time is somewhere in the range of 200 to 300 days.
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based on staff reductions i'll do a whole other video of that in the morning over here as donald trump says that people need to be hired on the basis of skill and competence the camera cuts to lauren bobert here watch this we believe that whether you are a doctor an accountant a lawyer or an air traffic controller
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Then Donald Trump says, after what, crashing our economy in just 40 days or so, that this has been the most successful presidency and that George Washington is number two. This is what the psychopath is saying. Here, play this clip.
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George Washington. Then Donald Trump says that the country is woke no longer. I'll let you watch this. Let's play this clip.
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Earlier in the day, you'll recall that Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, who was his former lawyer, said that the reason that all of these veterans are losing their jobs is because they're probably not fit to have a job at this moment. She says, we love veterans, but they're probably just not good workers. Here, listen to yourself.
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Another horrible day in the markets as Donald Trump's bragging about the economy. In the past month, the Dow Jones has declined by over 2,000 points. You see it right there, down 4.57%. As our markets were crashing today, Donald Trump was fundraising off it. And he's saying, I'm launching the Ultra Mega Fundraising Blitz, he says. The Ultra Mega Fundraising Blitz, just give him some money.
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Before the speech, our Gen Z correspondent Adam Mochler had the opportunity to interview DNC Chair Martin. Here's his message to Donald Trump. Let's play it.
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Here's Democratic Congresswoman Clark's message to Donald Trump. Let's play it.
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And just so I can share with you the receipts, this is what Donald Trump's promise was when he said on day one he would lower prices immediately. Let's play it.
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And here's Donald Trump promising that he would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, which he has not done either. Here, play this clip.
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There you have it, folks. That's the halfway mark, halftime of the speech. Tune in in about a half hour, 45 minutes. I'll give you the full recap. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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They won't do it, no matter. Then Donald Trump brags about the gold card that he is introducing, that he's selling for $5 million, where Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs can purchase citizenship in the United States. Here, play this clip.
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So Fox was in panic mode after Donald Trump held a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, where Donald Trump said that he wanted to occupy Gaza with America forces permanently and turn Gaza into the. Riviera of the Middle East and then force out all of the Palestinians to destinations unknown, aka ethnic cleansing, which Donald Trump was saying on camera.
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So Fox in panic mode, they had to cover it up. Right. So bring in Sean Hannity and Sean Hannity starts to basically say, look, He didn't really say that. He said he wanted to rebuild destroyed buildings. He didn't really say what you actually heard him say. This is actually four-dimensional chess right here. Watch pathetic Sean Hannity play this clip.
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By the way, I'm so happy that the Midas Touch Network is currently beating Fox in digital views. Thanks to you. Make sure you subscribe, by the way. We're currently number one. Fox is currently number two. ABC, CBS, CNN, they are trailing far behind. Anyway, I digress.
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So then what Fox does is they have their former host, Pete Hegseth, who has zero experience to be the Secretary of Defense, but he's now the Secretary of Defense. ostensibly in charge of the ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, as well as all of the other wars that Donald Trump wants to get us into. And so here's what they do on Fox.
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They do this segment where they like go on a helicopter safari together because it's all like cosplay with them. Here, play this clip.
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Our generation has spent 20 years guarding other people's borders while watching an invasion of our own. I mean, it's so utterly pathetic. And by the way, did you see that press conference they held with Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Director? And she wears the different outfits. Sometimes she's cowgirl. Sometimes she's ice agent. Sometimes she's park ranger. The whole thing is so bizarre.
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Oh, this was just in last night. The United States Postal Service is announcing a temporary suspension of international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice. So You can't get products from China anymore. Great work, Trump administration. Oh, Fox did report as well that the CIA has offered buyouts to every CIA agent, every CIA employee.
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In other words, Trump looks like he's shutting down the CIA. Another Christmas present for Putin. All right, back to Fox freaking out and panicking on just being overall weird. They then have Byron Donalds, MAGA Republican, who he claims the drug cartels, the drug cartels are running the northern border in Canada. Here, play this clip.
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You know, Congressman, as Jason Kendrick says, Byron Donald, it goes Winnipeg forecast clear, cold and windy with a noticeable lack of drug cartels. Here you have Byron Donald's talks about Trump doing absolutely nothing vis-a-vis Canada. Let me just show you this. Play this clip. No tariff diplomacy. Quite remarkable, don't you think?
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Oh, MAGA loves a good fake Donald Trump deal to stroke his ego. These people are the most pathetic people. And the people who are watching this just vile propaganda, they go, okay, we did a good deal, America. Like, you realize that America... is being laughed at by all of our enemies and our allies hate us and are disgusted and horrified by us. But Fox, you could keep doing the Hulk Hogan.
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Oh, yeah, the WWE America. We look stupid because of you and exit and Trump and this whole maniac regime. Then Fox has their border czar Tom Homan on, who talks about the Mexican cartel shooting at American troops. He goes, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Because one of the things Trump wants to do is to militarily attack Mexico.
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It's one of the reasons that the Trump regime, the authoritarian Trump regime, is now calling the drug cartels terrorist organizations. Because watch, In the next 180 days, they'll find some pretext and they will drop bombs in Mexico. That's what they're setting up here. It's obvious. Play the clip. The most powerful military in the world will not be intimidated by anybody, let alone cartels.
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And then Fox calls in Trump spokesperson one, their press secretary, Caroline Leavitt. And Leavitt talks about, isn't this so great? We're sending people to concentration camps today. The first flights are out to Guantanamo Bay. It is weird, though. Why don't you just deport them to their countries? I mean, if you're really going to do it. I mean, I don't know what you're doing in general.
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It makes no sense. And you're taking non-criminals and you're attacking – your own, your own supporters like Venezuelans who were once on TPS, temporary protected status. But why, why, why? Why are you sending him to a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay? Oh yeah, cruelty's the point with these people. Here, play this clip.
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And then you have MAGA Republican Senator Britt. Remember, she was the one last year who delivered that like super cringy response to former President Biden's State of the Union address. And she goes, on the one hand, Biden was draining Guantanamo, removing people. We're filling it back up. We're filling concentration camps up with innocent migrants. Oh, yeah, we're winning. Hulk Hogan. Oh, yeah.
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This is just stupid. It's just it's just the dumb. It's like watching something even more idiotic than idiocracy. But play the clip.
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And then here you have Steve Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East. They have him on Fox to try to further talk about what Trump really meant. Let me tell you what he really meant. Here, play this clip.
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Oh, yeah. Then Jesse Waters has on Donald Trump's very special friend, Alina Haba, who's Trump's senior advisor to the White House. Alina Haba. And Alina Haba says that Democrats should support spending taxpayer dollars to annex Gaza. And then she pushes the debunked lie about government spending millions on condom bombs for Gaza. The condom bombs, which don't exist.
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I think it was Gaza Mozambique. which got a little bit of money for contraception as part of the USAID program that Elon Musk has totally dismantled and will allow or contribute to about 150,000 kids getting AIDS as a result, like HIV AIDS, like that's what they're doing. But anyway, here's what Alina Hobb has to say. Condom bombs, play this clip.
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Just so you can see for yourself and hear for yourself, here's what Donald Trump said about the Gaza Strip. Play this clip.
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Yeah, there wasn't really any mincing words there. Like, the city wants to level it, take it over, own it. ethnically cleanse it. So despicable. Hit subscribe. We need to get to 4 million subscribers. Let's keep growing quicker than Fox. Hit subscribe. Thanks for watching.
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maniac who is trying to annex Canada and to destroy all of our alliances and destroy NATO and to conquer Greenland. And so, aha, this epiphany from these Trumper groups that are like, and these organizations that were supportive of him, like this group right here, the National Association of Home Builders, a bastion of liberals and progressives. I'm
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Joking, of course, they represent builders in the construction industry, and they were very supportive of Donald Trump. I'm sure not the whole organization, but at the high level, they were very happy when he got elected. They'd say nice things about him. They're saying, oh, his America first policies look amazing.
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Well, now they're sending a letter to Donald Trump saying that our country is already facing severe housing shortages and affordability crisis, which we thought you recognized in one of your executive orders. But right now, by imposing these tariffs on Canada and Mexico, you're going to harm and already increase challenging housing market, you're going to make things far more difficult.
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Since January 2021, inputs to residential construction saw price increases of just over 30%. Our sector relies heavily on a diverse and cost-efficient supply chain for building materials such as lumber, steel, And it lists other elements.
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And it goes on to say, your tariffs will lead to higher material costs, which will ultimately be passed on to home buyers in the form of housing price increases, which is going to make housing far less affordable, not more affordable. And you will be betraying one of your campaign promises. But... All of his campaign promises are being betrayed.
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Other than he's imposing tariffs, which everyone pretended, oh, that's not going to do a big deal. Well, it's crashing the economy and it's going to make prices skyrocket and make housing far less affordable at all. But you let the leopards eat your face, National Association of Home Builders. We're seeing the same thing with the National Association of Manufacturing.
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Also this lobbying group, you know, Republicans are great for business. Trump ain't a Republican. Trump's a psycho. He ain't a Republican. He's not conservative. By the way, I don't buy the premise that Republicans are better for business. Democrats have created
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Of the 50 million jobs created over the past 30, 40 years, or whatever the number is, like 48, 95%, 96% of those jobs were created in Democratic administrations. Trump lost jobs. He was the only president. other than Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during his first term.
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And if you want to know why those housing costs for the National Building Association or the manufacturers, costs were going up because in Trump's first administration, he added $8 trillion to the debt. And because he mishandled COVID, he destroyed all of our supply chains. So when President Biden had the American Recovery Act,
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and had to fix it he was it was the equivalent of biden being the fire department putting out the fire and then ultimately you were blaming the fire department for the fire of course when you're putting out the fire there's still going to be fire but who caused it who started the fire it was donald trump's mishandling of covid adding eight trillion dollars of debt
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And how Donald Trump's come in and he's done cataclysmic catastrophic damage in just two weeks to our economy and our alliances that are going to crush your industry. And it was just so predictable. Look under Biden and Harris, the stock market was up 55 to 60%. America's economy objectively was the envy of the world.
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People's 401ks were going up and Trump administration one, you couldn't get toilet paper. Now we're going to be back in that timeline of not being able to find toilet paper and eggs and all this other stuff that's not going to be available. This was so predictable. But here, the National Association of Manufacturers says that their CEO, Jay Timmon, said, look, they try to act nice about it.
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Manufacturers understand that there's a need to deal with any sort of crisis that involves illicit drug crossings in our borders. OK, let's be very clear. America is not handling the fentanyl crisis the way it needs to itself internally. And American consumers are consuming the fentanyl. Synthetic drugs are not being consumed in Mexico or Canada the way they're being consumed in the United States.
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And most of it's coming from China, who only got 10% tariffs, less than Mexico and Canada. And most of the fentanyl and opioids are happening here inside the United States by Americans. And you're saying Canada's the one who's bringing the fentanyl. It's just absurd.
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Then it goes on to say, at the same time, protecting manufacturing gains that have come from our strong North American partnerships is vital. The success of Trump's landmark trade agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, has strengthened the North American supply chain and bolstered economic power across the region. Thanks to this agreement, one-third of critical U.S.
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manufacturing inputs now come from Canada or Mexico, rather than from competitors like China that often engage in unfair practices. However, with essential tax reforms left on the cutting room floor by the last Congress and the Biden administration, Manufacturers are already facing mounting cost pressures.
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A 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico threatens to upend the very supply chains that have made U.S. manufacturing more competitive globally. The ripple effect will be severe, particularly for small and medium-sized manufacturers that lack the flexibility and capital to rapidly find alternative suppliers to absorb skyrocketing energy costs. Look...
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By sucking up to him here, you're still part of the problem. Just enough, okay? Trump's a psycho. Just saying, he's a psycho. He doesn't know what he's doing. There's a reason he bankrupted most of his businesses, why he bankrupted his casinos, screwing over all of the contractors. He was born with a golden spoon in his mouth from his daddy, and he screwed it up his entire life.
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And now he's made most of his wealth from stupid meme coins and Trump sneakers and grifting off of the Oval Office, despite his meme coin now crashing. And y'all still act like, based on your incredible deal making, he's a horrible deal maker. He is an idiot.
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And make sure you use our promo code Midas so they know we sent you. Thanks, Filter Easy. And by the way, take a look at what these shelves look like right now at supermarkets. If you could even find eggs, if you could find dairy products, if you could find things. Here we go again. By the way, the FAA's main warning system for pilots, well, that was gone for like a day and a half.
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Great work done. After two plane crashes, the main warning system was also down. Most people didn't know about that. People don't want to fly planes anymore. Listen to this comment. I spoke with the owner of a small New York manufacturing firm. Most of his sales are exports. Biggest markets, Canada, China, and Europe. He never thought Trump would actually impose tariffs.
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Figured it was just campaign talk. If they go into effect, which they have, he fears he'll have to lay off most of his 65 employees. Well, they're going to. This one. My friend is a crypto investor and voted for Trump. The crypto community was so happy when Trump got elected and my friend snubbed me for voting for Kamala.
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Then after Trump Melania launched their meme coin, my friend's crypto portfolio went down 60 to 70 percent, even though he did not buy the Trump nor Melania means. He lost 60 to 70 percent because people sold their crypto, which he was heavily invested in, to buy the Trump Melania means, which caused the value of his own crypto investments to take a nosedive.
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When Trump's inside traders sold their crypto, All the investors in the Trump meme lost billions of dollars combined, and there was no money to invest back into his crypto projects that they were originally in. Trump's inside trading was problematic and caused lots of issues. There's more right here. This is from Millennial Conservative.
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This is a conservative message board who's saying, there's plenty of government agencies that need to go, but OSHA? Now Trump and Musk are trying to get rid of OSHA? We need the OSHA. It saves lives. You have Republican Senator Susan Collins talking about how the tariffs are going to hurt her state of Maine. Remember, Susan Collins is the one who goes, I am shocked, I tell you.
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I'm so shocked and I am hurt. I'm going to say how surprised and disappointed I am at this. Okay, really? I mean, come on. Carmack55 on these message boards saying, dozens of female Republican officials who have been fired by the Trump administration's anti-DEI policies. They're complaining that Trump's firings were supposed to be according to race, not gender.
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More people on the Fox YouTube channel and the Fox message boards are saying this. I supported him for lower prices, and they were a lot like me. We will never defend this. This is the worst decision he has ever made with the trade war. No one wins in trade wars. Just means higher prices. I will never vote Republican again if they don't speak out. What happened to lower prices?
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Then someone goes, Trump and his cabinet full of billionaires care less about the cost of living for normal people, but at least he's renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. More from the small government conservative message boards. what's the point of taxing Canada like for real? This is the definition of a pissing contest. What the F man? What's the goal of all of this?
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I'm worried this is going to bite us hard causing prices to skyrocket. I'm in the construction industry would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous on this roller coaster. Here, we have more conservatives realizing that Trump's tariffs on Canada may not be the best idea. So wait, Canada's putting retaliatory 25% tariffs on over $100 billion of American imports?
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So all these Trump voters and organizations that supported Donald Trump are having deep regrets today and over the weekend as Donald Trump imposed the tariffs that he said he was going to impose. I guess they thought that he was joking or that this was all part of some negotiation scheme when in fact he's actually a psychotic person.
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It won't hurt America as much as Canada, but it will hurt. This is just the stupidest timeline. We're allies. Asking Canada to pay more for NATO makes a ton of sense. Asking Canada to secure the borders only fair, although I'll point out much more crime actually moves from America into Canada than the other way around.
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And maybe a few trade concessions like changing some trade policies related to agriculture and dairy goods might make sense. But this is getting into a fistfight with a country that for 100 years has wanted nothing but friendship and free trade. Wild. No, what's wild is that you bought what this con artist Donald Trump was selling. Wasn't this so obvious?
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More people who are saying, you know, oh, this is, you know, woe is me, how horrible this all is. And by the way, I think in South Dakota, you have the Lutheran Family Services Organizations. I think tends to, you know, in South Dakota vote a certain way. And now they're saying that these payments are illegal. And Elon Musk is saying that he's shutting down unilaterally.
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He's deciding that he's going to shut down payments, to which I show you this meme right here of former President Biden, who I had the honor of interviewing in the Roosevelt room of the West Wing of the White House. And he goes, wasn't so, we wrote this, wasn't so bad when shit was sleepy. Now, was it? Let's try to get to 5 million subscribers. Hit subscribe. Thanks for watching.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
You sure you wanted this job, MAGA Mike Johnson? Not sure you can handle this job, MAGA Mike Johnson. Not as easy as you thought it was going to be, or is this exactly what you wanted? Just to be Donald Trump's lapdog, making a fool of yourself each and every day, watching as the world sees how weak and pathetic you are, watching as you cause disaster and havoc on this country.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And then let's forget about all the bankruptcies. Let's forget about everything that Donald Trump's ever bankrupted. And then let's forget about inject yourself. Just let's pretend it's not. By the way, I don't even know if these are called press conferences anymore. They're more like humiliation rituals.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Like every other day he goes up like, what was it, last week or two weeks ago, he had to explain why Donald Trump was just speaking like directly with Putin and spreading all of this propaganda from Putin. Like here's what he said a few weeks ago. Let's play it.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
It's just like my arbitration, like when you're Putin and you do mediations and arbitration. I think he also previously described the tariffs like a game of billiards. You need to break the ball so they go all over the place, and that's tariffs for you.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Oh, and then here, as Donald Trump continues to do these unlawful executive orders, you've got MAGA Mike Johnson saying, we'll just get rid of the judges. We can eliminate district courts. Here, play this clip.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
The desperate times that we created causing people to be desperate requires one man, one person. The deal is the most ridiculous stuff in the world. Let's bring in. Let's get back to reality. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia, who you all know. Congress member, we've seen you also at town halls, both in your district and town halls across California.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
California and in Red District, Young Kim's, California's 40th Red District. But before getting into that, tell us what do you make of what I just shared?
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
So MAGA Mike held a press conference earlier in the day. And he was asked about Trump's liberation day and Trump's tariffs, which are going to cause further destruction on our economy, which he has already wrecked. And here's what MAGA Mike Johnson had to say. Let's play it. The president should move forward tomorrow with tariffs.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
That's actually verbatim what he said, right? He said, I could not care less. I want to ask you, you've been doing these town halls in your congressional district, but also you've been doing town halls in red districts. And young Kim, MAGA Republican, she's too scared to do town halls in her district. I think it's a plus 2.5% our district around that. What are you hearing from the people first?
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Seems that Democrats, though, are starting to answer the call about what it means to fight. You and I were talking about a month ago or so. What does it mean to fight? You told us what you were going to do. You said, I'm going to go into red district. I'm going to speak to the people. I saw you're getting standing ovations in red districts of people just saying, thank you for hearing me out.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Thank you for just even listening. And thank you for fighting. I think it begins with listening, understanding that people are suffering right now and then going out. What do you make of the Democrats who are fighting? How do you describe kind of what we're seeing now in the evolution of, I think, a real resistance, a strong opposition, a defined opposition to Trump?
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
I love it. Anything else, any other messages you want to let the American people know right now? Of course, we're in uncertain times. We're heading into more uncertain times. Every day with Trump, it's chaos and destruction. Any last things you want to say before we go?
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Congressman Robert Garcia, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
look, this isn't us. We're not Congress. It's the executive branch. Trust. Trust the guy. I'm just going to make up things that actually didn't happen during his first term. And I'm going to say that it was the greatest when it was literally the worst. And other than Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump being Herbert Hoover, the only president to actually lose jobs. But I was going to say it was great.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
We are now a day away from Donald Trump doing what he's calling Liberation Day, which means more devastation to our economy. I'm not really sure other than tariffing the world, whatever that even means. I'm not sure people in Trump's own regime knows what he's even talking about, but we just got these numbers.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
Then they bring in Eric Trump, who starts selling his Bitcoins.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
I don't even need to show that anymore. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Brendan Boyle. Congressman, I showed you those stats. I showed you those clips right there of what's going on on Fox. What do you make of all of this, Congressman?
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
You've been holding events in your district in the Philadelphia area. One of the events focusing on social security is Donald Trump cuts social security offices and gets rid of these offices and services. Tell us about that, but just tell us in general, what are you hearing from your constituents at these events?
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
earlier today from the Atlanta Federal Reserve, their new model is projecting that there will be a negative 3.7% GDP in the first quarter of 2025. So a 3.7% contraction. So for those following along eight weeks ago, we were expecting from the same projection, mind you, We were expecting a 3.9% growth if literally Donald Trump did nothing and just kept the economy on autopilot.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
Tell us also, you know, this various countries now have travel advisories warning people about coming into the United States. They're saying if you show up, you may end up in detention centers or even worse. I mean... You have Canada, because of Donald Trump's threats of annexation, viewing what's transpired as not just a trade war, but like a real declaration of war.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
Trump keeps saying he wants to take Canada and steal the land. The last stats I saw, 75% to 80% of Canadians are boycotting any types of luxury travel, unless it's a necessity, boycotting American goods. Are you seeing that in the Commonwealth? Are you seeing that elsewhere?
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
Let's talk about, you said on the House Budget Committee, I want to hear about the kind of process that's now taking place where, you know, it's a little confusing because they passed an outline of a budget, the MAGA Republicans, and now, I mean, and it was projected then it would cause trillions of dollars to be added to our deficit. And so, like, what now happens?
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
We see things happening in a rules committee, just like what...
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
If he just went to Mar-a-Lago, golfed and did nothing. Four weeks ago, it was 2.3%. Last week, it was negative 2.8%. Today, it stands at negative 3.7%. Trump and Musk and Doge are driving us into really difficult, difficult times. And this is how it's now being messaged on Fox. This is Harris Faulkner from earlier in the day. Let's play it.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
We're going to have you back throughout that process because that was a great explanation of a Byzantine process. And I was asking because it's confusing to me and the way you described it's helpful. I know a question I want to ask you about here. Then you have the debt ceiling issue because people are like, are we going to have to raise the debt ceiling soon?
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
How does that fit into what you just said? Just so people, just so I can know.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
somewhat terrifying that that's going to be the hands of scott besant i mean i remember when janet yellen was treasury secretary and well in advance very transparently she was sending those letters we knew there was a constant transparency and on the other hand you've got scott besant i won't do my scott besant going on cnbc and lying routine i have a whole stick there but i'll just thank you congress member brendan boyle for joining us
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
And we need to have you back soon to really work us through that budget process. Thanks for educating me on what's going on as well. I appreciate it.
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Rep. Boyle Responds to Trump Destroying Economy
We appreciate it because a lot of the bad things that are happening hide in the obscurity and the Byzantine nature of it, which allows Fox to do what it did, which we were talking about at the beginning of the show. Thank you very much, everybody. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
MAGA Republicans are not exactly coping well with their massive defeat in Wisconsin for the vacant Supreme Court seat. As we called the race last night, Judge Susan Crawford The Democratic-aligned pro-democracy candidate went on to defeat the MAGA doge candidate, Brad Schimel, who was propped up, Schimel was, by tens of millions of MAGA, Musk, doge money, and the entire MAGA machinery.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Good night for democracy. And as you heard, by the way, what Hakeem Jeffries said, even though the Democrats didn't win in Florida's 6th and Florida's 1st, those were plus 30, plus 33 Trump districts. The gap was narrowed by like 20 points. It's too bad the Democratic candidates didn't win there. It was close. It was close races.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
in areas that should never be close. The tide is turning. The tide is turning. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Can we talk about George Soros and J.D. Pritzker and Reid Hoffman? And it's like, what are you talking about? Those people didn't give anywhere near what the money that Elon Musk was doing. Elon Musk was handing out million dollar checks to people and telling people, if you post photos of yourselves next to voting locations, but don't get too close because it may be illegal.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
that he would just give you $20 or $100 or whatever. Many people talking about how Musk's voting pay-for-play scheme itself could potentially be criminal. Here's Scott Walker on CNN. Watch this.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
I think then you had all of the kind of right wing panelists like Jennings on CNN. And, you know, he's like, you know, actually, I think the Schimel campaign was really underfunded. And, you know, I think Elon Musk helped out. I think Elon Musk gave this a boost. That's what happened. That's what the MAGA Republicans and their propaganda mouthpieces like Scott Jennings are saying right now.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Here, play this clip. Scott, do you think this in Wisconsin was referendum on Musk?
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
And you had other MAGA Republicans on the panels last night saying, you know, the issue really was that this was a low turnout election. And because Republicans are the working class party now, you need to have more people turn out. You're not the working class. You're the party of the oligarchs. What are you talking about? Also, as it was pointed out in this clip, it was a high turnout election.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
How do you know a MAGA Republican's lying? They open up their mouth, play the clip.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Now, I'll show you Brad Schimel's concession speech. The mood was grim and sober. Brad Schimel in his concession speech did not talk about psychologically torturing eight-year-olds. That's one of his kind of main talking points when he was going around the state. He talks about, I psychologically tortured my eight-year-old daughter. But here he is conceding. Play this clip. All right.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
The pro-democracy candidate, Judge Crawford, a law and order no-nonsense judge, said, A former prosecutor went on to win that critical race in the vacant Supreme Court seat, tipping the scales of the Supreme Court so that the Democrats will have control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Bye-bye, Brad. Bye-bye. You know, Brad Schimel dressed up as Donald Trump for Halloween. Brad Schimel would go to those MAGA boat parties with like Trump t-shirts and be like, I love two things, Jesus and Donald Trump. Ridiculous. He was literally the Doge puppet. Like this guy would have destroyed Wisconsin.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
So it's fortunate the pro-democracy candidate went, here's another clip of Schimel's concession. Play this clip.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Now, let me take you inside the room of Judge Susan Crawford. The mood there, of course, happy, relieved, excited. The fact that a big win for democracy there and a big win, by the way, for Judge Susan Crawford. And as she said, this was about the richest man in the world, this oligarch, Elon Musk, trying to buy the Supreme Court.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Here, Judge Susan Crawford talks about how Wisconsin fended off this massive attack against democracy from these fascist forces. Play this clip.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
And it's a critical victory because, as I mentioned before, the gerrymandering cases before the court that the MAGA Republicans trying to unlawfully gerrymander Wisconsin will be as such a That now you'll have, I think, a accurate map in Wisconsin, a real map, what it always should be. And I think that will also mean less seats for the MAGA Republican Congress members.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
And then throughout the day as well, I guess the talking point that the MAGA Republicans get, you know, they get their talking points. Representative Brian Steele says, you know, you're talking about Elon. I don't know why I do that voice. He sounds nothing like that. But he goes, he goes, can we talk about Soros, please? Because Soros is the one who poured millions of dollars in.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
And it's like there's no comparison to what Musk is doing than what other random liberal wealthy people are doing. Like Musk is in a whole other league. What are you talking about? And Musk went there. He wore the he wore the he wore the he wore the cheese on his he wore a cheese head in Green Bay. Here, first play this clip of Brian Steele.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Dude, this was literally Elon Musk over the weekend wearing the cheese head playing this clip. Oh, can I play this for you? Rachel Maddow. I like the way we called it last night on the Midas Touch Network. As soon as the election was, the results were in, we were able to call it. Thanks to Decision Headquarters as well. But Rachel Maddow did a great call.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
This was the moment that Judge Susan Crawford went on Maddow. Hat tip to Rachel Maddow. She's so great. Play this clip.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
And, you know, a big day for Democrats overall. I think a big day for Democratic leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries. If this keeps up, I think you're going to be seeing a Democratic Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, very soon. Here he was on Lawrence O'Donnell. And by the way, I'm still a big Lawrence O'Donnell fan. It's good to have even people like Lawrence on MSNBC.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
It's one of the good ones. Play this clip.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
So the MAGA Republicans trying to justify this loss after pouring all of their resources. And it's clearly a repudiation of Trump and Musk and Doge. But they're refusing to admit that. So they brought on CNN, MAGA Republican, former governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who's just been an absolute disaster. And so he tries to say this isn't about Musk. It's not about his money.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains, Elon Musk wore the Cheesehead hat in Wisconsin. He spent $20 million. He paid people to sign petitions. He paid people to canvas. He did million-dollar giveaways, a rally, TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn't appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties. I guess not.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
Remember when Elon Musk said that this election will determine the fate of humanity in Wisconsin while trying to buy the election? Well, here's the clip just to remind you. Let's play it.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
or then Elon went on Hannity and talked about humanity dying. Here, play this clip.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
The last clip I'm going to show you, though, I think is also showing you who this Trump regime really is. And you have Stephen Miller here giving you his view about what a judicial system should look like. In other words, no judicial system is how he feels about it. He goes, what are you going to do? You're going to give these people who are accusing of crimes trials with communist judges?
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
You're going to expect that they all do trials with communism judges? Stephen Miller argued there's something called due process. There's due process in the United States of America. That's what we do. We give people process. If they're bad, the law, we should impose law and order to the fullest extent possible.
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Republicans Freak Out Over Major Election Loss
But I don't want Donald Trump saying, oh, you, I think you're a gang member, you're a gang member, you're this, you go to concentration. That's not our system. Stephen, if you like systems like that, go to Russia. Go to North Korea. Go to those systems. Here's Stephen Miller, let's play it.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
Donald Trump voters continue to express their deep regrets online and elsewhere, posts like this on conservative message boards. I voted for Trump because I thought it would be funny to see liberals growl like dogs. I wanted affordable groceries. but the tariffs are going to make everything worse and my life savings will be gone. I can't afford to spend this money on groceries.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
now his tariffs hurt them when you look elsewhere across the country you're seeing the same type of pattern from usa today going to be a lot of hungry people food banks farmers across the u.s decry federal cuts from the wall street journal trump's loyal farmers stung by his funding cuts stuff like this is pushing me left says a north carolina honey farmer
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
and then outside of farming too across all sectors like the detroit free press major u.s steel manufacturer laying off 600 and deer board and 600 also nearby citing weak auto demands caused by the tariffs but let's break down what's going on first in kind of california with the the farming situation we've got senator alex padilla here senator from california senator we're seeing a lot of trump voters now saying they regret this this is absolute chaos
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
You know, when he says, I don't care. And then when he just makes up stuff, you know, I've referred to this as kind of an idiocracy manifested in real life as well. And you see the idiocracy and dangerousness in California when he does something like dumping 2.2 billion gallons of water into from a reservoir that was nowhere near the Southern California wildfires.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
I didn't vote for this. Look, even when you look at, let's say, a blue state like California, but you look at some of the red areas which tend to be The areas with more farmers, like take a look at Kern County and Fresno right there. These are areas that voted for Donald Trump, about 60% in Kern County, about 50% in Fresno. I think Trump was the first Republican to flip Fresno County since 2004.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
It was after the wildfires are contained because he wanted to prove that he could turn on a valve that he's been talking about. So he orders the Army Corps of Engineers to release these billions of gallons of waters that were needed for the summer, for particularly dry times. And again, just further destroying the farmers. What do we know about that? And what's been your reaction to that?
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
You know, what your Republican colleagues in the Senate continue to talk about, though, is that this pain is needed right now. They say, we need to experience hardship. It's going to be uncomfortable. They claim that Donald Trump said that this is what it was all about, pain and suffering in the short term. And then they'll figure it out.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
I mean, like Senator Tim Sheehy, who replaced, I thought, a great Democratic senator in Montana, John Tester. Here's what Sheehy said yesterday. Let's play it.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
you and I could probably spend hours talking about these horrific executive orders by the Trump regime. And we do spend hours talking about it on the show, and you do on the floor of the Senate and with your incredible team there in California fighting back against them.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
But now let's take a look at the Fresno B. California farmers fear tariff trade war, losses in billions, uneven bailouts. You have a letter from a group that includes the names of nearly two dozens of the state's most influential farming organization, including the California Farm Bureau, Western Growers, and American Pistachio Growers.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
I just want to focus on one in particular, this executive order that would seem to – tended to disenfranchise so many voters targeting elections. And in Trump's view, it is – I guess whoever Trump deems should be able to vote ultimately is where he wants to go. I mean, I think he wants to bring this in a kind of Putin-esque direction.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
And it's all pretext for his kind of third term dictator language. But what's going on with this executive order regarding elections that seems to disenfranchise so many? And what's your perspective on it?
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
You know, Senator, you address an issue that I've been hearing from a lot of women I know. I mean, my wife asked me the very same question. She said, I'm afraid that I'm going to be disenfranchised. We were we were married recently. She said she doesn't know what to do. And what you're saying here is that, by the way, that Trump is targeting women with this.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
I mean, the concern is one that people should be aware about, that this could potentially impact women whose names are different than their birth names and their maiden names. So this is a real fear. What do we do about it?
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
It says in part that the emerging trade measures could trigger retaliatory tariffs that will hurt California farmers, who exports totaled $23.6 billion in 2022. Take a look at the recent article from The Businessman. Business Journal talks about the California Farm Bureau president calling for 600 million in legislative action for farmers.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
Well, we'll take a watch at you on the Senate floor with Senator Booker, who's been courageously going as of this recording. Now it's going on 16 hours plus. Is he going to break the record? Is he going for the 24, 25 hours or what do you expect is going to happen?
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
Glad to have you fighting, Senator Alex Padilla. California, where I live, thank you so much. All right. Thank you, Ben. See you soon. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Senator Padilla Responds to Trump Destruction & Attacks on Voting Rights
Farmers and agricultural leaders are once again highlighting the challenges that they are not that they are now facing. The L.A. Times article, California farmers back Trump.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
World leaders are looking at Donald Trump and they smell weakness. Donald Trump seems frozen. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours from when he took office. In fact, he said he would negotiate a peace deal even before day one. It would be easy. He failed at that. He failed at trying to intimidate President Zelensky. He's failed at trying to intimidate Canada to annex it.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
We're hours away from a very special... Now, finally, I want to share this with you as well. We should never forget when we have these discussions The ultimate weak act by Donald Trump that right away made it clear to the world that Donald Trump was never going to be a serious individual and that they really should never take him seriously.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
I mean, look, arbitrary, capricious, and he is in control as the commander in chief of the United States, the strongest military force that's ever existed. But Donald Trump is so focused on what his next Mar-a-Lago golf game or what meme he's going to post on social media. Never forget that Trump's campaign promise was on day one that there would be peace in Ukraine, he said, in 24 hours.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
He said even before he took office that he had such great relationships with Zelensky and Putin, this would be easy. Here, play this clip.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
It won't even take that long. So yes, the world seeing stunning weakness. And I'll just share this with you as well. Former United States ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, spoke with me on the Midas Touch Network. about the weakness that Donald Trump has showed in the Oval Office and the message it sent to others.
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He's the former ambassador of Japan who negotiated trilateral deals that sought deterrence against China and the Obama administration. Here's what he has to say what went down. Let's play the clip.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18 to 30, Russia's highest number of conscripts since 2011. As Spravdy explains, while some still want to entertain the notion that Russia's dictator isn't planning on a full war,
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
It was great to have that perspective. Tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
On the European continent, Putin just signed this decree, you see it right here, for spring mobilization, growing the Russian army by another 160,000 troops, in addition to the constant influx of contract soldiers from North Korea and elsewhere. Your friend Donald, Kim Jong-un, Donald.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
As Jay in Kiev, who does a great job chronicling what's going on in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as he writes, Russia readies for full-scale war against Europe while Trump tries to extort all of Europe. When America again needs help, allies will be sending blankets. Headlines like this as well from Taiwan.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
The Chinese military announced large-scale drills, PBS writes, in the waters and airspace around Taiwan on Tuesday that include an aircraft carrier battle group, as it again warned the self-ruled island democracy against seeking formal independence, CNBC writes. China kicks off military drills near Taiwan. warns islands independence means war.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
You see right here, these are some of the images of China's Shandong carrier spotted in the distance by the Taiwanese Navy ships. When Donald Trump showed weakness in the Oval Office and attacked Zelensky, when Donald Trump was clearly showing that he could not manage what was going on with Russia's unlawful invasion. China saw that as weakness. Putin saw that as weakness.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
By the way, our European allies, who Donald Trump doesn't want to be our allies and has pushed them away, they saw weakness. Canada saw weakness. Australia, New Zealand saw weakness. And so the entire geopolitical power structure has changed dramatically. America is isolated and alone.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
Do you think that our allies, or I guess based on Donald Trump, our former allies are sharing intelligence now with the United States when we learn more stories about Mike Walls and Pete Hegseth?
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
Donald Trump's national security advisor and Donald Trump's defense secretary who were on that group text thread where they invited the editor in chief from the Atlantic, where they were discussing their war plans, where they accidentally invited a reporter.
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World Leaders Put the Screws in Trump as He Freezes Up
And they said, oh, those war plans aren't classified, even though we talk about F-18s and specific strike times in Yemen, even though we are talking about specific drones that we're using and when we're using them. Oh, those aren't war plans. Case closed. That's what the Trump regime says. Case closed. We're not talking about it anymore.
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Well, now we learn that Mike Walsh, the national security advisor, and his staff Yeah, they've been using Gmail for government communications. This breaking from the Washington Post yesterday.
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Mike Walz and other members of Trump's National Security Council conducted their government business over personal Gmail accounts, where they held conversations about highly sensitive information, including about military positions, powerful weapons systems, and more. By the way, let me share this with you as well.
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This from France 24, where they're talking about the Chinese warship planes surrounding the self-determining island of Taiwan. Just watch how the international media is covering what's going on. And just notice that. Do you hear any response from Donald Trump? By the way.
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He's failed to intimidate Europe. whether you're our allies or now former allies based on Donald Trump's behavior, or whether you're our adversaries who Donald Trump wants to be friends with, but who are viewing Donald Trump with mockery and weakness like China and Russia. no matter what, everybody is looking at Donald Trump and sensing the same thing.
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Have you heard Donald Trump on his own without being asked a question from the media talk about the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania? Have you heard Donald Trump talk about that at all? Express sympathy, express compassion. I know he's incapable of that. Anyway, let me play this clip for you. Let's play it.
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forging ahead and strengthening the alliances that Ukraine has with its reliable and unwavering allies like Germany. I'm going to read you this language from Zelensky. You can see here what's going on in Europe right now, as we previously reported. Like last week, there was that meeting held in France amongst the coalition allies. of the willing. Of course, the United States was not there.
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European countries and others who were there to support Ukraine and make it very clear that they would not be allowing Donald Trump and Putin to engage in a bilateral discussion to carve up Ukraine or give minerals away to Donald Trump or whatever without Europe and Ukraine being involved. Here's what Zelensky posted yesterday. I held a meeting with the German foreign minister.
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We discussed further support for our state, the path to a dignified peace and the development of security guarantee formats. Germany is a leader in Europe in the scale of assistance provided to Ukraine from financial aid and weapons to strengthening our air defense. This includes, and it talks about the weapon system. We are grateful to Germany for the decision to provide an additional security
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$3 billion euros to Ukraine. In total, German support this year will be 7 billion euros. We are grateful that German support for Ukraine remains unwavering and stable. We thank Germany, its government, and all the German people for their significant assistance. I just want to show you this interaction.
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between President Zelensky and the outgoing German foreign minister, because this is how diplomatic relations among allies is supposed to go down. This is what mutual respect looks like. President Zelensky acknowledging the incredible support provided by Germany, Germany recognizing
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This is an individual who does not know what he's doing, who can't handle this position, who just wants to go golfing and would rather post memes than caring about any details. And this is someone who's focused seemingly on just destroying the United States of America. Take a look
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that Zelensky is a wartime president defending, frankly, not just Ukraine, but all of Europe from Vladimir Putin, and also making it very clear that even though the foreign minister of Germany is part of the outgoing government, that the new government will have the same continuity of support for Ukraine, and that will be unwavering. This is how it's supposed to look.
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So when you see this clown show of what Donald Trump does with his pressers every day, this is how it's supposed to look here with what you're about to see with Zelensky and German's foreign minister. I want you to watch this.
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at just the international headlines like this in the UK from the Daily Star, madness of King Don, another ordinary day in the grand old USA, man baby Trump, man baby, insists he will defy law to be president until 2023. World markets tumble over new threats on tariffs. You got headlines like this as well. Putin begins biggest Russian military call-up in years.
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Now, President Zelensky made numerous other posts about the various European allies and others who came to visit him over and over again, expressing gratitude and talking about the strong alliances that they have. Now, I want to share this with you as well, because I find this to be kind of interesting.
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What's leaking from the Trump regime about Donald Trump being angry that Putin's outplaying him? that Putin's out maneuvering him. But then as this story breaks, by the way, from Fox broke the story, Jackie Heinrich from Fox broke the story, who, by the way, the Trump regime is really not a big fan of hers.
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Then you have Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, though, saying that the reason that Putin had to invade, he goes, was because Ukraine wanted to join NATO. Donald Trump's instinct, in other words, is to take Putin's propaganda right away and then spread it from the Oval Office. So Let me first show this first. This is from Fox. Trump believes Putin is stalling.
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Administrations eyeing aggressive sanctions enforcements, including Russian shadow fleet. A source familiar with the discussion tells Fox that Donald Trump is frustrated with Putin and believes Russia is slow rolling comprehensive ceasefire talks. A path forward is being discussed. And it goes on to talk about that path forward. Now,
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They're, you know, whether that's being leaked from like Rubio or somebody who wants to be more hawkish, or I should just say more rational about the threat being posed by Russia. And they're trying to will that into existence. I mean, Donald Trump, though, from the Oval Office, reeking of weakness. I don't know how else do you look. This reeks of weakness. Weakness, here, play this clip.
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Panicking Trump Goes Nuts on Tariff Day
As Donald Trump continued to take a wrecking ball to the United States economy and to our international alliances and our standing in the world, this is the type of stuff that Donald Trump was posting yesterday. A photo of MAGA Republican Congress member Jim Jordan gesturing with his fingers, what, about Donald Trump's very small and tiny brain. What's Jim Jordan even doing here?
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Is it going to be uniquely tailored to each country? What is it that you're doing? Donald Trump refusing to talk about it yesterday, but he was posting photographs of Jim Jordan. Like, no, it's obvious, right? Like, why you have Judge Susan Crawford winning in Wisconsin against the MAGA Doge candidate Brad Schimel, the pro-democracy Judge Susan Crawford prevailing in that big...
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Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where Elon Musk threw millions and tens of millions of dollars to try to get his handpicked Doge MAGA candidate Brad Schimel elected. Despite all the money thrown at that race by Elon Musk, the pro-democracy candidate, Judge Susan Crawford, won because Americans are pissed. People in Wisconsin are pissed.
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What Trump and Doge and Musk have done with their hostile takeover of the federal government. What Trump and Musk and Doge have done in destroying the lives of veterans and federal workers and cruelly toying with people's social security, cutting social security administration offices and services.
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creating this tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts while cutting $880 billion in Medicaid. It's horrific. And look, this is from yesterday on the Hill, MAGA Republicans like Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina and others you'll see in this video. saying that tariffs are going to hurt their people. It's going to cause pain and suffering.
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And what's up with this pain and suffering that what Trump and Musk keep saying people need to be, have a pain and suffering inflicted on them? Here, play this clip.
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Oh, he's holding a hearing to look at the left wing activist judges. Oh, yes. The MAGA Republicans are spending time attacking the judges who Donald Trump says is being mean to him because Donald Trump wants to invoke war powers to kidnap migrants and without due process, send him to concentration camps in El Salvador. and to revoke temporary protected status of over 350,000 Venezuelans.
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Now, yesterday also we saw Senator Cory Booker complete what was the kind of longest Senate speech in history, bringing attention to the wrecking ball that is Trump and Doge and Musk and what they've done to the United States economy, our alliances, our international standing. Here's Cory Booker, Senator Booker, here, play this clip.
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And just so you see even how Fox was talking about it yesterday, Trump's tariffs, like Peter Doocy from Fox wasn't able to articulate, like, we still don't know what these tariffs are going to look like. Are they going to be universal? Are they going to be, you know, tailored to reciprocal, uniquely tailored to each country? Here, play this clip.
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I want to share this with you as well. This is Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat. And here he talks about how, he goes, newsflash, Trump and these MAGAs are incompetent. So it's not shocking that these incompetent and unqualified people are doing incompetent and things that people who are not qualified do. And then they try to cover it up, which just makes it worse. Here, play this clip.
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With all of this going on, is there any stability? No. Is there any articulation of a plan or policy? No. What are we hearing about yesterday? Well, the Washington Post got this scoop. A senior White House official said the administration is currently analyzing the estimated cost of acquiring Greenland, including factoring in the cost of providing government services to its citizens.
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Budget officials are still working to determine what the costs could be. White House officials say the story is White House studying costs of Greenland takeover long in Trump's sights. It's the most concrete effort yet to turn Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy despite widespread international outrage.
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They're going through the financial costs of going to war against a NATO ally, Denmark. Greenland is within the territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. By the way, the new Greenland Prime Minister says they're looking forward to to having the Danish prime minister visit Greenland and Trump's trying to do budget projections of what it would cost to go to war and take it over.
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That's what they're spending their time doing in the Trump regime. And by the way, the Washington Post is writing about it like it's This is a normal discussion. This is from the Wall Street Journal opinion section. Tariffs won't bring a boom in American manufacturing, but tax credits, subsidized loans, and grants could boost U.S. production, energy, and some products.
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By the way, the Venezuelan community had previously been supportive of Donald Trump, but Trump wanted to do it. And federal judges are saying, hold off for now. We need to determine. if there should be due process, because our constitution calls for due process. And then Donald Trump's like, well, they're being mean to me. These unfair judges are being meany heads to me.
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Quote, we know this is from the op-ed. This is Murdoch trying to tell Trump what to do. It's like Murdoch saying, I don't know what to do. Listen, you idiot. Let me explain to you what you need to do so that you can actually help the economy. That's what's going on here.
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Quote, we know of no example in the history of advanced economies of sweeping tariffs having the positive effects the Trump team believes are waiting for us on the other side of his tariff push. This is from Bloomberg. Trump's 25% tariff hands the car industry keys to China. We're now looking at a future where Beijing rules the road. This is from the article.
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Quote, if you're wanting to bring manufacturing jobs back to the heartlands of America, landing a blow against these two Asian allies is a strange way to go about it. What we're seeing right now is China
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reaching economic agreements with Japan and South Korea because Trump is attacking Japan and South Korea, which former presidential administrations worked hard to create deterrence against China's aggression and China's growth as an economic power. The Trump regime just broke all of these deals between the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. Now you have South Korea, Japan, and China Joining together.
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And by the way, you have China conducting aggressive military exercises in Taiwan because they smell weakness in Donald Trump. I'll do a whole other video on that as well. And then here you have Caroline Leavitt yesterday asked at a press conference. Hey, Donald Trump said that foreign countries are going to eat the cost of tariffs.
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So why is he asking domestic automakers not to raise their prices if he says this is going to be great? Take a listen to her response.
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She goes, I'm not sure if that comment was made or not made. That's your response. And finally, I want to show you this clip that was put together by our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, where he goes, the first half of this clip is Donald Trump from last month. telling one of his favorite, sir, sir, stories about his Joint Chiefs Chair nominee, Dan Kaine, which he's told hundreds of times.
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The second half of the clip is Kaine testifying yesterday to the Senate to be confirmed as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showing, surprise, surprise, Donald Trump is lying. Let's play the clip.
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So Jim Jordan, can you hold the hearing? And Jim Jordan's like, yeah, Donald, whatever you want, I'll hold the hearing. So absolutely pathetic. Also yesterday, Donald Trump was attacking other law firms, big law firms, and trying to make them do settlements with him.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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All of this, by the way, while Donald Trump says today, he calls it because he's psychotic liberation day where he's going to tariff the world. But he hasn't explained at least as of yesterday, or at least as of this morning, when I'm making this early in the morning that, Is it going to be universal tariffs across the board at the same amount to every country in the world?
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Trump Suffers Major Defeat in Wisconsin Supreme Court Blowout
This is a breaking news alert. The Democratic candidate for the Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin that was vacant, Judge Susan Crawford, is now projected to win the major Wisconsin Supreme Court election. She is defeating the MAGA Doge candidate, Brad Schimel. A huge victory for the Democrat aligned Judge Susan Crawford. This election has massive implications.
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This has major implications for future congressional races. For example, MAGA Republican Congress members like Derek Van Orden and Brian Steele both said that they will lose their congressional seats if Judge Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court race because of the redistricting that they expect to take place.
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Quote, we will both lose now, he said, quote, so that's why everyone is paying attention to this race on a national level. Our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski posted the following after it was predicted that Judge Susan Crawford, the Democratic-aligned candidate, would go on to win this major Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Filipkowski wrote, Trump went all in. Musk went all in.
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Musk said Western civilization would end if Judge Susan Crawford won. Musk bought votes. Scott Pressler, MAGA's get out the vote guy, set up shop in Wisconsin and went all in. Charlie Kirk and the whole MAGA Doge gang and all the right wing podcasters went all in. The entire MAGA machine went all in. Donald Trump went all in.
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Trump spoke from the Oval Office and told people to vote for Brad Schimel just the other day. $53 million were spent to try to prop up the MAGA Doge candidate, Brad Schimel, including PAC money. But Judge Susan Crawford will win this Supreme Court seat easily. And she was far outperforming Vice President Kamala Harris in all of the important counties as we saw them coming in.
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We saw Madison come in, we saw Waukesha come in, we saw Dane County come in, and it was becoming very clear
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that this evening would be a great one for judge susan crawford who ran an incredible race you'll recall images like this of elon musk million dollar checks to individuals um that were part of his you know uh he will pay you if you register to vote scheme that when i spoke to the wisconsin democratic uh chair ben winkler he said that Ben Wickler, he said that that was likely completely unlawful.
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You see here the headline from the Associated Press. Musk announces $1 million for Wisconsin voter in Supreme Court race. Opposition calls it corrupt. Just to remind you who Brad Schimel, the MAGA Doge candidate is, he dressed up as Donald Trump for Halloween. He would wear shirts like this at Trump boat parades. Jesus is my savior. Trump is my president.
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Here's a video of Brad Schimel talking about how Donald Trump called him and knows about the race.
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What did you offer to him in return? Absolutely not. Now, this was Elon Musk over the weekend in Green Bay, where he was handing out million dollar checks and other checks to people if they would vote or register to vote or took photos of themselves near voting locations.
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You will recall Elon Musk poured tens of millions of dollars with the MAGA Republicans and other oligarchs to try to get the MAGA Republican Doge candidate Brad Schimel elected. Elon Musk said that this election would determine the fate of civilization. Elon Musk was in Green Bay this past weekend. This is a massive repudiation of Doge. of MAGA, of Donald Trump.
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Here, he said that it will be an end of civilization, a humanity ending event, he says, if Brad Schimel lost and Judge Crawford wins. Here, play this clip.
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Here was Donald Trump just this past week. Donald Trump from the Oval Office. I think Kid Rock was by his side as well, telling people to vote for Brad Schimel from the Oval Office. You don't get much more corrupt than that. Play this clip. What's your message to the people of Wisconsin, though, who, you know, don't know?
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I mean, you know, some people like, wait a minute, Supreme Court races, people run for this seat. You know, a lot of people don't even know like like that. I know a lot of people in Wisconsin are paying attention when it happens in your state. They start to pay attention, often closer. And I know that people are starting to vote already. So what do you say to them?
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But folks, as I mentioned, the pro-democracy law and order judge, Judge Susan Crawford, will go on to win. I had the opportunity to speak to Judge Crawford. We had her on the Midas Touch podcast multiple, multiple times. She was an incredible guest. Let me share with you just one of those clips from the interview that I had recently with Judge Susan Crawford. Here, play this clip.
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Now, there were other races as well in Florida. Florida special elections there, the Democratic candidates did not win. However, they closed the gap on plus 30 Trump districts and made these races very, very close. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, explains, Mike Walz won the Florida 6th congressional district seat six months ago by 33 points. Trump won this district by 30 points.
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And this was within about a 10-point race, closing the gap by about 20 points. Of course, unfortunate that the Democrats and the pro-democracy candidates lost, but picking up and closing the ground by 20%. 20 points is not a awful result. You take a look at what went down in Florida's first congressional district where Matt Gaetz had previously beat Gay Valamont six months ago by 32 points.
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Jimmy Petronas only won by about, uh, 14 or so points and Valamont actually flipped an area that had, I don't think had ever gone democratic since what, 1960? Escambia County, Escambia County since 1960. So Democrats were making up ground there. Those were very, very tough seats.
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But the big news of the night, that Wisconsin race, the right-wing podcast bros, the right-wing MAGA machine went all in on that. The MAGA Republican Congress members, the MAGA Republican machine, Donald Trump getting humiliated in Wisconsin this evening. A great result for democracy, folks. Thank you for watching. Thanks for getting the word out as well.
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And thank you to Judge Susan Crawford for coming on the show and sharing with us how important this race was. Everybody hit subscribe here. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Judge Susan Crawford, the Democratic-aligned candidate for this Supreme Court seat, will go on to win that race. Democrats will go on to take the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. There will be a number of cases before the Supreme Court involving the MAGA Republicans gerrymandering and all of the chicanery that they engaged in with the law finally being followed.
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And look, Trump no longer has the upper hand. I think maybe he took some of these world leaders by surprise during his first term, but now everyone's used to his shtick, except corporate media who just falls for the press releases every time and just reports it as fact.
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people are suffering because of trump's actions he's too emotional to lead and you know who's paying the price the american people time and time again i mean these tariffs are no joke what just happened over the last 24 hours and now you're going to be seeing this play out time and time again and what trump then gets to spike the football and say he won and he did something great and just corporate media is going to run with that headline and meanwhile it just can be further from the truth it's absolute insanity i'm glad we're here where the collective weed might as mighty everyone here to call it out
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Absolutely. When in any moment in history has isolation been the North Star? It's absolutely pathetic what Donald Trump's doing. It's not even that we're not taking the bull by the horn and leading as America. No, it's we're completely isolating ourselves from these other countries. And as we go further into this presidency, That's what Trump wants to do.
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He wants to keep us isolated and insulated in this MAGA madness. And all of his MAGA cohorts are going to just go along with the nonsense. It's bizarre to see it play out the way it's been playing out for only a weekend.
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Let's go. Links in description of audio and YouTube. Use the links, use the codes, Delete Me, Zbiotics, Graza, huge fans of the Midas Mighty, of the Midas Touch podcast. Definitely show them some love if you're interested in that stuff, because it is fantastic. Benji, where to next?
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And you get hit from it, Ben. You get hit from it in all three aspects, right? You have the chronically online influencers, the DC Dranos polluting everyone's feeds on their phone. You have MAGA, Fox News, propaganda arm just injecting it, Ben, into the TV sets. And you have MAGA Mike Johnson just going unchecked. He's sounding an awfully lot like Kevin McCarthy these days.
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I'm talking about the tone, that soullessness of his voice leaving his body every time he speaks, trying to defend Donald Trump and bending over backwards. And he just... it's just getting absurd, man. Like cooked as a nation, unless people could just stand up to these bullies, weirdo, like just call it weird. Like what they're doing. It's like, and they're being so frigging weird about it.
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Excited to get into the show. Just first off, got to say shout out, Elijah. Elijah, my son turns one today. Happy birthday, buddy. I love you. I can't believe it's been a year. It flies by bonkers. Yeah, I echo all those sentiments and more, Brett. So why don't we just dive into the show? Benji, where do you want us to start off tonight?
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Trump First Presser on Leak Scandal Ends in Disaster
Donald Trump just held a disastrous public meeting with some of his ambassadors. The National Security Advisor Mike Walls was there. He was one of the individuals on the group text thread where war plans were leaked to a reporter who was invited into this unsecured group text thread. So Donald Trump was asked about this massive scandal. Donald Trump was asked
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Then Donald Trump continues to attack the Atlantic. He calls the guy a sleazebag. He calls the editor-in-chief, who Trump's own national security advisor and defense secretary, brought onto this chat a sleazebag. Here, play this clip.
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And this is the Trump regime way. It's not just deflect and deny. It is to affirmatively attack for the Trump regime's own misconduct. Then Donald Trump says, if it was up to me, I would just put everybody in a lead room. And that's how I would avoid what national secrets getting out via text chats with emojis about freaking war plans. Here, play this clip.
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And then Donald Trump says, this is all to do about nothing. What are we even talking about? Everyone's just trying to criticize me because I had the most perfect, beautiful months ever. Here, play this clip.
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So why are you and your regime now saying that the information in this text thread was not classified? Trump just shuts the question down and says, another question, please. Here, play this clip.
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No, Donald, you had the worst two months, the worst 60 days in the history of the United States presidency, where you destroyed, dismantled and did a hostile takeover of the federal government, where you destroyed the lives of federal workers and veterans, where you destroyed people's pensions, life savings, 401ks, where you made the United States isolated. You pushed our allies away.
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You talk about invading and annexing. Canada and Greenland and Panama, you made a mockery of the United States. You did not lower prices on day one, as you promised. You did not create peace in Ukraine on day one, as you promised. You did not make housing more affordable on day one, as you promised. There was nothing about no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime.
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You've made everything worse with your cash. chaos and authoritarian regime. Oh, then Donald Trump praises his national security advisor, Mike Walsh, for these security breaches. Great man. Here, play this clip.
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And it goes on, by the way. Then Donald Trump says, of course, we're going to keep everything as secure as possible. He goes, they're just coming after me because they don't want to talk about all the success that I've had. Here, play this clip.
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And again, what success? You now have all of our former allies saying they don't even wanna buy weapons from the United States because you're saying you're gonna provide them essentially with defective weaponry. Oh, and then by the way, Donald Trump has said, you know, maybe we'll use Signal again. Maybe we'll communicate via this social media app
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even more because sometimes you just need to be quick, so you need to use signal. No, you don't. It is inherently a violation of the Espionage Act. And talking about sources, methods, and war plans is clearly classified information. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump says he knows nothing about Signal, that he just even heard about this, that he has nothing to do with it. Here, play this clip.
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It should also be noted that Donald Trump's envoy to Russia was in Russia while on this text thread. So undoubtedly, Russia now has this information. The individual was in Moscow when this was taking place. Also, Tulsi Gabbard, who at a hearing before the Senate earlier today, refused to even confirm that she was Russian. T.G. with the initials in the chat. She was overseas as well.
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Who the hell even knows where Tulsi Gabbard was? But she also says none of the information was classified, but also she refuses to say if she is T.G. Oh, then Donald Trump attacks Europe. Play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump says, look, the main thing here, nothing happened, this wasn't bad. So because nothing happened and nothing bad happened, nothing was classified. Here, play this clip.
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Who's telling you that nothing is classified? What does that even mean, nothing? I know that you just stole classified documents like nuclear secrets and brought it to Mar-a-Lago and then just threw them on the bathroom and threw them. I know you don't care about classified information. But we don't know whether or not the Russians now have access to this.
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Clearly, this wasn't the only group signal chat that was taking place. So who else has access to this stuff right now? Are all of our war plans on freaking signal chats? And by the way, Project 2025 outlined put stuff on signal chats in order to avoid Presidential Records Act and public records requests. and having to turn over things to the archives.
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This is all part of a nefarious plan as part of their undermining of our federal government as well. Then Donald Trump says Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, should not apologize. Play this clip.
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But Q and Mike Waltz, who's at this meeting, and he says that this is really just about the journalists who are trying to make a big name for themselves, trying to scam everybody. Here, play this clip.
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What are you even talking about? Y'all invited this guy into your, he didn't ask to be included on your chat and then he just published verbatim what you said and then even kept out certain sources and methods so that people would not get killed. Then Donald Trump is asked, so are you okay with the continued use of this? Here, play this clip.
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You know, you... Then Donald Trump attacks the editor-in-chief of Atlantic, who was brought into this chat, didn't ask to be on this chat, and starts attacking the Atlantic and attacking the editor-in-chief and saying, I think that he's bad for the country. He makes up a lot of stories. Folks, he just quoted directly what was on the chat. Here, play this clip.
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Literally zero consistency here. And then more attacking of the journalists by Mike Walsh. Let's play it.
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What a horrific public meeting before the press, utter humiliation for our country. Another horrific day, a sad day that will live in infamy while our enemies are laughing at us. What do you think happens when you put people like a former Fox News host with zero experience in any military capacity?
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Donald Trump may be destroying our government, our economy. He may be taking away people's Medicaid. People are pissed. Democrats, Republicans, independents showing up at these town halls and letting the politicians know how livid they are at Elon Musk, getting access to their private data and destroying key federal government agencies. But folks,
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yeah you know their justification these mega republicans as they go aren't billionaires the most trustworthy people there's this is what they really argue which is ridiculous they go billionaires are so rich that why would they do anything negative to you like they're the most trustworthy people out there you know billionaires the heart of gold
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And then when they say, well, they're searching for that heart of gold, apparently in Fort Knox, they're looking for all those parts of it. That's what's stored in Fort Knox, apparently. And then people are like, what the hell are you talking about? And maybe that's what gets promoted on all of these right wing rage algorithms. But in the real world, MAGA people are on Medicaid too, right?
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They're on the Affordable Care Act. They rely on federal programs. Their special needs kids rely on federal government programs. And then they find out that, oh, that's included. And when you're using DEI, you're coming after my kids also when you use that term. You're coming after all of these other programs.
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You're gutting, oh, when we were cheering to gut the Department of Education, what we really meant is we were getting rid of the services that we rely on, like lunches for, like what are you all doing all of a sudden? And it's like, We tried to tell you that. Like, what do you think we meant when we were saying this is what Project 2025 says? Let me just give you a few examples.
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I would rather not explain it now, but it's sort of self-evident, I think. I would rather not explain it. It's rather self evident. Is it self evident because you support Vladimir Putin? That would seem to make some sense. And then Donald Trump tried to attack Europe and attack France. in front of French President Emmanuel Macron. But Macron was ready.
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This is in Missouri. This is MAGA Republican Congress member Mark Alford, where he was confronted by constituents who were asking him questions. He was doing the usual gaslighting, and then people were literally booing him. Here, play this clip.
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I've said on my website, I've said on my website, I don't think we need more gun control in America, we need more self-control. And so if we can help people with mental health, that is going to go a long way in this.
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They thought they were going to show up and because Elon's rage algorithm told them that this is what gets likes. They literally thought people would buy the crap that they were selling. Oh, we found all of the Hamas condoms, everybody. We found the condoms in Hamas. And people are like, what the hell are you talking about? Why are you taking away my Medicaid? Why are you gutting these agencies?
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Why can't I go to a national park anymore because people are being like fired? Why are you giving our tax records over to Elon Musk? I mean, don't you know that there's conflicts of interest here? Why don't you force Elon Musk to testify? Why are you why are you like hiding him like this is a government? What are you doing? You're supposed to be a member of Congress.
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Are you that pathetic that you're letting Elon Musk do all of your jobs? That's what people are saying. I want to show more of these town halls. And we'll get into some ruby red districts as well, like the one we're showing there and others. We'll go to Oklahoma. I'll show you Georgia's 7th.
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We'll go around the country so you can see the mode and the mood, rather, that's taking place in this country. Let's take our first quick break of the show. I want to remind everybody about our sub stack, which is MidasPlus.com. Check that out. Our editor in chief, Ron Filipkowski, does a great job curating that at MidasPlus.com.
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Also, we had a great meetup with everybody last week at Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. It was so great to see a lot of familiar faces and a lot of new faces. Check that out and make sure you're subscribed on both audio. as well as YouTube. And we're the number one podcast right now on Apple and on Spotify in the US and in Canada right now, thanks to all of you. So please make sure you subscribe.
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We'll be right back after our first quick break.
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And as Donald Trump spewed disinformation, I just want you to watch as Macron basically takes command and says, that's not true. Let me be very clear here and puts Trump in his place. Here, watch.
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I would say, objectively, this was probably the worst month in presidential history. And I think the data bears that out as well. If we have some of those polls, you'll see that literally on every issue that Donald Trump's been pushing, Americans are absolutely pissed. And when you look at just a generic, would you rather see the next Congress controlled by Democrats or Republicans?
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It's 54% to 41% in favor of Democrats. That's the latest Ipsos poll. When voters are asked to describe the nation's economy, You have 52% say not so good, 21% say poor. So close to about 80% of Americans believe the economy right now is bad.
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And by the way, if you looked at those economic numbers, despite the fact that people would always attack former President Biden, consumer confidence started to soar again towards the end of former President Biden's term. The Wall Street Journal described how the United States economy was the envy of the world.
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Lots of newspapers were talking about how Biden was handing over a Goldilocks economy to Donald Trump. 16.4 million jobs were created by former President Biden. There were 40,000 infrastructure projects created. that were being funded and taking place across the country. You had the CHIPS Act that brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States.
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You had Biden respecting our veterans, pushing forward the PACT Act to make sure that our veterans got the best health care, especially veterans as well who were exposed to toxic burn pits despite Republicans trying to block that. You had the American Recovery Act. You never had a month where jobs were lost. You had GDP growth that was soaring under former President Biden.
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America's economy was growing faster than China. It really was the envy of the world in terms of the economy. And inflation was going down. There was an expectation that inflation would hit 2%, which is the level the Federal Reserve wanted. Interest rates were being cut. And I just say all of those things to remind you that things were headed in the right direction.
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And if you want to go back to what causes inflation, let me just be very clear. It's kind of like what causes the fire. You know, there has to be kind of an ignition that takes place. And what it was, was that Donald Trump's first administration, he added $8 trillion of debt. Let me repeat that $8 trillion of debt. And that's what caused inflation.
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And by the way, you can go, oh, well, this is the Midas touch. I hear when people talk about you, when they say that you're doing better than Rogan, they call you the Trump-hating podcast. So how do I believe you? Well, I want you to go and look at what Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis both said during the Republican primary debates that Donald Trump was too scared to show up to.
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Because both of them talked about how Trump added $8 trillion in debt, and that's what was the cause of inflation, and that it was the spending habits of Republicans during the first Trump administration.
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So when you look at this new budget that Republicans are talking about, when they talk about cutting trillions to Medicaid, but then giving trillions in tax cuts to the billionaires, there are right-wing conservative Republicans economic think tanks that are saying that could add $25 trillion, $25 trillion, not just the $8 trillion that Trump caused, the first $25 trillion in debt this time.
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And I think it's going to be even more than that, quite frankly. So You have objectively Donald Trump taking that Goldilocks and turning it into even worse than kind of very cold stew at this point. And Americans are livid. And what Donald Trump is doing is he's comparing things now to how great they are, like a great golf game, he goes.
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This is how he's trying to, like, communicate to the American people. He's like, this was so good. You know what it's like? It's like a great golf game when you have those, when you really do well on those first holes. Here, watch this.
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He said that at the CPAC convention, which is like this MAGA event at this point, it's run by a guy named Matt Schlapp. who's now been accused like multiple times of like grabbing Republican men genitals, like he was sued for it, you know, once and they had to like resolve that lawsuit. I think there were recent allegations that emerged again. That's who runs CCPAC, Schlapp.
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That's where Donald Trump was describing Trump. how his first month was like a great game of golf. Like what, what are you talking about? As you cause this devastation, you're, you're comparing it to golf. And I kid you not, this is what the press room looked like today. They have signs in the back of the press room that say, this is from the official white house account. They say victory.
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It says victory. And then on the poster boards behind the podium, it says victory, Gulf of America, victory, Gulf of America. And it shows the Gulf of Mexico and they're calling it the Gulf of America. And they're declaring victory right now. I just want you to think about that as so many Americans are now suffering. Victory? Brad, Jordy.
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Yeah, you had French President Emmanuel Macron basically putting Trump in his place and saying, you don't know what you're talking about. And 60 percent of the money came from us. Let's be very clear. Then later, Donald Trump held a press conference where he attacked what he said was a terrorist. terrible deal with Mexico and Canada.
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He says that's currently causing Mexico and Canada to take advantage of the United States because whoever negotiated this deal is a stupid person. Here, watch what Donald Trump says.
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You know, the new thing that they're dangling in front of people, because this is a Ponzi scheme administration, I'm sure you saw it, are those Doge rebates. Like, don't worry, when Elon finds it, we're gonna give you some money from it.
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the doge rebates so he's just dangling them like maybe when we find you some money we'll give you we'll give you a handout we can give you some money i mean first and foremost it's such an obvious con number one it's such an obvious scam number two even if they did that It would cause inflation to skyrocket, and it would absolutely tank the markets. And so also, what's their plan, too?
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going on an adventure together. They're gonna search Fort Knox for some gold, everybody. It will be televised. Here, play this clip.
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They're going to tank our economy to then try to give people recovery checks after tanking the economy and then keep people in that type of cycle. That's what conservative means right now. I just think people aren't buying this crap anymore. I mean, take a look at this MAGA Republican Congress member, Fitzgerald. This is at his town hall that he had where he got a rude awakening as well.
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I want you to watch this one here. This is a constituent calling in to MAGA Republican Congresswoman Bice. She's from Oklahoma. Watch this Republican constituent call into the MAGA Republican Congresswoman Bice. Let's play it.
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Now, let's go to the ruby red congressional district of MAGA Republican Rich McCormick in Georgia. Ruby red here. Let's play this clip.
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I mean, the level of gaslighting and arrogance is just through the roof. And now you're seeing all these mega Republican Congress members canceling their town halls. They don't want to be a part of it. They don't want to hear from their constituents. And, you know, the people are letting them know what's going on. I mean, and again, that gives me hope as well. So you have that taking place.
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like what's going on in in russia right now where russian state regime media which is basically the equivalent of um you know our fox at this point is basically state regime media they're out there basically saying we couldn't have asked for anything better we've got america in total alignment with putin got trump and putin have formed an alliance together here this is what they're saying all over russian state tv
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Okay, so then Fox has to like justify it. So then Fox is in damage control mode. And so at this point at Fox, like if you look at some of the hosts, right, you have like Lara Trump. like who ran the RNC, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law. You have Kayleigh McEnany, who was Donald Trump's former press secretary, right?
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The former Fox host, Pete Hegseth, is now running the Department of Defense with like literally zero experience. And by the way, Firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff via a Donald Trump social media post. I mean, General C.Q. Brown, the highly qualified chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gets fired in a social media post basically in the past few days.
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And then they bring in a guy who has to get an exemption because he has no – he did not have the qualifications to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So firing the highly qualified black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, bringing in an unqualified white guy, fired by Pete Hegseth. And people get what's going on. This Fox host, like what the hell is going on?
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Is now the defense secretary firing General C.Q. Brown? Like what the heck? So then Kayleigh McEnany on Fox, this is the message that they're pushing. Folks, you don't know. Trump's a good dealmaker, and it's all part of four-dimensional chess that you're seeing. And it's a strategy. What you got to do is you suck up to the dictator, you soften them, and then that's how you show strength, right?
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Because everybody knows a tough negotiator tries to look really weak. That's like negotiating 101, right? Play the clip.
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Seriously, sometimes you just like look at those clips and you're like.
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it does give me hope though that i think people now are looking at this and it's making them extra angry when they just see how ridiculous it is brett i want to get your take on it jordy i want to get your take on it we got to take our last quick break of the show i want to remind everybody to subscribe on both audio and to our youtube channel so our youtube listeners subscribe to the audio podcast currently number one on apple and spotify in both the us and in canada
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Beating Joe Rogan and all those right-wing podcasts as well. Thanks to all of you, the Midas Mighty. And subscribe on our YouTube channel. Our YouTube channel today, Beating Fox, the NBA, ESPN, ABC. And that's all thanks to you, the Midas Mighty. Check out MidasPlus.com where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes some great pieces there.
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And also Patreon.com slash Midas Touch where you get to meet me, Brett and Jordy, when we hold our monthly meetings.
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A total idiot. The USMCA, United States, Mexico, Canada agreement. Who –
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Well, let me show you what was posted from a now official government account. This is from the Department of Defense rapid response account where a question was asked to Defense Secretary Pete Hegsa about why he selected an unqualified retired lieutenant general to replace the general. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C.Q. Brown. This is what they posted.
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So this isn't like, this is what they think makes him look good. If we have, do we have that clip rep to play?
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I'm going to choose to reject your unqualified question. I mean, these are just a bunch of clowns. These are a bunch of real pathetic people, whether it's Kayleigh McEnany's response trying to act like this is four-dimensional chess, whether it's Pete Hegseth saying, I'm going to reject your unqualified question. That's the response of someone
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who is very unqualified, who is not confident in their job, and who behaves like a fifth grade, no offense to fifth grade petulant bullies, but who behaves like that as a grownup, as a leader, let alone the leader of the defense department? What was that?
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There's a lot of litigation with the Trump administration that we've been covering here on the Midas Touch Network. I think one of the most interesting ones that's probably not getting enough coverage is what's taking place with that guy Hampton Dilliger, who leads the Office of the Special Counsel, and that is the agency that's responsible for investigating illegal actions.
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taken against federal employees. So the Trump administration tried to fire this Hampton Dillinger and Hampton Dillinger sued to make sure that he does not get fired. There was a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump administration from firing Hampton Dillinger. The Trump administration took that case up to the Supreme Court as fast as they could.
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And a lot of people were probably like, why is that one? What's it about that special counsel department that's getting so much attention and what's happening behind the scenes there? Well, we now know what's happening.
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So the Supreme Court made a ruling that basically said, you can't, we're not going to overturn the ruling from the district court that you can't fire this guy Hampton Dillinger yet. And so that's going to expire soon. I think in the next two days or so, this district court order expires, and then there's going to be a more fulsome hearing on the termination.
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But in the meantime, Hampton Dillinger dropped an absolute bombshell. And this is what the Trump administration was terrified about. So Hampton Dillinger, who runs the Office of Special Counsel, issued a report basically saying all of the terminations of these probationary employees is almost certainly illegal. Now, what the special counsel's office focused on was six specific cases.
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But in their finding, they extrapolated basically the way you would almost view like a class action lawsuit, that all of these similarly situated people, all of these probationary employees who were fired, were fired illegally.
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As a former practicing attorney who handled wrongful termination cases, you don't really get much more of a smoking gun than when human resources essentially says, yes, the company engaged in employment violations. That's basically the equivalent of what went down.
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You have now the equivalent of basically human resources, this office that looks into these things and making a finding saying these probationary firings were unlawful. And the basis of why they were unlawful is that you have to go through certain steps, even when you fire probationary employees, like you have to communicate.
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If you're firing them for cause, you can't just randomly one day be like, you're fired. See you later. There has to be some attempt to engage with them, to let them know, are they not meeting the expectations? There has to be preliminary steps. I mean, you have to think about it like this. These federal government workers gave their life to do jobs that aren't in the spotlight, right?
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A lot of these jobs aren't glamorous. These are just tough jobs where people sacrifice a lot of their time to do things that keep Americans safe, right? Whether it's working in the agriculture department, whether it's working in the Department of Education, whether it's working in energy,
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Whether it's working in national parks, whether it's, you know, being part of the crisis hotline or working elsewhere within the, you know, Veterans Administration. You know, these are jobs that are necessary, whether it's working within the Transportation Department and focusing on railroad safety, focusing on aviation safety. focusing on shipping safety, right?
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And what these federal workers just wanted in return was just to be treated with respect and dignity and have a due process if you're going to do anything to them. They signed up also for these federal jobs not to be worked by Elon Musk for 20-hour days and to be treated like trash. I mean, these people were giving their time and their life to the federal government employees
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To kind of give back as well and for them to be treated like this is so utterly horrific. But I just – Brett, you alluded to this at the beginning. Based on this finding, now what if all of these probationary employees who were fired, they now would have to potentially get reinstated, put back into their job, get back pay, get penalties, all of these monetary damages as well for being deemed –
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terminated for cause when there was nothing for cause about the termination. Just imagine if these tens of thousands of people who are fired, what if they now file all of these wrongful termination lawsuits as well? And before you know it, you're talking about literally tens of billions of dollars in the aggregate because of these unlawful acts.
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Look, supporting Vladimir Putin is not a popular position inside the United States. That is one of those areas that
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what 80 of people are more uh disapproved i think it's maybe in like even like the 90 of people and the way they that's why fox tries to say this is still part of the four-dimensional strategy it's not part of four-dimensional chess when you literally cast a vote in the united nations that says you oppose condemning russia
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as the aggressor in the Russian war against Ukraine, in Russia's unlawful invasion, that the United States would not even join with all of the other countries, but instead side with North Korea and Russia and Belarus and Hungary against Ukraine. It's like a gut punch when some of these things just hit me like a gut punch. And I'm like, that is humiliating.
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You know, when I see how the new chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, goes up there and says, now the United States, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and these MAGAs, he goes, they're just like Putin. They're basically the same. They're interfering in German elections to try to get the neo-Nazi party, which picked up some seats. They came in second. It's scary that they're picking up seats.
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But fortunately, they underperformed what they were supposed to ultimately do after J.D. Vann showed up in Europe and attacked European nations and attacked the other parties in Germany and supported the ADF. But we have the Republicans supporting the neo-Nazi party at CPAC. You had both Steve Bannon and this other speaker doing the Nazi salute symbol. You had Elon Musk doing it.
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I look at this and it literally – it's a physical feeling of – of my heart sinking, and I go, this shouldn't be a Democrat, Republican, independent. This should just be a human thing. What the hell are we doing? And fortunately, the CDU, CSU party in Germany is going to, I think, be able to form this government behind the new Chancellor, Frederick Merz.
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And he's saying, though, look, he goes, I don't know what we're going to do for our NATO summit in June, because it seems like America's out. I mean, that's how they're talking. That's how they're talking about us, you know, in Europe. And then Donald Trump's proven it with what he's with what he's doing. I mean, you know, then he posts something like this.
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This is what this is from the official account of the United States president as a SpongeBob meme where he's, again, mocking federal workers. for Elon Musk's demand that they justify five things that they did last week. And meanwhile, you had a lot of the agencies then telling their own employees, you don't have to respond to this.
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I mean, we're not even talking about the fact that Kash Patel became the FBI director and his first response in his press conference as FBI director Patel was like, this is effing crazy. This is effing crazy. Then Donald Trump picked Dan Bongino, the conspiracy theorist podcaster who never worked at the FBI.
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I mean he previously worked at the Secret Service, which is not the FBI, to be the deputy director of the FBI.
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But could you imagine the – like if someone – the thing with like a Hegseth too, like the arrogance, if someone were to say that to me, I would just be like, okay, no, what are you talking about? I'm not running the defense department. The fact that Hegseth even thinks that he should be doing it.
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goes to this malignant narcissistic pathology that's almost as dangerous as the complete fatal error of putting him in there in the first place that he takes it. But take a look at what Trump posted, this SpongeBob meme. This is how he's referring to federal workers. Got done last week.
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He's mocking federal workers, cried about Trump, cried about Elon, made it into the office for once, read some emails, cried about Trump and Elon some more. I mean, again, could you imagine a work environment where your boss just like – bullies you and harasses you every day like that. It is so demeaning, but I do want this episode to give people hope because people are rising up.
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That to me is the main theme here. Whether you're talking about from Oklahoma, to Missouri, to Georgia, to the red areas in Wisconsin, to certain red areas in New York. And you go throughout the country. This is a theme we're seeing over and over again.
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And Brett, to your point, y'all need to help make your voices heard, whether it's calling your members of Congress, whether it's showing up at these protests, showing up at events. We'll keep covering them here at the Midas Touch Network. And I just think the pressure needs to grow, Brett.
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For those listening on audio, you had Donald Trump seated in the Oval Office next to French President Emmanuel Macron, who's looking at Donald Trump like he's literally a crazy person, but a crazy evil person as well. French President Emmanuel Macron showed up to basically confront Donald Trump about everything that Trump is doing when it comes to attacking Europe and NATO and
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Yeah. You know, to your point, this is not some hypothetical damage. I mean, I'm sure your 401k is, is down right now. Prices are up right now. Inflation is surging right now. Uh, Jobs are being lost right now, and Trump's out there talking about searching Fort Knox with Elon Musk and doing a national treasure movie. Like, what in the world is going on?
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We're going to keep speaking truth to power here on the Midas Touch Network. We will fearlessly report on what's going on.
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and please help spread the message and show others this show show others our youtube channel send others our audio podcast this movement needs to keep on growing especially as the protests continue to grow we'll be covering them and we will be letting you know where to go what to do um and that's going to become a major important part of this as well
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The funny thing is, though, is that so, you know, one of the parts of Europe's strategy is they kind of send over like a babysitter to Trump, like literally just to distract him for like a few more days. And then they, it's like, then they pass the baton to like the next person. So it's like, who gets the short straw, right? So today it was Emmanuel Macron and,
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And then later in the week, you have Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the UK. He shows up and they realize that you have to just sit there in front of him. And Jordi, to your point that he's got this malignant narcissism, he's so cognitively addled as well.
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That the more you're just like in his face and you exhaust him and you wear him out and then you pass the baton to the next person because the more you're literally physically there, the less chance he does something stupid. That's like the new version of like mutually assured destruction.
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it's like babysitting donald trump so he doesn't commit mass destruction for the world basically and that's what uh that's what they're doing right now because you know you just let donald trump ramble and he just says to your point the most dangerous and crazy things i mean It's clear. You take a look at all of the polling data as well. I mean, Trump's approval is tanking.
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And perhaps the only person less popular than Donald Trump are MAGA Republican Congress members. And the only people less popular than them is Elon Musk. And folks, I'm not talking about... amongst democrats or republicans or independent just talking about americans in general are looking at what's going on and they're like disgusted they're like what you you're giving our private data Why?
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To Elon Musk? And you're supporting it based on some weirdo X memes like we live in the real world. What are you even talking about, MAGA Republican Congress members? Get this guy to go before Congress. Do your oversight job and get us answers. What the hell is going on?
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and Ukraine earlier in the day before that meeting took place. The United States officially joined, I think, the access of evil, you know, what we used to be against. Yes, the United States joined Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary in opposing a resolution condemning Russia's aggression against Ukraine. Yeah, not only did they oppose it, I mean, they could have abstained.
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You're giving our medical records, our social security information, our tax information over to Elon Musk and a group of 19 to 25 year old guys he leads who call themselves big balls and who do them all of these and they do them all of these other things. And then Donald Trump goes up on stage and he says that Elon's a very caring person.
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I think that we got to use the word caring when we refer to Elon here. Let's watch this.
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Okay, that's 100% false. And then just by the way, if you were finding these things, then why is it that the MAGA Republican Congress members refuse to let Elon testify before Congress? It all happens on this weirdo social media app called XNow. What are we talking about? Donald Trump posts, Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him get more aggressive.
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Remember, we have a country to save, but ultimately to make greater than ever before, MAGA exclamation point. And then Elon Musk responds to Donald Trump, will do, Mr. President. And then he then sends that weird directive he sent over the weekend to federal employees.
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Consistent with President Donald Trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. I mean, it's not just that they're firing these federal workers, which rips people of their dignity.
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But it's also the dehumanization as well, just treating human beings like absolute trash who are working on very important jobs within our government that help us. And almost disproportionately, too, we're talking about this. veterans who they are firing, because a lot of veterans work in the federal government, the spouses of veterans.
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And because our armed forces people move place to place, the spouses of people in our armed forces are often considered probationary employees since they get new jobs in different states. But they've worked in the federal government and amassed years of expertise Like they're disproportionately getting fired. Disabled veterans and just hardworking people in general are getting fired.
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And then they're being told that they're being fired for cause for their job performance when their job performance met or exceeded expectations or they never even got a job review to begin with. So then it prevents them from even getting unemployment. And so they're just ripping people's jobs. They're throwing people on the street.
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And the payroll in the federal government is really only a very small portion of the overall budget. I mean, the majority of it is for Social Security and Medicare and other services like that. So they're like coming in here, Brett and Jordi, with this sledgehammer like they're these, you know, like a hostile takeover. And that, by the way, shout out to that song, by the way, that's going viral.
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the hostile takeover song. It's like a hostile corporate government takeover, which what they're doing analogous to what they would do in these businesses where they rip the guts out. But this is our government. This is how we stay safe.
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They opposed the resolution and they were in the group with North Korea, Russia, Belarus and Hungary. How insulting can you get? Then Donald Trump in the Oval Office with French President Emmanuel Macron has asked, what's your rationale for siding with an access of evil against your allies? Here, play this clip.
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41% when you won the presidency, that's not popular. That's not conquering. That's not achievements. And CNN, stop with the freaking normalizing. Oh, he's been known to bend the Constitution. You mean violate it? We'll talk a little bit in the show about this meme coin thing.
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I mean, when you are going to be signing executive orders on crypto and the day before your presidency or 48 hours before you're dropping a shit coin, as they're called, because these things are so grifty. and scammy, it's like what the Hak Tua girl, you are doing in the presidency what Hak Tua girl did, whose name is based on a sex act that got her famous.
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Then Melania dropped a meme coin, and then it started losing billions of dollars. And then Donald Trump's pastor, or the pastor who spoke at the event today, he dropped a meme coin. They're all dropping meme coins, apparently. The grift gets bigger, and I guess a new mark is made every day in MAGA. We'll talk about that and more. But I don't want us to ever be distracted.
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And your allocation is basically the same as Hak Tua girl. We'll talk about that, but that's what you're doing? That's so demeaning to, I don't care what political party you're from, you should be like, ugh, gross, this is just absolutely disgusting. But folks, I always need to bring it back to WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Because notice what Trump did say today.
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And again, I don't show the audio and video. Don't worry, you're not going to hear his voice. Trump goes, they all said inflation was the number one issue. I said, I disagree. I think people coming into our country from prisons and mental institutions is a bigger issue for the people that I know.
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Really, because the whole thing that was spewed seemed to be about inflation, grocery prices, egg prices. He did talk about Hannibal Lecter and he did lie about Haitians eating cats and dogs, but let's be clear. Border crossings under President Biden were lower than under Donald Trump. That's the objective data. They were as low under Biden as they were under Trump in April 2020.
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Do we know what April 2020 was? COVID, the reason border crossings were down under Trump was the same reason that gas prices were down in 2020. People weren't driving, people weren't crossing the border because there were mass casualty events
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taking place in the united states where there were mobile morgues where there were food lines in the united states because trump said like a miracle it's all gonna go away but notice what he's saying here that he's saying that inflation's not the number one issue or the big issue right there
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it absolutely is president biden was getting it under control it was caused by donald trump adding eight trillion dollars to the debt that's what caused it and trump's mishandling of covid so it's a shock to the system when you have to restart the economy with the american recovery act which is what president biden did but now donald trump's like oh that's not a big deal not inflation
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why weapon of mass distraction he's not going to be able to get inflation under control what's other what else is donald trump doing as a wmd a weapon of mass distraction during his inauguration speech talking about conquering other countries we should take it seriously because trump has the ability to do it now um but trump on the panama canal quote we didn't give it to china we gave it to panama we're taking it back excuse me first and foremost it was a lease
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It wasn't give, it wasn't we're taking it back. You're talking about conquering a nation? The president of Panama responded and said, no, you're not. We are a sovereign nation. Get the hell out of here. I'll do a whole other hot take on that. Then Donald Trump spent time saying, Henceforth, it is official policy, penises and vaginas. That's what we're gonna talk about.
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Penis and vagina inauguration. It's the same stuff they do. There are only two genders, male and female. Okay, what do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? You want to spend your time attacking the transgender community, marginalized community, and say, male, female, biological. We're not going to fall for that fake up. First off, do not attack marginalized communities.
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It doesn't make you an alpha to behave. It makes you freaking pathetic. to bully marginalized communities. But I'm not going to be distracted focusing on a transgender volleyball. We're gonna stand up for the community, but we're not gonna get distracted. Oh, the outrage, the transgender volleyball player from San Jose State.
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No, we're gonna hold you accountable and say, where's the peace in Ukraine? Wasn't that supposed, excuse me? What time is it? Wasn't there supposed to be peace in Ukraine today? Didn't you say you're such an excellent dealmaker that you would? By the way, that was supposed to happen after the election. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't give you any benefit of that.
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i'll say you meant today what time is it right now there's no peace in ukraine didn't you say i'm gonna go to putin with your accordion little tiny fingers and accordions then you go to putin here what i'm gonna do putin and here what i'm gonna do is the linsky all right all right you do this And then you do this and boom, I'll get it done. It was not done.
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What did Donald Trump promise? He said, peace in Ukraine today. Well, that didn't happen. So that's a promise broken. Didn't Donald Trump also say on day one, there's going to be so many jobs. You're going to be so upset because there's going to be so many jobs. Well, that's not happening. Donald Trump said prices were going to be lower. That's not happening.
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So, Hey NBC, instead of reporting on booze at a Trump event of Obama, that's not exactly breaking news that that's going to happen. How about you go and report the facts?
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like there was no peace in ukraine today which was also one of his promises and also jobs aren't being magically created like a miracle like he promised how about you do your damn job corporate media or just cut your own cords because people are going to cut it because you are absolutely pathetic right there
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You know, Jordy, did you notice what they did today also? What they did. Which I'm not even going to take their bait and do it here. It's not worthy of our time. But they were praising Trump, doing the whole boo coverage, and then still attacking President Biden, now former President Biden. That's what they were spending their time doing over – Hey, guys, you know what? I get it.
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Trump's in office. We're going to magically fix all of the things that you claim you are going to fix. Ain't happening. We're laser focused. Corporate media, I guess, is focused on kissing the ring. We've got a lot more show, folks. Let's take our first quick break. One thing to remind you all of as well, you've got patreon.com slash Midas Touch.
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The prices of goods and other things are increasing. Housing's not more affordable. And so it's important that we not get distracted by Donald Trump's WMD. weapon of mass distraction. We'll talk about what went down in some of the weekend shows as these MAGA Republican leaders like MAGA Mike Johnson and Byron Donalds were just incredibly weird and creepy.
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MAGA Republican Congress member Byron Donalds referred to Donald Trump as his, quote, daddy and says, Daddy's home. Daddy's home, everybody. That's really strange. And then Maga Mike Johnson was asked a pretty basic question on Meet the Press about lowering prices. And are you going to put anything in some of this legislation to help the billionaires that may lower the prices?
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Look, NBC is owned by Comcast, right? Comcast has its corporate agenda where it feels it needs to suck up to Donald Trump. They feel that they need regulatory benefits from Donald Trump and they're going to behave the way they do rather than stand up. Then by appeasing him all of these years, they've now again basically taken away all of their own power in doing that. It's counterintuitive.
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As I said in one of my MidasPlus.com posts, when Donald Trump was calling these media companies failing, They weren't failing, actually. That was the thing. They were not failing media companies. But then they took on that persona and became failing, right? Everything Trump touches dies. And now they actually are failing now. And they weren't before. And independent media is growing now.
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because they embrace the Trump loser mentality by being afraid of this guy. It's ridiculous. Anyway, let's go back to what was going on in this inauguration. I'll give you a few more data points here, and then I want to talk about this Trump shitcoin situation, this rug pull. That's one of the big words. I think we're going to call this the rug pull presidency.
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The main word, the word of the year in 2024 was brain rot. which I think is a precursor to rug pull, right? 2024 was the rot which gave way to 2025 as the rug pull. And just so you know what that term means, if you don't know rug pull, the rug being pulled from under you, conning people and then removing the rug and then they fall flat footed or flat on their face after they're conned.
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I think that's what that means, anyway. Now Trump goes, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries and we're going to create the external revenue service. All right, let's see how you actually implement that. It makes no sense. And again, tariffs are taxes on American corporations.
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I don't know what you're talking, it's just ridiculous what you're even saying. It'll only make prices higher. It'll result in retaliatory tariffs. So that ain't going anywhere. More distraction from Trump. We will not forget God. Can't do that. Well, apparently the pastor at the inauguration view of that is I must create a meme coin. God wants me to create a meme coin.
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And Maga Mike's like, well, it's very complicated. You say very, very complicated. But speaking about the billionaires, how weird was it that they were sitting right next to the cowboys? of Donald Trump, who many of them are billionaires as well. Trump has like his billionaire cabinet next to the actual cabinet. It was very strange. You had Bezos's wife, what she was wearing was a bit unique.
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That is true. That's a great point. Yeah. So for those wondering or who watch the puppies and want a little bit of information about what went down, Trump did not place his hand on the Bible.
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And then the day before, one of the individuals who Trump is involved in that company that sells the Bibles said that Trump would place his hand on the Trump Bible that they were going to then sell limited edition Trump Bibles that he was going to use at the inauguration. I mean, honestly, like if you're a religious person, you know, or even a non-religious doesn't make a difference.
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But like for those who are like, you know, the symbolism of the Bible is so important, like Really? Just imagine if Obama or Biden didn't do that. It would be the front page of Fox and every corporate media network. Donald Trump then went on to attack Nancy Pelosi and he called Adam Kinzinger a crybaby, just stupid stuff. He then went on to attack General Milley, former four-star general.
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One of Donald Trump's first acts to show how big and tough he was is he took down the portrait of General Milley that was hanging in the Pentagon. Real strong gesture to get rid of that painting. I'm sure Milley's like, oh, my gosh. I worked and gave all the service so that my painting could be hung in the Pentagon. But it's just a petty, silly, loser move that that's what he was going to do.
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And then you had Zuckerberg taking a peek at what was a bit unique. What? Photo speaks a thousand words. I guess we'll cover that. And also that weird TikTok scheme that Donald Trump was trying to pull where TikTok shut down for 24 hours. And it was like, we are working with dear leader Donald Trump to try to fix this. Praise be, praise be, he's trying to fix it.
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Keep that energy when you're looking at things like this. You had Elon Musk giving a speech at one of these inauguration events. You can judge for yourself what this hand gesture was that he did twice, but this is what Elon Musk was doing. For those who are just listening on audio, you may have seen our reporting on this otherwise. Look for yourself also.
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As soon as that event was done, Elon Musk arrived at the White House right away. He's got an office right there, literally in the executive building that's attached basically to the White House. This is where he is. He's an unelected billionaire and never in the history of the United States would you ever have a situation like this, that the oligarchs are actually in the White House
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influencing and basically serving as a shadow presidency and a shadow government, just taking up the position right there. I mean, just think about that. I mean, think about McCain-Feingold, a bipartisan piece of legislation that was intended to try to keep this exact situation from happening. Bipartisan, right?
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And then they took it down for 24 hours. Then it went back up in 24 hours. They were like, Donald Trump, President Trump, he saved us. He saved TikTok. And by the way, there was no reason for them to take that thing down. The funny thing is, is that All these billionaires, they probably thought they were like so smart with this scheme, but it seems like people are seeing through it.
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And then the right-wing Supreme Court in the Citizens United case said, actually, we got to protect corporations and their First Amendment right to buy presidencies. That's what the Citizens United case basically said. They have a First Amendment right to spend their money however they want to spend their money. And there's cause and effect that that then leads to this situation.
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And again, that was a bi think about bipartisan efforts, the ability to get Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything. They agreed that that was needed. Then the right-wing Supreme Court struck that down and then you got this MAGA mutation developing then from the Tea Party movement springing into MAGA and this is the state that you have right now.
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Speaking about Elon Musk, he's supposed to be leading this fake government entity called Doge and that was actually hit with a lawsuit. One of the first lawsuits that were filed were filed against Doge. By the way, if you go back And Brett and Jordi, you may remember this. In some of my reporting about a month ago, what I was saying is, remember I was calling Doge a quasi-governmental entity?
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And I was saying that it's still, based on how it's being represented, now falls under all of the federal rules of government agencies. You can't just be like, We're not going to recognize federal labor laws and government laws, but we're going to be this kind of government agency. So what the lawsuit said is, look, you're violating the Freedom of Information Act.
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You're violating all of these other federal agency acts. You weren't created through the Administrative Procedures Act. And so this lawsuit, which I think is very meritorious, is basically looking to shut down Doge, number one, but also we want all of the communications
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relating to doge all of elon's text all of elon's emails vivek ramaswami's that should become public um as well and this entity needs to be shut down i think whether you're in front of a right-wing court or a left-wing court whatever
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it's a strong lawsuit against doge one of the other things to mention as well as Vivek Ramaswamy see you later bye-bye he's done he's gone he lasted negative scaramuchis they pushed him out remember Vivek Ramaswamy was basically saying the same thing Elon was saying like they weren't saying really different things and they were basically saying that Americans
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can't do STEM jobs, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, because the culture in America
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is dumber and americans are stupider than people from india so we need to expand the h-1b visa program because americans are too dumb and too stupid to hold stem jobs they literally almost said that kind of word for word inferior to stem workers from india and then donald trump was like i actually always loved h-1b if you look back The entity of Trump that used H-1B was Trump Modeling Agency.
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That's how they got the models here, that they were all geniuses and got H-1Bs and Einstein visas to basically bring the models into the United States. But Vivek basically said, Americans are too busy watching Boy Meets World and they would not like Steve Urkel. They would like Stefan. And that's the big problem with American culture.
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Frankly, it seems like people are seeing through a lot of this crap. And it's just so important. Again, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Let's focus on what's happening. Let's not make the same mistakes of the past. Let's call him out and let's make this a sophisticated resistance where we're calling them out each and every day on the right things. Brett Jordy, how are you guys doing?
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And then Elon Musk was basically saying the same kind of stuff, but money talks and Elon Musk. is in. Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed out. Negative Scaramucci's. I don't even know what's going to happen with this doge. The whole thing never really felt like it was a well thought out other than kind of a gimmick to begin with as just a pretext to get Elon that office right next to the White House.
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But the oligarchs are in the White House, literally, not figuratively. They are actually in the White House right now. And Elon has an office there. Just think about that. And again, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, that should piss you off. And if you're a MAGA voter, if you're a Republican who voted Trump, right, you got the rug pulled. That's ultimate rug pulling.
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You got the oligarchs running the show right now and prices aren't lower and there's no peace in Ukraine and housing's not affordable. Focus, focus, focus. Let's take our last quick break of the show. Reminder, patreon.com slash MidasTouch, MidasPlus.com. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors as well. Thank you for everybody who watched our puppy inauguration. We'll be back.
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We'll talk about that rug pulling with Trump's meme coin, what these MAGA Republicans are saying on the weekend shows, trying to justify the rug pulling, the promises broken. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our last quick break.
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A complete inauguration fail. Donald Trump tried to pretend that it was too cold to do the inauguration outside the Capitol. The reality was that he was afraid of those teeny tiny crowd sizes that he draws, or I should say doesn't draw. But what a weird event. We'll break it all down, but of course we don't show the audio or video of Donald Trump.
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Impressive, not impressive. I'll tell you what is impressive, though. The Daily Star, this UK tabloid, their front page was, we're not 100% sure they're right, but one in 25 Brits insist. The orange man baby is a zombie. And that's kind of how you have to deal with him and talk about him, especially when he does things like this.
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Look, even the crypto community was confused when Donald Trump dropped a meme coin on Friday and they thought it was, he must have been hacked. Like, how could this be real? You're dropping a meme coin and then you look at the allocation of the meme coin and about 80 to 90% is owned and controlled by insiders, 10% liquidity on the actual market of these meme coins.
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And by the way, Trump tried to claim it's not like a meme coin because he didn't want it to be considered like a security. So they wanted it just to be like, this is a meme and all you're showing, if you buy this meme, is that you love the symbol dollar sign and the letters, T-R-U-M-P, and you're showing affection for the community that likes numbers and symbols and letters.
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So here's how it went down, Trump posts, my new official Trump meme is here. It's time to celebrate everything we stand for winning. Join my very special Trump community. Get your dollar sign Trump now. Go to Get Trump Memes, then you go to it. And it's like you buy these things with a debit card or you buy it with crypto.
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Then you take a look at the fine print and it says, Trump memes are intended to function as an expression of support for and engagement with the ideals and beliefs embodied by the symbol dollar sign T-R-U-M-P and the associated artwork and are not intended to be or to be the subject of an investment opportunity, investment contract or security of any type.
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GetTrumpMemes.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or government agency. See terms and conditions. And when you look at the terms and conditions, it's all of these liability waivers that basically say you can't sue Donald Trump or you can't sue Trump memes.
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And so basically it's this thing that actually looks like a security that like the same thing as like almost like a stock. but it's unregulated. So it has all of this. You hype it up. People say, this looks like a pump and dump. You hype it up. 80% to 90% is held by insiders, meaning they're not the ones who actually buy this thing. They just have 80% to 90% of the supply.
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When I'm saying that there's 10% liquidity, that means the public basically gets around 10% or maybe slightly more of this So if they're all buying this and they're increasing the value by buying and selling this thing and the value is increasing to say $60 for one or $70 for one. Well, then you look at the allocation and you go, what's the quantity that's out there?
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And then you go, okay, the quantity that's out there, meaning the liquidity that's actually now trading on the market. But Trump's trying to claim, oh, it's actually not trading. It's just people selling these memes. But that then gets a value.
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So then you can say, OK, if the value of the 10% is being sold at X dollars and Trump or the insiders control 80% to 90%, you can actually be like, holy crap, Trump's net worth just increased at one point by like $60 billion. 60 billion with a B, became one of the wealthiest people in the world and in America on this meme coin thing. And then his other wealth comes from Trump media.
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But get this, Trump media never made more than close to $3 million in revenue a year or $4 million in revenue a year. It's not making significant profits, but he's making huge amounts of money holding securities or paper that people are investing in because it's him. And again, it's this murky area of crypto. Are foreign governments buying it? Who are the people who are buying this?
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And it's all clouded in crypto wallets. This one crypto wallet holds this. This other crypto wallet holds this. And then here's the thing. Biden's SEC was trying to regulate this stuff and say,
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these memes are securities they should be regulated no different than the stock market because let's be clear what's riskier a meme meme coin or ibm stock why is ibm stock or apple stock regulated by the sec as a security that's on a market that has all of these requirements but meme coins aren't.
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The whole reason why there's an SEC is because once upon a time, people ran all of these scams with things like meme coins, but they were stock certificates and papers that were not regulated. That's why there was this experience that created the SEC. So these meme coins are end run around it.
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Frankly, if there is a place for crypto, and I think there's a place for crypto, I'm not anti-crypto, but this type of crap gives it a horrible name. And then Melania got into the action. She created her own meme coin called Dollar Sign Melania, which looks like Smelania. That's...
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And then when Smolani came out right around that time, it also, whether it was coincidence or whatever, then it started driving down the price of the Trump meme coin. And at one point that Trump meme coin was down like 60 plus percent, meaning the rug was pulled. Lots of people lost massive amounts of money. Imagine buying that at the top of the market and then losing money.
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and putting your life savings into this thing, thinking that you're gonna get rich because all these people are making all of this money. And then boom, it falls like crazy. And then you don't have the ability of the DOJ or SEC to do anything because Trump controls it now. And you can't go after Trump because he now has immunity as the president.
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It is a nasty, I don't care what political party, this was a nasty game. that Donald Trump pulled on the people. It screwed up. And again, are your prices lower? No. Is there peace in Ukraine? No. Is housing more affordable? No. Was he spending time doing that? No. Him and Melania were releasing meme coins that should piss you off regardless of your political party.
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I want to mention two things. First, I think it's important that we also mention developments with Donald Trump's pardons and commutations. When it comes to commutations, that basically just means reducing the prison sentences of individuals.
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So one of the things that Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, sentenced to 22 years, the DOJ called for terroristic enhancements, someone who's literally one of the most dangerous people out there. And whether you were a Trump-appointed judge, a Democrat-appointed judge,
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a Republican appointed judge, they made it very clear over the past few weeks, do not commute or pardon these types of people. Stuart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, these violent people. Enrique Tarrio's mom saying that Tarrio's been released and Trump's commuted that sentence. We're hearing about a lot of other violent insurrectionists as well.
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whose family members are talking about them being released. It does indeed seem that Donald Trump's going to, whether you are violent, you get a commutation. And if you are nonviolent, you get a pardon. But this is one of the first acts that he is going to clearly be doing. We'll get you more details on that. I'll do a full take on this as well.
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And this is coming from the family members of Tarrio and other individuals as well. And again, while this is vile, disgusting, despicable, dangerous, pick your word. This is a wake-up call, I think, to Americans that this was someone convicted of seditious conspiracy, convicted. Juries saw this and they said sedition. And Donald Trump said, I'm pardoning them. They get to go.
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It should be noted that Enrique Tarrio was in the White House, hanging out in the White House, in the residency area back in December of 2020, which I know corporate media was too afraid to talk about then. But again, we're not dealing with lower prices. We're not dealing with peace in Ukraine. He's out there pardoning seditionists and commuting the sentences of seditionists.
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It is absolutely, absolutely despicable and vile. Next thing I want to mention, Martin Luther King Day. It is a time for reflection on Martin Luther King's legacy. And as his daughter, Bernice King, also talked about, enough just quoting Martin Luther King, especially by people who don't understand what his legacy really is about mass, strategic, nonviolent protest were the words that she used.
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She goes, if you want to honor Martin Luther King Jr., remember what his real legacy is about. You don't need to do empty quotations of him. And I think it's important that we all reflect on that here today as well. His actual legacy and when we, the people, will be called upon as well to –
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do mass strategic nonviolent protests and how with the incoming that's going to be taking place, we remain united and we make it clear that our voices be heard. I'm not going to pretend that the next four years are going to be puppies and kittens. I think it's helpful that we did what we did today And the fact that we raised $80,000 plus for the Humane Society, I think was a helpful thing.
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Look, we're not showing video or audio of Donald Trump. We're still going to explain what went down. I mean, we are a news network after all. Let me explain to you why I think it's so important, though, that we have independent media. May I show you Exhibit A right now? And this was brought to my attention by others who they tried to dabble with the coverage.
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And by the way, I'm open to doing that once a month and on other special occasions. It's a fun way, I think, to bring this community together. But again, life isn't all puppies and kittens. The network and the news we do and our work here goes on.
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And it's important that we remain fearless, unapologetically pro-democracy, and we stand strong no matter what is thrown our way, that we never obey in advance or ever, we never kiss the ring, and we always stand up. We always stand up for peace, for love, for compassion, for freedom, for our democracy. And that's what we're gonna do here each and every day with you, the Midas Mighty.
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We're going to fight by your side every step of the way. As we did today, as we'll do tomorrow. So thank you very, very much. We appreciate you. Jordy, you want to take us out?
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And they chose NBC because they're like, yeah. Obviously, Fox is an issue, ABC, Stephanopoulos, or as Trump calls them, Slopidopoulos, who has settled the case, so I don't want to watch it. Maybe NBC is a safe place to try to watch this. Maybe they'll give actually some decent coverage and function like The Fourth Estate. If you turned on NBC, this is what you saw. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, what the hell was that? I mean, truthfully, is that the definition of media malpractice right there? You are at a MAGA event and you are... for reporting on their boos and reporting on their boos as though you're reporting on a car chase. It almost had that tone of this live event. And here they come. They're turning right. They're going on the highway. Boo. OK, you are hearing more.
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But we'll talk about how pathetic and low energy it was, talking about pathetic, low energy disaster doge. What's going on with that dogey thing, that fake governmental agency? Well, we do know Vivek Ramaswamy is being pushed out. I guess he's incompatible with the fake agency. That lasted negative Scaramucci. See you later, Vivek.
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What do you expect this MAGA crowd that is literally in a stadium to watch the inauguration. How do you think they're going to respond? Why is that striking to you? And why is that something that you're even reporting on? So I feel very comfortable and confident that the puppy inauguration was the absolute right way to go.
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And that's how they're going to report on things going forward, gamifying, propagandizing. I don't even know what the hell that was, Drew.
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I don't understand why in general, the idea of like being a billionaire and having like so much money just kind of feels a little bit gross to me in general, but whatever, I set it aside. But what's the point of being a billionaire, like if you're a Bezos or a Zuckerberg, if in reality you have like zero power?
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Like, wouldn't part of the evil billionaire kind of thing or whatever, like, to then have the power to like, here's how I'm going to do it. So you have all of this money.
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it's it's a really great it's it's a great point and you know it's like okay what the stock market went up 55 to 60 percent under president biden like objectively those are great returns right if you told me hey if you invest in this over the next four years you'll get a 50 to 60 return right so like they're criticizing that as like whoa things were so bad It's like, really?
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ramaswamy who's going to be the next to fall on the trump see you later bingo card or talking about who's latest latest to fall you've got the trump meme coin falling this meme coin madness at this inauguration party for the crypto community at around that time trump dropped a meme coin and then it quickly made billions of dollars and
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Like you think it was that bad? I mean, look, I don't believe the stock market should be the metric for our economy. There's other metrics that Biden should be rated on, which were, I think, all pretty good. I mean, 16.6 million jobs created, never consecutive months where jobs were lost. You had record GDP growth.
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His Inflation Reduction Act was bringing our inflation down more than any other country. I mean, it was doing a pretty good job until Trump started giving all of these threats and doing the whole Trump shtick, 40,000 plus infrastructure projects. I could go on and on and on. But now these MAGA billionaires needed to have like, it wasn't enough to have 50 billion. It had to be 300 billion.
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And then that wasn't enough. It had to be more like, what are you doing with all of that money? But then you have zero power. And then you're just kind of like sitting there under Donald Trump's thumb. And like, they were all like, really, it was just like a weird thing to see them there lined up. I mean, look, just take a look at them right there. Like we go objectively a weird group.
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these are objectively really weird like really weird people like let's just be real here and then you have like like bezos there you know with his wife and i mean like wait what can like what is this like what you see how she's she's like dressed with the shirt open and then you have zuckerberg standing or sitting right there like just kind of looking like down at
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at her shirt or, you know, what she's, what he's looking at. I mean, the whole thing is very, very strange there. You have Melania wearing this like weird funeral hat. It looks like she's, it looks like her hat is like the roof of Pizza Hut. That's what she's wearing.
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The whole thing, I'm like, what are you wearing? Weird vibes. Weird vibes. It was in the rotunda. It felt very small. It felt very pathetic. I felt like a funeral, honestly. As all of the corporate media, too, was trying to be like, this was an actual headline from the Washington Post.
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how's donald trump conquering dc i think a headline from cnn was donald trump is known to push the boundaries of the constitution i thought there was another headline this may have been from nbc how is he more popular now than ever it's like he isn't he objectively isn't He is the least popular president, I think, in history leading up to an inauguration. It's supposed to be a honeymoon period.
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And for Donald Trump, the nation already wants a divorce from this guy and many want a restraining order. I mean, the AP poll has his pre inauguration approval rating at 41%. This is supposed to be when it's like 70%, right? Obama's was like 78%. Clinton, George W. Bush were like 72% approval. Biden was somewhere between 67 and 72%. That's popular.
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
I'm joined by Governor Andy Beshear of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Governor, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. Very excited to be here. Let's start with the news of the day. Donald Trump announcing yesterday he's calling April 2nd the day after April Fool's Liberation Day, where he says he's imposing more tariffs on the country. And he says that's going to make everybody super rich.
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
Also, I think it's one in three people who live in Kentucky are on Medicaid, and that's being hit pretty hard as well. What's going on there with the drastic cuts that Doge and Trump and Musk are doing to Medicaid and just shutting down essential government services?
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
It's not a secret that the Commonwealth of Kentucky is generally considered to be a red state. You are a Democratic governor in what would otherwise be called a ruby red state. You won your election back in 2023. You got about 53 percent of the vote. In 2024, Trump won the state over Kamala Harris by like 30 points.
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
Let me show this to you and then let me get your reaction from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Let's play it.
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So you won the state and then he beat Kamala by 30 points in the same state where you're a Democratic. What's the what do you think the secret is here? Because there seems to be a road map there. You're doing something right to be able to win in Kentucky. So what do you do it? That's kind.
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to show everybody a video that you posted in the past 24 hours where you say discrimination holds our Commonwealth and our country back, put in my Kentucky accent. It just ain't right. Let me show you this video and then I got a question. Let me play it right now.
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Governor, I know the Commonwealth of Kentucky has been hit pretty hard by these tariffs. What do you make of that statement? And is that how the people in the Commonwealth are feeling, liberation?
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
Now, if a Democratic governor in Kentucky. can do that. What are Democrats afraid about? And the rest of the, it drives me crazy. You're in Kentucky and you're saying, look, I'm not going to let people be bullied. I'm not, I'm not okay. My faith makes me not okay with marginalized people just getting punched down.
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Yet it seems that Democrats are living in right wing frameworks and echo chambers and feeling, you know what, if I want to win an election, I gotta, I guess I gotta kind of be like that. I guess I gotta kind of grow out and punch down and bully. And you're saying, I'm in Kentucky. And you know what? The people in Kentucky like people who stand up for what they believe in and fight for them, right?
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You know, some of this stuff I feel like, you know, is a little bit of a layup too. I mean, as Americans' pensions are being destroyed, as 401Ks in the gutter, what was Donald Trump posting this weekend? I just won the golf championship at the Trump International Golf Club.
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such a great honor the awards dinner is tonight at the club i want to thank the wonderful golf staff and all of the many fantastic golfers that participated in the even he doesn't even spell event right such fun and he's saying such fun as americans were suffering by the way as there were horrific storms ravaging the midwest with dozens of people dead he's saying having Having fun?
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I mean, what's what's your what's your closing message right now? You know, it's your first time on the Midas Touch Network just to the country in general. I know a lot of people know who you are, but, you know, there may be some people on this network seeing you for seeing you on this network for the first time.
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What's your message generally about where we're at right now as a country and what you're looking to do?
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Gov. Andy Beshear on Winning as a Dem in a Red State
Well, you pump me up for the day. You're making me feel good right now. Governor Andy Beshear from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Thanks so much for joining us on the Midas Touch Network. We hope you come back. I'd be honored to. Thank you all so much for having me. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C. after taking yet another golf vacation in southern Florida. He competed, or so he claims competed, in his own golf tournament where he awarded himself first place yet again. Then he went back to Washington, D.C. after celebrating his own victory in his own golf tournament and then started immediately spewing Putin's talking points just before
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in Canada, in Europe, in New Zealand, in Australia and elsewhere, rising up and stopping Donald Trump and protesting Trump and uniting to kind of boycott all things Trump related, which, you know, for America, it's unfortunate that there are big boycotts against all things American.
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But when Donald Trump is attacking the sovereignty of nations, you certainly understand where they're coming from and why they're doing that.
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so brett your your point is is apt which is now trump is like well i'm just gonna kind of i'm just gonna go for it i'm just gonna go full dictator right now and i'm not gonna hide it anymore so he invokes the alien enemies act over the uh weekend of 1798 this is something he said that he was going to invoke during the campaign and he said he's invoking it as it relates to the trend day aragua gang
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from venezuela but uh what the alien enemies act of 1798 says is that there has to be a war it's a war powers so the only three times in american history it's been invoked and it's been uh invoked in ways that are looked back at at history as being very dark times but the war of 1812 world war one and World War II.
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And most recently, its invocation in World War II was where we saw Japanese Americans put in concentration camps and being treated as enemy combatants with horrific, horrific conditions related there too. And so what Trump said is that there is a war underway where Venezuela and its gangs are involved in a hybrid gang state actor warfare,
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that they've declared war on the united states that thus he needs war powers act and so um he does not have to give anybody due process he says because he's looking for venezuelan enemy combatants he says and so he gets to decide without providing anybody due process whether they're part of the gang He just says they're gang members. I declare them an enemy combatant.
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I'm going to, you know, put them on, I'm going to shackle them. And then what we saw him do over this weekend is send these individuals to El Salvador where he and Marco Rubio and the rest of the Trump regime cut a deal with Naid Bukele, who is the president of El Salvador, who runs El Salvador like an authoritarian. He's like a, they call him like a crypto president, but he's,
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An authoritarian guy there, about 1,800 of every 100,000 people in El Salvador are incarcerated. The entire GDP of El Salvador is about $30 billion or so annually incarcerated. $30 billion. Just by contrast, the GDP of Canada annually is closer to $2.5 trillion, and the United States GDP is closer to $35 trillion annually, although who knows under Trump what that number is.
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is ultimately going to be but trump is sucking up to el salvador with a 30 billion dollar annual gdp that has about a 28 poverty rate close to 10 of people in el salvador are in extreme poverty 28 to 30 percent live
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in poverty or or right underneath kind of serious poverty conditions and and so trump cuts this deal with bukele who runs these concentration camps in el salvador and shoots these kind of isis style propaganda videos and so when trump declared that this group of about 200 individuals he claims
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are are gang members they're venezuelan gang members but as brett said a lot of them are saying no we're not gang members um and we're not we didn't commit any crimes or at least their lawyers are saying that some of these people had hearings coming up this week and trump just took them and trump sent them to el salvador
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Now, look, even the Supreme Court post 9-11 in a case called Hamdan versus Rumsfeld said that enemy combatants are owed certain levels of process, even at Guantanamo Bay under military commissions. What Trump is saying is he declares who he says is an enemy combatant.
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and then he's makes these he makes these videos of himself uh makes these videos of the people he declares enemy combatants and they're straight like isis style videos of these people like you have caroline levitt donald trump's chief propaganda she goes the american people voted for this that's what her post is she goes this is what you all voted for on her post and then here's the video that they released i'm only going to show you
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a small portion of it but it's very disturbing here play this clip So they didn't get, look, I want to be very clear about my position too. Gang members, people who commit crimes should get the book handed to them, right? You know, if you're committing crimes, if you're in gangs, get them off the street. The furthest extent permitted by law to punish people, punish gang members.
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We have due process in this country though. So what, Trump gets to now say you're a gang member or you're a gang member and now you go to El Salvador and you disappear into their concentration camp systems?
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Yeah, and that's the trap that they try to set with all these sorts of policies because they want you to go, that's not okay. That video that we saw looks like Nazi propaganda updated for 2025. It's incredibly disturbing. For those who are listening, you see that people get walked through with these airline hangers and
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and like thrown on the ground on their knees and their heads are shaved and they're like treated like animals like cattle and it's it's a horrifying video and i'm and you obviously heard the music too that goes behind it and it looks almost like a hollywood production like like they sunk a lot of money into making that video it's very grim uh very just gross like like i like i don't feel good and if you did vote for that as an american that sort of treatment of human beings
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I don't know what that says about your own psyche. But yeah, I think that's an important thing to emphasize because the trap that the MAGA people want to try to capture in is if you speak out in favor of due process, in favor of the US Constitution, they want to go, oh, so you support gang members. So you support illegal immigrant gang members. That's what you support, huh?
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Okay, I see what you support. But it's like, no, that's not at all what we want here. We are totally okay and would like to see gang members who are committing illegal acts deported from the United States. They're not here legally, for sure. That's what we want.
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What we do not want and what I think even people who consider themselves to be conservative or MAGA or however you label yourself, what we don't want... is the person who gets to decide who is a gang member should not be the president of the United States.
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It should not just be a single person going off this individual's word without evidence, without any sort of backup, without any court hearings, because that is a slippery slope that leads to some very, very bad things.
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that has led to very bad things throughout history you do not want to give that sort of power to an executive you just do not want to do it you want to follow the laws you want to make sure you're getting out the people who are the people who are committing the crimes you don't you want to make sure you are not getting rid of just venezuelan migrants who may be here legally but have a funny tattoo that you think is weird you know like that's not what you want here you need to follow the law and so this is about fundamental
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Yes. Notice when he talks about Putin, he never says anything negative. about Putin, and he always just buys hook line and sinker what Putin says, like literally nothing about what he just said is true. He's not saving Ukrainian lives with Putin. If anything, Trump is imperiling the lives of Ukrainians. And that's what Putin is telling his people in Russia. It's totally false.
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constitutional powers. This is about due process of the United States. I do not want Tom Holman or Donald Trump or Stephen Miller or any of these people having the right to just grab random people who they think look different than them off the street and send them to El Salvador to be in the custody of this third-rate dictator over there to treat them the way that you see in those videos.
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You have no idea what these people have done. And yes, if they committed crimes, yes, sure, get them the hell out of this country. I agree with you. But you cannot do that to citizens who are who could be innocent. I mean, it's just it's just so vile what we are seeing in this country and and the ignoring of the court orders.
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And then you'll get to Judge Bosberg and what's been happening in the courts today surrounding this since Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. But I just wanted to make our position on this extremely clear.
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And let's also be clear. For this administration, cruelty is the point. That's what they want to prove here. Cruelty is always the point of a Trump administration. Rates aren't getting cut. Egg prices are going up. Inflation's through the roof. Trump's not doing anything to help anyone financially. So what does he have to do? He's got to double down on cruelty. That's what he's got to do.
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He's got to head fake with the JFK files. He's got to throw some red meat with an auto pen conspiracy. What's going on? And then he's going to release this. I don't even know how you want to categorize that video that we just played, but just disgusting and vile video. Why? Just cruelty. That's why. Period. End of story. It's really maddening what we're witnessing.
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Just a total lack of humanity, humility, and just love for people. It's bizarre to see and then be celebrated by someone who's supposed to be the leader of the free world. It really, my skin crawls watching what we just watched.
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For those on audio, it reminds me of those ISIS-style propaganda videos that were released 12 years ago, 13 years ago. But the American regime, the Trump regime, is releasing it while they're grabbing people's hair and throwing them on the floor and then throwing people into these cages in the El Salvador system. Yeah.
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I want to talk about what Judge Boasberg in Washington, D.C., ruled, whether the Trump regime violated that order, what went down in the hearing today as it relates to the Alien Enemies Act and an injunction that was issued. And then I want to talk additionally about some of the international protests that we're seeing, whether it's in
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uh belgrade serbia whether it's in budapest hungary whether it's in tbilisi in georgia against putin putin's never been actually weaker and donald trump is doing everything he can in my opinion to try to throw putin a lifeline and you see canada europe australia rallying behind ukraine in ways that are you know truly kind of meeting the moment we'll talk about that dynamic We'll talk about more.
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The Ukrainian defense forces had to forcefully come out a few days ago with statements saying this is false when Donald Trump made a social media post about that. And one of the other developments as well is that Donald Trump has removed Keith Kellogg, his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, and just reappointed Keith Kellogg as just the special envoy to Ukraine.
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Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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Let me talk about first the authority of federal judges in general and our federal court system. Since the case of Marbury versus Madison, one of the earliest cases of the Supreme Court, our country has had a tradition of something called judicial review. where the federal courts review the constitutionality of actions by the other branches of government.
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And as part of that judicial review, the federal judges can issue injunctions that can block actions. It goes all the way up to the Supreme Court. And if the executive branch is engaged in conduct that is deemed unconstitutional or if Congress engages in conduct that is unconstitutional, And the federal judge, it could go all the way up to the Supreme Court in our federal system.
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because Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that he doesn't want Keith Kellogg in any interactions with Russia because Keith Kellogg has said positive things about Ukraine. I guess that's what Donald Trump calls the art of the deal, what just listening to whatever Putin tells him to do. And by the way, Trump gave a recent podcast interview.
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So rules, our system has always been based on the kind of good faith compliance with federal court rules. Orders, good faith compliance. And as I've said before, Donald Trump not only is a destroyer of businesses, he's the reason he's bankrupted things over and over again, he is someone who does not engage in good faith. He's someone who has always ripped up contracts his entire life.
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He's tried to, you know, whether it's stiffing contractors or just not complying with contracts, that's been Donald Trump's MO. And so what's the ultimate kind of contract? As it relates to our country, it's our Constitution. So like other contracts Donald Trump's been able to rip up, he wants to rip up our Constitution.
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Now, former President Biden had a lot of his agenda stalled, stopped, or blocked via nationwide injunctions whereby Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society people, they would run to one judge and in the Northern District of Texas, a guy named Judge Matthew Kaczmarek.
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The MAGA lawyers would find some jurisdictional hook, they'd go to Kaczmarek, and then this federal judge in the Amarillo Division in Texas would issue a nationwide injunction,
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for northern district of texas everywhere blocking initiatives by biden to try to help people whether it was expanding health care coverage or forgiving student loan debt things that actually helped people the magas would go to block it they'd go to kasmeric donald trump trying to hurt
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people and so now that uh trump is in power and the trump regime is in power lots of federal judges out there not one just a lot of them are saying hey you can't overturn birthright citizenship hey you can't fire these probationary employees and say you're firing them
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for performance reasons when they've actually performed well and they've done everything that was expected of them and then defame them. We're issuing nationwide injunctions to stop what you're doing that's hurting people. And the Trump regime hates these nationwide injunctions.
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they're challenging nationwide injunctions now all the way up to the united states supreme court using the cases that involve birthright citizenship that trump is trying to overturn and there's going to be briefing in april where the trump regime is saying we don't like nationwide injunctions sure we used it to screw biden but now that it's being used against us where the trump regime's trying to hurt people not tell people we hate it get rid of it this is a
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common theme we see with the kind of right wing they like it when it helps them they hate it when it doesn't help them the only consistency is in both instances they're trying to screw over the people for the oligarchs that's one of the things that we consistently see now I wanted to give you all of that framework so you know what I talk about this Washington, D.C.
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Judge, Judge Boasberg and what he ruled and what the hearing was today. You at least have that as background. Let me just give you a little info about Judge Boasberg. So you understand Boasberg. Who's this guy, Boasberg? He's a federal judge who is one of the top federal judges in all of Washington, D.C.
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where he was saying that when he told people that he would bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours, it was all just him being sarcastic. He didn't really mean it, he said. Here, play this clip.
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He was the presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Service Court, the FISA courts from 2020 to 2021, which is a big role to have. So he's dealt with the most classified and sensitive information as a chief judge, federal judge of the FISA courts. And then in addition, he's now the chief judge
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of all of the washington dc district court judges he's the top guy the top dog and he's got massive amounts of experience in dealing with classified information executive authority um and how to deal with all of these cases a very well respected guy
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so a lot of groups like the aclu and others saw that the trump regime was likely going to invoke a war powers under the alien enemies act so they smartly rushed to court at the end of last week before trump ever even invoked the war powers then subsequently trump invoked the war powers there was a hearing that was held over the weekend and apparently
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the Venezuelan individuals who Trump says are gang members without giving them due process, without them having hearings, without evidence being presented with them denying that they've committed any crimes. Trump put him on planes to go to El Salvador. The lawyers who were representing them said, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is unconstitutional. We need hearings.
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You can't just pick up people off the street or pick up people and say because you don't like their tattoo or this or that, that they're necessarily gang members and send them to El Salvador, even if they were gang members, by the way.
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As I mentioned earlier in the show, there's a case called Rumsfeld v. Hamden or Hamden v. Rumsfeld, which the Supreme Court said even as it relates to Guantanamo Bay, when there were – terrorists who were being tried post 9-11, you still had to have some sort of process through these military commissions to make sure that there was some process being offered.
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You couldn't just declare anybody who you want as a terrorist and then put them in concentration camps. So Judge Boasberg issued a kind of nationwide injunction, an all-encompassing injunction that were just basically in order that told the Trump regime, stop.
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in 14 days we'll brief this issue but you send the people back we can't have these individuals lost in the el salvador concentration camp systems so stop it so the trump regime claims that number one that was an oral order and not actually in written form
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so they therefore don't have to acknowledge or respond to courts making oral orders which judge boseberg in a hearing today said that's the most ridiculous thing i i've ever heard i you've heard what i said there's a transcript of it the second trump uh regime argument is that
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the plane with these Venezuelans who they claim are gang members was in international waters, so therefore they don't have to listen to what the judge had to say. And Judge Boasberg's like, that's not what the law is either. You still have to listen to federal judges. You should have complied with the order, and then we could have dealt with this.
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And so Judge Boasberg is now at a hearing today that just took place an hour, a few hours ago, grilled the Trump DOJ lawyers and said, what the hell are you doing? To which the Trump lawyers were like, we don't have to answer any of your questions. National security, to which Judge Boasberg says, I know a thing or two about national security law. I know my case law, you don't.
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No, what you really meant is that you were lying to the American people. Were you being sarcastic when you said that you were going to reduce prices and make housing more affordable? Was that that old-fashioned sarcasm right there? No, you're just a liar in everything you do. Also, were you being sarcastic when you said you were going to release the Epstein files?
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By the way, you may have remembered that I was the chief FISA judge, so I know this stuff like the back of my hand. Under what authority are you claiming And if you are going to say national security, you need to make a showing still. You can't just say, oh, we're going to do whatever I want. And so Judge Boasberg is given 24 hours for the Trump regime to provide a detailed declaration.
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on everything that happened now with that flight we showed earlier of these Venezuelans who are now in the concentration camp system in El Salvador. Meanwhile, you have Trump and Musk attacking Judge Boasberg, posting photos of Boasberg, saying impeach Boasberg. All these spineless Republicans in Congress are saying
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get rid of bozberg and that's basically the status of what we have now and we have all of these we have 200 or so venezuelans and a lot of them whose lawyers saying not gang members not criminals just people who are now sent there who who are now lost in a concentration camp system in a foreign country final point the trump regime shut down what they were doing in Guantanamo Bay.
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And remember in Guantanamo Bay, they said they were having the gang members in Guantanamo, but it actually wasn't gang members in Guantanamo. It was actually a lot of nonviolent people and just migrants at heart. There's a lot of just regular hardworking kind of migrants who were sent to Guantanamo Bay. So Trump lied about putting them in Guantanamo Bay.
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So are these the same types of people who they shut down Guantanamo Bay for? They moved them to Louisiana. Are they those people? Are they other people like that who they were sending to Guantanamo Bay? So these are all of the issues that we're dealing with now. I know that was a little bit of a long and wonky discussion, but I think I had to give it a little bit of the legal.
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I like the level of detail, Ben. Our listeners like the level of detail too. That was excellently done.
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Well, it's an important case, and I think it's helpful that you took people basically inside the courtroom today to basically try to experience what actually went down in that very contentious hearing that took place. And I feel like often people go, when we try to fact check Trump or when Trump says all these lies, they're like, yeah, we know. He's a liar. He lies about everything. We get it.
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Who cares? Okay, so he's hyperbolic about things. That's what he does. That's not... The problem, though, like the problem is that these lies have actual consequences and he's using these lies in order to do things that subvert our entire democracy. Like what he is trying to do right now is tyrannical. It's autocracy. And I know those words are thrown around.
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And sometimes they're thrown around a little lightly. Basically, they have meaning and it's not very good for the United States to be under that sort of rule. But it could certainly apply and should certainly apply to what we are witnessing right now. Because Donald Trump, under his false pretenses, based on his lies... is trying to do all of this illegal activity.
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He's basically saying to the courts and his Department of Justice, and shame on these lawyers at the Department of Justice who were in front of Judge Boasberg today, they're basically saying, as long as Donald Trump says what it is, as long as Donald Trump says these are gang members,
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I mean, the Trump regime is doing everything but release those Epstein files in terms of the things that they're saying that they're going to release. The latest right here was Trump saying that we're going to release the files that you all have cared about the most, the Kennedy files, right? You all wanted the Kennedy files. Here, play this clip.
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As long as Donald Trump says that this is a matter of national security, as long as Donald Trump continues to lie about that, you can't quite even question him about it. It's just this is going to be what it's going to be. And there were multiple times during this court hearing today where Judge Boasberg was like, well, could you tell me who was on flight number two that went out?
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No, no, we're not going to tell you. Well, why not? Can you tell us? We don't have to tell you anything. They kept saying that that was their answer to everything. So ultimately, Ben, what is it? They got to get back to Judge Boesberg tomorrow at noon, I think, with a clear delineation of what their official response is going to be to those questions.
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Because as of now, they are refusing to answer these very basic questions. They are trying to hide behind this national security argument. But this isn't a military operation. Even Donald Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act doesn't automatically make this a military operation. And these were not military planes that were being used. These were ice planes that were being used.
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We are not under an invasion. We are not at war with Venezuela. The entire pretense of this is fake. It's garbage. It's bullshit. And it's the same kind of stuff that Vladimir Putin does. It's the same kind of stuff that Putin did when he went to invade Ukraine. He needed a pretext for it. So he made up whether it was about the NATO stories, whether it was about I need to denazify Ukraine.
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It's those sorts of lies that Trump employs over here to try to engage in his tactics and his authoritarian tactics. And we are seeing that bubble up in various different ways right now in very horrifying ways that are not fit for the United States of America. Now, I think we're clearly beyond the point of no return here. People have been saying, are we in a constitutional crisis?
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We're close to a constitutional crisis. I personally believe we are in a constitutional crisis right now. Donald Trump refusing to abide by these court rulings, refusing to abide by the law.
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so ben i guess my question for you is like what happens now you know obviously there's going to be a hearing tomorrow but what if trump just in his administration what if they just keep ignoring these rulings and they keep moving ahead and doing what they do as the supreme court just giving him a get out of jail free card essentially with their immunity ruling
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look i think we are past the constitutional crisis i think we have to acknowledge not accept but acknowledge that there's no longer a government by the people for the people thus i don't call it a government i call it a regime because it's by the bullies for the billionaires and these uh mega republicans and the trump regime have already destroyed the Constitution.
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So the question is, is they're already attacking Judge Boasberg. We already didn't comply with Boasberg. Now they're attacking Boasberg to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, basically the appeals court that sits above Boasberg. Then above that is going to be the United States Supreme Court.
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And as I've been talking about this case, this Hamdan versus Rumsfeld case, the question is going to become where I think you're going to have have. And you may call me naive here, but to me, looking at the current dynamic of the Supreme Court, there seems to be a five to four court against the dictator stuff that Donald Trump's doing.
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This right-wing Supreme Court will let Trump get away with a lot of Horrific things. I'm not trying to in any way say the Supreme Court is good. It's a six to three right wing court, six right wing justices, three liberal justices. But we are seeing Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett and Donald Trump appointed Justice Barrett.
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So that's why a lot of magas are hating on Justice Barrett. They've been joining with the three liberal judges and forming five to four potentially against some of Trump's biggest excesses. So the question is, what happens when you get a five to four against Donald Trump at the Supreme Court level? Trump says, I'm not complying with the Supreme Court.
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and then we're kind of in this kind of full-fledged you know you know even worse kind of authoritarian grip and then what happens and i think what happens is honestly what you're seeing in budapest and hungary i think what you're seeing in belgrade serbia i think what you're seeing in tbilisi in georgia where you've got these massive massive rallies i mean can we show this video brett and
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I'll tell our audio listeners what it is. I mean, it's hundreds of thousands. I mean, it looks like a million people or so in Budapest in Hungary protesting Viktor Orban, the Putin puppet Orban who Trump loves. I'm going to play it because I want people to see the visuals of what this looks like. We'll just play it short so I don't want to annoy our audio listeners. But just take a look at this.
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false Russian propaganda about how Russia has Ukraine encircled and that Donald Trump and Putin are needed to try to spare the lives of the Ukrainian military and that that's why Donald Trump's going to have to speak with Putin on Tuesday. One thing I should note before playing you this clip of Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center is
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And again, for audio listeners, it's just so many people, like hundreds of thousands. in the streets. Play this clip. And then I'll show you, this is in Belgrade, Serbia. Let's play it. over a million people, I think, in Belgrade, Serbia, protesting against the kind of Putin-aligned regime right there.
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And when we come back from our last break, I want to talk to you about some of the things that Trump is doing right now to kind of further entrench and align himself and his regime
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with Putin, the types of things that he's saying that we talked about at the beginning of the show, what is being done to kind of combat that, this coalition of the willing led by UK Prime Minister, Pierre Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, other leaders emerging. I mean, you're seeing the new Prime Minister in Canada, Mark Carney,
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invited Zelenskyy to the G7 summit that's going to be taking place in June, making a strong stance right there. And Europe and Australia and Canada uniting to be strong negotiating partners with Ukraine to check Donald Trump trying to just have bilateral negotiations with Putin cut everybody out. And what Trump wanted to do was to basically split Ukraine, in my opinion.
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He wanted to steal the minerals for himself and his own sovereign wealth fund, and then he wanted to give the other part to Russia. That's, I think, Trump's vision of what the deal was going to be. Europe and Zelensky smoke that out early. And they were able to say, no, no, no, we're pushing back. They're kind of leveraging kind of Marco Rubio against Trump.
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And because I think that Rubio is uncomfortable with what Trump's doing, but Rubio spineless and they see how to kind of use Rubio. They've been doing a good job. checking Trump. But on Tuesday, Trump's going to be talking with Putin.
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So I think we can expect more of the Putin propaganda to flow on Tuesday and a bunch of ridiculous statements that will be coming out of Trump that will resemble and mirror anything that Putin tells him. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We got a lot to discuss still. Reminder, MidasPlus.com, our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, does his great daily summaries there.
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And also Patreon.com, slash Midas Touch, where you could meet Brett, Jordy and myself for one of our upcoming Zoom chats. We'd love to see you there as well. Let's take our last quick break of the show. So since my daughter was born a few months back, I've been really focused on my fitness and doing what I can to stay healthy.
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where to barbie's dollhouse wow that's against barbie's bombs donald trump's yeah there it is right there there's barbie's dollhouse why am i showing you barbie's dollhouse because donald trump's treasury secretary scott besant lives in the real life version i'm not making this up
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of the barbie dollhouse or the barbie mansion it's a 22 million dollar sprawling pink mansion in charleston south carolina uh donald trump's treasury secretary is worth about half a billion dollars maybe worth a little more and he's been out there talking about how uh like the american people don't care about lower prices that's not really what the american dream has anything to do with so
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I think people have been waiting for the Epstein files. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy, everybody. Yeah, my brother's here on the Midas Touch podcast. And one of the things, too, that Donald Trump was doing at Mar-a-Lago, I'm not sure if you saw this, Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, they were throwing a Birkin, a Hermes Birkin bag theme party. Did you catch that? Where they were showing off
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i i just we we don't see that as anything that american people actually care about so as matthew iglesias says i guess when you already own a 22 million dollar mansion it's easy to sneer at the value of affordable durable goods and this guy is like the sneerer in chief like the most arrogant strange deliver like so out of touch here this is what he said over the weekend let's
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Okay, didn't Donald Trump say that he was going to make things cheaper on day one? Wasn't the whole promise that things were going to be cheaper? Because I'll tell you, under former President Biden, GDP growth, was hitting records high. The American economy was growing faster than China. 16.4 million jobs created under former President Biden. We had record low unemployment.
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We were energy independent, 40,000 infrastructure projects. Real wages were growing. Former President Biden got inflation under control. It was heading towards 2%, which is exactly where the Fed wanted it to be, to cut interest rates. The Wall Street Journal had said that the American economy was the envy of the world.
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Others called it a Goldilocks economy, that it was just right, what former President Biden handed over to Donald Trump. Now, the question when you wake up in this Trump regime is like, is today Donald Trump wants to take over Gaza and make it Trump Gaza Day? Is it he's going to say Shalom Hamas Day? Is it one of those where he goes, Shalom Hamas, all hell is going to break loose?
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Is it a tariff day where he starts saying that, oh, we're doing new tariffs, 200%, 5%. 500%, whatever, 100% on Canada, on Europe. And then he tanks the markets on that day. Is it a conquer Greenland day? Is it a takeover Panama day? Or is it a do whatever Putin wants day and attack Zelensky day, which is basically like every day.
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And then you go through these like cycles, like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which day is it going to be? And, you know, and this creates great instability in our markets and it's leading to lower consumer confidence. At the end of last week, the University of Michigan consumer confidence showed that the inflation expectations were, I think, the worst since March.
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uh 2008 uh consumer confidence the worst over the past five years uh job expectations the worst since 1987. and while all of this is taking place one of the strange things we're seeing too is not only are you having trump propagandists like scott besin just arrogantly just say americans don't care about lower prices you've got all these maggots now and they were doing it before and it's a phenomenon we saw we see in history with other authoritarians
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they they make themselves look like trump and we saw this like hannity painted his face trump about a year ago remember like hannity started looking just like dream like orange face um and then you had uh maga mike did this crazy botox thing and then he he was on over the past two or three days and let me look at the guy i mean he he looks like a different human being he literally paints his face trump you've got um dr oz
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pocketbooks or handbags or whatever that are like $455,000, the croc versions of it and gold versions of it. Nothing says man of the people like celebrating crocodile skinned Hermes Birkin bags.
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like literally makes himself look like Donald Trump, like splitting images of each other now as he refused to answer whether or not they were just going to totally get rid of Medicaid and cut Medicaid. Let me just show you what MAGA Mike was saying in his appearance, that he's been saying, look, the grownups are back with the economy. We've got it. We're going to fix it, everybody.
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one of the other analogies he gave to were like billiards like it's like playing pool and you break it and then you have to go and then figure out which holes you're going to put the balls into uh first and he looks ridiculous what did he what did he do to his face like let me pull this back up like it looks like he has he did he get fillers i i i
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I think whoever did Matt Gaetz's Botox during the RNC or whatever the heck that was, that's who's doing Mike Johnson's Botox now. I mean, oh my God.
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You know what it's like? It's like they go down to Mar-a-Lago and they have some room or some door that they enter. And they open the door and they go through and then they come out and they're like, that have this fake tan and like dyed hair and like fillers in their face. And they become like these Mar-a-Lago, like Stepford Wives versions of themselves and just become these robots.
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And like there's some sort of process. It's like severance or something where like they take the parts out of your brain that make you anything that makes you semi-normal. And they like implant in you like something that makes you this MAGA weirdo creature because something happens to these people around Trump.
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And it is just like the whole thing, all the vibes, everything that we're looking at is just so utterly strange. And you see Mike Johnson, he keeps going on the various shows and he says things like that. And then he'll say something. And we're able to get all this waste, fraud, and abuse because of Elon and his algorithms. He's got his algorithms going through everything.
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And they just make things up. They're just lying. And we're still waiting. I'm still waiting. Where's all the waste, fraud, and abuse? Let me know. I know you've canceled some programs that you didn't like. I know you've gotten rid of the history of the Tuskegee Airmen. I know you're getting rid of a lot of our history and things like that. I haven't seen any results.
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In fact, I've seen that the United States actually spent more money this February than they did last February by a significant amount. So where are the cuts? The cuts just seem to be cruelty for cruelty's sake because that's all we're seeing. But I think the problem that we're seeing is you see Trump and his – Approval with independence right now is just like crashing.
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wild you don't think the average american could afford a 447 000 purse this is i mean it's just absolutely irate before he said the price i was going to play a game and have jordy try to guess how much this purse cost not not the gigantic one that they blew up for this a celebration on the white house lawn but i was going to make jordy guess it and because i i would i would have guessed zero chance that you would have predicted 447
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It's something like, what has it been? 69% disapprove among independence or something like that. And I saw all these headlines about, it was like, Trump gets his highest approval rating ever. And it was like still 54% of people disapprove of him. And I was like, yeah, I don't know if that'd be the headline of that story. But you see independents running away from them.
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One of the issues that we're seeing though right now is that the Democrats aren't super popular right now either, to say the least. There was a poll that came out about the Democrats that said 29% of Americans approve of what the Democrats are doing. But what that tells me is that Democrats are not listening to their base. They're not listening to the people.
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And so I am just urging any politician out there who wants to oppose Trump, don't just oppose Trump, but listen to the people. Listen to people. We're able to listen to people here. I don't know why you're not able to listen to people when it is your job to listen to people unless you are willfully closing your ears and closing your eyes to everything that is happening out there.
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Because as we've seen with the fights, with like the whole Chuck Schumer situation last week, just doing everything. It's like they... choose to do whatever the opposite is of what the people want them to do every single time. And they hope that that could keep them in power. But ultimately, you know, you got to represent the people. And the people right now want fighters.
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The people right now want you to do something. The people right now want to show that you could actually put up a fight against Donald Trump. And I think folks understand that, you know, the Democrats are in the minority right now with all this stuff. They understand the limitations.
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But A, don't lie to people and say you're going to do something and then back out on it like Schumer did the other day by saying, we're going to fight. Nobody is going to vote for this thing. We're all united on a different plan. And then the next day you fold.
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And then you have to cancel your book tour because you're afraid you had a book tour planned and you're afraid of people crashing your book tour now to protest you. Like how freaking lame is that? Listen to the people and the people want you to fight where you are able to do things, do things. But that's why I like seeing what the people are doing.
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And that's why I like seeing those images of the protests that we were seeing all weekend in various states across the country. People going to the state capitals, people going to there was a protest in front of the New York Stock Exchange. There were protests I saw in.
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in michael lawler's district in the hudson valley in the tarrytown area protesting the medicaid cuts the people are going to be there right the people are doing their thing they need leaders who are going to be able to match their energy as well so it's time to step up folks you know don't don't think you're gonna just like skate on by because trump is unpopular because if you're less popular than he is they're not gonna go to you give them some inspiration give them some reason uh to want to uh fight for you i mean you gotta you get you gotta give people something
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Can you bring up that photo of Mike Johnson one more time? Chipmunk Mike? Yeah, just Mike. He looks like a ventriloquist dummy. That's what I was trying to do. Nothing's moving, just his face. And you know what? In various ways, it's like an analogy or a metaphor for Johnson in general. Just a puppet. Yeah, just a puppet spewing Trump and Putin talking points at this point.
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I mean, talk about a guy who sold his soul. He was one of these rule of law guys, yeah? Or at least that's what he pretended to be.
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nope not anymore and then you look yeah you look at doctor i it's also creepy like what in the kim jong-un are we even looking at donald trump is holding golf tournaments he seven-time champion of his own golf tournament this is just weird stuff and you know what it's okay to call this stuff weird because it is don't feel like You know, any of this is normal.
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Don't be gaslit by corporate media and don't feel bad that you're calling this weird. This stuff is weird. Trump is holding up trophies and not actually working and saying, oh, I won my final tour. Who's he, Jack Nicklaus? I won my final championship game. Oh, oh, Donnie, the crowd. We need to see you do one more season. Please, Donnie, please come back next year.
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a thousand dollars no I wouldn't but for the record I knew you would have at least been talking about the physical purse and not the purse that they blew up on the lawn I don't think you needed to qualify that and I appreciate it thanks for clearing that up just making sure that that everything is clear here anyway it's great to be here Jordy it's great to have you back I know folks have missed you you've been on daddy duty uh loving it um it's great to see you I know everybody has been asking every single day you know they blame us they say free Jordy free Jordy we go it's not us he's got to spend some time
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it this is weird stuff and i said this earlier on blue sky this is like it's just the compounding effect of wtf every day and it's meant to be that way in many ways for you it's meant to exhaust you it's meant to make you want to look away but now more than ever people aren't actually getting exhausted You know, it is tiresome, don't get me wrong, but people are angry and they're fed up.
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And so please, for the love of God, Democratic leaders like just step up. People want fight. They want to see you out there talking to the people, but like earnestly talking, not talking like,
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a weirdo politician just be a human in many ways the democratic leadership has become corporate media in the sense that the people are just a little bit upset and sick and tired and just seeing through all the nonsense that's why independent media is is rising right people just want to be spoken to like people
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yeah we all have our interests we all want to see this country better off for the next generation than when we got here so talk to us like humans and jordy here's democratic leaders your approval ratings will go up and here's the thing i just want to emphasize also it's not for a lack of these leaders existing like there are plenty of people right now in the democratic party who are inspiring there are plenty of people in the democratic party
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who are doing a great job of connecting with voters. When I see these town halls, and I think these going into the red districts where these cowardly Republicans are too afraid to face their constituents, I think this is a brilliant way to show you're fighting. Brilliant. And I love seeing whether it's Congressman Garcia is doing this, or AOC doing this, or Bernie Sanders getting out there.
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We've covered Tim Walz going out there. when you when you see all these politicians going out there and speaking to the people speaking to the voters i'm like yes that's exactly what we need even when you see on social media when you see people like a chris murphy or or whoever it is going on social media and laying out the case for the american people in clear concise ways
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You're like, OK, so there are people in order to communicate. There are people who know how to fight. Well, let's elevate those people to leadership positions. Let's stop going by this old fashioned. You know, it has to be a hierarchy of who's been in the Senate for the longest. And this guy's been in the Senate for 70 years.
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And so he deserves to lead this position, which is going to have a very big public speaking role and is going to have a very big role that has to inspire folks. But let's put this guy who's been in the Senate for 60, 70 years up there. That's not the world that we live in right now. We need a shakeup. You need inspiring leaders. And those leaders exist, but those people need to be elevated.
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They need to continue to get out there, inspire the people. And we can't be sidelining some of the brightest people who are actually doing the work.
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let's close out by playing a game called wtf if what i say inspires you to say wtf i want to hear you say it to your screen or to wherever you're listening just say wtf elon musk has cut funding to the tsa for bomb sniffing service dogs including their food and veterinary care so he and trump are quite literally exposing america
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to real terrorism everywhere wtf elon musk's doge cuts hit the team saving kidnapped ukrainian children a unit that helps rescue ukrainian children kidnapped by russia during its full-scale invasion has been defunded as part of the operations of donald trump and doge this was called The Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab, WTF. You have the following individual was just deported.
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Trump's DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown University Medical School. who is here legally on an H-1B visa that doesn't expire until 2027 and has committed no crimes. Trained in the US at Ohio State University and University of Washington and Yale as a transplant surgeon, one of the most difficult surgical fields in all of medicine.
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She is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants, which cannot be easily replaced. Her phone was seized at the border. A federal judge handed down an injunction against her deportation. but she was already deported on a plane en route to Paris. Brown's kidney transplant clinic is now strained by her deportation.
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with the fam. So we allow that here at the Midas Touch Network. It's part of the family vibes that we got going on. But it's great to have you back. The head fake with the Epstein files and the Kennedy files is like the craziest shit. I mean, there was another clip of him from yesterday where he was asked directly about the Epstein files, and he really downplayed them. And by the way,
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WTF, Nebraska, like many red states, is getting crushed between tariffs and Medicaid cuts. They have to balance their state budget, and it looks like there's going to be at least a $200 million shortfall this year, this before the tariff impact, and this before the Department of Education is abolished.
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WTF, Donald Trump's National Department of National Security, DNI, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, just reposted an individual named Ian Miles Chung, who's a pro-Russian resident of Malaysia, who just posted the following. This is what the Director of National Intelligence just reposted.
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Trump has ordered the shutdown of the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Radio and Television Marti and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. These organizations are shut down because they produced and disseminated, it said, narratives against Russia. It says perpetuated pro-war narratives against Russia.
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pro-war narratives against Russia. That's the director of national intelligence, WTF. I can keep on going on and on, but American people are pissed at this stuff. So whether you're a Democrat or just a human being, stand up and say enough is enough. That's why, look, I love speaking to the politicians, the governors, the senators, the members of Congress who come on, but
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know sometimes i like to talk sometimes i like to talk to people like ken casey y'all know ken casey is he's the lead singer of dropkick murphy's a band that since 1996 punk band putting out working class anthems right so they're traveling the country right now they're on their last stop of their tour
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in boston um so it's fitting because of their song of course uh heading back to boston that that's where they're finishing their tour they're from the area but he speaks in front of these working class crowds all the time and i was able to interview him today because there's been a number of moments where he and the huge crowds that he's
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i'm bringing together for their band's concerts he's calling out there'll be a few mega people in the audience and again his anthem is um working class stuff so and of course you know his song i'm shipping up to boston here's ken casey when i interviewed him today here's what he said and i think what he said here is just perfect let's point out because there's this whole like mentality that mega has painted that like you know you're either
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views i thought that's a perfect way to end this episode on saint patrick's day so oh and by the way there they have a live concert right now um that's playing and in the description below as soon as this show ends we'll throw in the description below it's a website called like veeps.events slash dropkick murphys but we'll throw the link because they're they're playing live as we speak right now in boston so you can uh check it out as they play i'm shipping up to boston we'll
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His supporters like really care about these Epstein files also like they're not they're not giving it up because they should be frankly like the information that's out there should be public. Right. And so he was asked about it. And Trump was like, yeah, you know, like Pam Bondi, like they're all looking into that. They're all looking into that.
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It's going to happen in the next few days or so or maybe early next week. But we'll give that date soon. And we'd love to meet all of our supporters. So Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And check out MidasPlus.com as well. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, did a great summary today. Brett, anything else you want to add?
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No, that's it. I love Dropkick Murphys, man. They're so badass. And Ken Casey is the ultimate badass. And seeing these clips, you know, the ones we've been posting a lot on our social media of these moments that have been happening at his rallies. They're just, I mean, at his concerts, they're just absolutely electric.
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make sure that you are subscribed. Jordy, it's been great having you back on the show. The vibes are back. The energy is back. Great having you, buddy. And I've been doing the sign-off, but I can't do it like you do it, Jordy. So show the people how it's done. Shout out to the Midas Mighty!
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But you know what people are really, you know, people really want to, much more than that. You know, it's much more important than that. People have been asking me about the Kennedy files. First off, there's been a lot of information about this, you know, already released. And he's going to do the same thing that they did last time, right?
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They're going to release information that's already been out there. They're going to hand select information. No one's, everyone's going to be upset about this also. And it's just going to remind people again. about the Epstein files.
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But anytime he's asked about this, it's like you've never seen a guiltier looking or sounding person in their life, just the way his kind of face goes, the way he tries to divert the topic. There was that clip too that Fox edited. I remember when we showed Fox edited a clip of Trump when he was asked if he would release the Epstein files. I think it was while he was on the campaign trail.
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uh talking about this and i'll explain to you why he was at the kennedy center in a moment well while donald trump was vacationing over the weekend at mar-a-lago and celebrating his victory there was a horrific storms that ravaged the midwest over 37 people died and donald trump was posting how much fun he was having in his golf tournament while that was taking place then donald trump has already appointed himself chairman
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And Trump was like, a lot of good people may be caught up in that
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a lot of good people that may be caught up in those epstein files so i'm not so sure we want to do that and fox cut that answer out uh just to have him go like yeah we're looking into that yeah just cut that part out he can't answer the question without sounding guilty because this is the guy who quite literally is all over these files is all over the phone book like they not only had donald trump's phone numbers they had like his security guard his nanny they like every
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Everyone around him in the Epstein phone books. He was on the flight seven times. We were speaking to Michael Wolff. Ben, great interview with Michael Wolff on the Midas Touch podcast too.
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I'm trying to get the Epstein. I am actually trying to get the Epstein file. I want to let people know what's going on. So in the absence of them turning over the Epstein files, I'm looking to get those files. So I know that the author, Michael Wolff, who's written about Donald Trump before, was also in the process of writing and potentially writing the autobiography of Epstein.
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So he's got 80 to 100 hours of audio with Epstein. And so a lot of corporate media has basically banned Michael Wolff from talking about the Epstein files and talking about his new book. They're scared to have him on. So what did we do at the Midas Touch Network? I'm like, yo, get me Wolff on. And I'm going to start asking him about the Epstein files. And I made a pitch to him.
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I said, we'll put it on the YouTube page. We will play all of the audio recordings. And do we have the clip of when I was asking Michael Wolff about the Epstein files? And so this is kind of phase one of what I hope to be our release of the actual Epstein audio. Let's play this.
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threatening to donald i mean that's pretty pretty stunning stuff right there and by the way you could listen to the full interview with michael wolf on the midas touch podcast on apple podcast on spotify jordy welcome back should we uh do a full court press to try to get these 100 hours of epstein tapes i think we should
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I think we should. I think we should just put our heads down just like we always do. And I think we should. I think we should do our darndest to get them. I am so excited to be back. Ben, that was a fantastic interview with Wolf. If you haven't, definitely check that out. Incredible stuff. You know, it just goes to show you Donald Trump with the JFK stuff, a weapon of mass distraction, right?
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WMD, that's how we refer to Trump here, weapon of mass distraction. This is just such a brutal misread. Of Trump, of his own, of his own like core base though, because Brett, to your point exactly, you know, everyone wants to see the Epstein, like there should be full transparency here around the Epstein files, make no mistake.
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But you know, the, the, the, the Q base that, that is so deeply ingrained within that culture who have been shouting it from the rooftops, expose them, expose them, expose them for the last, what, four and a half years. Now you got your shot. And what does he do? JFK files, everybody. Release the JFK files. You know, the head fake only works so many times before you just stop biting on it, right?
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I play basketball. You can only do that move so many times before the opponent would stop biting. Well, nobody's biting anymore, Donald. We want the Epstein files. The people want the Epstein files. And the more you show these other files, we're going to be reminded that we want to see the Epstein files. Release the Epstein files, Trump.
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Come on, here's the thing he wants to, you know, he tries to act. And this is one of the most devious and cynical things that Trump does and that his supporters kind of buy into and promote. It's the idea that he is the most transparent president to ever exist. When I hear people say this, I'm like, what world are you living in? The guy's hiding literally everything.
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of the board of the Kennedy Center. He fired everybody pretty much at the Kennedy Center and then appointed all of the kind of MAGA loyalists to positions. No one's really even going to the Kennedy Center anymore, like ticket sales are down more than 50 percent. Hamilton canceled. So he was holding his first kind of Kim Jong-un style board meeting.
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But it's because he makes these big shows about garbage. Like he makes up that he's transparent about things like when he released the fake Epstein documents and not the fake Epstein documents, but the already publicly released Epstein documents. Right. And he's like, look, I'm so transparent. And that gets repeated by his people.
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But meanwhile, behind the scenes, not even behind the scenes, but what is he doing? He's hiding tremendous amounts of information from the courts. He's hiding exactly what he's doing with Doge as they radar various, our social security, excuse me, my God, I don't know what happened there. Our social security accounts, our Medicaid, I couldn't breathe for a second.
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And so Trump is actually trying to hide so much of what is going on behind the scenes. We saw it in this very contentious, combative court hearing today over Donald Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act, how he took these migrants back. whisk them to El Salvador in basically secrecy, not telling anybody when these planes took off, when these planes landed, who was even on these planes.
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He's just saying these were gang members. Take my word for it. They deserve to rot in these El Salvadorian prisons. We already have reports right now of attorneys for at least one of the people who was sent to El Salvador saying they're My client wasn't a gang member. They were somebody who was here in this country working to get their their immigration status updated. They were just had a tattoo.
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They had nothing to do with any gangs and they were taken off the streets and they were sent to El Salvador. That's the kind of shady stuff that they are actually covering up while they try to pretend like they are being transparent. while dangling all this Kennedy files and all this other crap. They're really hiding some really, really abhorrent things that they are doing in our government.
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And Donald Trump, especially over the last few days, has really ramped up the authoritarian bent. He is really almost getting frustrated that in the first 50 days he was not able to conquer America, that we were able to oppose him, that people did stand strong. And so now he's getting antsy. He's trying to take it to the next level.
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And you see this just abrasiveness, whether it's coming from him or others in his administration right now, directed at the American people.
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Look, Hitler's plan was, I think, between 52 and 54 days. Some say it was more like 30 days, but around 52 to 54 days, and they called it, there was a German word for it, but it translated to synchronization, basically full control of all levers of Germany at that time.
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and donald trump wanted to do the same here with elon musk their plan was a shock and awe where they were going to try to take over everything suppress all resistance and opposition and they thought they were going to be able to kind of bulldoze over all checks and balances the way they bulldozed over Republicans in the House and the Senate, right?
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I mean, the spineless Republicans have given up all kind of pretense that they are part of a democracy. They're no different than the people you see in the And I put that in quotes for Kim Jong-un, who do the clapping and they clap loud so that they don't get hurt by Kim Jong-un if they're not seen as clapping enough. That's what the spineless Republicans have done.
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And then he left and then started talking about this, these Putin talking points. Let's play it.
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Let's get right into it, folks, on the Midas Touch podcast. I want to remind you from the very beginning what it was that Donald Trump was saying repeatedly on the campaign trail that corporate media and propaganda promoted over and over again. He said that prices will start to decrease immediately on day one. Here's what he said. Play the clip.
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And then you've got 74, 75 plus million of Americans who voted against Trump because he got less than 50% of the vote, basically saying, what in the world is going on while Republicans continue to charade. Jordy, sorry.
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he well jordy i'm reminded by you know kendrick lamar who performed at the super bowl his song be humble be humble sit down right be humble that used to be humility used to be part of a quality of leadership especially at the highest levels of government the same type of leadership that used to value speaking softly or walking softly and carrying a big stick.
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Everybody knows that America was powerful, but you exercised power surgically and strategically and not recklessly with being all bark and no bite. And so literally everything Trump does is counterintuitive and very harmful. It shows utter weakness. and it's masquerading as straight. But here's the thing. Corporate media covers politics the way sporting events are covered.
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And if you think about the way sporting events are covered, there's a reason why you have announcers sometimes, right? They're supposed to be the experts who tell you what's happening accurately and maybe try to guess what's going to happen in the future and kind of narrate the event.
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It's very, very low as young voters who he tricked are now saying, wait a minute, you literally just screwed us and you lied to us. This is the Wall Street Journal headline as well. Trump voters splinter over his rapid shakeup of Washington. And then there are quotes like this in this article. I feel so stupid, guilty, regretful, embarrassed. It's a huge one.
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The way corporate media treats politics is like the sporting event, but then they put their finger on the scales and then they have their announcers affirmatively interfering with the game and telling you things that are happening that are not actually happening before you.
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And one of the goals of the Midas Touch Network is to deconstruct that propaganda and reconstruct the truth to say, look at all of the lies that they're telling you. Here's actually what's going on because they want to focus on, oh, what an incredible incredible patriotic event it was at the Daytona 500.
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What don't they want to talk about is that in states like Kentucky and in states like Virginia and West Virginia, people were dying and Donald Trump didn't say crap about what was happening while he was there saying, look, victory, victory. They want to show you things like this. MAGA Republican Representative Claudia Tenney
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unveils the bill to designate trump's birthday as a public holiday you've got donald trump making posts on president's day by the way i guess today is on president's day at this point we shout out to all the prior presidents before this piece of crap right now in the oval office and you've got donald trump posting his mugshot photo on president's day and next to his official portrait
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with the quote that says they're not after me they're after you i'm just standing in the way happy president's day and then there's another post attached to that which shows that he has posted his criminal mug shot right by the oval office that's his president's day message and they want to distract you that's why at the outset where do i focus this show on prices are going up
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Right now, housing is not more affordable. All of Donald Trump's things that he promised were lies and they want to distract from it. Right.
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I am absolutely embarrassed that I voted for Donald Trump. Yeah, you should be. This is what Donald Trump was doing this past weekend. While there was horrific storms in Kentucky and Virginia and West Virginia, took the lives of at least nine or 10 people in Kentucky and our hearts go out to everybody there. Donald Trump was spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money going to the Daytona 500.
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Well, look, Donald Trump has made it very clear his priority is simply oligarchs and billionaires. The $4.5 trillion tax cut in the budget for the billionaires. There's nothing about no tax on tips in the budget. There's nothing about no tax on overtime in the budget.
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There's nothing about no tax on Social Security in the budget, $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, $250 billion in cuts to farmers and agriculture, $350 billion in cuts to education. Donald Trump trampling over the environment, which Gen Z does care about, and Gen Z feels like the rug has been pulled. There's reason for hope.
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I want to talk about that soon because I think that Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought by now they were going to bulldoze over all of us. They thought that at this point, America would have submitted. They thought they controlled all of the media. I think they thought they would rule like dictators with their shock and awe plan, but they failed.
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And I think now their incompetence is showing, and they're also now playing on the battlefield of AP. pissed off population of millions who are getting screwed by them every single day, which is why you see the protests growing, why you see Trump's unpopularity rising. And I think it's going to hit a critical point sooner than even I expected.
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And it's important that we here at the Midas Touch Network remain part of the leadership of this opposition, of this resistance and being for something, for democracy, love, empathy and the truth. We're going to have a special Zoom meeting with our Patreons on Thursday after our Thursday show.
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So if you aren't already a member of our Patreon, go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch, and we'd love for you to be at that meeting. If you ever wanted to ask me, Brett, and Jordy questions, we can talk about how the Midas Touch Network just passed 4 million subscribers after our show from last Thursday. Feel free to ask us anything. You can ask Jordy some tough questions as well.
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We'll take a quick break right now. We've got a lot of show left. Let's take our first quick break.
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This followed Donald Trump going to the Super Bowl. The prior week, he just goes to every sporting event now.
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he flies air force one around and he takes the motorcade around again wasting millions of taxpayer dollars while kentucky and west virginia virginia arkansas also tennessee were suffering and literally underwater trump took the motorcade and went around in circles on the track he was also posting all weekend things like this he who saves his country
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Brett, as you mentioned Donald Trump gutting FEMA services, it should also be noted that in the great state of Georgia, their Republican Governor Brian Kemp requested supplemental FEMA assistance in the way of an extension of what Biden approved back in September of 2024, specifically for some additional debris removal caused by Hurricane Helene. So Kemp submitted it to Trump's FEMA.
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Surprise, surprise, FEMA denied it. Also, there's a ruby red town in Tennessee that just experienced a pretty devastating tornado recently, and their leadership there has zero hope that there will be any exemptions or any way that the Trump administration's FEMA is going to help their town out as well.
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Of course, we're also finding out in all of these red states or the red states are finding out, we were trying to tell them before, they depend a lot on federal aid, whether it's the fact that the University of Alabama is the biggest employer in the state of Alabama, whether, for example, in Hollywood.
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Huntsville, Alabama, there's an important kind of rocket facility there that relies on a lot of federal funding and research grants and federal dollars. You can look at a lot of states that are experiencing this as well. You take a look at Louisiana, their workers, lots of federal workers losing their jobs there. Lots of other workers losing their jobs.
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violates no law, quote, attributed to Napoleon, which is an interesting photo and quote for him to pick. One, not just for its just reckless unlawfulness, but also as Donald Trump threatens Europe the way he does. There's an emergency meeting today in Europe called by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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And so, you know, these magas look at Washington, D.C., and I think the unemployment claims are like skyrocketing right now in Washington, D.C. And they're like, yeah, we're owning the deep state. You're destroying your own. First off.
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those were important workers on critical areas as well so those people shouldn't have been fired but also you're screwing over your own states in the process and it's going to lead in a spike in unemployment which i think we'll start to see as future unemployment reports nationally come in which you can save the tape right here my prediction is going to be as it looks like there's going to be months with job losses coming up
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The Trump administration is going to try to stop those reports from coming out to prevent the data from reaching the people that the administration is losing jobs, which is going to create a situation. This is my prediction and my opinion. It's going to be even more harmful to the country because what's Donald Trump's view about everything?
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His view about everything is just if you don't test everything. If you don't do the research and you just listen to Dear Leader, then you don't find out the bad things and you just consume the propaganda. This propaganda that's spreading in the United States by Trump and Fox would make North Korea blush. I mean, it's some of the craziest stuff out there.
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Even Putin doesn't have his own national holiday for his birthday, and no one, I think, has proposed it there. But the MAGA Republicans come up with Here's our new bill that we want to add Donald Trump's face to Mount Rushmore. Here's our new bill to have the national birthday day of Donald Trump.
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I mean, this group of spineless Republicans, then they have the audacity, these spineless Republicans to go to Europe to meet with Zelensky and then give him a standing ovation. And people like Lindsey Graham and other MAGA Republicans act like they've got his back. while they empower Donald Trump, and then they try to gaslight us into saying, you don't understand.
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Donald Trump's doing the flattery of Putin as part of a grandmaster chess negotiating strategy. This is how the deals get done. No, that's not how the deals get done.
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By the way, earlier in the day, when Europe just had its emergency meeting in Paris, in France, to deal with the fact that America is no longer really an ally to Europe anymore, and Europe needs to figure out, is it gonna do a European army? Are they gonna put troops in Ukraine? They're strategizing right now. You have Elon Musk literally making posts,
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praising Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. And Musk says, this is what competent leadership looks like regarding Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, as Sergey Lavrov meets with Marco Rubio in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, while Donald Trump is playing golf all day in Mar-a-Lago. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, I think had some great insight here.
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to respond to the fact that Donald Trump has cut out Europe and Ukraine and is pursuing just direct negotiations with Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. Russia's foreign minister Lavrov is there meeting with the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And again, they're intentionally cutting out Europe and Ukraine who are impacted the most. And of course,
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He goes, what a coincidence that Trump announces the creation of a US sovereign wealth fund. Two, he says he wants 50% of Ukraine's rare earth minerals. Three, he tried to have Zelensky transfer All of Ukraine's rare earth minerals into a quote reconstruction development fund.
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And for the head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund is part of the delegation with Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia, where Donald Trump. and Putin are having their people meet and intentionally cutting out Europe and Ukraine from the negotiations. Here's how the Independent reports it. Russia and US to meet for talks on Ukraine's future after sidelining European leaders gather for emergency summit.
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RT, Russia's propaganda network, absolutely loves it. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Saudi Arabia and expected to meet with russia's foreign minister lavrov on tuesday compare that image to the image of the leaders in europe like france's president emmanuel macron meeting with the uk's prime minister kier starmer i show this picture as well right here though This is the photo of J.D.
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Vance from college. Just to look at this punk. If we have this photo of him wearing the CCP or wearing the USSR outfit, we'll try to get... I mean, this guy's just a punk his whole life. You know, he's like, oh, I'm being funny, I'm being funny. This guy is an absolute punk. And I want to share with you what President Zelensky is saying today, or over the weekend, rather.
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when i win i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one we will end kamala's war on american energy and we will drill baby drill we're going to drill i just want to come with receipts like this receipt over here and i could show you hundreds of clips like this where donald trump said that there would be peace in ukraine on day one he said specifically that he would bring putin
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Zelensky's making it clear that Zelensky, Ukraine... and Europe standing by Zelensky's side, that they will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine if they negotiate without Ukraine in the room. Here, play this clip.
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Meanwhile, you had J.D. Vance at the Munich conference just attacking Europe repeatedly, basically saying that European democracies don't support free speech. He tried to promote Germany's neo-Nazi party, the AFD. And if there's some good news there, it seems the more Musk and J.D. Vance support,
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throw their arms around the afd the less support it seems the afd seems to get in some of the recent polling we're seeing there ahead of their elections we're also seeing something similar happen in the uk as it's expected the front runner of the liberal part to take over from justin trudeau's a guy by the name of mark carney used to be a leader of top banks in canada and elsewhere
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This also follows a devastating appearance by the United States in Europe in the Munich conference where J.D. Vance attacked all of the European democracies. And then the Trump delegation tried to get Zelensky to sign a piece of paper turning over all of the rare earth minerals. in Ukraine to the United States and Donald Trump without any security guarantees.
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The polling right now from Main Street polling in Canada actually shows that the Liberal Party would be able to win the elections, party-wide elections, if Mark Carney was its leader and be able to form a government. That was never going to be the case months ago. Let me just show you this clip of J.D. Vance, and then, Brett, I'll turn it over to you. Here's J.D.
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Vance at the Munich conference attacking Europe.
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I think it was two people who clapped there, and that was the people who J.D. Vance brought along a humiliating display in Europe, triggering an emergency meeting of European nations to basically say America's done, America's lost, America's no longer a real ally, maybe an ally in fake name only, but Europe needs to be in solidarity with itself and bye-bye America.
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Fortunately, Zelensky said absolutely not. Oh yeah, by the way, what Trump was posting that quote, he who saves his country violates no law too, was an article about how federal judges were ruling against some of Donald Trump's lawlessness. So Trump indicating that he was not going to follow court orders. And then when Donald Trump left the Daytona 500 event,
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Got a lot to discuss. I want to talk about Donald Trump's awful annual stock report, which shows what a horrible business person he is. I want to connect that to what's going on in Argentina. MAGA's favorite politician, Javier Millay, who's embroiled in a crypto scam. Surprise, surprise. We'll talk about that. We've got a lot of other things to discuss as well.
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Want to remind everybody, if you want to meet Brett Jordy and myself online, On Thursday, we'll be holding our Zoom meeting at patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com slash MidasTouch. Also, if you want to check out some of the articles from our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, I often do a morning article as well. You go to MidasPlus.com for more there.
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wasting millions of taxpayer dollars, calling Doge, where are you? Oh, lying about condoms in Gaza or whatever. Then Donald Trump talked about egg prices reaching an all-time high. And of course, the liar, guess what? He lied and Donald Trump said, well, the prices were much higher at an all-time high before I got here. Here, play this clip.
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We'll be right back after our last quick break of the show.
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I often get asked, what's the secret to how Midas Touch has grown so fast? I said, it's easy. It's the community, the Midas Mighty, number one. Then we have to make good content. Number three, we got to have the business behind the business, the nuts and bolts that make it all work. And we use Shopify here at the Midas Touch Network. Nobody does selling better than Shopify.
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whoa and by the way our audio podcast is at the top of the charts we're either kind of one or two right after the new york times daily so if you can make sure our youtube watchers subscribe on audio as well it helps us in the audio ratings all our audio listeners make sure you subscribe to the midas touch youtube channel thank you for everybody making
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The Midas Touch surpassed 4 million subscribers on our YouTube channel. We now march to five and then to 10. And as I said, we lead with our values and our principles with love, empathy, the truth. And we got to bring people together now more than ever. And just speaking of the truth, I'm an objective data guy. I love data because data just is the data it is. It is what it is.
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So for all of the people who are like, Oh, Donald Trump is a great businessman. I like him because he's a businessman. And they say it like that. I'm not sure what that I like. That's adopting my impressions of. That's it. So let's take a look. Let's take a look at the businessman with the data.
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So Trump's company that doesn't rely on NFTs or whatever, like this is a business, Trump Media, which runs Truth Social. I'm not sure Donald Trump knows what a P&L, a profit and loss statement is or a balance sheet. But let's take a look at it right now because you'll see over the past year, Trump Media lost $400 million.
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400 more than 400 million dollars lost in fiscal year 2024. its entire revenue which dropped 12 from the previous year if this is even possible it's just 3.6 million dollars I'm not talking about profit. I'm not talking about net or net net. I'm not talking about EBITDA. I'm talking about the entire revenue. All of the money brought in $3.6 million and it lost over $400 million.
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Now money doesn't just get lost. It goes somewhere. So we'll investigate and take a look at that. But when you take a look at Trump media, is it any different from how he's going to run the country. When you take a look at the $4.5 trillion tax cuts, as I've predicted before, and then now some fiscal hawks are saying it as well, this could cause over 25 trillion
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trillion dollars in debt over the next 10 years. Go back a few months because I said, oh yeah, these economists are saying, oh, maybe he's going to add 10 trillion, which is pretty freaking bad, by the way, which was like way more than anyone of the top economists predicted. Kamala, what I said, y'all are crazy. Trump's going to add 25 to 50 trillion dollars of debt because
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He's going to 10X what he did last time, I thought. And last time he did $8 trillion. So to me, it wouldn't be shocking if last time it was $8 trillion and this time it's $80 trillion because that's what people like him do. When they get away with it the first time, they do it again. Think about the arsonist. He lights the match. He sets the country on fire.
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OK, liar, liar. pants on fire or America on fire. And it's actually very serious Europe on fire. It's very serious Asia on fire with some of the reckless statements that have been made by the Trump regime. Let's bring in Brett and Jordy.
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Then he sees when the fire department, a.k.a. former President Biden, Biden tries to put out the fire. Whoa, you can just blame the fire department for the arson. Maybe next time I'll strike a bigger match and do a bigger fire, which is the dumpster fire we're watching now. But take a look at this report. I read hundreds of pages of this report, so you don't have to.
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There are just a few parts of it that I found interesting. I'll do a whole other video about it in the morning. So make sure all our viewers, you're checking out the Midas Touch YouTube channel throughout the day.
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if you haven't figured out we post a new video about every 90 minutes starting at 4 a.m pacific 7 a.m eastern and then we go in a 90-minute schedule sometimes we go on an hour schedule you may have figured that out by now but make sure you keep on checking back take a look at this trump's own financial report inflation and global supply chain this is what trump says
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currently the u.s economy is experiencing a bout of increased inflation resulting in rising prices and then it goes on to say although inflation had an impact us in previous years for the years ending in december 31 2024 2023 in 2022 you mean the biden years
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Then it goes, we anticipate that inflation will have an impact on our business going forward, including through a material increase in our cost of revenue and operating expense in the coming years, if not permanently.
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continued or permanent rise in core costs could impact our growth negatively this is trump's statement inflation did not hurt us in the years when biden was in office but now it's going to impact us in the years when i am in office when trump is in office i'll do a whole other hot take on this i don't need to cover now there's a whole other section a number of companies that were associated with donald trump
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have filed for bankruptcy there's no assurances that trump media will not also become bankrupt and it goes this one bankrupt that went bankrupt this one bankrupt that went bankrupt and there's another section a number of companies that had license agreements with donald trump have failed and it goes trump stakes trump university trump mortgage llc trump this trump i i tried doing a tick tock on this earlier um reading through the report i thought it would be like
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Because it's a publicly traded company, there's a section that asks you, have you ever declared a bankruptcy or has another company you ran ever been shut down? So you have to respond yes or else you automatically get sued into oblivion. So Trump realizes, well, I'm just going to disclose it. And as he said, I can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and they'll still vote for me.
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a little long build up right there but i thought it was important that i showed those receipts right at the outset and get into it because prices are going way up housing less affordable trump is causing major major problems quicker than anyone even anticipated
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So he goes, I'll still be able to basically grift off these people even when I tell them how bad of a business person I've been. That's their calculation. But If you look at the Trump meme coin, it's down 45% in the past month since he's been the president of the United States. You have to try, I think, to be that bad if you're using the Oval Office and you're still failing at it.
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It's unbelievable. Or he has a quarter and he has a back and sees a quarterback, but it's like, okay, but he doesn't actually play this. Our sports analogies get a little walkie on the show. Exactly. So, you know, it's improv, baby. That's what we do on the Midas Touch Network. Then the Smolania Bitcoin or meme coin, whatever the hell you call it, down 82%.
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It's called Smolania because it's dollar sign Melania. And they were too dumb to even realize it's Smolania. But can we go to the guy who was one of the backers of the Smolania coin? It's this guy over here. What's this? Davey. I'm trying to remember what this guy's name is.
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is yeah hayden mark yeah hayden davis is this guy's name here's the guy so here's one of the guys who helped this melania coin and he's also one of the guys behind dollar sign libra which was this coin that was hyped up by argentina's president malay um which was a which appears to be another major rug pull where it went went up to a 4.5 billion dollar market cap after argentina's president says
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Liberal Argentina grows. The private project will be dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy by funding small Argentine businesses and startups. The world wants to invest in Argentina. Long live freedom, damn it.
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He made a selfie video, this guy, and he's like, I do want to announce I am the advisor. the advisor to Javier Millay. It was not a rug pull. It was just, it did not go as planned. This is the guy who was advising the MAGA sweetheart, Javier Millay, who's overseeing a massive poverty rate in Argentina, who now may face impeachment in Argentina over screwing over his people. Here, play this clip.
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It's all the same that people like Star Trek. That actually could be construed as a compliment.
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It's like what- You don't understand Brett, the tokenization, you have to tokenize it. And then once you have the hybrid with, Brett, here's the thing, Jordy, Jordy, here's the thing. You take a little bit of Solano, you take your Solano, and then you merge it with a little bit of BTC, and then you tokenize it. And then it's all about the tokenization economics.
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Jordy talks about Instagram 1.0 with the aviator glasses. Frankly, I have no clue that reference, Brett.
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Brett, I mean, I had Instagram version 1.0, I think with those weird filters. I wasn't sure what I was taking photos of though. Anyway, Brett's sunny in Philadelphia, but it's almost like JD Vance walked into that room and literally just took a crap in front of everybody.
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people were like literally like dude did you just crap on the floor in front of like you know jd vance is like what that's not what we do here i mean people were absolutely could be immature sometimes like people were like just like the f word the what did he do did he literally just poop on the floor right yeah you'll see this he just guys pooped on stage you see this like it's a combination of like horrified just and like this and like disgusted by him
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All right. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to land this plane while they're still I'm going to land this plane while the FAA still has some people right here, you know, and try to and try to bring it and try to bring this home right here. But by the way, there is absolutely total chaos and pandemonium.
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And it's not a accident right here that the in an accident, I guess I'll continue the pun right here. Let me show you right here.
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all right this deep in this okay these it's not an accident when you put these people in charge the horrific outcomes that we're seeing right inflation is already heating up right here the bureau of labor statistics right here are showing like just look at this stuff like these this is awful data Going back to the objective data, inflation is heating up. Americans are down on the economy again.
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Households are bracing for another bump in inflation. America's now expect that inflation is going to go up to 4.3%. Retail sales are falling more than expected. Gas prices are going back up. In West Texas, there's a measles outbreak right now.
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And as you just look through other objective data, like what's going on, what they're firing people at the CDC right now, CDC's epidemic intelligence service workers are getting laid off right now, like literally like the disease detectives are getting fired right now. Over a thousand of the probationary workers are being let go. These are some of the epidemic intelligence services.
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These are recruits who are some of the brightest public health leaders in the field right now. And they're literally firing FAA people over and over again. And in Canada, shout out to the first responders in Canada who are dealing with another crash. But it just seems like every week we're dealing with like a plane crash. There's been four deadly plane crashes.
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I know there are some people in critical condition in Canada, so our heart goes out to, you know, some of the people there. And thanks to all the work of the first responders. Fortunately, at least as of this recording, I don't know of any deaths, but some serious injuries. And then you have headlines like this.
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trump fires hundreds of the faa despite four deadly crashes under his watch doge is now creating a doge irs account and all of the agencies now have accounts like doe this is what it's like a public twitter account doge is seeking help from the public please dm this account with insights on finding and fixing waste fraud and abuse relating to the irs like what the hell like that's how we're dealing with like the irs it's like
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And this is as Elon Musk's team is gaining access to all of the private tax data. They're sending their team in like literally the system that does the audits, that sends out collection notices or when not to send out collection notices, that the Doge is seeking access to your personal taxpayer data. So like we know that Trump, Trump barely paid any taxes at all. Some years he paid no tax.
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Some he paid the filing fee of $750. You know, we know that Trump fought not to have his taxes released. Like, let's give it to the billionaires who don't want to pay taxes.
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And I've said it like this before. I said what they're doing at Doge is very analogous to like what QAnon does with the Q drops.
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You just sprinkle some seeds. You get people to like try to decode things. Oh, a new USA drop today. What is it? Condoms in Gaza. Oh, crap. Condoms in Gaza. Whoa, you mean Mozambique that Trump was giving in 2019? You mean those? Oh, well, yeah, that's still bad. Well, you know, Trump was doing it in 2019. Well, it was probably the deep state.
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And then you sprinkle more, you sprinkle new ones throughout. And what's going on? Donald Trump taking your money for his propaganda photo ops, spending millions of dollars, vacationing millions of taxpayer dollars,
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forcing the secret service to stay at his resorts paying himself all the while bringing the republicans to pay him spending all the government funds and claiming him for himself basically flying around in air force one riding around the track in circles like a little baby you know at the daytona 500 going to the super bowl the guy gonna go to every sporting event on the taxpayer dime and just vacationing more than 50 and meanwhile let's get back to where we started
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The billionaires and the oligarchs are going to get the $4.5 trillion tax cuts, which could increase our debt by over $25 trillion over the next 10 years while they take away your Medicaid, while they take away resources from farmers, and while they
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take away education and then they screw over the veterans and they cut key jobs at nuclear facilities and they cut key jobs at the FAA and they cut key jobs and just jobs in general of people who protect food safety, you know, and shout out to all the federal workers who have worked so hard and have been just treated
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and called all of these demeaning names, people who worked quietly in the government, just trying to keep the wheels of this thing going, who are not just being fired, but being stripped of their human dignity and their basic, just being treated like they're disposable crap, the way Elon Musk and Donald Trump treat people in their life.
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This all goes back to the fact that who's benefiting from all of this? Not we, the people. not even the one, even less than the 1% at this point, but the 1% or less. You ain't getting tax cuts if you don't make more than $360,000 a year. You're going to get screwed over by all of this.
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and Zelensky into a room together and they would have a deal within 24 hours. In fact, even before he took office, he said if he were to win the election, a deal would just be made during the transition period. Here, play it. You'll see the receipts.
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And with surging prices, housing less affordable, eggs reaching record highs, inflation back to soaring again, you're going to get screwed. So again, whether you're a red state, blue state, independent, whether you're Republican, Democrat, whatever. Just again, I'm just giving you the data.
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And I ask you to think critically, to not just do your own research, but just look at some basic facts as well that's right there in front of us. And maybe because sometimes it's right there in front of us, we try to attribute a more complicated motivations or things like that. And sometimes it's all about just following the money.
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The money from your pocket to the pocket of the billionaires and the oligarchs. That's what's happening. The reverse Robin Hood, the Trump, the Musk, the Trumpy hood, the musky hood, whatever you want to call it. It ain't good for you, but we'll be by your side every step of the way on the Midas Touch Network on this show.
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Make sure you keep checking back in throughout the day on the Midas Touch YouTube channel. And we're going to, until they, as I said before, until they rip this microphone from my hand, we will speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to you, to we, the people. That's what's needed right now. Fearlessness.
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in the face of an authoritarian regime and that's what we have here shout out to our international resistors people in europe people in canada people in mexico people in australia people in new zealand our warning to you as well as you see what elon to germany you see what elon musk is trying to do or what he did here he's going to do that in your country
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So y'all need to unite to stop what has happened here in the United States. That's our call to you internationally. And we here in the United States, while we still have this mic, while we still have this platform, we will fight from within, from within an authoritarian regime here, a Kim Jong Un like regime here in the United States. And we'll rally people each and every day.
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here on the Midas Touch Network. If you want to meet me, Brett and Jordy, we're going to be doing a meetup on Thursday. If you ever wanted to meet us in a more exclusive setting, go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Check us out there. As well, go to MidasPlus.com if you want to access some of the newsletters that we have every day. You can even subscribe for free at first on MidasPlus.com.
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And we look, we'd love for you to become a paid subscriber, obviously, because we don't have outside investors. So it goes a long way to help. But just check it out. See it for yourself. See what's up and let us know what you think. Make sure you subscribe on audio and video, YouTube and audio podcast for audio podcast. Just search Midas Touch. Make sure you hit subscribe.
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Their audio folks go to YouTube, subscribe to YouTube. Just thanks for everybody. Thanks to the mods. Thanks to the supporters. Thanks to the Midas Mighty. Let's keep fighting together. Every day we'll continue to grow in our momentum, and we're going to continue to stand up. We're going to stop this. We're going to get through this together.
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It's going to be tough, but we're going to get through this together. I make you that guarantee. Jordy, take it away.
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Well, look, Donald Trump is a sexual assaulter and he is an abuser. And if you've had abusers in your life, you know that they engage in torture, psychological torture, and then they try to kind of worm their way back into your life or distract you from the torture to be like, you remember when things were Good. You remember all of these things. You know the type of manipulation.
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You always have to look at the pathology of Donald Trump as an abuser. He's also a reckless individual and a bankruptor and a destroyer of things. And his pathology always shows. But with that abusive mentality, he now wants to take all of the symbols away.
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of our great country and our great democracy and then just use that with all this reckless spending showing up at all of the events look it's a big deal when you see air force one flying overhead just that's a big deal or when you see the motorcade it does make you in the past
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feel patriotic about things he knows that but he's an abuser and he's using it to distract you from all of those receipts i showed you at the outset that prices are going up up up inflation is going to surge again by the way later in the show i've got a
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I would not call it a treat because it's bad for America, but I got something no one else is talking about, which is I read the Trump media annual report for Truth Social. I read the whole report, hundreds of pages. And yes, it did show that the company only earned about $3.6 million in total revenue. Not profit, not EBITDA, 3.6 million in total revenue and it lost over $400 million.
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But there's a whole section, we'll talk about it later, about how surging inflation is going to be very harmful for the future prospects of Trump media. They're admitting it in their own financials that Trump inflation is going to hurt Trump media. He's blaming the failure of his company on the failure of his presidency. So we'll get there.
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But let me show you what the propaganda machine is trying to do. They're trying to pull
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on the heartstrings of people who like these symbols of patriotism so they bring on this guy doug bergum right out of central casting also a guy worth hundreds of millions potentially billions of dollars on donald trump's cabinet he's the secretary of the interior and he goes full north korea and he goes how powerful was that image seeing the beast
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And the motorcade circle around the track of the Daytona 500. America's back, baby.
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Literally nobody is following his lead. Even Hamas is not following Donald Trump's threats. Hamas views Donald Trump's threats as all bark, no bite. Because remember, over the weekend, Donald Trump set that deadline that if Hamas, you don't return all of the Israeli hostages by noon on Saturday, all hell ends. is going to break loose.
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And all Hamas did was return the three hostages it was supposed to under the ceasefire deal that former President Biden negotiated. Then Donald Trump was like, well, then Netanyahu will unleash the hell. I mean, they already did basically before. And now there was no new action that Netanyahu actually took different. So Hamas and Netanyahu basically both just kind of ignored Donald Trump.
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Okay, well, let's look at headlines like this. Major trouble for Donald Trump in new polling. This comes from the Economist YouGov poll, which now has his approval rating dropping to 46%, which I still think is pretty high. And you're probably like, yeah, that's still a little too high. It should be noted, though, that this is still supposed to be the
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And we saw Donald Trump's fake deals with Canada, Donald Trump's fake deals with Mexico. And
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panama and others but these fake deals have left the world hating and despising the united states and showing such weakness that in the next segment we will also talk about this emergency meeting in europe that europe realizes that america's isolated and they're gone and america's basically no longer even a reliable ally or an ally at all brett
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honeymoon period for someone because they literally just won. And they are pushing the propaganda like crazy. And it's not working. You know where he's losing a lot of support with? Actually, young people. About 37% now is what his approval rating is amongst young people.
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the democracies in Europe, at least on one side. And now you have like Trump and Putin and Lavrov on the other side. You have spineless Republicans pretending that that's not the dynamic and that it's all part of some four-dimensional chess, which is not happening.
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Trump Makes Stunning Admission in Stock Report
For anyone who still says that Donald Trump is a brilliant businessman, well, show me the brilliance here. Donald Trump's company, Trump Media, which owns Truth Social, just announced it lost over $400 million last year. Its annual revenue declined 12% to just $3.6 million in revenue, not profit. Not EBITDA, not net revenue. Total revenue, $3.6 million. Look at the balance sheet right here.
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Part of the disclosures you have to make to the SEC is if you've had businesses that have failed in the past, you have to disclose it. So here it is. I've read the hundred plus pages here, so you don't have to. But here's what it says. A number of companies that were associated with President Donald J. Trump have filed for bankruptcy.
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There can be no assurances that the Trump Media Company will not also become bankrupt. Here's what it says. This is just filed. 214-2025 was the filing, and now it's being made public. Here's what it says. Entities associated with Donald J. Trump have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past.
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The Trump Taj Mahal, which was built and owned by Donald Trump, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991. The Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle, and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by Donald Trump at the time, filed for Chapter 11 in 1992. THCR, which was founded by Donald Trump in 1995, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004.
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Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc., the new name given to Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts after its 2004 bankruptcy, declared bankruptcy again in 2009. While all of the foregoing were in different businesses than Trump Media, there can be no guarantee that Trump Media's performance will exceed the performance of those entities, the bankrupt entities.
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Have you ever heard of someone who's bankrupted more businesses than that? I get maybe you bankrupt something once, I don't know, maybe twice. bankruptcy after bankruptcy, but it's not done yet. There's a whole nother section of companies that crashed that Donald Trump lent his name, image, and likeness to. A number of companies that had license agreements with Donald Trump have failed.
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There can be no assurances that Trump media will also not fail. Trump Shuttle, launched by Donald Trump in 1989, defaulted on its loans in 1990 and ceased to exist by 1992. Trump University, founded by Donald Trump in 2005, ceased operations in 2011 amid lawsuits and investigations regarding the company's business practices. Trump Vodka, a brand of vodka produced by drinks,
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America's, under license from the Trump Organization, was introduced in 2005 and discontinued in 2011. Trump Mortgage LLC, a financial services company founded by Donald Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. GoTrump.com, a travel site founded by Donald Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. Trump Steaks, a brand of steak and other meats founded by Donald Trump in 2007,
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discontinued sales two months after its launch. While all of these businesses were in different industries than the Trump Media Group, there can be no guarantee that Trump Media's performance will exceed the performance of those entities. I just listed so many entities that failed well before Donald Trump ever got involved in politics, so what?
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Was this a Democratic deep state time machine conspiracy where they went back into the past and they set Donald Trump up for all of these things? Or is he just a horrible, awful business person? And he's showing it once again because Trump media only generated crap. 3.6 million dollars in total revenue on a 400 million dollar total loss. He's doing it again and he's doing it to our country.
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Folks, he's a con artist. He's a liar. He's a felon. He's a sexual assaulter. He is a horrible, despicable human being who is a loser in his track record of life is being a loser. And whose receipts am I using? I'm using his. I'm using his receipts that he's a loser.
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It's one of the worst balance sheets I've ever seen. I doubt Donald Trump even knows how to read. a balance sheet or a profit and loss P&L statement. There's stunning admissions in this 10K filing. This is the annual report that publicly traded companies have to file with the SEC. So we finally got Donald Trump's 10K for the year ending in 2024.
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You want to go and see some more stunning admissions from this report? Again, I'm reading you Trump's own financial report. I'm not paraphrasing others. I just want to be clear when I read what I'm about to read to you. So from Trump's 10K. They expect that rising inflation will hurt Trump media's future financial prospects. May I repeat that again?
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Donald Trump, in his own 10K annual report, says rising inflation in America is in the future under his administration will cause harm to the future economic prospects of Trump media, which had only generated $3.6 million in revenue last year. Again, He's a horror. Who looks at this and goes, yeah, that's a good business person. Put it this way.
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One McDonald's franchise, not all of McDonald's, like one McDonald's franchise does significantly more revenue than what Trump media made. It's like the McDonald's down your block, basically. And it's probably profitable and not losing any money. That's Trump's total revenue. Here's what it says. Inflation and the global supply chain will be a big problem for Trump media.
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Currently, the US economy is experiencing a bout of increased inflation. It goes on to say, although inflation did not have a significant impact on our results of operations.
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For the years ending December 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022, we anticipate that inflation will have an impact on our business going forward, including through a material increase in our cost of revenue and operating expenses in the coming years, if not permanently. Continued or permanent rises in core costs could impact our growth negatively.
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That's Trump's own company saying that inflation is going to rise. What did Donald Trump promise on day one? That inflation would go down right away. I have video of him saying it. Here he is saying it.
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He is a fraud. He is a con artist. He is a liar. Now costs are going up. Right? Prices are going up. Egg prices record highs. Groceries going up. Housing less affordable. Trump can't even run his own digital media company. You think he can run a country? Are you kidding me? It goes on to say here are some other risk factors involved in the Trump media.
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And it is just shocking what a bad business person he is. Let me show you some of the admissions that are made in this SEC report. It's called the 10K Annual Report Filing. So this is Trump's filing. This is Trump's company. That means Donald Trump is saying the things that I'm about to tell you. It's not me, Ben Micellis, the co-founder of Midas Touch.
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There can be no assurances that Trump media will continue to be able to comply with the continued listing standards of NASDAQ. Trump Media's continued eligibility to maintain the listing of its securities on NASDAQ depends on a number of factors, including the price and the number of persons that hold Trump Media's securities. It goes on to say,
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As you read more, if NASDAQ delist Trump Media Securities from trading on its exchange for failure to meet its listing standards, Trump Media is not able to list such securities on another national securities exchange, then Trump Media Securities could be quoted on an over-the-counter market.
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If this were to occur, Trump Media and its security holders could face significant material adverse consequences, including...
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Recent reduced liquidity for its security, a limited availability of market quotations for securities, a determination that Trump Media's common stock is a penny stock, which will require brokers trading in the common stock to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity.
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And while all of this is going on too, remember my report yesterday about Javier Mele, the Argentinian president who promoted a meme coin that proved to be very scammy, causing people to lose their life savings in Argentina and elsewhere. The Libra coin that was done by this Kelsier Ventures, the same company that did the S, the Smolania meme coin. Look at Trump's coin, too, by the way.
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Trump's coin over the past month is down 45%, crashing. Melania's meme coin crashed. What's interesting about Trump media, though, this is just a wild aspect of it, right? $3 million in revenue on $400 million in losses. What Trump is good at is being a con artist and a fraud and a scammer because, I mean, you even take a look right here.
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You have the stock is trading at $30.39 with a $6.59 billion market cap. You want me to tell you what a company that loses $400 million with $3.6 million in revenue is usually valued at? Probably nothing. It probably would be bankrupt by now if it wasn't Trump media with Trump in the Oval Office and using it to get out his messages or propaganda.
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Let me give you the most generous, in my view, evaluation of it, and I'm not trying to give you stock advice, so I'm giving you my opinion only. Three million in revenue with no profit, What would you apply? A five times multiple, maybe. Let me give it a 10 times multiple. I'll give it a 10 times multiple and I will totally ignore the losses, which why would you do that?
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And I'll ignore, I won't do it by EBITDA or profit. I'll just say 10 times multiple. no one would ever apply a multiple to a company that's going in the opposite direction, losing money in this bad. So what my valuation, maybe $30 million, maybe $30 million. So if you had 200 million outstanding shares, let's just use that number, on a $30 million total value,
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That's why, in my opinion, it's quite literally a penny stock if I gave it the most favorable of favorable valuations. Just do the math of what one share would be worth on a 30 million valuation with 200 million individual shares. You could do the math. So then imagine if the valuation is more like 10 million. It's why this is so utterly absurd right now. I'm just giving you the facts and data.
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I'm not reading from you with some New York Times report or some corporate media. I'm reading you Donald Trump's own words from his company, from his company's report. So even Trump's own report admits that he's a horrible business person and that he's bankrupted so many businesses and screwed over so many people. What do you mean? What do I mean by that? Let me show you. Here's what it says.
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I read from you his report. So tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers. I got to stop saying four. We're on our way to five now. Thanks for watching.
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Trump Has Disaster Day With New Plane Crash
While America's psychopathic President Donald Trump continues to make posts about himself on President's Day, we got word that there was another plane crash involving an American plane into Canada. Fortunately, no deaths. As of this recording, at least eight people are injured.
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Hit subscribe and let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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and the Real World Road Rules Challenge, who is basically posting saying, hey, public, we'd love for you to help us figure out how this equipment works. Go back to the video I did earlier before the news about this Delta flight that flipped upside down in Canada. So we have that happening.
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What we also have happening as well is Russia's propaganda networks have posted the photographs of the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, landing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where they will be having a bilateral meeting, U.S. and Russia, while they cut out intentionally Ukraine and they cut out Europe.
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from these negotiations that will impact Europe and Ukraine most. This was an intentional slap in the face and a dangerous one to Europe and Ukraine who are perceiving the threat because you now have an emergency meeting taking place as of this recording in France that's being led by the French President Emmanuel Macron.
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And then you have all of these European leaders from democracies who are meeting there, not the undemocratic ones like Hungary. So just think a look at this image. You have, you know, Rubio and Lavrov, the U.S.-Russia alliance. How utterly horrific. And then you have over here this image of Pierre Starmer, the prime minister of UK, and Emmanuel Macron.
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According to paramedics, it was a Delta flight carrying roughly 80 passengers from Minnesota into Toronto's Pearson Airport. Again, No casualties reported as of this time, but numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside down. As Hassan says, all this time it was literally DEI or die, and we didn't realize it.
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the president of France, meeting with each other in France. We're also learning that the U.S. is intending to pull out its military presence from the Baltic states, which would hand a massive, massive win to Russia as well. America essentially capitulating to Russia each and every day.
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We also learned moments ago as the Trump Media Financial Report was released, Trump Media, this is the company that controls Truth Social, they lost $400 million last year. They filed their 10K report. I'll do a deeper dive on this 10K report because wowzer, it is illuminating in a bad way for Donald Trump. The revenue declined 12% to just 3.6 million.
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We're not talking about profit or EBITDA, which would still, in my view, be small for a company like this. Their entire revenue for all of 2024 on the company being run by Donald Trump was $3.6 million in revenue on $400 million in losses. But you should ask yourself, money just doesn't get lost. Money goes somewhere. So where was that $400 million going to that's viewed as a loss?
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Meanwhile, as Doge and Musk continue to fire people in the government, key government jobs. You have Elon Musk making posts like this. What is happening here? And then it says, breaking image released of the migrant mom that stormed a Birmingham hospital armed with axes and blades. It's literally a picture from Batman, The Dark Knight Rises.
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This is who is using his algorithms and AI to cut all of these critical employees who are necessary for the safety of our country. I've said it before and let me say it again. Under Donald Trump, America is no longer safe. So in addition to Canada burning, boycotting the United States tourism because of America's threats of annexation under Donald Trump.
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It's also, they've fired all of these people. Like it's not a safe place for food and flight anymore, which is horrible to even think about, but it's just the reality.
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I have to tell you about this game changing product that I use before a night out with drinks. It's called pre-alcohol. Now let's face it, after a night with drinks, I don't bounce back the next day like I used to. I thought I had to make a choice. I can either have a great night or a great next day. That is until I found pre-alcohol.
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It's this byproduct, not dehydration, that's to blame for your roughnecks day. Pre-alcohol produces an enzyme to break this byproduct down. Just remember to make pre-alcohol your first drink of the night, drink responsibly, and you'll feel your best tomorrow.
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I'll be honest, I was skeptical about pre-alcohol at first, but then one weekend I was hanging out with a few friends over at my favorite bar and I thought, why not give it a shot? So I drank it before my first cocktail, my go-to old-fashioned, and you couldn't believe just how on top of my game I felt the next morning. Every time I have pre-alcohol before drinks, I notice a difference.
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Even after a late night, I can confidently plan on hitting the gym, running errands, or just enjoying a full day without worrying. With pre-alcohol, I can stay on track and not let winter travel or celebrations like Valentine's Day, the Super Bowl, and Mardi Gras throw me off course. Go to zbiotics.com slash Midas to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use Midas at checkout.
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As we've been reporting and others have, have been reporting as well. Donald Trump has been firing hundreds from the FAA despite the four deadly crashes on his watch already. This is yet another crash as well. Democratic Congressmember Steve Cohen says Trump just fired hundreds of FAA tech and maintenance workers
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Here's how they're running our government right now. So now they've created official government accounts like this. Doge IRS. And here's the post. Doge IRS. Doge is seeking help from the public. Please DM this account. with insights on finding and fixing waste, fraud, and abuse relating to the Internal Revenue Service. As Olga Lautman says, what in the hell is this?
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What a lawless country the United States of America is right now. They're posting Doge IRS, give us tips, Twitter, or now X about what's going on. While they fire career people who actually knew what they were doing. But what's Donald Trump doing? Donald Trump is posting the following. After just 17 frenetic days, Trump has already delivered a big part of his agenda. What's that? Was it the...
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plane crashing agenda? Was it crashing planes? Was that part of the agenda? Was it the destabilizing Ukraine, Europe and the rest of the world agenda? Was it was the agenda to lift to pressure Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate? who was charged in being prosecuted for sex trafficking with underage girls? Was that the frenetic days delivering a big part of the agenda?
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I mean, what else would you expect, though, with Donald Trump, who was close pals with Jeffrey Epstein? Someone like Donald Trump who said he bought beauty pageants. And one of the things he liked to do was look at the women or the girls naked in the locker rooms without their consent. Or Donald Trump said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side.
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I guess what else would you expect right there? But by the way, prices ain't going down. Prices are going up, up, up right now. And by the way, you want to take a look at what's in Donald Trump's 10K filing to the SEC from Trump media. Take a look. This is what Trump's filing says. Currently, the US economy is experiencing a bout of increased inflation, resulting in rising prices.
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The US Federal Reserve, as well as its counterparts in other countries, have engaged in a series of interest rate hikes in an effort to combat rising inflation. Although inflation did not have a significant impact on our results of operations for the years ending December 31, 2024, we anticipate that inflation will have an impact on our business going forward
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including through a material increase in our cost of revenue and operating expenses in the coming years. If not permanently continued or permanent rises in core costs could impact our growth negatively. That's Trump's company posting that. So prices are surging, going up, up, up. Housing is less affordable. Pricing is hitting record highs. Gas prices are going up. Um, It's not a good situation.
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He's crashing our economy right now. And also, he's crashed law and order. Four of the top deputies for Mayor Eric Adams in New York, they just announced they are resigning some of the top people in the office.
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Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Mira Joshi, Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services Ann William Isom, and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chauncey Parker said that they were all stepping down.
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right now after the quid pro quo deal between Trump's DOJ to dismiss charges against Mayor Eric Adams for bribery for foreign companies and foreign countries, rather, without prejudice for Mayor Eric Adams to pursue the MAGA agenda. And so all of those people are resigning right now. Like, the good people are resigning, unfortunately.
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The people who keep radar, landing and navigation systems running amid a string of recent plane crashes, including in D.C. and Alaska. This is dangerous and it undermines public confidence in air travel. Reverse this absurd decision now. That post was before this crash in Canada.
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That follows seven federal prosecutors resigning, including lots of right-wing conservative lawyers who refused to dismiss the case when they were demanded to because they thought it was unethical and or illegal. And also...
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Our State Department is kind of undermining the way America's had a very delicate balance between rejecting China's sovereignty over Taiwan, but also kind of respecting China's one China policy. It's been a very delicate balance over many decades for America to kind of pursue this diplomatic tightrope walk.
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with China so that we can defend Taiwan's sovereignty, but also not piss off China as part of an, you know, because they're an international trade partner, even though there's an adversarial relationship. So one of the things Trump's State Department did is they deleted language that respected at least China's claim. over Taiwan, despite America still defending Taiwan's sovereignty.
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I know it gets wonky, but it's pissed off China that basically said you're going to now cause severe damage to the China-U.S. relations and cause severe damage to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. So What the Trump State Department is doing is destabilizing everything in Europe, destabilizing everything in Asia right now.
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And while this is going on, Donald Trump was taking laps yesterday in NASCAR around the track with his motorcade to project the strongman image. which really just looked like embarrassing. It just looked like Kim Jong-un, basically. So those are your core updates here about what's going on.
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While you have Tom Homan, Trump's borders are threatening to arrest AOC for providing migrants with what their rights are about it.
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Yeah, and then you also have one of Donald Trump's cabinet members, Doug Burgum. Here, he's like, I've never seen anybody look more powerful than how Donald Trump did when he went around the track. Here, play this clip.
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And the Minnesota senator back on February 6, 2025, Senator Tina Smith, who's been on our program before, said Elon Musk and his interns meddling in aviation safety is truly terrifying. You go back to the report I did this morning, and it was the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who got famous for being on the real world news.
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I want to be honest. It appeals to a group of people who are like, yeah, look how tough it is. And when you have billions of dollars in propaganda behind it, it appeals to a group of Americans, 35% of Americans. They will love Gulf of America. Look, he's riding around the motorcade in the track. We're back, baby. Even as their rights and jobs are being taken away,
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You know, but there's nothing you can do about those people. This is the reality. What we have to do, though, is speak loud with our microphone here. Why we got to grow to five million subscribers and then beyond, because we got to speak to Americans who are apathetic, who may not be following politics, who decided not to vote this election. You know, Trump got under 50 percent of the vote.
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Tens of millions of Americans did not vote. We have to speak to them. And look, Trump's popularity is decreasing. The new YouGov poll has him underwater. I think the approval ratings mid 40s should be lower. But this is also the honeymoon period, which is rapidly fading fast. But. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Thanks for watching.
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As Donald Trump continues to tank our economy here in the United States, here is what he's posting on his social media platform. He goes, we're going to become so rich, you're not going to know where to spend all that money. I'm telling you, just watch.
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That's the first thing that they go to, and it's just completely insane what we are seeing. Donald Trump is a complete and total paper tiger who just continues to enrage our allies. And unfortunately, you see – first, I just want to make this clear. What Donald Trump is doing here, it's not some sort of form of four-dimensional chess. I know the Trump people like to say that.
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I know Fox likes to pretend like there is some method to this madness. I assure you, there is not. And you can tell, by the way, that Donald Trump, anytime the going gets tough, he pulls back on what he's doing and looks like a complete and utter fool. Donald Trump has the attention span of a squirrel. No offense to squirrels. And that little teeny tiny brain of his...
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then the question was you hesitated when maria bartiroma who's like your own propagandist donald trump asked you a softball question about do you believe there's going to be a recession and the question that was asked if you couldn't hear it was but you did hesitate and trump's response was Of course I hesitated.
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can only retain information for so long and can only think in very short-term periods of time. And we've heard people who work very closely with him say this as well, that he can't really think beyond the now. And so when you have Trump making all these moves, he's not reacting to long-term trends. He doesn't have any sort of long-term strategy.
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he is just saying oh man the market's going down now i need to do this maybe i should do this he's constantly trying to turn these levers to adjust things in real time and all that does that sort of panic spiraling that kind of decision making it actually makes things a whole lot worse he takes something that is already beginning to crash and then he crashes the markets even more it just gets worse and worse and worse and then he has these propaganda networks
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who try their best to get their back, but before they get on message like today, you see those moments where you see some cracks in the facade and you see them even have to admit, okay, how do we spin this? The stock market's down 1,000 points today. It's down 1,500 points since Trump took office. It's down, it's lower now than it was when Donald Trump was elected in November.
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It's lower than it was November 5th. We are seeing just the bottom fall out now. Every single day, it seems to get worse as Donald Trump enriches himself and enriches his family. And then one of the kind of headlines we see from some of the mainstream media, Ben, I don't even know if you saw this today while you were teaching your class today, but I feel like I'm annoying you right now.
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So let me pull this headline up from Bloomberg. This was what Bloomberg was running. This is the headline. Donald Trump Jr. has plans for monetizing MAGA. At 1789 Capitol, the president's eldest son is chasing profit in the parallel economy of Trump's America. Do you remember when they tried to impeach Joe Biden over it? over Hunter Biden's private dealings.
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And now they are writing a glowing puff piece about Donald Trump Jr. profiting off his father's presidency and the MAGA movement. I mean, you cannot make this shit up.
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Here was the official statement from the White House. Remember, Donald Trump missed a number of these appearances, or at least didn't go on camera like he normally does. But the White House released the following statement about the stock market's downturn. The official White House spokesperson said, quote,
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between animal spirits of the stock market and what we're actually seeing unfold from businesses and business leaders. And the latter is obviously more meaningful than the former on what's in store for the economy in the medium to long term. They're talking about animal spirits of the stock market. It's bizarre. It's weird. It's dangerous. Let me show you some of these headlines as well.
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This graph from the Wall Street Journal. Stock market today, NASDAQ falls 4% after Trump doesn't rule out recession. Heather Long, an economist at the Washington Post, put the following. Wall Street is souring on the Trump economic agenda. The Dow fell 890 points today and is now below where it was on Election Day.
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this is the worst stock market performance in a president's first 50 days since 2009 the market moves today nasdaq negative four percent worst day since 2022 the s p 500 down 2.7 and the dow down negative 2.0 percent uh also important to note as well after rebounding in the fall
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households now have turned gloomier about their financial situation the share of households who expect to be better off in a year at a four and a half year high in november in the new york fed survey the month over month drop in february was the largest since may 2022 consumer confidence is down here and people have gloomier outlooks which means less spending and then in the long run you start to see that impact
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Of course I hesitated when refusing to answer that he was unsure if there was going to be a recession because, for example, the Atlanta Federal Reserve is now predicting a 2.8% negative GDP for quarter one, where if Donald Trump simply did nothing and kept former President Biden's economy on autopilot, literally did nothing, there would be about a 3% to 4% GDP growth.
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May, June, July, but we're already seeing it already. It's important to note as well that I think since 1988 was the last time, and it's hard to find other exemplars, the world economy is actually doing okay and pretty good. It was doing good in other areas. The American economy is the one that's underperforming because of Donald Trump's erratic behavior. I mean, it's
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linked specifically to donald trump now i want to share this with everybody as well because you know we show the trump clips we show all of this stuff but we here at the midas touch network have also been sharing and we've been making sure we broadcast all of senator bernie sanders's rallies Over the past few days, he's been continuing this fight, the oligarch tour.
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He spoke in Warren, Michigan, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Altoona, Wisconsin. And he's speaking in reddish, purplish areas to workers. This right here is the way you have to do it. If anybody were to say, well, what do we do? How do we message it right now? To me, Bernie Sanders, pitch perfect.
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And now that we have the largest independent media platform in the country, if not the world, I want to use that platform to showcase Senator Bernie Sanders' speeches. And frankly, any other politician who's going to speak like this to workers has a platform that we will look for their speeches and we will broadcast. Let me show you this particularly
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powerful moment from Senator Bernie Sanders' recent speech in Altoona for March 8th. Let's play it.
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Really powerful stuff. And, you know, I want to just like take that clip as... I want to use it as an example for other politicians, other leaders who are going out there and speaking to constituents about the chaos that is happening right now. Yes, I think Senator Sanders provides a good blueprint for how to speak to people. And I think there is a reason that he resonates with people.
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First of all, he's real. You know that he means what he says. Also, he's not trying to do gimmicks. And I feel like far too often, especially in the social media age and as Democrats and other politicians are trying to figure out how do we reach people, how do we break through the noise, they feel like they need to resort to
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let's do this quirky video where we're spouting all this Gen Z lingo and it'll be cute and funny and silly and it'll break through because it's so silly or maybe we do this video and we just curse a bunch because people want cursing and all things like that. People want you to be real with them.
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So a negative 6% GDP swing, bringing us into a great recession and potentially a depression. And Donald Trump saying, of course there's uncertainty. I don't know what's going to happen. Donald Trump was supposed to also appear on numerous occasions today at various meetings, which he did not show up to or at least bring the cameras at while the markets were crashing.
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People want you to be able to look them in the eye and genuinely tell them that you understand what they are going through. And I think when Senator Sanders, the reason why he gets these crowds, the reason he gets the reaction that he gets, no matter where he is throughout the country, even in the reddest of districts,
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the reddest of states it's because he's genuine and because it's clear that he actually cares and that he believes in what he is saying so remember authenticity authenticity authenticity stop the kind of quirky funny unless that's you by the way if that's your thing that's another story but you need to be authentic to yourself and you need to be able to level with people
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and make sure that they understand that you understand their pain and that you are fighting against it. That's just the message that I want people to take away from that.
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And you saw what Senator Bernie Sanders was doing. He was listening. He was listening. He was asking people what they're going through and the pain that they feel so he can relate to them and explain to them what he's going to do to fight for them. But he was showing empathy and listening. to listen to people. It's one of the things I pride ourselves here on the Midas Touch Network.
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In fact, I think it's really the secret to our growth is that we're always listening to what people are experiencing and going through and making sure that we can channel those feelings and bring it here and then talk about solutions.
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So if you were watching even the propaganda state regime media known as Fox, you would see things like this.
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exclamation point that as the markets are taking also if you look at that photo that he posted from his uh interview on fox the chiron reads that ukraine doesn't have the cards so it's a twofer folks he is serving as putin stooge while crashing the united states economy just so you can hear what the full video of what he said is you can hear what a huckster and see what a huckster is let's just play that clip
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You know, it's so interesting, Brett, to see these MAGA Republican Congress members contort themselves into these kind of spineless fascist pretzels to try to
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support donald trump crashing the economy like this is a good thing and this is a normal thing um you know it was just also i i was been thinking about this more and more you know when i would when i think about that joint session from last week that disastrous joint session that donald trump held where you had the mega republicans giving standing ovations
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as Donald Trump was talking about things like getting rid of the CHIPS Act, which provides billions of dollars of investment to red states, as Donald Trump gets rid of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Act, these major Biden initiatives that were putting a lot of people to work with high-paying jobs, not just in blue states, in red states, in purple states.
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And then you saw the members of Congress, like, And it just reminded me these MAGA Republicans look just like when you when you watch the way like the politicians in North Korea, you know, clap for Kim Jong Un. Like, you know, it's like this like nervous, frantic clap that they're all like don't know what to do, but they have to clap for dear leader.
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as he's literally talking about taking away the jobs from their own congressional districts. I mean, take a look at this guy. This is MAGA Republican Tom Emmer, who in another age was viewed as like, not like a crazy guy, you know, but he is, he's like full MAGA nutso right now. Here, watch what Tom Emmer said about the tariffs. Let's play.
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Donald Trump said, I alone can fix it. Donald Trump also said on day one there would be a peace deal in Ukraine. He said actually before day one, he had such a great relationship with Zelenskyy and Putin, he said it would be easy to get a deal done. The only deal Donald Trump even somewhat focused on, I guess for a little bit, was to steal Ukraine's mineral resources.
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then we started talking about some deal where we would basically steal their minerals and what then give russia the rest of their land i mean so the deal i guess was a deal with putin that trump viewed that his regime would take the minerals for his sovereign wealth fund so he can then go and what acquire greenland i mean you have to think about what donald trump's thinking in his own mind and you can piece this together based on his post so trump would get part of ukraine and the minerals and then putin would get the other part that
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was the deal obviously that donald trump was thinking about in my opinion um and you know again he's showed every day that all he's doing is what what putin would want i mean directly i mean you've got donald trump cutting off the satellite imagery and intelligence to ukraine um not just
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turning off the military aid, which, by the way, helped American companies because the military aid was in the form of weapons and systems that were being developed in America and then sent to Ukraine. So you're hurting American businesses and hurting Ukraine. But he also shut off
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1,500 points below where it was when Donald Trump took office. That's not a good look. This is the same network that would try to spin record-setting day after day under former President Biden's economy. And they're like making jokes about it. Looks like we got 50 more points while it was down close to 1,000 points. Oh, it looks like it picked up 50 points.
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the intelligence he's also stopped doing a lot of like joint nato missions and kind of task force stuff together you know every one of his steps and actions would be only to the benefit of like a like a putin here donald trump is asked by a washington post reporter on air force one as he was flying back from his mar-a-lago vacation on sunday to dc to cause more havoc he was asked do you believe putin
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is disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine. Here, watch his response.
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Go ahead. What else? And again, he looks like an addled, cognitively impaired individual, but I don't want to lean on that because I don't want to give, frankly, him an excuse for his behavior. I mean, he's a horrific human being, but when he's answering the questions, too, and he's like, huh? Who you with? Huh? Huh? No, you are bad. You are a bad boy. I'm not going to answer that question.
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Disrespecting me? How? Meanwhile, Elon Musk, who's either serving as a co-president or the lead dictator in this regime, whichever you want to say, here are the types of posts that Elon has been making. So MAGA Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Mike Lee, goes, exit NATO now, exclamation point, to which Elon Musk responds, we really should.
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it doesn't make sense for america to pay for the defense of europe then you have democratic senator veteran astronaut hero senator mark kelly was in ukraine and he posted a photo of him in ukraine just left ukraine what i saw proved to me we can't give up on the ukrainian people Everyone wants this war to end, but any agreement has to protect Ukraine's security and can't be a giveaway to Putin.
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Let me tell you about my trip to Ukraine and why it's important we stand with Ukraine, to which Elon Musk responds, traitor.
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you are a traitor elon musk says then elon musk goes on fox with larry kudlow and then blames a cyber attack on x which used to be twitter he says he blames it on people around ukraine and says it's their fault people around ukraine surprise surprise is going to blame everything on ukraine here watch this
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And then also, Brett, over the weekend, he posted an attack at the Polish, Poland's foreign minister and called it and said, sit down, little man. When Poland's foreign minister just talked about how Poland had fully paid for Starlink. in Ukraine already, and there was no right to take Starlink down. And then Musk attacked Poland's foreign minister and said, sit down, little man, sit down.
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The tactics of Elon Musk and the tactics of Donald Trump don't just resemble what happens in Putin's Russia. They are literally the same tactics that they use. And when I hear Elon Musk say that about Ukraine, by the way, We don't even know if there actually was, in fact, a cyber attack at all.
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I mean, that is who this propaganda network is. Even they can't spin it. But Donald Trump's propagandists were out there on all of the networks trying to spin it, that this is Biden's fault, that Biden's the one responsible for this. This is Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's National Economic Council director. This guy was the guy in 1999, right before the dot com crash.
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Anytime X, Twitter, whatever they call it, goes down, historically now over the past few years, Elon Musk said, we are under cyber attack, we're under cyber attack, and then blame somebody. So when this happened earlier and people were having trouble logging on, In our chat of Midas employees, somebody literally made a kind of joke saying, watch him blame Ukraine for this.
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That's how predictable these people are with their propaganda. We said it as an outlandish sort of thing, watch him do this. And then a couple hours later, he ran to Fox, and that's exactly what he did. Because this is what they do. And this is what kind of Twitter and X is designed for right now.
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It's designed to smear people and spread lies and spread disinformation in order to provide justification for some of the most heinous acts imaginable in humanity. So in this case, they are looking for some sort of out in order not to help Ukraine. They're looking to build more resentment.
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Against Ukraine, they're looking for more reasons to back out of deals, to back Russia, to do all the things that they are doing. So as predicate for that, Elon Musk is, without any proof, without any evidence, without anything, is accusing Ukraine of a cyber attack on Twitter. I think they have some more important things to do right now than attack X and make it so people can't tweet online.
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um as frequently especially when the people of ukraine actually use the site in order to communicate and get out information um but these are the the ruthless uh disgraceful tactics that we are seeing out of this regime and we're seeing it all over the map uh you know i think we'll we'll talk uh in a little bit about mahmoud khalil the uh pro-palestinian activist
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But they're using similar – who was arrested by Donald Trump and threatened with deportation. But we're seeing similar tactics there as well where they make up smears about a person in order to justify heinous acts in this case, in that case taking a legal resident of the United States, a permanent resident.
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uh stripping his citizenship and trying to deport him over accusations that is not what the united states of america is but that is how donald trump operates and that is how elon musk operates and this is why they are such a threat to democracy and this is why by the way regardless of your political party i don't care if you consider yourself left right right center or whatever this is not something you want in a leader of this country you do not want
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people with unfettered power to make up lies about US citizens or residents or anybody, and then use that as predicate to use unilateral power in order to punish them or do whatever they want to do.
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That is the kind of stuff in tin pot dictatorships, not the kind of stuff that happens in the United States of America, where we're at least supposed to have due process, where we are at least supposed to lead with the actual facts before doing heinous things such as those.
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You know, the headline from The Onion, which, you know, supposed to be satire although the line between satire and the idiocracy that's now festering in the white house is essentially blurred is trump says recession unfortunate but a necessary step to get to a great depression so that was the headline from the onion that's not too different from what donald trump said
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when he was asked by Maria Bartiromo that question. I think we have the clip of when Trump was asked, are you expecting a recession? Here's what he said.
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who predicted that things were about to soar. This guy's wrong about everything. He's the person who Trump has on his team, but Trump's whole team are the people who are wrong about everything, right? Who's the most wrong on a topic? I don't know. Who do you want for health and human services? Who could be most wrong?
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You know, don't forget- First off, it's still a bunch of word salad that he's saying. He promised that he was gonna fix everything on day one. And frankly, if he wouldn't have done a thing, he could have just claimed it. because former President Biden brought it to a strong economy where the Wall Street Journal was saying the U.S. economy is the envy of the world.
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Other headlines were we're in something better than a Goldilocks economy. That's just right. Former President Biden brought inflation under control that was caused by Trump administration, number one, by adding $8 trillion in debt. And by the way, don't believe me that that's what caused it. Go listen to what Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis said the cause was during the Republican debates.
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Let me just show you this one other clip right here where Trump talks about a record. He's trying to blame it on Biden. We've had record setting inflation under Biden. Listen to what he says here.
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Let me show you this one other clip of what Maria Bartiromo talks about. Tariffs high, markets down. Here's what she says.
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So the headline that I showed you from The Onion is kind of what Trump was saying there. I mean, zero confidence. blaming things on Biden, saying that he can't control, just give him more time. This is the Ponzi scheme phase of Trump. We've seen it in his other businesses, and now he just delays, delays, delays, and then he makes things worse.
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And that's what I want to talk about when we come back from our next quick break. I want to remind everybody, patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash MidasTouch. Join us on our next Zoom meeting if you ever wanted to meet me, Brett, and Jordy.
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Let's pick RFK Jr., the guy who's anti-vaccine and anti-studying infectious disease. Okay, let's pick that guy. Who do you want as your defense secretary? How about that Fox host, Hegseth? The weekend guy, the weekend host. Yeah, yeah, let's give him the most important position in our government, basically, other than the president. Let's make that guy the defense secretary.
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Give a five-star review. Let's take our last quick break of the show. We'll be right back.
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Brett, one thing I just do want to mention too before talking about some international affairs is that, you know, the one thing that MAGA Republicans had said repeatedly that they wanted to do was never have continuing resolutions ever again. and to pass their own budget, and they were gonna get this done.
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They were supposed to get it done in the last term, which they controlled the House of Representatives, but they failed to do it then. Then the day before the government was about to shut down, they would pass the continuing resolution, which by the way,
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extends the budget from nancy pelosi and when the democrats controlled the house of representatives so you know how they attack that budget well they continue it with a continuing resolution that's what it's called so you may be confused to be like but didn't they pass a budget no
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They talked about like a blueprint of a budget that they passed, but they have not been able to pass an actual budget beyond the blueprint because the blueprint is just total and utter BS. So what they've done is they just do these continuing resolutions. But then what they've tried to do in these continuing resolutions is to make it like 90%. not actually a continuing resolution.
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So they like sneak in this 99 page document, all of these lines about various like departments and programs getting $0. So it's not a continuing resolution. It's basically rescission without voting on rescission by just putting $0 as though people aren't going to notice.
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And for those audio listeners, we just put up on screen all of these MAGA Republicans who said, we will never support continuing resolutions ever. who continue to support continuing resolutions while they complain that the budget was filled with fraud. The same way I also asked before rhetorically that if Donald Trump thinks tariffs so great, why does he keep withdrawing them?
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If you think it's great, why don't you keep them on? Why are you getting scared if this is going to be the fix to everything right if it's all that easy my other question though is a basic one too if there's all of this fraud that elon musk and trump all this fraud right and they're not shy about using the department of justice to go after people right well so where are all the fraud arrests
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right? Like where are all the, where's all these people being arrested for the doge fraud that's been found? And the answer is there isn't. Also, by the way, may I ask rhetorically, where are those Epstein files? Where are they? Didn't the Trump administration say they were going to be releasing those files on day one? It seems every single promise is broken.
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Remember they gave the right-wing MAGA influencers a binder that said, here it is, the Epstein files. We got it. Everybody
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What happened to that? I thought you all were so confident about, oh, you decided to bring home the Tate brothers, allegedly. That was your move instead of going after the traffickers.
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They'll trade the actual Epstein files for the Tate brothers. Got you.
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And by the way, let me let me break down quickly because you said this wasn't a clean CR. So I'll just tell you like some of the things that are in there. I'm reading through it right now. The bill slashes a number of government funding accounts to zero dollars, including the cops, police grants.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's make her. Let's do it. Anyway, I digress. This is Kevin Hassett right here, Trump's top economic guy here playing.
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Those are the police grants for local police departments, various programs of the EPA, health care, education. It puts zero dollars. It basically changes. It says like in the budget. It would normally be X amount of dollars going to this program.
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It zeroes out the following program saying replace that number with zero dollars for the Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy and multiple other expenditures. It also zeroes out the Toxic Exposures Fund to care for veterans exposed to Burn pits, Agent Orange, and other toxic substances on October 1st. These are the kinds of things they're trying to sneak in this bill.
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I mean, it's just really cynical, dirty kind of politics that they're playing. But we're learning Hakeem Jeffries, to the Democrats' credit in Congress, they've come out and they said that they will not be voting for this. They are taking a stand, which they should. And so this is going to be on Mike Johnson now in order to try to pass this thing.
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There have already been multiple people in the Republicans in Congress who have come out and said that they will not vote for this. I'm not speaking about the frauds who Ben showed in the – who he showed in this other screenshot from the past CRs that said we'll never do this again. But I'm talking about some people like Rand Paul who came out saying that he would be a no vote.
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on the continuing resolution. And so we'll see how many other no votes start to rack up because Mike Johnson, once again, is going to be in a hard place. They're going to try to blame the Democrats for their own failure once again in order to pass this bill. So we'll be monitoring this closely.
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You know, they're panicked also because Donald Trump right now is frantically making phone calls to the members of Congress asking them to pass this continuing resolution. So a lot going on. We're going to be following all of it. So, you know, make sure you're listening to stay up to date.
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and remember there's nothing in here about no tax on tips nothing in here about no tax on social security nothing in here about no tax on overtime what happened what happened to all of those things right what happened to all of those remember the day when they lied about all that too and they're like it's in the bill
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Here are the Epstein files. I got it. All of these things are in the bill. You're being scammed, guys. But I just don't get when someone scams you so obviously and maliciously, and then they do it again, and then they do it again, and then they do it again, and then they do it again. How do you keep going back to the same? But really, this time he means it. This time he means it.
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You know who's not going to be scammed? Canada, or the President of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, or the leaders in Europe. They get what's going on right here. And in Canada, the Liberal Party just picked their new leader, who will be an interim prime minister. And then there will be a vote for what the next government is going to be. They picked Mark Carney to be their leader.
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Now, Mark Carney was a governor of the Bank of Canada and led a real banker, someone who really understands the economy, like the perfect person to go against Donald Trump, right? And it was a seamless, graceful handoff from Prime Minister Trudeau to Mark Carney. And I think they're picking the right guy for the moment, too, someone with real, actual expertise.
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economic chops and then carney led canada out of the kind of horrible economy in the mid-2000s steady hand there and then he led the board of governors or he was a governor of the bank of england as well and so widely viewed as one of the top economic you know people if not the top in the world He was elected as the leader right now. There'll be elections.
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And now in the polling, the liberal party, which was down significantly to the conservative party led by Pierre Poliev, and Poliev was priding himself on before all of this being Maple Maga. And they would do a lot of, you know, they do the interviews with the podcast people like Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk would amplify them. And that was like the place to be, I guess, around November of 2024.
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Not so anymore. But here's Mark Carney, who's the new leader of the Liberal Party, from his speech. Let's play.
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I covered his full speech as well on the Midas Touch Network, and it was powerful indeed, Brett.
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Yeah, and thank you to the people of Canada for embracing our coverage of your country. Honestly, we're learning a lot. We're learning a lot from you. We read all your comments. We've been speaking to a lot of folks over there, and it's been really enlightening and really cool to see. My message to you all is elbows up. Let's keep this going.
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I want to talk about another important issue because the thing is that
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you hear statements like that from canada when you see greenland's response to what the united states is doing mexico's response panama's response you name it we're in we're in conflicts with everybody now it's just ridiculous uh you know it's obvious that the whole world does not want to be the united states of america despite the fact that donald trump says that it's incredibly ethnocentric it's not true countries actually appreciate their sovereignty sovereignty they like their national identity
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And we, meanwhile, in the United States are seeing just an incredible rollback of our rights. And even just today, we saw Civicus, an international organization, put the United States on their global watch list because our civil rights are declining at such a rapid rate under Donald Trump.
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I mean, when you hear these people talking about Doesn't it remind you, and no offense to, you know, ShamWow and OxyClean and all of those people who would sell those products. You may have found great success, but I won't bring it to those products. But don't they seem like those people, those guys from the 90s who would pop up at like 2 a.m. and start like selling you things?
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They specifically said it's as a result of Donald Trump becoming president and the actions he is taking that the United States is being added to this human rights watch list.
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it's stories like what we saw unfolded over the weekend that is why we are seeing um the the us being added to these human rights watch lists so i wanted to cover a story that i think is really important that we all follow and by the way this doesn't matter um whatever your views on the subject we should all agree as americans that this is absolutely 100 not okay so there is a pro-palestinian activist his name is mahmoud khalil
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He's a recent Columbia University graduate, and he was arrested by ICE over the weekend, March 8th of Saturday, at his university-owned apartment in New York. I want to be clear. He is a legal permanent resident who has a green card. He's married to a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant. He was a prominent leader in the Columbia protests, the pro-Palestinian protests that
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he was a negotiator in those protests he had a large role in those protests so donald trump recently signed an executive order saying that he was going to combat anti-semitism on campuses and he was going to arrest people who engage in anti-semitism on campuses so he is trying to make an example out of mahmoud khalil who by the way they didn't even apparently know
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his accurate immigration status when they started going after him. But that didn't matter to them. The ICE agents initially claimed that his student visa was revoked, but then they learned he had a green card, but then they decided it doesn't matter. We're going to arrest him anyway. The State Department's been bragging about it. Trump's been bragging about it on social media.
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Spinalist little Marco Rubio has been bragging about it. And there was a large period of time where people did not even know where Khalil was. People didn't know where did they take him. He was basically like disappeared by the United States government as if we were in Russia. Very scary stuff. No due process whatsoever.
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Just basically ripped him out of his apartment and hit him and then sent him to Louisiana. This is just horrific, horrific, horrific stuff that we're seeing in the United States of America. And I really don't care whatever your belief is on this topic. We do not just arrest people without due process in this country, disappear them, send them to Louisiana.
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You cannot just take this idea of anti-Semitism and try to put it on everybody that you want and then arrest people for it. It is just ridiculous. And the the messaging from the White House about this has just been so atrocious.
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And by the way, I even see people who consider themselves to be conservatives to be speaking out about this because it is so egregious and such a violation of the United States Constitution. Just absolutely sick. And these statements that are especially sick are ones like this coming from the official White House account. It says, Shalom Mahmoud.
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It disgusts me as a Jewish person that they're using the word Shalom in order to do their online taunting and bullying and deportations and this disgusting Nazi-style stuff that they are doing from the White House. But they go, Shalom Mahmoud, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a radical foreign pro-Hamas student on the campus of Columbia University.
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This is the first arrest of many to come. And they say, that's a quote from Donald Trump. They have a graphic that says arrested by ICE on March 9th. And then it says lead activities aligned to Hamas. There's no proof of any of this.
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And regardless, you're entitled to your due process in this country, not to just be picked off the street and arrested because of the color of your skin or because of your beliefs. They also shared a post from Donald Trump on his social media app. This is just one of the most heinous things that I've ever seen in this country.
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It is clearly designed to silence dissent and the precedent that it sets of a leader of the United States of America ripping somebody out of their home and arresting them because they're saying something you disagree with. to me is absolutely horrific. And so there was a lawsuit filed immediately after this, and Trump's trying to deport. He's a permanent legal US citizen.
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Trump's been trying to deport him. So for now, at least a US federal judge has stepped in and said, under no circumstances can the Trump administration deport Khalil. You need to let due process play out. You need to let the process in general play out, all the proceedings play out. And so that's where we are right now.
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There are already protests that have been popping up throughout the country, especially in New York, regarding this issue. But it's a frightening thing to see in America. Like I said, regardless of your beliefs on the specifics of the topics, a very frightening thing to watch happen in America, somebody ripped out of their home for saying something that the government disagrees with.
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You're going to be so rich, you're not going to want to know what to do. You're not going to know what to do. Speaking of which, then Donald Trump posed this. This is their priorities, right?
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That is not the United States of America.
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You know, and that's where they start. And then they encroach further on other people when they say the media is the enemy of the people, the enemy of the people. That's where they go next. And what's one of the things that Donald Trump, I think, is trying to do as well or would want to do.
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I think Trump wants to create conditions for martial law where he could also invoke things like an Insurrection Act that he could try to rule the way Putin does or Kim Jong-un does. I think the resistance is growing stronger. I really do. There have been so many people
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who have been speaking out or talking to me and expressing kind of their love of the Midas Touch Network or they've been asking me my views about what I think about the growth and you're beating Fox News and I put news in quotes. You're beating Rogan, you're beating all of these networks. Isn't that great? And I go, look, That's never why I sought out to do this with my brothers, number one.
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And number two, this is not a spike the football moment. I know that there are so many people out there who are now suffering
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Our programs here in the United States, getting rid of $880 billion in Medicaid, zeroing out key programs and calling it a continuing resolution, firing, what, 80,000 people who work at Veterans Affairs, 10,000 people who work at the Social Security Administration Office, shutting down key services. They do have priorities, though, and they're focused on Greenland. Greenland.
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under a trump economy i know so many people who are living paycheck to paycheck i know so many people who you know who don't know what's going to happen at any given period of time with trump are they going to be able to access health care what's going to happen to their medicaid what's going to happen to their social security so this is not
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for me and for this network a spike the football celebratory moment this is in the words of charlie angus and a number of others in canada this is a time though to go elbows up this is a time to go over the boards i mean this is a time you know where where we as reporters and leading this independent media network you know uh have to
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reflect dutifully on the responsibility the awesome responsibility that that you've all placed in us and entrusted us with and to make sure we're delivering on these things that's why i'm sure you've seen our coverage over the weekend we've been covering the protests that are taking place we've been talking about uh in specific detail a lot of the uh foreign policy issues what's going on in ukraine we did a whole video talking about um uh you know the
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The drone swarms and other missile strikes being carried out by Putin against Ukraine as Donald Trump and this regime has stopped sharing intelligence. We've talked about the pro-Ukrainian movement and protests and rallies happening here in the United States as well. Yeah.
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It's an awesome responsibility that you've entrusted us with, and it's vital to us to meet this moment as well for you each and every day. And as I said to a reporter recently asking about, well, what do you think it is that's appealing of your coverage in Canada? And I just said one of the most important things, I think we listen. We take that responsibility seriously.
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And it's important that we are continuing to build bridges and build trust and report day in and day out. That's what we do here. We chop wood in terms of putting out this content and build each day, day by day. And we're so grateful for all of you, the Midas Mighty. if you reflect on authoritarian regimes in the past, they were able to kind of take over all aspects of government.
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In Nazi Germany, they call it synchrosity or synchronization. There was a German word for that.
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you know and some historians put it within 30 days others put it within about 50 days of hitler taking over all aspects of government and in my view project 2025 is a version of synchronization of trying to have trump take over all aspects of the government suppress all dissent control the media and they were trying to accomplish that with what they refer to as shock and awe
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in a 30 to 50 day period. We're now approaching that day 50, and I think that the resistance is growing stronger. I see Trump and Musk growing weaker. Trump is fumbling, bumbling, not showing up at appearances. He's looking like a mess. He's using the small steps to go up Air Force One as well.
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um and and just seems more and more disinterested he thought the tariffs were going to make canada and mexico and europe bend the knee which they didn't he's seeing people stand up and trump's whole history in life is not the
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dealing with adversity responsibly it's actually running away from it which is why he bankrupted so many things why i liked former president biden's leadership is he did it silently without chaos but he made tough decisions and he stood up he was okay with adversity he was okay with problems he dealt with them he didn't avoid him the way trump does trump creates it then avoids it and now we're in that
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avoidance kind of runaway stage that we saw during COVID. runs away from it, makes things worse. And that's problematic for all of us, but I think the resistance grows and grows and grows now. And I think there's a reason why these Republicans are no longer doing the town halls and their playbook is so simple and so stupid. Oh, George Soros is sending the people, it's George Soros' fault.
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Donald Trump posts and Elon Musk amplifies. As I made clear during my joint address to Congress, the United States strongly supports the people of Greenland's right to determine their own future. We will continue to keep you safe as we have since World War II. We are ready to invest billions of dollars to create new jobs and make you rich.
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I mean, it's ridiculous. People are suffering because of Trump and Musk and the regime's actions. And people are pissed. It's why I like to see Senator Bernie Sanders speaking directly to people that way. And so we'll keep building this network with you. We'll be here with you every step of the way.
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And also, I'll give a shout out to my guy, Michael Popak, who started the Popak Law Firm. I'm so proud of him for taking that leap. It's thepopakfirm.com. And also he has 1-877-POPOC-AF, where he takes those really big, like, catastrophic injury cases. And so good for Popoc starting that as well. Thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors. And we'll keep making videos.
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We'll keep getting the news out. Keep checking it out. Keep checking back. Make sure you subscribe. Turn your notifications on. We'll get through this together. We're going to get through this together. Brett, anything else you want to say?
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Yeah, you know, I'll just say that we view this network as a two way street. You know, we never want to just feel like we're talking at you. We want to let you into what we're doing here and that you are. I want you to know that you're a central part to what we do here. And we read your comments. We read everything. So if you want us to have a certain guest on the show, feel free to pitch them.
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Right. If you want us to discuss certain topics, feel free to pitch them. We want to be your voice ultimately. And that's what we aim to do. And we want you to be a part of this process. And then I'll leave it on there. And then, you know, that's a good segue into me saying, thank you for watching. Thank you for listening.
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And if you so choose, we will welcome you to be part of the greatest nation anywhere in the world, the United States of America. And Elon Musk reposts that. The prime minister of Greenland responded, quote, The recent things that the American president has done mean that you don't want to get close to the U.S. as you might have wanted to in the past.
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We need to draw a line in the sand and spend more effort on those countries that actually show us respect for the future that we want to draw. Brett, you know, the the Elon Musk and Doge. Interesting that they're amplifying that we should get rid of all of our programs here that literally keep people alive. We should destroy the lives of veterans.
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But what we should do is invest billions into Greenland while the Greenland prime minister is saying, now you're attacking our sovereignty. That's a nice little roundup of what's going on in the Trump reality show that we are all non-consensual participants of.
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Well, I think we've been saying from the beginning that Donald Trump's whole framing of this MAGA movement as America first or making America great again is just complete and utter bullshit from the get go. It's all just a total scam in order to transfer wealth from the working people of this country to the wealthiest people of this country by wrapping itself in patriotism, by wrapping itself.
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in this faux christian behavior this this christian nationalism and they use those the iconography of religion they use the iconography of the united states in order to enrich themselves and basically sell the united states for parts i mean what we are seeing right now in this country is the textbook definition of a kakistocracy the rule by the dumbest people among us by the most incompetent people among us um but they're doing this intentionally and i think that's what we have to realize
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Everything right here is completely intentional. And when they're going after folks like Greenland, when they're attacking our allies in Canada, they're just stoking more resentment against the United States. They are further harming our economy. The last I saw in Greenland, something like more than 85% of the people want nothing to do with the United States whatsoever, period, end of story.
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All these countries are just incredibly offended. They are all rising up against us. While, by the way, Vladimir Putin and Russia and our adversaries are cozying up to us. It is complete upending of American values of the pro-democracy vision for our country. And it is just absolutely disgusting. And I want folks to realize that the economy is a very delicate, delicate thing.
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And maybe it takes Donald Trump doing everything that he's doing right now for people to really realize the influence that a president can have on the economy. But there is a reason why things like the Federal Reserve are independent of the presidency.
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There is a reason that they move things in such a slight way, these slight adjustments in interest rates, moving them down by a quarter of a percentage point at a time or up a quarter of a percentage point at a time.
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and there's a reason they do that in general it's to either slow the economy or to pump more money into the economy donald trump is not doing anything with any sort of strategy he is just recklessly slashing and burning programs firing people making these tariff threats throwing the entire world into chaos And all of that is going to have effects on the economy.
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It's all going to have effects on the stock market, your 401ks. It's going to have an effect on the price of goods you pay in the stores. And it goes against everything that he said during the campaign. And it aligns with what Elon Musk said right before the election happened, that Americans are going to have to feel pain.
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And you finally see right now the White House actually shifting to messaging. which basically boils down to, and this is really messed up for a United States president, an administration to be pushing, but basically their message right now is no pain, no gain. Although it seems like all we're going to have to feel is pain.
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You see Donald Trump, and we'll get through some of these clips, but Donald Trump is now pitching this, forget day one, folks. Forget everything's going to be better on day one. Prices are going to come down immediately so quickly. That's out the window. Donald Trump right now is pitching this as a 100 year plan. Yeah, that's not a I didn't misspeak 100 years. China thinks in 100 year periods.
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That's actually what need we need to be thinking about. And this could be our transition period. Well, okay, do you all want to wait 100 years for something that's never going to happen? No.
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these are the words of a huckster a scammer the comments that donald trump is making right now about the economy about the state of uh people's standard of living in the u.s saying you're going to be so rich you're not going to even believe how rich you are we're going to do these gold cards the tariffs are going to make us all millionaires these are the same scams that he has pulled his entire life whether it be with trump university or literally any of his other failed businesses or endeavors we're just seeing this now on an international scale and it is so incredibly dangerous
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Well, if you wonder, how did he bankrupt all of those businesses?
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It seems how you bankrupted like four or five businesses over time and then you had like eight to 10 other failed businesses. Like I get it, you know, most new business startups ultimately fail. But I mean, you kind of had limitless resources. You were born Donald Trump as a trust fund kid with a golden or platinum spoon in your mouth. So how did you keep on failing over and over again?
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Because he does things like this. he's a liar he's a con artist and then when things get really bad you know what he does he looks out for himself and screws everybody when it was in atlantic city he screwed over the contractors and all of the people who were in atlantic city but he took the money for himself and now he's doing that writ large with the American people.
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One of the strangest and also most dangerous clips I think you can possibly watch. I'll give everybody some good news for Donald Trump, though, because his buddy Jeff Bezos is putting Apprentice Seasons 1 through 7 on Amazon Prime. So Donald Trump did make a deal, not the deals that he promised. But as he was there on Air Force One, he said, it looks like we're going to land, everybody.
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I mean, look at the deal that he made. The deal he made was with, what, Jeff Bezos first to buy the documentary of his wife for $41 million. And then Donald Trump did a deal today where he sold seasons one through seven, the back catalog, so we can see how Donald Trump was basically defrauding the country by pretending to be something he wasn't back then. But then Bezos bought that. So
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that's what donald trump is spending his time doing donald trump made huge transaction fees by selling his scammy crypto coin while that crashed and then it seems to be that people in his orbit seem to know just when to buy the dip and then it basically uh crashes again but donald trump went back to mar-a-lago to vacation again this weekend or who was he hanging with
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Billionaire crypto bros, he was bragging about how much money he made off of his meme coin, not the people who put their life savings into the meme coin, because that meme coin is tanking. By the way, as NASDAQ, as the Dow, as the S&P are crashing, you know what's crashing as well? I thought Donald Trump was going to be the Bitcoin president. That ain't doing well either.
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bitcoin was crashing as well today he's literally the worst at everything that he does and he panics because he's a weak pathetic individual and then like a just course right just reverses things immediately because he then panics so let me ask you this if tariffs are the answer to everything and tariffs are so great right then why does he stop putting the tariffs on.
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If they were so great, why when the markets crash, why does he then stop it? Which actually makes things worse when he stops it. Canada still has their retaliatory tariffs on against America at this point because they're sick of being in this idiotic cycle and dangerous cycle of Trump threatening and not threatening. So they're like, you're going to take it off or you're not going to take it off.
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We're going to institute retaliatory tariffs until you say they are off forever. And why are you picking on one of your top allies, your biggest trading partner? That's who you're going to go after. And if you go after us, what message does that send to the rest of the world that you're attacking Canada? And by the way, do you see how Canada stood up to Donald Trump?
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You see how President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico stood up to Donald Trump. You see how easy they were able to outmaneuver him and make him look stupid because they're real leaders. And they know how to outmaneuver idiots like Donald Trump. I just think that they were surprised how easy it was to actually do. And now that they see how pathetic it is, they're like, oh, got it. Elbows up.
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We know how to deal with it in breadth. We'll talk later in the show about the continuing resolution that MAGA Republicans want to pass because they can't figure out their own budget. Remember they had the outline for a budget? Well, they can't. They had an outline that they voted on, but they can't actually vote on a real budget. So they're kicking everything until what?
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Next September is what they want to vote on tomorrow. But guess what's not in there? There's no no tax on tips. There's no no tax on Social Security. Nothing about no tax on overtime. All of every single one of these things was a lie, Brett.
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in fact they're trying to zero out a lot of programs in this continuing resolution not only take the existing budget and push it along but they're also trying to zero out things like uh funding for toxic burn pits for veterans in the pact act why do they always pick on that too it's like the most effed up thing on the planet that that's like the thing they're like i know what we could get rid of i know what people really don't need those 9 11 first responders f them
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The train wreck of the Trump presidency continues to trample over the United States of America. We saw Trump's cognitive issues on full display where he tried to outshine the Super Bowl. He tried to make it all about himself, but he couldn't even last at the Super Bowl through halftime. He had to leave and then resign.
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According to the White House, no one really knows what he's doing or when he's doing them, but that is going to cause major damage to our alliances abroad, and we should expect massive retaliation from our allies now, whether it's Canada or Mexico, Europe,
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Yeah, he says it, and then his team tries to figure out, okay, well, what do you want us to do? And then no one has the spine to actually stand up to him anymore and say no. So then they figure out a way to do it, and now he's imposed tariffs on the world, I guess. And while he does that, let me just explain to you what's happening in Canada right now.
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okay even before the tariffs now were just imposed even when trump paused the other tariffs and then said that there would be 30 days but then i mean this was what seven days later after saying there would be a 30-day pause you can't trust anything he lies he's just a liar everything's a lie There's no stability. You just have to assume the worst.
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He's disrespected the sovereignty of Canada, by the way, the rest of the world as well. But let me just explain to you what's happening in Canada. I think we're going to see this in the rest of the world. They are boycotting still all American products. They go to the supermarket. They do not buy American in addition to their retaliatory tariffs. This is organic.
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This is what Canadian people are doing. And unless they are forced to travel to the United States and have no choice, they are boycotting traveling to the United States. If you look at the Canadian-American border on the coming into America, at night I saw a photo and it was like completely empty. Canadians are not coming into America.
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australia which got exemptions during the first trump administration this will cause major rifts there our enemies like russia are just laughing the whole way one of the things that donald trump said during his interview with brett bear is that he does not want jd vance as his successor great work jd vance you played yourself
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Canada contributes about $22 billion to American tourism every single year. If Canada boycotts, which they're doing now, And it impacts the tourism from Canada to the U.S. by 10%, just 10%. That would cause America's tourism industry to take a $2 billion hit and force 144,000 Americans out of their jobs. Just a 10% boycott by Canada.
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I think the number is going to be closer to 50, between 50 and 100%. That's going to cause literally potentially millions of jobs and tens of billions of dollars just in tourism. Then you get to the goods when Canada's not buying America.
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Then the rest of the world is going to do that because let's be clear, America to the rest of the world right now under Trump is just a bigger version of North Korea. It's like we have our Kim Jong-un. They go, what the heck did you do? We're not messing with you. Like it's pure isolationism, not will it happen? It is, it happened. It's there.
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We are in, America is authoritarian and we are isolated. That's the state of it. And the question is, is the fight back, the fight back. And as I've said, until they rip this microphone from my hand, We're going to fight back. Me, my brothers, this network, and others every single day. Want to remind everybody to check out patreon.com slash MidasTouch, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash MidasTouch.
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Donald Trump amended his federal lawsuit against CBS, which was originally for $10 billion, saying that he didn't like how 60 Minutes displayed the interview with Vice President Trump. Kamala Harris during the campaign of 2024. Now Donald Trump says that he's been injured to the tune of $20 billion.
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I mean, that is kind of your profession, but yeah, that's what you do. And come on. Okay.
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One of the things that Donald Trump announced earlier today is that if all hostages in Gaza are not released by 12 p.m. on Saturday, the ceasefire should be canceled and then, quote, let all hell break loose.
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let all hell break loose and break the ceasefire you know normally it's pretty difficult thing to broker a ceasefire and these issues tend to be pretty delicate and scripted but it isn't it just obvious as we go through all of these data points that he's just craving international conflict and wars after isolating America from our allies.
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I'm just, in Trump's mind, I guess he thinks it's gonna be what? America and Benjamin Netanyahu versus everybody else in the world? Is that his kind of world perspective? What's his alliance? Who are the allies? Because it's not the European Union who are arming themselves against America, right? It's not Canada. He just tariffed Australia. So we don't really have any allies.
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And he's added MAGA Republican Congress member Ronnie Jackson as a co-plaintiff in this case, because Ronnie Jackson says that he was a consumer. who was injured under consumer protection laws. This as Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans gut the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau. So make that make sense, folks.
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Is North Korea going to be part of that crew? Is it going to be North Korea? Well, North Korea is allied with Russia. Russia is playing Donald Trump like a fiddle right now. Russia and China have formed alliances with Iran.
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against the united states of america and they've built out the bricks block in the process of the main the main countries there are brazil russia india china and uh south africa which donald trump has now imposed all of these sanctions on south africa and then trump's executive order um is to um make
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promote immigration of whites literally says the white south africans should come to america promoting immigration of white south africans while donald trump has revoked the tps temporary protected status of like his own supporters right like venezuelans in Miami, in Venezuelans, in Doral. They've lost their TPS status.
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Many of them were supporters of Trump and have family members who voted for Trump, who fled the Maduro regime. So Trump's had Rich Grinnell, one of his special envoys, negotiate directly with Maduro to send people back who are venezuelan who fled maduro back to venezuela i i'm just like what's the let me just let me just say that one more time because this isn't getting enough attention
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Who who are the allies and how does he anticipate doing, you know, doing this? And meanwhile, he's crippling the United States from within. Right. Gutting the CIA. Right.
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gutting the fbi i saw christy gnome the homeland security secretary she attacked her own fbi over the weekend and she blamed the fbi for leaking a memo about where the next ice raids are going to be in los angeles that are coming up and she's like the fbi is corrupt as hell I'm like, and she literally posted, the FBI is corrupt as hell. And I'm like, you're the government now.
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And she was also asked on one of the weekend shows about letting Elon Musk get access to everybody's information. And she's like, because the government can't be trusted. And Dana Bash doesn't do a lot of good interviews, but on this one, I thought she did good pushback. And she's like, but you're the government. What do you mean? And so now you're giving Elon Musk everybody's private information.
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And now if you watch what's being posted to on social media, whether it's by Trump or the main MAGA influencers and then reposted by Elon Musk, he's like, yeah, I've got your data. Yeah, I've got it. But I'm more trustworthy than the deep state fraudsters. Like, look at this. I mean, Ashley St. Clair, she's a major MAGA influencer. This is how they talk now.
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She goes, what the F do you think Elon Musk is going to do with your social security number? Tweet it, open a line of credit you don't have, and then Elon Musk responds, seriously, and for damn sure, I'm 100% more trustworthy than the untold numbers of state bureaucrats and fraudsters who may be misusing your social security number right now. Like, that's where we are?
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Also, a number of court orders were handed down, more injunctions against the Trump administration, more findings as well that the Trump administration has been violating other injunctions by still not funding things that Congress wanted them to fund, whether, you know, across all government agencies. We'll talk about that and more. It's the Midas Touch podcast. I'm joined by Brett and Jordy.
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excused himself pretty quickly he said it's a bigger and more important thing that he wanted to announce than the super bowl and then proceeded to talk about renaming the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america again he goes this should be declared the gulf of america day not even the
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Brett, you mentioned, you know, George Soros, Bill Gates. Could you imagine if they were doing this? Well, in literally the fake imaginary world created by the Russian propaganda and by Fox and the way they use George Soros and the term deep state and all of this,
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you that's what the you know 60 of americans have below a fifth grade education right and they get their news from rage algorithms and not from fact-based news sources right so a lot of americans believe that over the past four years that literally what elon musk is actually doing now that that's what George Soros and Bill Gates and all of these people already were doing with their information.
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Brett, Jordy, this train wreck continues right here. And he's just basically following what playbook you would do if you wanted to dismantle the United States and just cripple it. That's what they're doing.
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And now this is like retaliation for what had happened when that's not what happened at all because their rage algorithms were pushing these lies and conspiracies relentlessly over and over again. And now let me just share with you again how it's kind of, you know, like what happens when Donald Trump is asked, you know, so... Why not have Elon, he's apparently has everybody's data.
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So if he's in the government, shouldn't he do disclosures? Like, doesn't that make sense? Like watch Trump's response to this question.
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it's not public and when donald trump says all you have to do is read it it's just to make it make it available i mean why if elon to brett to your point about mark cuban if elon musk is going to run this then he should have to go in front of congress And Congress should get to ask him questions about what the hell he's doing with Americans' data. Like, it's a very simple thing.
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And Americans are not interested in transparency. America, I mean, what the Trump supporters, rather, aren't interested in transparency. What the Trump supporters are interested in is dictatorship. We should want transparency. The Trump supporters want dictatorship. Let me share this with you right here. This is, I could show you dozens of clips, but you'll get the point.
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This is the MAGA Republican Congress member, Pete Sessions, when he's asked about what Elon Musk is doing. I want you to listen. This is how MAGA is saying it. MAGA is saying, well, because the data wasn't handed over to Musk, Musk had to, listen to the language, break into it. He had to break into it. Here, play this clip.
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They broke into the databases? This is what they're saying. They broke into the databases. And again, if this is what we want, right? We live in a democracy. If this is what we want, if the American people want to
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torture people internationally and defund USAID, right, if that's what they want to do, or defund the NIH, defund critical medical research that helps stop cancers and pandemics and that leads to innovation. If America wants to shut down the CDC or the Department of Labor or
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get rid of the CIA, or if America wants to get rid of the Department of Education, like if these are things, there's a process for it, right? The process for it is Congress and the Senate
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they pass laws congress we have two chambers we have the house and the senate they've got to pass it they then have to reconcile their bill and then it gets voted on and then it gets signed into law by the president that's that's the process that exists in a democracy
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That's why I say America doesn't have a democracy anymore because the process apparently is Donald Trump has Elon Musk go into various agencies with this thing called Doge, whatever the hell it is, and they just do things. They shut down USAID. They shut down the Department of Education or they shut down the Department of Labor and they gut these agencies and then they go online and they –
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It's worse than McCarthyism. I don't even know what you get, Elonism or whatever you want to say it is. And they kind of slander people and they put it out there and they move on to the next one and they dismantle everything. And if this is what the American people want, then the Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency.
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So they can go and pass these things and then have it be signed and let the American have hearings on it. That's the way it works in our country. the way it's always worked until now. So then now it is not that. Now it is by fiat, by decree, by order, by whatever Elon Musk wakes up and wants to do. And that's not a democracy. That's the problem right now. It's a big problem.
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So the next question we have to ask is, well, what are the courts doing about it? That's what we'll analyze in the next segment. What's happening with the courts? Now you have Trump defying the court orders, including court orders from Trump appointed judges. So I want to talk about that. Talk about it after the break.
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We'll talk about what's going on in the courts.
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So you saw what we were doing there. First, we talked about what's going on and the disruption and havoc Trump's creating internationally, domestically, as Elon Musk goes into all of these government entities and like destroys them. Now, what's the fight back? Let's be clear. Democrats don't control the House. They don't control the Senate. They don't control the White House.
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That means Democrats don't have subpoena power. Democrats don't have the ability to set hearings. Democrats requested, for example, that Elon Musk be subpoenaed and Republicans cut off debate. I just want to let you know the process. So every time Democrats request it, because they do, Republicans say, we're not even going to let you debate it. Musk gets to do whatever he wants to do.
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So that brings us to the courts. federal judges, state court judges, and then what happens if they make rulings that are against Donald Trump, which most have been against Donald Trump, even from Trump-appointed judges and Reagan-appointed judges, because it's so egregious. It's so egregious what's going on.
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And so what do you do, though, when Trump says, even to a Trump-appointed judge, I'm not following your order? What's the step when the Department of Justice, FBI is gutted, DOJ is gutted or controlled by Trump when you don't have when you don't have people to enforce it anymore because the executive refuses to do its function? Well, let's talk about that.
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What I want to share with you, though, is, you know, one, since our last show, I think it's important just to talk about this, that Donald Trump amended his lawsuit against CBS. So the original lawsuit against CBS was for $10 billion, and now it's for $20 billion. So Trump just arbitrarily added another $10 billion in damages.
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And Trump says that he was damaged when 60 Minutes aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, where some of her ums and ahs. There was a moment where Vice President Kamala Harris
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like she was kind of like not completing the sentence and it wasn't like it was like a bad gaffe but objectively she just kind of got a little bit tongue-tied i guess and it was like literally 30 seconds when you watch it so as part of their editing on what they showed on one on one version versus another they just kind of made it a little bit cleaner which by the way it didn't just it wasn't like she said yes and then the answer was no it was literally just her
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I'm going out of my way to try to give you what the best argument that I, maybe I even shouldn't. I'm just trying to give you, if you accept everything.
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Yeah, so Trump was saying that injured him $20 billion. And that caused him, that what happened in the campaign, well, he was too afraid to do another debate. He was too afraid to do that interview. Somehow that injured him $20 billion. I mean, just a made up number. So then he has Ronny Jackson, join him in the lawsuit. Why Ronny Jackson?
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Because Ronny Jackson is the Congress member from the Amarillo area in Texas. The federal judge who's overseeing this case is a guy named Matthew Kaczmarek, who is a MAGA judge. MAGA always tries to get the case in front of him. So Donald Trump's having what's his name? Join the case.
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Ronnie Jackson joined the case to claim that a consumer has been injured and it needs to be protected under Texas's. It's not a defamation case. It's a consumer injury, but Donald Trump couldn't do it alone. So they found Ronnie Jackson to pretend that he was a consumer who was injured to bring the case with Donald Trump and the amended complaint to try to keep it before a MAGA judge.
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And again, if that doesn't reek of weakness and just utter patheticness, I don't know what else does. So while, by the way, they have completely gutted and again, shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which again, they don't have the right to do. If you want to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as I said, you know what you do?
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You pass a law because it was brought into existence. A certain way. So if you want to say that the money that goes to it shouldn't go to it anymore, that's already appropriated for it, then pass a law banning it. And let's see what happens when MAGA Congress members and senators have to go and explain to their constituents why it is now that they are going to get screwed and why, for example.
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over why they're going to reverse uh reforms on overdraft fees and blocking medical debt from being listed on credit reports among other things that the consumer financial protection bureau was kind of focused on so explain that to your constituents say your medical debt gets to screw your credit again and by the way overdraft fees back on we're going to help the big banks that's what republicans are doing right now
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Also, it should be noted that U.S. aid employees have filed paperwork earlier saying that the administration is not complying with Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C. 's order to prevent the immediate dismantling of the agency. They say employees he ordered reinstated have not been and other actions that cut against his order. This was a Trump appointed judge.
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that said, hey, I'm just temporarily blocking Donald Trump's attempt to gut USAID. Some horrific stories of people who are literally now trapped internationally, who can't make it back, how the cuts are literally going to cause tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people to potentially die. So the judge said, hold off. Let me understand if this is legal.
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You know, one of the things is that actually some of these policies hurt red states even more than blue states. Yet we're seeing none of the red state attorney generals even fighting for their own state. I'll give you a case in point.
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And what all of these USAID employees are saying is that Trump's just disregarding your order, Trump-appointed judge. And Judge McConnell, a Rhode Island federal judge, had already made a ruling today saying that the Trump administration violated his prior order to block a funding freeze. And McConnell, this Rhode Island judge, ordered the administration to resume payments to
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for federal programs, including NIH funding. And when you go through the actual filing there, you'll see there's like multiple examples that they quote the Trump administration and Donald Trump saying, I'm defunding this. I'm not funding that. And Elon Musk's posts that indicate that they're not following the court's orders in any material respect. Also, we got the judge in Boston, Judge O'Toole.
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He's extending the deadline for federal workers to accept Trump administration's unlawful buyout order. We're getting the full order there, but that's been extended as well from the emergency relief that was that's been previously been given.
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And that's not to mention that you had the federal judges in New York and elsewhere as well, block Elon Musk's access to the treasury department and Elon Musk's team. And then what do we see happening? Elon Musk, Donald Trump, JD Vance, relentlessly attacking the federal judges. This federal judge, all federal judges, this is unlawful, this is deep state. And then they make this is fraud.
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These people are criminal. And again, the idea that someone like an Elon Musk would be emboldened to call a federal judge a fraud and a criminal and say all of these things. This is the lawlessness that exists right now in the Trump administration. Speaking of which, Fox News reported as well.
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that the Justice Department dropped the case against Mayor Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, where there was all of this evidence about how Mayor Adams engaged in all of these deals and took bribes from Turkey and all these other places. I mean, he had detailed messages. And so any type of foreign corruption type of case,
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Donald, you know, with high profile people, as long as they kiss Trump's ring, he's pardoning them and basically saying, we're all open for business. You know, you just got to tow the MAGA line. And then you have Mayor Adams out there basically speaking as a MAGA person in New York right now. So those are mostly your court updates right there.
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You have Donald Trump and his regime, we should call it, cutting off all of this funding for the NIH, which gives critical grant money to American research universities. So you take a state like Alabama, where the University of Alabama is the biggest employer in the state, right? That NIH discontinuation of funds or stopping the funds that were appropriated to it.
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And by the way, MAGA was utterly triggered by the halftime performance, which featured Kendrick Lamar and Samuel L. Jackson as Uncle Sam. Meanwhile, Donald Trump gave a disastrous interview over in Mar-a-Lago with Brett Baer, where again, he talked about conquering Gaza and conquering Canada, conquering all of these countries. It was just a complete and utter mess.
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The University of Alabama gets a ton of its funding from the NIH to do its research and thereby employ people in Alabama. But now we're seeing the blue state AGs, because it impacts the blue states, fighting for things that ultimately still reciprocally help the red state AG.
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Well, I mean, I'll leave people with a few things. First, let me leave you with just this image so you can see what's going on at Mar-a-Lago and how disconnected they are from everybody. So at Mar-a-Lago, they've got this bizarre golden-hoofed goat idol on display. The idol is wrapped in Trump $100 bills that say, in Trump we trust, replacing God with Trump.
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The idol's base says, quote, I love you, along with Trump's signature on it.
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there and it's like this is what they're doing this is what they're focused on this is the type of symbolism that they're projecting at mar-a-lago so i'll show you that data point another data point i'm going to show you is just look at some of the headlines today from our broken media right cnn this was a push alert that i got they thought this was so important that this was a push alert
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analysis, the method behind Trump's tariff madness. And they tried to say, look, he's this is part of like being a good negotiator. And by the way, whether you open this or not, if you get that, you think, OK, there must be some method to it. Like they're like they're this is one of the most destructive things that's like literally destroying our country. Objectively, you speak to economists.
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This is going to cause a depression. And that's what CNN, right? How about you say, how about your push alert be Trump's reckless tariffs will cause a depression. That would be, that's an accurate push alert. But how about this one from the Daily Beast? So, you know, look, sometimes you think, all right, the Daily Beast, they've got, maybe they got a good writer. Are they writing good stuff?
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The Daily Beast then does this. The real MVP of the Super Bowl was President Donald J. Trump. It says the Eagles won the Super Bowl, but historic Trump, whatever. This is a great day for Donald Trump at the Super Bowl. And it's like, what are you talking about? Did you watch what at the Super Bowl? This freaking maniac talked about conquering Canada, conquering Gaza.
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He threatened tariffs, which he then imposed. What are you doing? What are you doing? I mean, seriously, who puts that out there? And it's, you know, look, and I'm showing you those sources because that's CNN and Daily Beast. I mean, Fox is pumping out propaganda every day, you know, in that state regime media. But like, that's Daily Beast. That's CNN. So it's broken. It's broken. So we're here.
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So the red state AGs don't even go out and fight for it because they're so spineless, even though their state and their workers are going to be screwed the most. And, you know, we saw a
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um a democratic ag who we've had on the show before for example jeff jackson who used to be a congress member in north carolina he successfully prosecuted a lawsuit democrat to stop this uh donald trump attempt to cut off nih funding and we've seen these democratic ags across the country doing that while republican ags have done Absolutely nothing there.
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Let's just take a look at, you know, look, as Donald Trump tries to distract, what are the things that Donald Trump has been talking about? What are the shiny objects that he wants to basically declare as wins?
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executive order where he talked about we're bringing plastic straws back an executive order saying that he's destroying the penny and getting rid of the penny you know executive orders like that that that don't have any impact at all on on people's lives then he holds it up look what i did isn't this what you wanted the gulf of america we've made google change the name and meanwhile prices are still going up
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more than ever gas prices are going up up up up housing is not more affordable and we are so much weaker abroad let's go through everything that's uh going on here and again donald trump ran on no more you know no wars even though Former President Biden actually was the one who removed American troops from Afghanistan and kept America out of wars through our alliances.
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But basically, Donald Trump has threatened wars with basically every one of our allies. I mean, is there a country that Donald Trump has not threatened a military conflict with? I just want you to think about that, right?
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I mean, Canada, Mexico, the European Union through the territorial attacks on Greenland, Donald Trump, again, you know, threatening also to take over Gaza, Donald Trump threatening all these things. And let's just go through a little bit of these lowlights of this interview with Bret Baier. Some of these clips are now being released, of course.
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So the first thing I just want to show you, though, is like someone like J.D. Vance, who has sacrificed his dignity, I suppose. He sacrificed his dignity and any form of self-respect to the extent he had any before to be the VP. As I've always said, what's the point of being in a position of power if you're actually powerless? And so here, Donald Trump just showing how neutered J.D.
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Vance is when he's asked, do you view J.D. Vance as your successor? Here, play this clip.
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Yeah. I mean, he said he said no. I mean, that's your the purpose of picking your VP in many ways is to try to pick your successor. But that's how selfish he is. And you should also listen to what he's saying there as well, because if you add that to the other statements that Donald Trump made, like, let's be clear, Donald Trump is not going to pass the power. Right. Donald Trump isn't.
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And also now at Mar-a-Lago, they have displayed a golden hoofed goat idol wrapped with fake $100 bills that feature Donald Trump's face on it. And instead of saying, in God we trust, the fake dollar bills say, in Trump we trust. Nothing says fighting for the working class people like golden hoofed goat idols with your name, image, and likeness on fake $100 bills wrapped around it.
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Donald Trump is going to try to stay a dictator. I don't think he's contemplating by saying no there, even anybody in his family. I mean, I think in his mind, you know, I don't think it's so much as a Freudian slip as him just saying who he is. I think he views that he's going to have no successor. and that he's going to serve for life. That's what I think he implies there or means there.
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Then he's asked here, would the Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza? Because you keep on talking about occupying it permanently, treating it like a real estate deal. So do the Palestinians get to go back to their land? Here, play this clip.
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do we realize how demented and deranged that statement is first off egypt and jordan are not doing a deal that they agree to ethnically cleanse palestine okay like the man is psychotic like that is not they've said that if that were to happen that would be an immediate declaration of war
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And if Jordan and Egypt entered into a deal like that, the revolutions that they would have at home would lead to their leaders being executed in public squares, probably within 24 hours of them cutting a deal like that. And you notice the language that Donald Trump said, aye. Would own it. He goes, I would own it and I would treat it like a real estate deal.
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I mean, again, if I'm not going to go and say, oh, what could you imagine if Biden? There's just no one who talks like that. He he talks like idiotic Putin, as I've said before. Putin makes these threats and then follows up with the military invasion thereafter, which is why you need NATO to check and counter it, right? Trump makes these threats, attacks sovereignty, and then goes,
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Plastic straws. I got you plastic. Gulf of America. Fentanyl czar along the border. Isn't this what we wanted? I'm going to pass it over to you, Brett and Jordy. I just want to show you one more clip and then get your reaction. Here's the video footage of Trump announcing the 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum coming into the U.S. blanket.
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Any country, anywhere, he just tariffed the world, and he did it heading to the Super Bowl in front of a stupid map that says Gulf of America. Like, the scene here is idiotic, but it's going to cause massive, catastrophic damage to our economy and our allies' economies. Here, play this clip.
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Apparently, Donald Trump has now made good on the other threats that he made during the super bowl to bring attention to himself where kind of once again out of nowhere he announced a new series of tariffs on essentially every country everywhere on steel and aluminum with no exemptions to take place effective immediately so he has now imposed these 25 tariffs
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Donald Trump made a number of stunning admissions in his disastrous interview with Bret Baier of Fox. A lot of these admissions are just airing now. Like Donald Trump says he does not want his vice president, J.D. Vance, to be his successor. Here, play this clip.
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I guess this one shouldn't be all that stunning, but hearing him speak about ethnic cleansing in this way is so utterly disturbing. Donald Trump is asked by Brett Baier, well, because you keep saying, Donald, that you want to just get rid of all Palestinians, level Gaza, and then move the people to other countries, are they ever going to have the right to return to Gaza?
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Listen to what Donald Trump says. Let's play.
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Now, statement after statement, this maniac says to me is more horrific, dangerous and demented than the next. Let's not forget about this statement that he made last night about Egypt. Elon Musk, and why does Elon's financial disclosures remain secret? Why is this a big secret? Here, play this clip.
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All you have to do is read it. Perhaps the reporter should have also asked why your financial disclosures, Donald, remain secret. Where are your tax returns? Let's take a look at your crypto wallet. Let's take a look at all of your conflicts of interest.
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I know the Republican Party, now full-blown MAGA, is spineless and they're okay with dictatorships that destroy the lives of we the people and crush and cripple working class people. But Perhaps we ask that question. So Donald Trump is asked though here about Pentagon spending.
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So if you're trying to have Doge cut all of these things, what about space and all of the stuff that Tesla and SpaceX and Space Force, what about all of that since you're taking away fundamental programs that keep people alive? Is going to space more important than the lives of people you're currently killing? Play the clip.
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Now, folks, it's stunning admission after stunning admission, and the MAGA Republicans on Capitol Hill are echoing what Donald Trump is saying. They can't even, they're not even trying to defend it. They're just spineless parrots at this point. No offense to parrots. I mean, here, for example, is MAGA Republican Representative Pete Sessions on Doge accessing Americans' private information.
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And Pete Sessions just explains, matter of factly, yes, Elon Musk's team broke into, so to speak, the government databases because it wasn't being what unlawfully handed over to them. So they broke into it. Listen to the words that you're saying, MAGA, as Elon Musk and his team of 19 and 22 year olds who refer to themselves as Mr. Big Balls. are taking the data of we, the people.
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Listen to this here, play this clip.
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This is what we've been seeing all morning, folks. And I'll do a whole other video on this. But here is the National Economic Council director, Kevin Hassett, one of the top Trump economic people. Here he is on CNBC, again, talking about conquering Canada and how Canada needs to be the 51st
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it's a pretty clear no there by donald trump i'll show you another major admission he made as well that's airing now before showing you that i want to show you the new decor at mar-a-lago where that interview was taking place at mar-a-lago there is now a bizarre golden hoofed goat idol On display, the idol is wrapped in Trump $100 bills that say, in Trump we trust, replacing God with Trump.
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I think he's telling you that they are serious. Well, all of this is going on. Folks, you've got the right-wing echo chamber all on X, which is formerly Twitter, saying things like this. What the F, they use the curse word, do you think Elon Musk is going to do with your social security number?
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Tweet it, open a line of credit that you don't have, to which Elon Musk responds, seriously, cry face emoji. And for damn sure, I'm 1000% more trustworthy than untold numbers of deep state bureaucrats and fraudsters who may be misusing your social security number right now. So folks, This is where we are in the United States of America.
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And I understand why our international viewers are looking at this in utter horror, where an oligarch who's not in the government is out there making posts and saying, what's the worst I can do with your social security information or medical information or private information? Don't you trust me, everybody? Don't you trust me?
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While that's going on, our right-wing propaganda state regime media, also known as Fox, is out there with its hosts pushing their right-wing propaganda. And here what they say is, look, we in media, we should just be reposting whatever Trump tells us to repost. His communications team gives us the info. Let's just repost it. This is what they're saying on Fox. Let's play it.
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And here's the segment Fox ran earlier in the day about the big moves that Donald Trump has made that will impact your everyday life. Here, play this clip.
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All right. While this is going on, folks, the federal judge, or multiple federal judges, continue to rule against Donald Trump. One federal judge, for example, just extended the deadline for federal workers to accept Trump administration's unlawful buyout order. Let me leave you with this, okay? You showed you Trump in the beginning.
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Here's the new chair of the DNC, Ken Martin, talking about his perspective on where we're at now. Play the clip.
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The idol's base says, I love you, along with Trump's signature. This is the main statute right now. in Mar-a-Lago. You see it right there. Nothing says like, I work with the working class people and I care about working class issues and I'm here to lower prices than having whatever the heck that is. Back to the stunning admissions from Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump was golfing once again this weekend after crashing the markets on Friday. Donald Trump announcing that he won yet another golf tournament, and that was blasted on state regime media known as Fox. Today, by the way, as Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C., the market now resembles a Trump meme coin. Down, up, down, up. It does not look like a stable market.
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well jordy going back to what brett said i would say that this whatever it is it's textbook authoritarian mindset which is by the way i mean vladimir putin goes and sits on horses with his shirt off and he tries to act like he's so strong and he says that he wins these jujitsu competitions right kim jong-un is photographed a certain way this is part of the authoritarian playbook and part of the authoritarian playbook is
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Today, we were getting 30,000, 35,000 viewers at some point in times while we were watching that as they focused on Donald Trump's attack of lawyers and the Department of Justice. And speaking of the law, I want to talk about this horrible Supreme Court ruling.
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You make people suffer. You think Putin cares about how people in Russia are doing? No. You think Kim Jong-un cares about how people in North Korea are doing? No. Authoritarians don't care how their people are doing. In fact, authoritarians actually want their populations to suffer and do worse so that their populations go extinct. and beg, beg for breadcrumbs.
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And they are the ones as the authoritarians who hand out the breadcrumbs. They view economic independence and actually, you know, Donald Trump is all projection and confession. Trump views economic independence as liberation. Trump's liberation day is liberation of an authoritarian ethos. and actually crushing the freedom of Americans.
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And that's why I think he uses that term as well, because now people have to go and beg for exemptions. I need your help. Countries have to, in his mind, beg him for exemption. So now he becomes, in his own mind, the most important person who gets to basically say, I give you this exemption.
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i give you you go bankrupt you go bankrupt he likes to see that he's crashing international markets that that gives him joy to feel that he has that power and people have to go and beg and beg and beg the thing is is that the international community is forming their own alliances now in the short term they're trying to stop the bleeding in the long term they're viewing america as no longer a reliable ally and that they have to create new structures to isolate the united states i mean europe announced that it was going to have its own
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reciprocal tariffs i mean canada's preparing you know its tariffs china announced its own retaliation to which then donald trump said well and if you do that i'm gonna do this which basically would mean what 105 tariffs on china you take a look at what apple is doing um after trump announced that is apple gonna build the factory in indiana know where they're gonna go they're gonna go to india
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Why? Because it's still cheaper to do business there versus Indiana. I saw an analysis that was done by, I believe, Fortune magazine, and I saw others do this analysis as well.
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If you had to move the entire supply chain for an iPhone just here into the United States, all parts like the Trump regime wants, it would cost $30,000 for a single iPhone if you had to make everything here in the United States. And so corporations are not gonna follow what Trump is actually saying. It still doesn't make any sense at all. And the rollout here is so sloppy and embarrassing.
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from earlier in the day about the kidnapping of a migrant from El Salvador who the Trump regime sent back to El Salvador against the order of a court, an immigration court from 2019. The Supreme Court stopped a lower court order which directed the Trump regime to bring back this individual. So Trump now has more time to delay as this individual rots in a El Salvador concentration camp
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I wanna talk about that and more. We gotta take our first quick break of the show. I wanna remind everybody very soon we're going to be doing probably in the next, I think we'll do it next week. We're gonna hold our April Zoom meeting with our members here on our Patreon, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash Midas Touch.
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We're going to take our first quick break of the show. We've got a lot more. to cover. And also the Midas Touch was, I think, the only network to get our hands on the Obama speech and appearance that he did at Hamilton College. And that's gone very viral based on what he said. So we'll show you that and more. Let's take our first quick break of the show.
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And the implications here are just broader than that individual as well. If Trump can do that to this individual, who else can he do that to? We'll talk about that and more here on the Midas Touch podcast. I've been joined by Brett and Jordy Brothers. How are you doing?
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You know, the stock market today resembled like the Trump meme coin, the way it looked, right? It would go... all the way down then it would go up then it would go all the way down then it would go up and these are swings that are not reflective of a stable market these are the swings that are reflective of the whims of a maniac I want to go back to what I was saying, though, before the break.
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That's right out of the authoritarian playbook. The Trump regime, specifically Trump, wants everything to be at his whim. I say this, the market rises. I say this, the market crashes.
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that creates ultimately though in the long run the perfect recipe for the worst case scenario when it comes to the economy we're not reliable we're not a stable place to do business and it's just a matter of time though before the international community is able to build these structures and trust me they're building it right now that basically isolate and alienate the united states economy for generations i mean
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We're seeing the boycott, of course, elbows up from Canada, tourism boycott that exceeding all projections. By the way, all these economists and all of these, not just economists, really the kind of corporate projectors, they've been wrong about like everything. Oh, we think it's not going to be that bad. We think I'm like, look. What are you talking about? It's clearly going to be that bad.
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I think in some areas it's like 75% to 80% boycotts of certain types of leisure travel and tourism. I still think some of these projections are in denial. I think it's going to be 10%, 20%. Then y'all aren't following what's happening, Ken. Also, a boycott of goods. Also, we're seeing the boycott expand.
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also internationally in Europe and Australia and New Zealand, Africa and other places as well, Asia, because they're seeing the way America is treating them. I want to share with you what's going on, though, from the Trump propagandists while all of this is taking place. So Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who was previously living in a $22 million replica of
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Barbie's mansion or whatever you call it, Malibu Barbie mansion or whatever they're calling it, like a pink $22 million mansion in Charleston, South Carolina. And this guy's like the most arrogant guy in the world. So he's asked, what's your message to the American people who are suffering right now? And let me just show you what he says. Let's play this clip.
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Really? you think americans don't look at the day-to-day fluctuations and what's happening and that americans have enough in their savings to not care about these market crashes That's what the Trump regime is messaging. It doesn't matter. You need to face pain and suffering and hardship. That's what they're saying. Take a look at Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
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He or she is asked, I think, a very fair question. Why would you tariff penguins? Why are you tariffing American military bases? Don't you see that this looks sloppy? And dangerous. Take a listen to what she says in response. Let's play it.
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Usually the smartest people don't go out and say, I'm the smartest person. I'm the most patriotic and stable person. That's usually not the way smart people conduct themselves. And then just the premise is a lie. We're living a tariff regime under other people. Not really. I mean, y'all are calculating everything.
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tariffs based on trade deficits and based on some cockamamie formula that's also applied wrong based on trade deficits with country and as people said who cares if there's a trade deficit with with vietnam we're buying more of course we're going to be buying more cheaper products from a country like vietnam than they're going to be buying from the united states
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What are we even talking about here? Why is that? And why are we using that delta as part of some methodology to calculate that they're tariffing this amount? And then you see like they spike the football and they're like, we got Cambodia to break. Cambodia says that they're like, wait,
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Trump was in the Oval Office today with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. So while the market is having these kind of massive fluctuations throughout the day after a Thursday-Friday crash, after international markets crashed, This was now the day to highlight Donald Trump's deranged and demented international policies, if you even want to call it that.
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This is where he calls Gaza an incredible piece of real estate, wants to get rid of all the Palestinian people from Palestine, send them to these other countries, which didn't Donald Trump also say that that was going to happen already? Didn't Donald Trump also say that he had figured out all these other countries wanted that to happen? Of course, he Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Many CEOs are saying that the country is already in a recession. Donald Trump's message, he's not going to change anything. He doesn't give an F. Also, throughout the country, as Trump was posting these photos of himself playing golf and also making posts saying Trump is intentionally crashing the markets. We also learned tragic news. Storms across the country killed 18 Americans.
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It was probably one of the biggest mass mobilizations, if not the biggest, in the history of the United States. I think in the total, I've been speaking with the organizers, about 5 million people in the different cities and towns showed up. And by the way, red areas, blue areas, purple areas, people showed up.
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and when he goes through with it that will really show that the america of the past is gone dead not here anymore and it's going to be up to us to revive it i went to law school in washington dc they didn't really even have the infrastructure for a snow plows so you think you're going to put a tank and roll a tank through the streets of washington dc going back to what you were saying also about uh you know elon musk and you know these oligarchs
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Matt, what's one of the biggest issues right now confronting the American people? Housing, right? The affordability of housing. People are working jobs and they can't afford a house. They could barely even afford to rent when they're working full-time jobs. They have to work multiple jobs just to be able to rent and they live paycheck to paycheck. So if something happens, they get evicted.
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But the fact that it got minimal attention from corporate news tells you everything that you need to know there. I mean, in normal times where there wasn't an authoritarian who made corporate news bend the knee and kiss the ring. This should be a front page story, but good news, we're covering it here every step of the way on the Midas Touch Network.
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And when that happens, that's like psychological torture. to people, and we have to recognize that. So imagine if Elon, with all he built, imagine if the focus was on like Tesla homes, or we're going to build millions of homes in all of these areas, and rather than the news story every day,
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being veterans being fired or Medicaid being cut or Social Security Administration offices being shut down, you know, or, you know, national park rangers losing their jobs or whatever the next disaster is where you wake up and you get this.
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imagine if it was we figured out a way to build homes for fifty thousand dollars and we're building you know billions of dollars of investment to make sure all americans can afford their homes this is a housing boom like imagine channeling it for that but No, why don't they do that? Remember what I said before, the authoritarian playbook here is to make people suffer.
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Suffering is not just like whatever, it is the actual goal. It's not the quirk. It is the end. It is the desire because that's where authoritarians feast in that moment. But Musk, though, and these other billionaires, though, who are now finding their net worth gutted. And Michael Cohen was someone who basically said this at the outset, too. I mean, he knows Trump better than anybody.
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So, you know, you know. He gives some good insights. He's like, you realize that Trump's gonna go for the billionaires first. So what did Trump do? Does a lot of shakedowns with the billionaires, right? You better settle your lawsuit for $50 million, $100 million, $20 million. He goes after the law firms,
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and then also what he's doing he doesn't care that the that the billionaires are losing their network trump doesn't care that he's gutting wall street trump hates wall street trump always viewed wall street as people who look down on him trump likes that he's making wall street suffer he doesn't care that it's affecting your pensions and your 401ks and life savings and the way donald trump and his regime are willing to just kidnap people and send them to concentration camps there's no connection to humanity here
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It's just the aggrandization of Donald Trump as an authoritarian. That's where all these moves lead in Geordie, whether it's, you know, demented, whether it's, you know, malignant narcissism, whether it's, you know, whatever, you know, you know, you can say, well, the way he's talking, he looks unwell. I don't at the end of the day, these are the staples of an authoritarian.
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I do want to show you this, though, because former President Obama spoke at Hamilton College, the Midas Touch University.
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exclusively got the footage of what went down at hamilton college at this speech we have the full speech the key kind of portions where he's kind of comparing what's going on now and contrasting it to normal times in america but he spoke at hamilton college i think it was a powerful reminder of what once was and what the issues are let me just show you a quick clip of former president obama at hamilton college where he's like
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Could you imagine if I did any of this, any of it, what would happen? Here, play this clip.
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And the contrast between that image of people rising up as Donald Trump was golfing in a tournament at his own resort that was funded by the Saudis, Donald Trump doing business deals with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to enrich himself and his family. while the American people are suffering, right? Thursday, Friday saw what, like $10 trillion of market value just erased from the stock market.
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We have that full speech on our YouTube channel. It's close to 2 million views as of this live recording. And I just think that's going to keep on growing. And Brett, when he asks and Geordie and Midas mighty, who are we? You know, are we a nation that without due process, it naps human beings and
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without due process, and sends them to concentration camps in El Salvador, then the Trump regime, at least with this guy, Abrego Garcia from Maryland, admits in a court filing that it was an error, that it was a mistake, and says, oopsies, in the court filing, there's nothing we can do, even though we said the Trump regime has a contract.
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With Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador, we're not going to do anything to get this individual back because we're just going to say that this individual is MS-13 and just trust us, bro. Just trust us. Individual never... Confused of a crime, never convicted of a crime. Just trust us, bro. We're going to say that and we're going to have him rot.
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We're not going to pick up the phone and call up Naebu Kelly and say, we got it wrong. Hey, can you return that guy? Can you return like the gay barber hairdresser who's not a gang member? 75% of the people, no criminal record. They may have had tattoos. mom-dad tattoos, Real Madrid tattoos.
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And because of that, these individuals who voluntarily showed up to ICE, voluntarily, they were here lawfully as asylum seekers, they show up voluntarily, not hiding, they showed up. And then they get sent to concentration camps. a concentration camp in El Salvador. This case about Abrego Garcia, he's the individual from Maryland, working in Maryland, again, no crimes.
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A Trump immigration judge in 2019 Made an order. 2019, Trump was at office. The order was, this guy cannot go back to El Salvador. He'll get killed if he goes there. He was under a protection decree, a protected status decree. He had to check in with ICE. He checked in regularly. He was working.
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There was someone who made an accusation that he was a gang member back in 2019, but no one ever proved it. There's no evidence that he was. Someone made an accusation, but he was someone who the Trump immigration judge says, he can be here. Just have him show up. Trump regime sends him where? The exact place that it says he will get killed if he goes to, to El Salvador. They send him there.
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And that means people's 401ks and pensions were destroyed. We're seeing companies laying off people, the chaos created in the business community. I mean, you have people even like the CEO and founder of Home Depot, Ken Langone, you know, like longtime Republican donor saying this is like the stupidest thing you could possibly ever do.
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And then they say, oopsies in a court filing. A district court judge in Maryland, Judge Zennis, federal judge, says, Donald Trump, you have until April 7th, midnight, find him. Call Nayib Bukele. You said you have a contract with Bukele for $6 million or whatever, $8 million to take migrants. Call him and bring them back. Bring these people back. What are you doing?
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Trump regime said, nope, not doing it. Go deal with Bukele. We ain't doing it at all. Trump regime appeals the district court ruling to the Fourth Circuit. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier today denied the Trump administration's effort to resist an order to return Abrego Garcia by midnight tonight. Let me just read for you what the ruling says.
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The panel unanimously agrees that the district court's order requiring the government to facilitate and effectuate the return of Abrego Garcia by no later than 11.59 p.m. should not be stayed, meaning he should return. The government's motion to stay is therefore denied. I write to explain my view.
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The United States government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The government's contention otherwise and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.
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And then another judge on that panel, Judge Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, said the Trump administration's position on Abrego Garcia amounts to a path of perfect lawlessness. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole, namely that the government could whisk an individual out
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to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer under their custody and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, is what the court says. Perfect lawlessness. lawlessness.
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And by the way, in that ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, they also scolded the Justice Department. Kyle Chaney did great reporting here from Politico, scolding the Justice Department for penalizing the lawyer from the DOJ who argued the case, quote,
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the duty of zealous representation is tempered by the duty of candor to the court and the duty to uphold the rule of law so the doj lawyer who went before judge zenas admitted the facts that this was a mistake, that this person shouldn't have been sent to El Salvador because there was a duty to be honest with the judge and not suborn perjury before a federal judge.
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So then the Trump administration then put that lawyer on administrative leave and basically took an adverse employment action because that lawyer told the truth to the district court judge. So they retaliated against the lawyer for being honest. That part hasn't gotten reported a lot.
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Also, what hadn't been reported a lot, and I give Kyle Cheney credit again for pointing this one out, the United States frequently, based on extradition treaties, brings in MS-13 gang members into the United States. who are abroad, like here's a release from March 5th, which talks about an MS-13 member who is in Guatemala.
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I mean, literally word for word, this is the dumbest thing imaginable. And then Donald Trump just making posts over the weekend, like just toying with the people, like just cruelly toying with the people. I mean, he posted a video that said Trump is intentionally crashing the markets. He posted a video that said that.
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And on March 5th, this same Justice Department reached out to the government there, brought
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the ms-13 member into the united states to try that ms-13 gang member in the united states prison systems and put that person in the united states so someone who was ms-13 you bring him into the united states someone who's not ms-13 or just a baseless accusation you send that person to the concentration camp in el salvador now Let's talk about what the Supreme Court did.
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The Supreme Court then today indefinitely blocked the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal order requiring Abrego Garcia to return. So the Supreme Court, through Chief Justice John Roberts, put a stop to those orders that I just read you before, which said return Abrego Garcia.
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Now, the Supreme Court ordered that there be, you know, pretty urgent briefing, that the briefing be filed by tomorrow at 5 p.m., or if you're listening to this on Tuesday, that it be filed on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Eastern. But the court stopped the actions that said Trump regime return Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
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We'll see ultimately what the Supreme Court rules, but Brett, Jordy, to your point and going back to even what that Reagan-appointed judge says, this is a – it's not a slippery slope to authoritarianism. It is authoritarianism. It is here right now and the totality of everything we told you, Occam's razor, the simple explanation is authoritarianism.
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that this is an authoritarian regime it's not a constitutional crisis we're beyond the constitutional crisis right it is authoritarianism and now it is an authoritarian regime also kakistocracy idiocracy that also looks more bizarre than frankly north korea but authoritarian regime meets the people power right it meets the resistance it meets
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the opposition it meets people taking to the streets five million people corporate media is afraid to report on it we're reporting on it here on the midas touch network we're talking about the hearings that need to be held these shadow hearings being held by people like senator schiff and democratic congress member jamie raskin pointing out what the trump's done with the doj the mega republicans in the house of representatives and senate they've given up all of their co-equal branch authority to donald trump
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and this authoritarian system so no one's covering those hearings we're covering those hearings here and now we're dealing with what we've seen and what's going on right now like in belgrade right in budapest in tbilisi you know, against the Putin regime. We're seeing that against the Trump regime here.
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These protests are going to grow and grow and grow, and we're going to make sure we cover them every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network and use our platform as we did on our sub stack, MidasPlus.com, on our YouTube channel, on all of our socials to make sure we cover these protests from all angles.
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Brett, I'm sorry, it was a long description of everything, but I had to get into the weeds there.
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And then he attributed to Warren Buffett, congratulations, that this is what Warren Buffett thought was brilliant. So Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, had to come out with a statement through Berkshire Hathaway saying he's not endorsing this phony video that says that he's endorsing Trump's plan to crash the markets. And I just wonder if on that for a moment as well.
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Absolutely. I want to remind everybody, check out MidasPlus.com. That's our sub stack where our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, who you know and love, goes and cooks. Got some great daily recaps there. If we've missed anything, it's always in Ron's recap. He also did a great article showing you his top protest posters that were out there. That was amazing. Uh, awesome.
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Um, patrion.com slash Midas touch P A T R E O N.com slash Midas touch, uh, where you get the secret zoom link. We're going to be posting, um, soon in the next day or so. And we're going to be hosting a meeting with Brett, Jordan. I, you could ask us any of the questions you have for us at this special, uh, Zoom meeting, check that out.
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store.midastouch.com um really want to thank everybody uh for staying in the fight um the resistance grows the opposition grows we keep on fighting for the truth every single day hang in there we're grateful for everything that you do um this movement is a people-powered movement this network is a people-powered network We're grateful for everything that you've done.
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The president of the United States, though it pains me to say that, from his official account is posting videos saying that he's intentionally crashing the market and you have still the entire Republican party like, okay, I guess We've got to give him space. Give him some time. Let him cook. I think this is going to be a good thing. I think this is exactly what he ran on.
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He said there were going to be lower prices on day one. Not that he was going to crash the entire economy. And as I've said before, and as Carl Quintanilla says, trying to cook a steak by burning down the entire house and destroying people's lives and saying, you know what, though? Gas is cheaper. You're all screwed, but maybe you could get a little bit of cheaper gas at the bottom.
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So Donald Trump heads back on Air Force One from his golf tournament where he brags about how great he played golf and that he won all of the tournaments and how he's got a great handicap, seriously. And he's asked questions on Air Force One. This Bloomberg reporter has been doing a great job, you know, I think asking the right questions here.
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Donald Trump calls the question stupid when she asks, what kind of pain tolerance? Do you think the American people are going to take? He calls her stupid. And then he says the American people need to take their medicine. I'm feeding them the medicine. You need to take the medicine. This is what sociopaths abusers sound like. Here, let's play this clip.
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The United States received four American soldiers who died in Lithuania. Donald Trump was not at that ceremony where you would normally see a president. Instead, Donald Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago and Palm Beach to die. And then today, Donald Trump was in the Oval Office with who else? Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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At some point, you're unwilling to tolerate this idea of a Trump put.
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America is the, was the richest nation in the world. America. Under former President Biden had the highest GDP growth. We had low unemployment. We had record job growth. We were energy independent.
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And as we'll show you later in this episode, now what these Trump regime officials like Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, and Brooke Rollins, the Agriculture Secretary, and Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, what they're saying is,
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What we want to do is, you know, like how in China they put together the iPhones, like we want to create those factories here so that Americans are putting all the screws and widgets together into the iPhones and that they think that Americans are miraculously going to start doing those jobs. At the same time, they're also saying that they want AI and robots.
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to replace low wage labor jobs as well nothing that they say makes sense and as we'll talk about later in the show as well the tariff formula for their liberation day which is really annihilation day or great recession or depression or liquidation day whatever you want to call it the very formula is is incorrect even a conservative think tanks are saying your formula which is also not based on reciprocal tariffs which is based on your calculating trade deficits
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as a form of a tariff, which makes no sense. But even if you applied this concept that a deficit is a tariff somehow, the formula is applied incorrectly. And it just goes to show everything they do is just incorrect and erroneous as well. But let's get back to what I was going down on Air Force One, where Donald Trump landing
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into dc after vacationing again on the taxpayer dime again as storms uh led to the death of about 18 americans in areas like tennessee and arkansas which trump said nothing about trump hasn't made any public statements on his own his own volition about the american soldiers who died in lithuania but here he is talking about how great of a golf game he has and uh how he's got such a great handicap with golf and you know i won the tournament here play this clip
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what in the kim jong-un is that right here and let me tell you let me answer what in the kim jong-un is that state regime media known as fox with people like jesse waters While the markets are crashing, while the futures were down enormous amounts, they were on Friday, over the weekend, what were they saying? They were saying, this is courage. He's staring the stock market in the face.
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And with Netanyahu by his side, Donald Trump was talking about seizing control of Gaza, putting American forces or peace forces in Gaza and calling it a great piece of real estate. But throughout this weekend as well, we saw major protests sweep the country. The hands-off protests, which we were covering here earlier, at all levels at the Midas Touch Network.
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He's golfing in the face of a crash. This is what bravery looks like. Here, play this clip.
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The way they make a mockery, Brett Jordy and Midas Mighty, they're telling the people what ridiculous propaganda they have. And this isn't funny. This is people's lives that they're playing with. And they've got their viewers so magamush brainwashed, their Fox viewers. This is people's lives, though, and they treat it like it's a game and like it's funny, Brett.
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I think there was about over 5 million protesters when you add up all of the different cities, thousands of cities and towns across the country and the world, notably corporate news, really did not cover this at all. But thankfully here at the Midas Touch Network, we made it a priority to cover those. The same way we made it a priority to focus on these shadow hearings being held by Democrats.
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After vacationing in Mar-a-Lago this weekend once again, Donald Trump went back to Washington, D.C. and said, you know what, I'm going to just further tank the markets in the United States of America. The Dow was down 1.48 percent, the S&P 500 down 1.76 percent, Nasdaq down 2.64 percent, and it started crashing significantly when Donald Trump held a press conference talking about how
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I'm really glad you showed the receipts there too. So people know I do a painstaking job to bring you the actual facts and the evidence. And I really try to avoid hyperbolic rhetoric. And it may seem sometimes, whoa, they said 100% or 0%. Brett, I'm really glad that you showed people those actual articles because they were shocking to me.
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And when former President Biden was in office, despite there being like record GDP growth, energy independence at the end of the Biden administration, the lowest border crossings really in a very, very long time, the largest job growth ever, the constant barrage of disinformation made people who were actually living in a time where a lot of the economic data was trending in the right direction.
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feel like they were in a recession or a depression. I understand. I don't want to undermine the fact that prices were up, but we have to also be real about who lit the match that started that fire with the higher prices. It was caused by the first Trump administration. Again, I don't do hyperbolic rhetoric.
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You can go back and watch a lot of the videos that I do where Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, MAGA guy, said that that's what caused higher prices. Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, she said that in the Republican debate because Trump added $8 trillion in debt. That's inflationary. Trump printed money recklessly after handling or I would say not handling at all COVID and
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And then you have to fix it. So when you fix it, that causes a shock in your economy and you have to deal with it the way Biden dealt with it. And that was inflation. That was inflationary. And so right now, Brett, you had all the corporate media. They were doing all they can to help Trump with all of this propaganda about how great his policies are. And I'm like, what are you talking?
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I guess Donald Trump just thinks this is all one big game. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Federal Reserve is now projecting a GDP contraction of about negative 2.8% in the first quarter. It was expected to grow about two and a half, three percentage points, and now it's expected to contract. Many economists believe we are heading into a significant recession and perhaps something even worse right now.
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Here's what I want to do. I was just going to say, when we come back after our first break, I want to pull out some receipts to that point, Jordy. I want to look at Donald Trump's filing that he made recently with the SEC because he has a publicly traded company called Trump Media that runs Truth Social that lost –
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$400 million last year and only made about 3.7 million in total revenue, not profit, in total revenue. Your local boba shop, your local coffee shop is probably doing more revenue than Donald Trump's Trump Media Company that controls Truth Social. I'll show you. I'll show you the amount of bankruptcies that he's had. You can see it It's difficult to do so many bankruptcies.
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I'll show it to you in his own words. So if you have someone in your life who's like, but he's a good business man, I'm going to say, show him this right here. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about the reaction that we're seeing in Europe.
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to uh donald trump's uh support of vladimir putin i want to show you brett to your point i want to talk about all of these scams that they're doing now the trump gold card sell to russian oligarchs five million dollars for visas and citizenship and if you said 10 million out of 5 million dollars you will get 50 trillion dollars hey you know and they just keep doing these ridiculous scams because
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they realize they're about to add $20 trillion to $50 trillion to the deficit. So they're going to act like, but we're going to make it up and trump gold cards, like literally snake oil crap. Talk about that and more. I want to remind everybody about a few things. We have MidasPlus.com, which is our sub stack.
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Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, does some of the best daily summaries there, MidasPlus.com. If you want to meet Brett, Jordy, and myself, we'll schedule one soon, a meetup, at Patreon.com slash MidasTouch. Check that out, P-A-T-R-E-O-N.com slash MidasTouch. Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel, which I think will hit 5 million subscribers pretty, pretty soon.
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And also make sure you're subscribed on our audio channel, look joe rogan put elon musk on that episode to try to he was pissed that he was not number one so he and elon tried to you know try to get back that number one spot so make sure you're subscribed on audio and for all our audio listeners tell anybody you know right now to download this episode to make sure our audio um remains number one
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All of this follows, by the way, we've covered it a lot on our channel, of course, this horrific meeting between Donald Trump J.D. Vance and President Zelensky, where Trump and J.D. Vance humiliated the United States in front of all the world media by wagging his finger at a war hero, President Zelensky, attacking Zelensky, just doing Putin talking points over and over again.
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Let's talk about the things that we know about Donald Trump. He bankrupts a lot of things. He hates paying contractors. He hates Ukraine. He loves Vladimir Putin. He loves talking about himself. He does a lot of scams. So he's kind of acting consistent with the way he's acted his entire life. Like this shouldn't be like, oh my God, he's doing a trump card scam. That's like all he knows how to do.
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It's like, you know, if you, the basketball players out there, right? There's some players when you're growing up who only know how to dribble with their right hand. So you go, there's going right. That's all they know how to do is go right. Trump only knows to do one direction and he's just doing the same routine that he knows how to do over and over again, which is to like destroy things.
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I mean, look, this is from his own 10K. I just want you to see it. I'm not going to read the whole thing. You could take a screenshot of this so you can see. This is Trump's disclosure that says a number of companies that were associated with Trump have filed for bankruptcy. So there are no assurances that the Trump media will not also become bankrupt.
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So it talks about all the companies that went bankrupt, like the Trump Taj Mahal filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991, the Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by Donald Trump, filed for Chapter 11.
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in 1992 then another company called thcr which was founded by trump in 1995 that filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and then you had a new name that was giving to it uh declared bankruptcy in 2009 trump hotels and casino so bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy bankers like it's right there Did the deep state go back in time using a time machine to achieve this? Is that what happened?
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Dmitry Peskov, who's basically Vladimir Putin's Caroline Leavitt. Peskov is Putin's press secretary, says the United States foreign policy and Russia's policy are directly aligned right now, that the U.S. and Russia will vote together on everything. And the U.S. policy now matches Russia's policy. From that same press conference earlier today where Donald Trump was
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And then it goes a number of companies that do licensing deals with Trump also failed. So there are no assurances that Trump Media will also not fail the way these companies failed. So it talks about Trump Shuttle, Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Stakes, Trump Mortgage, GoTrump.com, and so on and so forth, ceased operations and failed over time.
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So between the bankruptcies and the business failures, look, I get, you know, sometimes things don't always succeed, but this whole idea that this guy had like good business acumen, I mean, you see right there that he didn't.
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so he brings in this guy howard lutnik as his commerce uh secretary howard lutnik a billionaire guy wall street guy um and and is treating our economy in my opinion like like a pump and dump scheme now i just want you to i'll show you this clip of howard lutnik the commerce secretary as he kind of goes on tv and it looks like he's selling No offense to like a sham wow. Yes, offense to my pillow.
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But he's out there like it's like an infomercial. All right, so here's what we're going to do, everybody. Okay, we got the truck. I know the economy may be in the tank right now. I know that everything's going in the wrong direction. Okay, but I got a secret for you, everybody. If you order a Trump card right now, Russian oligarchs, here's what we're going to do. Watch.
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Like, I'm not really exaggerating that much here.
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Let me tell you how we make America great for the simple price of $5 million. If you are a Russian oligarch and you are watching this, Chinese oligarchs welcome as well. If you would like to purchase your citizenship here, buy a Trump gold card now. A Trump gold card comes with a very fancy picture of Donald Trump.
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And you could even get a picture of Donald Trump golfing everybody or Donald Trump doing the YMCA dance. Nothing says America like an oligarch purchasing a Trump YMCA Trump gold card. Right. I mean, it's it's it's it's the stupidest shit that excuse me. It's the stupidest stuff that we're watching play out. Like, it's just dumb. It's just dumb.
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tanking our economy here in the United States. Donald Trump says that he thinks Zelensky just needs to be more appreciative and thankful. Here, play this clip.
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such a great point jordy because people have been living in their rage algorithms instead of their actual real life right the manufactured rage and the propaganda was so powerful and you've talked about it jordy that to some extent
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You feel bad for some of the people who have fallen prey to it because it's tens of billions of dollars or even trillions of dollars being used by corporate media and right wing media to infect their minds and get them pissed off about things that frankly really aren't impacting them directly. So what you kind of see and look, I think they'll be 20, 25% people who will be MAGA until the very end.
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But for another group of people, it seems that the spell is like wearing off like a little bit. And when you see some of these town halls, when you see what's happening in Ruby red districts, like you don't get more Ruby red than Texas's third congressional district. I mean, Keith self like this, this guy, I think one by like plus 30, like this is a, a massive Republican district.
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And I'll show you what went down when he held his town hall recently. Let's play this clip.
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And then there's another clip where they were yelling, do your job, do your job. Here, watch this.
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Let's take a look, too, at New York's third congressional district at Hofstra University, which is a plus five Trump congressional district. It's actually represented by a Democratic congressmember. The Democratic congressmember won the district, but then Trump beat Kamala in this district in a plus five, you know, Trump district. Tom Suozzi, he held a town hall in this area.
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And when Suozzi talked about, he goes, look, you know, I'm in a reddish district. I'm a Democrat, so you know that I'm someone who tries to bring everyone together. He goes, what I saw in the Oval Office with what Trump and J.D. Vance did to Putin, I'm not ever going to try to find common ground with that. And then the crowd gave him a standing ovation. Watch this.
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You know, and now the line that's coming from the White House, from Trump, from J.D. Vance, from, you know, anybody from the NSA director is Zelensky needs to apologize. Zelensky needs to say thank you. Have you said thank you? Have you said thank you? Here, we got this photo of JD Vance that you made, Brett.
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As the economy is crashing, you know, I think this kind of perfectly sums it up, this meme that you created of JD saying, have you said thank you once? Have you said thank you? You know, you just need to you need to apologize. You need to go on TV, Zelensky, and you need to say how thankful you are to dear leader Donald.
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And you need to and you need to just just say how great he is and how important he is to you in your life. And Zelensky is like, look, I've said thank you a hundred times. I mean, by the way, Trump's given Zelensky like no money at all, like he's basically cut off all the money. So let's be clear.
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he was going to impose the tariffs on canada and mexico and other places he was a total mess during this press conference and let me just show you a clip right here watch what's happening at the the stock ticker as he's talking here play this clip the united states has been taken advantage of for 40 years
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Europe gave more money than the United States of America. Every single thing that Donald Trump says is false and is a lie. And just it. Utterly pathetic. We'll talk later in the show about some of these town halls and ruby red Republican areas where people are just so livid at Donald Trump supporting Vladimir Putin and bring the United States to join the access of evil with Putin in North Korea.
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Former President Biden gave Zelensky and the American people and our government, and frankly, before Trump made this a pro-Putin government, it was largely bipartisan. A lot of the MAGA Republican Congress members and about a dozen or so MAGA Republican senators were very pro-Putin. But this whole idea of like, Zelensky always says, I'm thankful, I'm grateful, thank you, I'm grateful.
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Like, what else do you want the guy to like? What else do you want the guy to do or say? And all they want is that it's a pretextual way to beat down on an ally, the same way Trump wants to beat down on Canada and Greenland and Denmark and Europe and Mexico. And Trump never says anything negative about our allies. I mean, this is Pete Doocy from Fox.
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Here's what he's hearing from senior White House aides and that Trump won't even start any type of discussions at all until Zelensky goes on TV and says how sorry he is here, Clinton.
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First off, he behaved himself exactly as he should. You should apologize for nothing. Also, what are you, five years old? You need to apologize to me. And then also, what the hell are we even talking about? A minerals deal? The United States wants to steal their mint. That's what this is about. They want to give most of Ukraine to Russia.
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And then the rest of it, United States wants to steal theirs. the minerals of an ally that's under invasion from a invading force in russia what trump said on day one is that prices would go down that there would be a peace deal in 24 hours and in this weirdo demented sicko wannabe fascist mind of his he's warped this whole thing into if you want the deal
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where America steals your minerals, you need to say you're sorry to daddy. You need to, like, the hell are you talking about? And Zelensky's like, I'm not going to say that Putin is good. Like, he's killed, like, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people and lawfully invaded. I'm not saying Putin's a good guy. Like, don't you want the minerals deal? No, I don't want this.
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You said you were going to think, you said you were a great negotiator. I don't want the minerals deal. Why would I want you to steal our minerals for? What are you doing?
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And of course, people are pissed with Donald Trump. taking away their Medicaid. You had Elon Musk over the weekend going on the Joe Rogan show to say that Social Security is a massive Ponzi scheme. They're gutting workers in the government and, as you see, destroying our economy. But folks, Melania Trump was on Capitol Hill.
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You know, a few things. The way that Zelensky would have done what Trump and J.D. Vance wanted would have been to give up and just said, I'll give up Ukraine to Russia and I'll give you the mineral deal. That's what they wanted. Anything short of America steals the minerals, Russia steals the land.
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would be insufficient for trump and jd vance and putin because that's what the access of evil wants that's why zielinski says there needs to be security guarantees that's why they held an emergency meeting in london shout out to the uk prime minister kier starmer for arranging this i think he's shown to be a statesman of the highest caliber in history bringing all of these countries together
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She had an important message about who wants to stop all of that bullying going on in digital spheres. Here, play this clip.
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prime ministers and presidents to stand with Ukraine. I think it sent a really powerful message that you ain't cutting Europe out of this. Europe has Zelensky's back. Brett, to address something you said, the only reason why the Afghan withdrawal is sloppy is Trump cut the deal with the Taliban and then didn't do it himself. He cut a deal with the enemy. He cut the
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out the actual afghan government at the time released 5 000 taliban soldiers and then they conquered and took over uh afghanistan and then trump was too big of a coward to make the move to move american troops out after essentially getting the troops surrounded because trump shut down all the other bases and basically had the united states troops surrounded on all sides and former president biden was left to hold the bag and try to
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figure out a solution finally um what donald trump is also doing as well is threatening to send your kids to go to war against canada against the european union against our allies against mexico when donald trump and uh jd vance and pete hegseth make these threats about sending military into mexico or making canada the 51st state these are war words
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These are things that are being taken seriously. This is the language of Vladimir Putin.
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And what that means is that when Trump's saying Canada's gonna be the 51st state, what Trump's saying is he's gonna take your kids, anyone of fighting age, and he's gonna send them to fight Canadians in a war, and people are going to die, what we're seeing in Ukraine and Russia from Russia's unlawful invasion.
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So spare me this is someone who's trying to do peace while talking about annexing countries. No, Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator. His corruption is matched by his cowardice and his incompetence as well. That's what we're seeing. When we come back, I wanna show you a few things. You have the agriculture secretary announced the plan to bring the prices down.
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You need to buy chickens and harvest your own crops, and you need to get your own eggs. But you gotta do chickens in your backyard. I'm not making this up, that's what they're saying. Elon Musk says that social security is a Ponzi scheme, and more. We'll take our last quick break of the show. I'll remind everybody as well, to go to MidasPlus.com, M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com.
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It's just so funny that these people, like the Roganites or whatever these people are, it's like you have Elon Musk. You guys like my branding on that? I like that. Well, maybe. You have Elon Musk show up on Rogan and he calls social security a Ponzi scheme. And we know Elon Musk.
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right objectively as someone who's running our government now whether he's a co-president pulling donald trump strings as a puppet whatever it is right like this language needs to be taken seriously it's like what i said at the outset of the show when he said he was going to inflict economic hardship he's doing it right so when he says that social security is a ponzi scheme and it's a fraud
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you know then where do you think they're going next after they got your medicaid where do you think they're going i mean he's he's telling you so so then to have like roganites go yeah man get rid of social security it's like okay like are you that brainwashed that now you're gonna get rid of you like like you're gonna take everything from you like like literally you're just gonna kind of be there like all all alone you're gonna be like but
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but there's no transgender volleyball player in san jose state well yeah and it's like that's that's your motivating factor that's kind of weird you know that's that's kind of a weird thing that that's what's your your energizing focus that you're gonna now go on to our comment section and write negative reviews i mean look it was a three hour and 11 minute incredibly boring interview but i'll just show you the portion where elon musk uh refers to social security as a ponzi scheme here let's play it
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Yeah, well, you can tell me better than anybody.
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All right. So you heard him there. I mean, I don't need to hear him go, they told you good.
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fake women and Taylor Swift endorsing him when she never endorsed him. And then Donald Trump also attacked Ted Cruz's wife and said that she was a very ugly person. And that's why Ted Cruz was with her. But Ted Cruz was fine having Melania there. Let me show you how Fox is trying to spin this all.
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And there's nothing funny about that. I mean, you're gonna lose your social security because of that guy, because of those billionaires. I mean, their new line as they're tanking the economy is the American people need to buy chickens. That's how you can get your eggs. You need to do chickens in your backyard. That's their plan.
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Here's Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, saying the solution to high egg prices is for Americans to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard. Here, play it.
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Yeah, I mean, these people are actually crazy. I don't say that like this is Looney Tunes idiocracy. You thought, oh, Ben, you're just saying that, right? No, no. They're saying that the solution to the fact that inflation is going to be soaring again in egg prices, you can even find eggs, which I can't anymore. Maybe you can find them. I couldn't this weekend. You couldn't find them this weekend.
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And take a look at what these MAGA Republicans are doing. I mean, you have Darrell Issa, MAGA Republican. Today, I will nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. No one deserves it more. You've got Congressmember Brandon Gill. I'm introducing the Golden Age Act to put Donald Trump on the $100 bill. America is experiencing an historic rebirth under Donald Trump.
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His legacy deserves to be immortalized. Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Trump, it's time to make history. And by the way, I wonder what Ronald Reagan would think of Donald Trump.
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doing whatever vladimir putin and and russia wants i think reagan was atrocious in most respects there's one thing that he did was he said uh he stood up to gorbachev at least in a public speech tear down that wall so i mean so trump's like the exact uh the exact opposite and by the way if you got deja vu and you're like come on guys i thought you reported on this last week no
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Last week we reported on one of the Republican Congress members, Joe Wilson, who introduced the $250 bill with Donald Trump's face on it. And that post said that you need to have the most valuable bill with the most valuable president on it. I think we have this – I mean that's what they're doing. And then you have MAGA Mike Johnson who was on Meet the Press this weekend.
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Larry Kudlow, I mean, again, the Fox state regime media at this point would make North Korea's state regime media and Russia's state regime media blah, blah. Blush. Here's Larry Kudlow saying that the reason that it's all crashing is we're seeing what is left of the Biden economy slumping so badly.
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And MAGA Mike Johnson with a straight face said, here's what we're doing, everybody. We've got Elon Musk, who's crawling through the social security information with his algorithms. I think we've got this clip. Let's play it.
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Don't put that fraud in my mouth. Don't put those words in my mouth that came out of my mouth. You said those words. Let me try to make this very simple. We all agree that fraud is a crime, right? So where are all of the arrests, right? I mean, the tough guy, FBI, DOJ, with all of this fraud that Elon has found, where are the fraud arrests happening since Doge found all this fraud?
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Oh, wait a minute, there are literally zero. zero fraud-related arrests. And if you look at the types of people who've, in the past, been investigated and who invoked the Fifth when it comes to things like Medicaid fraud and other fraud like that, I mean, you wanna know the biggest one in history, pretty much?
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The MAGA Republican Senator from Florida, Rick Scott, invoked the Fifth Amendment close to 100 times. Biggest Medicaid fraud, I think, in American history, He then like left that company, got a massive golden parachute, hundreds of millions of dollars. What he got paid and he invoked the fifth. And I think the company settled a criminal case and for the biggest Medicaid fraud scam in history.
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So that's who's actually doing it. And so when you start to look a little bit deeper, You know, what's one of their scams, Brett, that you talked about? The crypto, this crypto scam? Yeah. What they're talking about, you want to talk about that, Brett, that it's just coincidentally is the crypto czar's portfolio of crypto? David Sachs. Of coins that are being bought?
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I mean, so utterly. I mean, I'm not going to even play the rest of it. It's so pathetic. Let me bring on Brett and Jordy. Brothers, welcome to the Midas Touch podcast.
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Yeah, I'll talk about this as well. Two things to focus on as we head until tomorrow, where these tariffs on Canada and Mexico will be in place. The Premier of Ontario, Premier Ford, says he will be cutting off electricity exports to border states if Trump's tariffs go through tomorrow.
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If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything, including cutting off their energy with a smile on my face. And that's just on the electric grid. We're not even talking about auto manufacturing lumber right now. The futures markets for lumber is at a record high, which means homes aren't going to be built. So remember, Trump promised housing would be more affordable.
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Remember, Trump promised prices would go down on day one. that he had such a great relationship with zielinski and putin that peace was going to happen in 24 hours the guy's a con artist he just is he is a con artist so snap the hell out of it if you're still under this trance he is a con artist okay and everything he does is a lie we're learning tonight as well of course that he's ordered
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and obviously this was coming, the pause in all further military aid to Ukraine with a senior administration official telling Fox News that the aid will be halted until the Ukrainians show a commitment to good faith peace negotiations. The Ukrainians were invaded by a hostile invading foreign force by the Russians who are the bad guys. This isn't a hard equation to figure out.
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Russia was the bad guys who invaded our allies, Ukraine. And you're attacking Ukraine and saying that they're not involved in good faith negotiations because they're not saying they like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's infantile, hostile, vile mind. Again, that's why all of these people were meeting in Europe, all these world leaders to stand up for Ukraine. They know where this is headed.
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They're not the United States corporate media, which tries to sugarcoat this. They know that Trump is allied with Russia, that Trump has put the United States in a group with North Korea, Russia, Belarus, and Hungary. I mean, it's the most despicable thing imaginable. And you want to know who knew this as well? Let me show you who knew this as well.
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Let me show you a montage of, first I'll show you J.D. Vance. I think this is a good way to kind of sum this up nicely. This is what J.D. Vance, by the way, not like 20 years ago, J.D. Vance said these things like five or six years ago before changing his identity to run for the Senate seat in Ohio and then be Donald Trump's VP. This is what J.D.
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Vance had to say about Trump during the first administration and thereafter until he ran for the Senate seat. Let's play it. I'm a never Trump guy. I never liked him.
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I'll show you Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. Here's how he once compared Donald Trump to a third world strongman. And I'll just let you hear it in his own words.
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I think that sums it up where we're at and how cowardly and spineless those individuals are. When you go back and you look at history and you wonder... How did someone like Hitler rise? How did someone like Mussolini rise? Where were the people standing up? How could human beings just sacrifice their own free will and their own logic to a strong man or want to be strong man?
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I think you see the psychology play out right there. And I don't want history to repeat itself, and I don't know or don't think there is any analog to what we're trying to build in independent media during the times of the past to what we're trying to do now.
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I want us to be that other variable that didn't exist then, because if you look historically, corporate media is one of the first to fall and kiss the ring. It followed that pattern here. when all the corporate media leaders went to Mar-a-Lago, kissed the ring, entered into their deals or settlements or pacts with Donald Trump or whatever, and gave away the game.
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But here we stand, the Midas Mighty together, stronger than ever, growing, educating the American people about what's up, coming with the receipts, and letting you see for yourself. That's what we're going to do here each and every day. Brett, unless you want to say anything.
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Thank you, everybody. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe on audio. Audio, subscribe on YouTube. YouTube, subscribe on audio. Check us out at MidasPlus.com. M-E-I-D-A-S-P-L-U-S.com. You can check us out. as well at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And I'll give a little shout out to my guy, Michael Popak, who started the Popak Firm.
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I love to see Michael Popak be entrepreneurial. And I know he's taking big catastrophic injury cases. And I'm proud of him. I know it was a big risk for him to start his own firm. And he's one of my best friends. And so I want to give him a nice shout out here too. You go to thepopakfirm.com or his number is 1-877-POPAK-AF. So shout out to you, Michael Popak.
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I'm glad you're doing something you always dreamed about. And to our mods, thank you. To the Midas Mighty, stay strong, stay tall. We're here with you every step of the way. We're grateful for you. And thanks for being there by our side as well. I know you got our back. We got your back. Jordy, take it away. I think Brett wants to chime in real quick.
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For those listening on audio, it literally just started going down at a rapid pace. At one point, it was down close to 1,000 and ended up finishing really, really poorly. Here, Donald Trump talks about the tariffs on Canada. 25 percent, 25 percent on Mexico here. Play this clip.
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I think what you have to look at sometime are any of the corporate media's predictions and just say the exact opposite is going to happen, right? Under former President Biden, what were the headlines? They literally said 100% chance of recession under Biden. That's what they said. You remember the headlines when Trump took office?
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They were basically saying the headlines literally said 0% chance of recession. That's actually what the headline said. And I was saying, well, that's interesting because if he imposes the tariffs like he says he's going to do, if he implements Project 2025,
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if he does what he and Elon Musk said they were going to do, which was literally, this was their words, inflict severe economic hardship on the American people to break the country down and then rebuild it in the image of Elon Musk. Musk said that. I said, well, I'm going to tell you what the outcome of that's going to be.
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The outcome is going to be recession or more likely even depression because that's what happens when you do these things. Then even right now while you're seeing a lot of headlines predicting really bad things now happening in the economy because they're actually now happening, they still try to like normalize it.
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They go, yeah, but with all of this, we still see potential for – no, no, no, no, no, no. Donald Trump is a freaking madman. He's literally a crazy person. He was at Mar-a-Lago golfing and doing weird YMCA dances over the weekend while Europe held an emergency summit of presidents and prime ministers throughout Europe.
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The leader of Turkey show up, the leader of the prime minister of Canada showed up because they recognize that the United States has now become an ally of Vladimir Putin and that they need to join together and create a strong security apparatus because they've already recognized, although they're not going to say it out loud yet, that NATO is basically done. Trump's destroyed NATO right away.
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He's destroyed all of our alliances. He's destroying our economy. He's destroying our federal government. He attacks our closest allies and neighbors. He attacks Taiwan. Whether Donald Trump is actually an agent of Russia, a useful idiot of Russia, whether Russia has something over Donald Trump or for something else that is not one of those three, I don't know.
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But what I do know is everything he's doing seems to be directly benefiting Russia the way Russia would want to script it for them. So in many ways, even if you don't have the paperwork to be an official agent, if you're out there promoting Putin over and over again and attacking Zelensky and attacking NATO, does it even matter if you're an official agent? You are doing the work of one.
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That's who all of these things seem to benefit from.
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That's not what they're going to do. These factories are going to shut down. It's going to be devastating for our economy here, although Donald Trump is making posts like this today to the great farmers of the United States. Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold inside the U.S. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. have fun.
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Protests against Donald Trump have been now taking place across the country. This as internationally America under Donald Trump is now getting booed. We see that in Canada during the national anthem. Donald Trump did the usual fake deal thing that he does, those stunts that we predicted he was going to do where he creates all of this drama, this weapon of mass distraction conduct.
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look we called what was going to happen i think one of our responsibilities and running this media network is to be several steps ahead to because you know we've studied his pathology so you may recall last week um wednesday thursday friday when all of this was going down remember my reporting was let me tell you exactly what he's going to do
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and we predicted it exactly and by the way it wasn't all that hard to predict and if i'm predicting it i promise you that claudia scheinbaum and trudeau and the others know where he's going with this um so let me just just so you can see so our audio listeners know um
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these clips are from january 30th and january 31st of last week and so our people who are watching this on video they'll see that that's when i was making these statements to our audio listeners that's when these two clips that we put together are they were from last week when i was saying here's exactly what's going to happen it's exactly what he did here let's play it
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Is Donald Trump setting up for yet another fake deal to take credit for just imaginary things that aren't happening so he can get the propaganda headlines that he won? Ooh, Donald Trump made a deal, but in reality, it's just the status quo because he doesn't know what the heck he is doing. So what do we really see here and what do I think President Claudia Scheinbaum is alluding to?
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Donald Trump's going to create all this chaos, a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction, and then ultimately he's going to create the problem and then he's going to try to fix it and say, look, I made Mexico submit. I made Canada submit. But in the end, it's just going to be a press release. And I think that's what she is alluding to. And look, I think we all hope it's just a press release.
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No one wants economic catastrophe. But this is just the chaos agent that Donald Trump is and President Claudia Scheinbaum. And I think other world leaders are almost treating him and putting him in his place like the pathetic little petulant child that he is. Oh, OK, Donald. You want to do that to us? We'll retaliate against you. Okay, Donald, calm down.
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And by the way, Xi Jinping, you want to give us a call? By the way, should we create alliances against the United States? That's what we see happening. By the way, so that's from last year.
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That was really nice. That was precisely what happened. But I was also watching what he's doing. And look, it wasn't just in Canada and Mexico. He did the same thing in Panama. And by the way, his threats were, I want to conquer the nation. I want to conquer Canada, make it the 51st state. And Donald Trump settled on a fake fentanyl czar. I just want you to think about that.
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And a deal that already took place two months ago. So just think about how weak they see him in Canada after threatening to take over. I mean, could you imagine if Vladimir Putin made these threats to Ukraine. And then ultimately, Putin was like, you know what? Actually, we said denazification. We said we were going to invade Crimea. We're going to do all of these things. But you know what?
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Give us a fentanyl, czar. We're OK about it. Trump is using the language of Putin, but then settling for a fentanyl czar, which gets you the worst of all of the worlds. I mean, I clearly don't want imperialistic conquest of Canada, but it just makes us look like a stupid idiot. The whole thing just looks dumb. And the people in the other countries look at us, and they're not Fox propaganda.
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take it over without authority. We saw some Democrats show up at the USAID building, hold a press conference there to call it out. And then you have Elon Musk tweeting about it or putting it on X, whatever you call it these days, talking about like deleting government groups, destroying government groups, like the way we had free tax filing. under President Biden.
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When Fox is like, look what we did. Hulk Hogan, man, Rob, you ripped off my shirt. They're looking at us in other countries like, it's so pathetic. Look, you talk about he sends Marco Rubio to Panama. Do we have the clip of him even today saying that he wants to conquer Panama from the Oval Office? This is what this is today. So let me just show you. This is what he said today.
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And then let me tell you about the Marco Rubio piece of it. Here, play this clip.
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Okay, first off, let's acknowledge that his brain is mush. Like the guy can't even speak. Like you can't even speak in sentences. Like, could we just address the fact that he can't even find the words? And if any other person was behaving like that, you'd probably declare a doubt and need a 5150 cycle. But let's be clear.
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what senator rubio settled for the the deal was made also a fake deal and the deal was that the u.s navy gets to send its ships through the panama canal oh yeah usa and then that panama will consider studying the issue of whether it should continue being part of the silk road deal which There's no real Silk Road deal.
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China's making investments in Panama beginning in 2017 during the first Trump administration when Trump's eye was off the ball, and then Panama stopped its alliance with Taiwan, made the alliance with Beijing during Trump administration number one, and then China's made investments in Panama. There's no Silk Road deal that just gets ripped up and shredded. So that's that.
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But then the reason why US naval ships don't go through the Panama Canal is because the ships are too big. The ships are too big for that. You can't send U.S. naval ships through it. Our aircraft carriers and our ships, they just don't fit through it.
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So the deal, after threatening to take it back, the deal with Rubio is that our naval vessels can use it, which they always could, but they're too big to use it. then his deal with Columbia is like, OK, we are going to make sure we can deport people back to Columbia. OK, that's what was happening in the Biden administration. So it's just fake deal after fake deal, Brett and Jordy.
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That's one of the things they gutted. Say goodbye to free tax filings. Say goodbye to USAID abroad. Say goodbye to a number of other programs here in the United States. And all the while, they're like pretending now that there isn't the government freeze of funds anymore because there's court orders saying they can't freeze the funds. But Elon Musk is clearly doing that.
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Well, Jay, I appreciate you calling out the corporate media. You know, the reality is, though, they're kind of don't even see the corporate media as being a major. I mean, they're the corporate media. I got it. But to me, they're becoming so less relevant every day. I mean, you know, the latest play board charts had Midas as the most watched digital channel. Fox was number two.
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Number three was Forbes. And then ABC was like number seven. And so the reality is we're going to lead by example and we're going to call it out here and we've got the platform to do it. So Thanks for everybody who subscribed. We're on our way to 4 million subscribers. There it is right there. That's Playboard. Most watched YouTube channels in the country. And Midas Touch 1, Fox 2, Forbes 3.
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And I expect this number to be higher. I mean, it's been like 26, 27 million views every 48 hours right now on this network. More than all of the top Fox shows combined. You're getting out the word. You're getting out the message. You're the difference maker. And so this community relies on you. So thank you for that.
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know and then with just the firing of fbi agents the firing of doj officials america's really never been less safe the firing of faa officials the firing of key people working in government positions to just keep americans safe americans never been less safe um and at the same time prices are going up up up through the roof and so all of these stunts this drama this uh chaos
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You know, to me, it's just the opposite of what government should really be. I think Americans are just getting utterly pissed off. Trump supporters have to be like, yeah, tariffs. Oh, actually, no tariffs. Yeah, tariffs. Just the whole thing is one gigantic gong show. It's ridiculous. Brett and Jordy, how are you guys doing?
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You know, someone recognized me on campus today when I was teaching at law school and we were having a conversation and I gave this example and I hadn't really thought of it like this before, but I thought it was worth bringing to the show, which is I think about sometimes the government, the way I would think about getting on an airplane, which is when I get on an airplane, I really, other than maybe the captain telling me where I'm going,
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I really don't need to hear all that much unless there's something serious going on. But my hope is to have the least amount of drama, not trying to think about a bunch of crazy stuff. I just want to get from point A to point B. I'd like for the plane to be comfortable. I'd like for the plane to be safe. I'd like for it to have what I paid for in the example of government.
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When you pay taxes, you'd like to have certain things. But you don't need to hear the captain flying your plane going, oh, and we're going to make a left. Should I make a right? Should I make a left? Should I go up? Should I go down? Should I go right? What should I do, everybody, with this plane? Aren't planes crazy? No, that's not the way it is. And to me,
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The leader of government at the highest office should be steering the plane or the ship in a stable way. Yes, you want to hear from them at certain times, the beginning of your trip, at the end of the trip, maybe to let you know when you reach cruising altitude, but you don't want the drama. I thought that example
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was appropriate given the fact that in Trump's America, I think we're all feeling a lot less safe right now, whether it's also getting on an airplane or whether you're consuming food or whether we're going to be able to deal with things like tuberculosis and measles, whether we're going to be able to have allies abroad.
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One of the things going back to 2016 among many that I just so despised about Donald Trump is that his abusive personality never ceases he brings that abuser mentality into your lives and that every day during his first term and now we're seeing it again that that it's in it intrudes in all of our lives in bad ways in obnoxious ways in loud ways in attention seeking ways. And I don't want that.
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I mean, you would think for people who consider themselves conservative, who consider themselves small government people, you wouldn't want a constant barrage of shit coming in your face from the president of the United States. But that's what Trump does. It's always, it's constant, the post, the obnoxiousness, the meanness, and all of that.
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And to me, whether you're a Republican or Democrat or independent or red state or blue state, you should just not like that. It's overall gross. is just an observation. And again, we see it now over and over again. So, you know, and I've been referring to it as a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction.
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In a little bit, we'll talk about what the government's doing with Trump's announcement of a sovereign wealth fund, because you always have to follow the money when it comes to Donald Trump. And he and Elon want to start a sovereign wealth fund where our money's going to go to the slush fund to be used by oligarchs. No, no.
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Usually, by the way, sovereign wealth funds are used in countries that have like budget surpluses in nations to just invest their excess money. You may remember the conversation. It seems like it was 50 years ago. That was a pretty long time ago. It was 25 years ago when Al Gore and George W. Bush were talking about the lockbox issue. What do you do with the surplus under Clinton?
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And then George W. Bush kind of ran that into the ground. And then there were deficits. Then he crashed the economy. And Obama had to save it. Then Trump crashed it. Then Biden saved it. Now Trump's crashing it again.
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and then that was handed over to the republicans who just destroyed it forever it's never never recovered you remember that debate i mean just think about how times have changed like in 2012 sorry in 2000 i said let's say 2020 in 2000 was when the debate was between al gore and george w that's the first fun fact uh snl skit i remember i think it was a memory for geordie the lockpicks
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I'm going to do this with the lockbox. And then George W. Bush would be like, yeah, and I'm going to do this with the lockbox. And then, you know, and what they were talking, just think about that. That was the drama. What do we do with the surplus of funds that there's a budget surplus and where does it go? And ultimately, you know, George W. Bush had the Supreme Court push him into power.
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And by the way, the people who fought for Bush to do that are now the people on the Supreme Court, like Justice Brett Kavanaugh and others. And they kind of put it. Could you imagine what the world would have been like in another time frame if we actually counted the real votes and not had the Supreme Court stop, like literally stop the count?
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And then those people became Supreme Court justices anyway. But I digress. That's what we were talking about in 2000, whereas now Donald Trump's talking about invading this country, invading that country. So then he moves on, knowing that this is, this was, by the way, this was not Trudeau blinking. This was not Scheinbaum blinking.
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This was Trump blinking and submitting to them, but trying to pretend, oh, look, the threat of tariffs makes me a master negotiator. This is so stupid. But then what does Trump do? He moves on to the next one and then he threatens Europe. So now, okay, I did that, I did that. What other chaos can I cause today? Europe, let's do Europe. Let me talk about Europe here, play this clip.
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I mean, don't you see what a tired playbook this is? Like, it's the same. It's the same. He doesn't have a lot of moves. So when I showed you the clip of me predicting it, I'd like to be like, oh, you know, what a great predict. He has the same moves. So now he goes, he does it to Europe.
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And then, you know, in Europe, the leaders there, whether it's the chancellor of Germany or whether it's Macron in France, they're like, all right, he's going to threaten us with tariffs. And then he's going to impose. He's going to say he's going to do it. And then he's going to call it.
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call us the day of, the markets are gonna crash and then we'll let him tweet something out and then we'll just kind of go like that. That's how they think of him. And then meanwhile, they're thinking to themselves, oh my God, this guy is so weak and crazy. Like this guy's a psycho and he's weak. We can't rely on them. They're the worst. We got to form our own alliance.
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That's the only thing Trump's projecting is weakness. And then he mixes it up with this crap where he's like, look what I did with the water. I turned on the beautiful water in California. Here, play this clip.
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You just think about, though, the totality of all of this stuff that he's doing. And, you know, it's like, okay, Fake trade war against Canada and Mexico, you're kind of pissing them off. You're weakening your alliances abroad. You're playing right into Putin's hand. All of these statements that you're making to, oh, I'm going to tariff Taiwan and their semiconductor industry.
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He says that there are going to be tariffs placed on Mexico and Canada, and then ultimately Donald Trump folds when he crashes the market.
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All of the things he's doing there and then the things he's doing domestically as well. I mean firing any FBI agent without due process if they were involved at all in any January 6th case. So you have the January 6th insurrectionist he refers to as hostages or heroes. They get pardoned. The bad guys get celebrated.
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But the FBI, like the law and order people – who by the way, don't just handle January 6th cases. I mean these are the people who are investigating and arresting terrorists.
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getting you know cartels off our street here and dealing with all of these things these people um you know are fired without any process at all i mean you have donald trump you know gutting all of these agencies i mean just think even as we talk about us aid if you just take a look at one of their programs which is providing medication to pregnant women who have hiv and aids
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in order to help stop the transmission to their babies, to try to stop kids getting HIV and AIDS. And then by the way, as we know from COVID, Pandemics are global in nature. There's a reason why it's important for America to lead abroad when it comes to things like stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS, when it comes to things like Ebola, when it comes to investigating all of these things.
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USAID is like one of the main agencies, if not the main agency that would do that and also provide humanitarian aid. Again, them saying, oh, this is a leftist, whatever. I mean, they're quite literally killing people and they're also creating a void internationally for China to step up in and fill the void and provide aid to countries and to provide soft power and to build alliances as America.
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It's not just even stopping the funding. and announcing it through some streamlined process. It's doing it so cruelly. It's the cruelty also, from stopping this funding to destroying people's lives who work at the government. No notice, no process, no nothing. Just see you later. You're screwed. In some cases, you die. That's what they're doing.
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When we come back, I wanna talk a little bit about, you know, Musk having his teams go into all of these government buildings and seizing control of servers and payment systems and, you know, the Democrat response to that. We should talk about protests that are now happening across the country against ICE targeting. Let's be clear who ICE is targeting now.
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They're targeting way more people who have no criminal record than criminal record. Actually, Biden still, as you look at the stats, was deporting more people than Trump has even now. But Biden has been deporting people with criminal records. Trump is like specifically cruelly targeting people with no criminal record
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and focusing on them and not the criminals at lower amounts, but also making it very stuntified and WWE, where they're playing dress up and you have like literally Trump's Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, you know, who's got the full Mara Mara Lago look. She like wears a new outfit and a new Halloween costume every day. She like dress up as like cow girl.
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And then she'll dress up like in the vest. Like she's the one there like SWAT team style. And then she's like dressed up and like, You know, her park ranger outfit, like the whole thing is like, it's like ridiculous, the ridiculous things to watch this. And I'm like, oh my God, I'm just like the best. I'm just cringy. It's like, I'm so embarrassed. It's so embarrassing.
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By the way, for those looking, that was Kristi Noem 2019 before full Mar-a-Lago. And then here she is now doing the Mar-a-Lago dress up thing. You evaluate it for yourself. I would leave it at that. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. We're going to take our last quick break of the show. Reminder, patreon.com slash Midas Touch is a way to help us.
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i was nominated for best eyes and that's cool nicest to bring home nominate it's cool you know nominated winning nicest to bring home nice to bring home so you can't you can't knock nicest to bring home
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Yeah, not even just the nomination. I was also number two. Also number two and most likely to succeed and also student government president.
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I was student government president of the entire high school.
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Take it easy. This is how decisions have been being made at the government lately. One of these far right wing Twitter or X accounts will make some statement like this ALX account that goes something about, I don't know, the person will say like, I don't even understand the language that they use. So I'll try to read it, but it's like basically reading gibberish.
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Anyway, it's a far right-wing count attacking the IRS direct filing program. And then Elon Musk responds, this group has been deleted, to which the Midas Touch Network account goes. So Elon Musk is now bragging about getting rid of the team and that put together the direct file tax filing system, which allows citizens to easily file their taxes for free.
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Direct file is a big target of the for-profit tax prep industry. And then as Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell states, until today, you could file your taxes for free. Trump just took that from you. And it's just such a strange thing to take from people. It really did make things easy and convenient. And that's the type of stuff that they're targeting.
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And then they target it and say, TDI, far leftist. OK, so you're getting rid of that. You're getting rid of USAID. Literally, they go after, this is part of their playbook as well, the most vulnerable. and the most peaceful and the hardest working. That's their foreign policy as well. Let's go after...
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You know, and as Prime Minister Trudeau's like, what American, other than Donald Trump, like wake up and like, let's attack Panama or like let's attack Greenland. But see, Trump just sees like peaceful people who aren't trying to have like massive military establishments around them on the surface. Let's be clear though. Canada was fighting in World War II.
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Before anyone else really was fighting in World War II. And Canada was with us side by side after 9-11. Canada has been one of America's biggest allies on everything. So has Denmark. But Donald Trump looks at these countries that, you know, are trying not to, they're just trying to live their nice, peaceful lives and go after them here domestically. He's like, let's get rid of USAID.
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Let's get rid of FAA. Let's get rid of things that are really needed. Let's get rid of FBI agents. Let's get rid of the tax filing system. It's ridiculous, Brett.
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Well, look, the issue for me also, Jordy, is I teach during the week in addition to my- I get it, you're a professor.
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So with the teaching, I have to get back on a certain day. But I'm glad Brett was there holding down the fort and representing. You know who's loving this, though, by the way? Vladimir Putin is. Vladimir Putin is basically out there. And I'm not going to play the clip because it's in Russian for our audio listeners. But Vladimir Putin basically says, and Donald Trump is very going to-
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So as the market was crashing, then Donald Trump had to run to the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, and then to the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, with his tail between his legs, and then basically do a fake deal, just basically announcing things like the status quo and claiming that that's a deal. And then he goes, look, what I did America.
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very powerfully and strongly make the European countries submit and kiss his feet. And Putin knows how he's manipulating and playing Donald Trump there while all of this is taking place. Let me share this with you though as well, just so everybody can get the context of it. So the trade deal with Mexico and Canada is called USMCA, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Look, I want to give a shout out to all of the government workers out there. Yes. These are people who are grinding every single day in difficult jobs who have been degraded by Republicans forever, basically, and they take it.
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Like, imagine if every day, you know, someone just think about your job, if you're not working in the federal government, if every day some of the people with power just would say, what a horrible job, like what you're devoting your life work to.
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how horrible it is and how bad you are and how lazy you are and that you don't work good and that you're just a terrible worker and a terrible person, right? And you're working really hard, whether you're working at USAID to stop the spread of Ebola, whether you are working within a government agency that deals with safety protocols on railroads and you
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Make sure that you're studying every day just the way the machinery works and ensuring that the tracks are certain specifications because if you're not there doing that and making sure there's compliance across all new projects, there could be train derailments and people die. Imagine like you're working to ensure that certain food dies don't get into consumption and
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But for you and your research and your studying, there could be mass casualty events taking place. I could go across so many government agencies where these jobs are so necessary and Elon Musk and Trump are treating these jobs like they're crap. But here's the thing, a lot of these jobs,
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are also incredibly hard to fill with people retention of these jobs is very difficult and who in the world once these jobs are gone are going to want to work there and look you know for elon musk when Twitter's down or when it doesn't work well or when he makes one of his ridiculous Twitter changes.
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And by the way, turns Twitter into X and makes it into this hellscape where there's all this hateful and racist and misogynistic and pornography and profanity. It's a gross place to be. And it's hard because you want to check in occasionally because what was there and some reporters and journalists are still there. It's like, ugh, whenever you go there.
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And now if that becomes the government, what that means is huge problems. If Twitter's down or the posts aren't happening or the videos don't work and that's the government, that could mean planes are crashing. Salmonella is spreading. So that's why these issues are just so...
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and it basically in and of itself was a little bit of a fake deal too because trump basically took nafta which was negotiated in the 90s which by the way he and the republicans pretended to hate so they basically just rebranded it and called it the usmca and trump said this was the greatest deal the greatest deal ever so just so you can see for yourself I think we have to have the context, right?
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You know, I want to also mention the Dems, Democratic senators, Democratic members of Congress went in front of the USA building today. They were, you know, it was good to see them here. I think we have a clip of it. Brett, just pick whichever one you like and let's play.
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That was Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern, who's appeared here on the Midas Touch Network. Democrats need to do stuff like that. I think they need to then use all the legal instruments they can, maybe seek an injunction barring Elon Musk from entering these buildings. I think I'd like to see that. Why not?
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Why not file a temporary restraining order saying that he should be limited from going into the buildings and that he doesn't have the appropriate security clearances? He's not somebody who's been appointed and confirmed. You can't just have random strangers go into the building, even if they work in other agencies. See if you can get a Washington, D.C.
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federal judge to literally issue an injunction banning it. That's an option. Why not at least try something like that? But you need to be out there and you need to have those visuals. You need to show people that you're out there fighting and you need to fight. You need to do both. And I think too much Democrats just assume that people get it. You got to be out there and lead on the front line.
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So it was good seeing them there. But also, I would have liked to see them out there last week in the heart of a lot of this. But they need to be out there every day. I know it's tough. I know it's tiring. But you've got some really
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uh great democratic leaders and they and they can be out there messaging this it's where the a lot whether i don't even think it's that even political anymore you've got your maga people but who's really cheering on elon musk getting rid of like osha like and lowering safety stand like like it's a popular issue for you to take on but it's also the right thing for you to do so do both and go out there and fight for the people i'd like to see that
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When Trump is attacking the deal, it's his deal that we're operating under, the USMCA. And so here he is talking about it during his first term saying, what a great deal this all is. Here, let's play this clip.
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one of the things brian shots a senator from hawaii democrats doing is he's imposed a block on all of trump's nominees from being confirmed until elon musk stops meddling with usaid and usaid workers are restored any single senator one of those weird quirks in the senate can hold up the confirmation hearings of people and so he's placed a hold on it which i think is uh you know yeah for the state department nominees and and we um
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Brett's been doing a great job on TikTok. And thank you, everybody. We'll see you soon. Jordy? Shout out to the Modest Money!
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So you get the point. He was saying that the USMCA is he negotiated. That's the current deal. And he now says that deal is incredibly unfair. And so he was asked at the Oval Office again today, you know, tell us about, you know, is there anything Canada can do in order to stop these tariffs? This was Trump. what moments before the announcement that he would not be imposing the tariffs on Canada.
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Here, let me just play this for you.
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And then some of our right wing propaganda media and then corporate media is like, look, he did the deal. It's like the arsonist causing the fire and then trying to put out their own fire, but not really putting it out and then taking credit for
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So then shortly thereafter, Donald Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau make an announcement that, oh, actually there's a deal that was struck and Canada's gonna put $1.3 billion in border security and Canada's going to appoint a fentanyl czar, even though there's basically zero fentanyl coming into the United States from Canada.
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So the important thing to note is that the one point three billion dollar border border deal that already existed well before this, like that was already something that was in place. A fentanyl czar is basically not going to do much because. There's not really fentanyl coming in from Canada.
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And then earlier in the day, Donald Trump announced also Brett and Jordy and Midas Mighty, a fake deal with Mexico where they said, well, Mexico is going to add 10,000 additional troops to the border. 10,000, not even additional, 10,000 troops to the border. Well, there's already 10,000 troops to the border when President Biden requested without this drama tariff policy.
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that and acting like they should be applauded the thing is that donald trump is now pissed off the entire world with these tactics like even though canada and uh mexico have pushed off their so-called tariffs for like 30 days i mean the people in canada are living in piston like You can't trust America under Donald Trump, period. And that's how the entire international community is feeling.
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And at the same time, domestically, while Trump's involved in that WMD weapon and mass distraction, you have his co-president, Elon Musk, an unelected oligarch, having his tech teams go into various agencies, seize control of the Treasury Department payment system, seize control of sensitive classified information from USAID and other government agencies, literally just
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Prices are rising. A recession is looming. And what was Donald Trump doing? Vacationing again in Mar-a-Lago, awarding himself more trophies, posting about it on social media while the American people are suffering. Donald Trump returned to Washington, D.C.
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J.D. Vance as his puppet to help him achieve those ends. But that's why we refer to this presidency as a Ponzi scheme presidency, as a rug pull presidency. They lie and then they cover up those lies with other lies and they try to drag it out as far as possible. They said on day one. that they were going to make housing affordable, that prices would go down right away.
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Prices were heading down under former President Biden. Inflation was going to hit the Fed target at 2%. There was going to be more interest rate cuts. Under Donald Trump, prices are going up, up, up. The inflation numbers that came in came in hot. Under former President Biden, we saw GDP growth. Now we're likely going to see GDP contraction.
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Trump also promised that on day one, there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That was a lie. It's lie after lie. So Brett and Jordy, to your point, then they move on to the next one. Hey, everybody, you want to go to Fort Knox?
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we're gonna search for some gold then maybe that'll be part of the doge dividend when we find you gold you want to get rich by the way i subscribe to the trump email list so you don't have to hey he sends his supporters doge dividend this doge dividend that you want to come to mar-a-lago you want to win a trip so you can have the fancy luxury life that you wanted you want to go live the lifestyles of the rich and famous here's what you need to do it is bs
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over and over again and by the way at the end of the day have you heard him say anything without being prompted about the four american soldiers presumed dead or likely dead in lithuania who the secretary of nato said
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that those four individuals are dead have you have you heard donald trump coming out with any statement of sympathy expressing national mourning the types of things that you would almost always hear the leader of a country you would always hear a leader of a country say so donald trump was asked again in the Oval Office about the four American soldiers in Lithuania who are dead.
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And Donald Trump, when he was previously asked last week, didn't even know about it, had no clue what was even being talked about. This time he describes it that they were driving a heavy truck like a toy. He says like a toy. Listen to him try to describe it. And he doesn't express sympathy. He doesn't express that this is a tragedy. He's incapable of it as well. Watch this.
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A federal judge has barred the Trump regime from ending temporary protected status for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals. Another federal judge, Judge Boasberg, set a Thursday hearing to determine if the Trump regime violated his order, preventing the regime from kidnapping migrants and sending them to El Salvador without due process.
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i don't even call that a statement but just whatever the heck that was that we just watched just such a disgrace honestly just such a disgrace and he had to be prompted he didn't bring it up on his own all weekend posting about his golf tournaments that he claims he wins like kim jong-un style i won another tournament i won another tournament look i'm playing golf here while american people suffer
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It's that simple to me that as American people suffer, that's what this Trump regime is doing. They're not just causing the suffering, they're gloating about it. We've got a lot more to discuss. I want to talk about these big elections on Tuesday. I want to talk about some of these court rulings in federal court.
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we've got a big audience today here live once again i want to remind everybody here to subscribe right now to our youtube channel by the way it's free to subscribe to the youtube channel and also we are giving these uh elbows up emojis that we're going to be releasing
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if we can get 300 youtube members we don't have outside investors so it helps this network grow we're actually almost there already we'll see if we get there during our first break but that elbows up emojis a great one it's us being in solidarity with canada who's leading the way i think in the resistance internationally against the united states we'll talk about that as well
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When we come back, how their boycott of all things American is impacting America's tourism industry, and they're not buying American goods at a significant scale that's causing real, real issues to the American economy. We'll take our first quick break of the show. We'll be back with a lot more Midas Touch Podcast.
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Look, there's a ghoulishness to this Trump regime and to the MAGA Republicans. It is such a stain on our history. I mean, you see them posting on the official GOP accounts things like this from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This is an official – Republican account, and it is a photo of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and J.D.
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Vance holding a casket and dancing while holding it, and then the casket has USAID on it as they're mocking, destroying a program where many experts believe will literally lead...
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to millions of deaths it was a major part of the soft power of the united states as the leader the once leader of the free world to help people who were starving in other countries and people with uh deadly illnesses um and as a result of the u.s pulling out of its us aid and destroying and dismantling it like there could be quite literally millions of people dying
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And they're posting just this ghoulish dancing. And by the way, this is like a theme with them. There's one that Elon Musk did with the Department of Education, right, where they were at a cemetery and Donald Trump. And it's like a photo of Donald Trump, like laughing at a grave. And it says Department of Education and like department is spelled wrong.
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so we did not see this weekend the trump regime's sham wow guy howard lutnik the commerce secretary i was growing up i would be forced to watch those infomercials when i was watching news with the sham wow guy it's a shammy it's a wow i think when you say that then you have to say no offense to the sham wow guy like you're you're i but i don't know what i gotta say i think you can i think there can be offenses the sham wow guy wasn't exactly a great guy
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Okay, so yeah, we looked into it. There could be offense to him. Got it, okay.
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You gotta be up to date on the references that I throw out here.
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Okay. Okay. We did this routine three weeks ago. This was a shtick that we've developed now, you know, over the course of many weeks. Anyway, Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, he was the one who was going on and going, everybody, we're all going to get rich. You're going to get rich. You're going to get rich. You're going to get rich because tariffs are great.
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All right, well, now Donald Trump saying that his liberation day is gonna happen on April 2nd, where he's gonna tariff every single country, which every economist worth anything is saying is going to cause a massive recession or worse. So naturally, right, the news networks were inviting Howard Lutnick back. Hey, Howard, you were the one kind of selling this thing. So let's hear from you.
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What is going to the business community want some certainty, Howard? So what's going to happen? So on Face the Nation, they invited Howard Lutnick. And let's take a look at what happened. Let's play it.
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Oh, too busy? Too busy now, Howard? Seriously? So then they call on Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's top economic advisors, straight out of jail, basically, right? For contempt of Congress that he served a few months back. He's the one who had like the, what'd they call it?
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Election and- Yeah. And overturn a free and fair election. Anyway, he's the guy now who's out there talking about tariffs. And let's just take a look at what his message to the American people is. This is the message that they were beaming on state regime media known as Fox. Let's play.
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message is that tariffs are tax cuts tariffs are jobs tariffs are national security tariffs are great for america tariffs will make america great again are they doing haikus i mean what they're doing disinfo haikus right i mean are they doing c spot run crash economy books c spot run c spot this tariffs you know This is what I mean, it's a Ponzi scheme regime, right? It's a rug pull regime.
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on Monday where he held an unhinged press conference just an hour or so ago in the Oval Office with Kid Rock dressed in a bright red jumpsuit and fedora. further humiliating the White House and the United States of America. Now, in the past 24 hours, Donald Trump said he could not care less about rising prices. He said he will take over Greenland 100%.
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So you know how we said we were gonna do no tax on tips? You know how we said we were gonna do no tax on social security? Remember when we said no tax on overtime? promises made, promises kept. You get tariffs now, which are the tax cuts. Ergo, mission accomplished. Mic drop. We did everything we said we were going to do. And that's actually what I'm not exact. That's what they're saying.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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and stand up on camera off my legs what if i what if today was leg day i want to show i'm just happy you're wearing boxers quite frankly but the boots look great you know how howard lutnik practiced that line for bad yeah you can practice for good and you can i googled the sham wow guy and wow yeah benji where's your next i told you i got called out for it and i and i changed course jay anyway
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Let me show you, though, who is, I think, leading a new course for how Democrats fight. It's Josh Wheal, the Democratic candidate for Florida's sixth congressional district. There are special elections in Florida. There's the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin. It's a strange concept for some people. You're like, why is there's a race for Supreme Court? That's not in the federal court system.
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The president appoints and the Senate confirms for federal judges, state court judges. There's elections. I mean, at first, a governor appoints. But then after there's a term, there's often elections that take place. And so that's why you have a Supreme court election. And it's so interesting too, because then you have these like judges who are not really used to campaigning.
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They kind of have to campaign and it's like a little bit awkward, you know what I mean? And so like normally the judges who campaign, you know, they're not going to try to get too political. Right. They talk about, you know, law and order. And we're here to, you know, just make sure the law is upheld. And that's what Judge Susan Crawford, the pro-democracy judge, is doing.
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Then you've got this guy like Brad Schimel, the MAGA Doge candidate who literally dressed up like Donald Trump for Halloween. And you've got like Elon Musk going into Wisconsin saying, all right, if you take take photos by the voting locations, but you can't be more than a, you have to be at least a hundred feet away. I'm gonna give you $20.
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Then if you do a photo of a friend, like I'll give you a hundred dollars. And then if you enter into the raffle, I'll give you a million dollars. It's the most ridiculous thing imaginable. And we had the opportunity to speak to the democratic chair, Ben Wickler, who talked about what was going on there. He said in his opinion that what was taking place is criminal.
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The AG is investigating it as well in Wisconsin. And I guess the cruel irony too, is that that scheme, a pay for boat scheme involves literally running for the Supreme court seat in Wisconsin. Uh, And this is just what they're going to do over and over again, these Magna Doge people, because they think that's their way to win. They got to buy votes and bribe people to vote.
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I mean, I guess we start moments ago in the Oval Office. I would say it's one of the most bizarre press conferences I've seen. But with Donald Trump, each one is as bizarre as the last, although I guess it's accelerating here. So while Donald Trump's in the Oval Office, he's got Kid Rock. standing next to him wearing this red jumpsuit, a fedora hat. Weren't these MAGA folks lecturing everybody?
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It's impacting all people. Americans badly who are not billionaires, which is mostly all Americans. Yes. And whether you're a veteran, whether you have a veteran in your family, you're seeing cuts to the VA, you're seeing cuts to your services, cuts to the crisis hotline.
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You're seeing veterans get fired and then be defamed and told it's for performance reasons and that veterans don't deserve these jobs. Federal workers aren't just in Washington, D.C., so it's horrific that federal workers in D.C. are being treated horribly.
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But in all states and varied cities across the country, there are offices where federal workers show up every day, hardworking people who are also being cruelly terminated and defamed and being told it's because of performance reasons, which also hurts their ability to get unemployment benefits as well. People are seeing that their Medicaid could be completely gutted and eliminated.
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People see what we showed you earlier, Howard Lutnick basically saying, if you complain that you don't get your social security check,
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you're the fraudster you're the criminal that they say is causing fraud in social security which of course you're not but that's what they're saying to try to take away social security from it they're already taking it away they're shutting down 47 social security administration offices so if you're on social security you're seeing that it's harder to get in touch
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with people and that your local social security office is probably shut down. You're seeing it under former President Biden. You know what you were seeing? Infrastructure projects going up, things being built, an actual builder, right? With Trump, who claims to be a builder, what you're seeing is what he did his whole life, which is to be a destroyer.
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He rips things down and he does it cruelly and then he blames. That's what he does. This is impacting everyone. And I think what Trump underestimated is the resistance and opposition here in the United States and abroad. whether you're talking about in Asia, where you have alliances like Japan, South Korea, and China joining forces. Unheard of. Joining forces to respond to the tariffs.
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Together, you're seeing new European defense alliances form. Europe coming to the defense of President Zelensky and standing up to Trump. And of course, elbows up, you're seeing Canada lead the way as well. And Canada boycotting all things American, boycotting American tourism.
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Y'all remember when some in the media were saying, we think this may be a 10% boycott, which would cause still like massive amounts of – I said –
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me tell you about the maple mites let me tell you what's really going on in canada right now i said i think the tourism boycott will be like 85 and that's more in the range of where it's at so you're seeing like tourism you know even at a micro level you're seeing like in certain locations like in vegas
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right vegas uh significantly down because canadians aren't traveling there then you're seeing this in cities across the country then in the aggregate you're seeing flights being cancelled the airline industry right now in the united states is absolutely plummeting by the way the european markets are for the first time in a long time doing better by the way than the united states as they're all forming alliances with each other in other countries
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isolating the United States. So that's what's actually happening on the ground here. I mean, take a look at this. While the US spirals into a Trump-induced chaos, European equity markets are now outperforming US markets by a record margin, not just outperforming.
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Zelensky, who's, by the way, dressed as a wartime president in a war. They were attacking Zelensky. Now you have Kid Rock dressed this way. I'll show you clips of that in a little bit. But Donald Trump then starts talking about the word kind in the same way Donald Trump is like the word grocery. What an interesting word, grocery. He now does that with the word kind. And he tells this weird story.
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Okay, I was talking about... Great point, Jordy. Someone in our group chat while we're live showed me that photo of your leg, Jordy. You may want to reevaluate that. Anyway, Josh Wheel, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 6th Congressional District, he's out with some ads that...
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don't pull any punches you know and this reminds me of like the earliest Midas days too like where it was like just go like just just don't mince words just say it just go out there and you know you don't need to hold back where you have doge and musk and this wrecking ball
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a look at the ad that josh wheel who's running for florida's sixth congressional seat which is now open because mike walls the national security advisor who leaked all of the classified information in that signal group thread and then invited into the chat jeffrey goldberg from the atlantic oh do not do that is he doing it again oh that's the photo i thought he was doing it again i
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Pull up the photo, Brett, of the Donald Trump, J.D. Vance. No, not that photo. The photo. This is where we get immature. The photo with the casket, you know, which is what the MAGA Republicans are posting on their Foreign Affairs Committee. I mean, so... I don't know how else you can describe what these magas are doing and what Doge is doing.
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Other than how Josh wheel is like describing it, right? Like, like this, this is real. What we're showing you right there, that this is the MAGA Republican house foreign affairs committee, right? This is supposed to be, it's supposed to be serious stuff. And that is what they're, that is what they're posting right there. I'll share this with you as well. This is from judge Crawford in Wisconsin.
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He says someone called him kind and he never really heard the word kind before. Really? I kind of believe that he never heard the word kind, but play the clip.
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And here's how she describes Brad Schimmel, the MAGA Republican Doge candidate in the ad that she just had to come out here, play this clip.
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too extreme for the supreme court also you should know that brad schimmel as i mentioned earlier dressed up as donald trump for halloween he would go to those trump boat parades and it would be like i love jesus and trump's my president like he would do shirts like that like this is the guy they want to have implement the Doge agenda in Wisconsin.
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Again, just a reminder, the election is Tuesday, it's April 1st, and in Wisconsin and in Florida, these are key, key races right there. Let me give some legal news as well, some updates in the various court cases. Earlier today, a federal judge barred the Trump regime from ending temporary protected status for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals, which was slated to expire next week.
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This order by Judge Chen said the decision by the Trump regime appeared to be rooted in racial discrimination against Venezuelans by Noam and Trump, saying that they basically intentionally distorted data to label the massive group of Venezuelan TPS holders to be linked to crime. Now, it's worth mentioning as well that the Venezuelan community, especially in southern Florida, big Trump community.
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These are family members of Trump voters, Cubans for Trump, Venezuelans for Trump. So what does he do? He turns around with Kristi Noem and his MAGA regime, and he labels all Venezuelans, basically, Tren de Aragua. That's the pretext to do all of this. All gang members, everybody's a criminal. You know, and again, we've been reporting on these stories.
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Mother Jones has been doing a great job reporting on these stories. Time magazine has done a great job reporting on these stories. I mean, you've got this guy who we've talked about before, Andre, a gay makeup artist sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador. They call him Trendy Aragua because he has a tattoo that said mom and dad. on his arms.
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We talked about an individual who had an autism awareness tattoo sent to rot in the El Salvador prison system there. You had someone with the Real Madrid tattoo. They were labeled Trende Aragua. In connection with the lawsuits that have been filed in this area of this ghoulish,
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program kidnapping program by the trump regime the aclu filed documents which basically said here's how ice is determining it it basically if you have a tattoo and there's certain street wear like a color of the clothes those things make you gang members in their mind and you don't get due process
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you don't get to say hey by the way can you can i try to prove it to you nope they go you go to concentration camps in el salvador so you have this one case right here um that involves the federal judge um barring for now the trump regime from ending the temporary protected status because once that's ended right then you go to the next step
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which is sending these people either back to Venezuela, where they're political exiles and they potentially get tortured or killed from the Maduro regime, where they fled to then become lawfully here into the United States, or they get sent to El Salvador. Then there's the other case that the ACLU filed, against the Trump regime.
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That's before Judge Boasberg, where Boasberg through at least mid-April blocked the Trump regime from sending or kidnapping migrants and sending them to El Salvador without providing due process. Judge Boasberg earlier today set a Thursday hearing on his efforts to determine whether the Justice Department violated his orders
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restraining the removals under the alien enemies act and then we learned in the past 24 hours that the trump regime sent more people to el salvador and they said they're doing it not under the alien enemies act but under something else that they don't want to even talk about what it is and again I want to be very clear. I don't want gang members on the street. Nobody wants that.
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We have a system for putting gang members in prisons and deporting them. That already exists. Call me old fashioned, but I believe in due process.
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because I don't want to hear or see or learn about people being kidnapped in the United States and then being sent to concentration camps in El Salvador, concentration camps anywhere, or being sent to any place without having an ability to show or share who it is that they are. That's the system that we have.
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And as the old adage goes, right, first they came for this group and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a part of this group. Then they came for this group. I didn't speak up because I wasn't part of this group. Then they came for this group and I didn't speak up and then they came for me and there was nobody left speaking up for me. That's the lesson of history.
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And that's why right now it is important that we all I think basically commit that we are a nation of laws. Due process is a thing. Due process is a thing. And we're gonna keep highlighting these stories here on the Mighty Touch Network.
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An old-fashioned word like groceries? Very old-fashioned word. Am I back? Is my internet just the worst today on this live? It's the worst. I think we need a liberation day from Ben's bad internet. I need a liberation day for my internet right now.
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And then, Brett, you broke the story about when Kristi Noem wearing the $60,000 Rolex watch in front of the El Salvador prison, which by the way, is also a violation of the Geneva Convention to like parade yourself and use people as props. is a Geneva Convention violation as well. It is horrific to see.
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And by the way, why lots of countries are also not traveling or having people travel to the United States and they're issuing tourism warnings, they're telling their people, if you go to the United States, you may end up in ICE detention or in concentration camps. If you go to the United States, they're telling their people the U.S.
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is a dangerous, dangerous place under the Trump regime and that it can't be trusted. This is a natural consequences of Trump's horrific, horrific policies, and it's shameful.
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Finally, I just want to say, I don't think that people want Democrats to look more MAGA. I'd be very clear about that. They want them to be fighters and fight MAGA harder and put it all out on the line because people are suffering. People are feeling pain. And it is so important that we understand what people are actually going through.
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Well, let me talk to you about the next thing. Donald Trump's asked about what he's referring to as liberation. And they ask him if he's going to move towards a universal tariff or to do individual tariffs on the various countries. And let me show you what he says right here. Here, play this clip.
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It's important that we listen to what the people are experiencing. And whether they're a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, pain and suffering doesn't have a political party. Pain and suffering is something that we all, as Americans, as citizens of this world, should want to try to minimize, mitigate, and eliminate, just trying to be good people.
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With this Trump and MAGA movement, they want to inflict pain. They relish pain. in the pain that they're causing and the suffering that they are doing should not be more like them, should be as far from them. We should never sacrifice our empathy, our joy, our hope. But don't confuse those things for weakness. because we can fight like our life depends on it, because it does.
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And for the people out there who are experiencing this pain and suffering, which is most Americans, unless you're a billionaire, they want fighters right now. We commit to you that at the Midas Touch Network, we will fight every day, every minute, every second, We welcome fighters here on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you, Midas Mighty. We appreciate you so much. Thank you to our mods.
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But we're being nicer than they were. just even his language there were being nicer than they are. And it's not exactly nothing that he says is reassuring, but he has no answer. Do you even think he knows what it means when they say it's going to be a universal tariff or will it be individual?
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And then when he uses the word reciprocal, because the word kind and kindness seems to be very interesting to him. So I'm just genuinely curious if he even knows what those other words mean. And then he talks about, he says, long before Putin, they said, you're not going into NATO. And then he spews Putin talking points from the oval office. Let me play this for you.
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And he does not rule out using military force against Greenland and Denmark, if necessary, to take it because he says it's his. He said he does not even know what signal is or what signal chats are or what the whole text thread on signal thing is all about. And he said he wants to have a third term and there are ways that he can do it. Again, threatening dictatorship.
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That could be the reason the war started. Blaming the fact that Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine on Ukraine wanting to join NATO and frankly belonging in NATO. And you notice him attacking Zelensky there, attacking Ukraine, not attacking Putin at all. And then talking about the rare earth mineral deal. Donald. What you promised was on day one, you said there would be peace in Ukraine.
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You said you got a great relationship with Zelensky, a great relationship with Putin. It would be easy. You said before day one, you would be able to have peace in Ukraine. But instead, you want to do a rare earth mineral deal, which basically just means you don't say even the United States.
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It means like Trump for what his sovereign wealth fund or whatever he wants to create, stealing the rare earth minerals from Ukraine and then carving Ukraine and Europe up for Vladimir Putin. That's what Donald Trump meant by he wanted to do a deal.
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Let's also talk about what Donald Trump was doing from this horrific Oval Office press conference where he just started telling people to vote for the MAGA Doge Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin, Brad Schimel. He's like, you better vote Republican, vote Republican. And he's saying it from the Oval Office, which in any normal times in and of itself would probably be grounds for impeachment.
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Lying about the results of the 2020 election, saying that it's rigged, saying to vote for a Republican Doge MAGA candidate. all the while he's not answering questions about what's going to happen on April 2nd with tariffs that are likely going to further destroy the economy. You've got the Atlanta Federal Reserve predicting a 2.8% contraction
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In our economy, you've got stagflation on the horizon, low GDP and surging inflation. And he's whining about the 2020 election being rigged. Oh, and by the way, let me show you this clip where you'll see Kid Rock next to him in the jumpsuit while Donald Trump from the Oval Office is selling Teslas. Play the clip.
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And again, talking about Teslas, the framing of all of that, it's just like poor Elon, pity Elon. Look, anybody who engages in crimes should be brought to justice. A lot of the protests, though, that are out there, most of those protests, mostly all we see, It's peaceful. Elon Musk, Trump, Doge have destroyed the lives of millions of Americans. They're making veterans suffer.
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This says he's crashing our markets, crashing our economy. All of this comes as well as we approach some very important elections on Tuesday, a big special elections in Florida, a major Supreme Court race in Wisconsin with an empty seat.
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Their hostile takeover of the federal government has been a wrecking ball on people's lives. The way they talk about social security as a Ponzi scheme and shut down social security administration office, these people
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are wrecking balls destroying lives and we're going to see on tuesday what that impact is also going to be during a critical election day we saw what happened in lancaster pennsylvania where a senate district 36 in the pennsylvania state senate that had not gone blue since 1889 flipped blue there.
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So we'll see what happens in the special election now in Florida's sixth congressional district, where you have the Democratic candidate, Josh Weill, running against the MAGA candidate, Randy Fine. We'll talk more about that in a little bit. And then the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, Judge Susan Crawford, the pro-democracy candidate, running against the MAGA Doge candidate, Brad Schimel.
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YIKES! Senate Hearing GOES OFF THE RAILS over Trump Picks
Now, I want to show you this clip first to show you Kash Patel is a liar. Some may call that committing perjury. Others may say lying, but I'll leave that distinction or determination up to you and your opinion. But here, Kash Patel appears repeatedly on a show called Stu Peters, which spread some heinous conspiracies and lies and lies. bunch of toxic, dangerous, dangerous stuff.
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I want you to watch him first appear because then I'm going to show you a clip where Kash Patel says, Stu, I don't know this guy. So first, let me give you receipts.
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Thank you for that montage, Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief now. Democratic Senator Dick Durbin asked Kash Patel, do you know who Stu Peters? Are you familiar who that is? And Kash Patel's like, nope. Watch this.
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So Republicans scheduled three confirmation hearings today to try to jam them all through of the most unqualified, dangerous people. You had Kash Patel, who Donald Trump put to lead the FBI. You had Tulsi Gabbard, who Donald Trump put to be the Director of National Intelligence. And you have anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., who Donald Trump put to run Health and Human Services.
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Now I want to show you RFK Jr. He goes, I've never said anything wrong about science. Play this clip.
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Okay, you want me to show you receipts? Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, bring in the receipts.
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Next up, Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders. Here he goes right here. Let's play the clip.
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The hearings went off the rails awfully quickly today. We try to keep track of them all here on the Midas Touch Network. Here, Kash Patel, who Donald Trump once appointed to lead the FBI, is asked, can you simply say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election? Kash Patel refuses to do so. Play this clip.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. Next up, we have Senator Murray talking to our Democratic Senator Murray, responding to JFK Jr. right here. Play this clip.
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Here is Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. Let's play it.
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Democratic Senator Murphy, let's play it.
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I want kids. Democratic Senator Hirono to Patel. Let's play it.
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And finally, here's Democratic Senator Adam Schiff from the great state of California. Let's play it.
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Oh, I see. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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Next up, you have Democratic Senator Dick Durbin asked Kash Patel about creating a musical with the January 6th insurrectionists and a song called the J6 Choir, which was used to replace the national anthem at Donald Trump campaign events. Play the clip.
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Trump THROWS Elon UNDER THE BUS for DISASTER
Whether you were in a red state or a blue state, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, governors throughout the country, people throughout the country, were outraged that federal funding was so abruptly cut off with a vague memo Now Donald Trump and the White House is basically saying they didn't even get to review the memorandum.
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They said they didn't see it and it went outside of the protocol through the Office of Management Budget, which we now know is also being led not just by Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, but also Elon Musk has stuck his lackeys to basically run and operate the Office of Management Budget.
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They also were the ones who gave that fake severance offer to the 2 million plus federal workers, which if you actually read the fine print, seems like a total fake offer. Now, look, Trump is throwing Musk under the bus, throwing the Office of Management Budget under the bus.
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But let's reflect on what Elon Musk literally said with Donald Trump during the campaign that we tried to repeat over and over again here. on the Midas Touch Network. This is a headline. Elon Musk sees Trump's economic plans causing temporary hardship, is what he said. He goes, there would be an initial severe overreaction in the economy and then hopefully sustainable growth.
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It's like a direct quote from Elon Musk and Donald Trump during the campaign. Or how about this headline? Musk says Trump win would result in hardship to some Americans. The world's richest man promises big spending cuts if Trump gives him a job. Says people taking advantage of government are going to be upset. By the way, we've got the receipts. We've got the audio.
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Here was the unearthed audio of the richest man in the world and in America, Elon Musk, saying that Trump's agenda will cause hardship, will inflict hardship right away. Trump was saying this. Musk was saying this. Russ Vogt, the author of Project 2025, who worked with them, was saying this. Here. Play the clip.
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Now, this is from the Atlantic. I hope this title is being ironic here. The memo that shocked the White House, the directive from the Office of Management and Budget that froze most federal funds on Monday had not gone through the usual approval process. Now, look, Ashley Parker is the author, and Ashley, I just think that Donald Trump probably was aware of this.
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You think that, does it make it worse if he wasn't aware of this? That he's so grossly incompetent and negligent or he's intentionally or malicious. But they're saying what? That there was a secret process, a shadow government, the deep state of Elon Musk and Russ Vogt and the Office of Management Budget. Did Donald Trump, did your own deep state of Elon Musk do this? I mean, come on here, look.
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Donald Trump intended his flood of executive orders to shock and awe his opponents. But on Monday night, a memo from the Office of Management and Budget instead shocked the Trump White House. That memo, with its call for a temporary pause to all federal government grants and loans,
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set off widespread panic and confusion within the federal government and among the millions of individuals and institutions reliant on federal funds. But it was released without going through the usual White House approval process. Ashley, what are the usual White House approval processes? Is it when Donald Trump makes posts of right-wing influencers named Cat Turd? with cats wearing glasses?
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Is that the standard protocol? Or how about when Donald Trump reposts QAnon accounts like this one and others saying, let it flow. Trump sends in the military to turn on the water flow in California. Or this one, this is actually the QAnon one. At spiritual fighter, watch the water. And then when you actually click on it, it's someone who goes, thank you.
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Thank you with the letter Q for Donald Trump posting this and her whole accounts like where we go, when we go all. So explain to me, Ashley, what the diligent processes and protocols are. Or is it as Midas Touch correspondent Mike Sachs has said, I wouldn't be surprised if the White House had trusted votes people.
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And I'll add on top of that, Musk's people who are now at the Office of Management and Budget as well, including OMB's incoming general counsel, to have just proceeded as they saw fit carte blanche. without needing the White House approval because all of the appointees were supposed to be the competent ones and they were supposed to execute the Project 2025 plan. We've got more receipts.
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We always come with receipts here on the Midas Touch Network. But let's recall then what happened. Right. Then you had the White House and the Office of Management Budget put out another memo that purported to rescind the prior memo, which stopped all of the funding and says we hereby rescind it.
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Meanwhile, the various state attorney generals had been filing lawsuits throughout the country and in a Rhode Island federal court. And in the Rhode Island federal court, they were saying, Well, one of the things that Trump's lawyers were saying is, look, we rescinded it. We rescinded it.
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But then Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said, this is not a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It's simply a rescission of the OMB memo. Why? To end any confusion created by the court's injunction. The president's executive order on federal funding remain in full force in effect and will be rigorously implemented.
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So you're saying it's not a rescission on the federal funding freeze, which is the OMB memo. But then you say, what's really happening is it's a rescission of the OMB memo, but not the federal funding freeze in the memo. I just think that Caroline Leavitt doesn't know what the memo is. Donald Trump may not know what the memo is.
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They're getting a lot of grief from right wing governors, Republican governors, former Trump voters who are saying, what the heck is going on? Well, the federal judge, federal judge, Judge McConnell was saying, I wasn't sure how I was going to rule. Because if the order was rescinded, then it would be moot. I wouldn't need to issue injunctive relief.
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But because Trump's own press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, says it's not a rescission of the freeze, I'm going to order an injunction. Trump, you lose. And Trump was a loser in court. The freeze is blocked by the federal judge in Rhode Island, Judge McConnell. Trump was a loser. People are pissed. Republican governors are pissed. People are pissed. So what's Trump doing?
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Must have gone through some other process and channel. Was Russ Vogt the one involved? Well, let's check in on Russ Vogt. Before doing that, let's check in on Donald. Because Donald...
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You were asked, can you take a quick question on government funding on the freeze that has scared people to death, that has ruined people's lives, that has turned the country into chaos in the worst week and a half in presidential history? You want to tell us about that? Trump goes, yeah, I don't think it's appropriate timing. I don't want to talk about it. Play the clip.
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Trump want to talk about? WMD, weapon of mass distraction, of course. He wants to say, oh, we discovered that Biden was trying to do $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Did you know that he was doing... And Hamas, they were using the condoms to make bombs. Hamas condom bombs because of Biden. WMD, weapon of mass distraction. None of that's true. There weren't even condoms sent to Gaza.
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The whole thing is made, every aspect of it is false. There's nothing true about it. The whole thing is false. But this is what they do. They want to distract you because they are losing. They are harming the country and prices are going up, not down. And none of the things they said were going to happen are happening.
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So finally, let me show you Russ' vote. So we all are on the same page. Russ' vote said that they're ready to go. They were going to implement this stuff. This isn't a shock. So Trump can try to throw Musk and vote and others under the bus and say, I didn't know about this. You did. You did. Play the clip.
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Donald Trump is now throwing Elon Musk under the bus. Trump is also throwing Russ Vogt, the head of the office and management budget, under the bus for the memorandum, which froze federal funding to departments and agencies, which was incredibly unpopular.
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Canada BEATS DOWN Trump as he PREPARES TO FOLD
So is Donald Trump setting up for yet another fake deal?
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to take credit for just imaginary things that aren't happening so he can get the propaganda headlines that he won oh donald trump made a deal but in reality it's just the status quo because he doesn't know what the heck he is doing let's go over the facts folks so right here i want to show you this clip first it's canada's minister of foreign affairs melanie jolly and here she says
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What Canada should do is coordinate a joint response with our EU allies, with Canada's EU allies, to retaliate against Donald Trump. Here, watch this.
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Strong words by Melanie Jolly. Now, that follows a meeting with the prime minister of Denmark, Meta Fredricksen, and European Union leaders as well, and European leaders as well, like Macron and others, and the chancellor of Germany as well. And they all agreed that they were going to coordinate a response.
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Even France said that they could provide military weapons and military aid and troops to Greenland to help Denmark if there was an invasion by the United States. Now, I want you to take a look at this because this is how CNN interviewed Canada's ambassador to the US. And what you'll notice about how CNN and Jake Tapper kind of frame the issue. They're like, well, Colombia backed down.
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So do you think Canada is going to give in to Donald Trump's threats and back down like Colombia? I'm going to show you the clip. But Colombia didn't back down. Colombia preserved the status quo. They didn't want military jets treating migrants like trash. and sending them in that way. Columbia was fine with what President Biden was doing.
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So Donald Trump created this threat, this trade war that was about to take place. And then Donald Trump claimed he made a deal and he said, Columbia submitted, Columbia gave in and they liked it. Look what Columbia did, but nothing changed.
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That's part of Donald Trump being a con artist, a weapon of mass distraction to try to take our minds away from the havoc and chaos that he's creating and to claim victories that aren't real victories, just making them up. I just want you to be aware of the hustle because corporate media ain't reporting it this way, but this is what happening.
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So here's Canada's ambassador, but notice how Jake Tapper asks the question.
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All right, so now I want to share with you the confirmation hearing of Trump's Commerce Secretary pick, Howard Lutnick. Now, Howard Lutnick basically said, look, Canada and Mexico, they can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline. They just got to stop killing 100,000 Americans. which they're not. You want to know where fentanyl mostly comes from? China.
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You want to know where else it comes from? America, where 99% of the deaths are occurring are from Americans taking these synthetic drugs. That's what is happening. It is a serious issue.
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within America that states in America should be dealing with, that we should be funding, that we should be properly educating people on, and we should be addressing, but which Trump and MAGA want to scapegoat as they defund all of these programs to try to help it. They want to scapegoat it on other countries.
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So Howard Luttnick saying, look, if these countries just give in, here's what's going to happen. We may not impose those tariffs.
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What's really happening is that Howard Lutnick, who is a Wall Street banker, one of Trump's billionaire, he's a billionaire, billionaire broligarcs, they know if Trump imposes the tariffs, just look how the threat of tariffs on Colombia has harmed the American economy and how coffee prices are up significantly. and gas prices are going up, and how prices are going up in general.
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If that happened with Colombia, imagine a trade war with Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. So Trump and Lutnick need to save face. They're scared of a united Europe, Canada, Mexico. They didn't see that happening. So now they need to figure out a way to save face. Now, Canada may help them save face. Certainly Canadian media is trying to help Trump save face.
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You notice some of the headlines in Canadian media, Canada launches fentanyl crackdown to convince Trump tariffs aren't necessary. That's how you're reporting it, CBC. We need to convince Donald Trump that we won't kill Americans anymore. Canada isn't doing that, okay? It's built on a foundation of lies. So it's ridiculous that that's how Canada is reporting it. Will Trump not give it?
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Will we submit to Donald Trump? I mean, that reporting right there is pathetic in my opinion as well. Let me show you what Lutnick said. Let's play this clip.
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Canada is not backing down to Donald Trump in the United States. Canada is standing firm. It's standing on business. By and large, Canada and its provinces have united against Donald Trump. And they've united with their allies across the globe to coordinate a strong and powerful campaign. and painful response if Donald Trump imposes tariffs or sanctions against Canada.
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And he's really, really weak. Here, play this clip.
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And by the way, with how horrible of a job Hegseth is doing already, Donald Trump's posting this. Recruiting numbers are up. The army now is scheduled to meet its goals. All woke base names are gone. Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Trump saying like the military is perfect and he fixed everything in 24 hours. And then he makes posts like I made, he pretends he made it rain in California.
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Let there be water. That's what he's posting. I mean, you know, we're talking about a real sicko here, but let's be real about the facts about what's happening. And by the way, I hope there aren't tariffs. If Canada wants to pretend they made a fake deal with Donald Trump and Mexico claims they made a fake deal with Donald Trump and there are no tariffs.
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I'll tell you who seems like they're backing down. It seems like Donald Trump is backing down because now we're seeing headlines like this. Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday's deadline, says Donald Trump's commerce pick, Howard Lutnick. They just need to agree to stop shipping their fentanyl and killing 100,000 Americans, which Canada isn't doing.
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I mean, I'll ask you, do you think that that's a net win to have fake deals and then Donald Trump doesn't impose the tariffs? And then he makes social media posts that say they submitted. I mean, I'll let you answer that. That it's just incredibly bizarre and brazen and strange. But I want you to know what the hustle is here.
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And while now Americans are suffering under his policies, while prices are going up, he can't solve the war in Ukraine. And you see how our media reports it like Jake Tapper. Well, Columbia back down. What are you talking about? They did none of that. But now you know the facts. We're going to arm you with the truth here at the Midas Touch Network with the objective data.
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So check out MidasPlus.com for more. You can check that out. Thank you, SnapStream, for some of those clips right there. We appreciate it. That's how we help clip our stuff. And thanks for watching. Have a good one.
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Trump has AWFUL Presser with ODD MENTAL ISSUES all day
Donald Trump has pretended or lied that he sent the United States military into the state of California to turn on a faucet in the Northwest. which is entirely false. And Donald Trump and some of his QAnon cult are now saying that Donald Trump was responsible for the rain. Donald Trump was reposting an account called Spiritual Fighter, which is a QAnon account.
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She then responds, if it is a she, who goes, thank QAnon. At Real Donald Trump for posting the link to my reply on your Truth Social post. It's a great honor. And her account is literally a QAnon account that says where we go one, we go all, the QAnon slogan. But she thanked Q for Donald Trump reposting it, Donald Trump just reposting QAnon stuff. More posts by Donald Trump saying, let it flow.
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Trump sends in military to turn on the water flow in California. Again, that never happened. The mental breakdown, the lies, the delusion, the insanity here is omnipresent. Next, Donald Trump, well, they're advertising on his social media platform. When you look through his posts, we're giving away free Trump second term gold coins to everyone who clicks this. Also, at the same time, RFK Jr.
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's confirmation hearing was taking place. They were also advertising on Donald Trump's social media platform. 10% off. Ivermectin. They're still selling that crap on Trump's social media site. More weird posts by Donald Trump referring to himself as the G-O-A-T, the GOAT. And he claims that America's now great again in one week. Frankly, we've never been weaker than before in our history.
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And then Donald Trump finally gets to this press conference and he's asked a question. He's talking about all these other things in the press conference. He's talking about lies that America sent. $50 million bomb condoms to Gaza that we sent bomb condoms, condoms that became bombs used by Hamas. 100% false, not a single dollar went to Gaza for condoms. There was aid that went to Gaza.
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America sent internationally about $60 million of contraceptive aid internationally, but there were no condom bombs or condoms. But Anyway, Donald Trump and MAGA will lie about everything. The bigger, the more outlandish is their WMD, their weapon of mass distraction from the fact that egg prices are not down, grocery prices are not down, gas prices are up. The economy ain't better.
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The Federal Reserve refused to lower interest rates because of Donald Trump's chaos, to which Donald Trump then started attacking the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Chairman Powell, and saying that they're too focused on DEI and green stuff and don't care about the economy. Anyway. Trump was asked, can you take a quick question on government funding?
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Like, you've created mass pandemonium and chaos in this country. What's your response? Trump goes, I don't think it's appropriate timing to talk about that. It's not appropriate. Here, watch this.
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But what was Donald Trump talking about? Lying and saying that they stopped $50 million to Gaza to buy condom bombs. But to be very clear, as Josh Rogin makes sense, according to comprehensive reports issued by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, not a penny of the 60.8 million in contraceptive and condom shipments funded by the U.S. in the past year went to Gaza.
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But here's what Trump said. Let's play it.
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Then Donald Trump talked about his threats to Colombia and the fake deal he made with Columbia, which preserved the status quo that existed when President Biden was in office. But then Donald Trump said to Columbia, Donald Trump goes, I told them you're gonna take your migrants back and you're gonna like it.
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By the way, that's what abusers, that's how abusers talk. And look, Donald Trump is someone found liable of sexual assault. He is someone who was separately convicted of 34 felony counts in New York. He talks like a mobster.
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Then Donald Trump talks about how he's basically going to be opening up what appears to be a concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. They're calling it a migrant facility in Guantanamo Bay.
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And then Donald Trump posts the following, a photo of Pete Hegseth, who is the former Fox host, someone entirely unqualified to become the defense secretary who the MAGA Republicans confirmed. And now Donald Trump and Hegseth are just lying about the numbers and they go, recruiting numbers are up. The army is now scheduled to meet all of its goals. All woke base names are gone.
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He's getting more unhinged and bizarre each and every day. So Donald Trump's Wednesday freakout was a sight to behold. Donald Trump was supposed to sign into law the Lake and Riley Act, which he did. Took him seven days to do that while he's been playing golf and shutting down government funding to go to where it's needed, and then rescinding a memo, shutting down the government funding.
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Fort Liberty's back to being Fort Bragg. Oh, yeah. You just solved everything. Recruitment's all of a sudden up. Everything's great, folks. This is Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin-style propaganda. This is the epitome of weakness, by the way, in addition to freezing. government aid being shipped out. This is why they did a freeze on government communication. They don't want to report disease numbers.
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They don't want to report the real economic numbers. They don't want to report recruitment numbers. Why? They want to do this Kim Jong-un crap and just lie. They think that's strength. Remember what he said during COVID? Like a miracle, it's all going to just go away and they expect us to buy into the propaganda. Pete Hegseth then posted, we don't want criminal illegals on our soil.
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They need to go home. Using Gitmo will facilitate that. It's the perfect location, he says. And by the way, there's also a recent study showing that most of the people or majority of the people they're rounding up are not criminals. They don't have criminal records. They're not terrorists. They're migrants who are contributing to the economy. Don't get me wrong.
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There are some criminals, but Biden was deporting criminals. Biden had less border crossings than Trump did at the end of Biden's term. Oh, and then there's this piece of news while all of this is going on that you have Zuckerberg's meta is agreeing to pay Donald Trump $25 million. million dollars. Donald Trump filed some ridiculous lawsuit for being blocked by Facebook in 2021.
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And the way Donald Trump had ABC kiss the ring and pay him $15 million, well now Donald Trump using the office of the presidency to have the Broligarcs pay him money, which they say $23 million or $22 million is going to the presidential library that's not built, 3 million going to legal funds. And by the way, so what we told you is going to happen.
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Trump was going to go to those billionaires who kissed the ring and say, you have to pay me money. So while your gas prices are not lower, while your egg prices are not lower, while your groceries are not lower, while your housing is not more affordable, while the government freeze may have thrown you and your family into an utter panic.
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and has crippled our country while we are weaker internationally than we've ever been in the history of the United States. Donald Trump's out there asking his broligarcs to pay him legal settlements to enrich himself, to enrich his lawyers, and for future presidential libraries. I'm wink, wink, I'm sure about that. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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The truth is so critical now more than ever. I want to thank my friends at Snapstream, by the way, for helping with those clips. Thank you. And go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. And let's go to MidasPlus.com as well. Thanks for watching.
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But then his press secretary said it wasn't rescinded, so states had to go into court to get another injunction to block Donald Trump from depriving people of emergency and necessary and critical government funding. But while all of that was going on, what was Donald Trump doing? Well, he was sitting around and making posts like this. Watch the water.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
Michigan voters are having some serious regrets about picking Donald Trump. Michigan went for Donald Trump in 2024, but a recent focus group by Axios and the group called Engage Us Sago spoke with some of the Trump voters in Michigan who are livid to say the least. Overwhelmingly, the Trump voters in this focus group were pissed off. They said they feel utterly betrayed.
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That's an understatement. And the MAGA Republican Congress members in Michigan, like Tom Barrett, are avoiding their town halls. Let me just share with you from a local news segment. They are finding time to show up to basketball games, but not see their constituents who are holding their own town halls in the absentia of the MAGA Republican Congress members. Let's play it.
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Now let's bring in Michigan Democratic State Senator Mallory McMorrow out with a new book, by the way, Hate Won't Win. Find your power and leave this place better than we found it. Here's the book right here. And I read it. Thank you for sending me a copy of it. And when I show you that focus group, is that what you're hearing on the ground in Michigan?
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Now, one of the things you're hearing a lot, you spoke about it recently at a committee hearing, is how scared the veteran community is not being able to access services. Can you speak to that?
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They say that Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the country and their state, and they want their vote back. We'll just show you a little bit from this focus group that was released a short time ago. Let's play it.
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We've been covering the protests across the country. There was a big protest in Detroit and then kind of a corresponding one in Windsor showing support between the American people and And the Canadian people with this wedge being driven by the Trump regime saying they want to annex or conquer Canada, you know, as Michigan's proximity to our ally, people that we love Canada.
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What are you hearing in Michigan and how is this all affecting your constituents in Michigan?
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You know, your book, Hate Won't Win, it's perfect for this time as well. And it's also, I think you talk about, you know, just as Democrats, but as people, not sacrificing your values. I mean, just because we saw what happened in the 2024 election doesn't mean to become clones of this hateful message to lead with empathy and love and respect. Bridging the Gaps Between People.
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So it's a very timely book and maybe speak to the book in the current context of what we're seeing right now, late March of 2025.
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You know, it's so funny because when I was getting involved as well in building this media network, the first way I started was Googling. Like, what do I do if I want to make a video and how do I go about it? We all start somewhere.
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And that's what you have in your book, you know, find your power, a whole section on the step-by-step guide about what you do and don't view politics as a dirty word and just start by starting. What do you think in this moment? Look, the Democrats on the, Federal level, it's a different situation than in Michigan.
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
But on the federal level, Democrats don't control the House, don't control the Senate, obviously don't control the executive branch. But that's not an excuse. People are saying, OK, that's fine, but we want to see you fight. You're known as a fighter in Michigan and in the state Senate. So what do you tell the Democrats who don't control the House and the Senate at the federal level?
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What does fighting look like to Senator McMorrow?
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What do you make of this whole situation, just the incompetence and the dangerousness? And then they always mounted on top of with the lies of what happened with the Trump regime, Department of Defense officials, national security advisors sending like war plans on text messages. And then earlier on Tuesday, there were hearings with the top officials.
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the director of national intelligence, head of the CIA. And they go, yeah, you know what? That's not even classified information. It is what it is. And then the senators were like, we would be talking about war plans. Of course, that's classified information. And it's just this gaslighting, strange time. What do you make of it all?
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
And finally, when you see that focus group and you see all of those people who now have regret, like what's the message as you're traveling around Michigan right now as part of the book tour, but just in general, what are you saying to the people who are scared about
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Social Security, Elon Musk calling it a Ponzi scheme, Trump's Commerce Secretary saying you're probably engaged in fraud if you complain if a Social Security check is missed, gutting Medicaid, $4.5 billion tax cuts for billionaires, so on and so forth. What are you telling people who are like, I'm nervous, what do I do tomorrow?
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MI State Senator McMorrow on Why Hate Won’t Win
we're going to rebuild these systems for you and we have to create a system where they want to be a part of joining us and as you say in your book don't check out stay in the fight stay in there everybody get a copy of this hate won't win find your power and leave this place better than we found it state senator mallory mcmorrow and of course everybody knows the historic speech that you gave i normally would play it at the beginning but everybody knows state senator mcmorrow
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I'll ask you the obvious question if you're going to be running for Senate, but I'm not sure you'll give the answer anyway. And so I'm rooting for you. And that's all that I will. That's all I will say. Thank you for joining.
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I appreciate it. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
We're seeing Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee fighting back. An incredible explosive hearing yesterday where Democratic members were not taking the BS peddled by the Trump regime officials who were testifying. Let me show you what went down.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Then Congressman Roger Krishnamoorthy, let's play it.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Congress member Himes, said the following to Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. Let's play it.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Let's bring in Congress member Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. I guess, first off, it is classified information, correct? As the ranking member, this was classified information that was leaked.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Where are we at with this right now? I mean, you led for the Democrats as the ranking member, the Democrats in the House Intelligence. Where are we at? Where do we go from here? What's going on?
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
But Congressman, this couldn't possibly just be the only one. Like the way they named the chat, Houthi small group, the way everyone seemed to conduct what was taking place as business as usual. At least it tells me that this is what they're doing all the time, every day, with other plans, other attacks.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
We don't know that yet for a fact, but it seemed as a lawyer, it seemed pattern and practice like. So what's being done to determine if this is rampant, if this is how they do it all of the time? And do you think this is how they've been conducting business all of the time like this on signal chats with very sensitive information?
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Now, your Republican colleagues, who I think once upon a time would like labels like National Security Hawk and this and that, their response has either been, this is normal, this is cool. oopsies, mistakes happen, or yeah, I'm concerned about it. It's a mistake. I think the strongest statement we got was somewhere between oopsie and it's a mistake, maybe on the Senate slightly stronger.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
So what could you do though, as the ranking member, that means you're the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, but you still don't control the committee. You don't have subpoena power. They get to control the course of, but what can you do in that reality?
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
I want to get your take on Elise Stefanik. It's being announced that her nomination is being pulled for the ambassador to the United Nations. This follows, I think Republicans are getting worried about the electoral map that they're seeing. They saw what happened in a Pennsylvania state race that never went Democrat since 1889 and a Democrat won in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
I think they're seeing kind of what's happening in Florida right now in these specials. People are saying that's behind it. But, you know, Elise Stefanik, She morphed from moderate to ultra-MAGA, ultra-MAGA, and now Hegseth gets to be Secretary of Defense and Stefanik does not get to be Ambassador to the United Nations. Some might call it karma. Some might use other words.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
What's your response to all of this?
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Congressman, as we start hearing more about the framework of the budget, as we start hearing about what they're doing as we reach the debt ceiling, we'd love for you to come back and talk about that. But any other thoughts where things start to head on that front this week, next week, as some of those details start to emerge?
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Well, we hope to have you back soon to walk us through that canyon, take us through the trail and hopefully get us out of Magaland back into the world of normalcy. Congress member, thanks for joining us. Thank you so much. Take care. Congressman Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Thank you for joining us. Hit subscribe. Let's get to five million subscribers.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
What? The director of national intelligence saying that she wants to use her First Amendment rights to repost Russian propaganda? Great questioning there by Congressman Himes. Then you had Democratic Congressmember Castro say the following. Let's play it.
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Trump Has 2 AM Meltdown as Panic Sets In
Donald Trump was freaking out at 1am, 2am in the morning East Coast time, making posts like this. If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large-scale tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend,
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George W. Bush, and then after that by former President Obama, that he was assigned a new federal case. And the assignments are all random regarding the use by Pete Hegseth and Mike Walz and all of the Trump kind of D.O.D., N.S.A.,
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and DNI people on Signal where they were having those war plan chats and how that's a violation of the Public Records Act and other archival laws and just how communications are supposed to take place and not supposed to take place. The judge got assigned that case. So Trump is freaking out there. He's highly conflicted, not only in his hatred of me, massive Trump derangement syndrome.
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I could go on, but you get the point. It's just A huge paragraph of capital letters, non-capital letters, whining, non-sequiturs. And what Donald Trump wants to distract our attention from is the fact that his Department of Defense and national security team were leaking war plans on signal chats with the reporter. Donald Trump is most comfortable attacking judges.
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attacking entities, attacking deep state. And he doesn't want us to focus on his broken promises that prices are not going down, that his tariffs have crippled our economy. The latest economic reports show that the United States is heading into not just a recession, but potentially a deep recession. And even worse, American consumers are
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the least confident about the economy in generations at this point. And it looks like he's intentionally or at least recklessly catapulting the United States into a deep recession or depression. Donald Trump is also seething right now because of this meeting of the Coalition of the Willing of democracies in Europe right now in France. French President Emmanuel Macron is
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that each of those two countries has ever had exclamation point these posts at 1 a.m 2 a.m are literally the posts of like an actual abuser then he posts this in all caps liberation day in america is coming soon for years we have been ripped off by virtually every country in the world both friend and foe. But those days are over. America first.
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has called all these nations whether it's canada and australia european nations and others to show support for ukraine the united states is now isolated and kind of an island in it of itself at this point um as the us wants to like suck up to the access of evil and under donald trump's regime and join with uh putin and kim jong-un and here we see uh emmanuel macron post building a robust piece for ukraine and europe
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Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, the prime minister of the UK, and others, Prime Minister Carney of Canada, I think they've done a great job here kind of rallying together and showing real strength and force and standing up to Russia. I didn't think Putin saw that aspect coming. I think they thought that... The Europeans and Canadians would fold to Donald Trump, but it's been the opposite.
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And Trump's shown pathetic weakness. Macron said Europe must be prepared in case America is not with us, even if that means we have to act alone. Also, Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum says within a free trade agreement, by the way, one that Donald Trump negotiated, there should not be tariffs at all.
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Yeah, I mean, Donald Trump negotiated the USMCA and now he says, what stupid people did that deal? Meanwhile, the conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, showing unity with the Liberal Party leader and the prime minister, Mark Carney, saying that we're going to inflict pain on the United States.
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And this is coming from Doug Ford, who was once Maple Maga. He was once a big Trump supporter, this guy. And here's he saying... Trump has added again his 25 percent tariffs on cars and light trucks will do nothing more than increase the cost for hardworking American families. U.S. markets are already on the decline as the president causes more chaos and uncertainty.
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He's putting American jobs at risk. I've spoken with Prime Minister Carney. We agree Canada needs to stand firm, strong and united. I fully support the federal government preparing retaliatory tariffs to show that we will never back
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This as he's gutting people's Medicaid here and attacking Social Security and gutting people's 401ks and retirement savings. This is what he's posting at 1 a.m., 2 a.m. in the morning in his freak out panic. Then he posts this NPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms, networks,
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Speaking about not backing down, the people of Greenland stood up to the Trump regime, and now J.D. Vance, Usha Vance, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz have canceled their aggressive trip to Greenland. They were going to go in there as a show of force. They were literally knocking on the doors of Greenlanders.
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over the past few days trying to get anybody to welcome them to Greenland for a photo op. Nobody wanted them there. There were going to be massive rallies against their presence there. As you see from some of the latest polling data, 85 to 90 percent of Greenlanders want nothing to do with the United States at all. And now Vance
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and the trump regime has canceled their trip they knew it was going to be absolutely humiliating as donald trump continues to talk about annexation the conservative member of parliament in denmark greenland's part of the territory is the territory of the kingdom of denmark rasmus jarlov says the following american organizers went knocking on doors in the capital of greenland to try and find a family that would invite mrs usha vance in when they arrived it failed
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Every single person said no. Instead, a large demonstration against the American threats of taking over Greenland were planned. Realizing it would be a public relations disaster, the Americans finally canceled the visit. Please let it go. The people of Greenland do not want to be American. And they cannot be bought, bribed or persuaded. They have done nothing to deserve this aggression.
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Neither has Denmark. International borders must be respected. And here Orla Jolson has been doing a great job on the ground in Greenland posting the happening, says the U.S. government vehicles. which had been transported to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, Sunday for use to J.D. Vance's wife, are now leaving Nuuk. There you see it right there.
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Greenland visit canceled after locals refused to welcome Usha Vance. And also Denmark went absolutely nuclear on J.D. Vance and the United States over this visit and said, how dare you do not show we do not we do not support this. You're showing aggression to us. Get out of here.
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And meanwhile, you have Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, going to El Salvador, where she made a video like a selfish video in front of one of the prison cells there at their concentration camp. Here's what Kristi Noem said in El Salvador. Here, play this clip.
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Now, this follows one of the things that we've been learning, of course, about how, and this was a report by Mother Jones, you're here because of your tattoos, how a lot of these migrants who were sent to the concentration camps in El Salvador were in the United States lawfully. They were lawful asylum seekers. Some had tattoos like autism awareness. Others had tattoos of butterflies. There was a
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I'm not sure why that's in parentheses with an exclamation point, should be defunded by Congress immediately. Republicans don't miss this opportunity to rid our country of this giant scam in all caps, both being arms of the radical left Democrat party. Just say no and make America great again, exclamation point. By the way, he kept on going. It was a frenzy of panic posts, 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m.
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a gay hairstylist and makeup artist. These individuals are not Trendy Aragua gang members. I mean, you go see these stories of Neri Alvarado working in Dallas as a baker, has a autism awareness tattoo. An ICE agent tells Neri Alvarado, we're finding and questioning anyone who has a tattoo. You have a tattoo. We think you're Trendy Aragua. Concentration camp in El Salvador. See you there.
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Another man who was sent to the concentration camps in El Salvador said, is Arturo Suarez, Venezuelan musician, entered U.S. at the port of entry, not illegally, not unlawfully, no criminal records. He has some tattoos sent to concentration camps. His family was able to recognize him in the video where they were brutalizing the prisoners in the concentration camp.
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You can see the arrow right there. That's how the family identified him. And there was Andres, the gay hairstylist as well, who was sent. Women were sent to the concentration camps. The concentration camps only take male prisoners. Horrific, horrific stuff being carried out at the direction of the United States. Also, one of the things we're learning about now is.
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is a new proposed mineral deal that the United States has sent to Ukraine. Under this deal, the United States would basically steal all of the minerals from Ukraine, provide zero security guarantees, and it would just be a total conquest, basically, of Ukraine.
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As I've said from the outset, with the Trump regime's plan, when they were talking about a deal, it was very obvious to me what the deal was. They wanted to give Putin half of Ukraine.
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And then the Trump regime wanted to take the other half, steal the minerals, in my opinion, put it in a sovereign wealth fund under Trump's control, and then build out all of the things that Trump wants to put his name on and then rule as a dictator using Ukraine's rare earth minerals as his sovereign wealth fund money. That was always my suspicion of what he was trying to do there.
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I think that's borne out. But Zelensky in Europe right now, in France with the Coalition of the Wielding standing shoulder to shoulder as the U.S. imposes its tariffs on everyone and behaves like a total, utter maniac of a nation under the Trump regime. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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in the morning. How about this post? How disgraceful is it that, quote, Judge James Boasberg has just been given a fourth, quote, Trump case, something which is statistically impossible? He's referring to the fact that the Washington, D.C. federal district court judge, the chief judge, the top judge, federal judge in Washington, D.C., who was originally appointed by
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Elbows up Canada, Canada strong, Canada united against the Trump regime as Donald Trump is now saying he's imposing 25% tariffs on automobiles across the world, including Canada. Canada's saying that's a direct attack, Donald. And if you thought the boycott was bad already on what Canada's doing, standing up to the United States, just you wait. We're standing up to the Trump regime.
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Great stuff. Proud that I can show you this. Incredible courage from the Canadian people. We have a huge international audience here on the Midas Touch Network. A huge Canadian audience. The number one podcast in Canada. The number one podcast in many European countries as well. In Australia, big presence there. Big presence in New Zealand and throughout the world.
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And so we're seeing what you're doing, Canada. And Canada Strong elbows up. That's now a rallying call to the rest of the world. Thanks to you. History is going to remember the courage that you all showed. We're grateful for all of you Canadians. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Isn't just a trade war that Donald Trump has declared. He's declared an actual war on Canada and the people of Canada and the people of Canada have stood up. Put Donald Trump in his place. I'm loving, by the way, the Reddit message boards of Canadians sharing their stories like this. Not going to lie, I'm living for the pettiness here.
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It warms my cold, dark heart to see all the American products sitting on the shelves and being donated to the food banks. Viva la Canada. Canada's boycott against anything U.S. going strong. Canada's boycott on U.S. tourism going strong at all Canadian grocery stores and shops in general. They have the Buy Canada label. And if it ain't Buy Canada, they ain't.
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buying it and good for them seeing the elbows up chocolate right here people sharing their Costco runs Costco run zero US product super premium plus cold brew coffee Chapman's ice cream Made in Canada. This headline from the Globe and Mail we see repeated throughout various media organizations. Buy Canadian movement starts to take a sizable bite out of the U.S. business.
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People sharing stories like this in Canada. More cancellations. Just spent the morning with my travel agent changing travel plans. We were initially going to visit friends in Phoenix, Arizona. But under their recommendation, we decided to change it to Mexico. The travel agent said they've seen more than a 50% cancellation rate of their U.S. bookings, including bus tours to the States.
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She told me they have had so many more requests for Canadian tour destinations than ever before. and have totally filled up every East Coast bus tour and are filling a waiting list to get more buses online to Canada. Keep it up. Elbows up, everybody. Now, Mark Carney gave a powerful speech today as well.
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about defending the workers in Canada and how Donald Trump's automobile tariffs is a direct attack on Canada and its people. I want to play that for you, but then I also want to play for you our friend Charlie Angus joining protests at the American Consulate in Toronto. So people in Toronto protesting the Trump regime in front of the American Consulate and then the American Consulate ordered
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the police in Toronto to push the protesters away because that's how big of snowflakes the Americans in the consulate are. They can't handle a protest under the Trump regime. I want to show you what went down there. You're not going to want to miss this. First, Prime Minister Carney is giving a powerful statement right as Donald Trump imposed the 25% automobile tariffs. First, play this clip.
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Canadian Prime Minister. Mark Carney called Trump's auto tariffs, a direct attack on his country. And we're learning facts like this, which we've been talking about on the Midas touch network. Now for several months, we've been predicting this and it's easy to predict things like this.
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All right, now I got to share with you what went down in Toronto with Charlie Angus and protesters. So Charlie just joined a group of protesters. We're seeing protesters across Canada. If you're living in Canada, you know these are going up everywhere, these protests at the American consulates, in front of American businesses, wherever.
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wherever you're having these spontaneous protests take place. So here's Charlie Angus. He meets these protesters and he goes, we in Canada will never kiss the gangster ring of this authoritarian Trump regime. Let's play this one first. Let's play it.
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Elbows up. Now just to show you what this protest looked like, here you see the protesters doing the elbows up chant. By the way, Charlie tells me a lot of Midas Touch fans in this protest, and I want to say what's up to all of you, what's up to all the Canadians protesting. Thank you for standing up and showing a great example, not just in Canada and the rest of the world, but also right here.
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here in the U.S. You inspire us with your courage and your strength. And I just so look forward to the day when we get rid of this Trump regime and we could all rejoice and celebrate together. That's what I look forward to. But here are some of the Canadians protesting in front of the American consulate in Toronto. Play this clip.
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Right now, here's the moment where you can see the Toronto police officer goes up to Charlie Angus and the group and says, you know, look, the people up there in the American consulate, they don't want you standing here. He doesn't say this, but they're too big of snowflakes. And then Charlie Angus is like, all right, like he's being polite. We're a polite people. We'll protest from there.
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When you speak to the Canadian people and you see how strong and powerful they are and the resistance that they're leading across the world is to the Trump regime. Air travel between US and Canada drops sharply. Flight bookings between Canada and the US are collapsing, according to airline data provider OAG.
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Now here, Charlie Angus talks about the strength of Canadian democracy. Let's play it.
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And we will defend it. Oh, this was a great part of this Toronto rally where Charlie Angus says, yeah, we're DEI. We're diversity, equity and inclusion. Yeah, we're the original Antifa. We hate fascists. Our parents and our grandparents fought the fascists and we kicked their fascist asses. Play this clip. I want to thank you for letting me crash your rally, by the way.
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Compared to this time last year, bookings are down 70% every month through the end of September, according to the firm's analysis. Canada is typically the top source of international visitors to the US. Quote, this sharp drop suggests that travelers are holding off on making reservations likely due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the broader trade dispute, OAG says. Can I rephrase that for you?
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And here I think Charlie Angus captures it all wonderfully where he goes, you know, one of the things with Canada is we're being role models to the rest of the world right now. We're showing Europe how to do it. We're showing Australia how to do it. New Zealand. We're showing people in Africa, Central America, South America, Mexico, wherever.
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We've shown the model of how you stand up to the gangster Trump regime. Here, play this clip.
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Powerful stuff. I got to get Charlie back on and ask him about this. Great work, Charlie Angus. Great work to all the protesters out there. We see you all. We're grateful for you. We here stand in solidarity with you. And I want to show you this moment at the recent hearing in the Senate where Senator Heinrich from New Mexico, Democratic senator.
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he does a great job questioning Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, or for her it's unintelligence, or what, just giving our secrets away to foreign adversaries at this point, I mean, based on their reckless sloppiness and dangerousness.
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But here in this questioning, the senator's like, I noticed in your recent report when you were saying about the dangers of fentanyl, you didn't mention that Canada was involved in any dangers by giving fentanyl. So how do you square that with all of Donald Trump's lies? Why wouldn't you put that in your report? Oh, because it's a lie. It's a Putin style lie.
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It's when Putin says denazification to conquer Ukraine or to try to take it over and unlawfully invade a sovereign territory. This is Donald Trump's version of denazification. Oh, they're killing everybody with fentanyl. You know, Trump learns from Putin. I mean, but you know, he takes his orders from daddy Putin. And Daddy Elon, take a look at what went down here. Play this clip.
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I think what Canada is doing is saying, hey, Donald, you've declared war on our country. Let us smack you down, you pathetic little weasel, you. We're not visiting your country while the Trump regime continues to say how they want to annex us and conquer us. We're going to stand up Canada strong elbows up. That's what's going down. Use the right language.
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Rotten to the core. There's so much Donald Trump has done over the past 24 hours that is absolutely despicable. I don't want to lose sight of the fact that he claims he wasn't even briefed about the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania yesterday. Donald Trump was holding his Oval Office press conference. He was asked, hey, did Pete Hegseth, your Secretary of Defense, brief you on this?
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Oh, and by the way, your top Department of Defense officials and national security officials apparently are in text threads giving war plans to a reporter who they included on a chat called the Houthi chat, destroying our national secrets. While, by the way, one of your envoys who was on that chat was in Moscow. More on that in a bit.
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But we're also learning that Hegsith Walls, Gabbard, have also their private data and passwords. Easily accessible online, Der Spiegel wrote an incredible article here about how private data and passwords of the senior U.S. security officials were found online. Also, from Daniel Bukaslaw, he explains how Michael Waltz's Venmo was public until moments ago. And it's full of reporters.
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public, full of journalists. You know how Michael Waltz, Donald Trump's national security bar is like. I never met before Jeffrey Goldberg. Remember what Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, who was included on those text threats said? It didn't surprise me that Mike Waltz would include me on something. But to be included on this, why?
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Because clearly Waltz is a source for people like The Atlantic. It has lots of reporters, even on his Venmo. Let's talk about the tariffs yesterday. Donald Trump said that he was putting 25% tariffs on all automobiles across the world. He says basically with no exceptions as the Detroit free press rights tariffs threatened to cut us auto sales by 700,000 in 2025 amid recession uncertainty.
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Also the price of a vehicle, will now likely go up $5,000, $10,000, $15,000, which for all purposes means vehicles are not going to be sold. And that's going to further tank the economy. I'm going to do a whole other video about how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rightfully says this is a direct attack on Canada and others across the world are feeling the same.
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Now, when you turn on your phone or when you turn on the Internet in the morning, whereas you used to get headlines under former President Biden, like the American economy is the envy of the world, new records being set in the Dow and the S&P and Nasdaq, GDP hits record growth, America energy independent. 50,000 infrastructure projects going up.
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America defeating China in the race for green energy and world economy. Now you get headlines like this. Business Insider. Here's how far stocks could drop if a full-blown recession strikes. And yesterday was a disaster for the market. And who knows what today is going to hold as yet another day of Trump's chaotic and disastrous policies take effect.
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And Donald Trump cavalierly said, I don't know anything about it and seemed not to even care.
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But yesterday, Donald Trump was asked, hey, Donald, the Nasdaq is down 2% at close. The S&P was down 1%. And Donald Trump's like, is that today? Is that what are you doing with your day? Like, actually, what the hell are you doing?
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That's your response to everything. This is a witch hunt. That's a witch hunt. Y'all just could take accountability, fire the people who were involved, make sure this never happens again. But no, this is how you conduct business. You put classified information on signal text threads and then blame the reporter you put into the chat?
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Here's, by the way, the moment where Donald Trump announced the 25 percent tariff.
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But folks, the Trump regime wants to distract. So what do they do? They send cosplay dog killer Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to El Salvador. So she goes in front of the concentration camps there with the prisoners in El Salvador, mostly all from El Salvador, though the U.S. kidnapped migrants and sent them to this concentration camp.
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More on that in a moment and more on the big court ruling there from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. But here, Christine Ohms, watch her watch. Look at her watch. She appears to be wearing a $60,000 Rolex as she stands in front of the concentration camp in El Salvador with the people from El Salvador, or whoever else is in there. And she's like, look, we got them. We got the terrorists.
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What a despicable response. And what are you doing in the day if you are not even being briefed that four American soldiers died? Could you imagine for a moment what this would be like if former President Biden responded that way? Let me brief you, Donald. Four American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have died today.
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Look at the terrorists back there.
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As Adam Parkomenko goes, Kristi Noem's desperate stunt exploiting foreign prisoners for political fear mongering. I want to talk about some of the migrants quickly that the United States kidnapped and sent to concentration camps in El Salvador. We're learning a lot about their identities.
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Here's a new report from Mother Jones reporting that one of the men sent to concentration camps in El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him, in his place where he's a baker, they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neary has an autism awareness tattoo to honor his 15-year-old brother with autism.
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And on that basis, they claimed he's Tren de Aragua, and they sent him to concentration camps in El Salvador. You'll look at this, no due process at all. He had an autism awareness tattoo. Remember I told you the story over the weekend about Andres, who is the gay makeup artist and hairstylist. You see him right there on the right.
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And he's a, by the way, all these people are asylum seekers here lawfully under asylum rules and laws waiting on court appearances, kidnapped by America, by the Trump regime and sent to concentration camps. Andres, not a gang member, not Trende Aragua. He was sent to concentration camps in El Salvador. We learned the story about the professional soccer player with the Real Madrid tattoo.
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And I said, oh, that makes you Trende Aragua. He was sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador. No process, was not able to even show evidence that he was not a gang member. He was called an enemy combatant terrorist. never to be heard from again, may die, may rot to death in a freaking prison in El Salvador because of the authoritarian, despicable Trump regime.
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We've also told you stories about women who were sent to El Salvador where the El Salvador concentration camps only hold men. Women are not even allowed. So even El Salvador, with its brutal authoritarian regime, like, whoa, whoa, whoa. We can't take the women.
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And we've seen some declarations filed by women talking about their horrific travel where they were told they were going to Venezuela and they were sent to El Salvador. So early yesterday, the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a two to one ruling.
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upheld the district court Judge Boasberg's ruling in joining an injunction blocking the Trump regime from sending more people to El Salvador concentration camps without providing some form of due process. So Trump appealed to the D.C. Circuit. He lost. They upheld Judge Boasberg's ruling.
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And all Judge Boasberg said is, look, I'm not even getting into the issue of whether the Alien Enemies Act was properly invoked.
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assume it was properly invoked even though we're not in the war of 1812 world war one or world war two those were the only other times the alien enemies act war powers were ever invoked so he goes i don't even need to decide was this a war and trump claiming we're at a war hybrid warfare with venezuela he says we still have to determine if the people being sent to the concentration camps in el salvador are actually trend de aragua terrorists or not
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NATO leader says NATO Secretary General Mark Rutt said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he did not yet know the details. Maybe, Donald, that's something that you should be paying attention to instead of announcing another round of tariffs, this time tariffing automobiles across the world and crashing our economy.
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So you have to provide some process to let them prove that they're not. And court should be able to oversee that. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with that. Can I just show you some other evidence? We are a fact-based, data-based network. So when you hear all of the spin, oh, these aren't war plans, blah, blah, blah. Let's just take a look at the messages for a second.
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Here's the group thread that Mike Walls, national security advisor, started. You see it right here. Houthi PC small group right on signal. That looks like the chats that I have with my with. with the employees who work at the Midas Touch Network. It'll be like Midas Touch Network, small group chat, videos, editorial team, right?
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And so Mike Walls says, team establishing a principles group for coordination on the Houthis. And then look, Michael Walls added you to the group chat, added Jeffrey Goldberg. Michael Walls added you to the group. So we see how did Jeffrey Goldberg get added? Michael Waltz added.
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Then you go through the chat and you see war plans, like this from Pete Hegseth, who talks about the time, dates, and locations, which planes are gonna be used. F-18s, F-18s, more F-18s. They talk about when the bombs are gonna drop. They talk about MQ-9, second strike starts. It sets forth all of the plans in detail.
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Well, what does Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, have to say about all of this? She goes, oh, this is just the media's witch hunt also. They're just trying to sow chaos and discord.
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Utterly, utterly despicable. We'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.
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How about you care about our veterans? How about you care about our troops? Or are you and Elon Musk too busy with Doge firing veterans, destroying and gutting veterans affairs, engaging in a hostile takeover of our federal government, getting rid of essential services related to Social Security, gutting Medicaid, gutting the Department of Education?
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
You want this? It's good for people in Kentucky. But while the MAGA Republican Congress members do things like this, Republican Congress member Joe Wilson has announced a proposal for a new $250 bill featuring Donald Trump's face on it. Quote, I'm drafting legislation to direct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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to design a $250 bill featuring Donald J. Trump, the most valuable bill for the most valuable president. This is cartoonishly clownish. I got to get the take of Congress member Jake Auchincloss, who's been very outspoken about how disastrous Doge has been and these cuts are in this horrific budget. Congress member, what do you make of this all?
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The Congress member, I mean, you're telling me that people in red states are not rooting for things like this, like Trump Gaza. They're not focused on whatever this image is of I don't even know what I'm looking at that Donald Trump is posing. You're telling me that they're not focused on Elon Musk at a beach throwing money in the air and seeing Donald Trump post that.
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You're telling me that the American people are getting pissed? that their Medicaid is getting taken away, that essential services are being gutted, that they're waking up feeling less safe.
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The MAGA Republicans are pushing forward what may be the most devastating budget in the history of the United States of America. We're talking about $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. We're talking about adding $19 trillion to the deficit over the course of 10 years. We're talking about gutting infrastructure. We're talking about gutting important resources to farmers. What are they doing, though?
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know uh donald trump is he was saying today he was blaming uh the egg prices on the administration but he was acting like he wasn't in charge he was just saying you know these egg prices are going up i i got to go speak to the head of the department of agriculture and just see what's going on here i'm i'm pissed about this but wasn't he the one who promised that on day one
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he was going to bring down prices housing was going to be more affordable there was going to be all of these there's so many jobs you weren't going to know what to do with all of the jobs and you know i think what we're seeing in the kind of consumer sentiment and as donald trump's approval is plummeting that despite donald trump's efforts to try to distract and corporate media kind of buying into the distraction framework
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I think it's hitting people hard and they're going, wait a minute. I can't even find eggs. My grocery price up. What are you seeing across the country in town halls in your district? Is this a Democrats, Republicans, independent? What are you seeing?
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
Congressman, I got to push back on you because one of the things that Trump is saying in addition to Trump Gaza with giant golden statues of him and him and Benjamin Netanyahu with their shirts off hanging on the beach and whatever the heck, again, those photos were that he's been posting. He's got... He's got gold cards. He's going to change the immigration system.
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He's going to replace what we have. And he says he's going to sell immigration. It's 5 million a pop. People have a black card because a lot of Americans can relate to having an American Express black card. He's like, I'm going to give you a gold card. So he said this word for word. Russian oligarchs, for example, you Chinese oligarchs, you buy in for
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Five mil, you get your visa, you become an American citizen, and bang, $50 trillion. 50 trillion is what he's saying.
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I mean, they are just outrageously glazing Elon Musk and Doge in like the weirdest way possible. I mean, you got this MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall out there saying, go, Elon, go, go here. Watch whatever the hell this is.
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You know, one of the areas where we're seeing a lot of cuts in as well is health, NIH, CDC. And, you know, the same way I feel like Republicans tried to normalize and like school shootings and just be like, it's the second amendment. So, you know, That's what that's just what happens.
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I saw the secretary of transportation, Secretary Duffy, also doing this with the plane crashes and a lot of the things like, you know, planes, planes crash. That's just, you know, what we get used to it like that. That's what happens. And I saw you had RFK Jr. today basically trying to say, you know, there was that death caused by measles in Texas. That doesn't happen.
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Measles outbreaks like this because of low vaccination, that's not normal. But you have the secretary of HHS going up there and saying, this is normal. Measles outbreaks, this is what we're used to here. Just play this clip if we have it, because it was a shocking moment.
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Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
I think we'll leave it on that note. We'll bring you back as well. And Keep checking in with you. Your leadership on the Hill has been a great thing for us to watch. And I just like that you're bringing the facts. You're going on Republican territory also. And you're speaking to their voters and their turf also. And you're doing a great job. So thanks, Congressman. Thank you, Ben.
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Yeah, it's not worth twice as much. It's, I think, worth a fraction of it. He ran it into the ground, essentially. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Barr on the Medicaid cuts. They're like, yeah, we need these Medicaid cuts. People are lazy, you know, lazy people. You don't deserve your Medicaid. This is what the MAGA Republicans are going with. Play this clip.
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Trump Has Major Cognitive Glitch During Awful Presser
Donald Trump had numerous cognitive glitches during this disastrous Oval Office press conference with the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Donald Trump is asked if he thinks that Zelensky is still a dictator. Donald Trump said, I don't remember saying that. Did I say that? Here, play this clip.
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Okay, and then we can see what he said 24 hours ago. Again, receipts are important. This is where Donald Trump said that the EU was formed to screw the United States. That's the purpose of it. Here, play this clip.
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That's the purpose. You know, going back to the press conference that Donald Trump held today in the Oval Office with Keir Starmer, Donald Trump then asked Starmer if the UK could take on Russia on its own. What, like...
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As Kelsey Taggart says, this is the quote, oh shit, look, if I've ever seen one, what the hell is this guy doing? Donald Trump then is asked a question. If Russia were to attack the UK, would you help out the UK? To which Donald Trump says, I don't think they need much help. Play this clip.
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have been incredible so donald trump then says that ukraine should never join nato play this clip the europeans want ukraine to be part of nato as part of this deal are you willing to budge on that at all or is it well i could be very nice and say oh well we'll work to it look it's not going to happen it's just not going to happen that's what started this whole thing
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Yeah, please. Again, so utterly dastardly, this press conference. What a despicable person Donald Trump is. Here, Donald Trump says that he thinks that Russia's acting very well. It should be noted that Russia continues to bomb Ukraine. And in fact, they've been having their biggest drone swarms recently. Russia's been actually behaving worse than ever. Play this clip.
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Yes, Donald, you did say it and you did post about it as well. More on that in a minute. In addition, Donald Trump was asked about comments he made 24 hours ago where he said the European Union and Europe in general was created to screw over the United States. He was asked about those comments. He said, did I say that? Did I use those words? Here, play this clip.
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Say this, as I said yesterday,
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Donald Trump then says he would not oppose Eric Prince and Blackwater and other private military contractors rounding up for mass deportation. Migrants play this clip.
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Go to selectquote.com slash Midas today to get started. That's selectquote.com slash Midas. While that was taking place, Elon Musk is making posts like this. Here's a meme posted by Musk. Ladies, it's time to start thinking whether the guy you're dating has post-apocalyptic warlord potential. This is the individual who's accessing
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Your social security information, your medical records, his access to taxation records through Doge and who knows what the hell else he has. That's what he is posting as he destroys our government, cruelly firing federal workers, including veterans and throwing people on the streets. A reporter asked Donald Trump about, to that point, veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce.
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You're destroying their lives. Trump goes, no one's ever been better to the veterans than me. Play this clip. I didn't know anything about it.
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Donald Trump then is asked what you would be willing to do if Putin did not stick to the terms of a deal with Ukraine, to which Trump says Putin always keeps his word. I've known him for a long time. He says that they went over the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax together. Play this clip.
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Next, Donald Trump is asked about why the individual named Andrew Tate, who was arrested on alleged sex trafficking charges in Romania, was traveling back to the United States after reports that the Trump administration pressured Romania officials to let Tate into the United States. Here, play this clip. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to keep that one.
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And we're not talking about, we happen to have a great relationship with you, but we did have, and we do have problems with the EU because- So folks, either he is a liar or cognitively declining right before our eyes rapidly, or just an evil menace. I think it's all three. Just so we can see what he said, let's just pull out the receipts here, play this clip.
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I didn't know anything about it. Well, Donald Trump doesn't know about it, but I wonder if his top advisors do. But also Donald Trump doesn't know a lot of things or misremembers a lot of things. This is Alina Haba, Trump's top advisor. Play this clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Donald Trump humiliating the United States again on the world stage. What a horrific press conference there with Keir Starmer to our friends in the UK and Europe and Canada and elsewhere watching that. You should know that there are more Americans who don't support that crap than do. Our voices are growing louder each day.
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It's why the Midas Touch Network and our podcast is now beating Joe Rogan and all of these right wing podcasts. And we're going to make sure our voices are heard. Thank you for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Appearing for the first time on the Midas Touch Network, Senator Elizabeth Warren. Welcome, Senator.
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What do you say to people, though, in red states or red areas that go, but this is Senator Warren saying that she's a liberal. She's saying all of these things. What's your response?
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Well, look, you've got all of these Republicans who are gung ho about this. They are saying this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. And they're out there, I think, also misrepresenting what's in the bill itself. I mean, I don't know if they're gaslighting the people or if they're just not reading it, but they're saying this is everything we promised.
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No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. It's all there. And the Democrats are opposing all of these things. Now, I I've looked through the bill. I didn't see that language anywhere there. I saw the cuts to Medicaid and the Energy and Commerce Committee. I saw the cuts to farmers. I saw the cuts to infrastructure and I saw the 4.5 trillion in tax cuts.
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So are the Republicans just gaslighting people or what's happening?
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Do you think people are already starting to feel these cuts, what Doge is doing, what Musk is doing in the red state areas? I mean, we're seeing what's going on in a lot of these town halls in ruby red areas. Do you think it's already beginning to set in, maybe even earlier than expected?
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Let's talk about the CFPB that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are gutting, although I think they're now gaslighting the courts or lying to the courts and claiming, oh, this is just part of a streamlining effort. So what happened was, right, was Elon Musk posted CFPB, RIP, he posted it. Then they started gutting it, destroying it, dismantling it.
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Lawsuits were filed, injunctions were ordered to slow it down or to stop it. Now they're making arguments basically because I think they realize how unpopular it is to gut and destroy the CFPB, which brought tens of billions of dollars back to consumers from corporations that defrauded the consumers.
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And so now the guy, the architect of Project 2025, I think he's submitting declarations saying, oh, you have it all wrong. This is just part of a streamlining effort that we're doing. What do you mean we're gutting it? What do you mean Elon Musk is posting on it? We don't know what you're talking about. What's going on here, Senator?
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
Why are the Republicans just like babying Elon Musk and they're like babying Donald Trump as though the rules don't apply? We don't know what they say. You know, they just they just say all of these things. Like when I see these town halls. What I hear over and over again from Republican people as well is Elon needs to testify. This is a government. There's something called oversight.
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You don't just get to post things on social media and then say, oops, I made a mistake there. You show up, you testify, you're transparent with the people. Now, I know you held a CFPB forum where you invited Elon Musk. He refused to show. I know the Democrats have tried to subpoena Elon Musk a number of times.
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The Republicans usually try to quash the subpoenas or even stop debate about whether a subpoena should even be sent in the first place. So Elon may be watching this. We know Trump's press team watches these things. So what would your message be to Elon Musk if he's watching this about why he should testify before the Senate?
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I think they're scared. Do you think he's character?
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Senator Elizabeth Warren, we'll see if he responds to that challenge and shows up. We'll see if he's scared of you or not. We'll find out. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate you joining us on the Midas Touch Network.
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Senator Warren Calls Musk “Scared” for Not Testifying
All right, let's get into it. So the House Republicans this week passed their budget blueprint, tax cuts for the rich, cuts to Medicaid, $19 trillion added to the deficit at least, I think, over 10 years. How much harm is this going to cause the American people?
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Trump Wakes Up to Morning Disaster of His Own Making
Donald Trump woke up to disasters that he created and that he is continuing to create in the United States of America and throughout the world. We woke up this morning learning that jobless claims spiked in a worrisome sign for the U.S. labor market.
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Donald Trump took a good economy. He was handed over by former President Biden, and he is absolutely crazy. crushing it right now. One of the things we learned as well is that Donald Trump is also destroying enforcement against fraud.
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The United States Consumer Financial Bureau, the CFPB, on Thursday dropped its legal action against Capital One, which the agency had accused last month of cheating consumers out of more than $2 billion in interest payments on savings accounts. This is part of the effort.
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There were an estimated 242,000 jobless claims filed last week according to seasonally adjusted data released Thursday by the Department of Labor and who even knows now If the Department of Labor is giving all of the accurate data, it may be far more than that. That's an increase of 22,000 from the prior week's tally and a figure that landed above economists' expectations for 220,000 claims.
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by Elon Musk and Donald Trump to gut an agency that helps people whether you're in red states, blue states, purple states, whatever, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was likely helping you and stopping corporations cheat you. And remember, Elon Musk posted CFPB RIP and then they went on and attacked it.
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And then a federal court issued an injunction basically stopping the Trump administration from gutting the CFPB. Then the Trump administration filed paperwork in court lying and saying, oh, we're not gutting it. We're just trying to streamline things. And I guess by streamline it, they mean helping fraudsters.
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One of the things we just learned as well this morning, the disasters of Trump's own making, is that the Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration's Vaccine Advisory Committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming flu season. One of the things we're also learning is buy Canada, buy America.
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As Bloomberg reports, grocery stores are promoting in Canada are promoting home grown produce to consumers as 85% of Canadians now hunt for alternatives to U.S. goods. Remember a few weeks back when some of the press was reporting, oh, the boycotts 10% or 20% of Canadians. I said, uh-uh. I speak to Canadians every day.
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The Midas Touch Network is the most widely downloaded podcast right now in all of Canada. And I said, I bet you that boycott is more than 50%. I said, it's probably closer to 100%. Now we're finding out that number is about 85% of Canadians do not want to buy American stuff at grocery stores. Think about when that starts to hit the American economy.
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It already is one of the numbers that is now the lowest number ever. U.S. pending home sales, the lowest number ever. Didn't Donald Trump say he was going to make housing more accessible, housing more affordable? And just think about it. That's something he could have jumped in, actually said he was going to do it on the campaign.
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You do that, but no, now you're focused on a budget that will give, what, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires, $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid. So the billionaires get tax cuts, you get your Medicaid cut, and then you also get the MAGA Republicans to lie to you and say, oh, it doesn't say anything about cutting Medicaid. It doesn't say anything about that at all.
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But then it actually says $880 billion cuts to the Energy and Commerce Committee's portfolio, to which the biggest thing is Medicaid. And you can't cut $880 billion from the Energy and Commerce's portfolio unless you basically get rid of Medicaid. So they take your Medicaid and then they lie to you because they think you're stupid. And that's what they think.
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That's why they are now canceling the town halls. The message from GOP leadership right now, MAGA Mike Johnson and Donald Trump, stop with the town halls. That's the order. That's the directive, that it's a bad look for the MAGA Republicans. Stop these town halls.
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So what does Donald Trump do with all this news that the economy is tanking, that the markets are volatile, that housing is as least accessible as it's ever been ever? Here's what Donald Trump does.
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Trump makes a truth social post this morning saying that he plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting next Tuesday, in addition to doubling the 10% universal tariff charge on imports from China. Now, if you've been confused, he said there was going to be tariffs and then no tariffs. What is this even about? Was there tariffs? Well, he did steal tariffs like last week or two weeks ago.
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He These specific tariffs are the one from about, remember, 30 days ago or so, Donald Trump threatened that he was going to impose the tariffs, that he made the fake deal with Prime Minister Trudeau and then President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico, Trudeau of Canada. Then they paused it for 30 days after they made the deal.
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Then Donald Trump says in a post, drugs are still pouring into our country from Mexico and Canada. at very high and unacceptable levels. A large percentage of these drugs, much of them in the form of fentanyl, are made in and supplied by China. More than 100,000 people died last year due to the distribution of these dangerous and highly addictive poisons. Millions of people have died.
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One of the things that CNN is saying is, is this part of the Doge effect, which is now synonymous for job losses? Also, we saw WPP, a major advertising firm, their stock plunged 16%. It's screaming downturn after Domino's, Krispy Kreme, Bed Bath Beyond, and others have a significant warning that consumers are now spending far less as they are terrified in a Donald Trump
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So he says based on... It's like no fentanyl coming in from Canada, by the way. Also, United States consumers of fentanyl are part of the cause of it as well. I agree that it is coming from China. America exports its guns though to Mexico and creates a much significantly dangerous situation in Mexico. But this is also why you can't make deals with Donald Trump.
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You make a deal with him 30 days ago, then he goes and breaks the deal right away.
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and then he just creates all this volatility and uncertainty so what we can expect is devastating retaliatory tariffs right now from mexico from canada against the united states and the rest of the world is going to be taking note as well again that you just can't make any deals with donald trump can we geek out for a minute on something i think it's going to be helpful for you it's called fatty 15. its co-founder dr stephanie vin watson discovered c15 as the first essential fatty acid to be found in 90 years
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Andrew Tate, who faced rape and sex trafficking charges in Romania, was released from Romania to go to the United States. This follows news that we reported on, what was it, last week or two weeks ago, that the foreign minister of Romania said this month that an official at the Trump administration
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expressed interest in the brothers case at the Munich Security Conference and would like to see the brothers be released and given to the United States, not for prison, but to chill, to hang out in the United States with Alina Haba and others in the Trump administration who are like fans of this guy. This caught Ron DeSantis off guard and DeSantis was pissed.
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So after the Trump administration lobbied to get the alleged sex trafficking Tate brothers travel restrictions lifted to come to Florida, DeSantis is pissed and said nobody notified him. This happened moments ago. Play this clip.
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Okay, guys. And just so you can see, this is Donald Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, previously with Andrew Tate. Play this clip.
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economy what is donald trump doing while all of this is taking place he's making matters worse he's sending emails like this to his supporters i subscribe to the email so you don't have to immediate action required donald trump writes it is obvious how passionate you are about saving the america we know and love that's why i just selected you to represent your state as an ambassador for maga
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And just so you know, the type of guy who Andrew Tate is, or I shouldn't even call him that, here is what he said about how he takes girls, this is his own words, who don't have the will, and he puts them on webcams and takes 100% of their profit so they don't run away. Play this clip.
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This is what webcamming is. So that's who the Trump administration is a big fan of. And, you know, because, you know, that's the type of stuff that Donald Trump would, you know, I mean, what did Trump say? I mean, Trump would say that the most courageous thing he ever did was grab women by their, was when he called women, grabbing women by their genitals without their consent, locker room talk.
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He said that's the most courageous thing that he did. Remember when Donald Trump said that? Here, play this clip.
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Again, so utterly pathetic. Well, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you for watching.
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Please complete my official Trump flash poll before it closes at midnight if you want to become a official MAGA ambassador. When you click that link, it then brings you to a page where Donald Trump tries to grift off you and make a bunch of money off of you while he's crashing the economy, causing you to lose your job, making housing less affordable, and prices are surging.
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Donald Trump keeps poking and poking Canada. Big mistake, Donald, that ridiculous cabinet meeting he had yesterday. Here's what he said. Let's play it. It's not fair for us to be supporting Canada. And if we don't support them, they don't subsist as a nation. Don't subsist as a nation. I'm here with Canadian Member of Parliament, Charlie Angus.
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to form a government potentially, which no one thought if you went back two or three months ago was a possibility. Have you ever seen anything like, you've been in Canadian politics for a long time, have you ever seen anything like this?
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Talk about this petition to revoke Elon Musk's citizenship in Canada that you've been supporting. I think it's going to be one of the most widely distributed and signed petitions in the history of Canada in general. Tell us about what's going on there.
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You saw what he was saying yesterday at the cabinet meeting. What's your response to him?
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The Midas Touch podcast is now the number one most downloaded podcast in all of Canada, beating all of the Canadian news channels and entertainment channels. So where can people find? We know we have a lot of Canadian listeners and viewers. If they want to join this petition and they're not already signed on, what do they do?
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Let's talk about Wayne Gretzky, who used to be a friend of Canada, used to be beloved, used to be Canada's golden boy. And then he went full MAGA, would hang out at Mar-a-Lago, became a Trumper, not just, he wasn't Maple MAGA even, he was like America MAGA. He was rooting to be 51st state type stuff.
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And then Donald Trump was saying that Gretzky should become basically the leader of Canada to become his puppet and then basically run it the way Putin runs his nations in his orbit, like Belarus. It would basically be that version. And Gretzky was all into it. Then Gretzky started showing up to hockey games and was in Canadian gear. By the way, NHL doing that.
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I'm not sure that was a great decision, but we know why they did that. But then Gretzky would get booed by Canadians and Gretzky can't walk around Canada now without getting booed and one of the most detested people. So Donald Trump had to post this because I'm sure Gretzky's like, hey, I need you to write this for me. I need some cred back. So Trump just wrote this.
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He goes, Wayne Gretzky is a fantastic guy. They call him the great one. He could run for any political office in Canada and win.
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Wayne is my friend and he wants to make me happy and is therefore somewhat low key about Canada remaining a separate country rather than becoming a cherished and beautiful 51st state paying much lower taxes, a free and powerful military, no tariffs and having a booming economy. Wayne and Janet, his wonderful wife, love Canada and they should only support Canada.
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Whatever else makes the Canadian people and Governor Trudeau happy. He's the greatest Canadian of them all. And I am therefore making him a free agent because I don't want anyone in Canada to say anything bad about him. Charlie Angus, your response to that?
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Now, finally, we usually end our interviews with this. We know that Trump's press team watches that. They clip this stuff and whatever. So if you wanted to direct a message to Donald Trump right now, what's your message to him as we're recording this, as we are starting to head into the month of March?
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Charlie Angus, thank you so much. Thank you. Everyone hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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As Jeremiah Johnson said, this is one of the most astonishing polling charts I've ever seen. Trump's impact on Canadian politics is insane. You see the support of Maple MAGA crashing. That's the Pierre Poliev Conservative Party. And now you see under a Mark Carney Liberal Party, your NDP party, but under the Carney Party, the Liberal Party now seems like they're on the verge of being able to
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It's not the art of the deal, it is the art of the cover-up, and we're seeing now the Trump administration orchestrate a cover-up of the Epstein files, which they claim they were going to release.
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Yeah. And also we have audio of Epstein. Share it with you here. I mean, here's audio of Epstein talking about Trump. Let's play it.
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I think we have a snippet from one of the conversations that I recorded with Epstein. And I think this was in a restaurant in 2017.
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I have more than dozens. I probably have a hundred hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his longstanding deep relationship with Donald Trump.
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And here's a compilation MSNBC did I thought was great about Trump and Epstein's connections and how they would party together. Play this clip. You're going to get great ratings in your show.
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But those flight logs have Donald Trump's name at least seven times. Repeatedly, Donald Trump is mentioned. So if you release those flight logs, we're going to see Trump almost more than anybody on that chat. And get this too, after Epstein died under circumstances that let's just say are more than curious,
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So what are we talking about here? What are we talking about here, Pam Bondi? What I want to see happen is I'd like for you to release the files. You can easily redact the names. Isn't this all about government efficiency? What about Doge? You're telling me how efficient you are and AI and algorithms and all of these things. You're telling me that by now, within what, over a month?
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You'll note our reporting yesterday where the MAGA influencers were basically saying the Epstein files are being destroyed by the deep state, even though Donald Trump wanted to release them all, they're being destroyed.
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We're going to be two months soon. You couldn't redact the names of the victims and release all of the files? It's that hard for you to do? I thought y'all were efficient. I just wonder with these Republicans, though. Who go, oh my God, they released the flight logs. Are y'all being serious? Or you know that you're covering up for Trump? I'm just trying to make sense of it.
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I'm trying to make sense of it. There's almost no one closer to Epstein out there who's living now than Trump. And we know about it. And y'all are out there saying that there's this, you're looking for your guy. Okay. We'll keep covering this though. And we'll keep letting the public know what's happening. And they could judge for themselves. I showed you the depositions.
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I showed you the flight logs. I showed you Trump's words. I showed you Epstein's words. So judge for yourself. Okay. That's all you can do. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump got Epstein's jet to use for his campaign from an intermediary who purchased the jet from Epstein's estate. And then Trump put the Trump 2024 logo over Epstein's jet and was flying that around to different campaign stops. So let's just talk about what went down. Let's go through the different permutations. Let's bring out our receipts right here.
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The right-wing influencer named DC Drano responds to MAGA Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. She goes, my office just received a formal response from the DOJ on the Jeffrey Epstein JFK MLK and RFK files, to which Drano, who's a right-wing MAGA influencer, goes, The DOJ has officially halted release of the Epstein client list. They did not give a date when they would release it.
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Not sure why they don't just release it in accordance with Donald Trump's executive order. As our editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski writes, what a surprise. MAGA has been screaming for the Epstein client list for years, and for some reason, Donald Trump's DOJ doesn't want to release it. They might need to do some redactions first. Now,
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It should be noted that Donald Trump and Epstein were very close friends. They hung out in Florida all of the time. Donald Trump is quoted as saying that Epstein is a, quote, great guy who likes women on the younger side. Some of the women who were trafficked by Epstein were found at Mar-a-Lago, for example, and one of Epstein's more well-known victims, someone by the name of Virginia Giuffre.
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She was homeless. She got a job at Mar-a-Lago. That was the first job that she got after being homeless. Then Ghislaine Maxwell found her working at Mar-a-Lago, brought her over to Epstein, had her massage Epstein, and then Epstein began to traffic Virginia Giuffre. That was one of the kind of modus operandi that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell would do together.
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Then earlier today, the Department of Justice sent a letter to Anna Paulina Luna, the MAGA Republican congresswoman who's running a subcommittee whose mission is to, I guess, release the Epstein files, the MLK files, the JFK files.
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And again, Trump's name is repeatedly on the plane list. deposition testimony from the various Epstein cases that have already been released publicly has Donald Trump's name on it. Victim of Epstein's trafficking says that when she was on the plane with Epstein, he called up Trump and then they landed in Atlantic City to go to Trump's casino and
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Indy Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking trial where she was found guilty and put in jail for the rest of her life, prison. where she belongs. A woman who was 14 years old at the time, she was a girl at the time, but she's testifying when she was older, talked about how when she was 14 years old, she was brought to Donald Trump by Epstein. She's a pseudonym Jane Dope.
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That's what she testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. And Donald Trump, I mean, in the early 90s through the 2000s, I mean, he would... hold beauty pageants for teenage girls. He would do girl beauty pageants, and then he would invite the girls on yachts. He's photographed with very young girls on the yachts, looking at them in very creepy ways.
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The Guardian wrote a whole piece about one of these yacht trips where it was described that these little girls were dancing on men old enough to be their grandparents. or their granddads, and it was disgusting. And then the old men would be like, get me one of these girls, get me one of these girls. A disgusting article. I mean, you see the photos of these girls right here.
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And look at Donald Trump with the girls right there. I mean, Trump and Epstein were very, very close. So here, let's take a look at the DOJ letter, which rejected the request for immediately releasing the Epstein files. Here it is right here, just so you can see for yourself. It's a response to Anna Paulina Luna.
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It says, thank you for your letters to the Department of Justice dated February 11th and February 19th, 2025. We are sending an identical response to other members who joined your letters. to every component of the department's mission to uphold the rule of law, keeping our nation safe and protecting civil rights.
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the rfk files and also ufo files all of that's under her purview the doj basically said we're not going to release it we are doing our due diligence to look through all of these documents and then we're not turning it over and then that caused chaos in maga world because they all said i thought you were going to release it are you trying to cover it up
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The department remains committed to meeting its legal record-keeping obligations as it pursues that mission. We are reviewing your request and look forward to engaging further to accommodate your oversight and legislative needs. We hope this information is helpful.
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Please do not hesitate to contact this office if we may provide additional assistance regarding any other things related to this matter. And notice that it's also signed not by Pam Bondi. but by a guy named Patrick Davis right there. So let me share this with you first.
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So this was before, this was Pam Bondi, I think a week or two back, where she talked about how the files are on her desk and she's reviewing them and she was gearing up to release them. Here it is right here.
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Well, we'll check back with you. So then Pam Bondi went on Jesse Waters last night. And, you know, after all of this outrage within the MAGA community, hey, we thought you were going to release these files. Here's the video where she says, I've got breaking news. We're going to drop some of the files, some of the flight logs. Here, watch this.
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And then Donald Trump paraded out his attorney general, Pam Bondi, and she tried to basically put out some red meat for her base. And she was like, we're going to release the flight logs. We're going to release some of the flight logs. We can't release a lot of the other stuff, but the flight logs. And so I was like, you mean the flight logs that were released back in 2021?
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MAGA Republican Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, whether she's just gaslighting everybody or whether she just doesn't know or she's ignorant of these facts, she goes, well done. This is the transparency the American people asked for. We already have the flight logs. I mean, here it is right here. Government Exhibit 662-RR, 118 pages right here. We have them.
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The flight logs were already released in the 2021 Ghislaine Maxwell trial. We see Donald Trump's name. We've circled it there. It's at least seven times right there. We have depositions. Jeffrey Epstein said, great, we'll call up Trump. We'll go to, I don't recall the name of the casino, but we'll go to the casino. We've got depositions. We have Trump's own word.
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Here he is, where he wished Ghislaine Maxwell well before her trial. Play this clip.
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We know that Epstein traveled on Trump's plane frequently. We have that data. Here are some of the major revelations from the bombshell Daily Beast article from Michael Wolff's book. Epstein showed me photos of Trump with topless young women sitting on his lap. That's what Wolff claimed. Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump's closest friend for about a decade.
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Epstein claimed that Trump liked to F the wives of his best friends. Epstein alleged Trump and Melania first slept together on the Lolita Express. Epstein suggested Trump was a serial cheat and loved using his power to pursue women. Trump reportedly had scalp reduction surgery and referred to himself as the Trumpster. We have other audio of Donald Trump.
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I mean, here he is saying that he would inspect the girls naked or the women naked, depending on which beauty pageants it was, because he did uh, beauty pageants for, I guess, uh, adults. He also did the teenage beauty pageant. So I'm not sure which one he's talking about here, but he said that he would inspect them naked without their consent. Um, because he was the head and they had, uh,
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Let him do it. Here, play this clip.
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And so I sort of get away with things. I think this is when Lindsay Lohan had either just turned 18 years old. She may have been 17 years old here. He said that he liked that she was psychologically damaged and that he liked having sex with psychologically damaged women because they're better in bed, he said. Here, play this clip.
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Do you think people are so stupid that they forgot that the flight logs were already released? They were released during the Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking trial, where Donald Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell, who was Epstein's trafficker, Trump wished her well before that trial and basically hope that she did well. He goes, I wish her well during the trial.
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And here he is recently. This was Donald Trump giving a speech about a year ago before the young Republicans, high school and college age Republicans. And Trump said the most courageous thing he's done, according to a general, was calling the when he would grab women by their genitals, locker room talk.
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He said that was the most courageous thing, far more courageous than what people in the military do, defending our country. He said labeling molesting women, locker room talk, he says, was a very courageous thing, he says. Play this clip.
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I had to see this photo. I can't unsee this photo, so you now have to see this photo. The ridiculousness of this all when you have this individual who is gutting our Medicaid, who is attacking our government institutions, who is sucking up to Putin, who is making posts on his social media platform.
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So, you know, if you're saying that Doge is finding all of these, you know, fraud and abuse, then why would you support a continuing resolution to keep the government funded with fraud and abuse? Here, play this clip.
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And then we fired the Ebola people. I mean, I'm like watching this. I'm like, what the hell are these people talking about?
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Should be noted that the doge amongst the American people is like the number one entity that Americans want to see abolished by far. Oh yes, then there's a new proposal that was released yesterday by a MAGA Republican Congress member, Wilson, to make Donald Trump the first and only living current or former president to be featured on Currency. They want to put him on a $250 bill.
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And they said it's the most valuable currency. And they said he's the most valuable president. That's what the MAGA Republican Congress members are spending their time to as Elon Musk and his team raid your private information, gain access to your social security tax records, medical information, as they gut our government services, as our markets are so volatile that
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I mean, as they're firing central government workers, government workers, veterans, spouses of veterans, people who have just sacrificed in general for us working for the government and then lied and said they were firing people for cause, for performance reasons when it was not based on performance reasons. Here, take a look at this. This is from the cabinet meeting.
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right now, as Donald Trump is posting about Trump, Gaza and having the having America join in access of evil of Russia, of North Korea, Belarus to oppose United Nations resolutions condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. Like, what are we what are we talking about here, folks? Anyway, there you have it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Here is Donald Trump blaming the rising costs of everything and like egg prices on the administration. But Trump's like pretending that he's not the president and he's attacking a phantom administration. Here, play this clip.
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Then Kim Jong-un style, Donald Trump assembles this kind of cabinet of the most spineless men, a few women, but mostly men, and the most spineless people. And he goes, let the cabinet speak. Raise your hand right now if you are unhappy with Elon. Here, just watch this clip.
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referring to Gaza now as Trump Gaza and trying to distract Americans from the fact that prices are surging, inflation is surging again, the markets are doing bad right now. This is what Trump posted before holding a cabinet meeting yesterday. This is a real post. It was a video, he was calling it Trump Gaza, and it was an AI video where they had golden statues of Trump and
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This is like some North Korea stuff right here. Elon Musk would make multiple posts yesterday where he would mock the federal workers who were fired and celebrate their terminations. It's ghoulish behavior. But back to that cabinet meeting here, Elon Musk, this is where he says, I'm going to make mistakes, you know, like Ebola. I will sometimes fire Ebola people, but it's OK.
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We will just sometimes, you know, fire people who do nuclear weapons, you know. Here, play this clip.
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Well, that's my Elon Musk impression right there. Tell me what you think. As our friend Greg Sargent says, another mistake they made was firing USAID people who oversee contracts like the one that supplies life-saving treatments for kids who are suffering from extreme malnutrition or on the edge of starvation.
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You know, it should be noted as well, though, that last night, right before a deadline where federal governments ordered the Trump administration to have to make the payments to USAID contractors, John Roberts, chief justice of the MAGA Republican right-wing Supreme Court, jumped in and blocked the order compelling Trump to fund USAID contracts.
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the Supreme Court over and over again has blood on their hands. How many kids, how many people are going to die because of the cruelty of having their funding ripped away? And then when other federal courts order that that funding be paid,
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By midnight last night, Chief Justice John Roberts, the same person who took away women's reproductive rights, basically changed the law to stop the separation of church and state. The same Supreme Court that basically celebrates AR-15s by schools, that gutted climate change legislation, that gutted voting rights.
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Chief Justice John Roberts said, we're going to temporarily stop this order requiring the funding to USAID. Here, Donald Trump says this country has gotten that America's bloated, fat and disgusting. Play this clip.
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Are you looking in the mirror? Is that what you're referring to? Then they had a conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr., who's the secretary of health and human services. He then talks about how there are that the measles outbreak right now, which has killed somebody in Texas. This is like one of the biggest measles outbreak in recent time because people aren't getting vaccinated for measles. RFK Jr.
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Elon Musk was on the beaches in Gaza throwing up money in the air. And then after committing genocide, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu were at the Trump Gaza hotel together in this AI that they created. And then here on the Gaza beach, There are these bearded men with big chests. And, well, you can judge for yourself that Trump actually posted that.
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at this cabinet meeting was like, this is normal. This is what usually happens. There's measles outbreaks like this all the time. There is not. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump insults Canada and says, Canada can't subsist or exist as a nation without America. Play this clip.
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Boy, people are pissed in Canada. That boycott of all things American in Canada is still going strong and it'll start showing in our economy.
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As Christopher Webb points out as well, not too gross y'all out, but it's not just the bruise on Trump's hand. These are not the fingernails of a healthy man. And the White House issued an official statement yesterday saying that the all of these bruises and and the discoloration on his hands and what that looks like is because he shakes so many hands every day is what they're saying
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Cue in Marjorie Taylor Greene, MAGA Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is too scared to allow Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz at the Doge hearings. She rejected his request to attend. So here she talks about, though, how federal workers need to get real jobs. They don't deserve their paychecks. They're not really working real jobs, she says. Play this clip.
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Again, when did it become so normal to just insult hardworking Americans? I don't get it. I mean, what? Just because you're not on TV, that doesn't what? That means that someone who works at our national parks is not good enough for MAGA? The person who works in the Department of Education or Department of Labor or
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So when I go and show you that photo of him, what he looks like without his orange plaster on his face, I mean, like, what the hell is going on here? Then let's go to that cabinet meeting that took place yesterday, which Donald Trump essentially had Elon Musk lead, where Elon Musk's like, I'm going to be making mistakes a lot, you know, like we made a mistake about Ebola.
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or Department of Agriculture, or USAID, or the people who work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or whatever government entity. Why? They don't get on TV, so they're not glamorous. That means they're not real workers. I mean, who talks about human beings in that way? Oh, MAGA. The same MAGA that is shaking down President Zelensky of Ukraine for a rare earth mineral deal.
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So we've been covering on the Midas Touch Network all of Donald Trump's fake deals. where Donald Trump said that he got this great deal with Canada to avoid the initial tariffs Donald Trump threatened. But then he says he's bringing tariffs in a few days anyway against Canada.
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But remember the deal where Canada said, OK, Donald, we will put whatever it was, a billion dollars in border security and we'll give you a fentanyl czar. There was already the border security deal in place under former President Biden and a fentanyl czar, whatever they were calling it, that's There's really no fentanyl coming from Canada to the United States.
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10 pounds or something like over the whole year. Like there's not a lot of fentanyl coming in at all. And then the deal with Mexico, the fake deal where Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico is like, okay, Donald, we'll put 10,000 troops at the border. And Trump's like, deal, look what I've achieved. There were already 15,000 troops at the border. 15,000 is more than 10,000.
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Then Donald Trump made the fake deals with like Columbia and Panama and so on and so forth. So now, so Donald Trump was like shaking down Zelensky for this rare earth mineral deal where, you know, the rare earth minerals from Ukraine would be shared with the United States with no security guarantees. But here's what we know about the deal now.
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Ilya Pomeranko from the Kiev Independent says it perfectly. It's like a fake deal. So essentially, the rare earth agreement is just a memorandum on how the U.S. and Ukraine are intended to invest in Ukraine's mining industry and mineral resources and jointly get profits at some point. There's 0% certainty on whether this will ever be a real big thing.
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The document doesn't even require parliamentary ratification at this moment now. Donald Trump will declare a grandiose victory as soon as Zelensky signs this in front of cameras in D.C. And essentially, that's it. Pomerantz goes on to say this is all so grotesquely dumb and so surreally opposite to basic human morality that one can't believe it's even real.
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It motivates many to try to look for a second agenda to try to read between the lines and make it to a far larger truth. But I'm afraid the answer is very simple. Maga Mike Johnson on CNN is being asked here. This was a good question by Caitlin Collins. She asked Maga Mike Johnson.
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This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. Mirror, mirror on the wall. That was Donald Trump apparently talking about himself during his first cabinet meeting of his new term. Donald Trump was joined by his puppet master, Elon Musk, who led much of the meeting, which was completely bizarre, full of lies.
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And because we always show receipts here at Midas Touch, let's pull this up. Consumer Confidence has registered the biggest monthly decline since August 2021 as inflation fears take hold. The latest evidence comes from the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for February, which was released this past Tuesday morning.
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The index fell to 98.3, falling for the third straight month and marking the largest monthly decline since August 2021, as expectations for inflation in the year ahead climbed. And that coincides with the trends that were reflected in the University of Michigan's consumer survey for February.
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Trump then turned the meeting over to Elon Musk to tell people what is happening, because apparently he doesn't know what the heck is going on. And Trump said that Elon probably found fraud, but he won't be able to prove it.
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And at times, Donald Trump didn't even seem to acknowledge that he is actually the president. My name is Brett Mycelis with Midas Touch. I'm going to walk you through the lowlights and fact check it all. But first, remember to hit subscribe and help us get to 5 million subscribers. The meeting began with a prayer where they thanked God for President Trump. Just completely bizarre stuff.
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Elon Musk then admitted that he, quote, accidentally canceled briefly funding for Ebola prevention. Watch this.
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By the way, for some perspective on how Doge is actually going, NPR's recent data show that while Doge has said they cut $55 billion in spending, they've actually only reduced about $2 billion with all this chaos, just $2 billion.
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And the New York Times reports that the top five biggest cuts that Doge claimed to have put forward, they've now been removed from their website because they were all fraudulent claims. They were just completely made up. factual errors.
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And while they're causing all this chaos under the guise of cutting the deficit, they are currently pushing through this budget bill in Congress that would add $19 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. $19 trillion with a T.
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So even if NPR's data is somehow wrong by 100x, and even if Doge somehow found a lot more savings since that report came out, it's still not even a dent in what the Trump GOP tax plan is about to cause. And also they could give $4.5 trillion in tax breaks to the richest Americans.
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And you don't have to believe me, here are the deficit numbers as listed in the GOP resolution that passed last night. Take a look at this. And by the way, all these Republican politicians and influencers are now lying about the resolution, saying that they've ended tax on tips, tax on social security, tax on overtime. just a flat out lie.
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And you could see these posts like this one by Republican Representative Ana Paulina Luna. It got fact checked on Twitter of all places. It says on the bottom of the fact check, quote, House resolution does not include provisions for no tax on tips or no tax on overtime. It's a budget resolution setting fiscal targets, not a tax or labor law.
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And Trump's proposals on tips and unmentioned overtime would require separate legislation. Also, to reiterate what was just said in that note, this is just a resolution providing the framework of the budget. The bill itself has not been passed. They are literally making up benefits for the working class out of thin air so that they could push forward these tax cuts for the rich.
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It's absolutely abhorrent. Well, back to the cabinet meeting Trump threatened Canada again by calling them the 51st state. Watch this.
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And if they had to pay their way, they couldn't exist. Trump then threatened Ukraine and said they could forget about ever joining NATO. Watch this.
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Then Trump refused to say if he would ever let China take Taiwan by force.
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Trump was then asked about the message it sends to China if he allows Russia to keep territory they claimed by force. And he once again showed his weakness or rather subservience towards Russia. Take a look.
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Oh, okay. You try and take it away, right? Trump was then asked about his plan to sell $5 million gold cards in order for rich people to be able to buy citizenship to the United States, including Russian oligarchs. The country is literally for sale right now. Trump claimed the country could make $50 trillion on selling gold cards if they could find 10 million people willing to pay the $5 million.
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The guy just makes things up. Watch this.
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Trump then encouraged China to invest in the United States. As I said before, the country is literally for sale under Trump watch around this table.
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Trump then didn't even seem to know that he is president right now. And he said that while egg prices are a disaster and are really high now, they were low with him.
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Trump was also asked if he could guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will not be touched. And he said he's going to find the fraud. And then he repeated these lies about 200 year old people getting checks completely made up.
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But you have a lot of fraud. If you remember, Trump and Musk were previously saying 150 year olds were getting checks. Now that number has magically moved to 200 year olds. This is all based on Elon Musk and his 20-something-year-old doge kids not knowing how to read government data. And I want you to have your guard up anytime. I'm just going to say this here.
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Have your guard up anytime Trump and Musk or any Republicans say that they are going after waste, fraud, and abuse. They are using that lie to go after crucial government programs and to fire employees. But as you've seen at these town halls lately, people are already catching on to this lie anytime Republicans try to use that line. And finally, RFK Jr.
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was asked about the measles outbreak that's going on in Texas. We just learned this morning that an unvaccinated young child just died of measles. It's the first measles death in over a decade. RFK Jr. was asked about this and he said, it is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year. Watch this. Bobby, do you want to speak on that?
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I mean, it is unusual. This is the first time this has happened in 10 years, and this is a deadly outbreak right now in West Texas due to people not getting vaccinated. As a reminder, RFK Jr. 's lies about vaccines during his visit to Samoa in 2019 have been linked to a massive measles outbreak there, which ended up resulting in 83 deaths, mostly children.
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So there's a track record of this with RFK Jr. Oh, and I have to show you this. This was an AI video that Trump posted on social media last night depicting the Gaza Strip as Trump Gaza, showing gold statues of Trump in a resort-like setting in Gaza with bearded ladies, Trump dancing with a woman who isn't his wife, Trump shirtless with Netanyahu having drinks by the pool.
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This is just completely disturbing. I'm sorry to even show this to you, but people need to see what he is posting. Take a look.
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Trump was then asked about consumer confidence, which is absolutely plummeting right now. People are very unhappy with the Trump economy and how he is handling it, or probably the lack of how he is handling it right now. Trump then argued that confidence was high after the election. I mean, when Biden was still president. Play the clip.
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Trying to bully Panama into saying America is going to conquer it or take back over the Panama Canal. President Biden shaking the hands of firefighters. Notice that Donald Trump doesn't do any of that once the election is over, right?
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Donald Trump would always do those stunts where he'd like bring pizza boxes to the fire department during the election, but then after would never deliver on the things he said he was going to do. President Biden's been a steady hand and has been constantly on the side. Workers, firefighters, first responders, unions, the American people, red states and blue states.
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Remember what President Biden said to me during the interview we did in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing? By the way, watch it and share it with family members if you haven't. He said, I'm a president for all Americans. And a lot of my policies helped out red states even more than blue states where the red states had really bad infrastructure. We brought them good infrastructure.
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We brought them jobs. And I don't care who they voted for. I cared about their Americans and my job, my duty as the president of the United States is to help them. President Biden goes, this holiday season, Jill and I are thinking of the brave first responders and frontline workers who keep our communities and families safe. Our nation is stronger than ever because of them.
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And that stands in contrast to the firefighters union in New York who are absolutely pissed that Trump and Republicans stripped funding from the 9-11 healthcare program and the continuing resolution. Today's episode of F around and find out. Let's play it.
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New York City Fire Department unions are calling for the restoration of funding to the James Zadroga 9-11 Health and Compensation Act after it was left out of Congress's funding on Friday. The act guarantees medical treatment for first responders, firefighters and survivors who helped with their recovery efforts following the World Trade Center attack.
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It also provides financial compensation for those who suffered injuries, illnesses or death as a result.
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Now, also in stark contrast to Donald Trump's behavior, President Biden's been releasing videos about how he's helped the American people. I'm not showing you any Trump videos. I've made you that promise. I'm going to stick by that. No Trump videos, no audio. I hear you. We're not going to show you that, especially not on Christmas.
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I do want to show you, I'm not going to show you Trump, that's not the but. This is a video that Rudy Giuliani released, dressed up as a Santa suit with a woman on his lap selling Rudy Giuliani coffee. Why? Because Trump's selling Trump guitars, Trump coins, Trump watches, Trump, Trump, Trump. Giuliani, Giuliani, there's Rudy, they're in it for themselves. Watch this, then we'll show the contrast.
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All right, and now the contrast. Three videos of President Biden. These are lovely videos and it's so important that you watch all three of them because I think it highlights a lot.
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This first video right here, President Biden talked about how his administration announced that another 55,000 public service workers are approved to have their student debt wiped out, meaning nearly 5 million borrowers have received forgiveness including 1 million public servants. Contrast that to Trump whose PPP program waived the debt, eliminated the debt of rich people.
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Biden focused on public sector workers who gave back. Here, watch this clip.
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Now, in contrast to the Trump guitars, the Trump watches, the Trump coins, the Trump NFTs, all the stupid crap that he sells, President Biden, again, this is after the election. The election's over, okay? But what's President Biden talking about? What was he talking to me about? Stuff like this. Thanks to my Inflation Reduction Act, we've made historic progress lowering healthcare costs.
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$35 for insulin, $35 for inhalers, a $2,000 a year cap on prescription drugs for Medicare recipients, and more. Here, watch this.
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On Christmas, President Biden is reminding the American people of what a dignified and compassionate president looks like. Someone who cares about the people in contrast to Donald Trump. And folks, the contrast cannot be more clear here. President Biden posted this lovely image of a little kitten, one of my favorite Christmas tales.
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God love you. Lovely video. It's a beautiful video. President Biden also posted this video right here. I am proud of the work we have done to make the Affordable Care Act more accessible and more affordable for folks like Phoenix's grandmother. Just take a look at this. Here, play this clip.
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Another beautiful, lovely video right there. And again, you take a look at President Biden's accomplishments, 12.6% GDP growth, 16.2 million jobs created, 1.6 million jobs created in construction and manufacturing, lowest average unemployment rate, incomes are up.
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lowered costs for families 20 million new business applications workers filing for union representation has doubled one trillion dollars in private sector manufacturing and clean energy investments have been announced and a lot of that will happen during trump's term too but when i asked president biden i said are you going to regret when the other guy takes crediting us no i'm not going to regret if the american people benefit that's what i care about most
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So in President Biden's final days, as we all sit around the table with our families on Christmas, whatever holiday you celebrate, or if you don't celebrate holidays at all, remember the dignified, humble, public servant who worked for the American people. That's how I view it. In contrast to the bumbling, mumbling fool, as I see it, in Donald Trump's
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Threatening Greenland, threatening Panama, threatening Mexico, threatening Canada, bullying this, bullying that. So deranged, so unhinged. Trump made other posts as well. I don't want to show you his other posts. They're just stupid. Dangerous. I'm going after this person. I'm going after that person. The January 6th committee Stalinist. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Seriously.
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We need to reflect on what dignified, humble, public servant leadership, service, is all about. Service. Service. Reflect on that this Christmas. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Contrast that to Donald Trump's post, now available, gettrumpguitars.com. By the way, Trump was previously hit with a cease and desist letter by the Gibson Company for purportedly taking their design and intellectual property and selling it with his own guitar line, whatever the heck you want to call it. Donald Trump posts an image of the United States of America flag in the Panama Canal,
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Yeah, and Senator, that extends to other Trump nominees, Pete Hegseth for defense, Tulsi Gabbard. This unbelievably crazy nomination was made by the same person who's making these other nominations.
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I love that AOC's been doing these kind of ask her anything type videos that she's been making. Really good stuff right here. Here she is talking about the MAGA Republican oligarchy and that it's here already. Here, play this clip.
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Democrats in Congress finally going on the offense, speaking plainly, loudly, and clearly, led by Democratic Congress members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and in the Senate, Sheldon Whitehouse. Let's show you what they're doing. Also, MAGA Republicans don't know how to react and they're exposing their true pro-oligarchy agenda during their public appearances because Democrats are pushing back
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And here AOC is again talking about how Trump wanted the debt ceiling lifted so we won't realize his tax cuts for the rich will explode the deficit. Watch this.
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He or she is again answering if Elon Musk is really the shadow president. Play this clip.
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pushing them into a corner and MAGA Republicans exposing what they're really trying to do with Project 2025. Let's take a look here. Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, let's play this clip.
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Powerful stuff right there. Now, contrast that to MAGA Republican Congress member Tony Gonzalez, who goes, no, we need Elon. Elon's like our prime minister. No, he's not. Elon Musk isn't our prime minister. What are these baggers talking about? We don't want Elon Musk. He doesn't know what he's talking about here. Play this clip.
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And by the way, this is Elon Musk saying that he hates unions. He thinks unions shouldn't exist because Elon Musk says that unions create a lord versus peasants dynamic with the union leaders as the lord and the members as the peasants. Play this clip.
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Yeah, no, Elon, you're describing yourself and the American oligarchy. Y'all see what's going on there? The Lord Peasant dynamic is the Elons, the Trumps, the Bezoses against the workers. You see what they're doing right here?
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By the way, Donald Trump's out there posting about conquering Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal, which was never ours, it was Elise, but stealing Panama Canal and conquering sovereign nations. You've got Marjorie Taylor Greene posting things like Canada and Greenland should have never been given away in the first place. I have no clue. Just take a look at this.
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What in the world is she even talking about here? But now on Fox, as Donald Trump's talking about conquering nations, they're having guests show up, like the chair of the Republican Party. And they're like, yeah, this is a good idea. We're going to have to buy it. Greenland will cost $1.5 trillion, but a good acquisition. Here, play this clip.
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And then earlier on Fox, they had a guest who says that, or the Fox host goes, Greenland is not for sale, but sometimes they aren't until they are. Here, play this clip.
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By the way, while all of that's going on, there was that breaking story from some great local journalism how the Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger was missing since July. No one knew where she was, but no one was asking questions. MAGA Republicans covered it up and pretended that she was still around for her constituents. She was not. She has dementia.
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And she is in full-time, round-the-clock care because of her deteriorating mental condition. She lived at a dementia care home. And video from her surfaced. This is from earlier in this year. You see her right here. This was before she kind of disappeared. Play this clip.
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Now, I do think it's worthwhile, too, though, quickly to showcase a senator-elect from Utah, Senator-elect John Curtis, who does say, look, I'm going to push back against Trump. He's what he said. He said, I want to highlight him here. He said, I don't think Trump has a mandate. Play this clip.
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And here he is, again, talking about what his constitutional responsibility is. Again, Republican, Utah Senator-elect John Kurtz. But I think I showcase him here because this is what he says. I'll probably disagree with him on a lot of things. But here he is speaking sensibly, at least by the clip.
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Well, there you have it, folks. Doesn't that video give you a little room for hope, I think? Well, it gives me a little more than a little room. That's what I want to see. What AOC is doing, what Jasmine Crockett's doing. Just take your message out. Be strong about it. Call out these MAGA's. Call out their support of the oligarchy.
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You know, MAGA's were always like, oh, Democrats are eating cats and dogs. You're eating your cats and dogs. No, they weren't. But Republicans are literally eating your lunch, right? The oligarchy is literally taking away your paychecks. They're looting and they're pillaging. It's a real threat. It's not an imaginary boogeyman. It's what's actually happening.
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So folks, let's focus on the real threats, what's happening, what we can do to stop it. Don't buy into the MAGA boogeyman, okay? Democrats, be clear, plain, repetitive over and over again. If you want to get your message out, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million.
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Next up, I want to show you Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. And here he talks about really Donald Trump was going to appoint Matt Gaetz as the attorney general. Seriously? We now seen the report. We know what he was up to. That's what the Republican Party is supporting and covering up. Watch this. Play the clip.
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OMG! Trump Gives DISASTER SPEECH to DAVOS FORUM
and impose very serious tariffs on them if they didn't become a state," he said. And then when he was asked if by next year's World Economic Forum in Davos, you expect there to be a peace deal in Ukraine, Donald Trump, who previously promised there would be peace in 24 hours, He then said that he was not able to do it. He then said that you should maybe have Xi Jinping negotiate it.
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Here, when Donald Trump was asked, will there be peace next year, what Trump's response was, well, you're going to have to ask Russia. Now, here's the thing, folks. I think this is so newsworthy. I have to show you the clips. I'm only going to show you two clips, though, of Trump. So you have to be able to see it and hear it. I can't have us turn a blind eye to it.
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So here's what Trump said about Russia. Let's play this clip.
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I mean, it's utterly horrific. And here's what Donald Trump said about Canada. Let's play it.
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All right. No more clips of him. You get the point. Let me just report on the rest of what went down. Donald Trump then said one of his big initiatives is stopping transgender. He says he says transgender operations have become all the rage. And now they will occur very rarely, he says. He then goes on to say, with oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately.
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And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us. As we wrote on the Midas Touch social media accounts, every time he opens his mouth, he shows he has no idea how anything works. Can't demand that interest rates drop. I guess you can say anything you want, but that's a function of our Federal Reserve. than what you're gonna demand that the world follow it.
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And also the price of oil is not related there too, but everything he says just shows he's got absolutely no clue what he's talking about. He then says this in front of the crowd in Davos, he goes, I'm pleased to report that America is also a free nation once again. On day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship.
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No longer will our government label the speech of our own citizens as misinformation or disinformation. I just want you to understand the context of how utterly humiliating this is for the United States of America. Our enemies are laughing. Our allies are horrified. He's going that we were not a free nation before. I mean, think about how he's undermined
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the real freedom here in the United States. And he's basically saying that, you know, one of the things he's going to encourage are lies, lies about diseases, lies about international affairs, lies about him, and that there shouldn't be any fact checking to those lies. And the fact that he said America's not a free nation before him, just so utterly dystopian.
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He then goes on to say, heap more praise on President Putin. He goes, in fact, with President Putin, prior to an election, which was frankly ridiculous, he's referring to the 2020 election, we were talking about denuclearization of our two countries, and China would have come along. And I will tell you that President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear.
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So again, I want you to see what's going on here. So Donald Trump is attacking our ally, Canada, threatening to annex it. And then he's buying Putin propaganda and praising Putin and Xi Jinping that they want to denuclearize. But he just couldn't get the deal done during his four years. And then he's again lying about the 2020 election and
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complaining and whining and saying, frankly, it's ridiculous. And again, now he's doing this on an international stage. which is, again, just incredibly humiliating for our country. More attacks on Canada. He talks about a tremendous deficit with Canada. He talks about how we don't need you. We don't need your lumber. We don't need your oil. We don't need your gas. We have our own forests.
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He says that's that's how Donald Trump is talking about this issue. And by the way, to the premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, he's mocking you here as she keeps on posting. We're going to do deals with the United States. She's the right wing conservative leader of Alberta. She's Maple Maga.
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But it's just so humiliating because Trump just keeps on showing how pathetic it is that she's like begging and begging and begging like this. Then Trump says this to the Bank of America CEO. Trump goes, I hope you start opening your bank to conservative. By the way, this is in front of the economic forum. Like again, how embarrassing.
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I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank And that included a place called Bank of America. They don't take conservative business.
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And I don't know if the regulators mandated that because of Biden or what, but you and Jamie, referring to Jamie Dimon, and everybody, I hope you're going to open your banks to conservatives because what you're doing is wrong. What the hell are you talking about? Banks are not closed to conservatives. Again, are you talking about felons? Are you talking about banks debanking terrorists and felons?
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Is that what you're saying here? And by the way, yesterday, Remember what Jamie Dimon said? Jamie Dimon said that a little bit of inflation, inflation doesn't really matter anymore because what we really need to focus on is national security and not inflation. Well, you're going to end up hurting both. Very shameful statement by Jamie Dimon right there. Absolutely pathetic.
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Donald Trump attacks Canada even more. Donald Trump attacks the EU on behalf of his tech broligarcs. He then says like the EU, they took these cases with Apple and Google and these other countries, and the European Union won 15 or $16 billion from these companies. And now they're going after Facebook for billions of dollars. These are American companies, stay away from them, EU.
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praising Putin, attacking the European Union, our allies. As Aaron Rupert says, Trump carps for Zuck and others days after they bankroll and attend his inauguration. Then Donald Trump says, my administration has taken actions to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense.
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And that's what he's saying to an international audience that any type of diversity, equity and inclusion, that it's a bunch of nonsense. That's how he's representing America internationally. And then he goes, and the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, MBS, fantastic guy, fantastic guy. He's going to give us a trillion dollars. I want him to invest a trillion dollars.
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By the way, you remember what happened yesterday as well, where Trump brought in these like executives who handle AI and Elon Musk then attacked it and said... He brought in Matayoshi's son, Larry Ellison, and Sam Altman, tech bro AI people. And they said they were going to invest $500 billion. And Elon Musk's like, they don't have $500 billion. This is just made up numbers.
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Why don't you say a trillion? So Trump's like, bet a trillion. MBS is going to give us a trillion. Here's what happened. That's what went down at the Economic Forum today, folks. Let me know what you think. And subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers.
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The audience was gasping. They were repulsed as Donald Trump gave a speech at the World Economic Forum, which took place in Davos, Switzerland. Now, Trump appeared virtually when he gave his speech and answered questions. During Donald Trump's speech, he talked about annexing Canada, making it the 51st state, or else he would punish Canada
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Trump Holds Disaster Presser for Unthinkable Order
Horrible stuff coming out of the White House. Donald Trump just held a bizarre and dangerous press conference where he announced he would be eliminating the Department of Education. He signed an executive order that sets in motion a process to get rid of the Department of Education. Here, Donald Trump says that it sounds strange to say this, but the Department of Education will be gone.
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Let me just share with you another angle. And again, you can see how Donald Trump was using these children as props as he's saying these awful things about the Department of Education. Let's play it. By the way, before showing you more clips, I wanted to share this with you as well.
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Lots of Trump voters out there saying that they didn't vote to gut the Department of Education, which is actually playing a critical role in not just blue states, but even a more critical role in red states to help disabled kids, to help poor kids, to help give kids lunch. Here's one such example. Let's play the clip.
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Donald Trump then brags about gutting the government and firing over 50 percent of people who work in the government. Let's play it.
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Then he randomly points to people in the audience and says, these are all people who are interested in education. Let's play this clip.
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Now, I had the opportunity and honor to interview Randy Weingarten from the American Federation of Teachers. She leads the American Federation of Teachers, the main teachers union. And she explains that, and I did this interview about two weeks ago, she explains the cruelty of Donald Trump ripping away people's opportunities.
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by gutting the Department of Education, where already states run their own state education system. States run their own curriculum. The Department of Education works with the states to help people with opportunities, but it doesn't set the curriculum. So this is all based on a fugazi to begin with. Let's play the clip.
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More from Donald Trump on shutting down the Department of Education. He goes, we're shutting it down and we're shutting it down as quickly as possible. Let's play it.
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So while all of this is going on, what are the priorities of the Trump regime? Well, you had Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's commerce secretary, talking about how Americans need to purchase $30,000 robots from Elon Musk. Let's play it.
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You also then have Howard Lutnik talking about how Americans need to buy Tesla stock. Let's play it.
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All right, so you're calling. And then you have Donald Trump bragging about the Trump gold card that he's selling to Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs. Here, let's play the clip. After graduation, they'll buy these
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Horrible stuff indeed. And I think it's worth watching when I had the opportunity to interview Senator Bernie Sanders. When he talks about the psychological torture that Americans are facing, I think about what Donald Trump just did there and using the children as props. Let's play it.
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Now, Donald Trump set up a fake classroom to hold this awful press conference, and he used children as props in this fake classroom where he was gutting the futures of children. Let's play the clip.
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There you have it, folks. Tell me what you think. A horrible press conference by Donald Trump doing horrible, horrible things right there. We'll keep you posted every step of the way on this. I'm Ben Maiselis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Then Donald Trump says that he hopes that Linda McMahon, who was appointed to be the secretary of the Department of Education, will be the last secretary since the department will no longer exist. Let's play the clip.
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker Fights Back Against Trump
Has his corruption and the wrecking ball that he and Elon Musk have taken to this country kind of met the expectations of corruption, exceeded them in kind of the pace? What would you make of what you're seeing?
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What are you going to say to them? Join the fight.
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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, first time on the Midas Touch Network. Thank you for joining us. Thanks, Ben. Great to see you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's hit that 5 million subscriber mark this week.
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Do you think people are indeed getting it now? You know, you mentioned how, you know, for whatever reason during the campaign, and we'll get to that, the election that people, you know, were, I guess, fooled into voting that this guy was going to solve all these issues on day one. You think people are getting it now when you were stating elsewhere?
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We're going to protect this country from Trump's encroachment if he starts violating the Constitution. Why did you come out with that statement right away?
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So other than Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump was the only president during a term to lose jobs. We all saw how disastrously he handled COVID during the first term or didn't even handle it at all. Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. Or he said, don't test because if you don't test, you can't get the results. So we saw that disaster. So what do you think was the issue?
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Why the message got obscured that he could show up with a cold pizza to a fire department And, you know, basically have policies that would gut the unions of those same people, but give people cold pizzas at the union halls and get people to vote against their interest or show up at a McDonald's dressed like whatever. And and that somehow resonated with the people. What happened?
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What does Vladimir Putin have on you? I'm joined by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. Honor to have you on, Governor. Governor, right after the election, you were one of the first, if not the first, Democratic governor to kind of come out and say, you know, we're going to protect the state of Illinois.
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Donald Trump keeps attacking our allies and keeps doing basically whatever Putin's telling him to do. He keeps on spreading Putin talking points, voted with Putin and North Korea and Hungary against a resolution condemning Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine. I mean, not a day goes by where I think There's always an interview with Donald Trump where he's saying something like this.
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Here he is giving the Russian propaganda points about Ukrainian troops being encircled in the Kursk region and that he and Putin are going to have to save the Ukrainian troops. But the Ukrainian troops in Ukraine is going to have to give in to what Trump and Putin want. I mean, here's what he said. Let's play it.
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What do you make of Trump's obsession with Putin?
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You know, and in a world, in a country that needs leadership, people are looking to you as well for leadership. So a lot of people are scared right now in this country. Just as we conclude this interview, what's your final message? What's your message right now to the Americans out there who are scared, who are nervous? They're worried about what's going to happen tomorrow.
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Desperate Fox News Flips Out on Air as Trump Cracks
Let's check in on state regime media known as Fox as Donald Trump is crashing the economy and he failed in whatever you want to call those discussions with Putin. He didn't get the ceasefire that he promised on day one now that we're in March 19th. So what's Fox talking about?
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Now, throughout the day on state regime media known as Fox, they were saying, shut the F up, Chief Justice Roberts. They were bullying and attacking federal judges, specifically the federal judge in Washington, D.C., District Court Judge Boasberg, who's the chief judge. of the federal court in Washington, D.C.
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He used to be the chief judge of the FISA court because this judge issued an injunction saying, Donald Trump, you can't implement the Alien Enemies Act for 14 days without further briefing of the court so we can make sure That there is a process here and we know what's going on.
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So you're not just taking people and calling them gang members without us knowing if they're actually gang members or not or whatever. And you have to give people some sort of process. You can't just take people and claim they're criminals without presenting evidence or having a hearing.
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Well, Fox propagandist Jesse Waters brings on this like right wing podcaster and they talk about sipping from straws and that men don't use straws. Here, play this clip.
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And then sending people to concentration camps in El Salvador, well, they're never going to be heard from again. A lot of these Venezuelans who Trump picked up, who Trump claims to be gang members because of a tattoo or some other data that they don't want to discuss under national security, the family members of these people are saying they're not gang members. They weren't engaged in crimes.
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Now, they may be gang members. They may have engaged in crimes. If they are, they should get the book thrown at them, but they should get processed. There's something called the Constitution. That's my view of it. And again, I'm a law and order person who wants to see people who commit crimes get the book thrown at them, go to jail, go to prison for a long time. Just we're a country of laws still.
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I know the Trump regime doesn't like that. Then they have Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff. He goes on state regime media and he praises Vladimir Putin. He goes, President Putin was so great with Donald Trump and Trump was so great with Putin. Here, watch this.
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Really so great? They didn't do a deal. All they talked about was like the United States and Russia playing hockey together in the future and Trump wanting to do big, huge economic deals with Russia in the future. Purportedly, they talked about a ceasefire as it relates to energy infrastructure only, right? Whereas President Zelensky agreed to an absolute ceasefire, Putin didn't.
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And then right after the discussions with Trump, a Russian bomb took out the power, attacking energy infrastructure in a Ukrainian city just hours after, allegedly, Putin and Trump agreed not to strike energy infrastructure for 30 days while peace negotiation proceeds. It's all BS with Trump. It's all lies. There's no ceasefire. There's no peace in 24 hours in Ukraine.
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What Trump did do, though, over the past 48 hours is he was in part responsible for the ceasefire being removed in Gaza, where over 400 people were killed in Gaza by Netanyahu. Trump was responsible for breaking that ceasefire. Horrific stuff. Over here as well, you have, this is the Fox graphic, Inflation Nation, sponsored by, I don't know, Lear Capital, whatever the hell that is.
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And so Fox is now just lying to its viewers that egg prices are super cheap now again. Egg prices are now $3.45. Where? Maybe one or two places. I don't know. But they're using the wholesale price that was given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The lady who runs the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by the way, that was one of the agencies. All the agencies are gutted by the Trump regime.
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But she's the lady who said you should buy chickens. If you want your eggs. And now all of a sudden they're saying the wholesale price is $3.45. But they're comparing it to the retail price. Eggs in California are $10. I think in Colorado they're like $8. In other states they're like $9. I'm sure there are some states where they're $3. But eggs are in $3.45 right now. Which is not true.
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But state regime media will tell you it is. You have Scott Besant, Donald Trump's treasury secretary, goes on Fox. Now Besant lives in the real life version of Barbie's dollhouse, a $22 million pink mansion in Charleston, South Carolina. Here's Scott Besant saying, we're unstoppable. We're on a roll. Things couldn't be better. Play this clip.
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Such a bizarre network and they get extra weird as Donald Trump continues to tank. Then you have Greg Gutfeld, one of the chief propagandists on Fox, and his message to the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court is shut the F up. Shut the F up, Justice John Roberts. That's what they're platforming on state regime media known as Fox. Watch for yourself.
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Here, Besant goes on Fox and says he can't guarantee that there won't be a recession. Let's play it.
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Here, even Maria Bartiromo then appears to lose patient with Besant over their tariffs. Let's play it.
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Then you have Rick Scott. You want to find the Medicaid fraud? You know where it is? This guy. Senator Rick Scott of Florida got rich off of a company that was involved in the largest Medicaid fraud settlement in the history of the United States. That's where it is. I found it. I found it right here, right with this guy. Here he goes, basically starts threatening war against Iran, right?
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The regime that said, no more wars, but we're going to make peace. bringing us into all of these wars. Here, play this clip.
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So then one of the things, too, state regime media has to do, they have to platform the oligarchy. It's funny, though, that everything's backfiring, though, with what they do, right? Like, as they get more desperate and they platform like Musk and these, Muskrat and these Trumpers, it has the opposite effect of what they actually want to happen. So, like, you're looking at the Tesla stock.
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Tesla stock is plummeting, free fall. Free falling, for sure, for sure. Then they bring on Elon Musk. And Elon Musk, in front of the White House, goes, we're just implementing the will of the people. This is the will. This is what the people want. They want veterans to be fired. They want 70,000 jobs at the VA to be cut. That's the will. They want me to call Social Security a Ponzi scheme.
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That's the will. They want me to get rid of Medicaid and to fire all the people who work at the FAA and the NIH and the CDC and the national parks and get rid of the Department of Education. Yeah, screw over poor kids and kids with cancer. Gut the cancer research. It's the will of the people. That's what they want. They want to send people to concentration camps in El Salvador or
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without having hearings or evidence to determine if crimes are even committed. The will of the people, man. Yeah, I'm from South Africa. I mean, stupid stuff. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, right? I mean, y'all, just lower, just leave us alone. I mean, that's kind of what it boils down to, right? Like, with former President Biden, you just woke up. You didn't think about the crazy shit like this. Excuse my language, right? You just went through the day. The markets would do fine. Businesses were doing fine.
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Fox would throw out, you know, everything that they could to undermine Biden and corporate media would buy and hook, line and sinker. But like, what what is this i mean here's elon musk on state regime media in front of the white house trying to pump the tesla stock here watch this yeah it's it turns out uh when you take away people's uh
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Really, Elon, bad people do bad things. That's funny. Funny coming from you. Bad people do bad things. What? Like treat veterans like crap and fire them or fire tens of thousands of federal workers and lie and claim you're firing them because of their job performance when they were performing fine and exceeding expectations or meeting expectations. Bad people do
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I don't know, bad people like Putin, like the people, I don't know, bad people like cutting off intelligence to Ukraine and causing people to die in Ukraine. Bad people, bad people. Bringing Zelensky into the Oval Office and attacking him, a war hero, someone who's trying to save his country. Bad people, bad people like you, Elon, Trump, and the whole regime.
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It's actually how I would define these people. These are bad people. Scumbags, is how I feel it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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Trump’s Plan in Canada Election Backfires in His Face
Donald Trump is now so unpopular in Canada that the right-wing party that were big supporters of Donald Trump and MAGA, they were the Maple MAGA, are now pretending that Donald Trump wants them to lose in the upcoming election because if Donald Trump wants them to lose, reverse psychology, maybe they can claim that they're the party Donald Trump hates the most. So stupid.
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Here's the graphic that we made at Midas Touch. So say like you hate my guts or something. That's how we envisioned Pierre Poliev saying to Donald Trump. Just say you hate me, man, because I'm now losing the election. Everyone thought that we were going to win. And now because of you and they know we're Maple MAGA and people hate MAGA now, you're going to help me lose.
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You're going to make me lose, Donald. So say something different. Anyway, I'll leave you with this clip from Mark Carney that he gave when he was announced as the leader of the Liberal Party about two weeks ago. Let's play it.
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Here's what Pierre Poliev actually posted yesterday, and this was clearly boosted by Elon Musk. Then I'm going to show you all of the receipts, and I've got a bunch of receipts showing how Maple Maga Pierre Poliev is showing
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Powerful stuff there also. We've been reporting throughout the day as well, and I'm sure you've seen Canadian Airlines, Canon Airlines is canceling flights to the U.S. A lot of its routes, they just don't have people showing up. Canadians are not flying to the United States anymore. I predicted that the tourism boycott would be closer to 100%.
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I'm seeing some stats that say leisure travel to the U.S. by Canadians is down about 85% in some areas. That's more in line with what I thought it was going to be.
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I mean, number one, I understand ideologically the boycott, but number two, if you're traveling here, who knows if you show up and then all of a sudden you're sent to El Salvador concentration camps without due process because Trump claims you're a gang member or they put you in a nice detention center, right? I mean, we've seen examples of Canadians who have flown here
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And they've ended up in ICE detention centers without due process. You know, it's actually an authoritarian regime here right now. And so there's that and the ideological reasons, ideological, common sense reasons. Trump's basically, not basically, he's declared war on Canada. So he wants to annex it, steal the land. Anyway, we see through Donald Trump and Pierre Poliev's plan. I know you do too.
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We love our Canadian support. I'm such a big fan of the Maple Midas. Appreciate you so much. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Donald Trump's support of Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party, showing Pierre Poliev go on all these right-wing podcasts, and Elon Musk boosting Pierre Poliev and the Conservative Party. I can hardly wait to show it to you, as you can probably tell. Anyway, here's what Poliev posted. He goes...
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Last night, President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Carney, the current prime minister, liberal party leader. Why? Because as Trump said, he's easier to deal with and knows that I will be a tough negotiator and will always put Canada first. Carney is weak and would cave to Trump's demands, just like he did when he moved his company headquarters from Canada to New York.
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Canadians don't want a weak and conflicted leader. They want a strong prime minister who will put Canada first. Dude, you're literally Maple MAGA. I think some of your campaign advisors would walk around in their MAGA hats and like promote MAGA merchandise. Oh, we've got the receipts. But let me show this to you first.
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This was about what, three or four months ago, where Donald Trump said that he would look forward to working with Pierre Poliev because their views were more aligned. Here, this is Donald Trump saying it. Let's play it.
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Now, as this one account says, are Trump and Pierre Poliev the same? Same page, same playbook, same outcome, as Guy Filosella points out. He goes, red flag Canada. Don't make the same mistake as the United States. Hashtag Team Canada. Hashtag Elbows Up Canada. Here, just watch this video clip right here. You'll see exact same playbook, exact same rhetoric. I'll show it to you. Let's play it.
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The Canadian people are smarter than that. They don't have the MAGA mush brain. that we see here in the United States. This is the plan of Pierre Poliev, the leader of the Maple Maga Conservative Party at the federal level. So Donald Trump went on Laura Ingraham in the past few days. And Donald Trump, it was clearly a scripted moment.
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Wow, right? Mic drop. Then, by the way, you had the playbook being executed before... Donald Trump talked about annexing Canada before Donald Trump started talking about the 51st state rhetoric. Maple MAGA, Pierre Poliev were following the playbook of the Trump MAGA movement. They go on the right wing podcasters. Here, Pierre Poliev goes on the Jordan Peterson podcast.
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Jordan Peterson, far right-wing kind of conspiracy theorist, kind of is. He goes, Canada's next prime minister, Elon Musk, boosts it, puts his finger on the scale in the Canadian election. I guess, Canada, if you want Doge Canada, Pierre Poliev is your guy. Elon Musk doing the exact same shtick. And by the way, in this interview as well with Jordan Peterson...
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Pierre Poliev talks about, you know, health care should not be a right. You know, woke is a miss, woke is a that. And Elon Musk boosted the crap out of this right wing Jordan Peterson interview. Why? Elon Musk wants his tentacles. He wants his doge dirty paws into Canada. He wants to destroy Canada. Musk is. and Peterson and Pierre Poliev.
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They want to do the horrors and atrocities you're seeing here. That's what they wanted to bring to Canada. I mean, just look at it. Same rhetoric. Here, Poliev is on Jordan Peterson, and they're like, oh, we've got to stop the wokeness, all the woke and the woke in Toronto and the wokeness. I'm only going to play you 19 seconds of it because that's about as much as I can tolerate.
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But as you go throughout the interview, they talk about gutting health care. They say they talk about gutting dental and gutting services and how, you know, that these things shouldn't be kind of, you know, rights. But I'll just show you 19 seconds. It's all I can tolerate. So I'll just play this for you. Play it.
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On the other hand, you have the Liberal Party leader, the current prime minister, Mark Carney. And here's what he goes. He goes, who's the worst person to stand up to Donald Trump? Pierre Poliev, who worships at the altar of Donald Trump.
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His team probably worked it out with the Canadian Conservative Party. And Donald Trump's like, I prefer to work with the liberal party. I want to work with Mark Carney. And then immediately, Pierre Poliev, the conservative party leader who will be running against Carney, Carney's the current prime minister, goes, you see, you see, Trump likes the liberal party and he hates us.
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And here you got Mark Carney absolutely cooking Pierre Poliev and his Maple MAGA Act. Watch this.
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Trump’s Plan in Canada Election Backfires in His Face
Okay, so I wanted to share that with you first so you have the background. Here's when Donald Trump went on Laura Ingraham. Here's what he said. And again, obviously, in my opinion, in coordination with Pierre Polievsky, you know, I'm sure Pierre Polievsky was like, just go on and say like you hate me. Say you don't like the Conservative Party.
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Say you want to work with the Liberal Party because you're so hated in Canada that then the Canadians, they'll be like, okay, so I guess we got to vote Poliev because Trump likes the Liberals now. So we want to like whoever Donald Trump is. It's the silliest logic. But here, play this clip.
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Therefore, vote for us. No, Pierre Poliev, we got the receipts. We know your maple maga. We know this Putin-esque plan you contrived because once upon a time, the conservative party was supposed to win the upcoming federal elections. And now the liberal party is surging ahead.
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Okay, I'm pretty confident Canadians see through that shtick. And I think it makes it look extra desperate by Pierre Poliev. I think this Trump-Poliev stunt is going to backfire in their faces as Trump claims that he's supporting the Liberal Party. Okay, we know that's not the case. I really like this from Prime Minister Carney. So when he came back from his meeting, In Europe.
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First, he met with French President Emmanuel Macron. Then he went to UK Prime Minister Pierre Starmer, high level meetings. And one of the messages that he came out with is he goes, look, you know, like Maple Maga Boy, Doge Boy, Pierre Poliev. He couldn't do this trip like he would not be treated with respect in Europe. By the way, does he even have a security clearance?
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Like, I don't think the guy doesn't he doesn't even have a security clearance. He's he's he's too busy doing what? And by the way, sound familiar here. There's so many of these MAGA types in government who don't have the security clearance. Here, play this clip.
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A powerful moment after Pierre, after Prime Minister Carney was sworn in. Here he is talking about responding to Trump's 51st state claim. Let's play it.
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And it looks like Prime Minister Carney and the liberal party could pull off a big upset and win the upcoming election together. and be able to form a government against all of the odds from what things were like months ago. Because Carney is standing up to Trump, because the Liberal Party in Canada stands up to Donald Trump, unlike the Maple Maga Conservative Party.
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Trump’s Plan in Canada Election Backfires in His Face
And just so you see here, as Mark Gerritsen points out, while Pierre Poliev tries to rebrand his messaging and claim he's not Maple MAGA, look at his own campaign manager wearing the MAGA hat. And then Pierre Poliev was asked, if you've told people in your caucus to stop wearing the MAGA hat, And he can't even say that he told them to stop wearing the MAGA.
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Trump’s Plan in Canada Election Backfires in His Face
I mean, these are maple bag of MAGA hat people. The Poliev crew, the Doge crew, the Elon Musk crew, the Jordan Peterson crew. Here, play this clip.
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Donald Trump may be crashing the economy, but you can win a trip to Mar-a-Lago. So says Donald Trump in an email to his supporters as he's crashing everything he sends these emails. Don't miss your chance to win a free flight and hotel in Florida. Everyone that takes the Trump citizen quiz will be entered to win a dinner at the lavish Mar-a-Lago.
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then that actually creates the recession as well. It becomes a self-fulfilling thing. By the way, here's Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's. And he goes, I have no clue what's going on here. Our economy was rip roaring. Consumers were actually feeling good.
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This seems like a recession by design, like this Trump regime intentionally tried to cause it, and they're sending the country into an economic spiral.
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And while this Trump regime sends our country into an economic spiral, they're doing like the weirdest stuff, like this cosplay dress up stick that Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security Secretary keeps on doing. This is real what I'm about to show you. It's not AI. So while she and ICE
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are picking up migrants and because of the way they look or their tattoos, giving them no due process and shipping them to concentration camps in El Salvador, she's doing dress up. This was the cosplay outfit, she did a firefighter outfit. Firefighter, no, reporting for duty. And then over the past weekend, she did this photo, gnome patrol. She did this one on the boat.
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You could go to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, everyone. Then Donald Trump sends this email to his supporters. I subscribe to his listserv so you don't have to. He goes, Ben, I have a few proposals on taxes, but I need your input before I make any decisions. One, no tax on tips. Two, no tax on overtime. Three, no tax on social security. Answer Trump.
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She did this one where she acted like she was on like a mission and she was holding the guns. And then this was from a few weeks back where she was dressed up in the bulletproof vest. Then she had the cowboy hat and then she had the ranger outfit. Those aren't AI. She dresses up every other day as Americans are suffering, as they're violating the Constitution and not giving people due process.
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That's what they are doing. Then Donald Trump goes on, Laura Ingraham, and as Aaron Rupert says, this is the Trump University of getting America's fiscal house in order. He goes, we're going to be so rich, you don't even know it. We're going to sell these Trump cards, the gold cards. to the Russian oligarchs and to the Chinese oligarchs, we're gonna make $5 trillion.
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You sell 10 million for 5 million and then 5 trillion.
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And here he is again on Laura Ingraham last night, where he goes, I don't know, should we call it the gold card? There's lots of gold cards. Or do we call it the Trump card? Here, play it.
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I don't give a what you call it. I mean, at the end of the day, why are you focused on these things? Maybe you can, I don't know, like lower the price of things. Now we're in inflationary periods where recessions seem increasingly likely. I don't know. How about you lower the price of things? How about you bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours?
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How about you do the things you said you were going to do? Oh, no, you're too busy talking about what?
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annexing canada annexing the panama canal annexing greenland attacking our allies in europe but praising putin right the big powerful negotiation you did with putin right said you ended in maybe we'll play hockey together we'll play hockey together or putin says we're gonna do a ceasefire and don't worry donald we won't do we won't hit energy infrastructure in ukraine
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30 minutes later, they attack the energy infrastructure in Ukraine. That was after Putin made Donald Trump wait about an hour, an hour and a half, while Putin laughed at making Donald Trump wait. Oh, by the way, in that Laura Ingraham interview with Donald Trump, Donald Trump's like, people think that this button is the nuclear button, but it's like the Coca-Cola button. Here, play this clip.
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I mean, it's deranged, deranged. As Ilya Pomeranko explains, this is one of the cities in Ukraine right now. Over 30 strikes in residential areas reported. The city is burning. How many more times does this need to happen until Donald Trump finally understands that Putin is openly making an idiot of him and demonstrably spitting in his fantastic diplomatic effort?
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Then when you click it, it takes you to a page where he asks you for money for one of his political action things. Hey, Donald, why didn't you put this stuff in the continuing resolution? I don't see any mention of this in the outline for the Republicans resolution. I see massive tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion.
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Ilya, the answer is never because Donald Trump, in my opinion, is Putin's puppet. Let's turn to Canada for a second where Canadian airlines are canceling flights into the United States and Tennessee and elsewhere because Canadians are not traveling to the United States. As I reported yesterday, leisure travel by Canadians to the United States in some places down 85%. Remember when the U.S.
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Tourism Bureau predicted if it's 10%, it will cause $2 billion damages. I said, I know the maple mighty, the mightiest mighty in Canada. And I know that it's probably closer to 100% in terms of the tourism boycott. Because Donald Trump ain't just using trade war words. which would be seriously damaging. Trump is using actual words of war against Canada. By the way, this is so pathetic.
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Did you pick this up? I know our Canadian watchers did. Pierre Poliev, the leader of the Conservative Party in this next upcoming election, he put out a statement that was obviously, in my opinion, boosted by Elon Musk on ex-formerly Twitter. And he goes, last night, President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Carney. who's the new prime minister from the Liberal Party. Why?
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Because Trump said it's easier to deal with. I mean, does Pierre Poliev think that Canadians have the MAGA mush brains? I think he does. I think he's so entrenched in MAGA and in his Jordan Peterson podcast and all the kind of Putin tricks that he thinks, yeah, if I told the Canadians that Donald Trump says that he wants the Liberals
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then maybe they won't believe that I'm Maple Maga and that I've been supporting Donald Trump and Maga and Elon Musk has been boosting me. Maybe they'll just think, oh, Pierre Poliev is the tough guy. I mean, it's so transparent that Poliev and the conservative party and Trump We're like, all right, Trump, go out on Laura Ingraham and say that you prefer the liberal party.
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And then I'll say, you see, he doesn't want me here. So utterly dumb. We did this graphic right here on the Midas Touch account from Trump to Pierre Polio. This is how we imagine it. So like, Pierre, can you say like you hate my guts or something? Pierre thanked him. So say like you hate my guts or something, man.
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Earlier in the day yesterday, by the way, you had the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, saying, you know, we had a strong fourth quarter. He didn't say under former President Biden, but that's when the fourth quarter was. And now all of a sudden things are getting weaker. Here, play this clip.
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And here was the moment where Jerome Powell said, you know, seems that we're heading in a more inflationary direction right now. Here, play this clip.
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But what are the MAGA Republicans doing? Well, they're posting images like this. Egg prices on the decline. The price of a dozen eggs has now decreased. Now it's $3.10 a dozen. Nearly 50% decrease. It's my brother, Brett wrote. Okay. So they're just making up stuff now. They're just, they just make stuff up. I don't believe any of the data from the U S department of agriculture.
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I see you basically gutting all of Medicaid and destroying the lives of veterans, but I don't see that anywhere. I guess you put them in your emails, but not in the actual budgets themselves. That's why I call this Trump regime insane. the rug pull presidency or the Ponzi scheme presidency. I think the American people, though, by and large, are figuring it out.
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Now, by the way, they're using wholesale data, not retail data, but also we, we, we know if we go in, we'd see the price of eggs. I could barely get eggs out here in California. And I know from speaking to all of you, what the prices are. I'm sure maybe somewhere there's eggs that are low. Maybe they're in a trader Joe's here and there it's $3 and 50, but again,
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Overall, it's like $8, $9, $7, $6.50, $10, $12. That's what I'm seeing. But, you know, what would you expect from the party that does this? Free Trump 2024 gold bars. There it is. Grab yours today. You can get a Trump 2024 gold bar, everybody. Then you have MAGA Republican Congress member Tom Emmer. He takes another turn in the Trump kiss my ass club as Aaron Roper says here, play this clip.
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By the way, shout out to Rupert, shout out to ASIN. They use Snapstream. You should use Snapstream as well. That's where we get these clips from. Snapstream lets you put the clips from the cable networks on the video, and you can clip it really good. It's called Snapstream. I'll put it in the description if you're interested. Reach out to them and tell them Midas sent you.
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That's how we get some of these clips like this. Then let me show you this one right here. Brandon Gill. This is what he talks about when it comes to just picking people off the street, not giving them due process. He goes, this is what executive power is all about. MAGA Republican Brandon Gill. Play this clip.
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But here are the facts, folks, because facts matter. Putin is rejecting Trump's ceasefire. Putin is playing Trump. Trump looks so utterly weak when it comes to Putin. Trump said, you know, Tom Emmer, you think he's a master negotiator? Then why hasn't he made peace in 24 hours in Ukraine? Why aren't prices lower? Why are we heading into a recession or perhaps even worse than a recession right now?
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which as you heard the chief economist for Moody say, it seems like a recession by design. Why do 71% of Americans believe a recession is very likely right now? That's part of the art of the deal. It's part of the master negotiating that we just so smart that we just don't know the plan, man. And just like all the master negotiations where he bankrupted his other businesses?
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Or were those not real? Or is that a smart businessman bankrupts most of your businesses, man? You don't know business. They always go bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt, bankrupt all throughout the 90s and 2000s. Anyway, I'm Ben Micellis. This is the Midas Touch Network. Stay strong. Let's keep fighting together. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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This is from a Fox News Beacon Shaw poll. How likely is it that the U.S. economy will go into a recession this year? 71% of Americans from this Fox poll say a recession is likely. Only 26% say not likely. So 71% of Americans say likely. That is devastating because in and of itself, when consumer confidence falls like that, by the way, that's the Fox-Beacon-Shaw poll.
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Trump Completely Loses It in Unhinged Interview
What was that? Donald Trump's interview on Fox moments ago, bizarre to say the least. A total disaster. It was with Laura Ingraham, and Donald Trump points out on his desk that the button you see is for his Coca-Cola. It's not the nuclear codes, he says. Here, play this clip.
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friend and foe and on april 2nd i call it the liberation of america we've been the fat dumb foolish country that allowed everybody to rip us off including us next up donald trump shows laura ingraham a photo of the declaration of independence which he pretends is the original copy of the declaration of independence It is not the actual Declaration of Independence. It's not the original.
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But this is what hucksters do. Play this clip.
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I mean, he has to lie about literally everything. That's not the original Declaration of Independence. He's made up the whole story. Next, Donald Trump says that all of his people, they want to call the Trump gold card. They want to call it a gold card or the Trump card. They're trying to figure out the branding right now. Let's play this clip. It's a graduation. They'll buy these.
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Seriously? Then Donald Trump says this? Let's play it.
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So as American people are suffering now economically, as prices are not going down, as people are seeing their pensions and 401ks and life savings disappear, as Donald Trump lies about all of his promises, should we call it the gold card for the oligarchs or do we call it the Trump card? So ridiculous. Next, Donald Trump says that he's a nationalist.
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And as a nationalist, he will make sure America does less business with Europe. Here, play this clip.
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Then Donald Trump and Laura Ingraham walk outside of the White House, and he says that he wasn't sure about running in 2024 because he says the 2020 election was rigged. Play it.
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But... He's still whining about the 2020 election right now. This guy is a perpetual whiner. Next up, Donald Trump talks about why he's paving over the Rose Garden because of women's high heels who walk over the Rose Garden. Play it. Mm-hmm. After you. Thank you.
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I mean, seriously, what the hell are we even watching here? Sometimes when I cover what they're doing on Fox in these Trump interviews, I think to myself, this would make Kim Jong-un's propagandists blush. Like, what, really? It's all so odd here. Laura Ingraham, I guess, at least asks a somewhat normal question.
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Do you feel it makes sense to you to allow people like, I don't know, Russian oligarchs and Chinese oligarchs to buy American citizenship? And Trump goes, yeah, that's American first. Let's play it.
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And I just think to myself, like what MAGA person watches and goes, yeah, man, give those Chinese oligarchs a citizenship here. That's what we voted for. America first. What? And Donald Trump talks about he can tell by looking at the people who's going to be trouble. who the people who show up in the country unchecked and vetted. He goes, you just look at them.
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You can profile them and you can tell which ones are going to be trouble. Play this clip.
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Yeah, you see, that's why we need due process. That's why we have a due process. So that Donald Trump doesn't look at people who have a different color skin than him and go, oh, that person's trouble. So I guess we're going to send them to concentration camps in El Salvador and you can't challenge it.
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And I'm declaring a war with Venezuela that doesn't exist so I can declare war powers and you can't question me. That's what Trump's saying and doing. Look, I think there should be do call me old fashioned. I believe in due process. I believe if someone's committed a crime, they should pay the penalty for the crime. I'm a strong believer in law and order. Well, then show me the crime.
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Next, Donald Trump talks about the trillions of dollars that the country is going to make by selling Trump gold cards to Chinese and Russian oligarchs. Seriously, play it.
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Will we see a recession in 2025?
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goes on the state regime media known as Fox, and he says, you need to buy Tesla. You need to buy Tesla stock right now. Play it.
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We can't normalize this behavior. You're the commerce secretary and you're pumping up an oligarch stock who then gives money to Trump. We all know that this is not how the system's supposed to be. This should piss you off. I want to share this with you to close this video, which is a small portion of my interview with Senator Bernie Sanders.
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And I think it stands in such stark contrast to what I shared with you. You may agree with me. You may disagree. But watch this message. And this is why I'm a big fan of Senator Sanders and his Fight the Oligarchy tour. This was my interview with him. Just play this small clip.
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See the difference there? You see the difference there? See what he's focusing on? The focusing on things that are impacting people? Let me know what you think. We're grateful for your support. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thank you so much.
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Donald Trump then says the country has been fat, dumb, and foolish. Looking in the mirror, here to play this clip.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
That was the announcement by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, saying that because of the Trump tariff stuff, and all of the Trump economic kind of disaster. They wanted to cut interest rates, but they just don't see inflation coming down. Governor, I want to chat with you about what you're doing in your state because you actually got a good report in Maryland.
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You know, and now what's he saying that he goes, April 2nd is going to be Liberation Day. He says Liberation Day. And this is for real what they're saying. They say they're going to give every country is going to get an envelope. But I'm not making this up. And in the envelope, it's going to have. their tariff number on it. And so like a game show, right? For real.
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And then the countries are going to open it up. He goes, not April 1st because that's April Fool's Day, April 2nd. And then depending on how the countries treat Donald Trump from now until then, they get a number and that's what their tariff is. And then we make a whole kind of show of it. And to your point, it's just like, why? Why? Why?
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Tell me what you can about that conversation with your Canadian counterpart or with the Canadian ambassador who you were speaking to. Because as Donald Trump keeps on talking about annexing the country, which, by the way, they're taking that not just as a joke.
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And not just as a trade war, like their view in that, what they've told me is as like words of actual war on the sovereignty of the country. And we got headlines like this. Canadian airline cancels flights to Tennessee and other U.S. routes. I've seen some reports that travel is down as much as 50 to 60%. You know, I saw some reports, 85 percent leisure travel down.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
First, I guess, what are you seeing in your state regarding that Canadian boycott and what were you hearing from that ambassador that you spoke to?
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Governor Westmore, you're governor of Maryland. Governor, I want to play one more clip from you for what went down today at this press conference with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Powell. They are lowering their projections now on what the GDP growth was supposed to be. It was supposed to soar. And here's what's happening right now. Let's play.
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our people and i think there is a real sense of appreciation for that for that consistent steady leadership particularly atomic chaos one of the things i just want to make sure we we touch upon is i don't really see a lot of other leaders talking about this and you posted about and you made it a priority you've talked about it in your state of the state also um your concern about the men and boys in the state and frankly throughout uh the country and your commitment to reaching out um and
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you know, just speaking to kind of a lost generation, suicide rates up and depression kind of up. Why has this been a priority to you? What are you hearing? What are you doing?
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You know, it's great where you when in a world where you hear about things like Doge that's crashing government and attacking people to actually show people a state government that's actually doing things to help and uplift people. It's why we love having you on. Governor Westmore, thanks for sharing the personal story about your background.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
I know lots of people know who you are, but I think it's helpful that they also are reminded about how you got to where you are and why that's a part of your commitment. So thanks for joining us as always. And of course, we'd love to have you back.
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Gov. Wes Moore on Trump's Economic Chaos
It's somewhat lower, but it's significantly lower than if Trump just put this on overdrive, let the economy just kind of rock and roll and not interfere with it every day. I want to talk about what you're doing in your state, but first let's just get your reaction to Trump's policies. It almost feels like you have to fight against this tide right now.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Watching Donald Trump put these spineless Republicans through humiliation ritual after humiliation ritual is a sight to behold. I mean, he breaks these people and for what? He's so utterly weak, they're afraid he's going to post on social media. I mean, what does he have over them? I mean, oh, mean tweet, mean post alert. It's like grow up and stand up. but they don't. I mean, here, watch this.
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350 billion dollar cuts to education Nothing about no tax on tips Nothing about no tax on social security Nothing about no tax on overtime 4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts For the billionaires For the billionaires We told you that was going to happen It's all the project 2025 agenda Screwing over hard working people Sad to see Sad to see We got to make our voices heard America
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Then you have your Republicans like your Lisa Murkowski or your Susan Collins, and they're like, I am so shocked and offended. And then they don't do anything. And then they support Trump's chaos and rampage and destruction. This is what Lisa Murkowski said after Donald Trump called President Zelensky of Ukraine a dictator. We all heard what Donald Trump said. Murkowski goes, quote,
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I would like to see the context because I would certainly never refer to President Zelensky as a dictator. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, notes, the context is that Donald Trump is Putin's little bitch. That's the context. What context? You want me to play it for you? I'll play you what Donald Trump said. Here, play this clip.
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You need more context than that, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, or are you clutching your pearls? Oh, my gosh. Grow a spine, Republicans. What are you doing? Here, going back to Republican Senate leader, Senator Thune, he's asked, okay, this is a good question by the reporter. You talk about saying that agriculture is the lifeblood of your state, South Dakota.
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Well, the budget guts billions of dollars for farmers and Donald Trump's doge attacks affected a lot of jobs globally. Of farmers, Donald Trump's tariffs are going to hurt the farmers. You're selling out your state, dude. And he's like, what are we talking about here? Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
You've got the MAGA Republican Senator. I wouldn't say he was MAGA, but he is now. The Senate Republican leader, Senator Thune, here he's asked about Ukraine. Are you concerned that Donald Trump is calling Zelensky a dictator and Trump is blaming Ukraine for Russia's unlawful invasion? Senator Thune used to be viewed as like a A moderate guy, more of a centrist, a quote-unquote normal Republican?
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
I mean, look, then you go to MAGA Republican, ultra MAGA Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville. I mean, And you don't expect anything from this guy. I mean, this guy is a total clown. And here he goes. Look. I just feel bad for what the American people are about to go through. Things are going to start to get even harder for the American. Why are you going to make it harder?
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Things were going in the right direction at the end of the Biden administration. And these Republicans constantly keep talking about inflicting the hardship on us. Every day they're like, we need to inflict hardship. Look, we got to make sure the billionaires are doing good. We got to hurt the working class Americans. Why? Why? Play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Then you have Ted Cruz go on Fox and Ted Cruz's version of events is not that Donald Trump is literally parroting Putin talking points and Donald Trump is talking about what removing troops, American troops in Baltic states and basically collapsing NATO and Donald Trump's talking about what, just totally capitulating to Russia, letting Russia do anything that Russia wants.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Not anymore. Watch this word salad of a response he gives. Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
But for Ted Cruz, it's Biden's fault. As you know, we all know it's Biden's fault. No, not Russia's fault for unlawfully invading Ukraine. They go, it's Biden's fault.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
I mean, these people are pathetic. I mean, you had a former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev statement. He goes, he quotes Trump here, and he goes, a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. That was Trump's, he's quoting Trump. If you'd have told me just three months ago that these were the words of the U.S.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
president, I would have laughed out loud, he goes. They're mocking us in Russia. And these spineless Republicans are like, we stand firmly with Ukraine. You don't if you're allowing Donald Trump to do this. If you're enabling Trump, then you have over here MAGA Republican Senator Tim Scott, who's literally just making up numbers at this point.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
He's like 10 trillion, 2 trillion, 4 trillion, 18 trillion. Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
free news for the america people free at last free at last not quite yet but we'll see who knows where they are in six months so wild then you have the trump pick as labor secretary remember who that like maga teamsters head what sean o'brien was the guy's name you know who would give the thumbs up and said donald trump so great we love donald trump or whatever that would be ridiculous
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
I mean, throwing the Teamsters under the bus, geez. But here's the labor secretary, Trump's pick, refusing to answer if any American can survive comfortably on a minimum wage that Trump supports because they refuse to support living wages. Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
And I got to play this because in my view, this guy's basically MAGA at this point. Sean O'Brien, the Teamsters president. The damage this guy has done. To the Teamsters rank and file, one of the greatest betrayals, I think, in labor history. It's, in my view, one of the most shameful things. You can't see it over there. I have the Teamsters magazine. I love Teamsters.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
I just can't believe that this guy's leading it. Here, Sean O'Brien goes on Fox, goes on the propaganda network, and he downplays Trump's reckless firings of federal workers. Play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
Right. All of this is taking place. Donald Trump is posting photos of himself wearing crowns, saying long live the king on fake Time magazine covers. While all of this is going on, you've got another plane crash yesterday, the ninth plane crash. Nine plane crashes. I think four were lethal. This one was lethal. Maybe five. Nine plane crashes since the Trump administration started.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
And this one was in Arizona. But folks, you have people like this MAGA Republican from Florida, Ashley Moody, who goes, everybody, the grownups are back in charge. The big boys are back in charge. Here, play this clip.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
And then over here, you have Speaker Mike Johnson, who previously said, one of my promises is we're going to have single subject legislation. And then Donald Trump said, nope, I want one big, beautiful bill. And then Mike Johnson was like, we're doing one big, beautiful bill. I mean, again, these people, they're not a co-equal branch. They're just utterly pathetic.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
You got Mike Johnson saying, this is what he said on January 9th, 2023. He goes, the House GOP instituted the most positive reform in generations. Some highlights, a truly open legislative process. Bills must be about one single subject only. No new votes on a bill without at least 72 hours notice.
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
And then Donald Trump, though, sends a post yesterday, February 19th, saying the House and the Senate are doing a spectacular job. However, unlike Lindsey Graham's version in the Senate, the House resolution implements my full America first agenda. Everything, not just part of it. We need one big, beautiful bill. So what does Mike Johnson then say?
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Yikes! Trump Forces GOP to Humiliate Itself on Live TV
House Republicans are working to deliver Trump's full agenda, not just a small part of it. Let's get it done. By the way, you know what that agenda is? $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, $250 billion in cuts to agriculture.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
I'm joined by Charlie Angus, member of the Canadian Parliament, who is part of a delegation right now in Brussels as part of the NATO parliamentary meetings, which came after the disastrous Munich conference for the United States and, frankly, for all of Europe, where J.D. Vance attacked the European democracies, where you had Pete Hegseth in Europe saying horrible things about Ukraine and Europe.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
There was an altercation or I don't want to overstate it, but there was an incident between you and a Republican member of Congress who approached you and tried to, you know, he thought he was like joking around with you with your Canadian pin. What happened?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
So, Charlie, what's going on there? What's your message right now to the United States?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Charlie, earlier this morning, Donald Trump made a post where he said Zelensky is a modestly successful comedian that talked the U.S. into spending $350 billion. He calls Zelensky a dictator. He says a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. And so what's your message to Donald Trump?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Are you seeing that in Canada right now? We were talking before about the boycott in Canada of all things American. Do you see it picking up, slowing down? Is the prevailing view in Canada at this point that you're basically dealing with a Putin of the South?
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
Charlie Angus, please keep us updated on all of the developments. If anything else is happening out there, let me know. We'll have you back on right away. We appreciate your leadership in Canada and across the world, bringing people together to stand up to the authoritarian regime we have here right now in the United States. Thanks, Charlie.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
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Tell us what's going on behind the scenes. It still seems like, at least publicly, while we are seeing a lot of European leaders speak up against Trump and what happened, they're still trying to be diplomatic. But you're there right now in the inner circles. What's really happening, Charlie?
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
Donald Trump is even now more unpopular than he was during his first disastrous term on economic issues. This according to a new Gallup poll and a Reuters poll as well, showing that his approval rating on economic issues is sinking. and sinking fast. This as he is causing grievous injury to our markets and to our economy.
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Also, Donald Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance was at CPAC and J.D. Vance said the following about the essence of masculinity is telling jokes. Here, play this clip.
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It doesn't get much more cringy than that. While all of this is going on, the Pentagon has circulated to congressional Republicans a list of generals and flag officers that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is interested in firing or replacing. The list, per two sources who have seen it, includes firing General C.Q. Brown, who is currently the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
Previously, he was the chief of the Air Force, appointed in 2020. Then in 2023, the Senate confirmed Brown to a four-year term in 2023. The vote was 83 to 11. You all may remember when Pete Hegseth was talking about conquering Gaza and or Donald Trump was talking about occupying Gaza, conquering Gaza, conquering Greenland, conquering Panama, conquering Colombia, annexing Canada.
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You had General C.Q. Brown was in the room. Let me just remind you of why former Fox News host turned secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, now wants to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Here, watch this.
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Folks, while all of this was taking place, a joint key press conference with U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg and Ukraine Zelensky, the Ukrainian President Zelensky, was canceled at the request of the United States. You can see them right here. This is Keith Kellogg, the special envoy arriving in Ukraine to meet with Zelensky.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump was on Air Force One last night trying to distract his supporters by saying that one of the things that he and Doge are going to be doing is going to Fort Knox to try to search for some gold. They're going to go on a gold expedition. Here's what Donald Trump had to say.
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
This follows Donald Trump yesterday saying that Zelensky is a dictator and that Zelensky needs to be careful and watch out for himself. Also, you have Donald Trump and Elon Musk pushing Russian propaganda points and saying that elections need to be immediately held in Ukraine. so that Russia could put in their puppet. But the U.S.
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canceled this press conference between Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Zelensky. If you've been watching my shows, you know that I've been saying that I thought that Keith Kellogg is going to be one of the first people to get fired or to get pushed out of the administration. Just to remind you, this is what Donald Trump said yesterday about Zelensky and calling Zelensky a dictator.
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
While Donald Trump was calling Zelensky a dictator, Donald Trump was making posts like this yesterday. Long live the king, with photos of Donald Trump wearing a crown, calling himself a king. Should also be noted that earlier this morning, Elon Musk said that he wants to shut down the international space.
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
Space Station because the commander of the International Space Station called out Musk for lying about the plans to bring the astronauts home. Just take a look at this. Andreas Mogensen, who is the commander of the International Space Station, responded to Elon Musk saying that the astronauts who are still in space were left up there for political reasons.
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And the commander of ISS said, what a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media, to which Elon Musk then responded, you are fully retarded. SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago and then calls him an idiot, to which Andreas Mogensen says, Elon, I have long admired you.
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You and what you have accomplished, especially SpaceX and Tesla, you know as well as I do that Butch and Sunny are returning with Crew 9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home.
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They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since last September, to which then Elon Musk responded that he thinks that ISS should be shut down because he got called out by ISS head right there. I have a confession to make. As you probably know, I'm a lawyer, but up until recently, I did not have a will. And you would say, Ben, you're a lawyer, go and do it. But I don't know.
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Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
Also in a new filing in court this morning, Trump is not going to like this in Trump's lawsuit against CBS News in the Northern District of Texas, where Trump is trying to forum shop this case and bring it to Texas. So Donald Trump joined Ronnie Jackson, the MAGA Republican Congress member, as a co-plaintiff in this case because Ronnie Jackson's congressional district was in Amarillo, Texas.
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And Ronnie Jackson said that he was a consumer who was injured as a result of the way 60 Minutes aired an interview with. with former Vice President Kamala Harris when she was running for the presidency because he says that it hurt him and Donald Trump's feelings and caused emotional distress. I believe Ronny Jackson signed a Paramount Plus arbitration agreement, though, so he inadvertently
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may have also compelled the entire Ronnie Jackson's portion to arbitration. And the fact that Donald Trump and Ronnie Jackson are saying the 60 Minutes interview caused $20 billion of damages is one of the most pathetic things. But now CBS is now seeking broad discovery, including those related to Trump's personal finances and those of Truth Social and his Trump crypto project.
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So it's good to actually see, after all this news we heard, that CBS is fighting back. In addition to talking about trying to find gold at Fort Knox, Donald Trump also was asked, do you still think you can pay for extending your tax cuts without cutting Medicaid or Medicare? And you can see kind of a very old and adult and cognitively challenged Donald Trump respond. Here, play this clip.
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Finally, it should be noted that Donald Trump is now sending messages like this to his supporters. If I say please, will you at least answer question number one? If I say please, will you answer this, Ben? It's the easiest question. Please let me know. Will you stand with Trump if I'm impeached again? Dude, you control both the House and the Senate.
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Unfortunately, you're not going to get impeached this term, but he's whining about getting impeached when there's not votes to impeach him right now as much as he should be impeached. Then he writes this. He's just a whiner. He just has to play the victim. They're trying to impeach me. I'm going to Fort Knox. It's like, dude, you said you were going to lower prices. You are not.
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You said you were going to make housing more affordable. You lied. You don't do anything with no tax on tips. You don't do anything with no tax on Social Security or no tax on overtime. Nothing about capping credit card interest rates or penalties. It's all absolutely BS after BS and And then he sends this, but $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires. And then Donald Trump writes this.
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President Trump hasn't heard from you in over two days. Ben, did you hear that you were handpicked to become a cabinet level advisor? Please accept your invitation right away, Ben. That's what we got for you this morning. We'll keep you posted with more here on the Midas Touch Network. We're on our way to 5 million subscribers.
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But Donald Trump's team does not want the media to criticize any of this. Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's national security advisor, says that they are getting pushback and bad mouthing in the press and that criticizing the administration is unacceptable. Let me show you what Mike Waltz, Trump's national security advisor, said moments ago.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
This is what I like to see. You've got Democrats, you've got Senator Bernie Sanders and others going on the offense and saying to the people, it's time to go to the streets. It's time to protest. It's time to stand up against authoritarianism. Go on the offense. Then you've got these MAGA Republicans and their propaganda machines on the defense. This is what I like to see.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
It is so utterly, utterly ridiculous. So may I just compare right there, John Roberts, who you saw with Jim Acosta. Jim Acosta was recently on the Midas Touch Network. We've been collaborating a lot with Acosta since he left his other network. Let me show you what Acosta said to me when I interviewed him yesterday. Play this clip.
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So good right there. Well, let me know what you think. It's fight time, folks. It's fight time. You ready? You ready? I'm ready. I'm ready to do it with you. Let's go. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
And here, Bernie Sanders says there should be co-equal branches of government. But with the way Congress is right now with the Republicans in control, they've given up their authority to Donald Trump.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
I want to highlight what's going on with some of these stronger pro-democracy voices. And I want to show you what it looks like to see MAGA Republicans on their heels. So here we have Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont. saying this struggle against authoritarianism is going to require we the people to take to the streets. Play this clip.
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You know who I think has been doing a really good job lately? Senator Chris Murphy, I think, has been doing a really good job. Here he is talking about Pete Hegseth.
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And here you have Senator Murphy again explaining why Donald Trump wants to steal Ukraine's rare earth minerals, then kind of put it into his own sovereign wealth fund for him and the billionaires to divvy up. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
Don't hold back. Don't mince words. And you know who doesn't hold back and who doesn't mince words? Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. He or she is. Let's play it.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
Next up, you have Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen. Here he is saying, you realize... Just think about what Donald Trump, Marco Rubio are doing by going to Saudi Arabia and trying to cut deals, begging Putin to cut deals with America while Ukraine is fighting for its life.
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Could you imagine what that was like if in World War II you had FDR in the middle of it saying to Churchill, I'll just let Van Hollen says it better than me. Here, play this clip.
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GOP Gets Shut Down as Dems Finally Go Nuclear
So let me show you some of these MAGA Republicans on the defense. Here's MAGA Republican Senator Katie Britt saying... We're doing oversight. This is great. Play this clip.
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And then you have the MAGA Republican Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who then tries to blame all of the plane crashes that have been taking place under the Trump administration on former President Biden. Play this clip.
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So utterly pathetic. And here's Sean Duffy again. Again, Trump's Secretary of Transportation lying. and saying that there were more plane crashes under Biden than under Trump already. And he goes, planes crash. That's just air crashes happen. Could you imagine if Pete Buttigieg says, yeah, air crashes just happened. Here, play this clip.
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Exactly, Bernie, exactly. Then Bernie Sanders talks about how we're not just dealing with this move toward authoritarianism, we're dealing with what is new to America. Yes, politicians have always lied, but the way we are seeing the big lie every day
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And by the way, what Duffy's saying is false. And also, Trump's only been in office for a month. There was no commercial jet crash when former President Biden was in office. Absolutely not. And again, here's how the MAGA Republican mouthpieces like John Roberts are trying to justify Elon Musk going through all of your personal files and your records. This is what they're saying on Fox.
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This is how they're trying to brainwash their audience of sheep. They're saying billionaires should be trusted. Billionaires are so rich that why would they care about your information? Billionaires are the most trusted people in America. That's what they're saying, and they're pumping this into the arms of their sheeple. Watch this clip.